Urban Decay Vice 2 Palette

I'm doing this via mobile as for some stupid reason my lappy won't allow me to upload any pics onto my blog which for this post would be an absolute disaster. Please excuse the lack of formatting, I'm pretty new to the blogging app.

Anyway moving swiftly on, I have an exciting new purchase to share with you. I heard about this palette coming out and was SO excited by it as the previews I had seen made it look amazing. I fell in love as soon as I saw the Vice 2 Palette and saw it as an investment and bought it home.

The packaging of the palette is to die for, rocking the strong Urban Decay amethyst purple and a bold silver logo. I'm told that every palette is individual and no two cases are the same which is pretty cool.

Open it up and look inside and you are met with an array of gorgeous and brand new colours, making it essential to any UD collector. You can create any look with this, whether it be a bold colourful eye or a simple muted smokey affair.

I love every single one of the colours and every shade you could possibly need is there. My personal favourites are Shellshock, which is this amazing reflective bright silver colour, and Toxic, an orangey-pink shade with a shimmer.

I had to have a play straight away so I did three eye looks to try and test out as many colours as possible.

This is my first look. I wanted to go for a simple quick easy goldy brown eye. For this, I primed my eye with UD Eden eye primer and used Dope as a base all over the lid up to the brow bone. I then used Toxic on the lid, leaving a small amount of Dope visible on the inner corner. I added Ambush in the centre of the lid and blended this out into the Toxic. In the crease I used Radar and then smoked out with, you guessed it, Smokeout, and then used Smokeout again on the lower lash line. I lined my eyes with MAC Blacktrack gel liner and added Eldora H142 lashes and some MAC False Lashes mascara.

My second eye look was a complete contrast colour-wise to my first. I wanted to use the greens and blues in the palette together, as these are also the colours in my eyes so I thought it would compliment them.

I primed my eyes as before with UD Eden and then used Habit as my base colour. I blended Stash on top all over the lid. I used Poison on the outer corner and half of the lid, blending it right out to make a wing. I used Madness in the crease and Damaged and Strike in the inner corner. Smokeout was used on the lower lash line with Damaged and a tiny bit was also blended into the wing. I lined my eyes as before with Blacktrack and added Eldora H140 lashes, my absolute favourites. My brow highlight is MAC Retrospeck as well as again using False Lashes mascara.

I love a good girly eye look so my last one is pinks and purples. I primed my eyes in the same way as before and highlighted my brow with Retrospeck by MAC. My base colour this time was Rewind which I blended into my crease. I the applied X-Rated all over the lid blending it in with Rewind. Coax was then used on 3/4 of the lid from the outer corned in. Betrayal was used in the crease and Voodoo along the upper and lower lash lines. Shellshock was used in the tear duct and inner corner. I lined my eyes and used MAC lashes although I have no idea which number because I bought them in Spain. I completed the eye with mascara.

Here is the two eyes together to compare the colours.

I am totally in love with this palette. I love the selection of colours and the way that the shadows blend so easily. It isn't cheap, but I would definitely say that it's worth the money. Consider it an investment!

Eldora Lashes

Getting back on it with this blog! Need to stop falling behind so badly, eek!

First off in terms of new updates, I have been lucky enough to find myself a prize winner recently. I entered a competition on Instagram to win a pair of Eldora fake lashes, a new brand which I discovered through Insta in the first place, and I was lucky enough to win a pair of their gorgeous eyelashes.

I've already made good use of them, as well as purchasing a few different pairs to try out. With my prize they sent me a cute little message along with a big sheet of all the selections. I've had a good look and there's soooo many to choose from so I'm very excited to get my hands on some more.

Here's the pic of my prize from the Eldora girls taken from my Insta. If you wanna follow me my name's solo92 :)

There are some simple ones for if you don't really like to have massive spider lashes and various lengths as well as shapes. You can also find some amazing extravagant pairs and coloured ones which would be perfect for Halloween or an arty look.

The lashes feel great on your eye, not heavy and overbearing like you can sometimes find. The glue that comes with them is really good quality as well so you have no problems sticking them on. I love the lightweight feel to them and how flexible the bands are.

I loved using the lashes so much I've already worn them several times and they don't lose their shape when you reuse them. Here are two separate pics of me wearing my H114 lashes, the ones I won via Insta. One of which was featured on Eldora's own Instagram account which was a really proud moment for me.

If you're after a new pair of lashes I would definitely recommend Eldora to anybody. For more information or to order yourself a few pairs go to Eldora UK and click on their online shop. I can guarantee that you won't be disappointed.