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Monday, 22 March 2010

FOTD/OOTD



Firstly a massive thank you to all my new follower's!
Secondly a thank you to those who have entered my giveway, and who have also let me know what you'd like to see more of on here.
I have noted every single request down and there will be more of what your wanting!
Alot of you ladies want to see more face of the days, and outfit of the days, so here's one for you now :)
My Outfit (pretty simple)
Top- Primark
Skinny Black jeans- Primark
Necklace- Accessorize


FOTD


Maybeline super stay silky foundation in nude
e.l.f bronzer and blusher combo
Eyeko highlighter
No 7 calm and concealer
No 7 eye liner
Ccuk liquid eyeliner
Benefit creaseless cream eye shadows in my dates my brother
Ruby & Millie eyeshadow (that came in a set)
Jemma kid lip gloss in light pink
Rimmel sexy curves mascara

:)


My Mother's Day Pressie's :)

It was my second mother's day a few Sundays back! :)
My Boyfriend treated me to a few presents from my daughter.
I decided to do a bit of a online shop! (it was long over due)
First stop was Avon.

♥ Advance Techniques Moisture Sleek Smoothing Conditioner

♥ Color trend pencil play eyeliner (In black)

♥ Advance Techniques Daily Results Dry Ends Serum

♥ Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Body Spray
also my friend treated me to some girls aloud lashes!
The Conditioner & serum was recommend by Abby..il have an update on what I thought of everything :)
Next I went on the search for Redken anti snap leave in conditioner as I've heard so many good things about it.
I managed to get mine for £13 on feelunique.com
Ive used it twice, and so far I'm impressed!
I'll be doing a review at some point.

Then Scott said I could get a mummy flower from lush! :)
So I got candy fluff (which smells of snow fairy) and a candy fluff bath ballistic.
(which I let my mum have as she loved it so much)
& finally Scott treated me to a top from new look!
I haven't took a picture but this is what it looks like :-)

I hope you all had a great day what ever you did!

Love Lauren xx

Saturday, 20 March 2010

Everyone meet cupcake...

I finally got round scott to get me a hamster yays! So everyone meet Cupcake...

She lives in a pink palace... ..how lucky is she?!?!

Monday, 15 March 2010

My Gift from Abby

I get really excited when receiving things through the post. Id love to shop online but being card less, is the issue.
The lovely Abby told me she bought me a little something, she didn't give any hints on what it was, I was so intrigued, I didn't have a clue! Excited to receive my gift through the post is a under statement!
Anyway, this is what she very kindly got me :D

A Vintage Paris Neckalce


I'm in love with this necklace, Abby saw this and thought of me, she knows how much I love Paris, and anything thats clothes/accessorise related..
This is so pretty, It's so perfectly made, Its my favorite necklace of all time!



A Chunky Paris Bangle

Again I love this bangle, I don't actually own a chunky bangle apart from this one,
it will go perfect with a dress jumper, or anything come to think of it! Loveee it! ♥


Emily Loves Vintage

[Click on the pic to view her shop.]
This girl is so talented, all her jewelry is handmade bu her, I had never heard of her before Abby sent me these gifts.. I'm so happy she did.
The packaging was is soo cute..

Also Check out Abby's blog! I love it, and i think she needs more follower's, we started blogging around the same time, she means alotttt to me! I love sitting back in my chair cup of tea in hand reading her posts!

Thank youu Abby :)


Saturday, 6 March 2010

A chance to win a IPOD Touch! If you do me a favour :)


Hi ladies!
I have a favour to ask...
My family have told me how much I should get into modelling,
after years of putting it off I've decided to give it ago.
I'm a stay at home mum so I haven't got the time to get a full time job.
Hopefully this will work out for me as alot of people have said I'm very photogenic in the past, I was waiting for my braces to come out before getting the ball rolling, but when I did finally get them removed after 4 years of having them in.. I was 4 months pregnant.

I need some cash to get together a model portfolio.
I was accepted on a Yorkshire model site which I'm so excited about.


If you vote for me you will be entered into a draw to win an ipod touch!
I have one myself there amazing!

All you need to do is check out this link
and text for me :) its that simples!
The texts cost 50p plus your usual sms rate.
If you do vote let me know!!!
either by email or here.
I dislike that full length photo of me so much but its the only recent full length i had, and which i needed to be entered :( boooo!

