Kat Von D ~ Ladybird Eyeshadow Palette

Fur Elise, Vespertine, Renholder, Siouxsie-Sioux, Unequited, Harlow, Wolf, Cleopatra

Kat Von D Ladybird True Romance Eyeshadow Palette

$36.00

Sephora

When we decided to go to New York I knew I had to get my hands on something from Kat Von D's makeup collection

I love her and have done for years 

Seeing as I seem to love eyeshadow palettes I figured I'd give one of these a go

Initially I wasn't sure on the Ladybird palette as I don't tend to use matte eyeshadows, leaning towards the shimmery shades in my palette over them 

With the release of the Naked Basics palette I found myself more intrigued by mattes but decided I didn't need the small palette of only 6 shades

And I'm so glad I waited!

When I first saw this in Sephora I was more interested in either the Ludwig pallete or the Saint palette

Ludwig is full of neutrals and a mixture of greens but was out of stock in every store I tried and Saint is basically the equivalent of the Naked palette

After swatching a few shades from the Ladybird palette I knew I wanted to try some eye looks with it and added it to my basket

As you can see in the swatches above the shadows are really nicely pigmented for matte shades and they blend beautifully together

The only dud shade for me is the orange shadow on the end, not sure how I would make that work but maybe blended out it could add a little colour to a look.

The eyeliner in Immortal Love is such a lovely, creamy, pigmented liner that really compliments all the colours in the palette 

I'm now regretting not buying more from this range

It's such a shame it's so hard to get hold of for us Brits

Have you ever tried anything from the Kat Von D range?

Love

Belle

xoxo

New York Beauty Lust List

So I know I've been going on about it for quite some time but I fly off to New York in just over 2 months and I am INSANELY excited!

I've wanted to go for so so long and my Mum and myself are finally making it to the big apple for four days before setting sail on a nine day Caribbean cruise

Naturally as a beauty blogger I have quite a long list of make up and beauty related bits and pieces I want to get

I'm sure there will be other things I'll pick up as there always is

I wanted to mainly buy the products we can't easily get hold of over here, like the:

Kat Von D makeup range ~ I love liquid eyeliners and really want to try some of the Kat Von D makeup as you can't get it over here

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blushers ~ These pop up absolutely everywhere in blog world and they look completely amazeballs

Milani Baked Blushers ~ Again these pop up all over the place and you can't get them in the UK, plus their drug store so cheap

Physicians Formula ~ Ditto above!

Bath and Bodyworks ~ Something tells me I will be like a kid in a candy shop in here and expect to spend a lot of pennies...
And of course plenty of MAC!

I'm really looking forward to getting away for a bit and spending some quality time with my Mum 

It's been a tough year and this break will be just what we need before getting completely stuck into wedding planning on our return (EXCITING!)

Do you have any recommendations on what I should pick up on the other side of the pond?

Or any suggestions on must sees in NYC?

Love

Belle

xoxo