What's red, black and.. black?

Me, apparently, with my mini-haul that I got the other day. I wanted to check out the new MAC collections (Fabulous Felines), and my friend needed some hair dye, so off we went to town! And this is what I got!

China Glaze Nail Polish in Agent Orange

MAC Superslick Liquid Eyeliner in On The Hunt (Black)

MAC Lipstick in Lady Bug (Lustre)

I bought these separately, sort of. I had a free Back to MAC lying about, and wanting a new kind of red lipstick, as my Russian Red was running low, and wanted a slightly more glossy red, a lighter more "day" red lipstick.

This nail varnish is gorgeous, but super awkward to photograph. It's called Agent Orange, but I wouldn't really call it orange, even though it looks it in this picture! It's a reddish-orange, with pink undertones, in some light. I genuinely don't have anything like it, and think it's a really unique colour! It's super pretty, and I've worn it every day since, I love it so much! It looks boring in the bottle, and I thought I might regret it (I'm trying to buy more "traditional" colours!) but I definitely don't, which is good news. (:

And then I got them home and tried them both on, and realised just how perfect they look together! They're very pretty, I'm also wearing the new eyeliner - it has a weird wet-look effect, which I like on its own, but not when paired with eyeshadow, I found out today, haha.

And if you're wondering what awesome new scarf that is..

That would be this bad boy, £6.99 from H&M and I absolutely adore it! H&M scarves always sucker me in, and I buy a few every Autumn/Winter, cause I love them so much. There's another two I want to go back and get.. You can't really tell in the picture but the orangey bits are a super bright orange, and they're lovely and I love it and there is lots of love.

Thought this was a cute little post to do! Anyway, today I'm off to the gym and to see my friend for lunch!

Father's Day What?

I went into town today with my mum, with the intention of getting a father's day present for my dad (duh), and came back with some stuff for myself. I'm not very good at this, am I? Oh well. I did get my dad some presents, too.


Yves Saint Laurent Rouge Volupte Lipstick in 13 Peach Passion and China Glaze Nail Polishes in Flip Flop Fantasy/Sun Worshipper from the Poolside collection.I wore Rouge Volupte to work today but I'll wait a bit longer before doing a proper review! So far, I really love the colour and it goes on super smooth, I like that. The packaging is lush, too. Very pretty and classy, as you expect.

I had to go out to work, but I couldn't help but do a quick swatch of these.. they're so awesome! These were the two I really wanted and I almost bought them offline the other day, but I'm glad I didn't because I wanted them the second I saw them. These are so bright! Like.. day-glo fluroescent bright. I pretty much love neons, apparently. All I seem to do is buy them, I think I have about 5 China Glaze Neon's? Oh well! Haha. Back to my point! I always put topcoats over them, because I prefer them glossy, but they're super stunning without;
Flip Flop Fantasy is a brilliant neon coral, somewhere between pink and orange and red. It's sooo bright. And Sun Worshipper is the orange that I just can't get over. It's like traffic-cone orange mixed with yellow and just great. In this picture I've got topcoat on my middle and ring finger, and my index and pinky are without, all matte.
I've just done a full manicure with Flip Flop Fantasy.. so expect a full review shortly!


And a bit of the old Body Shop. They were on offer for 2 for £8 again.. so my mum got one and so did I, haha. I don't even like Grapefruit but this smells fantastic. I am pretty much addicted to these shower gels. Also, how excellent is the word 'pamplemousse'? It's excellent, I like saying it..


I tweeted about this but I thought I would just show you guys.. I got this from Primark the other week. £6 in the men's section.. I love it, ahah. I'm such a geek, excuse me..

Pre-Birthday Spending

It's my birthday in a weeks time, so a few days k gone my mum took me shopping in town and I bought lots of new clothes and some shoes and things.. none of which I'm allowed until my birthday! Sigh, I hate waiting! Haha. But I bought a few things for myself..

Lemony Flutter Cuticle Butter, Lush, £5.50
Seche Vite Top Coat, Sally's, £8.99
China Glaze Polish in Frostbite, Sally's, £5.99
Leighton Denny Crystal Nail File and Protective Case, Boots, £10
I definitely didn't mean for them to be all nail based, really, but that is how it turned out, I suppose. I have used all of these and so far I am in love! But I'm going to keep using them for a little bit longer before I do a full review on them. (:
And then I got myself this great shirt from H&M (one of my favourite shops!).

