Rimmel Scandaleyes Shadow Stick - Bulletproof Beige

Hi Guys,

My computer hates me... I spent ages editing the photos for this post and then when I quit Photoshop, none of my photos had saved! And so I wanted to put the originals in a folder to edit later, but my computer wouldn't let me rename the folder! And I couldn't copy and paste, couldn't move anything to my trash!!! But I did the classic fix, turn it off and on again... And all my photos were there on my desktop all of a sudden! 

Anyway, here is something a bit different, I'm a bit nervous actually, taking these pictures was so hard so I hope everything came out okay!

 Recently Superdrug had a free gift with purchase (or 3 for 2 - I can't remember!) offer on Rimmel products and I got this eyeshadow pencil. I bought it with the Scandaleyes black kohl pencil and one of the Apocalips lip lacquers, both of which I love, Rimmel have some great products out right now.

Bulletproof Beige is a jumbo eyeshadow stick. It is a creamy champagne/gold colour that would flatter most skin tones. 

Onto the photos, then I'll get into more detail!

Packaging

The pencil tip

Swatch on the inside of my arm

One coat over a primer, with pencil eyeliner and mascara

I am a huge fan of the application of these. I just drew some on my eyelid and smudged it with my finger, perfect! 

I liked how this looked on me, but I didn't think it showed up enough against my skin to wear on its own, so I decided to use it as a base for the other eyeshadows I wanted to wear. I used a couple of the shades from the MUA Undressed palette, the dark taupe shimmer for my crease and the peachy matte for the inner corners, then I blended it all.

In case you were wondering, the mascara I used was the MUA curling one that comes in the silver tube. This was a very half hearted application though because the eyeshadow pencil made my lashes short. I'm really impressed with the mascara in general, my lashes are VERY short and for £2 the mascara is brilliant at lengthening and curling them!

Here's what my eyes looked like with this as a base, obviously I lost a lot of the colour in the photo, this was much smokier looking in real life.

Anyway, I was really impressed with this as a base, my eyeshadow didn't budge all day until I look it off this evening! It looked really nice under the colours that I used and I'm generally really happy with the product! No settling into the creases, nothing. It is a subtle colour that I think would look great no matter what eye colour you have, and I can't wait to wear it in the summer when I have a tan!

Have you tried any of these shadow sticks yet? I think I'm going to get a couple more, the bronze one and the black are calling my name! I can imagine the black one would be a great base for darker colours for a night time look.

The Rimmel Scandaleyes Shadow Sticks retail for £5.99 and I highly recommend checking them out!

NOTW(E) - Peacock Gradient

Hi Everyone,

I hope you all had a lovely weekend! I mentioned on Friday that I was going to visit a friend, and I had a lot of fun there. A couple of friends were celebrating their birthdays and there was a fancy dress theme: Ibiza Zoo Project. If you haven't heard of Zoo Project, it's a club night in Ibiza that involves animal fancy dress which is generally just face and body paint! 

Now face painting, makeup, etc are not my thing. I can do nails, but anything involving my face is really not my forte! Luckily, one of my mummy friends is a professional makeup artist and she jumped at the chance to do my makeup. We settled on peacock makeup and had a trial on Friday. Then Saturday morning she did the real thing, sealed it with fixing spray and off I went!

But I couldn't NOT do my nails to match! I wanted to try another gradient, so I chose Rimmel Sky High, which is a bright turquoise colour, and Models Own Gold Rush, which is a gold foil with a glass fleck appearance. I used my normal method (the Nailasaurus method) and I was really happy with the result! Cleanup was a nightmare for this, it took me about two hours to clean up and I still wasn't happy with it, but it was 2:30am and I needed sleep before going out!

One of my followers on Instagram suggested putting Vaseline on my fingers before doing my gradient to minimise how much polish goes onto my fingers. She also suggested taping them beforehand. Has anybody else used these methods? Do they work?

Here it is! After I did the gradient I had to dab on a bit of extra gold because the two polishes I used weren't equal in terms of coverage. I also put on two very thick layers of Seche Vite to even out the texture. Please mind the messy cuticles!

Beautiful gradient!

Just in case you were wondering, here's what my makeup looked like all finished! Kellie did an amazing job! After my trial I got complimented in Superdrug by the sales assistant, and then on Saturday a lady stopped and told me how nice it looked! A lot of people stared though, I guess it's not every day they see a girl walking around with a huge peacock feather drawn on her face!

Me! Look how well my nails match!

If you're thinking that my outfit looks familiar, that's the playsuit I featured in my £100 ASOS Blogger Challenge post. I have a lot of time for ASOS, and this playsuit only cost £18, how could I turn it down?!

