NYX lavender concealer

Hey guys! Been really busy the the couple of weeks looking after my sister who has just had an operation, our parents are on holiday and we have two dogs so I haven't had a moment to blog! Luckily for me this morning I received this in the post! 

I've been looking for a light concealer that don't look orange for a while, when I came across this I was so excited to try it!

The next photos are of my skin before applying and then the areas I like to apply concealer due to redness and spots 

And then blended with a beauty blender 

This looks like quite a lot but I like to use it as a highlighter base, and I'm only using BB cream at the moment instead of foundation due to it being summer and I don't like having a heavy feeling in my skin in the heat. The lavender tones in the  products is for 'sallow skin' which means yellow tones, but I find it helps with red patchyness in my skin due to it being so pale. The converge is a good even coverage, not patch or translusent (deleting the purpose really of a concealer when it's thin) so far I am feeling good about the products, I do realis that it is very light before I put the rest of my make up on but this works to an advantage. After this I continue the rest of my make up with these products (just quick simple make up as in not going out today) 

So I have my BB cream in light/medium, pro base translucent power by MUA, bronzer my Rimmel, blush by MAC but I can't remember what shade sorry, highlighter in golden by Makeup Revolution, Anastasia Beverlyhills dipbrow  pomade in medium brown, maybeline colour 24 in Taupe, L'Oreal volume million lashes mascara, urban decay 24hr pencil in Stag, Mac lipstick in Faux and a Rimmel eye pencil in dark brown to line my lips and this is the outcome!

Please ignore my eyebrows as they has due a thread ! But in quite happy with this concealer, considering I only have BB cream (basically a tinted moisturiser so diary thin) on top and a translucency powder it has a good converge and you can't see I clearly have concealer in which my last ones did look like when I put them on. I think I will buy the green version on the concealer as that one is spacificly for redness, both however are supposedly very good to lighten your other concealer if you have bought it in a shade to dark! 

Dark brown to blonde hair! How I got my new look

So I haven't posted recently, I've been holding off to write a post about the stages of my hair!

Thought this process these are the products I've used. 

I had decided that I wanted blonde hair with dark roots as I have dark eyebrows and this is the only way I could have blonde hair without looking washed out. I have been to the hair dresses 3 months before doing a diy jobs. 

My hairdresser was really nice but this wasn't quite what I wanted, there is to much dark brown  and a section of my hair at the top where there is a pattern  was died dark brown (no blonde/ginger tips) this proved difficult later on to remove. My sister had been doing my hair before I went to the hair dresser and this is how blonde she managed to get it 

As you can see not much has been lightened from this photo to the one after the hair dresser. Before I was due to go back and have my hair lighten more I decided it was to much money to waste when I won't have done what I want  and asked my sister to do it for me. The next photos are my sister applying the L'Oreal Feria lighting hair dye 

As you can see this hair dye lifts hair amazingly, I used two boxes due to having such thick hair and left it on for 45 minutes. Due to it being night I wasn't able to get a photo showing that although it is extremely light it's brassy with a large section of dark ginger where the section of dark brown hair due had been put at the hair dressers. The next morning I put a ash blonde due on my hair as ash defuses ginger tones, however this was the result of it.

I was so gutted it was ginger, so two days later we used another box of lightened and re lightened it. There was still a lot of ginger, it wasn't lifting well and silver shampoo was only doing to much , so I thought is I dye my roots dark and leave to blonde for a while it will lift when it's repaird ( my hair surprisingly has very little dam age done to it) so I used a nice and easy light brown hair dye in my hair and this was the result. 

No idea how this has happened as I left the brown in for longer than recommended so it soaked in well but this was just sheer ginger! By this point I was about to give up, and I see a girl posting on Instagram that she dyed her silver hair with a diluted black hair dye which have me the idea of using a green toned brown hair dye and dyluiting it and putting it over my blonde hair to make it a dirty blonde colour. I need to stress is you do this try and use a green based brown (no red or purple shine to it or named after and when you mix it up it goes a green/brown colour before turning dark) as this won't look ginger when diluted as it does not have a red time in it. 

This is my end result, my sister has done my hair perfectly! Even my hairdresser couldn't make it look this blended and natural! In so happy with this colour and will be keeping it for a good while! 

Lush lipstick Reveiw !

So for my birthday my boyfriend got my a little lipstick from lush!

Charm is a very light bubble gum shade of pink, very sweet and girly looking which is quite differnt to my normal look of browns and purple toned lipstick. I don't tend to go for such light pinks due to having a very pale scottish skin tone

This is how the product looks on my lips, because it's such a light shade it's quite translusent. The product has quite an oily base so i don't like building this up because I feel like it just slides of, so insted I've been using it to tone down darker lipsticks to make the more skintones/nude.

