My Brothers Blog

Hello,

Bit of a random post considering this blog mainly focuses on beauty, however for those of you who also love food, check out my brothers new foodie blog! 

He is a student cooking on a budget and loves to whip up a variety of different dishes. 

Visit   www.rabcooks.com for some rather interesting recipes from so many different cultures.

Please go and take a look.

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My Birthday FOTD

 F A C E

MAC Oil Control Lotion

Benefit The PoreFessional Matte Rescue

Barry M Original Face Primer

Benefit The PoreFessional Pro Balm

Too Faced Born This Way Foundation

Tom Ford Traceless Perfecting Foundation

Urban Decay Naked Weightless Concealer

Collection Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer

Loreal Infallible 24H Matte Powder

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

Kat Von D Shade and Light Contour Palette

Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzer

MAC Limited Edition Golden Bronzer

Too Faced Love Flush Long Lasting 16 Hour Blush in Love Hangover

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Opal

Urban Decay Afterglow Highlighter in Sin

Make Up Revolution Strobe Cream

Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray

E Y E S

Too Faced Semi Sweet Chocolate Palette

Too Faced Sweet Peach Palette

Benefit Air Patrol

NYX Dark Circle Concealer

MAC Fix + 

Urban Decay Perversion Mascara

NYX Skinny Mascara

Benefit Gimme Brow

Make Up Revolution Ultra Brow Arch and Shape

Anastisia Brow Definer

Marc Jacobs Highliner Crayon

Tarte So Fine Liner

NYX Wonder Pencil

L I P S

Too Faced Melted Chocolate Lipstick in Chocolate Honey

NYX Suede Liquid Lipstick in Sandstorm

MAC lipstick Whirl

NYX lip liner 

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Viva Las Vegas

I was lucky enough to get the chance to visit Las Vegas this month for my cousins wedding.

I cannot even describe just how amazing it was. My mum and dad had always said that to them it was the best place on earth and I didn't quite believe that could be true, but now i completely understand what they mean! 

My favourite place has always been New York, however Las Vegas is on par. They are just so different from each other that I don't know if I could choose. 

Obviously, I went to Vegas with a huge list of make up to purchase on my travels as it was my first time visiting Sephora!!

I LOVE that shop!!! I visited it 4 different times and got VIB status on my second visit! 

It took me and mum almost 3 days to get round all the hotels and that was with mum being a tour guide as she had already been so she was just taking me to the places that she knew I would like and we did not see a couple of hotels also. 

You can't quite believe the scale of the hotels until you are standing in them. 

My favourite hotels were The Venetian and the New York New York. 

I loved how classy and elegant the Venetian was and then how tacky the New York New York was. I really wish I could have had the chance to go on the roller coaster! 

I was lucky enough to stay in the Aria hotel and it was incredible. This hotel was not a themed hotel but known more for the technology in their rooms. We had an IPad that controlled just about everything! 

I thought that I would post some photos on here to show you my trip and I will do another post with just the make up and goodies I bought. 

Our hotel- Aria 

Grand Canyon from the plane!

View on the Bellagio from planet Hollywood

Picture with the bride and groom at the 'Welcome to Las Vegas' sign

At the Chandelier bar in the Cosmopolitan

Bubba Gumps

Frozen Margarita in the Flamingo

The Excalibur

New York New York

Hersheys World

Ready for Matt Goss. Wearing Kat Von D Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in Ayesha. 

Had to pay a visit to Carlo's Bakery in the Venetian

At Serendipity where I had fried chicken and waffles for breakfast! the world biggest portion!

Paris hotel

A Benefit vending machine at Las Vegas airport. I could not resist! 

M&M world

As part of the wedding we had an Elvis impersonator singing on an open top bus. 

I have so many more picture but we would be here forever! 

I had the most incredible time and cannot wait to visit again soon - hopefully! 

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I'm Back

I Cannot believe how long it's been since I last blogged! I have been so busy recently that unfortunately I had to hold off for a while.

I have had so much going on. I have been on holiday - to Las Vegas! And have also been flat hunting.

However I would like to apologise for lack of content and say that I will start posting again, although not that frequent for a while while I get things set up in the flat among other things going on just now. 

Thank you for persevering and hope you enjoy the upcoming content! I have a photo diary of my time in Vegas and my Vegas haul coming up as well as a few other things. 

Enjoy! 

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Review: Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation and Lasting Finish Foundation

Decided to try this foundation considering that everyone was talking about it. I already have the Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer which I love so I had high hopes for the foundation. 

