The bodyshop - shimmer cube: Hot pink. (part one)

 

This is the BodyShop's Shimmer cube palette 26 "hot pink" from their spring collection.

01 garden rose

02 deep fuchsia

03 light coral

04 champagne pink

Their website says:

 "A palette of four subtle iridescent shades to mix and match. Crease-resistant and suitable for contact-lens wearers.

• Iridescent finish
• Crease-resistant
• Dermatologically tested
• Ophthalmologically tested
."

As you can see here, each of the four eye shadow cubes come out of the main cube  separately and has it's own lid, which is both awesome and a pain all at the same time. It does mean that if you have several of these you can mix and match your own palette if you want, or just take one colour with you in your make-up bag. 

I really like these bodyshop shimmer cube, I have another one in green too.
The colours come out well, but not too bright, so they are good for a variety of purposes. At the moment this shimmer cube is the front runner for my wedding day eye shadow, although there is still time to change my mind! 

At £16 each they aren't the cheapest eye shadow palette on the market, but there is a lot of product in each of the four cubes, and the quality of the body shop make-up to me is worth it.

I don't have any looks to show you guys yet, but as soon as I have a will post a part two so you can see how they look on. 

-Jessica.x

Face of the day: Dramatic Day Look!

Hi Guys,

welcome back and yes it's another make-up look! This is what I wore to work the other day, I was so pleased with this look I had to share it with you. It's quite dramatic and smoky for the day but I love it! 

I did find it really hard to get good enough pictures as no matter what, the pictures just didn't do it enough justice and show it in all it's glory, I did edit them in order to try and get the colours to show better -but alas I tried my best and here's the snaps I got :)

Tried using a super bright light so that's why I look so ummm... shiny? haha.

Here's what products I used to achieve this look:

eye base: MAC painterly paint pot

Transition shade: limit

all over: strange

on top: liar

crease: nooner (blended)

corner: factory & darkside

lid: bit of buzz

(all urban decay naked 3 palette)

brow & inner corner highlight: MAC shroom

autograph gel eyeliner

l'oreal telescopic mascara

brows: MAC pencil -lingering

bronzer: MAC refined golden

blush: MAC at dusk (LE)

Highlight: MAC shape the future (lighter shade) (LE)

lips: MAC creme cup

MAC's 'at dusk' is a very subtle pink blush that looks so natural on the skin! especially when applied with a stippling brush. I decided to pick the most natual pink blush I had in order to stick with the romantic theme like a natural 'flush' on the cheeks, but then the blush allowed the attention to still be focused on the dramatic eyes. Definitely didn't want anything to harsh for the day time especially with such defined eyes.
I also decided to use MAC creme cup as it's my go-to lipstick that goes with everything. It's definitely a 'my lips but better' lipstick colour so looked perfectly natural as well. 

Thanks for stopping by!
Hope you liked this look and let me know what you thought of it!?

Love, Bonney xo

Barry M TMLP - turn my lips pink

TMLP or  turn my lips pink by Barry M is something I had wanted for a while, but never decided to buy. One day I was wondering around the beauty section of boots and decided to pick one up for me and my best friend - we loved it so much that her mum ended up buying it too! 

If you haven't heard about Barry M's "Turn my lips pink" before; Then I'm sorry if you want it by the end of this post...

The lipstick it's self is green as you can see above, and although I will call it a lipstick and it's sold with all the lip paints, it doesn't have the texture of a lipstick. The texture is more like that or a lipbalm, but don't let that or the fact that it is green fool you into thinking you won't get much colour from this awesome little stick.

Once you apply this lipstick it start to change colour, it works with the PH levels in your skin, and turns "the right shade of pink for you".

 I have seen this lipstick on a lot of other blogs, and it often turns a light pink and the subtle and very pretty. Not on me! This bad boy goes on super bright, and I love it!

In the top right picture I put lipbalm on first with a little concealer still on my finger, as you can see this resulted in a much paler colour.

TMLP does stain your lips so it does last a long time!! That being said, because it stains you need to apply is carefully, if you slip you'll have a nice pink stain around your mouth. 

I love the fact that its green and get great pleasure from putting it on when people are watching me, it's always a good conversation starter! 

This is currently my go to lipstick when I can;t decide which to wear or when I am in a hurry - which is often! 

Why do you think? Do you fancy giving this lipstick a try?

