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Hello beauties!

It's been a while and I apologise. 

I'm a busy busy working bee, I respect anyone that keeps up a full time blog and works full time.. I don't know how anyone does it!

Anyway, this is a quick outfit of the day/face of the day post as I was appreciating my outfit today and I was described as looking 'glam' and that doesn't happen that regularly! 

It was a simple outfit but pretty effective, this top was £15.99 (I think) from Stradivarius! Stradivarius isn't a brand that's particularly well known in the UK but I discovered it a few years ago in Barcelona and now when I have the chance to visit I get rather excited! The Westfield in Stratford (one word for that place - WOW) has one and if you ever go there I highly recommend you check out the store!! 

This top had half length arms that were quite baggy, so I cut them off because it made me look a bit butch! I really like it now, the inside stitching has kind of exposed itself and its just a bit more flattering now! It's made of the softest cotton and it really is a good quality top, definitely worth the money!

Excuse my stink eye in this pic, I blinked and couldn't get another decent one! 

I finished the outfit with my black Next jeggings which are amazinggg! They're £20 but so worth it, the quality is so much better than cheap jeggings and there's no sagging at my knees and falling down at awkward times! I wore my 3 year old Oasis denim jacket, still going strong and my grey handbag is from Primark and it was £10! On my tootsies were my very old and very battered Dorothy Perkins black wedged trainers.. Such an easy/effective outfit :) (sorry most of these bits are old so no links!)

Face was pretty simple:

Maybelline Better Skin foundation, 

Collection Lasting Perfection concealer, 

Urban Decay Flushed Palette bronzer, blusher and highlighter, 

Urban Decay Subversion and Perversion mascara duo (This duo is WOW, so glad I bought them!!), 

Benefit Browzings, 

Essence Cosmetics All About Nude eyeshadow palette,

LA Colours lip liner in Auburn, and 

MAC lipstick in Faux...

Simple face but together it looks pretty good and doesn't take long to do!

What do you think of this outfit? 

Have you shopped at Stradivarius before?

Have you used any of those makeup items before?

Let me know!

Thanks for reading xxx

Line 'em up..

Hellloooo everyone. 

So on Sunday I shared a quick snapshot of what I bought in Bluewater/Windsor :)

This is just a quick post of how I used one of my favourite products I picked up!

I have hooded lids, and it's basically the bane of my existence!! Eyeshadow is basically pointless unless it's the whole way to my eyebrow, eyeliners smudge and end up on my upper lid! Even Benefit's "They're Real" liner.. I asked and I asked the member of staff on Carnaby St and she said it was suitable for hooded lids.. 15 minutes, I resembled a panda!! So I was majorly pissed off and it definitely put me off purchasing from them again in the future!

The item I've fallen in love with is the L'Oreal Super Liner Perfect Slim Intense in 'Blue' which was £6.99!

For me, this is one of the best liners I've tried.. Minimal smudging and the nib is so neat it actually glides on so easily! The colour is so intense as well, it really is the colour of the lid! This is definitely a favourite of mine.

Check out the pics below showing how I've used it! The first two are the normal flicks I would wear, and the others are when I winged it out further for more dramatic effect! Apologies for the picture quality, the lighting in this house isn't the best, it's really difficult to get a real representation!! Also, check out my lovely tan lines from when I got burnt in Brighton, oops! 

Have you tried these eyeliners? 

What do you think of them? 

Thanks for reading!!

Xxx

Parklife 2014!

Hello lovies!

Parklife was over a week ago, and I'm majorly depressed - I have a severe case of festival blues!

It was amazing, so many people and the atmosphere was unbelievable! The weather wasn't as good as it could have been, but everyone stuck on their wellies and plowed on regardless of the weather!

 I didn't risk bringing my iPhone with me to the gig, just knowing my luck it definitely would have ended up face down in a puddle and I had a little cheap Nokia instead.. It had a camera, but unfortunately I don't have any Bluetooth devices that will actually connect to it! So I have no pics of being inside the gig except my friends which I've nicked!

The highlights of the weekend for me were: Snoop Dogg ('mazing!), Sam Smith (wowzaaaaa), Cyril Hahn, Bastille (I seen them at Big Weekend last year and preferred them there but they were still good), and Disclosure, who were definitely my overall winners! I seen them last year at Warehouse Project, but being in a field of approx 60,000 people in the sunshine listening to them was amazing and completely trumphed being inside a sweaty, drug filled warehouse!!

Just wanted to do a post to show my makeup off and what I wore and do a little round-up to confirm to myself it's all over!

