Christmas Day Makeup

I'm sneaking in a last minute Christmas look! Here is the makeup (or something similar to what) I'll be wearing tomorrow. It's pretty simple, just a few colours on the eyes and some (very subtle) glitter of course.

To see the video tutorial, clickety click below!

Products Used
Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer - 01 I've since discovered Collection are not cruelty free!
Makeup Revolution Single Eyeshadow - Touch Me
Makeup Geek Eyeshadows - Peach Smoothie, Barcelona Beach and Mocha
Sleek Solstice Highlighter Palette
Makeup Geek Foiled Eyeshadow - Magic Act
GOSH Xtreme Gel Liner - Black
Collection Glam Crystals Liner - FunkBarry M Fine Glitter Dust - 15
Barry M Lash Vegas, Fibres
Becca Undereye Brightening Perfector
Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer - 01 and 03
NYX HD Finishing Pressed Powder
Hourglass Arch - Platinum Blonde
GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner - Renaissance Gold
Sugarpill Chromalust Shadow - Olivia
Collection Glam Crystals - Le Freak
Kiss Lashes - Vamp
Eylure lash adhesive
Wet n Wild Contouring Palette - Dolce De Leche
MeMeMe Blush Box - Pink
TheBalm - Mary-Lou Maniser
Barry M Mist and Fix Dewy Finish Spray
OCC Lip Tar RTW - Hush

Brushes
Bdellium 785
Illamasqua Blending Brush
Makeup Geek Small Crease Brush
Zoeva Bamboo Wing Liner Brush
Beauty Blender
Real Techniques Mini Perfecting Sponge
Furless PPE2 Brush
Furless Powder Brush
Real Techniques Duo Fibre Contour Brush
ELF Blush Brush
Makeup Revolution Small Detail Brush

For anyone interested, on my nails I am wearing Fairypants Nail Polish in Nymph, topped with Barry M Princess Textured polish (glitter).

Bonus pic of my sexy festive t-shirt for today, for those of you who don't follow me on instagram!

Have an awesome Chrimbo if you celebrate it and if not, then just enjoy the time off work, eat loads and I'll see you in a couple of days with some NYE makeup ideas!

Love & festives snogz!
Sal xXx

Christmaaaaasssss... snow's coming do-own...

except it's not, Mr Buble! It's raining and unseasonably warm.

Anyway, enough of that. It's Christmas Eve (does anyone else break out into a verse of Blink 182's Happy Holidays You Bastards everytime they say that? No? Just me then. Moving on) hurrah and here is the makeup I wore to work yesterday and also a bonus of today's because dammit, I'm having a good eyeliner day and the pics from yesterday are pretty pants!

However, now I have a new camera and some editing apps, I'm hoping that my shit makeup pics will soon be a thing of the past and there might even be some videos in the near future! ooohhhh. Stay tuned.

So here's yesterdays sparkly green eye makeup, that I wore for the last full day of work (it's just me and one other in work today and only for a few hours).

To create this eye look I used the matte brown from the MUA Undress Me Too palette (dupe for the Naked 2 from Urban Decay) in the crease. All over the lid and up into the crease, I blended the B. Stunning cream eyeshadow in Poseidon. I also put this under the lower lashes. Over the top for some sparkle I used the Collection Glam Crystals liner in La Freak (which was a bit more turquoise than I'd have liked, but I just patted it in well and it worked out ok). This also went under the lower lashes.

On the waterline is GOSH's Velvet Touch eyeliner pencil in Renaissance Gold. A bit of Revolution liquid liner (the pen with 2 different sized tips) along the lashline and some mascara. Then the lightest shimmery shade from the MUA palette on the inner corner and brow bone finished off the eyes.

The cheeks are the Josie Maran Coconut Watercolour Cheek Gelee in Poppy Paradise. I forgot highlighter!! That never happens. :/

Lips are OCC Femme Liptar and Meta Stained Gloss mixed together.

Do ya like my Rudolph earrings?

And here's my Christmas Eve makeup that I created today, using the Revolution Neutrals Vs Newtrals palette (one of my fave makeup purchases this year!!).

See how much better my new camera is?? Holy crap.

Merry Christmas to all those that celebrate it and I'll be back in a few days with chrimbo food pix!

Sal xXx

Month of Vegan Lips: Week 3 Round Up

Is it Monday already? GAH!

Week 3 and I've realised, I'd accidentally saved some til the end of the month, so there might be a couple of crazy colours in next week's round-up! :) But for now, here's a round up of the last week.

Day 16: Tanya Burr Lipgloss in Party in the Park

Day 17: Barry M Loudmouth Gloss in Gossip

Day 18 - Revolution Velvet Lip Laquer in What I Believe

Day 19: Gosh Velvet Touch Eyeliner in I See You, with Sugarpill's Lumi pigment patted on top.

Day 20: Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Berlin (Sephora ship to the UK!)

