Baby Lips

Hi Guys!

So I'm pretty sure that most of you will have heard about the Maybelline Baby Lips by now. As soon as I saw these out in America I wanted them all! When they reached the UK I was so excited I literally grabbed as many as my hands could hold. 

I love lip balms as it is but the reviews of these were saying how amazing the tinted colour pay off was and how moisturising they were. I have to agree these are probably the best lip balms I've used. 

I love how they're tinted so you can treat and care for your lip whilst still having a pop of colour to your make up look. I wear these religiously to work and always have one handy in my handbag. 

There are 6 lip balms in total, three tinted and three plain. My personal favourite is Pink Punch the colour pay off this is unbelievable! Considering this is a lip balm it could definitely fool people into thinking you have a lipstick on. Maybelline have chosen such a great colour choice for their three tinted balms too, a pink, red and nude n my opinion these are the three staples for a girls lips.

The balms claim to have 8 hour hydration for your lips now I'm not 100% sure I agree with this but the colour lasts for a good few hours and my lips do feel on the softer side of life.

Above from left to right is Pink Punch, Cherry Me & Peach Kiss. These are the three tinted balms. The other three; Hydrate, Mint Fresh & Intense Care are all clear. 

I really would recommend for you to go out and buy one of these babys especially as they're only priced at £2.99!! Absolute bargain, not to mention Boots have buy one get one half price at the moment (buy baby lips here)!

These lip balms are great for on the go, for work, school, college and even nights out. They are one of my favourite new lips products so why don't you check them out too!

Autumn has almost arrived.

Hi everyone, 

So one good thing about September is that Autumn is almost here, the first leaves from the tree's have started to fall and X-factor is back on my TV. Now I thought I'd do a post of some of my favourite staple Autumn things both fashion and beauty wise. 

The main thing I love about this season is jumpers! Jumpers are probably my favourite piece of clothing. You can switch them up or dress them down. I love wearing very plain basic jumpers and having collars  poking out from underneath, or wearing a huge statement necklace or even layering them with scarves. 

I love how you can wear a summer dress, pull over a jumper and 'voilà' you have turned your summer dress into an Autumn outfit. & of course I love a good slouchy jumper - everyone has those days were you just want to snuggle up and feel cosy. 

Bringing my jumpers back towards the front end of my wardrobe also excites me for winter (I'm not going to lie I am already thinking about Christmas..yes I said it...CHRISTMAS!) I do love a good snowman jumper :)

Now I mentioned layering jumpers with scarves and that brings me to another Autumn favourite. I have way too many scarves for one girl. I love that you can be wearing the most boring of outfits and yet a colourful scarf or a scarf with a good design or print can completely transform your outfit. I also love having my leather jacket on with a scarf hanging either side. Of course I'm talking about cotton scarves not the thick woolly ones. Also as it is getting colder now I guess the scarves are rather good for keeping  that chill away in the evenings, although I much prefer to use scarves for their looks rather than their job to keep us warm. 

Another staple piece for the season leading off from keeping us warm is a coat. Every girl should have a good coat ready for Autumn, my personal pick for this season is a trench coat - it's still warm enough to keep you at a comfortable temperature but it's still light weight and easy to take around with you. 

& but oh course if your wearing the trench coat go and get the hat to match ladies. I'm loving the "floppy" hats right now, I don't have one at the moment but I need one! I saw Millie Mackintosh wearing one and that's when I decided they look amazing and I wanted one there and then. I think that hats are missed and forgotten a lot of the time, they add so much to an outfit and are such a key staple but ladies we are lacking showing them off! I put my hands up I am an offender of this too, I brought myself a bowler hat and definitely don't wear it enough, so yes this Autumn get the hats on girls!

