Yes people, it is that time again. It's a new month which means it's time for another monthly favourites, woo! This months favourites is a bit random so I'm just going to get straight into it.
The first thing on my list of things that I've been loving throughout July is a book, which might be surprising for those who know me because I don't read much. I'm going to be honest, I haven't actually finished this book yet but I only have about a chapter left. It's "I Was a Boy in Belsen" by Tomi Reichental and I got this book by the author who is a survivor of the holocaust and he visited our school to talk to the history students about his story of surviving the holocaust and what it was like for a Jewish person living during World War II. The book not only talks about what it was like for him during the holocaust but also how some of his family survived. I found the book so interesting but it was also really sad to see so many people being treat so badly, but I think everyone should read it so Tomi's story can be shared around the world.
If any of you follow me on Twitter, which you can do here, you'll know that I've been absolutally obsessed with Bondi Rescue lately. For any of you that don't know, it's a TV show about Australian lifeguards that work on Bondi Beach. I think it's so interesting to see how professional lifeguards work and save people's lives on a daily basis, and not only are the lifeguards extremely good looking but they are also really funny so you can get a good laugh watching this. For anyone wondering, I love all the lifeguards but my absolute favourites have to be Mouse or Chappo.
The next thing I've been loving is probably the most random, it's McDonald's Iced Mochas and oh dear lord are they delicious. They're practically chocolate milk mixed with coffee with crushed ice and cream on top and they're amazing, I could live on them. They're my favourite drink of all time, ever!
Since the weather was really nice in Ireland recently and it was really hot, it does make you sweat whether you like it or not, so a product I've been loving has been the Sure Long Lasting Protection Deodorant. They stop you sweating, obviously but the thing I love most is they have a range of loads of different smells and they all smell really nice and the smell stays on your skin so you don't have to keep spraying it on you throughout the day.
Another product I've been loving is a really cheap lip gloss by Natural Collection. It's one of their Juicy Lips in "Raspberry Ripple". It's a nice light pink colour with a bit of shimmer and I robbed this lip gloss from my mam because she didn't like how the glitter felt on her lips but I don't mind it. My favourite thing about this lip gloss is that it smells amazing, it smells really fruity and just really nice.
I'm not one to use fake lashes because I was blessed with lashes that I'm happy with but I was at a party the other day and decided I would try some. I bought some iEnvy by Kiss ones in Pennys/Primark, they were the "Au Naturable 01" ones and people said they couldn't tell I had lashes on. I was really surprised with how well they stayed on throughout the night because they were quite cheap but they didn't move at all and I kept touching my eyes so I thought they were really good!
The last few products in my July Favourites are all hair products. The first is a dry shampoo, it's the Batiste Dry Shampoo in "Cool and Crisp Fresh" which smells really nice and makes my hair feel really clean and fresh if I don't have the time to wash my hair in the shower. I'm not saying I don't shower and just use this, I shower very often but sometimes my hair just feels a bit icky so this product just gives my hair the lift it needs.
The last two products are from the same range, they're from the Trevor Sorbie "Beautifully Straightened" range. My favourite products from the range are the "Protect, Flatten and Shine Spray" and the "Lightweight Serum" which I use before I straighten my hair with a straightener. They protect you're hair when you use a straightener and it keeps your hair super straight until you curl it, or wash it. It also makes your hair very shiny which is always nice.
We're finished, yay! So they're all the things that I loved all throughout July and that I will probably love for a very long time to come because they're all fabulous. Hopefully this post will, maybe, introduce you to some new things that you will grow to love as much as me and if you have any suggestions of thing you think I should try then feel free to leave a comment or contact me in any way, all my links are always on the side of my blog. And if you have any questions don't hesitate to ask, I'd be more then happy to help. As always, thanks for reading :)
02/08/2013
27/07/2013
Naked Palette!