Here is an example;

This is just an MUA velvet lipstick on my lips

And here is it with Charm on top;

The good thing about the oil base means it blends in well with the velvet lipsticks by MUA, these lipsticks don't always take well to other products due to them being so matte and drying but the oil works well with them.

So although this shade on its own doesn't work to well On my lips, I love using it as a way to tone down other shades! And it keeps my lips moist when using matte lipsticks! 

It was a good buy from the boyfriend this time!

Re-worked mom jeans!

So I have barely been posting recently due to having so much uni course work to hand in but now I've finished and have 5 months of summer I will be posting much more!

So today's blog is on my re-worked mom jeans!

I bough a pair of men's stright leg jeans from ebay for £5.80 and they are brand new! I decided to go for men's jeans because they have the perfect baggyness compared to womens strigh leged. Here is the original pair 

I'm 5,9 so I got jeans that were a 34" in length so that I could roll them up properly. I love ripped jeans and they are in fashion just now so that was the look I wanted to aim for.

I can't stress enough how time consuming this can be so if you plan to do it give yourself a few hours out of your day to do this :)

Here is my end result 

I'm so chuffed with these jeans! They are the only non skinny jeans I have and I think I will be wearing them a lot over the aping and summer season! 

Easy way to instantly take tan off!

So my sister (Happy Go Hols) told me that using Clearasil Daily Clear pads is a really easy and quick way to get tan off, so I though I'd test this out and show you the results:)

I have quite sensitive skin, I have a thing that is like hive (could be hives I couldn't really understand my Dr aha) so simple scrubing leaves read marks for ageys especially in areas like my arms and chest so It normally takes me a good few scrubs to properly get tan off.

So here is the product I am testing, my sister bought this out the 99P shop! We have one near buy that has really well known good quality products in it all for 99P! 

These pads are extreamly moist and smell so fresh and fruity!

Here is my arm before with very bad patchy tan!

Horrible I know! So I used one pad and  with in a Minute of wiping my arm, this was the result!

This is an amazing reat! My skin was slightly red in the elbow end because the pads exfoliate but that quickly went away. The moistness is what mainly help remove the tan, this is what's pad looked it after cleaning my arms 

It looks like I'm really dirty but I sware I'm not aha! Over all I think this is brilliant! this is what I wi use from now one of remove patchy tan, best idea I've came across so far , thanks sis!

  

Totalement Bleuets Face Mask Reveiw

This week I needed my skin to be extra nice as I had an event and dinner to go to so I thought I would try this face mask outits French and you can get these from most shops like superdrug or supermarkets that sell skincare items.  So this is how the mask looked when o out it on, kinda similar to the photo shown 

It recommended 5-10 mins for this mask, I expected it to either go hard or become a peel off texture however it stayed slightly moistest. By 5 mins I was having to wash it off because o could feel my face becoming sensitive, as I was washing my face I noticed red sports had appeared on my forehead and my nose which is u normal for my nose. These spots where also really sore. I followed up this by using facial to not and my lush moisturiser (see previous post for this Reveiw)

In future I won't be using this product as my skin it just to sensitive for it.😔 

Lush Celestial Facial Moisturiser

So right now I'm having a break from writing assignments and I though I'd spend it wisely by reviewing my moisturiser☺️

I got this as a present for my birthday recently, as everybody know I LOVE lush! 

It's your typical lush packaging, this moisturiser is for sensitive skin and contains; vanilla water, almond oil, almond milk, glycierine, fair trade organic cocoa butter, fresh dove orchid extract, cetearyl alcohol, stearic acid and anise alcohol. 

So you can see it s typical white thick cream and as you can guess it smells like almonds. The texture of this is like a very light scrub that smooths in to your skin.

Although this is more sensitive skin I like to only put a small amount of as it is quite heavy but it spreads very well. The overall  result of this is that it works really well, my skin feels nice and fresh after using this and doesn't break out :) 

I love hats!

I got a beauty of a fedora hat from H&M yesterday and I'm in love 😍

I love a hat because it make my extreamly thick and only stays stright for 10 mins hair look soooo much better 

I can't wait for the spring/summer time (which lasts about 2 minutes in Scotland)  when it's less windy to wear this without having to hold on to it ☺️ I also love black hats because they go with everything and I wear black 99% of the time! 

Day light results for lipstick concealer!

Carrying on from my post last night here is my day light photos of lipstick concealer!

