Lipstick at last!

So the reason my blogs called 'lipstick cult' is because of my obsession with lipsticks and so far I haven't even done a post about any! Lipstick are great when your feeling glum or just can't be bothered doing your make up, you can just slick a bit of lipstick on and voila, you look and feel better! It can dress up a casual outfit and add a bit of pop to any outfit. So I thought it was about time to show you about some of my favourite lip products.

My favourites by far are my Art Deco lipsticks. I love the creamy texture of them and always feel like they are packing moisture into my lips. They glide on so easily and you don't need to put a lot on to get good coverage, which means they last me even longer! I hate lipsticks that make your lips look dry and flakey, no one likes flakey lips! They are all testers that I have as I get them through the salon I work at, so unfortunately I can't show you the retail casing.

The most used are my dita von teese and 645. I'm always carrying them round with me. They're handy when I'm feeling like I look a bit bedraggled At work and Can just quickly slick some on to spruce my self up! I don't have to top them up really either so they are constantly in my bag! 

Closely in second are my topshop lipsticks, they have a great range of colour, which I need to stock up on! I do find I go through these a lot quicker than my other lipsticks as the lipstick it self is smaller. They are only high street products so I'm sure i can get over that, they are reasonably priced and rival the likes of mac as they are highly pigmented so there's no wishy washy colour. Everyone hates a great colour lipstick to find out you have to layer it on to get a good coverage! The good thing with these is if your wanting more of an intense colour you can build it up without it looking caked. Beguiled is up there with my favourites, I love the gothic glamour look and this delivers a lovely dark rich red. It doesn't dry my lips out, but I do find if I have slightly dry lips it does accentuate the dryness abit, but I just exfoliate and balm up and they look fine. 

I read about the apocalips lips products on another blog when they first came out and I had to try them. I don't think I'm far off the whole collection as I went a bit mental when I found out most places had sold out of them. To be honest I don't use these as much as I did when I first got them as I prefer my lipsticks. They are great though a fuse between a lipstick and a gloss was a great idea, I'm just not that much of a fan of gloss. The colour delivers perfectly, a high impact colour that doesn't need layers apon layers and a shiny finish is great if your looking for that little bit more out of your lipstick. I found they lasted ok, I did need to touch up a lot more than I would my lipsticks, but they're so easy and quick to apply as you don't need a lot, I don't mind. I pretty much used all the colours apart from 'galaxy' and 'nude eclipse'. Galaxy is just a bit to dark and vampy for me and nude eclipse made me look like a dead corpse according to my best friend! So that was never going to happen! 

Have you tried any of these products?

What's your favourite lip product? 

Xxx

Changed my hair again!

Hello all! Haven't posted in a while and as I don't have any new things worth writing about I thought I would show you my new hair! Yes it really is that bright! 

It took so many attempts to get it like this, I will never die my hair black again! Way to hard to budge it! 

Sorry about the bad quality photos I wasn't planning on doing a post! 

I first tried this b4 colour, I've used it loads of times before but never when I've had black hair, it basically shrinks the hair colour molecules and they just wash out when you rinse it out after processing. So say you dyed it brown and you were blonde and you wanted it back blonde again then this supposedly does that for you. I can't say it worked like that for me other times I've used it as I have dyed it that many times it just goes a bit ginger but this time that was my plan!

It didnt really do much to the colour and just looked a dark brown with a hint of copper but I whacked the orange colour dye on anyway. Well what a waste of £16 because it didnt do anything!

So the next day I asked the hairdresser I work with if she had any ideas, so we bleached bathed it, which is just washing your hair with shampoo and bleach powder. Again didnt do anything. We then used a professional hair stripping kit which surprise surprise didnt do anything again! I was getting to the end of my tether by this point and just said slap some bleach on, which I would never normally do! But alas! It worked, it got light enough to put the professional colour on, after a day and a half of trying to get it this colour it finally worked! 