Day 21: Day Lippy Girl Lipstick in Abraca-Bam

Day 22: Gosh Velvet Touch Lip Liner in Flirty Orange, and a touch of OCC's Stained Gloss in Meta.

Can't believe I'm on the last week already, this month has flown by.

Don't forget you can join in and show me what your wearing on your lips by posting it on instagram and hashtagging it #monthofveganlips.

Sal xXx

Month of Vegan Lips: Week Two Round Up

Week 2 of my #monthofveganlips challenge on Instagram has flown by, here's a round-up for those of you not on IG.

Day 8 - OCC Lip Tar in Black Metal Dahlia

(I think they've discontinued this packaging :( so you will probably only be able to find the new Ready to Wear version, I am super glad they didn't discontinue this colour though!)

 Day 9 - M&S Autograph Lipstick in Nude Pink

Unfortunately it seems as though this shade has been discontinued

 Day 10 - MUA Power Pout Acrylic in Unwrapped

 Day 11 - B. Rich Intense Colour Lipstick in Watermelon

Day 12 - MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Lacquer in Halcyon

(They repackaged / reformulated these liquid lipsticks and discontinued this colour recently! (I'm not doing well this week am I, haha!). I messaged them on Facebook to check this and they said they have had a lot of queries about it so might bring it back. Fingers crossed they do!!)

Day 13 - OCC Lip Tar in Pretty Boy

(As I mentioned above, OCC appear to be discontinuing their old packaging. You can still find Pretty Boy on some sites, but I don't think it's been carried over to the Ready To Wear packaging yet, hopefully they will do because it's awesome!)

Day 14 - Another Lip Tar, this time it's Hush. 

This one is SUPER old packaging. Luckily this one IS definitely available in the RTW collection, whcih is good because by the smell of this, I don't think I should be using it anymore! :o/

 

Day 15: Barry M Gelly Hi Shine Lips in Orion

Don't forget I wanna see what you're rocking this month too. So Instagram it and hashtag it with #monthofveganlips or #alienontoast so I can see it!

Sal xXx

Wore it Wednesday

A little quickie for humpday, oo er!

My wore it Wednesday was OCC's Harlot Lip Tar. I'm wearing it in my picture to the right and I wore it to salsa on Monday and got a tonne of compliments on it.

So yeah I jinxed myself posting that eyeliner tutorial because my eyeliner was a hot mess Monday night! Hence no eye close up hahaha.  So I thought I'd distract from that with a bright lip.

Sorry bout the lighting, it was almost 9pm when I took this so the sun light was almost gone!

<3

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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Wore it Wednesday

Wearable orange eyeshadow.

Orange looks totally awesome on blue eyes, so I wanted to do a look with orange shadow that was bright but still wearable. I think I did ok and in real life it looked good, but I was having a total camera fail day (and a bad eyeliner day, but let's not go there), so my pics pretty much suck.  My hair was also pretty hilariously high, I have no idea what was going on so I cropped it out! hahaha.

I used the bright neon orange from the Revolution Redemption Matte Brights Palette. It's an awesome shade but being matte it does need a sticky light base. I used OCC RO concealer for this.  I really couldn't get a good pic of it though, because it was too late for daylight when I took these. So it looks a bit muddy, it's way brighter in real life.

I also patted a bit of ELF glitter glue over the top of it and added some Sugarpill Supercharged pigment from the Elektrocute collection over the top, for some spangle!

Lips are OCC Zhora lip tar that I'm maybe just a little bit in love with!

Hopefully next time my pics will suck less! Happy humpday all.

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

A Friday Favourite (or two!)

I couldn't pick what I liked most this week, so I cheated and picked two!

Starting with OCC's Grandma Lip Tar (V). I also used the OCC Grandma pencil (V) in this look.  It's freakin. Gorgeous!  I love orange lips and this is the perfect peachy orange. B.E.A.UUUUUtiful.

Second was the liner. I love blue & orange together so instead of blank liner, I used Sugarpill's Royal Sugar Chromalust Shadow (V) mixed with Illamasqua sealing gel.  I didn't like how it just muted the colour and the sparkle when I did this so I patted some more dry Royal Sugar over the liner after I'd applied it wet. That way it was brighter and still sparkly. YAY!

Full Face....

Side shot because I liked how my blush/highlighter looked (it's ELF's HD Blush (V) in Superstar and MeMeMe's Moonbeam highlighter (CV) respectively!)

Not that this pic shows it all that well but look how rad my earrings are! (I love Claires!!)

Have a good weekend all.

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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Wore it Wednesday

The Sleek Rio Rio Palette & OCC's Hoochie Lip Tar! Full Face of the Day post today, with a list of all the products I used at the bottom of the page.

On Monday I posted swatches from the latest offering from Sleek and here is the makeup that I created with it this past Saturday.  It was probably a bit much for a birthday party in a friend's garden, but hey... I like to overdo.