Flamingo Shirt, roughly £10, which I personally think is a bargain for a flamingo, haha, my mum thought it looked dead..
A few days after that my friend wanted/needed (the lines are blurry!) to buy some new shoes.. so as a good friend, I went with her..and got some shoes for myself.. (:

Grey Jersey Flats, Primark, £5
I really wanted some cute new flat for when I dash out to the shops or hanging about in the garden or with friends.. it's a proper bitch to find my size, let me tell you. I'm a size 9. So when I spotted this find for £5 in Primark, I definitely didn't hesitate.


Black Zip-Front Cage Courts, New Look, £22
These were actually £19-something with a student discount card, which is awesome! It's my birthday in seven days (eee!) and I'll be going out with a bunch of friends fro the night out, of course, and wanted some slightlyyy lower heels to wear out so my feet will last all night and not protest.. so I got these. Looking them up on New Look for you, I see that they do nude ones, which are pretty cute, too. Also in size 9! Check it out, big-footed girls.


In The Buff Nail Polish, MAC, £8.99


Cockatoo Necklace, Accessorize, £5
My mum thought this was bizarre, again, but she hates birds.. I love it, it's so cute!

I don't really want to get into the habit of doing haul posts, really, I'd rather do them as like, coming-soon-review posts, haha. That said, expect some reviews!

Body Shop Haul and FOTD 21/04/2010

The other night I was feeling a bit down in the dumps, when I got an email from The Body Shop with a 25% off discount code! As you can imagine, this cheered me up immensely! I ordered this later on Sunday night, and I received it at lunchtime today (Wednesday) so I'm pretty pleased with that! I am the most impatient person and hate waiting and waiting for orders, haha.
That said, onto the goodies. (:
I definitely suggest you check out The Body Shop's website, and get on their mailing list, because they have some great online deals. Currently they have a 2 for £8 deal on their shower-gels and a buy 1, get 1 50% off del on their Nutriganics skin-care range, so go have a look!
I got two of their shower-gels, and then there were two other things that caught my beady eye, so I splurged. Andddd I got free delivery cause I spent over £15! Score. Cheapo student, sorry to say! Haha.

L-R: Mango Shower Gel, Satsuma Shower Gel, Banana Conditioner, Seaweed Deep Cleansing Facial Wash.
The Satsuma Shower Gel smells ah-maze-ing! That kind of spicy-sweet and super damn refreshing and I can't wait to use this to wake me up in the morning! I kind of just want to sit and huff it, so I might have to invest in the Satsuma body-butter or something! I also got a Mango one, but I want to do a review on all these products in the future so I'll shut up about it right now. (:

And a quick FOTD from before I went to work! I look deathly pale in these, apologies! I really liked my hair today, actually. I threw it up in a bun when it was still damp and normally that creates a disaster but it looked quite curly and nice, for a change.
Also, looking at these pictures, my eyeshadow is really washed out. In person, it was much prettier. Boohoo. ):


Eyes:
MAC Eyeshadow in Shroom
MAC Eyeshadow in Tete-a-Tint
MAC Eyeshadow in Soba
MAC Eyeshadow in Copperplate
MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
L'Oreal Voluminous Mascara in Carbon Black

Face:
Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturising Gel
Dior Diorskin Nude Foundation in 030
MAC Mineralize Skinfinish Natural in Medium
MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NW20
MAC Blush Ombre in Ripe Peach

Lips:
MAC Naked Honey Lip Salve
Estee Lauder Pure Colour Crystal Gloss in 342 Dragonfruit
Have you bought anything good recently? Let me know! (:

Summer Spending! Part II

Ugh, September is more than half-way through! When did that happen? Well, I guess I know literally, but I'm at uni now! Oh my Gosh. I'd like to say I've been really busy, but only been busy the last week or so. I need to keep up with this blog, though. I hate to neglect it.

I've bought a fair bit of makeup recently - so thought I'd share with you some pictures. I'm glad I have these pictures because there was a moment or two when I thought my camera had broken.
This summer I visited London a couple of times, as I'm sure I mentioned, and of course, had to stop by the MAC Pro store! Oh, how I love that shop. And whilst I was there.. I saw Nicola of Pixiwoo fame! She was very lovely and veryyy pretty.
And I've bought.. a couple of things. Nothing much. (:

"Electric Coral" - MAC ProI've been lusting after this pigment for ages. I've gone through a bunch of samples and figured I might as well just buy the pot. It's Electric Coral, such a gorgeous bright bright colour.


"Matte" - MACNow, I've heard good things about this stuff, and I wasn't disappointed. I love to use this underneath my foundation to really even out my skin. It's just called Matte, but it's super useful.