I'm probably the worst blogger in the world, I haven't written a blog post in nearly 2 months and I'm really sorry but it's not like my posts are in high demand or anything. I've been finding it really hard to think of things to blog about because I haven't bought any new products or seen any new movies or anything so that's one reason for being absent, the other being I've just sort of forgotten that I had a blog *awkward*. I was thinking of doing a summer essentials post but I don't really have any products that I've found essential during summer other then sun cream but I've been using the Urban Decay Naked Palette a good bit so I'm going to share my thoughts and some of the looks I like to do with it, so let's crack on!
I don't think I've ever heard anything bad said about the Naked Palette, and I know a lot of people have it. It's just such a great palette to have in your make up collection. It has 12 different eye shadows in the palette ranging from light to dark colours. Most of the eye shadows are shimmery but they're are two matte colours in the palette and they're both really nice browns. All the eye shadows have great pigmentation and are really good quality and they all go really well together so you can create so many different looks with this palette from everyday neutral looks to very dramatic night time looks and everything in between. When you buy the palette it comes with a brush and a little Urban Decay Primer Potion which I think is amazing, I get very oily lids and if I don't use a base or a primer the eye shadow creases after about 5 minutes and the Primer Potion makes my eye shadow last all day and it doesn't move at all! I can't remember exactly how much the palette cost when I bought it but it wasn't any more then €50 which is quite a good price when you think about how many eye shadows you're getting and how good quality they are. So I think the Naked Palette is something everyone should have in their makeup collection.
The only bad thing about the Naked Palette is that there are so many different colours and looks to pick from that sometimes I get overwhelmed and can't choose what makeup to do! All the looks I create with the palette are pretty simple but look really nice, all the colours compliment each other really well to create really nice combinations of colours that make the eyes stand out and looks really nice. Before I create any makeup look I put a little bit of the Primer Potion over my lid and blend it out with my finger, then I wait a minute for it to set before starting with the eye shadow. When using the Primer Potion you only need a tiny bit because it blend out really well so a little goes a long way. If I'm in a huge rush I will literally just but "Sin" all over my lid and just blend it out with a bit of 'Naked" then line my lash line with some gel eyeliner and add loads of mascara which I do with most of these looks. If I've got time I like to brush "Sin" all over the lid, then add some "Dark Horse" to the outer corner and blend it out and into the crease a bit then I'll place some "Creep" on the very outer corner and blend that out as well. "Virgin" is a really great highlight colour so I'll place that in the inner corner of my eye and maybe on the brow bone. For a really dramatic look, I like to use "Hustle" and place that all over the eye and blend it out really well, then I'll use a little bit of "Creep" in the outer corner and blend that like crazy as well. I like to get a little bit of "Naked" on a blending brush and blend out the edges of my eye shadow to make sure that it's blended really well because I don't think it looks good at all when there are just harsh lines in a makeup look, I think it looks so much more put together and neater when the edges are blended really well. So they're three looks I like to create with the Naked Palette but, like I said, you can make so many different looks with this palette and if you're like me and get overwhelmed and don't know what kind of looks to make there are so many good tutorials on YouTube, so if you click here it will link you to loads of great tutorials using the Naked Palette.
So that's my thoughts on the Urban Decay Naked Palette, I hope that helped you in one way or another. If you have any suggestions of other blog posts you'd like me to do or if you have any questions about any of the posts I've written then feel free to leave comments on any of the posts or contact me on any of my social network pages which are always linked on the side of my blog. I'm really going to try to keep up with my blog posts from now on. If you could please follow my blog, it will only take a minute and it would mean so much to me. As always thank you so much for reading and I hope everyone has a lovely summer :)
I don't think I've ever heard anything bad said about the Naked Palette, and I know a lot of people have it. It's just such a great palette to have in your make up collection. It has 12 different eye shadows in the palette ranging from light to dark colours. Most of the eye shadows are shimmery but they're are two matte colours in the palette and they're both really nice browns. All the eye shadows have great pigmentation and are really good quality and they all go really well together so you can create so many different looks with this palette from everyday neutral looks to very dramatic night time looks and everything in between. When you buy the palette it comes with a brush and a little Urban Decay Primer Potion which I think is amazing, I get very oily lids and if I don't use a base or a primer the eye shadow creases after about 5 minutes and the Primer Potion makes my eye shadow last all day and it doesn't move at all! I can't remember exactly how much the palette cost when I bought it but it wasn't any more then €50 which is quite a good price when you think about how many eye shadows you're getting and how good quality they are. So I think the Naked Palette is something everyone should have in their makeup collection.
