Soap and Glory Lid Stuff Eyeshadow Palette

Soap and Glory

Lid Stuff Eyeshadow Palette

What's Nude

£10.00 Boots

Another neutral eyeshadow palette...what a surprise!

I am so terrible when it comes to neutral eyeshadows

No matter how many palettes I already own whenever I see a neutral one I just have to have it

One day I'll stop...or not

Maybe I should start selling them on lol!

Soap and Glory have always been on my beauty radar, mainly due to their cute packaging but also becuase of the hype other beauty bloggers give them

I very fairly dabble in their make up however but after seeing Louise at Sprinkle of Glitter rave about this palette quite a while ago now I knew I had to pick it up

So when Boots had a 3 for 2 on S&G makeup I thought why the heck not!

The colours included are the perfect four neutrals and work really well together for a subtle daytime work eye look

Or even for school when you can't wear strong eye makeup

Three of the shades are matte with one shimmer and all have a fairly decent pigmentation

I like to use the three matte shades together for a work friendly look but then add some of the shimmer to take it through to evening

The second shade from the left on the swatches is the perfect shade on my skintone to completely balance out any redness on my lids 

If you're looking for a fairly cheap little eyeshadow palette with work/school appropriate shades then I definitely recommend picking this little baby up 

Love

Belle

xoxo 



Soap and Glory Sugar Crush Shower Gel

Soap and Glory

Sugar Crush Body Wash

£6.00

This smells DIVINE! 

Absolutely amazing, I think this might actually be my favourite Soap and Glory scent

Sometimes their scents can be slightly too sweet and sickly but this is the perfect balance between citrus and sweet

The main scent is lime but also a sugary undertone 

As a body wash it does the job...foams nicely and the scent lingers on my skin for hours afterwards

Not hugely overpowering but it's there and smells yummy!

Can't really say much about a shower gel other than it smells good and makes bubbles
I've nearly finished it in only a few weeks...good sign as I can be slightly fickle with shower gels and often switch between a few!

This lovely scent comes in a body scrub and body butter

I may have to purchase these two products 

My main goal is to smell like a sugary lime ;)

Love

Belle

xoxo

Too Faced Complexion Perfection Kit

Too Faced Leopard Love

Complexion Perfection Kit

£12.50

Boots

I remember seeing this around before but never purchased as I don't really like buying make up online without having a play to see the quality of the brand

Too Faced has only just come into my local Boots, al though I think it was only for Christmas, and I got to have a closer look at their products and the quality of them

I saw this on the Boots website in the online offers section and it was only £12.50 (I think, it's not on there anymore) and I had to snap it up!

That only works our to around £4 for each product, pretty good for Too Faced really.

I love anything cute, pretty and girly and the packaging of this is just that.

All pastel colours and girly touches 

I was also drawn in by the fact that each product was a mixture of a few colours in a leopard print pattern

In the kit you get a bronzer, blusher and a highlight, so everything you need for a glowing look in one place

Perfect for travelling with

The swatches show that the colours are gorgeous

The bronzer is the only product not to have a huge amount of shimmer running through it which is ideal as you don't want to be spreading glitter all round your face...not a good look

I have to say though I'd say to use the bronzer with a light hand as it's easy to over do and look a bit on the orange side.

The blusher is a lovely, subtle pink colour which isn't too frosty and baby pink but is different from my usual coral colour 

I like how the highlighter isn't your usual icy champagne kind of colour

It's more warm and could even be used as a shimmery bronzer if you so desire, I think it would make a lovely eyeshadow colour

I'd definitely recommend picking this up if you can find it at half price

Love

Belle

xoxo

Real Techniques Brushes

Real Techniques Blusher Brush

£9.99 Boots

Real Techniques Powder Brush

£12.99 Boots

Since purchasing the Core Collection kit I have been eager to get my hands on some more of their brushes

I love how soft they are and how flawless my makeup look when I use them

I may even go as far as to say I think their better than MAC brushes (blasphemy I know..)

Whilst Boots have their three for two offer on I took advantage and purchased both of the above brushes

For powder I've been using a relatively old Cosmopolitan brush which now feels so scratchy after using such a brush

Real Techniques brushes feel like little fluffy clouds tickling over my cheeks

Weird description I know

Have you tried the eye brushes they do?

Any others you'd recommend?

