Showing posts with label Rimmel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rimmel. Show all posts

Festive NOTD

Friday, December 16, 2011
I was so excited to see the arrival of my festive nail foils yesterday. I ordered them from eBay on Sunday night and hoped that they would turn up in time for the Xmas Blogger Meet, which is of course tonight!


I've never attempted any kind of nail wraps before so I set to work straight away. The pack contains 16 foils so I did an accent nail and used 8 of the wraps, which means that I can use the remaining 8 for my works Christmas party next week.


For the accent nail I used two coats of GOSH Holographic and lots of coats of Rimmel Disco Ball.


It took me roughly two hours to do! I did stop for food during that two hours and it certainly didn't seem to take that long. As I said though it is my first time applying any of this type of thing so I'm hoping that it will get easier with practice.


As you can see the wraps have a lovely holographic shine to them.


These were taken after my shower this morning and I'm very pleased to say that they are still intact! The packet states that you remove them with warm soapy water, which made me worry about them coming off in the shower.


They certainly aren't perfect, they're quite rough around the edges but I'm no expert and I'm not claiming to be. I am pleased with how they have come out for my first attempt.


These were unbelievably cheap, they cost just £1.89 with free delivery and there are loads of designs to choose from. I ordered mine from eBay on Sunday night and they arrived yesterday (Thursday). I've rushed this post up this morning as you may still have time to order them for delivery before Christmas.


Are any of you going to the Xmas Blogger Meet tonight? If so, please come say hi! I'm getting quite nervous now and have erupted in spots. I always do before a blogger meet, stupid nerves! So yeah, come say hi to the spotty nervous one with festive nails!!


FOTD - Office Neutrals

Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Hi all, I decided its about time I did another FOTD as I haven't done one for ages! My Urban Decay Naked palette recently arrived and I haven't stopped admiring it since! This has become my new go to palette for work - sorry MUA Heaven & Earth, I do still love you, we're just on a break!


I used Rimmel lasting finish foundation in ivory, Rimmel blusher (part of set), ELF HD Powder, MUA black pencil eyeliner (along botton lash only), Eyeko Magic Eyes Mascara, HD Brow Kit and of course the Urban Decay Naked palette.

  I used Virgin all over the eye and Buck in the crease.




What is your go to make-up for a working day? I'm quite boring and tend to reach for the same things everyday. 


Looking Back & Looking Forward - September/October

Saturday, October 1, 2011
October has landed along with an Indian Summer (that's right, its now October which means its officially an Indian Summer!) I'm loving the last minute summer, except for the dilemma of having no clothes to wear seeings as we haven't had a summer yet!

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This month I've been loving...

Beauty...
Lauren's Way fake tan. I finally got around to using this last night! I bought it ages ago but have been putting off using it to be honest because fake tan scares me! For the first time ever in my fake tanning life I've come out streak free! I have got a few patches where I've missed bits, the lighting in my bedroom is awful so its not very good to see what you're doing! This tan is instant though so I can just top these up today.

Fashion...
Coloured jeans. Not just the jeans that I'm wearing here just coloured jeans in general. I only own this pair so I need to buy a few more pairs. I'm particularly lusting after a maroon pair.

Food...
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Limited Edition Triple Chocolate Mars Bar. These are simply amazing. Enough said.

Blog posts...

Mrs Red post sharing with us how she made some huge changes to her blog. I still haven't got around to trying this out!
Leanne's easy peasy nail design - I'm actually sporting this look right now!
Claire Louise's very impressive nail art - I'm not even going to attempt this one, I could not do it justice.
Emily's sparkly nail design - on my list to do. That list is huge.
The family tree shown on Sammy's Tuesday Treats - I must attempt this myself, it looks amazing!

The products that I've used in full this month...
Rimmel 25 Hour Foundation. I loved this when I first bought it, you can read my review here. It is a  good foundation. It lasted absolutely ages and I just get bored of using the same foundation for so long, I'm trying to be good and not start other products until I've finished the one I'm using, I think I started to resent this foundation because I wanted to try others but couldn't until it was finished!

The Body Shop Peppermint Intensive Foot Rescue. This may be good for people who don't have feet as bad as mine. It certainly didn't rescue my feet but my feet are as tough as a crocodile so it would take a lot to rescue them. My quest for the miracle product still continues.

Looking back...
I've had a good month. There have been a few problems within my group of friends which has riled a few people including me. I'm not letting it get to me.
I've met more bloggers this month - yay! I absolutely love meeting bloggers! They are all so nice.
I've been doing well with my Weight Watchers considering how badly I stick to the diet! My weekly weigh in this week left me 1/2lb away from loosing half a stone. I had a sneaky weigh in this morning and have hit half a stone :)

Looking forward to...
1.10.10 (tonight) Swansea with my ladies :) All our boyfriends are away in Butlins on a stag do. We decided to go away ourselves! We're catching the train to Swansea and staying over night. Cannot wait!
8.10.10 Cadbury World. Spencer and I bought this through Groupon. We are staying in the Park Inn on the Saturday night and then going to Cadbury World on the Sunday. The Sunday is our engagement anniversary (2 years) so we thought it would be nice to do it that weekend.
12.10.10 The Cardiff blogger meet.
28.10.10 not necessarily anything to look forward to but I thought I'd put this in. I've been in my job for 9 years this day! That makes me feel so old!
29.10.10 its my cousin's 30th Birthday so I've been told to keep this Saturday free. We're probably just going out local, I think she wants to do fancy dress. I may finally get to dress up as a geek, been wanting to do that for so long! I think we're going to surprise her by asking the pub to bring out a cake and putting balloons & banners up if they'll let us.

I didn't realise how exciting my month ahead was until I typed this up! Have you got anything exciting planned?





