FOTD yellow/gold and navy/khaki with bold eyeliner

Hello bloggers and blogerettes!

I hope you have all had a lovely day!

This is my look for today. It's quite a light look but with intense eyeliner. The colours I used on my eyes were yellows and navy/khaki.

Here's what I used:

FACE

Base: APt Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation in Porcelain

Contour: Prestige Cosmetics Skin Loving Minerals Bronzer in Sun Shimmer

Highlight: Prestige Cosmetics Skin Loving Minerals Bronzer in Sun Shimmer

Blush: MAC Love Rock Mineralize Blush

Concealer: No7 Instant Radiance Concealer in shade 1 underneath the eyes and Benefit Boing Concealer in light for blemishes

Setting powder: MAX Factor Natural Minerals Foundation 40 Creamy Ivory

Tools of the trade for face: Body Shop foundation brush, MAC 168 blush and contour brush, MAC 161 fan brush, Clarins buffer brush

EYES

Eye shadow base: Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Eyebrows: elf Wet Gloss Lash & Brow Clear Mascara and No7 Precision Brow Pencil

Eye shadows: MAC Frost Phloof! on inner corners, APt Rocks in yellow and dark navy on top of No7 Metallic Eye Pencil in blue

Eye liner: Bobbi Brown long wear gel eyeliner in black ink

Mascara: NYX mascara in black

Tools of the trade for eyes: Shu Uemura eyelash curler, MAC 230 shader brush, MAC 224

blending brush, MAC 209 liner brush, GOSH smudger brush

LIPS

Lipstick: No7 Stay Perfect Lipstick in 40 Mischief

Lipgloss: NARS Lip Gloss in Turkish Delight

Have a great long weekend everyone and thank you very much for stopping by. If you would like a more detailed review of any of the above products please let me know.

Lottie x x x

Dupe alert! Mac and No7

Ciao belles,

I hope you've all had a wonderful day!

I thought I'd share with you a couple of dupes I recently spotted. I bought these two eyeliners a while ago from No7 using the £5 off vouchers. I really like these colours in fact, when I got them home I realised why. In true make up addict fashion, I already had them!

Check out the photos above. To my eye, there is really no difference between these and the MAC versions. Both brands are great quality and give great colour pay off. In addition, both are very long lasting.

Both brands do not test on animals. To find out more click here and here.

The only difference it would seem, is the price. Boots No7's version costs £8.30 and MAC's version costs £12.72.

Have you tried these? What did you think?

Lottie x x x

Mizz Worthy's Illamasqua Contest Entry

Hey everyone!

I hope everyone has had a great day!

I was feeling inspired by the amazing entries by @Kelanjo19 and @He1e for Mizz Worthy's Illamasqua contest and thought I'd give it a go. I've never tries Illamasqua before by have heard really good things about it. To make an entry you can find all the information here.

I felt really inspired my the pictures on Mizz Worthy's blog and this is my own take on the look. It's kind of gothic for blondes hehe! I've always wanted to wear some crazy eyelashes and do really dark angled make up in my favourite colours (blues/turquoises) but I would never wear this out. To add an 18th century vibe to all the drama made my freckle into a heart using kohl liner!

Products used were (in order):

Nina Ricci Exact Finish Eyebrow Pencil No4 in light strokes to define my eyebrows,Too Faced Shadow Insurance all over the eye lids,

No7 Metallic Eyes Pencil in 03 Blue smudged out with GOSH smudger brush,

Barry M Dazzle Dust in 10 on inner corners of the eyes,

GOSH Effect Powder in Spa on inner thirds of the eye lids using MAC 230 shader brush,

Clarins Colour Quarter For Eyes 03 Blue shimmers light blue colour on middle third of the eye lids using MAC 230 shader brush,

Giorgio Armarni Eyeshadow in 51 on outer third of the eye lids using the MAC 230 shader brush(I used sellotape to create the straight line),

Over the top of these colours I used a little bit of MAC Phloof! Frost in the inner corners of the eyes using the GOSH smudger brush. I also used this as a highlight colour using the Body Shop's large angled brush,

On the inner third of the eye lid I used MAC Jewel Blue Veluxe using the Ruby & Millie Eye Brush (M) - SHORT,

On the middle third of the eye I used MAC Cornflower Pigment Colour Powder using the Ruby & Millie Eye Brush (M) - SHORT,

Then on the outer corner I used Nina Ricci Plush Mono Eyeshadow Strass Effect 15 Nuit Noire using the Ruby & Millie Eye Brush (M) - SHORT,

I also used these colours in the same order underneath my lower lash line using the MAC 230 shader brush and blended everything a little bit,

I lined my inner lids and tightline with Bobbi Brown Gel Eyeliner in black using the MAC 209 brush,

I then drew around the outer edge of the shape I created with with the GOSH Extreme Art Liner in 08,

I then dusted away any fallout using the Body Shop large powder brush,

I then applied Revlon Beyond Natural 210 Light Pale and APt Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation SPF15 in Porcelain using my fingers all over the rest of my face, neck and lips,

I then used MAC Select Cover - Up in NC20 underneath the eyes and over any discolouration,

I then contoured and highlighted using the MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Blonde with the MAC 168 angled brush,

I then added the little heart using black Lancome kohl eyeliner,

Added Lancome Definicils and L'Oreal Voluminous both in black.

