Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a nice day and are excited for Christmas, it still doesn't feel like Christmas to me this year has gone so fast but I am excited. Today I thought I would share a Christmas makeup look with you and it is un-intentionally all drugstore.
First off I just applied my foundation, concealer and powder, the foundation I have currently been using is the Rimmel London True Match, concealer and powder are always the usual Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer and Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder.
Starting off with the eyes, I first applied the Rimmel London Scandal Eyes Eyeshadow Paint in Golden Bronze all over the lid, then over the top I used the Rimmel London Scandal Eyes Eyeshadow Stick in Bulletproof Beige. For eyeshadows I used the Maybelline Mono in Gold Diamonds on the lid over the top of the Rimmel London Scandal Eyes Eyeshadow Paint and Eyeshadow Stick, then in the crease I used a golden brown eyeshadow from the Barry M Starry Eyed Palette and then in the outer corner and into the crease I used the Loreal Paris eyeshadow in Cacao Mania.
Highlight under the brow bone was the lightest shade in the Natural Collection duo in Mink/Sable and then in my inner corner I used the Barry M Dazzle Dust, I'm not sure which this one is, as the number has rubbed off but its a white with shimmer. I used the Maybelline Gel Eyeliner to create a cat eye and I curled my eyelashes and applied the Maybelline Falsies mascara.
For my eyebrows I mixed the first and third brown from the MUA Matte Palette and just follow the natural shape of my eyebrow and then used a clear mascara to keep it in place.
Then for cheeks I applied the Sleek blush in Suede and used the highlight from the Sleek Contour Kit to highlight my cheeks.
Finally for lips I used the Loreal Paris Color Riche Blake's Pure Red, this is such a gorgeous red shade that I love and will be reviewing soon.
What's your favourite makeup look to wear for Christmas?
Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a good day. Today I'm going to talk about the Tanya Burr lipglosses. I'm sure you've read quite a few of these type of posts and I'm a bit late to this bandwagon, but I thought I would share my thoughts anyway.
Both these shades are very pigmented and easy to apply to the lips with the applicator. The lipglosses are not sticky at all which I love, I hate when lipglosses are really stick but these aren't their just really creamy, moisturising and glossy on the lips.
The lipglosses have a fresh fruity sort of smell that I really like and isn't too overpowering. The package is really cute and sleek that I really like too.
There are a variety of shades from pale nudey, peaches and pinks, to natural shades and then darker pinks, berry and red shades. Some of the shades are matte and some have shimmer in. The two shades I have is First Date and Aurora, First Date is a pale bubblegum pink that is matte and Aurora is your lips but better pink shade that has slight shimmer but isn't noticeable.
Out of these two shades, Aurora is definitely my favourite it's a gorgeous everyday sort of shade that is natural and I have been wearing most days. First Date I find is a little too pale for me and I can't wear it on it's own, so I use it to lighten up darker shades.
My sister has Chic which I've been borrowing too which is a gorgeous nudey shade that is also a great everyday shade.
These lipglosses are only £6.99 which is a bargain and they are my favourite lipglosses I've ever tried. I definitely want to get more shades and try some of the new shades
What are your favourite Tanya Burr lipglosses?
Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a good day. Today I thought I would do the Christmas tag post, I haven't done many Christmas type posts so I wanted to do more and I love a good tag post.
Image from Google and edited by me.
1. What is your favourite Christmas Movie/s?
My favourite Christmas films have to be Elf and Home Alone. When I was younger I always loved The Snowman and so that is a favourite too.
2. Do you open your presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas morning?
We always open our presents on Christmas morning, I usually wake up really early and open presents at about 7 with my family. I'm a big kid and get excited :)
3. Do you have a favourite Christmas memory?
It's hard to pick a favourite Christmas memory, all my Christmas's have been memorable and I've loved them. I always think Christmas is best when your a kid you get so excited and the house is really nicely decorated and all the presents you get and you play with them for hours.
4. Favourite festive food?
It has got to be Christmas dinner, it is always the best and you get so stuffed with all the food you eat. I always love chocolate and I get a lot at Christmas.
