Giveaway Winner!

Yes, it's time to announce the winner of my giveaway!

So I used excel to enter everyone into a spreadsheet, then went on random.org and got this number...

..which turned out to be...

Joy from All Made Up! Congratulations, I've sent you an email and thank you to everyone else who entered :)

Clubbing in Tokyo FOTD

I know, I know, I should have posted (and done the look) ages ago, but I forgot about it for a couple of days...eventually leading to forgetting about it for several weeks, I'm really sorry!

In a way I wasn't looking forward to doing this FOTD as I'd tried using the palette [review and swatches here] and although it looks pigmented when swatched, it's incredibly difficult to get decent payoff on your eyes.

yeah...stupid non smiley facial expression but yesterday was just a meh day in general.



So here you can see the eye colours a little bit more and well..they look okay like this but if I shut my eyes...


WITH UDPP, they look like they're creasing a bit already and as well, they're all so sheer! You would think I'd only used the light colours, but I actually used loads of the darker ones as well.
The blusher didn't really show up on my skintone either, and I'm not that keen on the lipglosses, so I might give this palette a bit of a miss...



So that's all for the Sephora palette and a little note that my giveaway ends in a few hours! But I won't be able to announce the winner as soon as possible as I have school and everything and could be a little tricky getting on the pic as I've got a lot lined up this week (maybe even going to see Elton John live!) but I will try and then also send the prize out as soon as I possible can!

Blog Makeover!

Please excuse the pun, I just couldn't resist.

Anyway, I've completely overhauled my blog as I was tired of the previous layout and the incredibly dull header. So with my incredibly rusty Photoshop skills, I edited the background by making a vector out of a Barry M lipstick and then for the header, I hunted down some wonderful brushes (view the credits gadget on the left sidebar if you're interested where I got them from ) and then followed Kevin and Amanda's tutorial for customizing fonts, although I went and used an old favourite, Violation. I'd love to hear all your thoughts about the layout and whether you like and as a final note, I'm going to ask that you ignore the little glitch where the header blocks the lipstick at first glance until you scroll down.

Under construction

As you can tell, my blog layout is undergoing construction and I'm oging to bed now so if it's not looking all matching, it's cause I'm not finished yet.
xxxxxxx

My lipgloss collection

Finally! I managed to get all my pictures on photobucket after all, as Picasa turned out to be fully incompetent and turns out it wasn't Photobucket itself that wasn't working, but the ads weren't and cause they've changed the layout, I thought the ads were the uploader and there we have it.


So this is my entire lipgloss collection, barring the squeezy tubes. Rather pitiful, isn't it? Although now that I'm looking at it, I just realised I forgot my Boots No7 lipgloss, which was probably only forgotten as I have my makeup box colour coordinated and all the pinks and reds are together and this one happens to be neutral, so it got forgotten, whoops!

So from l-r we have Rimmel Twist and Shine Lip Polish in 070 Twist Up, p2 Hawaiian Spirit Lip Gloss in 020 Exotic Blossom (LE), Barry M Lip Gloss Wand in Bubblegum Pink, Sephora Gloss Repulpant and two unknown glosses.


So starting with the Rimmel Twist and Shine lip polish, I bought this a couple of years ago in Poundland for...well, guess the price. I think it's probably the darkest lip colour I have and when I bought this, I wore it quite often and here's an (old) pic where you can see me wearing it. As it's a lip polish and not really a gloss, it's very pigmented, although still quite sticky.





So the applicator on thsi is kind of funny. You twist it (...duh, nat) and then the gloss comes out of little holes in the applicator so you have to be careful that you don't twist too much.



Next up is the p2 Hawaiian Spirit Hula lipgloss in Exotic Blossom. Now I don't believe p2 is well known in the UK, as it's a German brand, and available in German drugstores (as well as luxembourgish ones!). It's qutie a cheap brand, which is good but I find that not all the products are great, which is to be expected. I even believe that p2 have an equivalent to Barry M's Nail Effects, except also in white, so I may have to investigate that.


Now, this is quite pigmented and the scent is quite vanilla-esque, which makes it smell lovely. Unfortunately it was limited edition when I bought it last year, which is a shame. It's not got much, if any sparkles in it which ticks my boxes!


Here's a picture from October last year with me wearing it and as you can say, although it looks quite warm in the tube, the actualy colour is more of a pink with blue undertones.

Next up is the Barry M Lip gloss wand in Bubblegum Pink.

