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This holiday release from Nars really appealed to me, because 1) I've missed out on every limited edition cheek palette that they've released so far. 2) I'm very much into quirky packaging. Doesn't get much quirkier than this. 3) All of the blush shades are gorgeous.

So Nars has teamed up with fashion photographer, Steven Klein for their holiday releases. The packaging of all of the sets is amazing (in their own weird way.)

Of course, this is limited edition, unfortunately. So you may want to try and get your hands on it before it sells out for Christmas.

So let's get into the palette itself.

(L to R - Paloma I: 3.5g, Paloma II: 3.5g, Laguna: 8.5g, Robotic: 3.5g, Blasphemy: 3.5g, Luster: 3.5g, Dolce Vita: 3.5g)
So this palette retails for £49 with an overall estimated value of £125.

I'm so pleased that Nars chose to include a contour blush duo in this palette, as I'm not really a blush wearer, but that kind of sold this palette for me. I'm also really pleased that you get a larger than average size of Laguna.

The blushes are the perfect shades for me. Pinky, mauvey blushes are what I gravitate towards. (Admittedly, the peachy-gold shade, Luster, will probably never be worn on my cheeks, makes a lovely eyeshadow though!)

All of the shades in this palette are the perfect amount of pigmented, like you can tap your brush into the pans and get a nice wash of colour but you'll never look like you've overdone it. (Except Paloma II, the cooler contour shade, beware, apply too much and you will look like you've splattered mud over your cheeks.)

You never really find yourself having to top up on blush throughout the day, we all know how long-lasting Nars' blushes are.

Paloma II (second top row) and Dolce Vita (fourth bottom row) are my favourite shades in this palette.

I think this is an amazing price, especially if you're wanting to try out some Nars cheek products. I meann, you're looking at spending roughly £20 per full-size blush (1 gram more than included in this palette) so to get 4 blushes is sort of insane.

I definitely think this is worth it for the amount of product you're getting. I'd give it a solid 8/10.
I'm obsessed.

That's all for now,
Rachel. XO
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Hi guys! So it's been a little over a month and I've got a couple of new products this month, I thought I'd talk you through my highlighting and contouring favourites.

So these products are the best products I've found that work best on me. If you're a cool-toned, fair skinned gal like me, you might like these too!



MAC Powder Blush in 'Harmony'

This looks quite red-toned, it's quite the opposite and I'm not sure if it's a problem with the lighting or what. But this blush is a gorgeous mid-tone brown, leaning more towards the cool side. If you're fair/light skinned, you're going to really love this. It applies evenly but if used with a heavy hand, it can become hard to blend. I wouldn't use this a bronzer to warm up the face, as it does give the illusion of natural shadows and not a sunkissed glow. I find it is quite powdery as it is a blush and isn't specifically designed for contouring, there is minimal fall out when applying though. I would recommend this to someone who's maybe an NW15-NW20. I looked everywhere for this and it was sold out for about 2 weeks! I'd recommend buying from Debenhams as they seem to get this in stock more regularly than MAC, I feel.

This retails for £18 and can be bought here.


MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in 'Lightscapade'

Lightscapade is a gorgeous shimmery champagne highlight powder with pale pink and blue bits running through it. Compared to some highlighters I've tried, this isn't overpowering and isn't overly shimmery, so you won't end up looking like a disco ball. It gives a subtle highlight to the cheekbones and it just looks gorgeous in the pan, let's be honest. It's a baked powder, and I think it looks like a rather cute, girly little planet, haha. 

I did buy this around the time the Lightness of Being collection was released and I was debating on getting the rather cute looking limited edition version of this, but after reading reviews that were saying the formula was chalky and not very pigmented, I decided against it.

This retails for £23 and can be bought here.


Real Techniques Bold Metals Collection - Flat Contour Brush

Excuse how dirty my brush is, I couldn't be bothered to wash it for the purpose of this post, sorry not sorry. ;o
I can't quite express my love for this brush. This was the only brush from the whole collection that really appealed to me. I'm not sure if it's because of the gorgeous rose gold handle or the cute pink ombre bristles, but this brush just spoke to me.
The bristles are synthetic, meaning this brush is great with powder and cream products. The bristles are so soft and yes, I sat and stroked my face with this brush as soon as I received it in the post. The bristles are very dense, meaning you can pack a lot of product on but it also makes blending the easiest thing on the planet. This may be my favourite purchase of the year so far.

This retails for £22 and can be bought here.

Let me know what your highlighting and contouring must haves are!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo
15:01 3 comments

Hi guys!
It's been well over a year since I last did a post like this so I thought why not write another one as my makeup collection has definitely changed a fair bit.