5. Favourite Christmas gift?
That's a hard one but I would say the magic set I got as a kid, I was obsessed with it and wanted to take it with me everywhere and do the tricks.
6. Favourite Christmas scent?
I don't really have a favourite Christmas sent but if I had to decide I would say the smell of Christmas dinner.
7. Do you have any Christmas Eve traditions?
Usually our tradition for Christmas Eve is ordering Chinese and just watching TV which consists of Christmas films and TV programmes.
8. What tops your tree?
We gave had both angels and stars over the years but this year it is a star. As a kid I used to always love putting the angel or star on the top of the tree.
9. As a kid what was the one (crazy, wild, extravagant) gift you always asked for but never received?
I think I usually got everything I asked for but when I was younger I did want a pet mainly a puppy but I never got it but it never bothered me too much.
10. What's the best part about Christmas for you?
I love everything about Christmas but the best part for me is getting to spend time with all my family and having Christmas dinner and just generally having a nice time.
What's the best part about Christmas for you, I would love to know.
Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a nice weekend, today I'm doing a post on my top 5 red lipsticks, red lipstick is always a statement lipstick that I love wearing but it's perfect for Christmas and so I thought I would share with you my favourites.
My all time favourite red has to be MAC's Russian Red, it's been a favourite of mine for years. It's a classic red that is matte but isn't drying on the lips and makes your teeth look whiter, this is always the first red I will go for if I want to wear a red lipstick. I think this red lipstick will suit most skin tones as well.
Rimmel London lipstick in Alarm, was the first ever red lipstick I actually bought and I repurchased it since, when I first started getting into wearing full face of makeup I wanted to try going out of my comfort zones as I only would wear pinks and neutral shades on my lips and so when I branched out this was the first red I got. It's a gorgeous red that isn't as deep as Russian Red and is more orange toned while Russian Red is blue toned.
Next up is Beauty UK lipstick in Naughty this is an orange red lipstick, it's the lightest out of all the shades and so if you want to branch out into wearing red I would say this is a good one to go for. This is really moisturising and slightly glossy which I love but it isn't as long lasting of the other lipsticks but it is the cheapest.
Rimmel London Kate Moss in 107, so many will know about this lipstick, I think its a statement lipstick that most beauty bloggers have, it's a gorgeous deep berry red that I absolutely love and couldn't live without I love wearing this lipstick. It is matte but it isn't drying on the lips and is very pigmented and long lasting.
Lastly is Rimmel London Apocalips in Big Bang this is a lip lacquer, that is between a lipstick and lipgloss, Big Bang is a bright glossy red. These lip lacquers are really creamy and opaque and last quite a long time.
As you can tell Rimmel London is one of my favourite brands for lip products but especially reds, I recently got the Loreal Blake Lively Red lipstick which I'm absolutely loving and once I've used it a bit more I will be reviewing.
What is your favourite red lipstick?
Hey Lovelies, sorry for being a bit MIA on my blog recently, I wasn't feeling the best and everything was getting on top of me so I needed a little break. Anyway I thought I would do a gift guide for £10 and under as sometimes we can't all afford to spend a lot of money on people.
First up is The Body Shop and their gift selection, I always think The Body Shop is great for Christmas presents, they have a range of gifts and they all smell amazing and are boxed up very Christmassy. The first gift is Strawberry Treats and is £6 with a Strawberry Shower Gel and Body Puree with a Red Mini Crinkle Bath Sponge. Then next The Sweet Polar Bear that is £7 and is so cute, includes the Strawberry Body Butter and Lip Butter. The Jolly Lippy Lolly is £10 and includes Strawberry, Raspberry, Satsuma Shimmer, Watermelon and Passionberry Born Lippy Lip Balms. The Vanilla Brulee Treat Box is £7 and includes Vanilla Brulee Shower Gel and Body Butter and Cream Mini Crinkle Bath Sponge.