The only bad thing about the Naked Palette is that there are so many different colours and looks to pick from that sometimes I get overwhelmed and can't choose what makeup to do! All the looks I create with the palette are pretty simple but look really nice, all the colours compliment each other really well to create really nice combinations of colours that make the eyes stand out and looks really nice. Before I create any makeup look I put a little bit of the Primer Potion over my lid and blend it out with my finger, then I wait a minute for it to set before starting with the eye shadow. When using the Primer Potion you only need a tiny bit because it blend out really well so a little goes a long way. If I'm in a huge rush I will literally just but "Sin" all over my lid and just blend it out with a bit of 'Naked" then line my lash line with some gel eyeliner and add loads of mascara which I do with most of these looks. If I've got time I like to brush "Sin" all over the lid, then add some "Dark Horse" to the outer corner and blend it out and into the crease a bit then I'll place some "Creep" on the very outer corner and blend that out as well. "Virgin" is a really great highlight colour so I'll place that in the inner corner of my eye and maybe on the brow bone. For a really dramatic look, I like to use "Hustle" and place that all over the eye and blend it out really well, then I'll use a little bit of "Creep" in the outer corner and blend that like crazy as well. I like to get a little bit of "Naked" on a blending brush and blend out the edges of my eye shadow to make sure that it's blended really well because I don't think it looks good at all when there are just harsh lines in a makeup look, I think it looks so much more put together and neater when the edges are blended really well. So they're three looks I like to create with the Naked Palette but, like I said, you can make so many different looks with this palette and if you're like me and get overwhelmed and don't know what kind of looks to make there are so many good tutorials on YouTube, so if you click here it will link you to loads of great tutorials using the Naked Palette.
So that's my thoughts on the Urban Decay Naked Palette, I hope that helped you in one way or another. If you have any suggestions of other blog posts you'd like me to do or if you have any questions about any of the posts I've written then feel free to leave comments on any of the posts or contact me on any of my social network pages which are always linked on the side of my blog. I'm really going to try to keep up with my blog posts from now on. If you could please follow my blog, it will only take a minute and it would mean so much to me. As always thank you so much for reading and I hope everyone has a lovely summer :)
03/06/2013
May Favourites 2013
My Lord, I haven't written a blog post in over a month and I'm very sorry for that, not that anyone really cares but ah well. It is now the month of June meaning May is over, duh! My March Favourites post seemed to go down well so I've decided to do another one. Just like my March Favourites, this will be everything I've been loving thought May including music, movies, ect.
So the first product that I loved throughout May is the Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation. When I first started using this foundation I didn't really like it but now I just love how it makes my skin look and how it feels on my skin. It has quite a good coverage and it has a matte finished, which I like but it does have it's down sides. It clings to dry skin and if your skin is very oily it will come off after a while. It also smells a bit weird but you can only smell it when you first put it on so that's not too bad. Another thing I love about this foundation is that it had SPF 10 in it which is very handy because it is now summer and the sun has actually been out, even though it's Ireland and I hate using sun cream so that's a bonus.
Another product I've been loving is a hair product, it's the Pantene Pro V Mousse. I have quite long hair and it's not incredibly thick but there is a lot of it so the weight of all the hair drags so I never had volume in my hair until I started using this mousse. I put it in my hair after I've washed my hair and it's still damp. It doesn't put loads of volume in my hair but it definitely makes a difference, if I don't use it my hair is just limp and lifeless so I've really been loving this product.
The next thing is something that I got for Christmas that I just hadn't used yet. It's Lush Shower Gel in Ponche, but I'm pretty sure it's limited edition and you can only get it around Christmas time which sucks. It contains orange juice and a shot of tequila, and it smells absolutally amazing and the smells stays, so even after a while you can still smell it! I got a small bottle, but it lasts a surprisingly long time which is always good. So if you happen to be in a Lush shop near Christmas I highly recommend you pick up a bottle and just smell it!