Glued on the eylure TOKYO LASHES (limited edition) and finally used GOSH lipstick in 134

Darling - volia!

What do you think?

I can't wait to see everyone else's looks!

Take care and thanks for stopping by.

LottieB xxx

Drugstore only contest entry

Hey everyone,

Hope you're all having a great week.

Just in time, I did a quick look for @AbbieAndBrian's drugstore only make over contest.

She has a fantastic beauty blog which I've only recently discovered.

I've got a real mixture of high end and drug store make up so I thought it would be interesting to see if I could pull something together using just drug store make up.

Mainly based on the colours I have in my collection decided to go for a green and gold look with a hint of turquoise on the eyes with nude lips. Again, please excuse my scruffy eyebrows, I can't wait for a wax on Saturday!

Products used were:

Base: Revlon Beyond Natural in 210 Light Pale

Powder: Max Factor Naturals Minerals Foundation in 40 Creamy Ivory (I use this as a powder as it doesn't even come close to providing enough coverage for me).

Contour: Revlon Bronzer in 02 Sunkissed Bronze

Blush: Maybelline Pure Blush Mineral Powder Blush in 40 Quartz Peach on top of MEMEME Pussy Cat Cheek & Lip Tint

Concealer: Collection 200 Illuminating Touch in 1 Naked

Eyebrows: No7 Beautiful Brows Pencil 15 Blonde and No7 Lash & Brow Perfector

Eye shadows: Maybelline Color Definer Waterproof Shadow Stick, Natural Collection Eyeshadow in Spring Green, Barry M Dazzle Dust in 82

Liquid Eyeliner: No7 Stay Perfect Eyeliner in Jewel (this is a fantastic dupe for MAC Liquid Last Eyeliner in Aqualine)

Pencil Eye liners: No7 Metallics Eyes Pencil 01 Green on the outer edges of the eyelids, GOSH Velvet Touch Eye Liner in 006 and a tiny bit of Bourjois Kohl & Contour in 01 Noir Expert in the tightline

Mascara: L'Oreal Voluminous in Black

Lipbalm: A tiny bit of chapstick, not sure what brand

Lipstick: GOSH Velvet Touch Lipstick in 134 Darling

Lipgloss: Barry M Glossy Tube in 2

Tools of the trade for eyes: Mister Mascara eyebrow groomer, Body Shop small shader brush, Ruby & Millie Eye Brush (M) - SHORT, square edged brush from Marks & Spencer (this came in a Christmas gift set), GOSH smudger brush

Tools of the trade for face: Body Shop blusher blush, Body Shop Powder Brush

Hope you guys like it, I'd really appreciate any comments or feedback! I've also included some pictures of the products used.

If any of my lovely friends in the UK who I haven't seen for a while are reading I just realised you will get a sneak peak of my engagement ring in the main picture!

LottieB xxx

P.S I find blogging about beauty so relaxing, it's the perfect way to wind down!

Eye make up removers

Hey everyone,

I wonder what everyone's thoughts are on eye make up removers?  There are probably hundreds to choose from and there is nothing worse than buying one then having to rub away at your eyes to get your make up off.  The area around the eye is so delicate and is one of the first areas which will show the signs of aging so it's really important to look ater this part of the skin. 

In my fairly limited experience I'd say Lancome's Bi Facial is the excellent but pretty pricey (about £14), it just melts everything off and there is no need to apply very much pressure.

Popping in closely behind is Boots No7 Cleanse and Care Eye Make-up Remover which I use everyday.  It's excellent at getting everything off too and doesn't irritate. It's also quite handy if you every get those £5 off vouchers from Boots as then it only costs about £2 - bargain!

I've tried a couple of samples from Dermalogica which seems good too.  Speaking of which, if you are fellow Dermalogica fan (I''m addicted to their tinted moisturiser) then you MUST check out this site called Jersey Beauty.  Everything is VAT free and they do super fast free, well packaged delivery.  Yay!

I use to use Clarins Instant Eye Make up Remover when I worked for them in the good old days.  This is also excellent at getting rid of all my mascara and so on.  Sadly, things didn't work out for me and this remover as it started to irritate my eyes.  But I wouldn't let that put you off as my skin is quite volitile!

To try and take care of the skin around my eyes I also use Clarins Sun Wrinkle Control Eye Contour Care High Protection SPF30 because, as we all know, the sun really ages the skin and even on cloudy days the rays are still there!  It's quite expensive but it last for ages because you only need the tiniest amount (the size of a rice grain) each day.  I also wear big sunglasses whenever the sun comes out (hmmmm.....when will that be then?) especially if I'm driving as squinting your eyes can't be good for the skin around them.

I'm going to follow this blog post up with one on eye creams.  I'm just trialing something at the moment and will then let you all know how the ones I've tried compare.

Thanks for stopping by, I'd lovc to hear some views on the great eye make up remover debate!

Enjoy your evening!

LottieB x