I started with a purple lip, using OCC's Hoochie Lip Pencil and the Lip Tar of the same name. I absolutely loved this lip, it's a gorgeous colour!  I did end up changing it though.

Artificial light full face

Artificial light:

 Daylight:

Artificial light

Daylight:

 Daylight full face:

As I mentioned above, I actually ended up changing the lip tar out for another OCC produc; their Stained Gloss in Aurora, because the Hoochie was lovely and would've been great for a night out, but was a bit too much for a garden party! haha.  So here it is with the alternative lip (and a moody face).

And a bonus wet hair/concealer highlighting sexeh face!  Hmmm!

Full list of products used:
Face:
No 7 Superlight Foundation in Calico (CV)
OCC Conceal in R1 (to correct my dark circles) and Y1 (blemishes) (V)
Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer in shade 2 Light (under eyes) and 1 Fair (to highlight as in the above dumb selfie! (CV)
SEVENTEEN Skin Wow Liquid Highlighter (CV)
Makeup Revolution Liquid Blush in O' Boy (AV)
Marks and Spencer Autograph loose translucent powder (CV)

Eyes
OCC Conceal in R0 as a base (CV)
Makeup Geek eye shadows in Peach Smoothie & Latte (crease) (CV)
Sleek Rio Rio i-Divine palette, shades: Sao Conrado on the lid & Bossa Nova in the crease. (AV)
GOSH Velvet Touch Pencil in Sky High on the waterline and lower lash line.  I set the lower lash line with a bit of Leme from the sleek palette too. (CV)
Barry M Single eyeshadow in E1 Cream on the browbone (V)
Limecrime Uniliner in Quill (V)
Barry M Lash Vegas Blackest Black with Fibres Mascara (V)
Anastasia Beverley Hills Dipbrow Pomade in Blonde (AV)

Lips
OCC Hoochie Lip Tar & Hoochie Pencil (V)
(& OCC Stained Gloss in Aurora in the alternative pic) (V)

Happy humpday!

Love & Stuff
Sal xXx

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IMATS London 2014 Haulage

So this weekend was London IMATS and I've been dying to go for years but had always been working. But as I left my old job at the end of last year, I was free! hurrah!

Here's a pic of my swag (well most of it, I didn't snap the boring, bridal kit stuff)

First up, brushes. I was excited to see the Bdellium stand as I love their brushes and they had all the Bambu brushes up front and centre on the stand.  From left to right, I got the 949 Pointed Foundation, 945 Contour, 954 Duet Fibre Slanted Kabuki, 776 Blending brush (I got 2 of these as I have one already and love it so wanted some back ups), I got a 735 Tapered Blending (again I already have 2 of these so this is a kit back up) and a 760 Liner/Brow which I also already have one of.

Then I was happy to find that the LoveMakeup stand had some Limecrime stuff. They had sold out of Coquette lipstick which I wanted to buy but they did have the Uniliners. So I got Blue Milk and Quill. I wanted Quill because I've being trying to find a black liquid liner I like as much as my old Bourjois one, as I don't buy from them anymore and I like the brush and formula of these liners.  I also picked up the Wicked Velvetine, which is really the only one from the Clueless Witch collection that interests me.

 Swatchy swatch, it's pretty obvious which colour's which! :)

OCC, the second stand we went to (I had marked it on my floorplan!) and we went twice. Mainly because it was cash only and I didn't have enough on me for everything.  I got the new pencils (YAY) in Hoochie, Grandma and anti-feathered, which is clear so can be used with any lipstick or lip tar.  I got the Lip Tars in Hoochie and Black Metal Dahlia* and the stained gloss in Aurora and I finally got my hands on the concaeler in R1, which has been out of stock for ages on the websites I normally buy for.

* I am SO freaking excited for Black Metal Dahlia, been trying to get this for months but it's been out of stock and it's so damn purty!!

L-R: Aurora, Hoochie, Black Metal Dahlia, Hoochie Pencil, Grandma Pencil.

I picked up a couple of essentials, a small Z-Palette and some Skindinavia setting spray. Been wanting to try this for ages and I finally used up my Neve one this week.

And onto my first stop of the day. I actually marked this on the floorplan and our route to it from the entrance.  I got Olivia, which is the limited edition loose eyeshadow and I got the Sparkle Baby Eyeshadow in Candy Crush, which is a lovely sparkly baby blue.

Candy Crush top, Olivia bottom.

I also got some stuff for my kit like a new bag and a Graftobian concealer palette (which isn't vegan, hence I didn't show it) and some sponges and sundries.  

I loved IMATS and I can't wait to go back next year. I even got to meet lovely Amy/Shrinkle from Sugarpill and have a photo taken with her. I just wish I was less awkward so I could've actually talked to her.. haha ah well there's always next year! :)

Did anyone else go? Would love to see a pic of your swag if you did!

Love & Stuff

Sal xXx

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