Rachel Sarah XO

          RRP: £15.50 and can be bought here

So I'm going to start off by saying, there won't be any photos in this post as my camera is broken and I feel because it's a only a review of a moisturiser, the majority of moisturisers are the same in colour and texture so (white & a cream texture).

I'm going to start off by saying, this is one of the best day creams I've tried. It really is a rich moisturiser. For someone who might have oily skin, this would be perfect as a light night cream also.
I went nearly a whole 2 months without moisturising because I just couldn't find a good moisturiser, my skin was literally flaking off, it was so dry. (Obviously I was exfoliating twice a week so that kind of helped but after exfoliating, my skin was just so dry.) Then this great little moisturiser came into my life. It does what it says on the tin, it moisturises, which is more than I can say for some moisturisers I've tried in the past. It doesn't have an oily consistency, meaning it's good for people with combination oily/dry skin.
It contains natural almond oil and hydra IQ. It's always good to have natural ingredients in skincare.
There is only one thing that miffs me off about it, it's usually around £5-£7 in Boots unless it's on offer and you end up using a lot of this stuff and as it's sort of in the mid-range section for skincare, I'd expect a bit more product, but hey ho, I can get over that when Boots has such great offers on it all the time.

I'm just so pleased with this day cream and I've already bought another 2 tubes of this stuff.
Sorry it was such a short review, there wasn't really a lot I could say about it except it's great, haha.

That's for now,
Rachel. xo

Pinky Paradise is the largest circle lens online store, they stock over 800 styles of circle lenses.

You may be thinking to yourself, what on earth are circle lenses? Well let me tell you.
Circle lenses are cosmetic contact lenses, also known as 'big eye contact lens'. It's most popular in Japan, South Korea and China. Circle lenses are used to change your iris colour, make your eyes look larger or even change the shape of your pupil. Normally circle lenses range in diameter, but the most common sizes are 14-15mm. Circle lenses have been made popular by celebrities like Lady Gaga, Girl Generation, Hyuna and 4 Minute. They're popular with those that cosplay and are a favourite towards Halloween time.


What's the different between coloured contacts and circle lenses?
Circle lenses form a circle around the iris to make the eyes appear bigger. Coloured contacts form a coloured ring that is the same size as the natural iris.
Are they legit lenses?
Yes, all of the lenses on the website have officially been approved by GEO Anti-Fake system. When you receive your lenses, they will come with a hidden 20 digit code to check authenticity.

The Website:

The website itself is very kawaii looking. Pink background, floral patterns around the page title.
The navigation is also very useful, you can search by types of lens, size, effect, colour which is always helpful.
They clearly state that they are officially approved by GEO.
You're able to pay by Paypal and they ship to most countries. The shipping cost to the UK is $5 (which is only £3.09!)
Offers: Free express shipping when you spend over $130, free cute animal lens case with every pair of lenses bought, secure Paypal payment.

The service I've received from this company so far has been great and they're very helpful.
I recommend Pinky Paradise highly, also, who doesn't love cute contact lenses?

If you use the coupon code 'theanxiouschapter' upon purchasing, you will receive a free animal contact lens case AND a free mystery gift!

That's all for now,
Rachel. xo

Today I'm going to be reviewing the Collection lipstick in 'Perrie' from the Little Mix collection. It retails for £2.99 and is available in Superdrug.
Perrie Edwards is known for her lavendar hair and her great lipstick colours. Purple being one her more statement lipstick choices.
You probably can't tell in the picture as it looks really pink (I took about 25 pictures of the lipstick and I don't know if it was due to the lighting but it just kept coming up pink. You can google the lipstick though and there's pictures that are closer to the actual colour.) This is a true pinky lavendar colour. You may look at it and think 'oh god how can I pull off lavendar lipstick?!', it's completely wearable due to the pink tones in the lipstick. It's not a super daring lipstick but if you're one for nudes and light pinks, you may be out of your comfort zone wearing this lipstick.

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.

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.


 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

Hello again,
2nd blog in a day, I'm feeling motivated, haha. I picked up this lipstick last week, the same time I bought my Undress Me Too palette (see review here). So, it takes me quite a while to fall in love with a lipstick, but this had me from the moment I swatched it in store. Might I add, I'm not really a fan of One Direction, it wasn't until I opened the lipstick up at home that I realised it had '1D' engraved into the top of the lipstick, but that didn't make me love it any less.


As you can see, the packaging is lovely and resembles somewhat of a MAC lipstick (obviously if the bottom of it wasn't red.) On the top half of it, the word 'Kiss' is written in silver and on the bottom, 'you' is written in black. Good use of contrast, well done MUA. The kisses and star is a cute addition to it also.


Do ignore how dirty the packaging has got, I've been wearing this everyday this week. So, the colour is the most perfect orange toned red, it also has a tiny bit of a gold shimmer when under light. It's not as bright as it looks in the packaging but it's definitely buildable, it's not drying on the lips at all but it also doesn't slide off during the day. This lipstick has lasted me 5 hours at the most and then I'd have to top up my lipstick, which isn't too bad since this lipstick cost me £3. It definitely has the potential to be as good as a higher end lipstick, but take with that what you will, that's just my opinion.

It's highly pigmented which is expected as it's an MUA lipstick, they usually are. It's such a lovely orange toned red and could be compared closely to Lady Danger by MAC, if you like the colour of Lady Danger but would prefer it to have a bit of shimmer to it, this is the lipstick for you.

This lipstick comes in a collection of 4 others and are available from Superdrug for £3 each, it's definitely worth trying.

So to conclude this blog post, MUA have got a winner here and this will be something I will repurchase about 3 or 4 times next week as the entire One Direction collection is limited edition sadly enough and they should maybe consider releasing a lipstick like this in their normal range. *hint hint*

Thanks so much for reading, that's all for now.
Rachel. xo