Happy new Year!

 

Tonight I'm going to a David Devant gig which should be magical enough for the Cullens to approve of. 

I'm going to be doing the traditional 'what I got for Christmas' and 'best of 2011' posts asap if anyone is curious, but I'm busy for the next few days so it might be slightly later than everyones elses :P 

It's my birthday on Wednesday, I shall be 24! ... WHEN DID I GROW OLD???? D:!!!! (If anyone gets that reference then I love you)

And at Callooh and Callay we're having a New Year Sale! It's buy 2 get 1 free on all our Christmas Collection and 25% off everything else (apart from our Devant jewellery because 25% of the proceeds of those go to charity) until the 7th of January :)

I hope everyone has a lot of fun tonight, but stay safe kids! CHAMPAGNE!

Christmassy FOTD

This was a quick and easy look but I thought it was purty.

 

Wearing:

Face: Illamasqua Skin Base in shade 2 mixed with moisturiser.

Eyes: Darling Girl eyeshadow in Donner, black mascara, Sugarpill Love + Pressed eyeshadow on the eyebrows.

Lips: Originally I was wearing Darling Girl Cookies for Claus Colour Rich Lip Balm with Holly Jolly Holo-Gloss over the top but then I just topped it off with Holly Jolly and Cookies For Claus wore off, I can't remember at what point these photos were taken :P

 

Holly Jolly is my favourite lip colour at the moment, it's just so festive :)

Have a happy Christmas everyone!

Or if you don't celebrate Christmas then just have a nice December 25th :)



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Have a very Glam Christmas!

My friend Mikey was playing a glam themed gig on tuesday, so I dressed up all Christmassy. Also a you can see I've dyed my hair. On the packet it was bright bright red but it's come out sort of Burgundy. I still think it's quite pretty but it's almost the same colour as my Mum's hair which makes me feel a bit weird :P

Here's mah face:

 

Wearing:

Face: Illamasqua Skin Base Foundation in 02, ELF Studio HD powder, Sleek blush in Salacious
Eyebrows: Sugarpill pressed eyeshadow in Love +

Eyes: Darling Girl Blitzen Eyeshadow, Darling Girl Honeypot eyeshadow, black mascara, the liner is just some loose glitter mixed with ELF Studio Makeup Lock and Seal.

Lips: Red lip pencil (offbrand :P), Darling Girl Jolly Holly Hologloss 

Here's my outfit. I know I probably 'shouldn't' wear something like my plausuit, it's too high cut and not particularly flattering on my little round body, but I like it so who cares?

 Wearing:

Polka dot Jacket and diamante tights -  Topshop

Sequin playsuit - Asos

Hair bow - Dolly Dagger

Badge and necklace - Callooh and Callay

Shoes - Office (I would have worn more interesting ones but I cut my foot on a bit of smashed bauble :( )

For some reason here in the UK a disproportionate percentage of our Christmas songs are from the Glam Rock genre of music.  Wizzard, Mud, Slade, Bowie (with Bing Crosby who is, of course, totally glam) and of course this which you never here anymore. I wonder why... 

OOTD - ENVY ME!

For I have a Christmas Onesie!

 

It's my New Years Resolution to find somewhere less horrible to take outfit posts. I will probbaly fail :(

Candy Stripe nails

I finally found the lead for my camera! Yay!

And it's nearly Christmas, hooray!

Here's my current manicure. It's not perfect of course but as it was my first time properly using a striping brush I don't think it's terrible. That being said, this was my left hand, the right one is even messier!

I used Models Own Snow White as a base and then Inglot Nail Art polish in 34

I'll probably end up changing them up again before Christmas :P

My Christmas Wishlist

I enjoy a very secular Christmas with a good dash of materialism thown in, so I thought I'd share my christmas beauty wishlist with you. I've only included makeup and toilettries and it's nearly all gift sets because otherwise it would be the longest blog post in history!

You may notice there isn't much indie stuff in this list, the reason for that is I didn't want to be listing a load of individual colours and things. I'm surprised at the lack of gift sets form indie companies, I really think that would be a great idea for Christmas!