This is my rather fabulous make up bag, it's covered in scenes from The Little Mermaid (which is my favourite movie ever)

It was £2/£2,50 (amazing, right?) from Primark and it was also available in a pouch type makeup bag.

It fits quite a lot in it and fits very nicely in your bag as it's in a pencil case shape and it's quite slim.
We'll start with the base and lip products. So I recently bought YSL's Le Teint Touche Eclat foundation and it's absolutely lovely, it gives a lovely dewy finish and it comes in lots of shades. I'm in the second lightest shade B10. It retails for £30.50 and can be bought here.
I've also been loving the Stila One Step Correct primer, it really does even out your skin tone and it's very hydrating. This primer contains three different shades, peach, green and lavender, when mixed together on the face, it helps any problem areas you may have (redness, dark circles, sallowness)
It really helps to make my makeup go on smoothly and it also helps my foundation last a lot longer. RRP: £24 and can be bought here.

Lips! So obviously I have my two all time favourite lipsticks. Diva and Rebel by MAC. I love a dark lip so these are essential and I always chuck them in my bag before I leave the house. I wear one of these almost everyday. They both retail for £15.50 and can be bought here.

So obviously, my favourite blush of all time is Rose Gold by Sleek Cosmetics (it's also a pretty close dupe for Nars' Orgasm blush) - I really love this blush because although it's very shimmery and obviously has gold tones running through it, I like that it's still very pink. Pink blushes are the only ones that suit my skin tone. It retails for £4.49 and can be bought here.
I've been liking this eyebrow kit by Sleek also, it's in the black shade as my hair's black (soon to be red, ooooh) I've been using the black cream side more than the powder, the cream is really pigmented, I've noticed it does smudge quite easily so I've started setting it with the black powder. It retails for £8.49 and can be bought here.

Another blush I really love 'Marshmallow' by MUA. I really love this shade, the only thing that bother me is it's quite chalky and it's very very pigmented so you need to have a light hand when using it or else you could end up looking like Coco the Clown. It retails for £1 and can be bought here.
My favourite bronzer of all time is the honey bronzer by The Body Shop in shade '2 Fair Matte', it's the perfect bronzer for pale skinned people like myself. It's a nice light brown colour and it doesn't make you look like a Dorito, which is always a good thing. It blends nicely and it's not too heavily pigmented so you don't end up with big brown lines on your face. It retails for £13 and can be bought from here.

You might be wondering, why must I need two concealers in very similar shades in my makeup bag? Well, one of them is to conceal blemishes and the other is to highlight under my eyes. Seventeen's Stay Time concealer is easily my favourite concealer ever. I really dislike Collection's Lasting Perfection concealer, I find it really drying under my eyes and it flakes like crazy. The Stay Time concealer is very creamy and dewy and reminds me a lot of the Nars Radiant Creamy Concealer, the good thing about this is that it dries to a dewy finish, which is always gooood. It retails for £4.49 and can be bought here.
One of my favourite highlighters is the Chanel Pearly Banner Iridescent Powder for Eyes and Cheeks, unfortunately it's discontinued now and was from the London Madness collection. It is very glittery, so you have to be sparing with it or else you'll end up looking like a glitter ball. It is a really lovely highlighter though.

My favourite mascara at the moment is the Perversion mascara by Urban Decay, I bought it in a set with a travel size version of the Subversion lash primer and it was such a good deal. The wand is really big and thick and isn't one of these horrible overly plasticky wands, it really lengthens and thickens your lashes. Although I do think that the Soap & Glory Thick and Fast mascara is an almost exact dupe for this, so once this is finished I'll probably just go back to my trusty old Thick & Fast mascara. It retails for £18 and it can be bought here.
Obviously, where would we all be without our trusty Real Techniques brushes? I'm not going to go into too much details as we all know how great they are. I use the Expert Face Brush for buffing in foundation and concealer and the contour brush, for well, contouring? The contour brush is part of the core collection which retails for £15.99 and can be bought here and the Expert Face Brush can be bought separately from here.
And last but not least, a rather lovely Shea Butter hand cream by L'Occitane. I own far too many L'Occitane hands creams, I own about 6 now, this one isn't my favourite but it is the most hydrating as it's made for people with very dry skin so it's perfect. My favourite L'Occitane hand cream is the Lime Zest one and it smells so lovely and feels so lovely, I just love it. This retails for £8 and can be bought from here.

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I've been keeping in my make up bag lately.
Let me know what your favourite go-to makeup items are.

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo


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So, we all know I love a good lipstick. I've become quite the lipstick hoarder these past couple of months. (Prepare for my top 5 MAC lipsticks post after Christmas by the way.) Work are holding a fundraiser next weekend, an incredibly formal Christmas ball, the theme of my outfit and make up is 50's. (See picture on left) I was just desperate to find a perfect red lipstick. Something that isn't too orangey and but not too dark as I wanted to find a brightish red.