Now, I believe this, most of the UK readers will have heard of, although the shade 'Toffee' is more popular, from the various reviews I've read. You can see by looking at the tube that this has sparkles, but with this one I don't really mind (it's really more the Claire's lipglosses that annoy me!)


So this is pigmented, but not as pigmented as you would be lead to believe, looking at it in the tube. It's quite sheer, but not too sheer, even though that sounds confusing to imagine. You'll all see in the swatches :) The scent is...three guesses...bubblegum, which I don't mind but I've read that quite a few people aren't keen on that.



So...Sephora's plumping lip gloss. I bought this is 2008 at the braderie sale in town (last time I saw Sephora have a sale like that:( ) but I didn't realise it was a plumping lip gloss until I tried it on at home, resulting to a scene that had me shouting something along the lines of: "ARGH! My lips They're stinging, what's happening????!!!" and my best friend laughing her head off after investigating the gloss and concluding that it was a plumping gloss.


Now I don't think this has any particular scent different from the standard lip gloss scent and it's quite sheer, this. Your lips will tingle a lot when you first apply it but it wears off a bit afterwards, but the colour itself is incredibly sheer which is a little bit of a shame, as it looks so lovely in the tube.


So the final two are samples of an unknown brand that I found lying round the house and decided to put in my makeup box( cause no one else seemed to want them haha happens with a lot of the makeup in my house!)



Oh yeah, that pale pink is pigmented, although not very consistent. The other one is rather see through, which you wouldnt' expect, judging on the pinker one and the tube itself.
And now, finally on to the swatches!


So, they're in the order that I listed them, but I'll do it again just in case you girls can't be bothered to read the whole post again ( I know I sometimes don't feel like it).
From l-r: Rimmel Twist and Shine Lip Polish in 070 Twist Up, p2 Hawaiian Spirit Lip Gloss in 020 Exotic Blossom (LE), Barry M Lip Gloss Wand in Bubblegum Pink, Sephora Gloss Repulpant and two unknown glosses.
It's also funny because they look like they go from the most pigmented to the least pigmented, barring the last one, which was entirely coincidental!
Hope you all liked this and don't forget to enter my giveaway, if you haven't already, as it ends tomorrow night xxxx

FOTD from last Friday

I'm so sorry I didn't post last weekend! I had every intention of doing so but Photobucket has completely changed and isn't working for me so I had to go around finding other methods and I finally stumbled upon Picasa. Anyway, moving on, this is my FOTD from last friday when I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1, which was amazing!

I think I used pretty much the usual stuff, except I used a white Maybelline lipstick on my lips and then my MUA Shade 11, which made it closer to my lip colour, so it's sort of a my lips but better colour, but not completely. As for my eyes, I used two eyeshadows from a nameless palette I got for Christmas.





Also, doing this FOTD reminded me that I have yet to finish off my Colorplay 5 in 1 palette FOTDs, I will try and do that tomorrow, I promise!

xxx

Apologies

Hi everyone,

this is just an apology for the rather mediocre post over the weekend. I know I would usually post something at the weekend, but as it happens, I've been sick since Wednesday and to be blunt, I look like death warmed over. Blotchy nose, puffy eyes, I don't think my foundation's up to par with making me look healthy at the moment! And then to make matters worse, because of the strain of coughing so much, the skin around my eyes has somehow developed a slight rash which from afar would look like freckles, which I suppose is better than being completely obvious, so that's why EOTDs and FOTDs have been out.



I did have a few reviews lined up such as my lipgloss collection (it's not big, trust me) but again, my internet is acting up and won't work from my computer with all my pics on and stuff so I'm using an old laptop at the moment. To compensate for that matter, I'll upload a pic that I did manage to get on to photobucket, so I guess it's a little preview.

I don't know when I'll next be able to update before the weekend as this week is just a nightmare as far as tests go. English, German (this will not go over well, I can tell you that already), Maths and Physics. The last two are on the same day so wish me luck! I'm a little nervous with physics because it's our first year doing it and our first test and I dunno if I understand it enough to pass the test (add to that that we do most of our subjects in French -> ten times harder) so yeah, fingers crossed it will go well!

Normally I would say I don't have much to worry about concerning the English test but stupid me left the book we had to read for the test at school so whether I can remember all the small details from when I finished it a couple of weeks ago we'll find out tomorrow, unless I can borrow my friend's book on the bus tomorrow and read the chapters we have to read in time.

So this has gone a bit off topic but I just felt I owed you all an explanation as to why I haven't posted much xxxx