Wake Me Up is such a good foundation for being from the drugstore. It is long wearing, and does not oxidase too much on the skin throughout the day. 

Considering I have naturally oily skin, it sits well on my skin and stays most of the day. 

The colours range is also pretty good, I think they have about 12 different colours. I am in the shade Ivory 100.

Rimmel say that the foundation visibly reawakens and illuminates skin with a radiant glow and a flawless, natural looking finish. It also has an anti fatigue effect with peptides and vitamin moisturising complex. 

Having also tried the Rimmel Lasting Finish Skin Perfecting Full Coverage Foundation, I much prefer this one for the longevity and finish. The lasting finish one completely melted off my face. 

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Back To MAC

 For those of you who are not already familiar with the Back to MAC scheme - it is a recycling programme whereby you can take 6 used packaging back into the shop or online and get a free lipstick of your choice.

For example, concealer, foundation, mascara, used lipsticks, moisturisers 

You can take up to 24 empty containers at a time meaning you could get 4 free lipsticks at one time.

So far I have managed to get 3 lipsticks from using this service and think it is great. It is such a great thing to do and shows that they care about the environment. 

I adore this programme and think it is a lovely idea. Everybody should get onboard!! 

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Review: Tom Ford Traceless Perfecting Foundation

Foundation has recently become one of my favourite products to buy and try out. I seem to have gone on a rather large spree. I find it so difficult to find the perfect foundation and then after a while the one you are loving starts to become the one that you hate. 

Anyway.... I recently decided after a recommendation to try out the Tom Ford Traceless Perfecting Foundation. No way was I paying £65 though without knowing if I liked it though. 

So I went into Harvey Nichols and said to the girl that I wanted to find my colour match for the foundation and was there anyway that I could take a sample of my colour to test out and see if I liked it.

The girl colours matched me there and then and then decided last minute to give me that shade and the shade lighter just in case. She had put the colour Fawn on my face and it had looked perfect.

The next day it was time to test. I went for Fawn as it had looked good the previous day, even if it was just a patch on my chin. The foundation sat beautifully on my skin however in natural light I looked orange! 

Ivory was the other colour which ended up matching me perfectly. 

I really liked the texture of the foundation and a little goes a long long way. The foundation I found to be quite runny however it gave a lovely dewy look to my face. 

I ended up purchasing the full bottle recently in the colour Ivory. I paid £54 as I had a £10 gift card, which is still outrageous! 

The packaging is stunning. The bottle looks like frosted glass, however is very lightweight. You twist the top and there is a pump! Hallelujah! Definite plus for me! 

I have only used this foundation a handful of times now and so far I really like it. Due to me having extremely oily skin though. I do have to touch up the foundation every few hours and can only apply a really light layer of the foundation to avoid it sliding on my face and becoming cakey. 

What are your guys thoughts on this foundation? 

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What's In My Bag?

I have not done one of these in a very long time so figured I would grace everyone with the contents of my current handbag since I have changed my handbags around recently.

Michael Kors purse

Spectrum Collection Make Up bag

Support Wrist Splint

Miniature Sure Deodorant

Lovely Perfume by Sarah Jessica Parker

Cuticura Berry Shimmer Hand Gel

Tissues (i have a cold at the moment)

Fold away hairbrush

Invisibobbles

Pens

The Body SHop Hand Cream in Pink Grapefruit

Nailene Nail Glue

Vasaline in Rosy Lips

Carmex Moisture Plus Lip Balm

Lucky Las Vegas Chip

Piriton

Naproxen

Paracetomol 

Ibprofen

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How To Stay Organised: Make Up

One of my biggest traits is my organisation and how everything in my life has to be organised for me to get by. 

That is why I have decided to start a mini series about how I organise my life to keep everything just how it should be. 

The first of the series is my make up collection since this is mainly a beauty focuses blog. 

My make up collection is reorganised every one to two months. Whenever I get new make up I tend to get out my collection and decided whether or not to change it up a little. 

My make up is split in sections.

-Palettes (eyes and face)

-Powders (pressed powders/bronzers/blushes/loose powders) and Highlighters

-Eyes (mascara/single eyeshadows/liners)

-Face (foundations/primers/concealers)

-Brows

-Lip Products

I also then have my brushes in two separate make up bags. One for those I use the most and the other contains spare brushes that I maybe don't use all they much. 

My lip products are split up separately. Mainly by brand. A while ago I got a unit with lots of little mini storage boxes which I use mainly for my lippies. 