So once again CLICK HERE to vote
it will mean alot to me!

thanks so much for reading!
Have a nice weekend!
Lauren

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

FOTD- 25.2.10



This is a face of the day, for the 25th February,
I'm so bad with putting these up on the same day I'm sorry!
(I wasn't wearing any foundation, bronzer on this day)
EYES
♥ NO7 Black pencil eyeliner
CCUK Liquid eyeliner
Rimmel sexy curves mascara
♥ Ruby + Millie eye shadow's
LIPS
GHD lip gloss- doesn't have a colour name!
CHEEKS
♥ E.L.F Blusher
EYEBROWS
♥ Vital radiance eyebrow shadow

:)

Don't forget I have a formspring,
click here to view it :) ♥

Sunday, 28 February 2010

I heart you Lush!


Another thing I love about lush is there great customer service.
I sent a email to lush after I had the allergic reaction to a mask, asking for some advise..
they offered to send me some items to say sorry (even tho I wasn't complaining to them)
which I thought was lovely of them.
I also attached a picture of me and my red face, (they must have felt sorry for me! LOL)
I was only expecting a couple of items but ended up with all this!
I twitted the picture above the morning I received the parcel as I was so happy.
They even sent me 'blonde' which I mentioned I wanted to try.
So this is what I got:
The Olive Branch (Shower gel)
Eau- Roma Water (toner)
Aqua Marina (Cleanser)
Creamy Candy Bath (Bubble bar)
Ultra Bland (Cleanser)
The Blonde (Solid Shampoo)

The olive branch shower gel- I've purchased before, its truly amazing! but went out of date quite quickly, luckily this one lasts till next year :]
Creamy Candy bubble bar is one of my favorites, so I'm so pleased I got a new one!

The Blonde

I'm wanting my hair lighter, so when my friend said there was a lush shampoo out that claims to bring out your natural blonde/ mousey brown hair, i was excited!
My natural hair colour is a mousey brown on the verge of blonde, but i havent seen it for years! Ive been dying my hair black,dark brown since I was 16.
I never let my hair grow out as I get fed up of waiting,
Hopefully this will speed up the process! Il keep you all updated tho.
Ive used it twice, It smells gorgeous, and you use it just as you would a soap,
I rub it in my hands then apply to my hair, it lathers up really well!
Ive recently put blonde high lights in my hair, so far this shampoo has made them lighter.
Although I do want to go blonde, I'm also thinking of going red, a cherry red.
See what I mean when i say i get fed up and turn to hair dye? Its a habbit.
Although this time I'm wanting to try the Lush hennas which are great for your hair and have more affect then a box hair dye
You can find out more about them here.



Aqua Marina

A skin softening seaweed cleansing wash.
It smells horrible IMO, but its meant to be really good for your skin,
I haven't tried this yet but if anyone wants a review, you know what to do!

Ultra Bland
Smell's of honey :]
because basically that's what it is made up of..
On my last lush visit the lady tried abit on my arm, and I did want to purchase it.
I was on a budget so didn't, I'm so happy they popped this in with my goodies.
The lady was telling me how she uses this as a night cleanser to take off her make up.
She said it removes everything and doesn't take a lot of effort..
I did the same, and she was right, it even removed my waterproof liquid eyeliner!
This is what it looks like...



Thanks for reading Guys + dolls, expect a Lush favorites post coming up soon!
xx

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

My new Love for Soft Neutrals

Nudes, salmon Pink,pale pink,peaches..
are all my new favorite colours to wear! I just think there so pretty, I'm loving this seasons clothes so much! I recently went to primark, and all the clothes I picked up were peach or pale pinks.
Above is whats on my wish list, The tops are adorable, The jumper that's from topshop would go lovely with skinny jeans or jeggings and those cute ballerina pumps, followed with a cute follower clip/ bobble.

Finished off with barry m's marsh mellow pink or mulberry pink nail paint.
& My oh my I'm in love with that bag!!! urgh if only I had the money!
Its just a shame I'm to scared to try a nude lipstick, maybe I should just bite the bullet and try one? Any recommendations?

What colours are you rating this season?

Tuesday, 23 February 2010

Lush: Haul,mini review,New easter + Mothers day items!


It's that time again my lovelies!
I had another lush trip last week, and thought id share with you what I gots myself :)
My best mate steph came up to stay with me for 4 days, we had such a great time!
Thursday we went to Leeds to have a good old spend up.
We went to tkmaxx, Lush and primark.
Three shops isn't alot but we spent so long in each one, after an hour in lush and 2 hours in primark, (my god what are we like??) we had to go home as it was so late
haha :')
In Lush..
The ladies gave us a little arm and hand massage where I tried out some new products including ocean salt, and ultra bland (which I so want)
also the very expensive gorgeous cream that was designed for Princess Diana herself.
the lady gave me a sneaky sample to take home too, so let me know if you'd like a review, i haven't seen any around the beauty bloggers community.
All the products I bought are first time purchases so I'm excited to see how I get on with them.
This is what I bought:
1. Happy Blooming
2. Mmm Melting Marshmallow Moment
3. Space Girl
4. A sample of Vanilla in the mist soap.- steph asked the lady for this as she wants me to try it, big sample huh?
5. Bubble gum sugar lip scrub
6. Angels on bare skin sample- Ive used this, and my gosh its AMAZING!
I also bought two vitamin C toner tabs + A face mask which il mention later.

