Lottie.....the scientist?

Hey everyone,

I hope you all have had a great day! I have been shopping all day and have tried on some beautiful princess wedding dresses with my Mum as adviser!

I picked up these really cute sample pots from http://www.cocktailcosmetics.co.uk/. It's a fantastic site with lots of discounted goodies and was highly recommended by fellow and lovely bloggers That One Girl and Magpie Sparkles.

I decided to mix some of my MAC pigments together for fun last night and this is what I came up with. Future career as a Laboratory Technician?

Maybe not, but it sure looks pretty!

Hope you enjoyed this post, at the moment it's called "Lottie's Magical Mixture" but I am open to suggestions so if you have any ideas please let me know!

Lottie x x x

FOTD - Aqua eyes with nude pink lips

Good evening everyone!

I'm finally caught up with FOTD. This is what I wore today:

FACE

Base: Revlon Beyond Natural Skin Matching Makeup in 210 Light Pale

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

Highlight: MAC Mineralize Skin Finish in Blonde

Blush: Maybelline Pure Blush Mineral Powder Blush in 40 Quartz Peach

Concealer: MAC Select Cover up in NC20

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

EYES

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

Eyeshadows: Bobbi Brown Eyeshadow in Sea Foam and Cloud Blue from the Bobbi Brights Eye Palette; more info here

Eye liner: No7 Metallic Eye Pencil in Green on top, Clarins Shimmer Eyeliner Pencil in 04 Turquoise on bottom eye lid, No7 Stay Perfect Eyeliner in Sapphire on top of finished look; review/swatches can be found here

Primer: MAC Prep + Prime Lash

Mascara: NYX 1000 Miles Long Mascara in black

Tools of the trade for eyes: Shu Uemura eyelash curler, GOSH smudger brush

LIPS

Lipgloss: Nivea Lip Care Caregloss & Shine

Headband is from Accessorize, cardigan from Zara and vest top from H&M.

Let me know if you would you like any further swatches/reviews.

Hope you've had a great day!

Lottie x

FOTD - Emerald eyes and berry lips

It's not all about coral, another hue I love is emerald. Here's a recent look look I did with green eyes and berry lips. Here's what I used:

FACE

Base: Revlon ColorStay makeup with SoftFlex SPF 6 Combination/Oily Skin 150 Buff

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: e.l.f All Over Color Stick in Pink Lemonade

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: Body Shop Foundation Brush, MAC 168 blush and contour brush, Clarins buffer brush

EYES

Eye shadow base: e.l.f Duo Eyeshadow Cream in Olive

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

Eye liner: GOSH Extreme Art Eyeliner 12, No7 Metallic Eye Pencil in Green

Primer: MAC Prep + Prime Lash

Mascara: NYX 1000 Miles Long Mascara in black

Tools of the trade for eyes: Shu Uemura eyelash curler, GOSH smudger brush

LIPS

Lipstick: e.l.f All Over Color Stick in Pink Lemonade

Lipgloss: Lancome Juicy Tubes Fraise 017

Earrings from Next.

Do you like green too?

Thanks for stopping by!

Lottie x x x

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 Smokey brown look with defined crease

Good afternoon ladies of the blog,

This afternoon I shall be catching up with posts as I have been disconnected since Friday. I'll be posting some recent looks and here is the first one.

Here's what I used:

FACE

Base: APt Liquid Powder Mineral Foundation in Porcelain

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: 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

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! NARS shimmer single eyeshadow Cyprus, MAC Frost Bronze

Eye liner: Urban Decay 24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil in Bourbon, Benefit eye bright, 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: 17 Sheer Moisture Lipstick in Balmy Beige

Lipgloss: Clarins Instant Light Natural Lip Perfector 01

The coral ruffle top is from Primark and the butterfly earing from Miss Selfridge.

What kind of look did you wear today?

Thanks for stopping by!

Lottie x x x

TAG: Getting to know me, getting to know you

This is an open tag from the lovely Alexis aka Faffaholic and here are my answers:

What made you choose your blog/twitter/youtube username? Well I write about pretty things in a "geeky" context.

What's your actual name? Charlotte

Do you have any nicknames? Charlie, Lottie, LottieBee, Princess Lottie.

Apart from the obvious make up / beauty hobby, what other hobbies do you have? I'm a keen horse rider and would love to have my own horse one day. I also love art and photography as well as crafty things like jewellery and card making. I love spending time with my friends, lots of whom I have been friends with since high school and even primary school!

What do you do?I've spent the last seven months working in PR which has been a fantastic experience. I will shortly be joining a new company and starting a new role as a marketing coordinator which I can't wait to get stuck in to.

What would you like to do? Live in a Tuscan villa with my fiancee with our own horses and paint everyday for pleasure.

Tell us something embarrassing, but that you love doing? I love cooking big batches of food and then putting it into Tupperware boxes for freezing. It's one of the more fun things about being a "grown up". Am I weird? Probably.

Tell us a little something that we don't already know about you. My fiancee whisked me away for a romantic trip to Florence on our third date! The rest, as they say, is history. I feel so blessed to have met somebody I want to spend the rest of my life with, who understands me, who loves me for who I am and who I love so dearly!

What achievement are you most proud of? Getting my degree in Humanities with Literature from The Open University.

What do you most like about yourself? I try to be kind.

What would you change about yourself if you could? I am a work in progress, the rest is still unwritten.

If you could have anything in the world (that doesn't cost any money), what would you want? I don't wish bad things on anyone but I particularly wish that bad things didn't happen to good people.

I tag all the lovely people who follow my blog!

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