One Day fotd

Hiya everyone!

Today, my best friend and I went to the cinema to go see One Day. I loved the movie, but a word of advice :if you someone who very easily cries at movies, be prepared for this. I was still sniffing when the credits rolled! I just have too many feelings, I reckon.

Anyway, true to my promise in my Sleek Saturday post, I decided to try pink and gold out together.

I was getting quite hacked off at how you can't actually see my eye makeup when I'm looking at the camera! It made all the normal shots look bad and got me quite annoyed; I think I need to experiment a bit more with my eye makeup technique!

See?! You can only see my eye makeup when I'm looking down. Anyway, on to the actual products. For my eyemakeup, I used Pink Punch from the Sleek Good Girl Palette and my trusty gold, Half Baked by Urban Decay. For eyeliner, I didn't go with Maybelline (for once!) and instead used Shadowline by Frontcover and the black from the Sleek Sunset palette. As for Mascara, I used a sample of the new Clarins mascara that you get redeemed by showing this card you get in September's Glamour (if that's not a reason to get it, you also get a free makeover!) and Clinique High Impact.

My face routine is the same as usual with Benefit Boo-ing concealer and the Collection 2000 one. My blush is L'Oreal True Match in Rosewood, I think. And I used Sleek Pout Paints in Milkshake and Pinkini for my lips.

I love this combination and will be using it more often, perhaps with other shades from the Good Girl palette. I'm really glad I did Sleek Saturday because it's helped me use my Good Girl palette more instead of leaving it abandoned. Now to do the same with the rest of my palettes!

What do you girls think of this look? And does anyone else have that problem with typical fotd poses not showing your eye makeup? xx

Birthday presents - Clinique Travel Set

Today's present is from my best friend who bought this with the reasoning 'I know her mum will refuse to buy her makeup so she won't be getting that much so I'll buy her makeup'. She was right, my mum refused to get me anything *sob*.

So this is one of Clinique's many travel sets which includes:

• 1x Take The Day Off Makeup Remover 30ml/1oz
• 2x All About Eyes 7ml/0.21oz
• 1x High Impact Mascara 7ml/0.28oz ( #01 Black )
• 1x Bag ( Pink )

 So there are four products are all samples except the mascara. I actually have the mascara as a sample as well courtesy of Glamour a few months ago.

First up is the Take The Day Off makeup remover. First of all, I like the name of this, it reminds me a bit of Benefit's way of naming products. This makeup remover's quite good, it works well enough, but as there isn't an extraordinary amount of it, I'm just using it to dip a cotton bud in to remove any mistakes I may have made as I have a tendency of pouring out too much makeup remover.

Next up are the All About Eyes de-puffing eye massage serum. I've used this once but I can't really tell if it makes much of a difference as my eyes aren't really that puffy. It has a tiny bit of a sticky feel to it, which isn't really that much a big deal as it fades away after about five minutes (the feeling, that is).

Finally, we have the High Impact mascara. Although it does nothing to curl my lashes (but then again, what mascara does?), it does add volume, so I think I'll use this for night outs rather than during the day, as it can get a bit too much if I'm not careful (which I'm not during the morning before school) and I don't usually have time to start again before school.

That's it for this post, I shall be finished with my tests this week at the time that this is posted so if I don't get a lot of homework, I may have another update which isn't scheduled! (Although the next one is anyway.)

EDIT: My post scheduling thing is a little funny, it didn't post my previous post at the time I wanted to so I thought I'd just post this one today anyway.

Cinema FOTD

Hello everyone!

I'm going to the cinema later on with Martine and as it's officially Spring now, thought I would bypass the nude eyeshadows and go for a little colour, namely the pastel blue and teal from my Strictly palette.

I did have to toy around with these photos in photoshop and use selective colouring as they looked far too yellow when I took them, probably due to my white balance. Anyway, I'm quite pleased with this look and the products that I used are:

 Strictly Fabulous Palette :Ballroom Palette

Maybelline Define-A-Line Liquid Eyeliner

Maybelline Colossal Volume Mascara

Clinique High Impact Mascara

L'Oreal Blush (not sure which one, will check later!)

Garnier Tinted Eye Roll On

Sephora Concealer

Maybelline Colour Sensational Lip Tint in In The Buff

silly pose face, I had to include it!