Lesson of the day don't permanently dye your hair black, it may seem like a good idea at the time, you will regret it later down the line. 

mega plush mascara

Hey all! So I know this has been out a while but I finally got persuaded to buy it after being intrigued by the adverts.

I've never really used maybeline mascaras much, I've tried various ones and always found my current mascara cheaper and better, but I thought I'll give it a whirl! 

This mascara uses a new gel formula which is ment to keep your eyelashes soft and flexible while building non clumped volumous lashes. 

It also has a flexor brush which is ment for easy application, but to be honest I found it kind awkward at first. I felt I couldn't get enough pull from the roots, but after the first coat I got used to it. It's great if you layer up your mascara like me, as it doesn't clump or leave flakey bits. My lashes do fell more flexible and soft so its doing its job! Overall I think it's a good high street product for under £8 and I will definitely keep using it, and it may have just inspired me to try more maybeline products.

Please excuse the smudge of mascara under my eye I didn't realise! 

What's your favourite mascara and have you tried this mascara? 

Xxx

Late night shopping

Hello all! So I don't sleep very well sometimes and that means one thing in my eyes...late night Internet shopping! I had a bit of a splurge the other night, which luckily didn't cost me too much as I had some left over money from my holiday, so its not that bad right?
I'm always looking for some cheap bargains, so I'm always scanning various websites, as some do the same items for cheaper. This is what I ended up with.(some of the pictures are off the websites as I couldn't get a good picture of some of the items)

Missguided.com
I loved this nude body when I saw it, I have one from American apparel in black, but this was at a fraction of the price. When I got unfortunately, I can see why...it's so see through and I'm struggling to find a stick on bra that you can't see through it. And I will definitely not be going bra less! No one wants to see that. My search will go on though. Any ideas on what to team with to get a less see through effect?

Missguided.com
I then stumbled across this, i thought it would look great with my new Jeffrey Campbell's, which were in the Harvey Nichols sale at the bargain price of £45! I have so many little black dresses, another one wont hurt right? I like the mesh cut out neck as it adds a little something to a plain dress, unfortunately agaiinn as I'm quite tall and a slight ghetto booty it's a bit of a bum skimmer! So either i lose the ghetto booty or find a way to wear it without the butt cheeks hanging out all over the place! I'm thinking of wearing it with a midi skirt to class it up a bit.





eBay.com- seller- iboutique93

Again not my pictures but I will be updating when the necklaces arrive, the problem with buying from china cheap as chips, but takes a year to receive them!

I've brought a few things from this seller in the past as they sell tons of jewellery from topshop, forever21 etc, so they say. As long as it looks nice and it cheap I'm not too bothered where its from. I only really own gold jewellery so some more had to be Added to the collection when I saw these. I'm quite into big necklaces round the neck now so a plain gold one seemed perfect, and the orange one...I just like orange at the minute!

eBay.com
Please excuse the cheesy photo! My brother does photography so we had a mess around. Anyhow,
I've seen this top on loads of other blogs and I love how easy it goes with everything, from casual to going out, I did want an oversized one but its quite fitted on me so I'm going to get a bigger one as I think it looks better oversized and slouchy.

eBay.com

I am actually in love with these boots again from eBay for £20. I just love eBay, it isn't just people's old stuff! The cut out detail makes them ideal for year round shoe wear and something a bit different, well ive seen similar ones since buying them, in topshop etc, but mine were £20 so blah! These will take me through summer into autumn aswell. teamed with a skirt, if we ever get a summer, if not tights aswell! They're so versatile I can pretty much wear them with skinny jeans leggings, skirts, shorts. They're also super comfy. Did I mention I love them?

I also had a bit of a haul in Liverpool at the weekend so that post will be up soon.

Anyone found any new online stores lately?

Don't forget to follow me on bloglovin'

Xxx

Glossybox!

Sooo I've just subscribed to my first glossybox, I've seen them around ages ago but they kept slipping my mind!