-Jessica.x

Face of the day & Harry Potter Studio Tour!

Hello again!

Okay, so today's post is another FOTD! I LOVE doing these type of posts and I hope you enjoy them too.
Last week we went to Harry Potter Warner Brothers studio tour which is located in Watford near London. It was A-MAAAAAZING! I felt emotional as soon as I walked in because a) I'm a big cry baby and b) WHY HAS IT GOT TO BE OVER :'( *ahem* anyway, I had plenty of travel time in the car to work on my make-up so I made the extra effort; here's what my make-up looked like: 

WOAH CLOSE UP! ;) I went for a romantic eye look with full pink-pout lips! I lined my lips this day (which I'm usually too lazy to do!) which made them look so full and plump so they really tied into the romantic smoky eye look. On the lips I used Rimmel Exaggerate lip liner in 063 east-end snob; then MAC creme cup all over!

I used my naked 3 palette on the eyes, I used MAC paint pot in painterly as a base. My editing has made it look like I had harsh lines but I promise in real life there was no harsh lines, I'm a blend-aholic!  

Here's a better look at the eyes. I'm so pleased with how they turned out :)

For the rest of the face I used:

Revlon Colorstay foundation for combination/oily skin in Buff

MAC pro-longwear concealer in NC15

MAC translucent powder to set under eyes

MAC brow pencil in lingering
Autograph (M&S) Gel eye liner in black (MY NEW LOVE!!)

L'oreal telescopic mascara in black

MAC refined golden bronzer

Two Faced perfect flush blush in candy glow

MAC veronica's blush as a highlight (just the pale colour) 

-I'm not a MAC-aholic I swear ;)

I think that's it for makeup! (hope I haven't forgot anything) and now to share just a couple of snaps from my harry potter day out :)

Butterbeer! mmmm! not my hand by the way!

My souvenirs! Guide book and time turner keyring

Hermione's gorgeous ball dress<3

The casts dressing table -I spotted MAC items ;) 

It was such a lovely day, what made it even better was there were loads of people there that have travelled from different countries to come see this! It was so nice as even american's were there and america have all the good stuff such as disney world, harry potter LAND, universal lands etc etc! (yes I am jelly-bean of you lucky people hehe) So was nice we had something special that people travelled to Britain to come and see :)

Thanks for reading!

Love, Bonney xo

MUA Pretty Edgy Eyeshadow palette.

Back in my very brief mini haul post, I showed you a quick snap of some of the things I had picked up. One of them was this eye shadow palette: 

MUA's PRETTY EDGY part of their LUXE range. I don't like to do much shopping online, and our superdrug is pretty small here, so on my trip to Birmingham I discovered this beautiful palette but there were no testers, so I was faced with a dilemma. Who am I kidding - it was so pretty with it's studded lid that I instantly knew I had to have it.. So, here it is! 

We have 10 shades here, 6 shimmery, and 4 matte. On the back of the Palette it says "..pretty romance with a twist of Gothic grunge.." which I love the sound of, and I think these colours really make you feel that vibe.

The eye shadows in this palette are really beautiful to use, but it's hard to tell how well they blend from just a swatch, so I will also post some pictures of them is use at the end of the post. 

the first three colours I would say are high light colours, I have also used Antique over other eye shadows to give them a nice shimmer. Then you have three shimmer shades that are more intense, great for all over colour, and lastly you have the four matte shades. I have read some people are disappointed with the pigmentation of the matte shades, I certainly wasn't - here they have been swatched with one swipe of my finger, on to a bare hand, no primer... and I think they are fab!

This is my first look with this Palette, I used envy around my lashes, and smudged it upwards then blended lace over the top. I finished with some black kohl eyeliner on my waterline to make the look more intense.

All the colours blend so well, I had no issues with fall out at all although I do tend to do my eye first when doing a strong look so I can clean up the edges. All in all - for £8 I'm pretty happy, with my pretty edgy palette. 

-Jessica.x

Mini Makeup Haul

I took a little trip to Birmingham and while I was there I did a little shopping in Superdrug. I wanted to pick up some makeup that wasn't too expensive.

So I decided to try some NYC makeup. Here I have the smooth skin primer and the city proof buildable mascara.