Oh and the GORGEOUS flower in my hair is Crown & Glory, the Mellow Yellow bobby pin from the Pic n Mix set!

The Golden Oldies!

When I read Beautys Bad Habit's post about the old Body Shop lotion she found (she is seriously becoming my top blogcrush - I love it!), I felt inspired to go through my mum's basket of old make up that she never uses. WARNING, image heavy!

So after chucking the ancient and STINKING mascaras that my sister and I went through (we went through the liberty of sniffing them to see how old they were, OH MY GOD, one smelt like petrol!) and other various crumbling stuff, I discovered a few things and asked my mum whether she would allow me to melt them into a pallette, because a) she never uses them and b) some are falling off but they're just so pretty! So she gave me permission to take a few things up to my room and leave the rest in there (surprisingly, we found stuff which was obviously still from this decade...impressive)


Oh yeah, that palette's got a gorgeous packaging, hasn't it? So let's start with that first.



So, upon closer inspection (ie, turning it over to look at the details), I discovered that it is St Michael by M&S or something like that.


As you can see, I have put an exclamation mark and underlined the year it was made, which is 1991!!! This eyeshadow's older than me, for crying out loud!



I suppose the colours are quite nice though, even if the palette itself has a...eccentric design, to put it nicely.



So I picked up the applicator, which was surprisingly still intact, only for this to happen when I used it to swatch the colours (oh yeah, I touched the old eyeshadow. Brave Nat, I am)



Erm yeah...Intact? Nope, not anymore.




That's where the spongey bit fell off into...it just completely deteriorated before my eyes! Anyway, moving on to swatches.





So the colours are actually quite nice and remarkably pigmented for being 19 years old, but I had to throw it away, cause it's just plain unhygienic using something quite old and I don't want any eye infections, no thank you! But it was fun whilst it lasted and certainly interesting to try out.

Next up is an older Clinique lipstick. I am assuming this because the packaging is completely different to any of their current lipsticks and from what I've checked (ie googled), this sees to be discontinued.


It's a bit more orangey in real life, but my camera has this annoying tendancy to take some pics with nice lighting and some with not so nice lighting.


So it looks pretty nice in the pot, but on y hand it's a bit wishy washy .


See? Old age has made it streaky, which is why I'm going to experiment with these three lipsticks and melt them (first time doing it!) when I have the time.

And now we have a Maybelline lipstick! Out of all the oldies, I think this might be the most recent purchase. Which does make me wonder...what on earth is my mother doing buying THAT shade?!



I know a lot of people like pale lipstick, but I just associate it with those orange fake-tan, backcombed hair disasters...whose role model seems to be Jordan.

Anyway, as far as I know, I think this one might still exist *shock*. The shade is 01 Vanilla Ice and is part of their Watershine collection of lipsticks.



I love the french name...sirop de sucre. Dunno how vanilla ice translates to sugar sirop exactly..



Erm, yeah, so I tried this on my lips and it didn't show incredibly well. Mainly because my lips are quite red so I'd have probably been better off using a lip base, but I don't have one so there haha.

Next up is possibly my favourite. It's part of the Allex Jane Aloe Vera Rose Garden lipstick collection and is called Night Rose. I adore the packaging on this, it's very floral which makes me squee even though anyone else would accuse it of looking like their grandmother's curtains, but I like it. The internet does not give me any indication of how old it is, so I'm gonna assume it was bought in the 90s because it's quite hard now.


See how pretty? I love it and the colour itself is gorgeous.



So as for swatching, it's still quite pigmented, so I'm gonna melt this as well, although I'd rather not, as the packaging is lovely, but it's fallen out already so I have to, I guess.



Next up is the Napoleon Perdis Liquid Lipstick, which actually has reviews on Make Up Alley!
Although, I would honestly rather call it a very pigmented lip gloss, cause that is what it is.


Again, I have no idea how old it is, I haven't actually heard of this brand before, but according to Wikipedia, it's an Australian brand which was started in 1995.



So this 'liquid lipstick' is in shade Paris Pink, that's about as much as I could find out from the back.



It's quite pigmented, yet quite pale on the lips, so I'm not sure whethe I would actually use something like this.

Anyway, phew, that took a while! I actually really enjoyed going through the old stuff today and I was gonna post about my little haul from Saabrücken in Germany, but I've spent ages doing this and photobucket is being a pain in the arse, so hopefully, tomorrow I'll continue!