Boots are always amazing too for Christmas presents they have 3 for 2 and you can get some real treats. First up is the Soap and Glory sets, one set is Clean Get Away at £10 and this includes Clean On Me Creamy Clarifying Shower Gel, The Righteous Butter Body Butter, Calm One Calm All Stress-battling Softening Bubble Bath and Hand Food Hand Cream. The other set is also £10 and is Soap Of The Best and includes The Righteous Butter Body Butter, Hand Food Hand Cream, Clean On Me Creamy Moisture Shower Gel, The Scrub Of Your Life Smoothing Body Scrub and Suds-boosting Body Polisher.
Also from Boots these Seventeen gift sets, one of the sets is The Lipgloss Library at £6 with 6 Lip Lustre Lip Glosses in a variety of shades. The other set is the Quick Draw Double Ended Eye Crayons thatis £10 and has a variety of shades to create neutral or smokey eyes and you can use alone or with eyeshadow. Lastly is this Fearne set that is £10 and has Mini Collection of Bath and Body Treats this includes a Body Butter, Body Wash, Body Scrub, Hand Lotion and Body Polisher.
What Christmas presents are you wanting this year?
Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a nice weekend, today I thought I would do a makeup look for you, I haven't done one in ages and I love wearing dark lips in Autumn and Winter, so I thought I would share with you what I wear.
For my base the foundation that I used was the Bourjois Healthy Mix and Collection Lasting perfection concealer, I just love this foundation and concealer. The powder I use was Rimmel London Stay Matte Pressed Powder.
My eyes were kept quite simple as the main part to the look was the lips, I use MAC Woodwinked all over the lid and Maybelline Mono in Chic in the crease and used the cream colour from the MUA Matte palette as the highlight under the brow bone. I blended all the eyeshadows really well so it didn't look too dark. Then I applied the Illamasqua eyeliner in Abyss, it's my favourite eyeliner it's so black and easy to apply. I applied the Maybelline Falsies Mascara to my eyelashes and then for my brows I mixed the two browns from the MUA Matte Palette.
For the cheeks I used the 17 blush in Plum Puff, it's a gorgeous Autumn blush that is plumy pink.
Then for the lips I used MAC Diva which is an absolutely stunning dark burgundy red that is perfect for Autumn.
I hope you like this look and what's your go to makeup look for Autumn/Winter?
Hey Lovelies, hope your all alright, today I'm going to do a bit of a different post today on body image.
All images are from Google.
Everywhere we see in magazine, on TV, social media it is the normal that you need to be skinny and I don't think it's right, we can't all be skinny. I am healthy weight but on my stomach it's never been as skinny or as flat as I wanted and I've been extremely insecure for a long time and being called fat never helped. I came to the realisation that I just need to try to accept it, I've tried exercising, not eating as much and eating healthier before but it doesn't make much of a difference, it's just my shape and size I don't think I'm going to be able to be skinny.
Now a days there is so many young people with low self esteem or confidence if they aren't skinny and more having eating disorders because of magazine, celebrities and the media and we shouldn't be in that sort of society. We should be accepted no matter what our size!
Meghan Trainor's All About That Base is an inspiring and good song saying about size and it doesn't matter. Adele has always said she is fine with her size and she wouldn't be skinny. I think there needs to be more advocates of different sizes telling young people and adults it's alright to be the size you are.
If you are wanting to lose weight I think that is fine, if your doing it for the right reasons, not just because you want to be skinny as everyone else. I know as well that some people are just naturally skinny and still eat enough. I hope body image does change and more people become accepting of their size but I don't if that will happen with all the skinny models/celebrities in magazines, TV and in the media and they get slated if they aren't a small size.
What are your thoughts on body image?
Hey Lovelies, hope your all having a nice weekend. Sorry I haven't blogged in just over a week, it was down to some personal issues which I don't want to talk about but I wasn't in the right mind to blog and I always find I work best and do better posts if I'm in the right frame of mind and when I'm happy. Anyway I've got post for you today on a new service by Coloristiq that has only launched recently and its a unique renting service.
Each month you get to choose 3 nail polishes from their vast range of nail polishes available, their is a wide range of shades and brands including Essie, OPI, China Glaze and Morgan Taylor. The three nail polishes you have chosen will be delivered to your door for you to try out for a month. Then after the month you send back the polishes packaged up properly to the post box or the post office. All of this is just £14.49 a month.
