My Mac Palette

I am a big YouTube watcher and one of my favourite things to watch is makeup tutorials, makeup hauls and makeup organisation. A lot of people I watch have shown their viewers their Mac palette which has actually influenced me to buy certain colours. I thought it may be interesting to some people that read this blog to see my Mac palette. I am in no way trying to show off. I have collected this palette over quite some time and used my own money to buy all of it myself.

My Mac palette is quite neutral other than a couple of newer colours. I would like to eventually build up a second palette with more adventurous colours.

I will talk about each colour from left to right, starting from the top line.

The first colour is Brule. In all honestly, I hardly ever wear this colour. It is the lightest colour I have and I only use it as a sort of under colour if I am using bright colours.

The second colour is Kid. This is one of the first colours I bought it and I like to use it if I am doing a really subtle eye look, something light like this through the crease is really nice.

The third colour is wedge. I think I bought this colour with Kid but I use them both for the same purpose.

Next is the well known Charcoal Brown. I use this for my eyebrows, in the crease or to darken up light natural makeup. I really do like this colour. I bought this by watching a Tanya Burr YouTube video and then becoming obsessed with the colour.

The last on the top line is Brun. This is another colour like Charcoal Brown. I use it for the same things on my eyes and I also use it sometimes in my eyebrows to darken them up a bit. I may need to do this when I have really heavy eye makeup on or when I get my eyebrows tinted just to fill in any sparse areas.

The first colour on the second line you can tell is well loved. It is All That Glitters. This was my very first Mac eye shadow purchase and I use it a lot! I wear this most days blended all over the lid with something like Charcoal Brown very lightly in the crease.

The second colour is Sable. I would say that this is like a darker version of All That Glitters. Not my favourite colour.

The third colour is Mulch. This is a very pretty colour that I like to wear blended all across the eyelid and just blended out.

The next colour, Satin Taupe is another popular colour in the YouTube world. I like to wear this colour a lot in the winter all over the lid with a darker colour in the crease.

The last colour in this row is Smut. This colour goes quite well with Satin Taupe or just as a eyeliner, maybe smoked out.

The first colour on the last line is Patina. This is still quite neutral but it has other tones in in that make it a really pretty colour that is different from the others.

The next colour is definitely not neutral. This is Cranberry, again another that is popular in the YouTube world. I like to use this with Patina.

Another colour I like to use with Patina is the next colour in the palette. This is Sketch. Patina and Sketch create a really pretty smoky look together.

The next colour is Beauty Marked. To be honest, when I bought this colour I thought it was going to be amazing but was disappointed with it when it was delivered and since I have not ordered anything from Mac online without swatching it in a store first. Looking at it in the pan it is a beautiful colour but when applies the glitter you see is not really there at all. A colour that is identical is Blackheart in the Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette but the difference is that the Urban Decay one is very good and the Mac one is not.

Lastly we have Carbon. The typical matte black colour from Mac. I use this whenever I am darkening my eye makeup because it is not a very strong black.

That is the last of the colours in my Mac Palette. My Palette is not perfect and does not contain all colours that I am perfectly happy with but I am sure with a little more searching I will find all the colours I love!

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OOTD- Outfit of the Night- Clubbing Edition

The other night me and my friend Funto went out clubbing in our local town. As I have a blog and she has a YouTube channel, we decided that we would film/take pictures of our outfits and share them.

This is my outfit. The playsuit is from Topshop and the shoes are from Newlook. There is also some of the products that I used to do my makeup and also the perfume that I used.

This is my friend Funto's outfit. Her netted top is from River Island, the crop top/bralet is from Topshop, the shorts are from Zara and the shoes are from Asos.

 This is what the outfit looked like on and also a close up look of my makeup. On my eyes I have Charcoal Brown and Carbon from Mac and Half Baked and Virgin from the Urban Decay Naked 1 palette. On my lips I have Rimmel's Exaggerate full colour lip liner in Eastend Snob and I have used this as a lipstick with a small amount of Revlon's Colourburst Lip Butter in 053 Sorbet on the top just to take the edge of the matte effect of the liner..