Love

Belle

xoxo

Stila Seeing Stars Smudge Stick Set

Stila Smudge Stick Set

£16.66 Boots

Such a bargain! I love Boots for the Christmas sales as all of the make up gift sets from Christmas come down in price

This year my local store actually stocked some Stila, Too Faced and Philosophy products. Normally their pretty poor on the premium make up front.

I'm now regretting not picking up some more Philosophy beauty bargains but in all honesty I have enough shower gel to last me through the year and some.

Considering one of the Stila Smudge sticks alone are £13 paying £16.66 for five full sized is brilliant.

I would most definitely pick up a set of these beauties if your local Boots still has stock available, I know their out of stock online but it's worth a try.

The 'sticks' are like a wind up eyeliner in design, in all honesty I was expecting a thicker nib so as to use it like an eyeshadow but the thin nib allows the product to be used as both an eyeliner and an eyeshadow so it's versatile.

I like how each different smudge stick's casing is the colour of the product it houses.

I get so frustrated when I'm looking for something amongst many other bits and bobs and can't easily distinguish what each thing is.

The glitter in the packaging makes it pretty as well which is a bonus if you display your make up at all.

(L-R)

Moray~Golden Olive Shimmer

Stargazer~Black with Gold and Silver Pearl

Angelfish~Metallic Pewter

Tetra~ Deep Shimmery Purple

Oscarfish~Warm Brown with Gold Pearl (Limited Edition)

In my opinion there aren't any dud colours in this set. 

My two favourites are Angelfish and Tetra.

The darker colours can be used to create a smouldering smokey eye and Angelfish can be used to highlight on the lid and brighten used in the waterline.

The formula is quite soft and blendable, they are long lasting and waterproof too so should last all day, or night.

Love

Belle

xoxo

Soap and Glory Breakfast Scrub

Soap and Glory

Breakfast Scrub

£9.50

As I said in a previous post I've recently gotten into body scrubs and wanted to pick up the Soap and Glory Breakfast Scrub, so I did! 

Soap and Glory products are always on some kind of special offer in Boots, normally 3 for 2, so they are great value for money. 

As with all Soap and Glory products the packaging is super cute and looks great on top of bathroom cabinet alongside my other pretties...

This stuff smells gorgeous! Like amazingly yummy

A mixture of maple and banana..mmmm

I love things that smell great especially in the shower

As far as a body scrub goes this is brilliant

Just scrubby enough to smooth my skin but not too abrasive on sensitive skin

The moisturising oils in the formulation leave your skin smooth and soft, combined with the scubbiness of capuacu bits.

Have you tried this yummy skin treat?

Love

Belle

xoxo

Soap and Glory Kick Ass Concelaer

Soap and Glory Kick Ass Concealer

Three part Concealer Kit

£10.00 Boots

'Soap & Glory™ Kick Ass™ Concealer is a three - piece flaw camouflaging kit that includes an amazing undereye brightening concealer, an 'on the spot' as-you-need-it complexion concealer, and a weightless transparent setting powder.'

I'm a sucker for cute packaging, as are a lot of people.

Soap and Glory has the cutest packaging on the drugstore market

It's mixture of retro with a simple colour pallet of pinks, gold, black and white is used throughout the range

I like the consistency this gives the range, I'm a geek with colour consistency but it bugs me if products don't match in the range.

The product itself is a three piece little concealer kit

Including two cream based products and one powder based

As you open the pot you flip up the top powder layer to get to steps 1 and 2 

The left hand side being step 1 and right hand side being step 2

I've got the kit in shade light as I'm super pale

The cream products have such a smooth consistency and they blend into the skin so effortlessly

Some cream concealers I've tried have been so hard it's hard to even get product out of the container

If I'm in a rush I just use one side and it's fine and good to go

Other days when I want something to last indefinitely I'll use both creams

According to Soap and glory the pinky toned of the two is an eye brightening concealer with PUFFEASE-8 technology, it works really well under the eye area and does have a brightening effect

I don't suffer from puffiness though so I can't comment on that bit

The other half has SUPERWEAR lightscrambling on the spot technology

To me this just means it's got really good coverage which it does

The third stage is the powder to set the concealer

It can feel a bit backward to set the concealer before putting foundation on and then proceeding to set that too so I've tried a few things

Firstly I gave it a go setting before the foundation but found my foundation didn't like mixing with powder

Then I tried just doing the cream products then applying my foundation and setting it all with my normal powder, this worked well but I wasn't benefiting from the actual stage three powder

The process I like the most is to apply foundation, cream concealers, setting powder and the powder concealer on the areas needed.

