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I recently found a website that you can purchase Colourpop lipsticks from! I find that in the UK they are pretty hard to get your hands on. The major issue i have with buying make-up (lipsticks in particular) online is that you never truly know what the colour is going to look like. Even after looking through and watching countless swatch videos on YouTube - you just never know what they will look like until they arrive. There were countless shades that i loved and wanted but i restricted myself to buying only two.  I got the shades 'Scrooge' and 'Donut' on the website i felt that these shades definitely were different looking on the website.  Scrooge looked like a pinky red colour and when i put it on my lips its more of a dark purple colour - perfect for the autumnal weather Scotland has got at the moment. This one i am happy with the colour and feel like i would wear it during this time of the year. Donut look like this really lovely ...

For a few months now I've been testing out the new Tarte: Rainforest of the Sea Foundation.  I've been using this as my everyday foundation - before I was using the Chanel foundation and I felt that it was too heavy on the face for everyday ware and also very expensive to be replacing every second month. So far, I've been loving this. Its so light on the skin - it gives you a very natural glow and the coverage is really good as well. It gives a good amount of coverage but it also very buildable. I use this with my Beauty Blender and I find this helps with the natural finish of this foundation. It buffs into the skin very easily. I have tried putting this on with a foundation brush but don't think it gives as natural a finish as using the beauty blender. I found it left a very streaky greasy feeling to my skin that i do not get with the beauty blender. I also love this foundation as the smallest amount goes a long way. A few pumps of this and it ...

So.. I've been doing Slimming World for a total of 40 Weeks now, and i must admit its been more than a struggle for me. I know that Slimming World work and is a great 'diet' to be on. Why? Because you can eat as much of the free foods on the plan as you want - foods such as, rice, potatoes, noodles and vegetable. What more do you want from a diet? However, looking at all the foods you can as much as you want, would make you think that you would not want to eat all the rubbish foods and takeaways - it really does not. I still find it hard to change my eating habit that has been with me for a very long time. So to say my Slimming World journey has been rocky is very accurate.  As you can see from my graph it has been a rocky rocky road. I got my 1 Stone Award on the 14 of April this year - since then I have gone on my American holiday and ate like a pig. I've struggled to get over the fact that my holiday is done and I need to get my focus back on...

Out of the many perfumes that I seem to hoard - my favourite this month has to be the  'See By Chloe' I've been loving this perfume since i bought it a few months back on my holidays. The thing I love about perfumes is that when you buy them on a holiday or wear them for a special occasion - as soon as you spray it you are instantly returned to that amazing time in your life. Each time I spray this I am returned back to the beautiful hot air of Las Vegas - instantly making me happy but also a little sad that I am not there anymore! The notes in this perfume are from  Base Notes ; Top Notes Bergamot Heart Notes Apple blossom accord, Jasmine Base Notes Sandalwood and Vanilla This perfume is lovely for any occasion - sometimes i spray it on just to wear to work and it lasts throughout the entire day - even being able to smell it when I come back from work. Or sometimes i spray it when I'm going on a night out and it just lingers for a...

Can we just take moment to appreciate how amazing these liquid lipsticks are? The Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick have the most amazing staying power of all the liquid lipsticks I’ve tried. I bought two of these lipstick on my trip to Las Vegas this year and out of all the items I bought at Sephora these defiantly did not let me down. When I was on holiday I decided to try these out and see for myself how amazing they really were. I applied a coat of this at about 8am before going out to start the day and decided that I wouldn’t take the lipstick out with my to touch up during the day to see how long it would last – I heard these would last all day without needing to be touched up, so I really wanted to see how true this was. This is the two shade i got - the top one is 'Mother' and the bottom is 'Bachelorette'. This is with one coat before it dries with that amazing matte finish. Throughout the entire day I ate breakfast, lunch and dinner with...