What is in my travel make-up bag...

Tuesday, September 6, 2011
I've been meaning to put this post up for ages but with one thing or another I haven't got around to it. I've always suffered with joint problems and lately have been having quite a lot of trouble with my hip, which means a lot of pain and not a lot of concentration to write blog posts!

I went to visit my brother-in-law in Wokingham on the bank holiday weekend. I didn't take a lot of make-up with me as it isn't that type of place, I always feel way over dressed there as its a real casual place.

This is the minimal make-up that I took :


ELF Studio Blush in Peachy Keen
Rimmel Stay Matte Powder
Rimmel Stay Matte foundation (my 25 hr is running out so this was a back-up)
Rimmel 25 Hour Foundation
Eyeko Magic Eyes Mascara
MUA Heaven & Earth Palette
Sigma F80 (for foundation)
Sigma F15 (for blusher)
All packed in my pretty pink Sigma make-up bag (part of set)
I also took my Witch Primer but forgot to photo it!

Here is a little peek at the clothes that I took (all dresses, I'm trying to change this habit!)

What are your essentials when travelling?



Primark Haul :)

Friday, September 2, 2011
Hi guys, how are you all? What a lovely sunny day it is today! I'd given up on nice weather so had quite a shock today as it is actually warm and sunny! How lucky was I to have booked today off work :)

I was supposed to be getting the house ready for my guests that are visiting tomorrow, but instead I took a trip to town!

As per usual the majority of my buys were in Primark. Here is what I bought:

 2 Pillow cases £3 - I have been thinking of my guests for part of today, these are for the spare bed!
Socks reduced to £1

 Brogues £10 - I'm now in love with brogues so decided I could do with some for work 

 Colour block vest £4 - This top is like a tend but it looks nice with the jeans (below)

 Skinny jeans with belt £14 - As you probably know I tend to live in dresses. That is because I feel comfortable in dresses. I'm trying to get out of my comfort zone by wearing more trousers. 

 Gloves £4 - Who could resist these?

 Belt £1 - annoyingly I picked the wrong size up and its too small, must go back and change it for a bigger one 


Dress £15 - I saw this dress on Eloise's blog, she had in white. I decided I needed it! I was going to buy the white one but fell in love with this colour. The only annoying thing about it is that it is short so I will have to wear thick tights or leggings with it :(

My local Wilkinsons have just started stocking Rimmel and Collection 2000. The Rimmel nail varnishes were 2 for £4 so I picked up these two.



How do you Konad?

Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Hi guys, I hope you don't mind the late night post! I wasn't going to post tonight as we went to watch The Inbetweeners (hilarious by the way!). I've just had a cup of coffee and an wide awake so thought I'd pop up this post that I took the pictures for the other day!

Konad...how do you use it?



After several failed stamping attempts I decided to sit down with a few nail varnishes and Konad plate m83 to see if I could get the stamp to transfer with any of them, the results weren't very successful as you can see below...

MUA - Hardly there

Eyeko - quite promising but only part of the design

17 - no transfer at all!

Rimmel - this one picked up a lot of the image clearly, but missed parts 

Barry M - hardly there

ELF - picked up a lot of the design but again missed chunks

No.7 - just a tiny dot!

This is where you guys come in, how do you Konad? Am I doing something wrong or do I just have to admit defeat and buy the Konad Special paints? Do you have any Konad hints and tips?

Any help would be gratefully appreciated!



 

OOTN & FOTN - Engagement Party

Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Hi all, how are you today?

I went to my friend's Engagement party on Friday. It was a lovely evening, who doesn't enjoy a good party?

I wore my 'party dress'. Do you have a dress that you always fall back on for parties? This is mine...


Dress - Peacocks Pearl Lowe
Tights - Primark
Brogues - Peacocks

It wasn't really a 'dressy' party so I wore my brogues to keep it more casual.

I teamed it with these accessories...
Flower Bracelet - Primark
Key Ring - Primark
Leopard Ring - Lea's Gems
Brogues - Peacocks
Leopard nails tutorial here
Bag - Primark

I decided to use my MUA Starry Night Palette for my eye make-up, this is the first time I've used this palette and I love it!
 MUA Starry night
E.L.F Cream Liner in midnight
Eyeko Big Eyes Mascara
MUA Eyeliner pencil in black
Rimmel 25 Hour Foundation
Rimmel Blusher (part of gift set)
E.L.F matte lip colour in tea rose

Annoyingly I had a huge spot on the side of my nose which meant I had to wear my glasses as they hid it a lot! This spot also made my eye slightly 'deformed' as it went all swollen and closed! Thankfully the glasses did a very good job of hiding it!


OOTD - Friday night meal

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Hi all :) How are you? I'm feeling good after a very naughty Dominos! Spencer is still waiting for his, bless! I ordered them on my iphone app, two pizzas in the two for Tuesday offer, the email confirmation said I'd only ordered one pizza, I rang straight up and they said no problem they'd send the two. Delivery guy turns up with one pizza! (thankfully mine!) I rang up and they said they'd re-do the other and send it out, I then asked what else we get for the inconvenience, we have 50% off our next order :) Always worth being cheeky and asking!

As you will probably already know we went for a trial of our wedding food on Friday, the photos of the food are in my most recent week in photos post. This is what I wore...




Outfit
Cardigan - Primark
Dress - Primark via Ebay
Shoes - Ebay
Tights - New Look
Bag - Primark
Necklace & Earnings - Peacocks

Make-up
Foundation - Rimmel 25 hours
Blusher - part of Rimmel set
Lips - Barry M Touch of Magic over Eyeko Strawberry Fat Balm
Mascara - Eyeko Big Eyes
Eyeliner - MUA


For those of you who are concerned, Spencer's pizza arrived as I was about to push publish!