Benefit Fake Up.

I love Benefit face products. I am obsessed with Boi-ing so when ever they bring out another concealer I have to grab one and have a try out.  As ever with Benefit the packaging is adorable! Has a gorgeous vintage feel to it. The product itself comes in a lipstick form so this is great for travel and storage. Also means applying the product is even easier. You can just pop it on and blend with a finger. Pretty fuss free! I picked up Fake up a little while ago and have been using it a fair amount since getting it. It isn't...

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Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge

I'm a lover of a beauty blender sponge! I've tried a lot of them recently. Some brilliant and some not so good. So as soon as I set my eyes on the Real Techniques take on the staple sponge I grabbed it!! As with every sponge I tried this wet. It swelled to over double its original size. But a good squeeze and a squeeze in a towel tales out all the excess but still leaves it just damp enough to not soak up all your product. This sponge has a pointed end, round back and a flat side. So this really makes it a multi purpose...

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Festival time!!

We are at everybodies favourite time of year. Festival season! I am off to Download this year! I'm going with my boyfriend so I have to pack light on the beauty front! But just because I'm going to be roughing it camping I have no plans to rough! I also like to have a bit of a choice when I do my make up so It isn't a compact make up bag, but most products have a few uses! Today I'm gonna tell you all about my essential beauty products! My Make Up essentials. Face: Benefit Porefessional, maxfactor CC cream, L'Oreal true match foundation,...

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MUA poptastic palette

I love eye shadow palettes and playing with many looks you can achieve with them. I have been playing with MUA's poptastic palette lately. The poptastic is a collection of 12  bright colours. A mixture of shimmers and mattes. There is a great mix of colours in this palette perfect for a variety of looks. Mine is now a bit battered where I've used it a fair amount wet and dry. In usual MUA style the shades are pigmented and beautifully creamy. Normally I find that matte purple shades are awful to work with but the...

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Nails of The Week

This week I have been loving Sinful Colors! Boots have started to stock the Sinful Colors range so last time I was there I picked up a few. I have been solidly wearing Nirvana which is a gorgeous taupe colour. With L'Oreal nail confetti as an accent nail. The only down side to Nirvana is they've said its a matte finish and its more of a glossy finish. But nothing a matte top coat can't fix! Have you tried sinful colors? Let me know! xoxo - Lizzy...

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Riri Woo Mac

I'm a lip sick junkie and a sucker for a good celebrity collaboration so obviously I had to purchase Riri Woo. I know everyones read about it and seen about it but I had to tell you all about it! I got it as a present to myself for completing my dissertation and it's beautiful! Riri Woo is based on the classic Ruby Woo but is darker and more of a blue based lipstick. I have found that Riri Woo isn't as drying as Ruby Woo. Its also more versatile and suits more skin tones. For me its the perfect red and looks so glam when its...

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Sleep Lip4 lipstick palette

I love lipsticks All colours all finishes all brands I just love them all. I have so many its unreal! So when I saw Sleep had released lip palettes i knew i had to have one!! I choose tease which is a dark red palette. With 2 glosses, a matte colour and a satin shade. The palette comes with a little brush. Not something I'd use but would be useful on the go. It is a nice firm lip brush. The packaging is usual Sleep packaging. Matte black box with a lovely big mirror. Theres four beautiful shades.  -Spot light...

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Nivea In Shower body Moisturiser

As you may know my boyfriend lives in Reading so I stay with him quite regularly and he's a shower and go guy while I am not! Showering moisturising and other lotions and potions. So I am alway on a quest To speed up my showers when I'm at his. So when I saw Niveas In-showerbody  moisturiser skin conditioner I was quite excited so I grabbed one from my local Superdrug. This skin conditioner is literally like a hair hair conditioner its a moisturiser that you rub in to your skin and rinse off. Then once you've dried you've no...

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MUA Undress Your Skin illuminating Foundation

I'm a huge fan of MUA I love a lot of their products! But I had never tried any of their foundations due to a limited colour range. Many high street ranges never seem to go down light enough. So seeing the new Illuminating foundation I discovered they do a nice light on that is perfect for my skin tone! At £5 it was a steal! MUA claim this foundation will cover imperfections and blemishes whilst maintaining your skins natural glow with light diffusing particles of shimmer that create instant radiance. So I was a little worried...