Vivianna Does Makeup filmed a video called Winter Edit, and this lipstick featured, swatched next to Ruby Woo by MAC, they were basically identical. So of course, I ran over to Superdrug as soon as I could. As I'd spent this month's pay on Christmas presents, I really couldn't afford to pay £15 for a lipstick I probably wouldn't wear that often, so £6.99 for a very close dupe is fantastic.

This lipstick is a lovely blue toned red, definitely a matte finish, not quite as matte as Ruby Woo though (which is probably a good thing, I hear it's awfully drying.) 

It's incredibly pigmented and ever so opaque. Ain't no natural lip colour is gonna show through this lipstick. I've been wearing it since I bought it at 3:30pm, and it's left a lovely stain, so nearly 5 hours wear and it hasn't gone patchy or anything, which is pretty long lasting in my books.


I've always liked L'Oreal's lipstick packaging, it always looks a lot more expensive than it actually is, it's not too plasticky looking either. I also like how the lid actually clicks into place, that lid is not falling off in your handbag any time soon, my friend.

The Christmas ball is only for 5 hours-ish, so let's hope this lipstick serves me well. I may well become a regular red lipstick wearer now. I already own one too many red lipstick, although they're either dark reds or none of the true reds really suit me (far too orange toned).

Let me know if you've found any blue-toned drugstore red lipsticks, it would be much appreciated. Girl's on a budget, y'know.

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo




20:18 2 comments
Hey guys!
So recently all I've been doing is searching the internet for things I can't afford so I thought, why not make a rare wishlist post. Be prepared for the neons.


1. Chunky Cut Out Pink Holographic Sandals - eBay: £19.99.
I've been looking at these type of sandals for ever, I have a phobia of feet so sandals are like the worst things for me to wear. These sandals have a kind of closed toe thing going on so that's great! And they're pink and holographic, they're great!

2. Tropical Floral Print Bomber Jacket - Pink Clove: £28.
I've been really into the whole bomber jacket trend at the moment but I'm not daring enough to wear one, but then I saw this and it's possibe the most 'out there' thing I'd own in my wardrobe if I bought it, it's absolutely gorgeous and waaay colourful, hahaha.

3. Frozen DVD - Amazon: £10.
I watched this movie when it first came out at the cinema and I fell in love instantly. Plus it's Disney and I feel the need to own every single Disney movie on DVD so.

4. 2 pack of Skater Dresses (Lime Green and Black) - New Look: £19.99.
I've been buying a lot of dresses lately for summer (although I still wear them with leggings, I'm wearing dresses sssh) and I've been really into kimonos and I've been looking for block colour dresses that would go with a loud, floral kimono and these are perfect.

5. Sleek I-Divine Limited Edition Superdrug 50th Birthday Palette - Superdrug: £7.99
Well, Sleek, brand new eyeshadows in celebration of Superdrug's 50th birthday, what more could you ask for? The colours look absolutely perfect too. And I need anything limited edition basically.

6. Mia Round Floral Trim Sunglasses - Boohoo: £12.
I don't really know if I'd ever wear these, but I know if I did I'd feel like a fierce queen absolutel idiot. But look how cute they are, soooo pastel grunge. \m/ (that was a joke)

7. Shell Pink Contrast Trim Tachymeter Sports Watch - New Look: £19.99.
Can we just appreciate the fact that this watch looks waaay more expensive than it actually is??? (NOTICE THE PINK THEME HUH? I'm a sucker for anything pink.) I've never been one to wear watches but I just fell in love with this one when I saw it.

8. ASOS Concertina Satchel Bag - ASOS: £22.50.
So I'm going on holiday to Fuerteventura in August and I'm flying with Ryanair (ugh yes Ryanair) and they've got stupid af cabin luggage regulations, a tiny suitcase (which I have to fit all my clothes in because bitch I am not paying £90 to have a regular sized suitcase, yes that's how much they charge you) and you're allowed a small bag on the flight, this is the only bag I've found that's affordable, tiny but has loads of room. AND IT'S ALSO NEON WOOO AND SO CUTE WOOOO. So if I buy it, it'll be the only bag I'll be taking on holiday with me 'cause no luggage room, waaaah.

9. River Island Bright Pink Embellished Cliptop Purse - ASOS: £20.
I've been looking for a new purse for foreverrrr because my shoddy Primark purse is falling to pieces and well, this purse is neon pink and JEWELS, all the jewels.

10. Heavy Weight Chain Necklace - Missguided: £8.99.
I adore the look of statement necklaces with block colours and I was browsing the accessories section on Missguided and this bad boy caught my eye (MUCH STATEMENT NO?) and yes, very very very pretty necklace.

