Makeup | Illamasqua Cream Blushers

Happy first of March beauts!

Coming in to spring and I literally can not wait. I hate Winter and Summer; they're the demons of all the seasons.

THAT'S THAT. LETS GET ON WITH THE POST.


Illamasqua. Oh beautiful, beautiful Illamasqua. I just love this brand. They're so ON IT. The products, the colours, the packaging and PLEASE can we not forget the formulation of the nail polishes. OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Anyway, a while ago they had one of their infamous sales on and I was not gonna let that slip away from me. So I ordered some goods. Twice. Within two days.
In came the delivery and out came one of my hideous pig squeals; I was just so pumped to see my products.

The Illamasqua cream blushers 
Before ordering, I had never encountered the beauties that are cream blushers. These Illamasqua ones are powder-blush-lovers converters. I apply them with the Real Techniques Stippling brush and the combo is just perfect. The amount of pigmentation and the blendability makes applying them a doddle for novices like me. The colours I have are Promise and Dixie. Promise is my favourite of the two; a blue-toned pink to give that natural cute rosy look. But I will love both colours forever and ever. I just love the effect they give to my skin - not too dewy but not flat and powdery.


What other brands have cream blushers offerings? What colours shall I check out? I need more. MOOOORE!!!!


See you tomorrow for my video and Sunday for my next blog post


Ciao x

Makeup | My Favourite Eyebrow Pencil - The One No One Talks About...

Hi beautiful people

I have been wanting to write a blog post about this eyebrow pencil since I discovered it 4 years ago...

The No 7 Beautiful Eyebrow Pencil

The main reason I love this is because of the colour. It is a perfect match for me! I have black/v. dark brown hair and I do not believe in filling in my brows with a dark brown (this can look orange on me) or a pure black shade (normally looks like they're drawn on with a liquid eyeliner lol). So grey eyebrows for me it is (I mean it's not white grey - more of a dark grey/soft black).

I have fallen in love with the formula of this eyebrow pencil; it stays put all day, does not move/sweat off. Just a quick and easy product to use everyday for me. The spooly is nothing to shout about - I'll use it here and there - but generally I will use a separate spooly brush to just soften out the colour a bit.

Sometimes I will use this on it's own, but other times I will use the pencil to frame the eyebrow shape at the top of my brows and fill in the rest of my brows using an RMK Eyebrow brush and BECCA's Eyebrow Filling Powder called Ash just to "bolden" up my brows a tad.

I have tried and loved the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz in Granite as well, and it is similar shade to this No 7 eyebrow pencil. But seeing as I can pick this up from around the corner in my local Boots store, it just makes it all that much more convenient.

At £7, who can fault me on this one? Plus you'll collect 28 Boots points as well....

What other brow products suit black haired people out there?

Ciao x

No 7 Beautiful Eyebrow Pencil

RMK Eyebrow Brush

BECCA Eyebrow Filling Powder

Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz

Makeup | 'MY' Everyday Nude Lipstick (MY In Capitals)

Hi

Here I am, 7pm GMT on Sunday again, as promised.

I wanted to talk about my discovery that will and already has changed my life drastically; MY PERFECT EVERDAY NUDE!

The reason I am making such a huge deal out of this is because it has taken me 4.5 years to find a nude that isn't too pale or brown that compliments my skin colour. 4.5 YEARS.

Lo and behold, Burberry Lip Velvet Lipstick in the colour Peony Rose.


 

Matte packaging. All that needs to be said.

When I saw the Burberry counter I let out a hideous pig squeal. The lady on the  counter (the only one of two in the UK at the time - Boots, Meadowhall in Sheffield) was this gorgeous Australian woman who used to be a freelance make-up artist for MAC. She saw that I had MAC Rebel on and presumed I wanted a bold lipstick. Now, I did set myself a goal that day to get something (or two!) from the Burberry counter, but I wasn't feeling the "bold lipstick buying vibe". So I picked up Peony Rose. This was after dwindling the choices down and picking this range of lipstick because of the matte packaging because I felt like going for a lipstick - a matte one.  I swatched them all on my hand and Peony Rose stood out to be the best lipstick colour for me. That's that. LITTLE DID I KNOW THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE PERFECT LIPSTICK I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING THE SEAS HIGH AND LOW FOR! Life changing! (Okay calm down now Abby...)

I also picked up a Burberry Iconic Colour Nail Polish in the shade Gold No. 447. But that's a story for another day ;)

What's your favourite everyday nude? I need to do more investigation to see if I can get more choices.


Ciao for now x