So I can't really talk about Autumn without mentioning footwear. Now I love summer but I hate the footwear, don't get me wrong sandals are lovely - but I'm not a feet person so seeing everyone girl, man and their dog with their toes out kind of freaks me out!! So Autumn footwear is a big thumbs up from me - BOOTS! I love boots, weather they be brown, black, tall or small, heeled or studded, round or pointed I just can't get enough of them. It was so hard trying to limit the endless styles of boots down to a favourite specific pair but I think I'll be going with a heeled Chelsea boot. They are so versatile, can be worn casually or dressed up for a night out, they match dresses, jeans, disco pants basically everything! These boots are 100% a must have and if you don't have a pair...well why not, go and get some :)!  

Okay so last thing I must mention beauty. A great thing about the shorter days and cooler evenings is the make up switch over. My hot neon pinks and booming bright corals all get tucked away for the next summer and all of the plums, deep fuchsias and dark reds come out. I love purple lipsticks and a personal favourite is Plum Passion by Loreal for me this shade of plum matches my skin tone, doesn't make my teeth look horrible and just looks lovely! I was so nervous to try a shade of lipstick out side of my comfort zone but I'm so glad I did as now it's my favourite - I'd recommend giving the plums a chance this season, if you haven't already done so.

      Another plum themed make up item - eye shadow, I love deep purples, cranberry's and golden chocolate brown colours. These colours suit the Autumn mood so well and they really make me feel like I'm living and breathing Autumn. 

So what are your staple items for this coming season?

----Jumper; River Island. Scarf; River Island. Chelsea Boots; Missguided. Hat;Miss Selfridge. Lipstick;Loreal Plum Passion. Eyeshadow;Charlotte Tilbury The Vintage Vamp----

Haulin'!

Hi Guys! So over the last couple of weeks I've picked up a few bits and bobs and so I thought I'd share them with you :)

I finally got my hands on these two beautiful polishes! Essie's Fiji and Bikini So Teeny. I was so pleased when I went into my local Boots and they actually had these two colours in stock usually there is just an empty place where the name tag lies. I'm head over heels for Fiji and is now in my top ten favourite polishes, it's such a light baby pink it's almost borderline nude, I think it'll be great for Autumn. Bikini So Teeny is a lilac/blue shade which has silver shimmer shining through out, when ever I wear this colour I always seem to get a lot of compliments on it, my camera really doesn't so this polish justice and it doesn't pick up the shimmer. I can see why these polishes had so much hype going around them!

Maybelline have recently brought out a new make up line - the FIT me range. I picked up a liquid foundation and a pressed powder, I got the foundation in number 120 - classic ivory and the powder in 225 - medium buff. So far I've been pretty pleased with these products, the foundation lasts a full working day with out having to touch up majorly, it gives a medium to full coverage and gives quite a dewy look. The powder to be honest isn't really anything special, it does what it says on the tin, it gives a matte look and helps hide the shiny side to your face! I do however LOVE the packaging, I think I'm drawn to packaging that looks neat, the powder compact also comes with a puff and mirror - which is always useful!

Everybody loves a good lip balm. I have all of the current Vaselines and they never seem to fail me, especially as winters on it way and no doubt dry skin will be on the cards vaseline will soon be a necessity. I saw that Vaseline had brought out a new limited edition balm. It's called pink bubbly and I love the packaging it's pink and looks super cute!

Ok so winters coming and this means no sunshine which means no more real tanning. This is where the trusty fake tan re appears. I thought this year I would put my fake bake and St. Tropez aside and try something new. I saw from a lot of reviews that Xen-tan was being raved about and was big in the game for fake tans. I picked up the "perfect blend" which has a dialler on so you can choose how much fake tan and bronzer you want to use, I love the concept of this. You can use 100% fake tan if you want to start doing a gradual look or if your in a hurry and need to be bronzed godess soon as possible you can use 100% bronzer which instantly gives a darker glow. I've really been enjoying this product and it doesn't have that horrible fake tan scent!

I've always seen people rave about the Topshop Coy lip stick but my local branch never...ever ever ever ever has it in stock. I was in London last weekend and managed to finally pick one up. I've been really pleased with the product, the colour is a beautiful bright coral pink. I've found it's quite a dry lip product but nothing a bit of lip balm and lip gloss can't fix! I can definately see why there was hype around this product, and would recommend it to others for sure. 

So what have you been buying recently?

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