Monthly Makeup Favourites | August 2015

Hello again! Sorry for the lack of posts in the last week I was on holiday so I thought I'd take a little break from blogging so I could get back in the swing of things as soon as I got back. So I thought it's about time I shared my monthly makeup favourites with you all. I cannot believe that it is nearly September already which means back to college in a few days!:(

The Urban Decay Naked Smokey palette was released earlier this month and I have used it so much. Whether I am creating a day time or night time eye look. I feel like you can use the palette to create so many different types of smokey eye looks. Another palette I have been loving is this blush/bronze/highlight palette from Freedom I love this palette the colours are all amazing and so pigmented! I love using the light champagne colour to highlight!

I have also been loving Brave lipstick from Mac I have been reaching for it so much over this month. I think it might be one of my new favourite lipsticks. I also have been loving the Maybelline Fit Me powder its great for setting makeup and keeping that shine away but it also had a little bit more coverage as well.

What have your favourites been other the past month? Hope you enjoyed this post and I'll see you next time!

Review | Urban Decay Naked Smokey

I know by now there are millions of posts about the Urban Decay Naked Smoky palette but I just had to share my thoughts on this beautiful palette over here on my blog. I know this palette was released a couple of weeks ago but I wanted to be able to use it a few times before giving a full review on it. I am so happy to finally have the Naked Smoky Palette ever since I heard about it I have been waiting to get my hands on it!

Just like the other Naked Palettes this is also long and rectangular but the packing is different as it is plastic. Personally this is my favourite packaging of the Naked Palettes I just think it looks really slick and cool. The palette also comes with a brush just like the others but instead of having a flat end on the brush it has more of a tapered brush so you can blend the eye shadows out and get that smokey look. Unlike the other palettes the shades do not go light-dark they go light on both ends and meet dark shades in the middle.

The Smoky palette has 4 matte shades and the rest are glittery/shimmery. The one thing I love about this palette is that even though its a palette aimed towards Smoky looks you can create wearable smokey looks as well as really dramatic looks. The look I have been going for lately has been taking the shade High all over the lid and then using the shades Combust Whiskey in the crease.

I think out of all the Naked palette so far and that I own this one is my favourite. I know thats a bold statement to make but I just love this palette and the shadows blend beautifully and there isn't much of a fall out either which is great! I now just need to get the first Naked Palette then my collection with be complete!

Hope you have enjoyed todays post! Let me know what your favourite Naked palette is.

What's In My Travel Makeup Bag

I am going on holiday this week so I thought I'd share the makeup I'm going to be taking away with me. I've tried to keep my makeup bag pretty light as I don't tend to go all out of makeup whilst on holiday so I have just packed a few of my favourite things.

For my base I am keeping things pretty light with a BB Cream, I have gone with the Maybelline Dream Pure BB Cream in the shade Light this is great for summer/holiday as it has an SPF in it and it's nice and light on the skin so it doesn't feel like I'm wearing a ton of makeup. For primer I have gone with The Body Shop Insta Blur I love this primer it's been a favourite of mine for a long time now! I am also taking the Collection Lasting Perfection concealer in the shade Light to conceal any dark circles or blemishes that appear.

For my contour/bronzer, blush and highlight I am taking my Nars Virtual Domination Palette, this palette has everything I need so it's easy to pop in my makeup bag and it also has a great mirror I can use. For my brows I am taking my trusty Anastasia Beverly Hills DipBrow Pomade as it is my favourite brow product and I never seem to reach for anything else.

For eyes I am taking my Mac quad with the shades Naked Lunch, All That Glitters, Omega and Mulch. With those shades I can create a neutral smokey eye which is what I tend to go for on an everyday basis. Along with my Mac quad I love wearing winged eyeliner so I am taking my Loreal Paris Super Line. For Mascara I am taking the Maybelline Lash Sensational Waterproof mascara.

For my lip options I am taking Mac Brave for a pink/nude and Chanel Lip Gloss in the shade 179 which is more of a peachy coral shade.

Hope you enjoyed this post! Let me know if you are going on/have been on holiday anywhere this summer!