Anyway onto the stuff!

The Nerd Lacquer mini colour library 

These nail polishes look gorgeous and right up my street, bright and glittery! They sell the entire library in larger bottles too, but I figure 5ml is enough when you get 28 polishes! :D

Glitzy Lips in Rainbowdar 

This stuff is crazy-cool, foils for your lips! Rainbowdar looks gorgeous, almost holographic with multichrome goodness, but what a stupid name :/

Illamasqua Midnight Decadence Lash Duo 

I rarely wear false eyelashes because I'm not too great at applying them but these ones are just so pretty and glamourous that I really want them! Also this comes with a free eyeliner.

Lush All I Want for Christmas Box Set 

I love Lush goodies, and their Christmas range is always fun and generally has a lot of yummy sweetie scented things.

Tweerzerman Candy Cane set

I don't need tweezers, especially not ones that are this pricey... But they're so darn cute!

Paul and Joe Fragrance Set in Toyland

Usually I'm very hesitant to buy perfumes without trying them,  but this sounds delicious. Apparently the smell contains ' floral notes of rose and jasmine alongside fruity apple, peach, and raspberry and warming vanilla' yummmm! Sounds right up my street. And as with all Paul and Joe beauty stuff it's beautifully presented.

Illamasqua Freak 

Again I actually haven't smelled this. I'm not certain I'll like it, but it sounds so interesting! And the main reason it's on the list is the bottle. It's one of the coolest, most beautiful bottles I've ever seen. The snail! *__*

GHD Scarlet Straighteners Set

I need a new pair of hair straighteners. I currently have an ancient pair of Nicky Clarke ones that are pretty useless. I don't really buy into the hype of GHDs and think they're really overpriced, but this set is so lovely! I love the Art Deco styling of the pouch and the bright red colour. 

Shimmer Twins Star Eyelashes 

These are just so cute! I have no idea what they'd look look like actually being worn, but I bet they're cool. 

Prada Candy Perfume

I tested out this perfume a while back and it was love at first sniff. It smells of candy and toffee and cake and all things delicious, but it also has some kind of undelying smell that somehow takes away from it smelling solely edible and cuts the seetness so it's not cloying. It smells warm and delicious.

You can see there's lots of perfume on here, I'm on a perfume kick! at the moment!

Whats on your wishlists? :)

Christmas and Birthday pictures

 Here's a bunch of photos from Christmas times. I've put them under a cut so as not to be irritating. But for now have a very naughty Weevil in a Christmas tree :)

                                                                                       

 

100th post!!

I hope you all had a great christmas!
Mine was partly very stressful as my grandma and aunty came up and they are now very old, frail and going senile, so it really added to the usual stress of christmas. Dinner was very tasty, but there were so many people my sister Lydia and i had to sit on our own at a ridiculously tiny table. It was hilarious. Imade the pudding and it was really delicious if i do say so myself. In the afternoon I stayed at home alone for a few hours while my mum and Lyd took grandma and aunty back to worthing, unfortunately for them my aunty vomited all over the car about half way there D:! However the evening was lovely, we watched eastenders and gavin and stacey and other tv and i was recieved a load of amazing presents!

I was thoroughly spoiled, especially by my mum and girlfriend! I'm going to post pictures of what i got soon.

Today my girlfriend came home so we had a second chirstmas celebration! She made dinner this time and it was amazing, she makes the best roast potatos in the world. And i spent the day mainly cuddling her and watching movies, as a christmas day should be spent.

Lyds ferrets were staying with us, they have a cage in the bath but sometimes we let them run free around the bathroom. Feargal (the big boy ferret) worked out how to open the cage by pushing his mighty nose against the opening thing at the top so we had to weight it down. Rikku (a small, shrimmpy girl) managed to climb into the toilet, yesterday Feargal put himself back into the cage to go back to bed! And today Rikku managed to knock a jug over and it smashed. <3 Beauties. They've gone home now and i already miss them and their weird smell.