Still pretty happy with the results. I was worried at first I might end up looking like I've been punched going to uni, but my eyes are looking pretty clear! 

Lipstick concealer!!

Ok, ok! I've been wanting to try this for a while and after watching grav3yardgirl on YouTube I decided to try it for myself! 

I an using L'Oreal Colour Riche, Shade 373 which is magnetic coral.

So the way I've seen girls doing it is by applying lipstick under your eye as if it is a concealer( actual concealer is applied later) and it should look like this

I should also point out, my flash didn't go off its night time and I've had a very long day in the pouring rain so my completion is horendouse😔 so let's just ignore that and focus on the lipstick! I have blended it around the edges just because I do this with concealer normally.

This is how it looks with my concealer, foundation and a little bit of transparent power over.

 

Im so surprised with the results! As someone who ALWAYS had huge dark circles under my eyes, this has worked so well! I am going to start using this in my make up routine from now on and I will post a follow up photo of it in the day light:) 

 

FREE PERIOD!

So since starting university I have joined a group called Caledonian Women. Now I know the word feminist freaks a lot of people out, but the work this group do is fantastic! They are raising awareness throughout our university about issues such as drinks being spikes in night, creating a gender and sexuality safe space And recently campaigning against the 5% tax on sanitary products (in the UK not entirely sure if the USA have the same problem). Tampons and other items are classed as a luxury products but men's razors and exotic meats aren't? There is a huge pation going on in the UK to change this (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11465037/Period-Tampon-Tax-George-Osborne-stop-taxing-our-bloody-periods.html) (https://www.change.org/p/george-osborne-stop-taxing-periods-period?recruiter=243678881&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_page&utm_term=mob-xs-no_src-custom_msg) 

I'm quite proud to be apart of this group, I all women are feminist wither they would like to admit it for not, that bad name it has now days isn't what it's about! It's about women being equal. That means being allowed to walk down streets at night alone not in fear, being paid the same about as our male colleagues and not being told we are up set becaus it's 'our time of the month'! 

This post is quite different from my normal but I felt like sharing this with you guys :) 

p.s, the subject of consent makes people feel akward, so I like wearing my badge because the awkwardness proves that there is still a major issue!

Limecrime experience

Okay guys, I love my limecrime velvetine lipstick so much.

But two weeks ago I see lime crime post on Instagram warning buyers that their account had been hacked and debit/credit card details had been stolen.

Now although I live in the UK I was still in panic mode and had to get my boyfriend to cancel his bank card(he bought it for my birthday) and in so glad I did as last week a girl I know who lives in Glasgow had £412 taken from her account and it could have been more if she had more money in her account. 

Now I looked in to this before I heard about this girl to find out if it was affecting  people in the UK  and a came across a post on Reddit where it reviled Limecrime knew 5 days before alerting people this was happing and they removed a post that contained comments from customers warning people what had happened 

It also pointed out that  in the past they have had similar problems!

So this is a post to anyone considering buying limecrime, there are other online shops that stock it, from now on I'm going to use these and only use paypal as they were unable to take money if it was done though a payp l account.

I really wished I'd known all this stuff before I made the purchase as it cause me mass panic. 

 

Matte Primer by L'Oreal Paris

Recently I've decided to change primer. As someone who has very sensitive skin and quite oily T zones I've tired to look around for the best primer that won't upset my skin. I first tried Bourjouis's Happy Light Serum Lumiere. 

I used it for a week and decided I needed to change as this is a very thin liquid with a strong perfum smell, that didn't work very well at keeping my foundation on for longer. It left part of my skin feeling quite dry before I put on my make up. 

I've always liked L'Oreal products and I seen the Infallible Mattifying Base on offer on Asos for £6.99 (normally only £7.99) so I decided there would be no harm in trying it as L'Oreal products have never caused any problems for my skin.

It comes in a 35ml tube, I though this wouldn't last for long but it's incredible how far a little bit of this product can spread! 

This much could cover my whole face! As you can see it's a gel like substance that is very light weight. I like my skin to feel moisturised from a primer and although this is a gell formula my skin feels as if it's  a moisturiser I've put on it. When it comes to foundation this product keeps my foundation (Revlon colour stay) on all day! I can put it on at 7am go out to uni and shopping and come home at 5pm and my foundation is still intact and looking great. It does mattify my foundation which it's really great as I have oily T zones. Over all I would seriously recomend this product to any one! It's not to expensive compared to other Primers (including L'Oreal studio secret primer) and it's very similar texture to Smash Box's primer.

You honestly can't go wrong with a bit of L'Oreal! ❤️