I hope you enjoyed this post! I'll should hopefully be putting up another blog post tomorrow so that should be fun. (Trying to make up for lost time I suppose, haha!)

I hope you guys have been good!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo

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Hi guys!
So as of late I haven't been in the best of moods so I decided, why not spend the small amount of money I've been saving for a few weeks and that's exactly what I did! Some of this stuff is definitely of an acquired taste and won't be everybody's cup of tea, but these are the types of things I like so, whatever.



1. Arctic Monkeys Tie Dye T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£1.99 shipping.
No, it's not an officially licensed Arctic Monkeys shirt, but I'd just been liking them so much lately and when I saw this on the 'tie dye t-shirt' search page on eBay I just had to grab it. It comes in many other colours aswell.

2. Pikachu Happy Face T-Shirt (link): £9.69 w/£2.95 shipping.
I saw this shirt and just fell in love, I was searching for logo/movie t-shirts and this one popped up and ugh JUST LOOK AT HIS LITTLE FACE. Adorable.

3. Doctor Who "University of Gallifrey: Time Lord Academy" T-Shirt (link): £9.99 w/£2 shipping.
Well, there's not much I can say about it besides LOOK HOW COOL IT IS?! I'm obsessed with Doctor Who, and I wish I would have find this last Summer before I went to the Doctor Who Experience in Cardiff.

4. Disney Princess Silly Face iPhone 4/4S Case (link): £3.99.
Unfortunately I had bought the last phone case on that listing but I have linked one closest to the price of the one I have ordered, the one linked is £5.98 w/£0.98 shipping.
Well, Disney Princesses are my favourite things ever. Disney all together is my favourite thing ever, I've been eyeing up this phone case for aaages but I couldn't bring myself to do it because I have a phone case addiction basically, haha, but I did it! 

5. In The Buff Palette by W7 Make Up (link): £6.48.
So, it seems like since Christmas, every British beauty blogger has been raving about this palette and about how it's a better dupe for one of the Naked palettes than the MUA palettes are, so I went into town yesterday looking in every shop that I know sells W7 products, and there was no In The Buff Palette to be seen, I looked on normal beauty sites and it was sold out on every site, so I just went ahead and spent a couple of pounds more for one from eBay, I'm so desperate to try it, hahah.

EDIT:
Oh my gosh, I completely forgotten to mention my new 'smart' shoes. I've been after some new shoes that I can wear to a potential job or job interview and wanted them to have a bit of my general fashion sense about them, kind of edgy (god I hate that word) and grungy (hate that word too. I'm cringing so hard right now.)



Different Class Patent Shoes by Schuh (link): Reduced from £40 to £9.99.
As they are reduced, I'm not sure if they're reducing them to clear or if once all the sizes go out of stock, they'll put them back up to £40, but I absolutely adore them. I like how they have the look of creepers and loafers rolled into one.

I've been so MIA lately and I apologise for that, I promise I will do at least 3 blog posts this week, and if I don't then feel free to tweet me and have a go at me, haha! (My twitters are @anxiouschapter and @racheloverboard by the way ;o)

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo
21:33 1 comments

Hey guys!
So this post is going to be my current beauty favourites. I feel like when I do my monthly favourites, I don't really mention many beauty products. I suppose this could also be interpreted as a 'what's in my make up bag' since these are the things I use pretty much everyday. I actually got to use my DSLR this time round so yey for high quality pictures!


MAC Lipstick in 'Candy Yum Yum'
I absolutely adore this lipstick! It's pretty hard to wear sometimes though. It's such a vibrant pink, practically neon, my dad reckons it would be 'Cyndi Lauper's lipstick of choice', he reckons I look very 80's wearing it, hahaha.

W7 Brow Bar
This is my favourite eyebrow kit, the kit itself is so versatile, all of the shades work perfectly as eyeshadows aswell as brow powders. I use the dark dark brown one now that my hair is black. It comes with a little brush but I threw that away because I didn't like it. The powder stays on your eyebrows all day with or without eyebrow gel.


Burt's Bees Beeswax Lip Balm
This is maybe the best lip balm I've ever tried, even beats Carmex (sorry Carmex!), it's very minty and you can feel it when it's moisturising your lips as it tingles, haha. I'll never use another lip balm again.

MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Laquer in 'Kooky'
The MUA Luxe Lip Laquers could be considered an exact dupe for the Lime Crime Velvetines, similar pigmentation and very similar shades. Kooky is a dark purple shade, pretty wearable if you want a lipstick that's a bit 'out there', very dark though and extremely matte, so matte that you can just feel the skin on your lips starting to flake, so I usually pair this with my Collection Little Mix lipstick in 'Perrie' and it goes perfectly and stops my lips from cracking.


