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.

Product Update

Okay so I keep leaving it ages before posting new things, arghhh!

Won't let this happen again so major update today coming up. Not been out or done a look for ages so when I next do there'll be a post for that. Until then I thought I'd update you on a few of my new buys and the products I've been using. So let's crack straight on.

This is my BABY. I am so in love with my Fix+ spray that it's unreal. My mum bought it back for me from the airport and I owe her for it because it's such a life saver, especially with it being so hot in the UK at the moment. I spritz it over my face after I've finished my make up and it does an amazing job of holding it in place. Even after a longggg 11 hour day at work I leave with the vast majority of my make up perfectly intact. It's dead refreshing as well on your face and packed full of minerals to keep your skin looking gorgeous. One of my favourite products at the moment for sure.

After seeing a make up post on Instagram where the artist used a Prep + Prime Highlighter pen, I had to give it a try out. I got this from eBay for about £8, which I'm sure is good value but I don't think the RRP is too much higher. This shade is Bright Forecast and I've swatched it below so you can see the colour better.

As you can see the colour is fairly yellowy so I'd probably recommend this more for someone with and NW skin tone so that it blends in better. At first, I really wasn't sure about the colour of this as it is a lot darker than my natural skintone. However, when I'd put foundation on you couldn't even tell that this was an issue because it blends right in. I put this under my eyes and on top of my cheekbones and find it gives a really nice dewy finish to the skin, as well as making dark circles under my eyes less prominent. A great product to use, think I might try another shade soon though to see if that fits my skintone better.

I love a good lipliner and so I've been expanding my collection. I now have three staples, a purple, red and natural colour. Dervish is one I use for every day or when I'm using a pink lipstick. Liners are fab because they stop your lippie from ending up all over your face and also add dimension to your lips. Today I'm wearing just Dervish alone all over my lips with some lipgloss, so they are great to wear alone for a mega matte look or with a gloss over the top. I usually pair Currant with Rebel or Heroine lipstick and I think it's my favourite of the three, packed with colour. Redd is great to use with Ruby Woo or even a pinkier red like Impassioned. I'd thoroughly recommend using lip liner for anyone considering it, they're a massive help and there are lots of great colours out there.

Lastly, my FAVOURITE new toy which I have been waiting forever for! I'm so in love with my Naked 2 palette it's untrue. I'm a massive fan of a brown smokey eye as we all know and now I have just the kit to do it. I apologise for these photos being sideways, it's being annoying and won't allow me to rotate them, grrr. In comparison to Naked, the colours are a lot more neutral and wearable in my opinion. It's great for both an every day not too done up look as well as fab night looks and major smokey eyes.

 You have shades in the palettelike Foxy and Bootycall which act as great base colours and highlights. Tease is a fab matte brown which I love to use in the crease of my eye. Half Baked and Chopper are beautiful metallic tones to make any eye pop.

 

I love Snakebite, which is a shimmery brown and often use it in my outer v or under my lashline for a more subtle look. Verve is great for your inner corner as it is a subtle silver so brightens the eye. Pistol is my second favourite colour in the palette. A mid grey which is great if you want to try out dark eyes but don't like them to look too dark. YDK is a gorgeous sparkly bronze which looks great in summer and Suspect also makes a good base to start from for any eye look.

Finally we have Busted and Blackout. Busted is my absolute FAVEEEE colour in the palette, a gorgeous dark brown which goes great with any kind of eye make up look you're after. I use it often on it's own when I want some eye shadow on but don't want anything dramatic. Blackout is your standard matte black, a necessity in any make up fan's kit.

All of the colours in the palette are mega blendable and easy to use. You don't need a how to guide to use this kit it's that simple. Just have a play about with colours and more often than not, I find that an eye look comes together all by itself. The palette is THAT good! I also love that it comes with a double ended brush, both making application and blending easy peasy. I love this palette so much and would recommend it to anybody who can't afford to buy solo eyeshadows but wants a complete kit that's ready to go for any event you need. My palette came with a free Urban Decay mini lip gloss in Naked, which is a nice little treat and easy to wear gloss that looks great slicked over your favourite lippie.

