Would You Rather; beauty style.

I first saw this post on the beautiful Kayleigh's blog (seriously, if you don't already read her blog you should!)  and I thought it would be a great way to ease myself back in the blogging swing of things! I've taken a load of photos and I promise you all, I'm going to get started again soon!


Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, eyeliners, lipsticks, and lipglosses or lose all of your palettes and eyeshadows?
Tricky one! Everyone knows my eye shadow pallets are like my babies, but I can't imagine a smokey eye looking good with no mascara or lipstick to set it off! I'd have to say I'd lose the eye shadow pallets. Plus, going through life with out my Revlon lip glosses just wouldn't be right. 

Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again?
Hair is the bane of my life. I have quite short (sits on my collar bones) hair, which is extremely thin. So thin that my friend once joked her baby son has more hair than I do! I'd have to say never cut it again, having no hair is my worst nightmare! Plus theres always hair styles that can cover bad ends right?

Would you rather have a coral cheek or a pink cheek?
I feel like I always wear pink blusher, so I'd have to go for that? I have bleach blonde hair so too much blush makes me look a little bit Barbie like, but I can't help what I like! 

If you had £1000 to spend, Would you rather buy clothes or makeup?
Ooooh... I hate clothes shopping. There, I said it. I can't stand clothes shopping. Even though my spine has been straightened out, in my head I'm still the same wonky girl I was 3 years ago when nothing hung right on me because I leant to one side. I'd like to say clothes. With £1000 I could afford to get things that really suited me. 

Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner, or eyeliner as lipstick?
Eye liner as lipstick. My only lip sticks are far too strange shades to even look remotely normal on my eyes! I've seen some eye liners which could just pass as a shade of lipstick. 

Would you rather only shop at MAC or Sephora?
We don't have Sephora in England but someone once explained it to me as like Space NK. I don't quite have the budget for anything in Space NK, and I've never been disappointed by any of my MAC products, so I'd say MAC. Apart from their mascaras. 

Would you rather only use one eyeshadow color or one lip color for the rest of your life?
One lip colour. I always wear Revlon Soft Pink or MAC Please Me so it wouldn't make much difference, where as because I wear glasses I always like to make the most of my eyes. 

Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?
Winter clothes in summer. You can always just layer up and take off what you don't need can't you? 

Would you rather dark nails or bright nails all year round?
Bright nails. I think. Maybe dark nails? I have more bright than dark colours, so bright. For now. 

Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or your favorite eye product?
Give up my Naked pallet or give up my Revlon lipstick? Working on that I can leave the house with no lipstick on, I would give up the lipstick.

Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a pony tail or a messy bun?
I don't have long enough hair to do a decent messy bun, and pony tails have more options than a bun does, so a pony tail.

Would your rather never being able to paint your nails again or never use lipgloss?
Easy, I'd rather never paint my nails again. I've just gone over a month with out painting them and haven't missed it! 

Would you rather shave your eyebrows and have none at all? or sharpie them in everyday?
Oh no, I love eye brows! Sharpie I think. I wear big glasses so it might take away attention from the cartoon brows? 

Would you rather live without makeup or nail polish?
I could happily live with out nail polish. I can't imagine never leaving the house with out at least foundation and mascara on! No one ever really notices your nails when you think about it do they? 

I hope you enjoyed this post, I know I enjoyed writing it, and I'd love to see your own "would you rather!" 

Oh hey, Fancy seeing you here?

So, I've been missing from this blog for the last 2 months. I'd like to say I think you all noticed, but I don't know if anyone did! I stopped blogging due to multiple reasons.

I'm struggling massively with my anxiety at the moment and have suffered a few serious panic attacks when I haven't had any really since I was a lot younger. I've had to spend time trying to get that all straight in my head. I haven't even turned my computer on in 2 weeks!

I also haven't been buying much beauty related stuff. For the time being I feel like my make up collection is as big as it needs to be, so anything I have been buying is just the normal repurchases of concealer, mascara etc.

I was getting a LOT of spam comments on my posts that put me off slightly. I don't often get many comments on my posts, and it was disheartening to just see tonnes of spam posts in my comments, as I know no one likes to see them and I didn't want those posts to upset other people. So I took a break in the hope these posts would stop. They seem to have now fortunately!