"Mixing Medium" - MACAnd I've been in need of some sort of Mixing Medium for a while now, so I invested in this. Works very well with pigments, I'm glad to report. I recommend this for use around the eyes, because really, you don't want to be using alcohol-based products there.



"Naked Honey Skin Salve" - MACI also got to check out something I was really looking forward to: Naked Honey! I loved this collection, although I only got one item from it, I did like it The thing I was desperate for, and am still in love with is Naked Honey Skin Salve. It is properly.. gorgeous! I adore it. And, lucky me, I got the last one at my counter! It has literally not left my bag since.

Colour Craft wasn't really my thing, because I pretty much hate mineral things, but as collections go - I liked it. Been increasingly unimpressed with MAC of late, because I'm not really interested it any of the products/colours/etc. But for people who like lots of glitter on their face - this was a perfect collection! I did grab one thing, because it was orange, and I couldn't help but love it.

"Nice Mix Up" - MACI cannot resist an orange lipgloss - the only two I have from MAC are orange, now that I think about it. And this one was a pretty marble effect in the tester (even if the one I got wasn't so marbled). As disappointing and sticky as all of MAC's lipglosses - but I'm a sucker.

Not long after that, Love That Look came out - which, to be quite honest, I was desperate for. I really loved that collection, because Starflash eyeshadows are beautiful. I just love high intensity, high pigmented, bright colours, with an excellent finish, and these are just that!

L-R: "One-Off", "Rated R", "Grand Entrance" - MACI got three, haha. I wanted them all, so this was restraint, for me! If you know me you know I loveeee green. So, naturally, I splurged on One-Off (the lovely deep green there) and Rated R, the bright green. Then, after a second trip to MAC, bought Grand Entrance, which I'm loving swiped all over my lid with big eyeliner. But the greens are absolutely gorgeous. One-Off is a very pretty colour, very vibrant and very intense, a much prettier green than Humid, or anything like that.


"Costa-Chic" - MACI got this from Euristocrats 2, because everyone had raved so much about it. It's a pretty light pink, with a blue tinge to it. All I think of to describe it is 'pretty' - and thats about it. It was passable, as was most of the collection.

I managed to get my hands on a bunch of MAC's newest collection - Makeup Art Cosmetics (which I don't really get, why name a collection essentially 'MAC MAC'?!) before it was released over here - thanks to my wonderful father who brought me back some as a present from his trip to America back in August. There aren't words for how much I love this collection. I feel like they've really been original, releasing what I've wanted for a while - colour! The lipsticks/lipglosses weren't to my liking, but they rarely are. So here is what I really wanted, and what I loved.

"Photorealism" - MACI wish I could be bothered to take a better photo of this - because this doesn't do it justice and it is an absolutely awesome quad - I can't stop wearing it! I feel like it'll be gone very soon, because I can't stop reaching for it. There are so many ways to wear this, and it's definitely the most unique and prettiest of the three quads.


L-R: "Violet Trance", "Crest The Wave", "Haunting" - MACAll three of these I have wanting for so long, I have been so desperate. I wanted Crest The Wave - but didn't want the entire Stowaway's Quad when it came out, I missed Haunting with McQueen and bought the paintpots instead, and just couldn't find Violet Trance, but I finally have them all, and love them all. Wear them all at once, please!


T-B: "Colour Matters", "Obviously Orange" - MACTwo of the technakohl's from the collection - which.. I love! Surprise surprise. The orange one is absolutely lovely. I've worn this close to the lashes, blended out, with Firespot over the top.

And, finally, another collection I was looking forward to was the A/W 09 Nail Trend by Jin Soon. I think I loved all of these! I got two, but I really want more - I sadly cannot afford. I'm not sure why people complain about the price/formula of these? They're cheaper than most OPI's, and dry really quick!

"Beyond Jealous" - MACExcuse my shitty nail-job, haha. Had to file my nails right down the other day, all cracked and split at the top. That aside, it's a stunning colour. Someone described it as a blackened teal - but I think teal's as more blue, this is more of a very very dark green. The picture really does not do it justice.

"Cool Reserve" - MACAbsolutely no words for the gorgeousness of this colour. So beautiful. Looks incredibly lovely sheer, and builds to a lovely finish. It's a muted grey lavender. Think OPI's Done out in Deco, or GOSH's Wild Lilac, but with a light grey in and sheered out. Absolute favourite. I'm even tempted to buy a back-up. Tempted.

And that probably explains why I'm now broke! Fun stuff. Saving up empties for Style Black, I tell you.