Saturday

 Just a quick summary of what's on my face:

- Estee Lauder Double Wear in 'Pure Beige'
- Eyes from my 120 Eyeshadow Palette from eBay
- Eylure Naturalite '145' Eyelashes
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade 'Dark Brown'
- Topshop Lip Varnish in 'High Times'
- Bindi and Facial Gems from eBay
- My sunglasses (you can see them later on) are also from eBay :)




- My dress was from H&M, kind of similar to the *cough* marijuana *cough* dress that is basically errywhere at the minute, but obviously if it has banana leaves *wink wink, nudge nudge* on the store is legally allowed to sell it! It was £7.99! It's not on H&M's website but I've seen it in lots of stores, I purchased from the Manchester Market Street store :)
- My necklace is a super old gold chain from ASOS!
- The wellies were kindly lent to me by my lovely housemate Hayley to protect my tootsies!
- My handbag (not seen) was from ASOS and you can see it here!

L-R - Lizzie, myself and Becca!

Me and Becca getting a few selfies in ;-) 

Sunday

What's on the facial region:

- Estee Lauder Double Wear in 'Pure Beige' (as above)

- Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade in 'Dark Brown' (as above)

- Eyeshadows from 120 eyeshadow palette from eBay (as above)

- Eylure Naturalite '145' Eyelashes (as above)

- Bindi & Facial Gems (as above)

- Illamasqua Lipstick in 'Eurydice'

- River Island Gold Tone Hoop Earrings

- Hamsa Hand necklace from eBay

- Choker necklace from eBay

The outfit:

- Seahorse crop top from H&M (£3.99!!)

- Culotte shorts from ASOS (pack of 2)

- Kimono from H&M

- High top trainers from Nike (old, outlet!)

- Later on when it got a little bit nippy I threw on a white see through jumper from H&M which isn't on the website but you can see it below! - £14.99 FYI :) 

And now, some more random pictures - Enjoy!

L-R: Becca, Lizzie, Alice & Me!

L-R: Me, Luke, Lizzie, Alice & Parsons

Me & Becca (any excuse for a selfie!)

LR: Lizzie, Becca, Me, Luke and Parsons!

 Anyway, that's enough pictures, I'm depressed now!
It was an amazing weekend with amazing friends and I'm so glad I got to experience it before I start my placement!

And just on a final note about Parklife, RIP to Robert Hart, the festival goer that was attacked unprovoked and as a result of the attack died. All my thoughts to his friends and family, no-one deserves to die at a festival, everyone should be there to have fun and relax.. No-one should have to die for being a fan of music!

Thanks for reading! 

xx

Mac Miller FOTD!

Holaaaa.

Just a quick little post to show what I wore to the Mac Miller gig at HMV Ritz in Manchester on Sunday 06/10/2013! The tickets were £17.50 and he was brilliant! Such a good crowd and the atmosphere was buzzing! Everyone was so pumped to see him! He had 2 support acts - one didn't really fit in with Mac's music style but he was still a beautiful singer and his name was Dylan Reynold and you can check him out here! His second support act suited the bill a little better and he was Rockie Fresh! He got the crowd going and everyone was fully ready for Mac! Mac Miller came out and was even watching his support act which I think is great because it showed how much he actually SUPPORTED that new, up and coming artist.. We caught a sneak peek of him checking out Rockie Fresh! 

I kept my face pretty simple, foundation, bronzer, blush, lashings of mascara and small eyeliner flicks on the eyes.. The reason it was so plain was because I was wearing GREEN on my lips! Becca had told me she'd seen a make-up counter sales girl wearing Navy eyeliner on her lips with gloss so I decided to try this outttt!

I used MUA's Intense Colour Eyeliner Pencil in the shade 'Forest Green'! I wore a MAC Dazzleglass over the top of the liner, but it actually made the liner come off faster so I scrapped that and left it as a matte look!

I liked this look, I do admit I got a few strange looks but sureeee I don't care! It's all about experimenting so I was happy with how the look turned out! Good for a gig when no-one is taking themselves to seriously!

I wore a cheap tartan smock style dress from a shop in Manchester's Arndale Shopping Centre called 'Shout'! It was £7 so I couldn't say no to that! I tied a denim shirt around my waist and also had suspender tights on, but they were toooo much - it was SO WARM!! I had my faithful vans on and they were super comfyyyy! Sorry I couldn't get a photo of my outfit, we were running out of time!!

If you wanna check out Mac Miller then have a little clicksy HERE

Talk soon!

Let me know about what you think of colourful lips, too much or okay?

mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah xxxx