I am hoping to get back in to blogging soon. I'm struggling with taking photos as well, so I'm going to ease myself in with a few "wish list" type posts until I work out what has gone wrong with poor Stanely. (That is my camera by the way.)

Anyway, I'll be seeing you all soon again. I haven't had to confidence to really interact with other bloggers, but I'm going to try my hardest to face my fears and start communicating with people, and maybe manage to get my blog out there a bit more!

Inspiration from... TOWIE? Really?

Please, don't let the title fool you. I am a MASSIVE Only Way Is Essex fan. On Wednesdays episode I noticed that some of the girls, mainly Lucy and Sam were wearing a sort of, pinky, purpley, taupe colour on their eye lids with a matt brown in the crease, with a pink nude lip. I loved it, and I've been raiding the make up collection for a way to re create this and came up with the perfect colour...

To start off with, I used Benefit Hello Flawless mixed with a small bit of my Soap & Glory moisturiser then concealed using Rimmel Wake Me up under my eyes and on blemishes. For brows I've been loving using my MUA Eye Brow pencil in Blonde. 

As a base for my eyes I used the new MUA Pro Base eye primer. I put NARS eye shadow in Silk Road all over the lid, then to darken the crease I used Naked 2 from the Urban Decay Naked Basics pallet. I lined the top lash line with the matte black. I left my waterline and lower lash line completely bare, and just curled my lashes and used 17 Wild Curls mascara and Max Factor 2000 Calorie mascara on just my top eye lashes. 

To finish off I used the new MUA bronzer (which is beautiful, but super pigmented, so you have to be so so careful with it!) and the new MUA high lighter, which is a beautiful soft rose gold. For lips through out the day I've used a mix of Sleek Pout Polish in Peach Perfection, Topshop Nevada lipstick, and Rimmel Bellini and Crystal Lilac lip glosses.

My Every Day Make Up.

First off, apologies for another absence on here! 3 weeks ago we started to have the bathroom redecorated, and it's still on going now! There's been so much noise in my house I haven't wanted to be sat in my room as it gives me a killer headache. I've had to get pretty good at doing my make up quickly as well. Also, the reason for this post is that I gave in and bleached my hair again, there will be a photo soon when I get my new hair extensions, but until then I'm afraid it's just a product photo! 

To start off with a pop a bit of moisturiser on my face, as the foundation I use sits a lot better with that on. After that I use the new Revlon Nearly Naked foundation, which I've completely fallen in love with, I've never had a "cheaper" foundation match my skin tone so well! As always I forgot to include concealer in the picture, but I've been using the Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer on my under eyes and blemishes. Depending on if I remember or not I powder my skin using my Rimmel powder, then prime my eyes using the MUA eye primer. 

For eyes I've been keeping it really simple. I've been using my Naked 2 pallet and going for Half Baked or Chopper all over the lid and under my eyes with Tease lightly in the crease. After that I use the new Rimmel Scandal Eyes Shadow Stick in black, along my top and bottom water lines and then smoked out using a MAC 217 along my upper lash line. For mascara I want to use one that lasts all day so after curling my lashes I use my Benefit They're Real mascara, and the Clinique Bottom Lash mascara. 

To finish everything off, I've been skipping bronzer, as with the new hair I'm a little bit scared of it at the moment, in its place I've been using MAC Fleur Power blusher, MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Soft & Gentle. For lips I've used Revlon Pink Pout, which has really quickly made it in the list of my all time favourite lipsticks! I'm not normally much of a lip gloss girl, but if I do I love the Revlon lip glosses! 

20 Facts About Me.

1. I ate chips for dinner every day until I was roughly 14 years old. Oddly, even though I ate chips and chocolate all the time, I was always dramatically under weight till I was about 16. 

2. I hate tidying my own room, but I can't stand it if people attempt to tidy it for me, it makes me mad! 

3. I can't stand the word "dongle", you know those USB wireless internet connections, the word makes me visibly cringe every time I hear it.

4. I put ketchup on everything, chips, garlic bread, rice, pasta, pizza, jacket potato, bread. Everything. 

5. I can't wear heels, which is sad because I'm only 5 foot 4, when I go out I'm so easily lost because everyone is taller than me. 