It's a really unique and wonderful idea I think, I have lots of nail polishes and I can honestly say I've never finished a complete bottle of nail polish, I always like wearing different colours and this way with the renting service you can try out the nail polishes and then send them back. Often I find with nail polishes too if you have had them for a long time they end up drying up or going gloopy and you can't use them so you have to chuck them away and you waste a lot of money, this way your saving money and getting to try out lots of nail polishes. If you really enjoy a shade you can go out and buy it and also if you try out a shade and you don't like it you get to send it back so you haven't wasted your money.
The nail polishes arrive in this compact box and their protected with these guards and when I first saw them, I thought they were a weird contraption but they are helpful in making sure the nail polishes don't get damaged or broken when being sent.
As it is a rental service you need to keep all the packaging (the box, yellow protective wrappers, pre-paid postal label or Coloristiq sticker) as you need to send the nail polishes back but these are included on some instructions for you, so you know.
I was lucky enough to be sent these three gorgeous shades Essie The Lace Is On, OPI French Quarter For Your Thoughts and China Glaze Well Trained. Essie polish is a pretty shimmery fuchsia colour, OPI polish is a blue toned nude grey colour and the China Glaze polish is a beautiful dark teal colour. A big thank you to Coloristiq for these polishes they are all stunning.
My readers have been offered one month's free trial of the Coloristiq Experience. All you need to do is register, then email Coloristiq at info@coloristiq.com with the promo code ASHLEIGH1 and your first month will be manually refunded.
What do you think of the Coloristiq renting service? Which colours are you lusting after?
Hey Lovelies, hope your having a good day and have a nice Bonfire night, today I've got a MAC Rebel dupe for you.
I didn't know this was a dupe till after I bought the lipstick, I wanted a dark autumn lipstick and wanted to try more Makeup Revolution lipsticks and picked Rebel With a Cause.
If you know me I love a good MAC lipstick and Rebel has been a favourite of mine for ages, its a dark berry shade its a satin finish but quite matte but moisturising and really pigmented and perfect for autumn.
I actually prefer Rebel With a Cause, it is so much more moisturising than MAC's Rebel, they are both really pigmented but I do find that the MAC lipstick is a lot more long lasting on the lips than the Makeup Revolution lipstick. The Makeup Revolution lipstick is more glossy on the lips than the MAC lipstick too.
In the bullet they do look very different but swatched they are almost identical, Makeup Revolution Rebel With a Cause is slightly lighter and slightly more red toned but it is ever so slight and you can hardly tell the difference.
As you can see on the picture they look so much a like and when I wear it is hard to tell the difference, so if you don't want to fork out £15.50 then go for this amazing dupe that is great quality at only £1 you really can't go wrong.
What are your favourite MAC dupes you've found, would love to know.
Hi Lovelies, hope your all having a good week. A while ago I did a weekly roundup and people seemed to like it and so I thought I would do a monthly roundup every so often, if I have anything interesting I wanted to share.
The most interesting and exciting thing I got to do was the #SheffieldBBloggers meetup in October, me and the lovely Heather and Georgina all organised and I had so much fun doing it. We all got amazing brands involved for the raffle and goodie bags. I've never organised a meetup before and got brands on board, so it was all new to me but we all worked hard and I enjoyed doing it. It was a small intimate meetup which we all agreed was best, bloggers got the chance to talk to everyone because there wasn't as many people. All the bloggers said they really enjoyed the day, so me and the other organisers were really happy and proud of what we achieved and that everyone had a good time. I also loved getting to know the other bloggers and having fun with Heather. After this experience I'm excited to do future meetups with other bloggers.
This month has actually been really busy for me, I had this meetup, I've been out a few times and I did an outfit post on my blog which I rarely do as I'm not really a fashion person but I like to change things up sometimes and go out of my comfort zone, I've had college, placements at schools and being assessed while I was there, working, looking after my nan and blogging. I am actually quite proud of myself for being able to keep on top off everything, sometimes when I have a lot going on I get really stressed out and then worry about it all.
What have you all been up to this month?