Seventeen Phwoarrr Paint Concealer
My favourite concealer ever, perfect for under the eyes and because it is a thick, heavy duty cream concealer (similar to that of MAC Studio Finish concealer), it hides blemishes super well, I've done a full review on this product here.

Seventeen Miracle Matte Loose Powder
I have very dry skin as it is so rarely use powder, but if I ever do choose to wear powder, I will always go for this one. I don't know what it is about it, it applies so seamlessly and it doesn't look powdery on the skin.


Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation in 'Light Porcelain'
I absolutely adore this foundation, it is a radient foundation so not one for the oily skinned. I love it purely because most drug store brands will have their lightest shade which is usually 'Ivory' and it's always just too dark for me still (I have like Snow White pale skin, it's ridiculous) but this is a shade lighter than Ivory and it matches perfectly (get the pun?)

Nivea Daily Essentials Rich Moisturising Day Cream for Dry & Sensitive Skin
This is the moisturiser I wear underneath make up, so I need a fairly light moisturiser and this does the job perfectly, it definitely does a good job of keeping my face moisturised for a fair few hours, if I'm not wearing make up, I'll usually opt for a night cream all over my face (yes, that's how dry my skin is). I also did a review of this too (here)


Real Techniques Core Collection
I absolutely love every brush in the collection but these two brushes stood out the most for me (left - contour brush. right - buffing brush.) The contour brush gets right into the hollows of the cheekbones to create a precise line and is perfect for blending, I also use this for blusher and highlighter and sometimes my powder too if I'm feeling lazy. The buffing brush creates the look of pretty much flawless looking skin and applies liquid foundation especially well, it's so easy to blend with and it's an all round great brush!


Sleek I-Divine Vintage Romance Palette
This is such a perfect palette, you can create really natural looks with it and also dark, smokey looks, it's a pretty versatile palette although it does only have one matte shade (top far right copper shade), but never the less, I've been at least two shades on my eyes every day. See my full review of this palette here.


Simple Spotless Skin Quick Fix Cleansing Wipes
Yes, yes I know. 'Rachel, using facial wipes is bad for your skin, ermahgerd that's so lazy you don't even properly cleanse your face ew gross ermahgerd'. I like using cleansing wipes to get the base of my make up off so foundation, concealer and eye make up, I'll then go in with a proper cleanser and get all the remaining muck off my face. Plus, I've noticed a difference in my skin when using this, it really is helping with vanishing and preventing spots, these wipes are great!


Well, I hope you enjoyed that and please, embrace the high quality pictures, hahaha.
Tell me below what your current beauty favourites are!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo
10:39 11 comments
Hey guys!
So I've been admiring this palette for so long, the colours are so pretty and very wearable. I usually wouldn't even wear purple's but because they're pretty dark and glittery, I think it'd be easy to incorporate them into a smokey eye. I ended up buying this palette with my Christmas money as I just couldn't resist it any longer. Also, apologies for the not very great image quality (stupid iPhone.)

RRP: £7.99 from here and here.
As you can probably tell, all of the eyeshadows are shimmery except the top right colour 'Propose in Prague', which a matte light brown colour, perfect for contouring the eye socket.
It comes with a double ended sponge tip applicator, which I've actually found a use for lately, when my eyeshadow brushes are still a bit damp from cleaning them, sponge tip applicators work perfectly for packing the colour onto the lid, not brilliant for blending though.
The palette comes in the gorgeous (not very practical) matte black plastic casing which gets dirty after one use of the palette. -.-  One thing that is brilliant about the packaging, the mahoosive mirror that comes with it. The mirror is the same size as the bottom half of the palette, so it's perfect for a weekend away and all you'd need is this palette for your eyes and mirror.

(L to R) Pretty in Paris, Meet in Madrid, Court in Cannes, Lust in LA, Romance in Rome, Propose in Prague, A Vow in Venice, Marry in Monte Carlo, Honeymoon in Hollywood, Bliss in Barcelona, Forever in Florence and Love in London.

COME ON, CUTEST EYESHADOW NAMES EVER, RIGHT?

Obviously as this is a Sleek palette, it's highly pigmented and is so worth the £7.99. The eyeshadows are so creamy, but not in a 'ew these a so clumpy and just fall out' way, it's feels like putting on a cream eyeshadow but when it's on your eyes it looks like a powder eyeshadow. The colours are practically opaque after one swipe too.

I absolutely adore this palette and I will definitely be buying more Sleek palettes in the future. I think my next investment will be the Sleek Face Form Kit.