A Mini Review on the Bubble Gum Lip scrub

Wow this is love. Steph let me try hers before buying this, and immediately i fell in love with it, it smells de-lish, and tastes it too!
My lips feel so soft thanks to this baby, its such a genius idea, I mean who would have thought to put sugar on your lips?
I wipe the excess sugar after scrubbing as I don't want to look like I've just eaten a very sugary cake or something.
Altho its very pink, (not editing either) it doesn't leave your lips pink, in fact theres no colour what so ever, which is a good thing.
Ive heard some people say that there lip scrub lasts 3 months? well all the ones in the shop last a year..so its worth the money, I can see this lasting a long time.


Okay so to the face mask I bought..
This is a sad story a very sad story..
..and I'm sure if stephs reading this shes laughing to herself (meanie) lol
as she was there..

Me and steph were getting excited to going out, I decided to have little pampering session,
I used the vitamin c toner tab, then applied this face mask. as the lady in the shop said the tab opens your pours and helps the face mask to work better.
So I did so.. and I actually loved this face mask!! it smelt de-lish!
the best I had tried by lush, cupcake and oatafix made me gag! >.< class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">that's
cool.
I was thinking to myself, I can see me re purchasing this and its just Devinne.
I washed it off after 10 minutes, no problems what so ever, my face felt re freshed. Great!
That night I went to put my make up on for the night out, I applied my body shop vitamin E moisturiser as I always do before applying foundation, I applied a dab to my cheeks,chin nose and forehead as usual.
rubbed it in...
My face started to turn red..and started to sting..ouch..
I went upstairs to wash my face with cold water, as I thought i was just hot.
came back down stairs to the mirror and make up, I still looked red but thought hey whatever, and applied some foundation...then my face felt like it was on fire, it was really burning. Steph looked at me and she knew something was up..
I looked like soo red. it was awful, it felt and looked like i had been under the sun for 10 hours and really sun burnt, my face was soo painful.
I had an allergic reaction..but i was confused because I always use the body shop moisturiser, its actually my favorite.
then i looked in the mirror,
and noticed that everything was red except around my eyes, and then it hit me that's how i applied the face mask.
It could have been the mixture of the face mask and vitamin e cream, or could have been the mixture of the cream face mask and toner tab.
I am so scared to use any of them again, as I've never had an allergic reaction before.
it scared me a little, I had to sit with sudocrem on my face all night just to calm it down.
it worked thank god, but i had to cancel going out! :(
The next night i was so scared to put anything on my face..
i tried a baby wipe and even that stung me.
the only thing I've tried since then is angels on bare skin..which thankfully was okay.
I'm no longer using a lush face mask, just in case. I'm so sad tho as i thought they wer great.
I hope I haven't scared you into buying them, as it may have just been a one of for me!

Anyway this is what it looks like..it breaks my heart that i cant use it again! lol..

Here's the new Mothers day items! taken from my lush times;
[click to enlarge]

The lady in lush who I always see, came up to me straight away holding the flowers there so so sweet!
The pink one smells of...SNOW FAIRY!! omg! steph bought one, I'm going to buy one nearer mothers day. The lady said if you plant the tag lovely flowers will grow as its packed full of seeds, how sweet is that??

The Easter items!

There all so freakin cute!
You have two gift boxes..(in the shape of giant easter eggs)
1. Happy Easter (pink) contains: creamy candy bubble bar, rock star soap and candy fluff bath ballistic £9.95
2.Happy easter (yellow) contains: Ma bar bubble bar, Honey I washed the kids soap, and honey bee bath ballistic
3.Happy chick £1.85
4. Ickle baby bot bath ballistic £1.75
5. Candy fluff egg bath ballistic £2.75
6.Honey bun bath ballistic £1.90
7. Dorothy Bubble bar £2.80

There all so cheap i cant wait to try these!
what are you most looking forward to trying?

If you want any reviews on anything let me know!

Love Lauren xox

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

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My Make-up Storage


There isn't much make up to put in my storage, but this year I'm hoping to fill it up! Out with the old and in with the new :)


Draw #1

Nail polishes!