I hope you liked my latest gradient. They're making me so happy at the moment, all I can think of is what colours I can put together next!

Don't forget about my giveaway! If you haven't entered already, you can do so here. You still have 18 days to enter, by which time I think the Olympics will be finished (I have no idea...!) but I want to make sure people have enough time to enter!

See you back here tomorrow, when it'll be time for my second edition of Five Favourites! 

Models Own Blooming Pink

Hey everyone, 

Today I have one of the Models Own SS12 Kaleidescope collection to show you. I was in Boots the other day buying a few polishes and when I got to the till the cashier told me they were part of the 3 for 2 offer so I could get another free. I ran to the stand and quickly picked one in a rush because I knew I was holding up the queue. There were a few I wanted but this one was in my eye line. When I got home I realised it was actually one of the new shades!

Blooming Pink is a bright pink polish with a magenta shimmer. The pink is actually really red leaning so the colour is really summery! I'm not sold on the name... Blooming Pink suggests more of a light spring pink to me and this colour has summer written all over it!

The application for this was okay, nothing to rave about. I had to use three coats because two didn't give me as much pigmentation as I wanted but once it was on, I loved it! 

The photos below show three coats of Blooming Pink with one coat of Nº7 Stay Perfect Fast Dry top coat. 

Inside in the natural light

Click "Read More" to see the rest of my photos and a comparison to a couple of other polishes!

Haul Time!

Hi guys,

Today I have a haul post for you! I did have some pictures ready for a post but once I got them onto the computer my polish looked all dented! 

These are the polishes I've acquired in the last few days. The Models Own ones I bought on Monday and the rest were bought today. The Rimmel Rapid Ruby is a back up for the one I have now which has gone a bit gloopy! I think I'll use the old one for stamping now and the new one for polishing, it's my favourite (and still only) red! 

The A England polishes came as a surprising bit of nail mail after my shopping trip. I ordered them when I was on holiday in the 30% off sale to celebrate Adina's cat Tristam's birthday and only got the shipping notice yesterday!

You might notice I have stickers on top of some of the bottles, this is so I know what I've swatched. It makes life SO much easier when I look in my nail polish box to find something to post about!

Click "Read More" to see close up photos of these polishes by brand!

Easter Egg Nails

Happy Easter Everyone!

Sorry I'm posting so late today, I've been so busy!

I felt like doing some nail art so I've got a really pretty Easter manicure to show you that I did earlier. I've seen so many Easter egg manicures online recently and it inspired me to try and recreate them! I actually did this last night but it got messed up and dented overnight while I was sleeping so I had to redo it!

The polishes I used from thumb to little finger were:

Left hand: Essie Absolutely Shore, MUA Shade 9 blue, Essie Navigate Her, 17 Supreme Shine Simply Pink, NYC Colors Lexington Yellow.

Right hand: Rimmel Lycra Pro Aqua Cool, Essie Tour de Finance, Oh My GOSH Baby Blue, Rimmel Lycra Pro Peppermint, BeautyUK Smokey Lilac.

I painted each nail with my chosen colour (ten in total) and then took a ziploc bag and dropped one drop of the first nail polish onto it. Because I don't have a dotting tool I used the end of a biro pen to pick up a bit of polish and dot it onto all of the nails that didn't have that colour painted on them. I repeated this for every colour until I had done all ten, then added a layer of Seche Vite and this is what I ended up with, hope you like it!

The picture of my left hand was taken in the shade and my right hand in more direct sunlight. The sunlight picture was the only one that showed a difference between the baby blue and peppermint polishes on my middle and ring finger!

Left Hand

Right Hand

Hope you like my nail art! Enjoy the rest of your bank holiday weekend!

Rimmel - Pulsating

Hey, 

Today I have a Rimmel polish to show you all. It's part of their 60 Second range. Pulsating is a bright blue leaning pink polish, and it's the kind of bright where it looks like it's glowing. 

Inside in the natural light

I bought this polish online for a franken I was planning for my Mum for Mothers' Day. The colour didn't look as bright online so I bought it knowing that my Mum usually loves this colour for nail polish. 

Honestly, I'm a bit gutted I didn't just buy it for myself! The colour is so pretty and perfect for summer, and spring... And even now when it's cloudy and you need a bit of cheering up! 

In the swatches below I'm wearing 2 coats of pulsating with no top coat, this polish is just so glossy!

Outside

Flash

Look at that glossy finish!

This polish can be found in your local Boots or Superdrug or online for around £3.50.