Tell me what Sleek products you own and what your favourite one is!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo


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1. GREED: What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive item?
My most inexpensive beauty item is probably this gorgeous pink lipstick I bought from Savers for 75p. It's unbranded but it's so pigmented and moisturising. My most expensive is probably my Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation. (I'm not usually one for splashing out on high end beauty products)

2. WRATH: What beauty products do you have a love/hate relationship with?
I'd actually go with the Collection Lasting Perfection concealer, oooh controversial. Well when I have a break out, I find that that concealer just doesn't do that and kind of makes my spots really hurt. I might have an allergic reaction, I don't know. But other times, I absolutely adore that c0ncealer.

3. GLUTTONY: What are your most delicious beauty products?
My most delicious beauty products? Well, I'm going to assume that means scents and I'm gonna go with my Sugar Crush body wash and Sugar Crush body scrub. I'll just repurchase and repurchase them products. If Soap & Glory ever discontinue them I may just cry. Also, I really like the scent of my Bourjois Healthy Mix Gel Foundation, it just doesn't smell like normal foundations. It's so nice.

4. SLOTH: What beauty product do you neglect due to laziness?
So, I'm actually going to say eyeliner. It's rare that I wear eyeliner anyway, it's just not a part of my daily make up routine but even when I do want to wear eyeliner I just go 'lol naaaah'. From the ages of 12-14 eyeliner is all I wore (but that could be due to my baby goth phase hahaha.)

5. PRIDE: What beauty product gives you the most self confidence?
I'd probably say my Phwoarr Paint concealer by Seventeen, it just hides everything, hahah. Also, my Falsies mascara by Maybelline, one of the only things I genuinely like about myself are my eyes and eyelashes (I have super long eyelashes) so loads of mascara just makes me feel confident.

6. LUST: What attributes do you find most attractive about the opposite sex?
Eyes, hair and personality. 

7. ENVY: What items would you most like to receive as a gift?
I'd say, either the Soap & Glory Loved & Glossed gift set or the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette. These are two things that have been on my list of things to buy for so long but I just never have the money. :-(

I hope you enjoyed that tag! I tag all of you reading this right now.
I had super bad writer's block today also, I didn't have access to a camera so was unable to do a review. :-(

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo


21:48 No comments
Hi guys!
So it would seem I've become quite the shopping addict. Went on a bit of a spree on the ELF website (I say spree, I only spent £15 for the pure fact I could get the 100 piece eyeshadow palette for free)

I just thought I'd share with you the things you can be expecting a review of next week onwards. So I suppose this is a online haul of things that are yet to be delivered.

1. 100pc Eyeshadow Palette. - ELF Cosmetics: Free when you spend £15+ or £15 by itself.
2. Nail Polish set in 'Glam Bam' - ELF Cosmetics: £4.
3. 32pc Festive Eyeshadow Palette in 'Cool' - ELF Cosmetics: £6.
4. Jumbo Eyeshadow Sticks in '(left) Little Miss Thing and (right) Turkish Coffee' - ELF Cosmetics: £2.50 each.

I'm really looking forward to these arriving and being able to try out some products from a brand that I'd never tried before.

LIFE UPDATEEEE:
So, there's been a pretty drastic change in my life as of yesterday. My mum and dad had decided to pull me out of college and return next September. College was just becoming such a struggle as my anxiety and panic disorder just isn't getting better and I was really struggling to keep up with the work as I was rarely able to get into college. I now have a year to get my life on track, get a job and find a hobby. Although as sad as it may sound I think blogging has become a new hobby, it's one of the only things I really enjoy and take pride in doing (yey!)
So as I'm not at college any more, you may be seeing more posts from me through this next year. (Think of that what you will, haha!) How are you guys doing? It'd be great to hear from you!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo
21:56 4 comments
Oh no, not another concealer review! Yes, another concealer review, I'm sorryyyyy!
Well I went into Boots today and bought a couple of bits and this baby just happened to fall into my basket so I thought, why not review this and stick it on my blog for the whole world to see, so that's what I'm going to do.

This is a cream concealer available from Boots for £5.99, cute packaging and comes with a little mirror. I was a little sceptical at first, because I saw the words 'heavy duty' and normally you can't get a great heavy duty concealer for under £6, but I've found out you can. I'm not usually one to buy two different concealers to do two different things. I like my concealer to have multi-tasking capabilities, get rid of under eye nonsense and cover up blemishes. I just assumed since it said 'heavy duty' that it would cover up blemishes and golly, it does (it's also great at concealing under eye imperfections.) I'm one of those annoying people that raves about the Lasting Perfection concealer by Collection, purely because it's so good at covering up blemishes and under eye imperfections but as I'd run out of concealer I was kind of getting a bit bored of that concealer so since I'm always in the market for a new concealer I spotted this and was clearly pleasantly surprised. As it's a cream concealer it's great for oily skin and dry skin people. It has a consistency similar to MAC's Studio Fix concealer. It blends so well and it's just an overall incredible concealer for the price and I'd proudly say it's definitely my new favourite concealer.