Draw #2

Eyeko nail paints!

Draw #3


Lip stuff
Lipsticks
Lip glosses
etc

Draw #4

Eye shadows!
inc palettes
+ primer

Draw #5
Mixture of eye make up
Mascaras
Eyeliners
Highlighters
Liquid eyeliners
Concealer
+ the garnier eye roll on


Draw #6
A mixture of everything...
Foundation
Bronzers
Blushers
Eyebrow palette
Vitamin E Moisturiser
Eyeko tinted moisturiser
Eyeko 3 in 1 cream
Concealer
Cover sticks
Mirror
etc....



See not alot! but I thought id share!
Hope you all had a wicked weekend!!

Monday, 15 February 2010

My Wish List

Have you noticed I hardly write any make up related posts? this is about to change my lovelies!
When putting all my make up into storage, I realised that I didn't actually have alot compared to most people, and i haven't tried many brands!
Claire (click her name to check out her blog) and I have decided to have a little make up swap! The limit will be around £20 and the aim is to try new make up brands/products we haven't used or bought!
Very exciting!
I'm going to show you my wish list, bare in mind theres quite alot here, it just goes to show how many brands I need to try.
Let's start with Barry M;

Barry M must be my favorite make up brand! Although I haven't got many items? this must change! I love colour, bright pretty stunning colours and barry M is the most colourful name in cosmetics, to me anyway. So here's what I want to try....

Lip Gloss wand:
Bubble gum pink & strawberries and cream

Kohl Pencils-
Metallic cobalt blue
White
Metallic turquoise

Dazzle dusts, I love these so much! These are what I want to try next...
Mushroom
Electric Blue
Pink/gold (in no 3)
Black purple
Sapphire
Fawn
Teal
Chocolate

Nail paint: Bright Purple


Now to foundation, I want a new nude as I'm getting bored of my maybelline superstay silky foundation!
Here's what I'm thinking of getting....

The body shops Moisture foundation
Collection 2000 Lasting perfection

Next up is lipsticks, which may I add i haven't got on with in the past, I've always been a lip gloss girl, I finally took the plunge and I ordered barry M's 101, I tried it on and It didn't work at all for me. My lips looked so dry and I looked ill! this has scared me to say the least... so no nudes for a while! I do want to get into lipsticks tho, so I'm looking for a pale pink that is very moisturising, and makes my lips feel 'plump' Ive found these two brands...


Maybelline colour sensation in : Amber Rose + Pink Perl
The body shop Colour glide: in either sheer pink or clover pink, I'm excited to try these :)

Concealer: Ive heard good reviews about all three of these, I am in huge need of a new one, as the one i have isn't working!


Gosh touch up concealer
Maybelline Mineral Power
Garnier Caffeine Anti-dark Circles 2-in-1 Roll-on

Bronzer- Now its nearly spring I like to start wearing bronzer, I try and buy a new one every year.

E.L.F Bronzer in warm
17 Instant Glow bronzing powder


E.L.F
I have only one e.l.f studio item, which I lurveee so im eager to try out some more! Here's on top of my list;


E.L.F studio brushes;
I have elf's regular range brushes and I love them, so Its only right to try the studio range! Id like these to start with...
Complexion brush
Kabuki Brush
Eye shadow C brush
Angled foundation brush


I am so excited to try out this next product! I really want it! haha!
E.LF Studio eyeliner and shadow stick
I cant pick which shades id like to try out first! here's the top 3..
Pearl/Glow
Black/Smoke
Brown/Basic

I have dyed hair, normally dark brown, my natural hair colour is a mousey brown which is on the verge to ash blonde so as you can imagaine my eyebrows always need a tint as there very light! Which brings me to the next item..
E.L.F studio eyebrow kit in Dark


I need some shampoo for my brushes so this from Elf is perfect!


Gosh eyeliner in black. I need a new black eyeliner, this body shop or barry M is what I'm thinking, Can you recommend anything for me? I need one that can smudge easier and lasts ages!


Blusher..
I have 2 blushers, E.L.F and I cant think of the other one dammit!
I want a new one, I don't know which make yet tho..whats your favorite?

I'm looking for a pale pink, or a peachy natural shade!

The Body Shop Make up: A brand I really want to try!
I love these trip eye shadows from the body shop, I really want one! not sure which colour yet so maybe you can help me pick! also loving the blusher range!






Brand's id like to try more of are;


So I hope you come back to see how my make up collection builds up..
Il be reviewing all my new make up for you so make sure to come back!
Thanks for reading guys + dolls!
This post took me ageees! the longest time consuming blog yet!
xox