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MUA Offer Alert

December 12, 2012
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Click image to visit the site You’ll have to get in quick if you want this offer as it ends at 5pm on Thursday 13th December. Right now MUA are giving 40% off all orders (minimum spend £10) and throwing in 5 free “Nail Quake” shatter nail polishes with every qualifying order. They’re celebrating reaching 40,000 “likes” on Facebook, which is a lot of fans! They’re a great value cosmetics company. If you’re wondering what to spend your £10 on to qualify, the Undressed palette (£4) is still one of my favourites, and the eye primer and blushers hold their own against the most expensive ones in my collection. They’ve also just launched magnetic nail polish for £2.99 and “Nail constellation” effects polishes too. Not included in the promotion, but looking very desirable in their own right, they’re just launched a full range of brushes between £1 and £5 which…

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Face of the Day: New Clarins Foundation Skin Illusion

November 1, 2012
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It’s not a full review as I’ve only tried a sample sachet but I must confess I am super excited about the new Clarins foundation “Skin Illusion”. It’s a light reflecting foundation with mineral and plant extracts and it’s so lovely to use, it’s definitely one for my foundation wish-list.  In the photo above I’m wearing the Skin Illusion Foundation in shade 109 “Wheat” with no concealer or powder. Such great coverage but it feels really light and lasts really well. Props Clarins, this is foundation-love-at-first-sight. I’m also wearing eyeshadows from the brilliant MUA Undressed Palette (£4). It’s the one that is the clone or “dupe” of the Urban Decay Naked palette and they’ve done a superb job. The colours are so wearable, blendable and the pigmentation is great. I don’t have the Naked palettes but I have several Urban Decay palettes and the quality of UD eyeshadows is obviously…

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Loads of Gift With Purchase Offers This Week

September 3, 2012
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Hey guys! I went for a little pay-day nosey around Boots on Friday and there were so many excellent free gifts with purchase available I couldn’t decide which to buy – heh – ended up not buying anything but I thought you guys might like to know about them L’Oreal have one of their excellent selection boxes free when you spend £15 on L’Oreal at Boots. I love these – I use products from the Christmas one most days! I will probably end up picking this up in store as I fancy trying the nail stencils and superliner, and there are a few L’Oreal products I’ve been hankering after for a while. This Boots 17 offer has been in store for a few weeks but it’s very tempting. Free Get Bronzed kit when you spend £5.99 on any Boots 17 products. It’s presented alongside a price reduction on the Boots…

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MUA Offer!

August 22, 2012
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Hey guys, I’ve just seen this on the MUA site, they have £1 off two of their best palettes (making them £3 each!) and their gel eyeliner and Every Lash mascara (making them just £2 each) until 28th August. I’m very tempted to cave and purchase the Undressed palette, which is  a shade-for-shade dupe of the Urban Decay Naked palette. I’ve liked the look of Naked and Naked2 but I prefer to spend money on brighter colours and the UD Nakeds seem expensive to me for subtle shades, just £3 for incredibly similar shades is an amazing deal though! Gel eyeliners are excellent products, part way between a pencil and a liquid liner. At £2 each, if you’ve been wanting to try one, this is a brilliant price. This post isn’t sponsored or affiliated, I just like MUA and wanted to give you the heads up! Do you own any…

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Face of the day: Hey La Hey La My Boyfriend’s Back

June 10, 2012
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Face of the day: Hey La Hey La My Boyfriend’s Back

I took these Face of the Day pics while watching out of the window for the return of the heroic boy who has been working in Oxford last week, and came back for a 24 hour flying visit just to see me (500 mile round trip!). Quite a lot of make up on for a Saturday afternoon but I thought I’d better tidy myself up a bit, right? As a much made-up lady, I’m lucky to have a partner who appreciates it when I make an effort with my make up but also tells me I’m pretty when I’m not wearing any (top tip guys!).  Although I’ve known him for 10 years, I’ve been loving cosmetics for twice as long as that, and I really can’t imagine ditching mascara and eyeliner if my partner didn’t like them. So I’m quite happy that he appreciates, but doesn’t expect, the colourful additional prettiness…