This next thing I've been loving is a curling iron. It's the Remington Pro Big Curl Tong, which is just a big, wide barrel curling iron. It heats up quite fast and it has a clasp to close the hair under which I find really handy. It does take a few tries to get the hang of using it if you're not used to using curling irons, which I'm not and I have burnt my neck with it because I'm so skilled... It just gives my hair a nice, bouncy wave and it gives my hair volume which I just love.
Music I've been loving is the new Paramore album. I love Paramore and I have for years, and I'm going to see them when they come to Dublin in September and I'm really looking forward to it. Their new album is just such a feel good album, the songs are all so catchy. It's just a really good album that I will be listening to all through summer.
A movie I've been loving is "That's My Boy" which was released last year but I only watched it recently. Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg star in this movie and it's just such a funny movie and it's on Sky Demand at the moment, so I recommend you check it out.
So there is all the things I've been loving throughout the month of May, and I hope you've, maybe, found some things that you will enjoy just as much as I have. If you have any products that you think I should try out, you can always leave suggestions and recommendations in the comment to the blog posts, and if you have any questions about any products or about anything, you can leave them in the comments and I'd be more then happy to answer them. As always, thanks to all the support from everyone and I will not leave it a month until my next blog post. And good luck to anyone doing exams, you'll do great! Thanks for reading :)
So the first product that I loved throughout May is the Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation. When I first started using this foundation I didn't really like it but now I just love how it makes my skin look and how it feels on my skin. It has quite a good coverage and it has a matte finished, which I like but it does have it's down sides. It clings to dry skin and if your skin is very oily it will come off after a while. It also smells a bit weird but you can only smell it when you first put it on so that's not too bad. Another thing I love about this foundation is that it had SPF 10 in it which is very handy because it is now summer and the sun has actually been out, even though it's Ireland and I hate using sun cream so that's a bonus.
Another product I've been loving is a hair product, it's the Pantene Pro V Mousse. I have quite long hair and it's not incredibly thick but there is a lot of it so the weight of all the hair drags so I never had volume in my hair until I started using this mousse. I put it in my hair after I've washed my hair and it's still damp. It doesn't put loads of volume in my hair but it definitely makes a difference, if I don't use it my hair is just limp and lifeless so I've really been loving this product.
The next thing is something that I got for Christmas that I just hadn't used yet. It's Lush Shower Gel in Ponche, but I'm pretty sure it's limited edition and you can only get it around Christmas time which sucks. It contains orange juice and a shot of tequila, and it smells absolutally amazing and the smells stays, so even after a while you can still smell it! I got a small bottle, but it lasts a surprisingly long time which is always good. So if you happen to be in a Lush shop near Christmas I highly recommend you pick up a bottle and just smell it!
This next thing I've been loving is a curling iron. It's the Remington Pro Big Curl Tong, which is just a big, wide barrel curling iron. It heats up quite fast and it has a clasp to close the hair under which I find really handy. It does take a few tries to get the hang of using it if you're not used to using curling irons, which I'm not and I have burnt my neck with it because I'm so skilled... It just gives my hair a nice, bouncy wave and it gives my hair volume which I just love.
Music I've been loving is the new Paramore album. I love Paramore and I have for years, and I'm going to see them when they come to Dublin in September and I'm really looking forward to it. Their new album is just such a feel good album, the songs are all so catchy. It's just a really good album that I will be listening to all through summer.
A movie I've been loving is "That's My Boy" which was released last year but I only watched it recently. Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg star in this movie and it's just such a funny movie and it's on Sky Demand at the moment, so I recommend you check it out.
So there is all the things I've been loving throughout the month of May, and I hope you've, maybe, found some things that you will enjoy just as much as I have. If you have any products that you think I should try out, you can always leave suggestions and recommendations in the comment to the blog posts, and if you have any questions about any products or about anything, you can leave them in the comments and I'd be more then happy to answer them. As always, thanks to all the support from everyone and I will not leave it a month until my next blog post. And good luck to anyone doing exams, you'll do great! Thanks for reading :)
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