FOTD bronze and gold eyes with coral lips

Here's another recent look. This is what I used:

FACE

Base: Rimmel Recover Foundation in 100 Ivory

Contour: Prestige Cosmetics Skin Loving sunbaked mineral bronzing powder in 03 Pure Shimmer

Highlight: Prestige Cosmetics Skin Loving sunbaked mineral bronzing powder in 03 Pure Shimmer

Blush: APt Mineral Blush Pressed in Desert

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

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

EYES

Eye shadow base:

Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Eyebrows:

e.l.f Wet Gloss Lash & Brow Clear Mascara and No7 Precision Brow Pencil

Eye shadows: e.l.f Duo Eyeshadow Cream in Butter Pecan, APt Simply Mineral ROCKS gold and bronze colours

Eye liner: GOSH Extreme Art Eyeliner 02, Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Bourbon, Bobbi Brown long wear gel eyeliner in black ink

Primer:

MAC Prep + Prime Lash

Mascara: NYX 1000 Miles Long 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: Max Factor 825 Pink Brandy

Lipgloss: L'Oreal Glam Shine Juice 224

Coral cardigan is from New Look, neckelace is from M&S and earings are from Internationale.

What do you think?

Thanks for stopping by!

Lottie x x x

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

The make up diaries - January 2009

After all the Christmas festivities were over, the year started and I'd run out of lots of things I needed.  I brought the following bits and bobs and I'm going to let you know whether it was money well spent:

Foundation:

I'd previously got on really well with L'Oreal's True Match Foundation in C2 Vanilla Rose which I ran out of so so I thought I'm give Max Factor's Natural Minerals Foundation in 40 Creamy Ivory version a go.  Unfortunately, it didn't work out for me and my skin.  To me, it feels like a powder and doesn't give the coverage I need.  The L'Oreal one really sinks into the skin giving a nice natural sheer coverage. 

In any case, these power based foundations are a little messy to apply and I decided to go back to a liquid version I could apply with a brush.  I've gone for the APt Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation from Tracey Bell.  I couldn't be more pleased with this, yes it is pricey but it feels divinely smooth on and really stays put all day.  It's a mineral foundation which allows the skin to breathe.  It also contains SPF15 which is great too. 

Concealer:

I needed something to replace my favourite YSL Touche Eclat concealer.  This is really expensive for I normally buy those double packs for about £16 at duty free shops (living on the Isle of Man I normally get to them a good couple of times a year).  A lovely girl on Twitter called @shinygemma recommended I try out Collection 2000 Illuminating Touch which has been great.  Obviously, it isn't quite as luxurious as YSL Touche Eclat but it definitely does the job and at around £4/5 it's extremely good value.

Eyeshadows:

I'd heard some really good things about GOSH cosmetics from some of the YouTube makeup tutorials.  There was a 3 for 2 offer on at Superdrug and I got Effect Powder Eyeshaw in Spa and two Extreme Art Eyeliners in 08 and 02.  They were all very nice and easy to apply.  I went for quite subtle colours in the collection and I think they work well if you want to make a day time look a bit more exciting.

I had a lot of Boots points so decided to treat myself to Clarins Soft Cream Eye Colour in 01 which is a really pretty creamy colour.  It makes a really lovely highlighter and really helps powder eyeshadows to set.  I'd be interested to know how it compares to the MAC paints which I haven't tried yet.

I also picked out a BarryM Fine Glitter Dust in 22 which is a lovely charcoal black with very tiny flecks of gold in it.  Using a very small brush I find this works brilliantly for adding definition around the eyes when doing smokey looks.  I adore Barry M's range of colours.  Just make sure you have a good base on otherwise they can be very messy!

Lips:

While trying out all the eye colours at Barry M I also picked Supershiny Lipgloss in 2 which is a really nice nude colour.   It also tastes very nice! I love the colour but it's a little gloopy to apply.  For me, I think it also may be quite drying but the weather is actually probably to blame for that!

Nails:

Finally, whilst on my little haul in Boots I got a gorgeous nail polish from Revlon called Plum Attraction in 762.  I really love berry tones in the winter and this one does just the trick although two layers are best to get the most out of the colour.

Thanks for stopping by and reading this.  I'd love to hear your comments.

LottieB x