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Face of the Day: New hair day

May 7, 2012
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Hi guys! Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet, I’ve been off having a cold and laying up in bed, started reading The Hunger Games and really enjoying it too. As frequently happens when I’m ill, and when I’m not ill to be honest, I’ve changed my hair colour! I wanted to go for something much lighter than I had, but that could be conceivably a natural human hair colour, not the ribena-berries shades that I’ve gone for lately. I lightened it with cream lightener then added two different brown colours to give it the shade I wanted. Oh so time consuming but worth it! I realise looking at these shots that I was a bit quick off the bat and should have taken the time to smooth down the post dye frizzies with some serum or Argan oil, so unfortunately this is the hair in its raw rough-dried form rather than the…

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Guest Post: Jo’s Blonde Ambition

May 2, 2012
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I’m delighted to bring you a fabulous guest post from my lovely friend Jo today! As a very clever and wordy lady she doesn’t need a long introduction from me so I shall pass this blog entry over into her capable hands, enjoy! ~~~ Hello everyone! I’ve never guest blogged anywhere before and I’ve never written about make up before, but with the help of the lovely Bee, I’m hoping I can pull off both! The first thing you need to know about me when it comes to make up is that I’m blonde. And I’m not talking choose your own shade, but still have nicely defined dark eyebrows and eyelashes blonde. I’m talking naturally so blonde you have to tilt me right into the light to even notice I have eyelashes blonde. Here is the obligatory no make up pic to illustrate said blondeness (and no, those aren’t hints of ginger you can see!). I’m not…

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Step by Step: Experimenting with MUA Immaculate Collection

April 22, 2012
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So when my palette arrived yesterday, I had to try it out immediately. I used it with the MUA Professional Eye Primer I also bought and I was really impressed. For this look I’ve used all the blue and greeny shades in the palette, with the dark green/black (third on bottom row) for emphasis.     I’ve taken step by step images of each stage of applying the eye shadow. I was experimenting so there’s not too much logic to it, see what you think…   1. Turquoise base shade over entire lid   2. Greenish blending shade above crease, silvery highlighter up to  brow 3. Green/black shadow to add contour 4.  Stronger blue on centre of lids   5. Extra highlighting and shading 6. Eyeliner (Urban Decay 24/7 Waterproof Liquid Liner) 7. Finished!   With these freebies, you are really spoiling us! Here’s this eye make up as part…

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MUA: Bargains, Freebies and Lightning Fast!

April 21, 2012
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I ordered my MUA shopping at 8pm on Thursday, by 1pm on Saturday, I was gleefully unwrapping it!  Eeeexcellent, Smithers! Check it out! This is the palette that was free with my order – usually £8. I’ve had a go with it and it’s bloody brilliant for free, or £8, or just brilliant really – better than I expected even. The colours are really bright and strong and really flattering on my cool (pinkish) skin tone. There’s a mix of mostly pearl and some matte shades. The applicator is just a standard spongey one which is fine, though I used my brushes with it. The case itself is slim and not annoyingly big like some palette cases I won’t mention! I’ve taken a set of photos of various stages of applying these shadows for an eye make up look, I’ll post them soon So… what did I buy to get…

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Free Palette Alert! Free is my favourite price!

April 20, 2012
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Free Palette Alert! Free is my favourite price!

Quick! If you shop at www.MUAstore.co.uk today you can get a free “Immaculate Collection” palette worth £8 with any order! I tried to resist, I don’t need any more eyeshadows, but free is just too good a price! 1. Add any MUA cosmetics to your cart (I got an eye primer for £2.50 and got a free eyeshadow with it) 2. Add the Immaculate Collection palette to your cart 3. Enter the code FB20000 at the check out 4. Discount will be applied! You pay the postage, which was £2.95, so my total order was £5.45 (saving £9 – bargain!)   If you buy – I really recommend MUA blushers, their nail polishes are great though the brushes are hit and miss, and their lip products, especially the gloss, are great. Basically I like everything they do except their  pencils, and getting 24 eyeshadows free with a £1 purchase is…

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