Rachel Sarah XO

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.

Hi guys!
Alright, I swore I wouldn't do any Christmas related posts until December, but then I realised that if you're wanting to buy things online waiting 'til the last minute isn't going to do much besides receiving late Christmas presents, haha!

Stockings are the place to put all the small, fairly cheap, kitsch little presents in. In my household, anything under £5-£10 usually goes straight in the stockings. So £10 per item will be the price limit on this post but obviously your budget is up to you.

Stocking filler ideas.

• Notebooks (I don't know what it is, but lots of girls just hoard notebooks, I know I definitely do.)
• Mugs. (Novelty ones though, obviously.)
• Calendar.
• Candles.
• DVD box sets. (You can actually get quite good box sets for under £10 now.)
• Chocolate. (Obviously.)
• Beauty & Fragrance gift sets.
• Tech accessories. (We all like to make our gadgets look pretty.)
• Perfume.

I'm going to apologise for the awful layout now because I'm currently typing this up from my phone as I have no motivation to go downstairs and get my laptop charger, haha!

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

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.