The only thing I was genuinely disappointed with was the colour range. Fair and medium? Is that it? TWO SHADES? I suppose since this is such a good concealer I won't told that against it. (Although I do feel it would be a good idea for it to come out with more shades but hey that's just my opinion.)

This is the best drugstore concealer I've found so far and I'm very pleased with it.
Available to buy from here.

I bought a few things today when I went to Boots (e.g Nivea Daily Essentials Rich Moisturising Day Cream, The Falsies Black Drama by Maybelline and Miracle Matte Loose Powder by Seventeen) so expect some more reviews in the next couple of weeks.

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That's all for now,
Rachel. xo

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Hey!
So I have a review for you today. The kind people at W7 Makeup sent me this palette to try out and review for you, so let's goooo. (Please excuse the not very great quality photos too, mum's at work today so she ran off with the DSLR so you're just going to have to bare with me, haha.)


First impressions? I'm just going to point out right now, the packaging of this product is my favourite type of packaging, just because it's so simplistic. You can see a little bit of the concealers peaking through and then the rest is covered. Also white is personally my favourite colour when it comes to packaging, although probably not practical when you go to pick it up with foundation and eyeshadow all over your fingers. I also like that it comes with a double-ended concealer brush and a mirror. (Nice touch, W7.) This concealer retails from £2.50-£3.

(This is as bad as the pictures are going to get okay.)

 All of these concealers are rather yellow based which is a bit annoying as my skin tone is quite pink but I thought "if I can find a concealer pale enough it'll be great" and low and behold, I did. The first colour is the only fairly pink toned concealer in the palette so I mixed that with the second shade and my perfect shade is made. Another thing I love about cream concealer paletter, the freedom to mix the shades together to create your perfect shade. Remind me of mixing paints at school, haha.


The brush: Now, the brush that comes with this isn't my favourite but for the purpose of this review I've only tried this concealer with the brush it comes with. For me, the brush a little too small and it's hard to blend the product with this brush so when I've needed to blend I've been lightly patting it into the skin with my fingers.

So, let's get to the good bit. The product itself. This little package arrived at my door at 9.15 this morning and as soon as I saw it I ripped the packaging up just to try it out so it's been on my skin already for about 3 hours. One thing I'd like to point out from the start, these concealers feel very oily and greasy when they're on your skin, so if you have oily skin I would not recommend this palette to you. Now for all my fellow dry skin friends, this concealer may be the thing you've been missing from your make up bag. There is one thing about this concealer palette that I really don't like, it's not the best at hiding blemishes, when put over blemishes it just sits there and is very hard to blend, so the word 'camouflage' doesn't really spring to mind. This is a perfect under-eye concealer though, if you're like me and don't like all this 'light reflecting-shimmery-glittery-shiny' under-eye concealer malarky, you're probably going to appreciate this palette's existence. It works great under the eyes, for someone who's been getting 2 hours of sleep every night pretty much, with very large bags under their eyes, this has worked great to cover up those awful looking eye bags. I also have weird discolouration under my eyes and this works to even out my skin tone. Although the lasting time of this product is something to be desired, after only an hour and a half it appeared to be disappearing from under my eyes (of course, for the purpose of this review I didn't use any primers or powders therefore if you were to use them I'm sure it would last a few hours longer).

So a conclusion? This palette is great for under the eyes but doesn't live up to the 'camouflage' name it has as it's not great at covering up blemishes. Best for people with dryer skin as it's feels quite oily but overall a good concealer for the price!

It's available to buy from here, here or here.

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo
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Hi guys!
So this is another wishlist but first I'd like to do a quick life update section. So it's currently 1:38am here and I'm not able to sleep. Admittedly I haven't been able to get to sleep 'til about 6:30am, it's ridiculous. Like my brain is just filled with worry and anxiety constantly. I actually want to sleep and my eyes want to close but my brain's like 'lol no'. This has been going on for maybe 5 nights in a row now, my mum's put it down to my anxiety so I'm not sure how I feel about that. I went to Boots today and me and mum bought some natural sleeping tablets that claim they take effect within 30 minutes. Well, I took the tablet at 10pm and here I am, awake at 1:44am. I highly doubt I'll be in college tomorrow either which sucks because I was off last week and my attendance is just constantly going down and ugh. ANYWAY, wishlist time!

This isn't even going to be specific wishlist, it's going to have a bit of everything in there ok.


