Wrapped in pink - OOTD

I bought this dress forever ago from New Look but hadnt worn it all too often.

I debuted it first on my birthday in July...

So I decided to give it an outing to work to brighten everyones day up.

On my lips is a lip liner from Barry M in colour #113. It's my current go to colour for barbie pink lips.

And with this dress and my hair looking so bright, barbie lips were just the cherry ontop of a great outfit day!

I wore my fave necklace from Simply Be to give it some shiny magpie sparklyness.

My cardigan is from Tesco via Rachel.  And my bag is from Simply Be too. I later added some sequin'y fish scale nail varnish from Essence called Million Dollar Baby I do so love this top coat. I wore it with 3 coats on its own because its just so fricking cool! links:
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Blogmas - Day 31 Taking care of my Lips, Baby

During the winter I like to stock up on lip balms and lip salve products because my lips get chapped and crack easy, so I like to have at least 1 in my bag at all times.
I usually have a variety of products to hand, in recent times I have favoured Carmex Cherry Lip Balm or the Carmex Lip Balm Moisture Plus and always have a tin of Vaseline Lip Therapy, which are all affordable and available in most drugstores and supermarkets. 
But recently I happened upon something different. Now I don't follow trends and make up fads, I just use what I like when I like. I know that Maybelline Baby Lips was a big thing recently but I never thought much of them until a work friend shared a recent purchase with me (because thats what women do ok).

In a payday treat I bought 2 shades and got the other today (Saturday)

L-R: Pink Punch, Cherry Me, Peach Kiss
I really like these as they are tinted, but don't stain. They're very wearable and very very very moisturising. AND affordable at only £2.99 a pop in Superdrug.

 L-R: Pink Punch, Cherry Me, Peach Kiss

Pink Punch is a soft baby pink and my favorite of the 3 I have. It has a fruity scent, almost like a fruit punch, wehey. 

Cherry Me comes on as a light pinky red, and obviously smells like cherry.

Peach Kiss is the lightest of the 3. Its a nice nude colour and has a peach scent.

 I did a lil swatchy thing, well, lip test really. I have kept the same order as above for continuity's sake.

L-R: Pink Punch, Cherry Me, Peach Kiss

I am definitely a fan of these and will most likely be purchasing the rest of the collection as soon as I can, and also just stocking up on as many as I can for the winter.

Are you a fan of these, what's your favorite one?

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Blogmas - Day 9 A Hot Pink FOTD

Just a quick FOTD from Saturday. What I Used:

L'loreal Nude Magique BB cream in Light

Collection Pressed Powder in Translucent 

Laval Cosmetics blusher in Chinchilla

ASDA George Grow Mascara

MUA Cosmetics LUXE Velvet Lip Lacquer in Criminal

Collection Eyebrow Definer in Blonde

Nice and simple. links:
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Collection DELUXE lipstick

Now we all know I am a cheapo, and I like a good bargain! So imagine my surprise when I picked up 4 lipsticks for a tenner in ASDA. Ok so granted there only 2 actual colours, but hey, a girl needs different shades of pink and red! And they're such nice shades of said colours! They are pretty good wear too, I wore one of them pretty much ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT at Plus North and I only reapplied twice throughout the entire day! 
  The four colours I picked up are:
#2 - Talullah
 

#4 - Speakeasy

#5 - Silent Movie




#1 - Prohibition (best name ever)

I am quite fond of Talullah, I think it may have just become my everyday lip colour!

Here is the actual wear from day to night with just 2 touchups.
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FOTD Friday (or some other day)

Ok, so mabey this is my FOTD for 2 weeks, but hey.

Used: MUA Undressed Palette / Collection 2000 Blush in Bashful / Collection 2000 Eyeliner & Mascara / MUA Lipboom

Used: Helen E Eyeliner / Helen E Mascara / Sleek Blush in Flamingo / Chapstick

Used: Sleek Blush in Sahara / Collection 2000 Mascara & Eyeliner / Helen E Lip Crayon

Used: GOSH eyeliner / MUA Undressed Palette / ELF Blush / MUA LipBoom

Used: ELF Eyeliner / Collection 2000 Fat Lashes Mascara / Natural Collection Blush / Helen E Lip Crayon

Used: MUA Royal Blue eyeliner / Collection 2000 Electric Blue Mascara / Sleek blush in Sahara

Used: MUA royal blue eye liner / Collection 2000 Electric blue mascara / Helen E Blush / 2true lipstick shade 3

Used: 2true lipstick shade 1

Used: MUA Eyeliner / MUA Undressed Palette / Sleek Blush in Flamingo / 2true lipstick shade 1

Used: Collection 2000 eyeliner / Helen E Blush / Vaseline Lip Care / Rimmel Mascara

Helen E Cosmetics Review

Recently I posted about our Rad Fat shopping trip, and I briefly mentioned Helen E.
As we all know, I try out alot of foundations and make up products, well this particular one has almost trumped my L'loreal BB Nude Magique obsession. The lovely Helen E rep used the skin smoother, blusher and lip gloss on moi.  The smoother was soft, light and dewy and when applied with a foundation brush looked so refreshing and natural.  The blusher was a nice light peachy tone which I love. The gloss was a soft pink, which I wasn't too taken by as it was glittery, but it still looked lovely.

Laura took this pic in Debenhams after my make over
I got a gift pack worth about £50 to £60 for just £20.00, this included the Smoother, Eyeliner, Duo Mascara, Lip Liner, Concealer stick and Blush, in a "milan" make up bag.
 

The mascara's are nice and small and compact. The formula is nice and liquid'y and not too dark. I prefer the brown as lately I have been favouring brown mascara as opposed to black.
The eyeliner is a nice soft kohl type pencil, with a smudger on the end. I don't often use eyeliner smudgers because I dont smudge my eyeliner for smokey effects, but this is still a nice liner, very soft indeed.

Left with flash, Right without flash

The blush is a perfect colour for me, nice peachy coral tone. Perfect.
The lip crayin is also quite soft and a nice light pink lip colour which I quite like, its quite natural!
I also like the concealor stick, it's a decent match to my skin, but it can be a bit hard at times.

I used all of the Helen E items I have on my face today. The skin smoother really does blend well with my skin, it's lovely!
Currently Helen E is available online, or in Debenhams.

FOTD Fiday

Used: L'loreal BB Nude Magique

Used: Vasaline Alo Vera Lipbalm / ELF Blush / Boots No7 Eyebrow pencil / Collection 2000 Eyeliner

Interview face

Used: MUA Blush / W7 Lipstick / Helen E Blusher / Collection 2000 Eyeliner / MUA Undresses palette

Used: MUA Lip Boom O.M.G / Collection 2000 Blush / MUA Undressed palette / Helen E Blusher / Collection 2000 Eyeliner