I also picked up a few more bits from the MUA range, including the pro base conceal and brighten kit ( I some how managed to buy two of these), a colour blast eye tint in diamonds - which looks just like the clinque chubby stick, and finally I picked up the Pretty edgy eye shadow palette.

I also picked the Maxfactor - fantasy fire nail polish.

The first impressions of everything I bought is pretty good! Nothing I picked up seems bad, but I'll do some more testing and post some reviews soon!

-Jessica.x

Review: Elf 100 eye shadow palette

One of the best things I have ever bought from E.L.F has to be my 100 eye shadow palette! It has a fab range of colours from brights to nudes and everything in between.
It is available here for £15 although I picked mine up in one of the elf 50% off sales - which they seem to have regularly.

As you can see mine is very well loved, I've hit pan in at least 3 of the shades (ones I wear daily) the others are well used too except the greens, I am yet to find a look that I like with them. I have had my palette for 6 months or more, and its still my go-to for eye shadows.

I love:

•  That I can try lots of different looks with out having to spend out a lot of money.
•  That I have all the different shade to contour my eye in all the different colour ranges.
•  That all the colours come out as bright as they look in the palette.
•  That they last all day without a primer! 
•  That they are super easy to blend.

Here are two of the looks I have created using this pallet:

(I have also used this in my last post for the bright pink and will be using it again soon!)

This first look is in purple. 

I started by blending one of the light gold shades over the lid, then I used several of the purples around the crease area (above and in) then blended around the outside edge and into the outer 3rd of the eye lid. Add some black eyeliner and that's it. 

This second look is more natural.

I used the pale cream shade over the whole lid, and then blended a mid brown tone into the crease just to add a little depth but without being over powering.

There isn't much more to this look to tell you about I'm afraid. 

I would definitely recommend this palette to anyone that wants to experiment with colour, they are easy to work with for beginners, and have a wide enough variety of colours for people with a little more experience or that want to be able to create a wide range of looks. This palette has something of everyone! It's a thumbs up from me! 

-Love Jessica.x

My First Face Of The Day!

Hello!
welcome to my first blog post (Eeeekk!!)
I've decided to share a FOTD with you!
Here's what I wore on a day out with my other half last Thursday, I was very pleased with how my makeup turned out. Please do excuse the pics in the car, I was in a hurry so posing commenced while driving along during the road trip! I wasn't driving obviously! Ha ha. (and yes, I did get some strange looks from neighbour cars;) 


I decided to go for a gentle bronze-based smokey eye, simple flush of blush and a gorgeous purple toned pink lip!


Here's a close up. Not sure why my brows look so dark here so ignore that ha ha! 
products used:
Face: Revlon colorstay, mac pro long wear concealer, MAC prep+prime translucent powder (under eyes to set concealer), MAC refined golden bronzer to contour, MAC pearl matte face powder in veronica's blush (LE) -also used as my highlight. 

Eyes: MAC brown pencil in lingering, mac paint pot in painterly as eye base, Urban decay naked 2 palette: foxy (transition colour), verve (lid colour), pistol & suspect (layered in crease), tiny bit of tease mixed with snakebite (to increase crease contour) bootycall (brow and inner corner highlight) 
autograph (Marks and Spencer) Gel eyeliner in black
L'Oreal Telescopic mascara

Lips: MAC prep+prime lip base, MAC lavender whip (LE) 


And that's it! Sounds complicated, but I didn't really have a set way when it came to the eyes. I just kept layering in order to achieve the desired look! This look didn't take too long as I managed to do it quite quickly in the morning possibly half an hour? I also did half of it in the car Ha Ha!! 

Thanks for reading and I hoped you enjoyed my first post :) 

Love, Bonney xo

Feeling a little 80's

Guess what guys!? I love the 80's!


I wanted a 80's look that was wearable without being to 'fancy-dress'. This look was for me, all about the eyes, and with them being so strong I kept the skin as flawless as I could with very little bronzer, and just a light dusting a of beautiful pink high lighter on the cheeks and the lips pale nude.







Although it doesn't show very well in these photo I have a bright pink eye shadow going on - which I should mention I am loving at the moment. I teamed it with heavy black eyeliner all the way down the the inner corner where I made sure the top liner (liquid) and the bottom liner (kohl) met.  I also went for a small flick at the outer corner. On top of that I used an awful lot of mascara (which is the norm for me.)



 I hope you enjoy this look! See you soon...

-Jessica.x