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L'Oreal CC Cream Anti - Dullness

I never really jumped onto the BB cream wagon, none of them really stood out to me or worked as well as I wanted them to. So when I saw L'Oreal had released a line of CC Creams I was a little intrigued and thought these would be more up my street. I picked up the mauve anti - dullness CC Cream as my skin is quite dull in places and has areas that need to be evened out. The product comes out the tube a mauve colour and once it has been blended with fingers it turns in to a foundation. L'oreal claim that this CC cream can is...

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Revlon Baby Stick.

While browsing my local Boots I noticed there were a few new Revlon pieces. The Baby Stick caught my eye and I had to grab it! The Baby Stick is a lip and cheek tint. Normally these type of products worry me a little and I stay away from them. Most of these tints are in liquid form which I dislike their so messy and I just don't get on with them! So to see one in a stick form was unusual. I picked up tahitian which is a baby pink colour. I thought this would be a perfect pink for a flushed look on my cheeks. A cute amount of a colour...

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Is back :)

Okay I've been so slow on posts recently due to a heavy uni work load! Buuuuuut my dissertation is written and done and ready for printing and giving in all 50 pages of it! So next week I'll be back in business :) once I've partied and become a normal human being again!...

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The cosmetics company store

Today I want to tell you about my worst kept secret. In (not so) sunny Portsmouth we have a great little outlet shopping centre. Gunwharf Quays is situated right on the waterfront and boasts plenty of amazing shops. My all time favourite which I go to all the time is a little store called The Cosmetics Company Store. Bit of a mouthful but inside is any make up enthusiasts dream. They stock Mac, Bobbi Brown, Smashbox, Clinique and Estee Lauder. Not only make up but skincare,perfume and brushes. They don't have full ranges, they stock...

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Katy Perry Colour Pop Eyelashes

Once again the beautiful Katy Perry (I have no issues saying I love this woman! She is amazing) has created a stunning collection of false lashes with Eylure. Eylure are the company I go to for beautiful lashes so seeing they collaborated with Katy I grabbed a pair or two from the original collection. This weekend I'm off to a costume party and wanted some subtle blue lashes. A light bulb went off in my brain and gave me a perfect excuse to buy the Ka-boom lashes. Then reading the information I saw that my greeny/ hazel eyes would...

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MUA Undress your skin Flawless primer.

Everyone's heard of primers and knows the benefits of using one. It's just finding a primer that's the right one for you. My main issues are I have oily skin and large pores. So I need something to deal with both or at least hide my pores! Normally I use Benefits porefessional. I do like this but it's quite pricey on my little student budget. So when I saw MUA had released their Undress your skin range and brought out a primer with a claim it fills in fine lines and pores and was only £5 I decided to investigate. MUA Undress...

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Barry M textured nail effects polish

Today on a mission for costume bits (will explain all in a later post!) I decided to treat myself to a new nail polish and a few other bits (which I'll also be telling you about later!) I grabbed a Barry M textured nail effect polish. This is their new nail effect polish. Which to me is a bit of a mixture of a concrete effect and a sand effect. They're quite gritty. I went for Ridley Road which is a gorgeous mint green. Barry M Textured nail effect nail polish The nail polish itself goes on nice And easy like their regular nail...

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Mac Viva Glam Nicki 2

I know this product has been blogged about to death but I just couldn't let this product go by me without talking about. I'm a huge Mac fan and a lover of Nicki Minaj. So when I saw the original press release for her Viva glam collaborations I was intrigued. The first one wasn't really for me I'm not into the pink colour of the first. Just wasn't a pink that I liked. But when I saw Viva Glam Nicki 2 in all its pastel lavender glory I fell in love.(Its a really similar colour to a Barry M lavender I'd purchased but broken and...

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Revlon Just Bitten kissable lip stain balm

I'm a lipstick maniac and have been debating whether or not to get one of Cliniques Chubby Sticks. So when I saw Superdrug had a sale on Revlons Just Bitten Kissable Lip balm stains I thought I'd give one or three a try before I commit to a Chubby Stick. I couldnt choose just one colour to get so I grabbed three. I picked up Crush, Desire and Rendezvous. Colour rundown: Crush: A dark berry red Desire: A pale lilac Rendezvous; A coral more on the orange side. Left to right: Crush, Desire and Rendezvour The balm stains themselves...

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