I currently use 3 of them to store my MAC lippies. One for my Benefit lip glosses and i use one to store random lipglosses and lip pencils.

To store my Smashbox lipglosses, Make Up Revolution Velvet Laquers, Make Up Revolution lipsticks, Freedom lipsticks, and my lipsticks from Barry M, Chanel, Maybelline and Ted Baker I use a Ted Baker box that i received with a bath set last Christmas.

I then store my Too Faced melted lipsticks in my La Grand Chateau house that came in the Christmas collection. 

As well as all of these I have a separate make up bag (which I received from Benefit) which is full of my samples, testers and travel size products. 

The best way I feel to stay organised is to  know where everything is,have them all in their own places. 

I also make sure that as soon as I use each product that it goes back in its rightful place until next time. 

This was how I organise my make up. How do you organise yours? 

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FOTD

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Benefit The PoreFessional Matte Rescue

Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer

Benefit The PoreFessional Pro Balm

Benefit Puff Off!

Tom Ford Traceless Perfecting Foundation

Bourjois Radiance Reveal Concealer

Collection Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer

No7 Perfect Light Pressed Powder

Natural Collection pressed Powder

Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Medium/Deep Matte Bronzer

Too Faced Love Flush Long Lasting 16 Hour Blush in Love Hangover

Bourjois Blusher in Rose D'Or

Sleek MakeUp Blush in Pomegranate 

MakeUp Revolution Vivid Baked Highlighter in Peach Lights

Benefit Watts Up

E Y E S

Benefit Air Patrol

Too Faced Semi Sweet Chocolate Palette

Urban Decay Electric Palette

Urban Decay Deluxe Eyeshadow in Peace

Bourjois Eyeshadow in Brun De Folie

MAC Extra Dimension Eyeshadow in Ready To Party

MAC Satin Eyeshadow in Shale

Natural Collection Eyeshadows in Aqua Shimmer, White Opal and Asteroid

MakeUp Revolution Awesome Double Flick Liquid Liner

Too Faced Perfect Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner in Black

Barry M Waterproof Eyeliner in Old Blue

MakeUp Revolution Ultra Brow Arch and Shape

MAC Pro Longwear Waterproof Brow Set

Benefit They're Real Tinted Primer 

Chanel Mascara Base

Rimmel Wake Me Up Mascara

Benefit They're Real Mascara

Natural Collection Lash Definition Mascara

L I P S

Too Faced Lip Insurance

MAC Up the Amp Lipstick

MAC Hot Gossip Lipstick

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Melted Lippies

Absolutely adore these Lipsticks. The pigmentation is beautiful and the colours gorgeous! I cannot wait to get more of the colours in my collection

Melted Lipstick in SUGAR

Melted Metallic Lipstick in PEONY

Melted Lipstick in CHIHUAHUA

Melted Metallic Lipstick in MACARON

Melted Lipstick in FIG

Melted Lipstick in VIOLET

Melted Lipstick in RAINBOW

Melted Lipstick in BERRY

Melted Chocolate Lipstick in HONEY

Melted Chocolate Lipstick in CHERRIES 

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FOTD

 F A C E

Benefit The PoreFessional Matte Rescue

Too Faced Hangover Replenishing Face Primer

Benefit The PoreFessional Pro Balm

Too Faced Born This Way Foundation

Loreal Infallible 24H Mattifying Foundation

Rimmel Match Perfection Skin Tome Adapting Concealer

Collection Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer

Loreal Infallible 24H Matte Powder

Laura Mercier Translucent Loose Setting Powder

Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Medium/Deep Matte Bronzer

MAC Aphrodites Shell Extra Dimension Bronzer

Too Faced Love Flush Long Lasting 16 Hour Blush in Love Hangover

MakeUp Revolution Vivid Baked Highlighter in Peach Lights

E Y E S

MakeUp Revolution New-Trals vs Neutrals Palette

Too Faced Semi Sweet Chocolate Palette

MakeUp Revolution Eyes Like Angels Palette

Urban Decay Electric Palette

MakeUp Revolution Awesome Double Flick Liquid Liner

MAC Fluidline Brow Gelcreme in Deep Dark Brunette

MAC Pro Longwear Waterproof Brow Set

Ted Baker Mascara

L I P S

Too Faced Melted Chocolate Lipstick in Chocolate Honey

Too Faced Melted Chocolate Lipstick in Chocolate Cherries

MAC lipstick Velvet Teddy

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