6. I love reality TV, Real Housewives, Made In Chelsea, Only Way Is Essex, Teen Mom, 16 & Pregnant, all of it, I love them all. 

7. I don't like "pointless" books. I don't mind the odd "boy meets girl, they fall in love, have a row and get back together" stories but I love books with a deeper story line to them, ones that make you think while you're reading. 

8. I will never own a Kindle. Nothing beats the feeling of picking up and a book, turning the pages and that "papery booky smell" as I call it. 

9. I didn't learn to tie my shoe laces till about year 4, and I didn't learn to ride a bike till I was in year 7. 

10. It took me 3 attempts to pass my driving test, and I finally passed when I was 19. However, I'm too scared to drive and I sold my car. 

11. My family is amazing. 

12. I wear 16 inch hair extensions, my natural hair is no thicker than baby hair, and it only reaches my collar bones. 

13. Red lipstick scares me. 

14. I have a ghost that lives in my room. I think we've bonded after years of it terrorising me, and now we just leave each other alone. I also once lived in a pub that had a stupid amount of ghosts as it was build in the 1700's.

15. I drink WKD Blue, just because I love the taste, not because I want to get drunk. 

16. I've never done anything for Valentines day, and I've only ever had one Valentines day card. 

17. Sometimes when I'm feeling lazy I put the subtitles on the TV, I don't know how this helps me, but it does.

18. When I went to see Paranormal Activity I slept with my bedroom light on for 2 weeks.

19. I had Scoliosis corrective surgery when I was 17 and now 5 inches of my spine are reinforced by metal, and I have a missing rib. 

20. I will only eat cheese on pizza, no other way. 

Me Me Me Arch Angel

It's only really in the last year I started to get in to eye brows. But once I did I did in a big way! I used to fill my brows in every day using the MUA Pro Brow Kit, but sometimes just for an every day look, or when I was running short on time it was a bit too full on. I've seen the Pixiwoo girls (Sam & Nic) using this in some of their videos, so thought I'd give it a go. The brush is like a mascara wand, and the product is dark brown with a consistency similar to mascara. You have to be VERY light handed with this, it's super dark. However, I love it just for every day use on my brows when I don't want something as full on as filling them all in. I also love this when I have filled in my brows on nights out, just to set them and keep them in place. After I've used this I tend to brush my brows through with a clean eye brow brush, as I do find this quite clumpy. My other criticism is that when you pull the brush out a lot of the product clumps at the end of the wand, but just keep a tissue or cotton pad on hand to wipe it off with, which I normally have on my make up counter anyway. For the lovely effect this has on your brows, I'd say these issues are completely minor! 

The other end of this is a liquid highlighter, but I don't actually use this end as I prefer powder highlighters, so I can't really pass comment on that part!

I'd say this could work what ever hair colour you have, though obviously if you have lighter coloured hair (like I'm dying mine on Friday!) make sure you keep a really light hand. I bought this for £8.50 from Superdrug. 

Review; Nivea Express Primer

My mum bought this just before Christmas and hasn't used it yet, I've been seeing adverts for it pop up on YouTube before videos so I full on forced my mum to open hers, used it once and went out and bought my own. It's fantastic! 

Before I get too ahead of myself on how amazing this is- I don't think this is a very good primer at all. It's okay, but I don't think it adds masses of longevity on to my make up. This could be because I'm comparing it to Primers like Benefit Porefessional which is a great primer, or I don't know. I'd say it doesn't add any extra time on to how my make up lasts at all. But, bad points aside. this feels incredible on your skin. The best way to explain is to compare to that feeling you get on a hot day when you drink an ice cold glass of water and feel instantly rehydrated, this literally feels like you have given your skin a huge glass of water. 

The consistency is much more like a thin moisturiser than the thick, silicone based primers I prefer, which is strange for me to actually like. I'd say that I'm using this more as a moisturiser or every day primer now, but when I'm going on nights out I'll still be reaching for my Porefessional if I really need to make my make up last. 

I bought this for about £3.99 in Savers, and I think it's around £4.99 in Boots and Superdrug. I bought the for normal & combination skin, but there is also one for dry & sensitive skin as well.