Hope you enjoyed having a look at my new goodies. I'll have a look posted up soon no doubt with these products all being used. Now back to some last minute sunbathing for me while Manchester still has good weather!

Evening Make-Up Look: Drinks with the Girls

Second post of the day, I know, I just couldn't resist!

Today I met up with two of my close girlfriends from school for drinks but I wanted to have nice make-up for the evening.

I decided to go for a classic look - winged liner with a bold lip. I chose to put a twist on this and went for purple lips instead of the traditional red.

I kepy my eye really simple. I have no eye make-up on my lid at all. All I've used is a Collection 2000 liquid liner to create flicks on my outer corners. I love my MAC make-up, but I'm starting to find that my fluidline is going a bit dry so I've gone for this as a temporary replacement. It does the job for less than a fiver anyway!

On the inner corner of my eye I've used my Natural Collection white eye pencil just to brighten up my eyes and focus the light on them a bit. In the crease I've used a tiny bit of Casino eyeshadow to give a bit of a glow. My lower lashline was lined on the waterline with the liquid liner and then lashings of mascara went on, Loreal Collagene is amazing.

Sincerest apologese for the pouting! On my face I used Superb Extra Dimension powder as a contour and used the light part of Shape the Future Extra Dimension powder to highlight.

My lip colour is Heroine my MAC. I LOVEEEEE this colour, it's so bold and bright! To give it a bit of extra oomph, I applied a small amount of Snob lipstick by MAC in the centre of my lips to make them look that bit bigger.

I hope you enjoyed my simple evening make-up look!

Coming up, I'm going away to Marbella with my girls so hopefully some summery holiday looks with lots of bronzer.

Black and Grey Smokey Eye: Going Out Make-Up

Saturday was my best friend Kat's birthday and I've had a dress ready for it for ages which is sort of black and grey tye-dye.

To go with this, I needed some serious make up. I normally do brown and bronze eyes with golds and decided with this I wanted something a bit different. I'd spotted a post on instagram that I'd fallen in love with which was a really black smokey eye with bright pink lips. Usually I disagree with bright lips with a lot of eye make up but this time I made an exception.

Here is the finished overall look, excuse my awful skin I had a breakout just before which was so inconvenient!

I began by priming my eyes. My new infallible secret weapon is Urban Decay primer potion in Eden. It is a creamy liquid that almost looks like a concealer in it's colour but it's fab. My eyeshadow didn't budge or crease, which is great because I can't stand bitty eyeshadow!

On my eyes I have several different eyeshadows, quite a few actually. From my MAC palette I used a clean white for under my brows, I think it was called White Rabbit but the name's rubbed off a bit. I also used this in the corner of my eyes along with a Natural Collection white eye pencil, which only cost me about £1.99.

I used my white glitter MAC pigment, which came as part of a stacker collection over Christmas, all over my lid. I used Browndown in my crease to try and soften it out a bit before adding Carbon all over my lid in a diagonal direction. The picture I'd seen had a really clean lower lashline, that was thick but then stopped before then using a white line on the edge. I used Carbon here and smoked it out with Knight Divine. I kept blending Carbon all over my lid and then added a bit in the corner on top unblended to make it extra dark. For a clean line on the edge, I used a wipe to take off any excess that had been blended too far over.

For my line, I used Blacktrack on both the bottom and top lashlines and flicked out both edges to give almost an Egyptian style liner look. I added some lashes and my eyes were ready to go.

On my face I tried to keep it minimal because the eyes and lips are so bold. Along with my usual foundation, I just used my MAC extra dimension powder in Superb to contour and extra dimension Shape the Future as a highlight. I also used a small amount of bronzer on my temples and jawline to slim my face down a bit, highlighting my chin and down the centre of my nose.

The lipstick I used is Silly by MAC which is perfect as it is bright but matte, so it isn't too distracting from the eyes by having any pigments in it.

I finished my look with my other new secret weapon, MAC Fix+ finishing spray. It is a miracle worker and helps to keep all of my make up on, even when I get warm under club lights. It smells amazing and fresh too.

Sorry there isn't a lot of description in this. I need to learn to blog the day after so I can remember what I did exactly!

