Current favourite make up products!

So here are my favourite make up products of the moment. I use all of these nearly everyday and I just cant get enough of  them at the moment!

So from the top:

 Tesco Cucumber Cleansing wipes/ Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer/ MUA Lip gloss/ Real Techniques Stippling Brush/ Rimmel London Wake Me Up Foundation

Natural Collection Blush/ Benefit High Beam Highlighter/ ELF All Over Colour Stick/ Luch Bubblegum Lip Scrub

Sleek Brows Kit/ Maybelline The Falsies Mascara

Tesco Cucumber cleansing wipes - these are such a great bargain! They cost 49p from Tesco and are great for my skin. Cucumber based skin care products have always been good products for me as I have dry skin and I find they work best. I use these to take off the bulk of my make up and they are a lot more user friendly (and easier to remember to use) than a cream cleanser.

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer - I use shade 1 - Fair and this product definitely deserves all the great reviews it's received. Its great at covering the redness I get in my chin and last all day. I use it all the time (as you can see the print of the packaging has completely worn off!).

MUA Lip Gloss - Shade 3. Mua Lip Glosses are my new drug store favourites! Firstly they're super cheap - £1 each! There are some great shades (I own 3!) and oh my god, The smell. They smell absolutely divine!They are sticky, but not as sticky as most lip glosses. As soon as I get to superdrug next I will be purchasing more! 

Real Techniques Stippling Brush - This is another product which deserves all the positive reviews. Before I discovered the stippling brush I used my fingers or a regular flat foundation brush to apply my foundation. But now I can honestly say I will never use anything else. This brush is so easy to work with and gives such a flawless finish no matter what foundation you use or your make-up skill level. I even use this brush to buff in my cream blusher.

Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation - Shade 100 Ivory. I really love this foundation as it gives such a light, yet buildable coverage. My make up style is very much the barley there look and this foundation helps me to achieve that.

Natural Collection Blush - Pink Cloud. Now this product isn't very pigmented but it's perfect for me. It helps to achieve the no make up look and is a great colour against my skin tone.

Benefit High Beam - Highlighter. This is another very popular product and I can see why. It's so versatile. I use this under my brow bone and around my eye socket bringing it down onto the cheek bone as well as in the corner of my eyes. This is a miniature which I got in a set with 2 other Benefit products for £14.

ELF All Over Colour Stick - Pink Lemonade. When I originally bought this product I was looking for it in spotlight but it was all sold out so I bought this along with the shade toasted. I'm so glad I bought this! It works great as a base for my blush and blends incredibly well. I've yet to use it on my lips, but I'm sure I'll love it more!

Lush Lip Scrub - BubbleGum (apologies for the upside down image!) If I could just eat this product, believe me I would! Its purpose is to scrub off the dead skin from your lips making them soft and lovely, and it definitely serves it's purpose. It's also bubblegum flavoured and edible! It's main ingredient is sugar so yes you can eat it! You rub it over your lips and then lick it off!

Sleek Brows Kit - Light. This brow kit is super easy to use and gives natural looking results. On the left is a powder and on the right is a wax. I just fill in the thicker part of my eyebrows for day time but fill them all in for a more dramatic look when going out at night. Also the brushes provided are rather good but the tweezers are crap!

Maybelline The Falsies Volum' Express Mascara - The first thing I noticed about this was the smell. It smells gorgeous and is so versatile on my lashes. The formula is also very wet and the brush is such a good shape for getting full looking eyelashes.

MUA Heaven and Earth Pallet - Now I've heard this is a great dupe for the Urban Decay Naked pallet, for literately a 10th of the price! Obviously the colours don't have the staying power of the Naked palette or aren't as pigmented but this is a great neutrals pallet. They can be used in lots of different colours for different smokey eye effects as well as highlighters or liners.

10 Little Secrets

I've seen this tag everywhere on Youtube since Sammi from Beauty Crush started it and decided to give it a go!




1. What is one product that makes you feel like a million dollars?
Red Lipstick! 

Foundation and Mascara are my staple make up products but I feel like as soon as you put red lipstick on people just pay you attention. It makes you look bold and confident!  My red lipstick of choice at the moment is Revlon Lip Butter - Raspberry Pie. Its not the brightest but I feel that it just looks so classic.

2. What is your skincare secret? / A passed down skin care tip
A skin care tip of mine is to make your own face masks! I feel like I put enough chemicals on my skin when I use make up so why would I put more chemicals on my face when I'm trying to treat my skin? I just hunt around my kitchen for things to mix together! I'll do a blog post soon on what recipes I use regularly and what I recommend.

3. Share your hair care secret?
I try to do as little as possible to my hair. I hardly ever use heat but always use a thermal protection serum and a hair repair spray. Also I tend to wear my hair up alot as it protects my ends which are easily damaged by the weather! Believe it or not wind has a hugely negative effect on your ends.

4. What is your biggest diet rule?
I'm not really one for diets, I tend to just eat what I want (and it shows!). I'm a steady weight and dress size 12 and I'm happy with how I look so don't tend to diet. However if I feel like I've had too much junk food and want to be a bit healthier I tend to match the amount of bad food I have with good food. For example if I snack on a pack of crisps my next snack will be a piece of fruit or if I have a take away for lunch my dinner will be super healthy, either salad or steamed fish with veg.

5. Any workout tips?
Again I don't work out a great deal but when I do it's something I enjoy, for example dancing or tennis. I find that if I'm enjoying the exercise that I'm doing I'm more inclined to do it for longer or to do it again. It doesn't even feel like exercise!

Also walking is a fantastic way of exercising but walking with a but more weight than normal is even better! I don't recommend putting a 10 kilo weight in your handbag! You don't want to hurt yourself. But if you're carrying a rucksack, chuck a large bottle of water in there or something a bit heavier than what you normally carry. It will give you a work out with you hardly noticing!

6. Which perfume is your secret weapon?
Miss Dior Cherie!

It's not my everyday perfume (that's Marc Jacobs - Daisy eu so fresh) but it's what I reach for when I'm going out for the night or if I'm not feeling to great one day and want a little pick me up! (yes something as simple as perfume can brighten my day!)

7. Show us a clothing item of yours which always turns heads

My glitterball party dress! I bought this around Christmas time from Matalan and it think it was around £28! Its a skin tight number which is rather short! But because it catches the light from everything people are always looking! 

8. What is your most treasured piece of jewellery?

I have 2! 

The first is my 'h' necklace from Tiffany's. It was a gift for my 18th birthday and I just adore it so much. It's not something that I wear all the time but it's just very special to me as it was a gift from my family.

The second is a pair of small studs. I think they're sterling silver but they aren't diamond. They were another gift 9in a set with 8 other pairs of earrings). I don't think they were expensive, but that's not the point. I just love them, they're so classic and timeless.

9. Who is your style crush?
This is a tricky one as I'm not into fashion a whole lot (I do love pretty clothes but I tend to wear a lot of plain basics as I find it difficult to find patterned clothes that I like and also cuts that flatter my figure). I don't look up to any celebrities and their fashion sense but I do like Louise from Sprinkle Of Glitter's sense of style. It just looks so nice and effortless and its not too fussy either.

10. Tell us something we don't know about you
ahhhh gosh there loooads of stuff you dont know about little old me! But I guess a good place to start is I love to read. Boring I know but as I said it's a good place to start!

I tag Katy from Giggles and Makeup
and Natalie from Nattieness
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