On wednesday i'm having a christmas celebration with my friends, then thursday is new years, don't know what i'm doing though. On saturday i'm going to my friend Foz's party in Brighton and then it's my birthday a week today! I'm gonna do my best to continue posting regularly, as it makes me happy, but i may be absent until after my birthday. Having said that i've finished the illustrations for the book i'm working on and don't have any paintings that need finishing, so i do have a lot of free time. We'll see how it goes.

In other news i'm watching the remake of Day of the Triffids. I've been with it from the very start and it's about to finish. I honestly have no clue what is going on.

I just wanted to say thank you again to all of you reading this. i've been at this blog for about half a year now and it really is so rewarding and i just hope you are finding it a fun and interesting read. I'm planning on doing another giveaway soon and i hope i can keep you interested with my posts. If you have any requests or ideas for my posts i'd be delighted to hear them!

Hope everyone had a wonderful christmas, tell me what you got up to and your loot! :D

Merry Christmas everyone!

It's Christmas eve eve! :D
Thank you all for your comments on my recent posts, i went with the general consensus that my cherubim look was the best of my christmas faces and have entered that one in the competition (but it hasn't shown up yet, i got it posted by the deadline but maybe the administrator had to review it before the deadline, that would suck :() and i am so happy to say that my reverse rococo look is one of the finalists in the Mizz worthy Illamasqua out of the box competition. My fingers are crossed!

I should hopefully be back to blogging properly a few days after christmas. I have a lot of great reviews started and just recieved an amazing haul from aromaleigh i can't wait to share!

I hope all of my followers, or indeed anyone reading this, has a wonderful christmas, or just a nice holiday if you don't celebrate it.
I'm looking forward to sitting around sharing a nice vegetarian roast with my family and then snuggling up and watching the gruffalo and lots of other tv. I'll also be having an extra christmas celebration on the 29th when my girlfriend gets back from visiting her family. And then getting together with friends on the 30th, and then it's new years eve, though i probably will just celebrate quietly at home. And then it's my birthday on the fourth of january! I like this time of year.

Thank you for all your wonderful support, i only started this blog in the autumn but i can honestly say it's made a difference to my life, it's wonderful being able to share with like-minded people and everone i've met has been so kind and welcoming, thank you all.
xxx

A lot of christmas looks

Hi everyone,
I want to enter this superdrug competition here:
http://superdrugloves.com/
basically you just have to show your 'favourite party look' using products available at superdrug.
I decided to do christmas-themed makeup instead of any sort of sparkly party look. Perhaps this isn't wise, because they don't ask for it to be christmassy, but hey it's more fun this way.
Anyway i had loads of ideas but i'm only allowed to enter one look, so i thought i'd do them all and ask you lovely people which one you like best. Any input you guys can give me would be really really greatly appreciated! :)

Cherubim:

gold glistening skin, gold eyeshadow with white/blue eyeliner and highlight, false lashes, rosy cheeks and coral cupids bow lips.

Holly punk:

matte pale skin, matte red lips, dark green eyeshadow.

Glitter poinsettia:

green glitter eyeliner, red lips with red glitter lipgloss

Misteltoe and wine:

wine coloured lipstick, various green eyeshadows, white eyeliner.

So have a look and tell me which one is your favourite and i would be most greatful.
If anyone else is entering let me see your looks please! :)

Secret Santa!

Today i recieved my present from Sabrina at http://a-littleobsessed.blogspot.com 's Secret Santa :D Yay!

I was in the bath when the postman knocked. I had to run down in my towel to get my parcel, the poor postman was horrified :P Then i rushed back into the bath, but was so excited to have recieved this mysterious package i opened it then! XD

Here's the lovely box it arrived in and the card that came with it:

(behold as i try and cover my filthy carpet with paper and fail!)

and here's what was inside the box:


(there were more Lindors but they may have been eaten in the bath... )

I love how everything colour-coordinates! The nail varnish is absolutely stunning and i can't wait to try it out, and i'm looking forward to making a nice eye look with the pencil. And Lindors are one of my absolute favourite chocolates :D

Anyway thank you so much Ellie! If you read this give us a comment so i can read your blog :)

I really hope the girl i am acting as santa for has got her present and likes it!