MUA Review

Hello Lovelies, here's a review of a couple MUA products I have bought recently.

I heard so many good things about these products and really wanted to try them, I got the highlighter first and then it took a while to get my hands on the Undress Me Too palette but I'm so glad I got them both.

The palette has gorgeous shades and I've already worn it quite a few times, the shimmery shades are the best they are so pigmented and are so nice to use, you can create different looks for both daytime and nighttime, its a dupe for the Naked 2, the only downside to this palette is the matte shades aren't as pigmented and can be a little chalky but at £4 you can't expect miracles, overall I think it's an alright palette but some of there other palettes are better quality.

Swatches of the first row.

Swatches of the second row, as you can see the black isn't very pigmented or dark.

The Undress Your Skin Shimmer Highlighter is absolutely amazing, I love the swirls in the highlighter, I've heard its a dupe for a Mac highlighter, its a gorgeous pinky champagne shimmery colour that gives you a lovely glow to the cheek but doesn't make you look like a disco ball and it's only £3 you can't go wrong.

I like the new white packaging it's still similar to the black packaging it looks cheap but is sturdy.

What do you think to the MUA Undress Me Too palette and Shimmer Highlighter?

Ashleigh xx

Trust Issues

Hello Lovelies, here's a different type of post for you today it's more personal and something that I think everyone goes through in their lives and here's just what it's like for me.

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I used to be very trusting in people till I was about 14 this was when I got bullied and because it was by people I thought were my friends and I had trusted in them with my personal information and I had heard whispers about me so they could have told people I'm not 100% sure but that was the main reason in me not being able to trust anyone else I thought that whatever I told them they could use it against me to hurt me so I didn't want to leave my self unprotected from the hurt so I built a sort of wall where I talked to people about everyday things but wasn't able to tell them anything personal.

When I got to college I thought it could be a change for me, that people would be more mature and I could maybe be more trusting in people, I was able to talk about my past experiences and how I found it hard to trust people and people did understand I still wasn't able to let them in but I would take about personal things, I found a new friend that had a lot of same experiences as me and so I found it easier to talk about these things because she understood what I had been through but I could never tell her completely everything and couldn't drop my wall down, even with my wall up I still got hurt so I didn't want to let it down to let more hurt through.

I started my new course this year at college and made more friends and one would just tell us everything that had ever happened to her and she didn't have a fear about telling us, it made me think that I would be able to let my guard down and be more trusting and I would tell them about my past experiences and personal things and I started to slowly let my guard down a bit each time and be more trusting but like anything else something would happened which made me think I can't do it and I would put my guard back up and have to start all over again in trusting them.

There's been know one I can trust completely, I've tried so hard to be trusting in people and let my guard down but they do something it can be big or little and it just forces me to protect myself,  I hate the feeling of hurt and pain so I don't want to put myself through it so I don't know if I will ever be able to let my guard down but I keep trying and at that's all I can do but I hope one day I will be able to trust in someone because not being able to trust people makes you feel alone and I hate feeling alone.

I think everyone has people that they find it hard to trust, so I thought I would tell my personal experience of not being able to trust.

I just want to tell people if you ever feel like this and you want to talk about it, I'm still going through it  and I know what it's like, I'm always here for you, you can email me acmakeuplover@gmail.com or on twitter.

I never want people to feel the way I have felt because its not nice.

It was really hard for me to write this post but I hope its helpful to someone and to let people know I'm always here for you to talk to.

Ashleigh xx

MAC Review

Hello Lovelies, two months ago I had a MAC makeover here's the post if you want to have a look, I got a comment saying to review the eyeshadows because they hadn't heard very much about them and sorry for only just getting round to doing it but I thought I would review all the products I got.

I bought the swiss chocolate matte eyeshadow which was £12, ice mineralize eyeshadow which was £16.50, matte lipstick in russian red which was £14 and pro longwear blush in all day blush which was £19.

I like both matte and shimmery eyeshadows so I love both these eyeshadows, swiss chocolate is a matte medium brown, its very pigmented and long lasting I love wearing it on an everyday basis but I like that you can wear it as a natural look or have a brown smokey eye, ice is a shimmery silvery gold colour, the products is swirly with a mixture of a peachy and champaigney colour I really like the swirls in the product, this is also very pigmented and long lasting its very shimmery but not big chunks of glitter and I like to wear it more at nighttime.