This is how Funto's outfit looked. I also did her eye make up. On her eyes she has Liar, Factory and Blackheart from the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette. On her lips she has Mac's Posh Tone which is a Mineralize lipstick.

If you would like to watch Funto's video then here is the link to her channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/funtiwunti 

We have filmed a video together before where I did Funto's make up so if you would like to watch that then click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrTJ7FGipMI&list=UUNI_C4o8BzkXewb1nQCb1Fw

She also has lots of other great videos all about fashion so go check her out!

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OOTD- Summer Time Look (ISH)

There is only one conclusion that can come out of this post. I should have a ban from Topshop! For a couple of weeks I have been obsessed with a pair of patterned Leigh jeans that have been moved all around the store so no matter how much I try to avoid them they seem to find me and tell me I should buy them. Last week I gave into temptation and bought them. This outfit I put together, which is nice and light, can be worn on a warm summers day however, I would not recommend it if is too hot as the jeans may be a little too warm! 

Top-Newlook, Jeans- Topshop, Shoes-Newlook.

As you can see from the pictures, the outfit is nice light colours with the top having no sleeves as well making it perfect for summer time.

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7 Deadly Sins of Beauty Tag!

The other day I was watching the DailyMix channel on YouTube when I came across Lilly and Anna doing the 7 Deadly Sins of Beauty Tag. I thought it sounded quite interesting so I noted down the questions for a blog post.

The first deadly sin is Greed. This asks what are the most expensive and the least expensive beauty items you have purchased? My most expensive beauty item would be a pallet but since I consider that to not be a singular product the item I would say would be the Nars Multiple in the colour Copacabana. These are £30 each. My least expensive item would be the Natural Collection Blushed Cheek blusher in Peach Melba at £1.99.

The second deadly sin is Wrath. This asks for a product that you have a love/hate relationship with. For me this product would be the Porefessional Primer by Benefit. This costs £24.50 and can be a very good product. When used it does act as a primer and does hide the appearance of pores like it says it will, but I find that I get more problematic skin when using it. This includes things like more spots and getting blackheads too.

The third deadly sin is Gluttony. The question with this sin asks what your most delicious beauty product is? When I thought about this question the idea of smell immediately came to me and so did a perfume by DKNY. It is a limited edition summer art version of DKNY. It cost me around £30 however it could have been 1 or 2 pounds either way. The smell reminds me of summer and is very sweet. A smell that is good enough to be delicious!

The next deadly sin is Sloth. This asks what beauty product do you neglect due to laziness? This for me would have to be facial moisturiser. I try to remember this as much as possible but no matter what beauty routine I have, it is always the first step I seem to start skipping. I use one from Lush cosmetics called Vanishing Cream. It is a very good moisturiser, I just unfortunately do not use it as much as I should.

Next is pride. This asks what beauty product gives you the most self-confidence? This is a hard question, because I really hate my skin, so my automatic answer would be foundation, but I feel when I have foundation on, there are so many other things that I think make me feel so much more confident. Having this in mind, I actually think a bronzer/contour powder is actually the product that I think gives me more confidence. Not only does it add dimension to the face, but it can also make your face look slimmer which I think for me is a major confidence boost! However if this question was to say that you could not wear any other product then I would change my answer back to foundation.

Lust is the next sin. This asked what beauty product you are lusting after right now? For me this would be the By Terry shadow stick in the colour Misty Rock. I saw this first on Tanya Burr's channel and since then I have wanted to buy it however whenever I have the money to be able to pay for it, they are out of stock.

The last sin is Envy and this asks what beauty items you would most like to be given as a gift. Something I always really enjoy is lipstick and experimenting with different colours, so something like a lipstick or a lip product or even a lip stick pallet I think would be an amazing gift.

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Link to the video from DailyMix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1haUsV7RrNw&list=UUfFEsrwBVM772LwYUhHXI0g