Bank Holiday Night Out Make-Up

Sorry it's been a little while since I've posted, I've been so busy with this new job!

At the moment I'm working 5 days a week, not exactly what I signed up for when I took on a 24 hour contract, but at least today is a short day and I don't start until 4pm.

Anyway enough of the complaining. On the Sunday of the bank holiday weekend I went on a night out with two of my closest friends in Manchester, so this is the make-up I had on from that evening. It has been a little while since the actual day so I'm not too positive about what methods I use but can remember all the products.

So let's start with my eye make-up:

This eye was similar to the one in my other going out make-up post, except it uses more brown in the crease. All over the eye I used Ricepaper with Casino on the outer lid. I then used a combination of Mulch and Brun with a tiny bit of Carbon in the corner of the crease. I line my eyes with Blacktrack fluidline and smoked it out on my lower lashline using Carbon. The lashes I've used are Ardell 117s which I trimmed to fit my upper lashline. I also used a small amout of Amber lights on the lower lashline. For my brows, I shaped them using a brow comb before defining them using a Stud pencil and Brun in the inner corner.

On my face I used my strobe cream followed by some concealer and my Studio Fix foundation in NW25. I bronzed my temples and jawline using my Mineralise Skinfinish Powder in Medium Deep. On my cheekbones I used Skinfinish Extra Definition in Superb and highlighted using my Casino eyeshadow. I then used MAC Peachykeen Sheertone Blush on the apples of my cheeks.

My lips were lined with Dervish lip pencil and I then used the limited edition Force of Love lipstick which has a matte finish to it. Later on before I was going out, I added a tiny bit of Viva Glam Nicki 1 on top to give it a slight gloss.

So there we have it, my look for the Sunday night is complete. Sorry there isn't too much detail, hopefully my next make up look post will tell you a bit more.

Coming up, I have some MAC goodies to review which my mum bought me as a present when she went on holiday. As well as that, I have a new Urban Decay primer to play with and a couple of new shadows. I can't wait to use them in a few looks. Ta ta for now!

MAC Fashion Set Lipsticks: Heroine and Silly

I have never been so excited to receive a package in my life waiting for these!

If you are an avid MAC follower, you are probably aware that the fashion sets have sold out all over the place and are proving to be massively popular products. As soon as I saw them when they came out in the US I fell in love. I couldn't even decide which colour I like the most! So imagine my face when I went on the MAC UK site to find they'd all sold out too. However, using the magician that is eBay, I managed to get my hands on two of the lipsticks, Silly and Heroine. I'm not even going to say how much I paid for them because it even appalls me so I'll leave you to guess. However, if you are lucky to find one in a MAC store, they retail at £14.

Here we have Silly, which is a very bright almost neony pink. I love how bold the colour is, definitely a great way to be a bit braver if you're not quite up to trying anything to drastic. I usually really don't like matte lipsticks because I find them too drying on the lips, but Silly sits really well and doesn't flake. Even after a few hours in work with it on, I'd check up on it on my break and find that the colour had still stayed put even though I hadn't reapplied it since the morning. I think Silly is a great colour to wear anytime and it isn't too out there in comparison to the purple of Heroine. Everyone loves a good pink and Silly is definitely a pink I'll be using a lot.

Today I'm wearing Heroine, which I think has to be my favourite shade of lipstick EVER. I absolutely adore the colour! It's a much brighter purple than for example Rebel, but it's still so wearable. I have it on today with a tiny bit of MAC Snob lipstick in the centre of my bottom lip to make it slightly more day-wear. I think most people went mad for Heroine when they first saw it, as that seemed to be the shade that went first and I think I'm going to be joining them. Again, it's a matte lipstick, but like Silly I don't find it drying and the colour stays on for hours after application. I think that Heroine would look great with darker skintones too. I've seen it on a few people on instagram with darker skin and it looks phenomenal.

Not too sure what'll be coming up in the next few weeks. I'm hoping to maybe take a step away from MAC and see if I can find some dupes at a lower cost brand. Perhaps I'll do a look as well to pass a bit of time until I get some more money, as I'm so skint until pay day and have a holiday coming up! Keep looking out for me.