Boots Haul

I know this is my second haul and we aren't even half way through this month but I have just been doing a lot of shopping lately and I thought I'd share what I recently got from Boots. (I really need to go on a spending ban) I suppose it wasn't too bad as everything I got was on some sort of offer!

Soap and Glory had the offer that when you buy one thing you get another half price so I picked up two of the 'Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Sticks' in the shades Pink-A-Boo and Nudist. These are so glossy and look so good on the lips. Pink-A-Boo is such a lovely pink shade which complements the lips beautifully and Nudist is the perfect nude for me. I really love these, there is three more shades in the collection so I might have to go back to boots to pick those up!

Maybelline had a deal on that you can get two products for £10 so I got the Fit Me powder and concealer. I have tried out the powder and the colour looks great I got it in the shade 120 / Classic Ivory. I also got the concealer in the lightest shade but it looks a little orange on me but maybe when I've got a bit more of a tan it will match better to my skin.

Lastly I got the Real Techniques Bold Metals Tapered Blush Brush which is number 300. I have wanted to get a brush so this collection for ages but just haven't got round to picking one up and at the moment the Bold Metals collection has 20% off so I thought it would be a good time to get one of these brushes. I really like the brush I have been using it for a combination of blusher and highlighter and I love how soft it is and it is also so pretty.

Hope you enjoyed todays post! I think it is deferentially time for me to go on a spanning ban for a few weeks!

Lush Haul

I was so excited to see that my local Lush store is now stocking some of the Oxford Street products as I have been dying to get my hands on some of these products! I also noticed that Lush have revamped a few of their bubble bars so I also picked up the new version of 'Creamy Candy Bubble Bar' and the 'Rose Jam Bubbleroon' which are two of my all time favourite Lush products.

So the new products I picked up were the Comforter Shower Gel which I am so excited to use as I love the Comforter bubble bar, if you haven't smelt the Comforter bubble bar you need to! It smells just like Ribena and I love it! I also picked up a Frozen Bath Bomb which smells really refreshing I am terrible at describing scents so for full descriptions make sure you go on other to Lush's website! I also picked up the The Experimenter which I can't wait to use in my bath as it has so many amazing colours I can't wait to see what my bath looks like! The experimenter also has popping candy in it so that should be fun! The last bath bomb I got is the Intergalactic this also is such brightly coloured and I can't wait to see how my bath turns out!

Hope you enjoyed todays post! Let me know if you have tried any of the new Lush product and what are your favourite Lush products?

My Go To Nude Lipsticks

I thought I would share my go to nude lipsticks with you all as I am a lover of nude lipsticks especially those pinky nudes. Starting of with my favourite high end nude lipstick this is the Chanel Rouge Coco Shine in the shade 54 Boy, as this a Rouge Coco Shine the lipstick is very sheer but I love nudes that are sheer and glossy.

Moving onto drugstore lipsticks one of my all time favourite nude lipsticks is the Bourjois Paris Shine Edition lipstick in the shade 26 / Beige Démocrachic this lipstick is an amazing drugstore dupe for the Chanel Rouge Coco Shine that I mentioned the shades and finish of the lipstick is so similar they look nearly identical. My next favourite nude lipstick is from Milani and I know Milani is harder to find in the UK but I usually order Milani products from the website beautycrowd.com they have a really good selection of Milani products on their website. I am in love with the Milani lipstick in the shade 26 / Nude Crème this lipstick is more of a satin finish as it is a lot less glossy than the other two I have mentioned this is also more of a lighter pink nude than the other two.

Another one of my go to nude lipsticks is the Loréal Paris Collection Privee in the shade Julianne's Nude this lipstick is one of my all time favourite lipsticks and I always find myself going back to this lipstick. I love the formula of the lipstick and the shade is a lovely peachy pink nude I find that this lipstick looks really nice with a gold and brown smokey eye. My last go to nude lipstick is a new favourite of mine and it is the Kate Moss Lipstick in the shade 45, this is more of a darker nude than the others mentioned but this lipstick is a very close match to my natural lip colour so its one of those my lips but better lipsticks which I love on a simple makeup day. The lipstick is glossy but not too glossy it just leaves a nice sheen to the lips.

Hope you enjoyed todays post! Let me know what your favourite nude lipsticks are!