Posts Tagged ‘ MAC ’

Current Favourites: Foundation Routine

September 30, 2012
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Now the weather is turning autumnal and I’ve lost the *minescule* amount of sun-colour I pick up in July and August, it’s been back to pale and interesting with my foundation routine. I’ve gone from using a mix of two shades of the Rimmel Wake Me Up, to only using the paler shade, 100 Soft Ivory, and pairing it with the Rimmel Match Perfection illuminating concealer. I still really love Wake Me Up – a foundation that punches far above it’s weight. It’s still £3 off at Boots at the moment, making it just £5.99 – such a good deal! I reviewed it back in February and my love of it is still going strong. I wasn’t wowed by the match perfection concealer when I first picked it up as I felt it was a little too pale for me and my under eye area needed more cover. My under eyes…

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Doctors Note: Bee Loves Birthdays in Bed?

July 30, 2012
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Hey beauty fans! So sorry for the silence around these parts. I really have been quite ill this week and now have been prescribed antibiotics and told to rest! Don’t you just hate that? I’ve got loads of interesting beauty stuff to bring you but I’m having trouble managing much more than watching (and loving!) the Olympics right now. It’s my 32nd birthday today! To celebrate this Beloved Boyfriend took me out shopping on Saturday and he bought me two of the lovely products from my Most Wanted list!   MAC Transparent Finishing Powder I’ve been lusting after this product for ages as it seems such a great idea, a product that sets the foundation without adding a layer of pigment of its own. It’s really invisible in use, the MAC lady showed us. I think my charming benefactor was a bit bemused to pay £19.50 for something so demonstrably…

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Guest Post: Hannah’s Wedding Make Up Part 2

April 29, 2012
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I’m really happy to bring you the second post in Hannah’s wedding make up series! Thanks to everyone who left comments on her first post  we love and appreciate all the comments you send. I’ll hand over to Hannah now for her update ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello all, and thank you for all your kind feedback from my last post. Your tips have really helped me and having a second opinion is very valuable so again, Thank you! So, I haven’t been too focused on the wedding as of late. For those who don’t know me, I am very close to finishing my second year at University so all my time and effort has been going into that But, I have found a spare afternoon to sit down and try my second make up look for the wedding. Less than 9 weeks to go now so feedback, feedback, feedback please!!! I’m not going…

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Guest Post: Hannah’s Wedding Make Up Part 1

April 6, 2012
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Today I am very happy to hand over posting duties to my lovely friend Hannah who is soon to be married! She’s doing her own wedding face, and we’d love to hear from any of you with any hints and tips, or anyone who is doing the same Over to Hannah… ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Well hello everyone and a big thank you to Bee for letting me guest blog on her excellent site! For those that don’t know me, I’m Hannah and I am getting married in approximatley 2 1/2 months.. eep! So… here’s my story…. I’ve decided that I am going to do my own make up for our wedding. This comes from the fact that I prefer to do my own make up (and of course the dreaded financial constraints!). Now, I wouldn’t say i’m a massive make up junkie, In all honesty I wish I was someone who could…

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Not Quite 7 Day Nails

February 22, 2012
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Well… I pledged to give my NYC Expert Last a chance to live up to it’s 7 Day claim… this is what happened 1. Saturday, applied carefully.. looked awesome 2. Sunday, a few tiny chips appeared at the corners of the ends of the nails. Subtle, not a dealbreaker 3. Monday, polish started to wear off the nail tips, bigger chips chipped off. Started looking a bit ropey really. 4. Tuesday, More than ropey looking, every nail chipped and worn looking, spent whole day wanting to sit on my hands. Tuesday evening: took the pictures for this post, whipped the polish off enthusiastically! I make that reasonably presentable nails from Saturday lunchtime to Monday lunchtime.. 48 hours. So… what went wrong? I love the colour of this polish and I really enjoyed wearing it before it started looking a bit tired. I know I could get a good couple more days…

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Wantables – lovely beauty things

January 29, 2012
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Wantables – lovely beauty things

Something I love about beauty products is the detail. Sometimes products aren’t just appealing formulas to put on your skin,  but they’re nice objects as well. Something you buy to use often, to touch and hold it, it’s so much nicer when it looks and feels good too. This is definitely a consideration for my friends who buy a lot of premium cosmetics. You don’t want to reach into your designer handbag and pull out a cruddy lipgloss with the label peeling off, right? It’s not only premium brands that have gorgeous and sexy packaging though. Like the blusher from Sleek Cosmetics in “Life’s a Peach”. It was love at first sight when I saw it in Superdrug last week. I’d been pining for the discontinued Urban Decay blush in “Score” when i spotted it and given that it was only £4.19 and oh_so_beautiful I just couldn’t leave it there.…

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Saturday Face of The Day – Boho Bronze

January 22, 2012
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Saturday Face of The Day – Boho Bronze

Saturday is a great day for getting a cosmetic groove on, plenty of time to get ready, no work people to look at you askew if you apply the eyeliner with a firehose, ladies at make up counters to talk to and baristas to smile at, Saturday is lookin’ good day. So yesterday I finally gave my eyebrows a tidy up and decided to go with a bit of a boho make up look for my mooch around town. I used these products: Benefit Stay Don’t Stray Primer MAC Prep & Prime SPF50 Face Protect MAC Studio Fix Powder Foundation in NW20 MAC Studio Sculpt Concealer in NW20 Cosmopolitan Eyebrow Kit No7. Eye Pencil in Brown (Brows) Urban Decay Eye Shadow in Lost (Brows) Urban Decay Primer Potion Original Urban Decay Eye Shadow in Skimp (browbone/highlight) Urban Decay Eye Shadow in Baked (lid) Urban Decay Eye Shadow in  Midnight Cowgirl (inner…

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Primer fail? I want satisfaction, not separation

January 22, 2012
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Primer fail? I want satisfaction, not separation

There’s something very untoward going on in my make-up bag, I don’t like this at all. The primers in my kit are almost the most expensive items in there. I didn’t set out to splurge huge quids on primers. I’d tried cheap ones which didn’t seem to do anything for me, then I had a couple of makeovers – one Benefit and one MAC, and they used primers on me from their ranges and I was like “Booya! That DOES things!!”  so I was relatively confident handing over all my pocket money to purchase them. First up is Benefit Stay Don’t Stray eye make up primer £19.50 from Boots. I really love this product and I use it almost every day on my dark circles. I’ve been using it for about 6 months. One day a couple of months ago I noticed something when I was pumping it. Look at this…

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Face of the Day: Eyebrow Redux

December 21, 2011
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Face of the Day: Eyebrow Redux

Hey guys After a few slightly unusual beauty blog entries, I thought I’d bring you some more standard beauty blog fare in the form of a Face of the Day (FOTD) post. These are usually bloggers showing a makeup look they’re wearing and the products used to create it. These pictures were taken a little while ago and (hopefully) show that the Cosmopolitan Brow Styling kit can be used for good as well as evil! I’ll be using these things: And creating my normal autumn face, got to start somewhere, right?

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I’ll miss you!

December 19, 2011
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  Boohoohoo! I guess this is the end of MAC Mineralise SPF 15  NW20. What am I going to do without you?

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