Strictly Fabulous 'Salsa Palette' FOTD

Hiya everyone!

A while ago, I promised that I would do FOTDs using my Strictly Fabulous Cosmetic Case. As I already did the Ballroom FOTD a while ago, I'd do the Salsa Palette one now.

I was looking forward to this one because of the brigh matte shades and I wanted to try something à la Liloo who blends all her eyeshadows together fantastically. Whilst I didn't achieve something fantastic like she does, it did end up pretty decent so I took some snaps.

 The thing is, with my eyeshape, the eyeshadows are always hidden unless I have my eyes wide shut, so the full face pictures never show them well.
I tried a few eye shots but they were a bit tricky to do. Speaking of which, how do you all do your eye close ups? If anyone has any tips they'd be willing to share, it'd be much appreciated!

I barely ever post lip close ups cause of my upper lip hair, please ignore it!

It's a shame that my camera sort of muted the colours as this really was a lot brighter in reality. After a while though, the colours sort of blended together and didn't look as bright anymore and just like a mish mash of blues and greens.

And finally, my Crown & Glory rust bobby pin flower thing. I adore this, the colour is just stunning and really makes your hairdo look a lot more interesting!

I'll try and post soon but could be rather difficult as I'm going to my teacher's play tomorrow and getting up at 5.15 on Friday for a reallllyyy exciting trip to Paris. Not even real paris, so it'll be boring as hell!

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!

Crown & Glory Runner Up Prize

As some of you may or may not know, I was the runner up in Crown & Glory's giveaway and I received my prize, a pair of Russian Dull Button Bobby Pins. I got the package yesterday, I think. I'm not sure as my granddad forgot to check the post for the last few days so it may as well have been earlier, but last night, I went and checked the postbox and there it was!

So it arrived wrapped in the blue paper (used as background here) then in the striped paper bag, enclosed with a little note. I have to say, I adore how everything's so colour co-ordinated and matching with C&G labels everywhere, it just looks so adorable!

Sophie asked if I had a colour preference and me being me, I asked for pink and I love the colour! They're just so cute and I just love everything from that shop so these could be my least favourite colour but I'd still like them.

Here we have a selection of pictures of me wearing them. I had a bit of difficulty photographing them what with nobody being there to be able to photograph them and my hair being particularily big today. I tried to do an updo there, but I need to practice with the pins and everything.

Basically, these are really lovely and so simple to spruce up your hairdo! I also ordered the Pic & Mix bobby pin set as I adore all the flower bobby pins and was having difficulty choosing which I would like to order when these came out and it being a selection of three gorgeous colours, I couldn't resist!

I'll be posting about them once I get them, so watch this space! And as a little random thing, I created the poster for my drama class' play, if anyone wants to see it, I'd be glad to put it up, I'm actually quite proud!