Friday 19 February 2016

Today's look - Rose Gold Eyeshadow


Hey guys, so today is another short post a bit like yesterday's one. Please check it out (Aliexpress haul). I finally used the rose gold colour in my new semi illegal palette from aliexpress lol. To see it please check my last post. I had a "museums in London" day with my best friend so I thought why not. 

Face: MUA matte primer, Sleek bb cream dark mixed with another unknown foundation, unknown blush (dark red colour) 
Highlight: LA Girl Pro concealer (beautiful bronze) Contour: Fashion Fair foundation stick (teak)
Eyes: Lorac pro palette (garnet - on the lid , deep purple - crease)

I really liked this look and will defo do it again x

Lauren x

Thursday 18 February 2016

Aliexpress Haul!

I always bring my shopping finds and hauls to you guys and I'm back with another one, from Aliexpress.

Aliexpress looks like a well dodgy place when you first see it, but I actually tried some of their stuff out and I must say i'm pretty satisfied with the stuff. Aliexpress makes a lot of stuff that are fake but look awesomely  real. 

First up is the Lorac Pro Palette. To see the product on the site click here.

To my surprise, this is the real palette. It has 16 shades the top ones are matte and the bottom ones aren't and you can do some really good eye shadow looks with this palette. My most used colours are Taupe (as a transition colour), mauve, sable, espresso, gold, champagne and pewter.


I forgot to take a picture but included with the palette was the Lorac "Behind the scenes" eye primer, that's great but I feel it makes a subtle calm eye shadow look really ashy because of it's white colour but that's just me. Overall I love the palette, it's lovely and as it's a well known palette there's loads of tutorials on Youtube creating different looks with it.


The above look ^ 

Foundation: 

MUA stay matte primer (2.99), Revlon photoready foundation in Cappuchino (£8.99) , Sleek BB cream in dark (6.99) those two are mixed. 

Highlight and contour: 

For highlight - LA Girl Pro Concealer in Beautiful bronze (1.99-4.99), Fashion Fair fast finish foundation stick in teak (£22.00) for contour.

Powder: 

Fashion fair perfect illuminating powder in the colour earth (£29.00)

Eyes:

LA Girl Pro Concealer for base, followed by Lorac behind the scenes eye primer. Lorac pro palette (£4.40!) Colours used; Taupe (transition colour), Pewter, black and deep purple (crease). Garnet for eyelid colour, finally unique 3D Fibre lash for mascara (£2.40).

The second product is another eyeshadow palette but this one is defo fake? To all my makeup gurus out there, does naked 6 even exist yet? let alone naked 5? