Lush Colour Supplement

As promised, I have got myself a jar of Lush's new Colour Supplement in 'light yellow', even though the shop assistant suggested light pink, when I KNOW that I have a yellow tone to my skin.... (sorry it just irritated me a little bit).... I'm not going to go against the wisdom of a MAC Artiste and change my colour because a Lush Shop Assistant told me to.... I do love Lush however, and the assistant agreed with me once I had tested both the light yellow and light pink.

Anyway.... what a bizarre product!!!!

I knew I would have to play around with it to ensure that I used it correctly. You can use this base neat or by mixing it with moisturiser.... what they don't tell you is that you have to get the consistency perfect for it to even make a difference to your skin. What I mean by this is, I mixed it 50/50 with a very good moisturiser (Aveeno) and started to apply it to my face.... it was almost as if it had turned from a liquid to a mousse foundation but it refused to go on my skin and instead, rolled up in to little balls and crumbled in my hand.... maybe a Lush moisturiser is what is needed? hmmm..... 

Try again.... This time I tried (despite my first wishes) by mixing it 70/30 moisturiser being the 70... I might as well have been wearing no foundation whatsoever.... I tried building it, and sadly, it would not build, instead it just moved around my face. *sigh* Third time lucky?

In fact, it was third time lucky. I used it neat. It felt light on my face, was a very even coverage which was buildable, and despite the fact that it looked slightly darker than I had originally thought, it seemed to not dry as such but change colour so that it was lighter on my face. I took some pictures, and I am wearing as little eye makeup as possible as to not distract from the base, and I am wearing concealer and a powder over the top... but here it is....

This is probably the least makeup you will ever see me ut on here lol but yeah, to conclude as far as I can tell at the moment, the Lush Colour Supplement is quite good. :) I would suggest to anyone thinking of buying it to play around with it first and to go with the colour you think will suit you, not what the lush advisors are trained to tell you will suit you.

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LUSH!

Lush Labs have just created Foundation!

It has been designed to be used as a foundation alone or with a moisturiser as a tint! I will have to try this out!!!!! I'M SOOOOO EXCITED ABOUT THIS!

Collection 2000

I remember years ago... when I had just started wearing makeup... I used to get Collection 2000 (have a look here!) because it was the cheapest makeup line (other than Miss Sporty) that Boots had. Until recently, I hadn't bothered buying it, because quite frankly, cheap=a bit rubbish....

NOT ANYMORE!

Cheap=fantastic! 

Imagine my surprise when I decided to buy a liquid eye-liner, a couple of mascaras, and get the free eye palette that came with it from Collection 2000, and it was actually.... wow! Why haven't I been buying this all my life?! I'm speaking, of course, more about this eye palette... the colours? Amazing! They don't lose their brightness on your skin, and they feel fabulous! They glide on! Honestly, if I had been told that these eye shadows were UD, I would totally have believed it!

Anyway, the palette I received free was named 'Poptastic' and looks like this....

only the colours are much brighter than on this picture.

I decided to try some of them out for an interesting look and chose:

The yellow at the top, the green/yellow second row, the green on bottom row and the blue in the middle of the second row.

The liquid eye liner used is also collection 2000 and I'm wearing 'longer lash' mascara and 'collagen curl' mascara also by Collection 2000.

I am definitely going to continue buying from this line! woop woop!

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BRAAAAAIIIIINNNNNNSSSSSSS

Yes, tonight IS Zombie Night, and I have had so much fun creating a look for it, and now I'm going to share it with you! Apologies for the photos, but Lib's taken the camera that I know how to work away with her to Glasgow....

Yeah so when I get my costume on I'll be a Zombie Sailor Pin-up girl, and I'll take more pictures once the blood is on! woop woop! 

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we've been expecting you!

Good afternoon lovelies!

After going to see Alice in Wonderland last week, and being completely taken aback by the makeup and the just down right fabulousness of it all, I decided to do a post on Alice In Wonderland makeup....

The first in the series is of course, the man who stole the show, The Mad Hatter.

what fabulously creepy makeup....

and here's my attempt...

complete with white eye lashes!

 

I would seriously consider doing this makeup for fancy dress sometime... if only it didn't make my nose look so big!!!! haha.

Really enjoyed doing it though, hopefully the next one will be as good, and kee you eyes peeled later this week for my fabulous Zombie Pin Up Girl makeup for Zombie night at work!

mwah

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Skins

Now I don't know about you, but I've been watching Skins this season, and I have been thoroughly enjoying it! It's good to see that although, yes, they are still glamourising drugs *BAD* they're showing the negative effects that the drugs are having also *GOOD*.

Now how does this relate to my blog...? Simple answer.... EFFY.

for those of you who do not know who Effy is....

 Stunning. It's a really messy, almost unfinished look. I guess her looks make her look as though she's been out all night and hasn't been washed or something, but I'd be quite happy to look like that if I'd been out all night and hadn't washed! So I decided to recreate the look on my wonderful (as always) assistant Libby...

 

  

I've gone for the same really messy eye look, extreme blacks and an extreme cats-eye flick, I also used a white shimmer to hightlight the centre of her eye. A dark blusher and a dark lip colour. I liked it, don't think Lib was too keen; she's not used to wearing such extreme makeup. :)

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safari/military

Safari and Military are in for the summer yet again, so I thought I'd do a look to match this look, and of course it means you can see the BOURJOIS FOUNDATION I've been using.

So yeah, this look combines Khakis, browns and golds, and is a very easy, low-maintenace effective look which of course it perfect in the summer when you can't be arsed to do too much with your makeup because we all know it'll just drip down your face in the end!

 

I used the Urban Decay Preen Shadow Box to create this look using both browns and the khaki colour.

I used the khaki colour on my lids and used a brown on my crease and blended it outwards. I used a gold in the centre of my lids to highlight the colours used, and used a kohl pencil along the top and bottom lid smudging in both areas. I used a brown under the bottom of my eye and blended it with my eyeliner. I used no liquid liner for this look, but alot of mascara to finish. If I was a little darker or it was the height of summer, rather than using a deep plum blush as I did, I'd use a nice peach bronzer instead.

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review and re-review

First of all I'm going to re-review the Mac Mineralize satinfinish foundation after using it for about two months....

Yeah, it started brilliantly, had an OK coverage, looked quite nice on... however, after a while of using it, I found that I broke out quite badly, and the coverage I realised wasn't as good as I had first thought. I like my face to look plastic and it just didn't do that. What I hadn't realised about this foundation was that it was slightly shimmery... I say shimmery, I mean glittery. Not always the best look to be going for. 

All in all, it was a good foundation, but not one I'd buy again over a Mac Foundation stick. 

WINGE!! Went to the designer outlet to see if I could get some more cheap Mac foundation the other day, and upon entering the amazing shop I found that the only foundations they were stocking that week/fortnight was for very much a darker skin tone... borange. I don't wear borange foundation so I had to leave empty handed. Being the only place in Yorj that stocks Mac cosmetics at all, I had to get a foundation that wasn't Mac, which leads me on the my review....

 Bourjois 10 hour sleep effect....

So far so good. They do it in a large range of colours, and surprisingly a quite good match for my skin! It's matt, and seems to have a really good coverage and manages to cover the uneven skin tones in my face.

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