review: maybelline colour sensational lipmarker

hey everyone,
i love doing reviews, and i thought i would do one on the new craze of lipsticks, the lip marker. now you can find these by every brand and near enough every price. i brought this quite cheap it was £6.99.

I'm not quite sure about it,
i love the colour, (640 in the buff) its a  beautiful browny pink and isn't that dark, but its a bit weird to apply, it is basically like a felt tip, so it feels like you are applying a permanent marker too your lips, which thank god its not. its got a good even flow aswell. but it does have one draw back for me, as it starts to wear off it starts to leave lines, like where you have applyed it it will start to rub off and leave like a line around your lips or a line through the middle, so that doesnt look that attractive really.

it has a lovely smell and taste actually so you will find yourself licking your lips alot haha

 (without flash)

(with flash)

           pro's:

• smells and taste good
• beautiful colour
• even coverage

          con's:

• feels abit wierd when you put it on
• wears away badly

verdict: 7/10

what do you think? do you like the lip markers?

new cid cosmetics bronzer, rio: review

I thought i would show you one of the products from new cid.
Ive had it for about a month now, ive got some other products from them that i might review later on, but for now im going to review there i-bronzer called Rio.

New cid have been around awhile but only in selected salons, they want to try and expand into other places like qvc and in selected selfridges.
We have these products in the salon i work in, and i went for a makeup course with 2 of there top makeup artists :D but all these products i bought for myself, because i love the products so much.

this bronzer is quite cool, it has four different colours in here, it has pink ivory and 2 different browns, a light and a dark, so that it suits every skin colour.

with this product you can start of light and add more to make it darker, just make sure you build up the colour because you can add too much at once and you can look very brown very quickly.

this bronzer has been baked in an oven for at least 24 hours and if you wanted to pull it apart you would see the ceramic plate it was baked on, but who would want to destroy the packaging?? so im just going to take there word for it :D

it also has the colour running all the way through and will not cumble or break apart when you get near the bottom, because it has all natural oils in it, the only reason your blusher or bronzer breaks apart is because your brush has oils from your skin, so when you put it in the bronzer the oil transfers from your skin to the product, thats why they break apart.

so here i am, with just one side of my face done, the left, you can only tell a little bit but you can kind of see that my cheek is a little more defined on the left then the right.

a bronzer is for creating a shadow on your face, so what i did was put it underneath my check down, and then on my forehead, down the temples and then underneath my chin to create the shadow.

this is with 2 sides down, it makes you look abit tanned, which is good for me as im as pale as snow. you can also put it at the side of your nose to make it look smaller if you're concerned about your nose.

then i put a highlighter on, it doesn't matter which make as long as it adds light to your face, you can put it on your forehead, down the centre of your nose and on your cheek bone.

then heres a quick picture of my make-up of the day

 
what do you guys think is it a good bronzer, have you found any better ones?

i also use this bronzer to create the Kim Kardashian contouring effect, see how to do it yourself by clicking on the link

see you all soon xx

urban decay book of shadows: monochrome look

hey everyone, (warning long post :D )

so seen as Ive had a lot of interest in the urban decay book of shadows iv i brought, i thought i would show you how to use it and how to create one of there looks.

so:

when you open it up you get a little card that has qr codes on it and tells you the name of them. what you need to do is download a QR reader on your iphone, blackberry e.c.t, they are generally free, so download a free one see if it works, and if it doesn't choose another one.

when you have that you will need to scan one of the QR codes to your phone, it may take a long time, you have to be very still and i got very angry at one point because it wouldn't read it, when it has scanned it will come up with a video, the video will talk you through how to recreate one of those looks using the colours in the palette.

it is very easy to do and very understandable. its like a step by step guide.

what you need to do is plug in the little speaker that comes with it too your phone, then you can leave your phone on the table, blast it through the speaker so its loud enough to hear.
apparently the usb it comes with is to charge the speaker on your laptop if the battery runs out, but i haven't tried that bit yet.

so the look I'm going to show you is the monochrome one
there website for the monochrome look

first you start off with the urban decay primer potion and apply that with your finger to your eyelid, then using a shadow brush with the shade zephyr, which is a white with a little bit of glitter, and apply it to the brow bone and blend out using a blending brush

next you use the shade midnight cowboy, its a golden light brown with flecks of glitter, and place it right under zephyr.

next with the shadow brush use the shade blue bus, a blue with shades of pink in, and apply it too the outer half of the eyelid and smudge in, you can use your finger after to make the colour more intense, which i suggest, and then use a blending brush to blend into the inner corner.

next using an angled brush or just a smaller one, apply the blue bus underneath the eyes concentrating the colour on the lashes so it gives a fade out effect.

next apply the mascara, the supercurl curling mascara, i think this is amazing! it gives my lashes such a boost and makes them look loads longer, its a really intense black as well and gives a nice finishing look.

and that's it, its very simple you only need 3 colours, but as in the video it says you can change the colours and use the green shadow or a black or anything like that, it suits every eye colour as well and makes them stand out and look bigger.

sorry about the eyebrows they need doing :D, but tell me what you think, is it a good idea, is it just too simple or have UD got it right?

SEE YOU SOON X

urban decay: book of shadows

hey everyone,
hope you all had a lovely christmas
im off back to work today but its nearly the new year so hopefully it will get better

anyway i thought i would share with you one of the discounts i get yesterday with urban decay,
i got this from debenhams and it was 20% off which is cool,

so the urban decay book of shadows volume iv was £46 but had been reduced to £36.80
so quite a good bargin.

It's quite cool because you can use it to download different looks and create then yourself, it comes with a USB lead and a speaker, and you scan the qr code from the card it comes with and then plug the speaker into your phone and it gives u a step by step guide how to create that look.

All the eyeshadows it comes with are really really pigmented and you don't need a lot to create dramatic eyes,
The only thing I would say is that the bottom row are not as pigmented, especially the colour skimp, but it is more of a fleshy colour anyway.

Left to right: bust, missionary, skimp, zephyr

Left to right: midnight cowboy, sin, midnight rodeo, crystal

Right to left: bender, gravity, lost, hijack

Left to right: blue bus, gunmetal, cobra, baked

There are some really pretty colours and I can't wait to try them all, I will show you guys some of the looks they come with soon.

I also brought two more products, I brought an urban decay lip liner and a Barry m lipstick, and they go really well together

So there is an urban decay lip liner in wicked and Barry m lipstick in 135

Left to right: wicked, lipstick 135

With flash

Without flash

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my 2012 wish list!

hey everyone,
happy new year :D
hope you all had a lovely night and didnt get too drunk i hope, i had an amazing time with my best friends and some amazing food.

i thought i would make this post on everything i would like to achieve in 2012, things that i want to buy and things that i would like to do personal.
so here goes:

1. loose some weight: start with a stone and see how it goes from there

2. find a new job

3. buy the naked palette two

4. buy nars orgasam blusher

5. buy more candles

6. buy a house: i know this one might never happen but i would love to own my own house

7. buy some barry m lipsticks

8. find some way to organise my make up collection

9. buy some sigma make up brushes

10. buy some halo hair extensions

11. grow my hair longer: hopeless but i can give it a go

12. buy a laura mercier tinted moisturizer

13. buy at least two things out of one of the new make collections

14. buy fix plus by mac

15. have a really nice holiday away with my boyfriend


theres only 15, i could probably come up with more but i dont want to bore you, i will cross them off when i do them, with the date i completed them :D
hopefully

see you soon x