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I'm sorry this is a short post, I'm going to try and get some sleep now, night!
Rachel. xo

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Hey!
I really do apologise for the out of focus photos, my camera was almost about dead when I was taking these so I had to rush them, sorry!


This is my make up bag (okay, I say make up bag, it was on the back to school sale with the pencil cases in WHSmith for 75p, 75p for a Hello Kitty x Liberty product though. Bargain!)

So what actually is in my everyday make up bag?



Natural Collection lipstick from Boots in the shade 'Pink Mallow'.
Brow Bar Kit by W7 Makeup.
Double Wear Foundation by Estée Lauder in shade '1C1: Cool Bone'.
Undress Me Too eyeshadow palette by MUA (Make Up Academy.)
Great Lash Mascara by Maybelline.


Lasting Perfection Concealer by Collection 2000 in shade 'fair'.
Healthy Mix Serum Foundation by Bourjois Paris in shade '51'.
Undress Your Skin Shimmer Highlighter by MUA (Make Up Academy).
True Colour Lipstick by Sleek in shade 'Mulberry'.
Carmex Cherry flavour.
MUA Lipstick (not sure what the shade is but it's a shimmery pink colour.)
MUA One Direction Lipstick in shade 'I Want'.
Revlon Flair Perfume.

I also have a much larger make up which has a lot more in, but these are just the things I use the most. :-) Tell me below, what's your favourite thing in your make up bag?
That's all for now,
Rachel xo


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Hi!
I've realised that if I leave any more time to do this blog post it'll be the new year, so I might aswell get it done as soon as possible. These are just some favourites categories I've thought of on the spot, so here it goes!

Songs I've been loving this month:
Doing It Wrong - Anita Blay (Some Girls theme song, haha)
High Regard - The Story So Far.
Take Me - Major League.
Secret Valentine - We The Kings.
Still Waiting - Sum 41.
Berzerk - Eminem.

Movies I've been loving this month:
So for this section, I'm going to put them in categories as I watched so many good movies in October.
Horror: Psycho, Carrie, Human Centipede 2, Silent Hill: Revelation and Bride Of Chucky (I would quite happily say that the Child's Play/Chucky films are some of my favourites in general.)
Comedy: The Campaign, Pitch Perfect, Not Another Teen Movie (as a lover of cheesy 90's teen movies, this is one of my favourites in general aswell) and The Breakfast Club.
Drama: Trainspotting, This Is England and Cyberbully (I honestly don't think I've cried more at a film than I did because of Cyberbully.)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: (The first two choices are debatable as to whether they're really sci-fi or fantasy but because they're superhero movies, they're going in here ok.) Kick-Ass and Kick-Ass 2. Avengers Assemble, Star Wars: Return of The Jedi.

TV shows I've been loving this month:
Cake Boss and Cake Boss only. Last week was half term and I got through 3 and a half seasons of that beauty of a TV show. I don't know why I got so addicted, I just did.
Alright, I watched the whole second series of Some Girls aswell. I'm so upset that the second series has finished, I hope they make a third.

Video games I've been loving this month:
New Super Mario Bros - Nintendo DS.
Dead Rising 2 - Xbox 360.
Pokemon Emerald - Game Boy Advance. (Thank god for emulators, hey.)

Drinks I've been loving this month:
Cookie dough flavour Frijj milkshake, Pepsi Max and Pink Lemonade flavour Lucozade.

Food I've been loving this month:
Sweetcorn, hotdog, egg and ham pasta salad (it's delicious, I promise.)

Make up items I've been loving this month: There's not been an awful lot as I haven't had much money to be able to buy new items. Esteé Lauder Double Wear foundation, Rimmel Match Perfection foundation (I actually have to mix both of those foundations together to get a perfect shade. Long story short, woman at House of Fraser matched Double Wear a shade too dark for my skin but luckily I had my Rimmel Match Perfection lying around the house in a shade that was one lighter than my skin tone, lucky 'ey?) Great Lash Mascara by Maybelline, Undress Me Too Palette by MUA and MUA One Direction lipstick in the shade I Want.

Skincare products I've been loving this month: Not sure if you can count some of these as skin care but I'm going to anyway - Candy Swirl body scrub by Baylis & Harding, Flake Away by Soap and Glory and Garnier Moisture Match Goodbye Dry, Garnier Soft and Complete Cleansing Wipes.

Life favourites: Well I can't really say anything interesting has happened in October besides finding out I may be going down to Essex for a few days to visit my best friend, Joe for New Years.

Am I looking forward to next month? I don't know, depends if anything decent is happening in November, haha!



So that's been mine October favourites, I really hoped you enjoyed reading it and I might make a habit of it (yey!)

So that's all for now,
Rachel xo
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