All day blush is nudey peachy pink colour, it is very pigmented so if your a fair skin tone like me you don't need to use too much product, I like the name of the blush and like the name says its a perfect blush for all day and you can wear it in the daytime or nighttime, its a quite natural blush that is buildable and is really long lasting.

Russian red is a classic matte red lipstick and its really pigmented and long lasting, the formulation is matte but is quite moisturising at first but can be a little drying after wearing it for a few hours, I never used to like wearing red lipstick but since blogging I love wearing them and this is my new favourite red lipstick, this is a perfect red that I think will suit every skin tone.

I always like MAC's packaging its just black but its sleek.

I just love all MAC makeup and if I could I would buy it all because it's always good quality and isn't the most expensive high end brand.

What's your favourite MAC products let me know.

Ashleigh xx

Beauty Haul

Hello Lovelies, over the past few weeks I got a few beauty bits and wanted to share what I got.

I got some Dainty Doll products I have the lipstick in baby love lipstick its a light baby pink colour I think it looks like a gorgeous shade, you are my sunshine blush I love the name of it I think this blush is similar to Sleek's rose gold and Nars orgasm its a bit of a more darker pink but has gold running through it, jungle eyeshadow its a turquoise shade I don't really use this sort of shade but it came in the set. I got this set for £4.99 from T X Maxx.

The new mua undress your skin range,I really wanted try the palette and highlighter so I had to buy it, It's the undress me too palette its a dupe for the Naked 2 and has gorgeous shades for both daytime and nighttime looks, shimmer highlighter it's a light pink shimmery shade that looks like will give you a lovely glow, the palette is £4 and the highlighter £3.

The Rimmel London scandal eyes nude eyeliner, I've heard so many good things about this eyeliner and is meant to make you look more awake and brighten your eyes, this is £3.99.

All the products I bought are really inexpensive and affordable for everyone.

These look like amazing products and I can't wait to try them out and review them and create different looks for you.

Ashleigh xx

Illamasqua Beauty School Drop In Event Part 3

Hello Lovelies, here is the final part to the Illamsqua beauty drop in, I know its been a long few posts but I hope you enjoyed it  and found it interesting and found out some new tips and tricks, this part is all about the lips, here's the first part and second part if you haven't seen it.

 

The makeup artists applying products on the lips on Hannah and Lelia.

 The lipstick and lip liner use on Hannah.

The lip liners and lipsticks are very pigmented.

They say the liners are waxy.

They call it the stages of 3 they use lipliner, lipstick and lipgloss.

A different lipstick and lip liner.

The lipgloss they used on Hannah.

For Lelia they used the pigment they used on the cheeks.

The completed looks on both Hannah and Lelia, I like both looks but I prefer Hannah's because it would be something I would wear and Lelia's look suits darker skin tones.

Some pictures of the Illamasqua products, they all look amazing, really like the look of the nail polishes.

We all got a bag, it has a little magazine with different looks in, the card with all the prices, orange false eyelashes and a little card with a snail on with little notes on the back.

It was a great event and if you have any in your area I recommend you going there really good and you learn lots of new tips and tricks.

Ashleigh xx

Illamasqua Beauty School Drop In Event Part 2

Hello Lovelies, this is the second part to the Illamasqua beauty school drop, here's the first part if you missed it, this is all about the eyes.

Firstly the eyebrows, they call it the 3 diamonds of the eyebrow, the beginning, arch and end.

For your eyebrows you should gently sweep with whatever product you use and keep your shape of your eyebrows. 

The product used on Hannah's eyebrows.

The cream pigment that they used as a base on both Hannah and Lelia.

One of there eyeshadow palettes.

They used these eyeshadows and a darker brown and applied eyeliner and mascara on Hannah.

Then for Lelia they used a technique called sketching, you use an eyeliner and then blend it and applied mascara.

They used a blending brush 1 for both eye makeup looks.

The Illamasqua mascara is build able and lengthening and is the blackest of the black.

Hope you enjoyed.

Ashleigh xx