The powder has an INSTA-FIX technology in it so like I said I wanted to benefit from the powder's ways and have my concealer not budge

I love this concealer and will definitely be repurchasing

I did get this free whilst Boots have their 3 for 2 Autumn offer on but £10.00 doesn't seem too much for a decent product when you look at high end products and how much a mediocre concealer costs

I recently wore this for a 12 hour day at my Grandad's funeral and it held up through lots of crying and tissue dabbing so to me it's a real winner

Have you tried any of the Soap and Glory Make up range?

Love

Belle

xoxo

Lust List

1. Urban Ears Headphones in 'Grape' £50

2. Lush Sea Salt Hair Spray £9.95/100ml

3. Topshop Khaki Embellished Playsuit £45

4. MAC Eyebrow Pencil in 'Fling' £12.50

5. Love Dusky mesh pleated skirt dress £45

6. (missing the number) Schuh Bob Studded Ankle Boots £80

All of the above items are things I've been lusting after recently...and trying to justify buying.

As I'm off to New York in May next year I keep buying the odd thing and thinking to myself 'Oh that would be brilliant in New York', this doesn't work so well on the boyfriend though!

A few such purchases have been a lovely burgundy pair of Vans trainers, of course these were necessary for all the walking, to be done in style of course. I also asked for a Cath Kidston Saddle bag for my Birthday which my Dad kindly bought me, again I figured it was perfect for New York.

Out of this list of course I can only justify half of the items....those headphones have been calling to me since I saw them on Zara from Mouldyfruits blog (apologies I don't know how to link!) I love the grapey purple colour and think these would be great for in the gym too. 

The playsuit and dress are gorgeous! The dress is just so girly and very me, I have fallen in love...after four days in New York we're going on a cruise so this little beauty would be great for the smarter evenings and the cute little playsuit would be perfect for the more casual evenings.

As for the rest of my list...the sea spray is something I've been interested in since seeing the Bumble and Bumble version but I'm pretty sure this is cheaper. Once my hair grows out a bit I'd love to be able to get the beach waves look.

I'm still on a mission to try all sorts of different eyebrow products, so far still loving Benefit Browzings, so being an avid lover of MAC I really want to try this out too. 

And the boots...well they are AMAZING! I need them in my life...

Anything you guys are lusting after?

Take Care

Belle

xoxo

Cheering up tactics

After my ranting post yesterday I decided to dedicate a day to cheer myself up

Had a lovely lie in until 11

Off to the gym for a pretty good workout

I managed 12 minutes running and about 5 incline walking

Feeling proud of myself :)

Then I took myself off into town and tried to control myself shopping

Onto the good stuff...

 Navy and white nautical stripe jumper

Primark

£10

 Sheer floral blouse

Topshop

£35

 Blue marl jersey top

Topshop

£16

 I can't resist Topshop socks

3 for £8 

 I had a £15 gift card for Waterstones from Christmas

So I bought a few crime novels, hope I actually read them after getting the Kindle for Christmas!

 Luella Guide to English Style

I originally was only going to get this from Waterstones but got distracted!

Looks like a lovely book from a brief flick through

 Gold and cream necklace

Accessorize

£6

Stering Silver pearl ring

Accessorize

£12

 Mini boots haul

Models own nail varnishes in: 

Becca's Brown

Grace Green

Magenta 'something' (I can't remember as usual!)

17 lipstick in Beehive

17 Wild curls mascara

17 Eyeshadow trio

Vanilla lip balm

Deep action clean and clear, hopefully this will finally sort my skin out

 The plum and olive shadows are colours I wouldn't normally go for so I thought I'd give them a try and see how I get on 

Outfit: 

 I couldn't really get a decent shot but this outfit was actually really flattering on me

I bought this cardi last year for $2 in Forever 21, bargain!

White vest: New Look

Waterfall cardi: Forever 21

Black skinny jeans: Torrid

Well that's my way of cheering of myself up! 

Now to watch some crap tv and have a cup of tea

Take care

Love

Belle 

xx