So I'm sat watching Mumford & sons on tv at Glastonbury getting depressed I'm not there, and thought I'd cheer myself up and get one, I don't know if its helped the dull ache of wanting to be at Glasto, but its cheered me up a bit! 

Has anyone got a glossy box? What's the best product you've got from it? 

Eyelash extentions

Now most people must of heard of eyelash extensions, they come under many brand names the first being Hollywood lashes, then companies followed like nouveau, lash perfect and the list can go on.

They are great for people with short straight lashes that want to have long thick curled lashes, but also great for people that have long lashes already that are looking for more of a glamorous look that you can't get from a tint and a perm. The lash technician should tailor make the lash look to you personally, using your own lashes and your desired look as a template. The lashes there selves come in many different lengths, curls and thicknesses. Depending on the strength of your natural lashes you can go as thick and long as you want! 

The lash extensions are literally like your natural lash, so they are adhered to an individual natural lash which gives them their natural look unlike individual lash clusters (bulbed lashes).

The only downfall to lash extensions is they need infilling. Due to the natural eyelash growth they grow out taking the extension out with it. So every 2-3 weeks you will need to go back to the salon to get them infilled to keep up to the glamorous amazing looking!

Now what everyone wants to see a few pictures of clients I've done myself!

    

  

Duty free haul

So I haven't blogged for ages now, I was so busy running up to my holiday that I just couldn't find time to write any!! 

I went to Tunisia for the second time with my boyfriend and once again it was amazing!! 

We went to a place called port el kantaoui and stayed at the royal kenz hotel and this was our lovely view! 

Anyway down to the business. So everyone loves duty free wether its just having a look round or having a bit of a splurge, now duty free doesn't save you as much as it used to but I still saved about £20 with the things I brought.

Ive never tried any benefit products before and have always wanted to so I thought this was the perfect time to try it out! 

So I was browsing around looking at things I've seen on other blogs but it was all stuff I thought I'll never use, then I came across the eye brightening stuff and my eyes lit up! 

So I picked up the eye bright pencil first. It's a pale pink colour that they advise you to apply in the inner and outer corner of your eyes, but I just apply in light strokes to the bottom of my eye and the inner corner and blend around the eye area, its also really good for highlighting so i applied a bit on my brow bone aswell, it does what it says on the 'tin' basically, it instantly brightens your eye area getting rid of the dark circles i hate so much! Do be careful though and apply it lightly and if you need more use more, as a little goes along way and you don't want to look like you have panda eyes!

I then found boi-ing industrial strength concealer. My new favourite thing ever! You can use this over the eye bright pencil or by it self, as it says its industrial strength so again a little goes along way, which Is one reason why I love it, as its small and I was worried that I wasn't going to get my money worth, but I can see it lasting ages. I used a brush with this as my nails are long at the moment so I can't blend round the inner corner of my eyes with my fingers yet. The brush works fine though and I kind of prefer using a brush to be honest. It covers perfectly and stayed put on my holiday even when I was in and out of the pool so much. Defiantly the perfect holiday essential for me.

Now I thought I was done after that but I started looking at eyebrow things, as I've got quite sparse eyebrows I've used lots of different eyebrow products and companies, powders, pencils, all sorts! I was playing around with the testers, trying to find something slightly waterproof. I came across the instant brow pencil. Testing it on my hand and my way of testing if it was waterproof was licking my finger and rubbing over it, seemed to work and it didn't look like it was going to budge. So the first day  of the holiday, I tried it out. You feather it on lightly and it does give a good effect and still quite natural so I thought so good so far. It also has a brush on the other end to help brush those strays into place. After going in the pool realised it wasn't quite as water proof as I thought! Then again it never said it was waterproof i just assumed with my really good way of testing waterproof  things! The pencil does ware down quite easily so I found I was sharpening it a lot, and if you using it a bit heavy handed it does look a bit waxy on the brows but all in all I do like this product and will continue to use it.

You can find all the benefit products here : http://www.benefitcosmetics.co.uk