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!

Frankenwhatting?

A while back now I was reading somewhere about using eyeshadow pigments in your nail polish and became quite curious, but then I forgot about things and went back to my every day life.. Until today, when I stumbled upon Dr. Frankenpolish's blog, and was intrigued. So I bust out some of my pigments, one of my favourites being MAC's Old Gold, which I've had forever and barely made a dent in because it's super pigmented.



In some lights, it looks almost brown and dull, then others, an antiqued gold, then a shimmering green - it's truly one of the most unique colours that MAC do.
Step two, I dug out some old bottles of top-coat where the brush doesn't quite reach the bottom (one of the most irritating things, I swear!) and found an old bit of plastic to experiment on, but eventuallllly..


Voila! Such a gorgeous colour, my mum kept commenting on it at dinner this evening, telling me what a pretty colour it was, haha. I love putting this colour over a black base on my eyes, because it really brings out the duochrome, so I think I'm going to have to purchase a black polish and try that out.
Not gonna lie, it takes a bit of experimenting to get the consistency right, and the top-coat I used had gone a bit gloopy.. but generally it worked pretty well. I think I'm going to raid my mum's craft room, I know she has some exciting glitters in there to experiment with. Have you ever frankenpolished any colours? What are you experiences with glitter..? Let me know! I'm really interested.


Oh, and it was gloriously sunny today so me and one of the besties popped into town for a little window-shopping and some lunch. I shopped, oops.. But check out that green! What on earth, Revlon?! I have never ever in my life spent more than a fleeting glance at your stand, your makeup, truthfully, bores me - then slap-bang in between all the reds and pinks was this stunner. I'll do a post on it as soon as I can!

Sorry this wasn't posted earlier, I rushed out to see a film with my friends - Shelter with Julianne Moore and Jonathan Rhys Meyers. It was awful beyond words! Honest to God, we almost walked out after half an hour, before remembering we'd paid to see it haha. At least it was good to get out of the house and have lots of laughs for a little bit with some friends, because I just wanted to forget about everything for a little while!

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.