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VIVO.

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          If you are a frequent reader of my blog, you'll know that I do thrive for a good deal or a nice cheap money saver. Whilst in my favorite local makeup shop Primor, I come across quite a few of these. My favorite this month has to have been VIVO.


          Let me start by saying the company has amazing price for money and the packaging is also great! Its products are equally as wearable as smaller products in more expensive ranges. They are long lasting and have really good pigmentation.


          The first product I came across whilst browsing was the Baked Shimmer Palette and may I just say I haven't seen something so amazing! It comes in a set of four baked shimmer eye shadows and a baked blush that is indeed my favorite out of the palette. 


          Then I found this blush and highlight trio that comes with a cream blush in the colour Brazen, a powder blush in the colour Pursue and a baked shimmer in the colour Capture.


          And lastly I purchased the Beauty Balm BB Cream and Primer which have somehow made it into my mums everyday routine and since then has now stocked up on another two of them. 


2015

Easy & cheap drugstore makeup look.

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Last Tuesday I was playing around with my makeup (as usual) when I came up with this look that I really liked and it was really easy to achieve so I thought I would share it with you!


To start of, and I'm not quite sure why I did it this way round, I used my ASTRA concealer to prime my eyes and then went straight in with the eye shadow. Using my Makeup Revolution London 'What are you waiting for?' palette and I applied the colour 'Take a chance' to my lid, and then applied a tiny bit of 'sex chromosome' to the crease and blended these together with my UD  brushes. For my lashes I used my Rimmel Scandaleyes mascara and applied the 'Normal' lashes from Primarni (aka, Primark).

Then I applied my holy grail foundation from Rimmel and I buffed this in with my Urban Decay foundation brush.


To my messy (horrible) brows, all I did was brush through them with my Loreal brow artist plumper.

Then to finish off I used my Minnie bronzer in the colour Terracotta and the W7 blush in the colour Galactic.


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My everyday makeup essentials.

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[SORRY FOR THE SHAKY HAND CUT OUTS]

I've been wanting to write this post for a couple of weeks but I've never really got down to it so here goes. 
These are the few essentials I use for my everyday makeup. 
I'm sorry I missed out the eyeliner but I swap between three: either the Deliplus liquid eyeliner, the P.S Love one from primark (It is GREAT and long lasting, especially with a bit of primer) and the Deliplus felt tip one.

First of all, brush wise I use these traveling size Urban Decay brushes, as you can tell I dropped the foundation brush and broke the handle and I have not yet fixed that, oops! I love these brushes because they are very soft and easy to take in your makeup bag due to there size, I have a collection of a total 12 of these brushes, but these are the four I most use.

Then, I use this colourful Bobby Pin fluffy brush to apply my blush, I'm not sure if this is the right thing to use (probably not) but I'm not a professional and for that you shouldn't take much of my advice aboard.


To blend in my concealer I use my Beauty Blender and as you can tell by the colour of it I have been loving it, I was going to wash it before taking these photos but I just thought that would be quite fake and unrealistic and at least as it is it looks loved.


Moving on, my in the mood pallete from W7 has become my favorite everyday nude palette, I actually did a review a couple of weeks ago about it and I have just fallen more and more in love with it since then! I think the thing I love the most about this palette is the fact that the colours are matte and neutral but make a lovely day to day look and they are super easy to apply, long lasting and very pigmented even at the end of the day, basically everything you want your makeup to be. 


Foundation wise, my rimmel match perfection wake me up foundation is my holy grail foundation and I have used it for a very long time now. It isn't a massive cover-up foundation, but like nearly all, you can build it up to be one. I apply this along side my rimmel match perfection concealer and highlighter, this is my first time using this concealer and I really like it so far and I will definitely be buying it again. 

The bronzer I've been loving is this 2,50 one I again hyped about in a post a couple of weeks ago, I use it as more of a contour than a bronzer and although the tone is very dark and scary, it blends into a very nice tanned color.


As I have been loving the W7 products, I thought on trying out their blusher to give a bit of colour to my cheeks and I got this one in the tone Galactic and now it has an everyday use.


Mascara wise I use my deliplus maxi volume mascara, at first it was a bit tricky to get used to but now I have the hang of it I really like it and it gives me some incredibly long lashes. 


Lastly, brow wise I don't do much, all I use is this Loreal brow artist plumper and I think it is really good alternative if you want to do something to your brows and keep them in place but don't want to go full out and color them in.


These are all the products I use on my day-to-day, what are some of yours? 
Xx


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W7 In The Mood Palette Review.

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Whilst browsing through Primor aka my new favorite shop ever, I came across a section full of W7 products and I directly fell in love with the simplicity and colors of this palette. It is a small tin palette with mate nude colors in it and very very similar to the Nude palettes but the thing is, it only cost me 4 euros. I know, its unbelievable and totally worth it, I promise. The thing is, I thought that if you love the Naked Palette colors, like obviously anyone would, but you aren't a massive makeup person and your not in the hype and you don't just want to by the Naked palette for the sake of collecting them (like I do) I really think you can achieve the same or REALLY similar look to a Naked Palette with a couple of these W7 palettes if not one.
W7 have a massive range of cheap products and bigger palettes both shimmers and mattes and I totally recommend them to anyone who wants to try out makeup or just simply doesn't want to spend all of their pocket money on a Urban Decay Palette.
My two favorite colors in this palette are Wink and Katie (this one is very similar to Tease out of the Urban Decay's Naked 2 Palette) and I also really like how Cargo (Similar to Naked 2 Blackout) looks with these two colors in the crease.
Today's question is, what cheap makeup products do you recommend me to try out?Xx

2015

What are you waiting for? Palette review.

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I've been meaning to this post ever since I slipper the palette into my Primor bag. As you have probably notices, I am more of a neutrals girl, I'd rather war a brown or a gold any day rather than a blue or a purple just because they make me look like an even bigger weirdo with my blue eyes.
When the day I was going to buy this palette came (I'd been wanting it for a couple of weeks) I was umming and aring a LOT about which palette to get as they all looked equaly as great, but finally I decided over the 'What Are You Waiting For?' palette.
It is a VERY inexpensive palette but you would've never guessed, its packaging is very high quality (it looks like a chocolate bar if I may say so myself) and it would easily be perfect to take traveling with you as it isn't at all chunky or heavy.


Now moving to the inside of the palette, it is a nudish themed palette, based on gold, brown and a bit of pinkish shades. There are twelve shimmered colors, and six matte ones all very highly pigmented and long lasting. My three favorite and most used shimmers are:
Scary conversation
Take a chance
Shut my eyes
And my three favorites and most used mattes are:
Million Dollar Contract
Hot Track
Brand New Fans
All in all I think this palette is a great buy and I will definitely be getting another one out of the collection.
Have you tried any of the Makeup Revolution products? If so, what did you think about them? Xxx

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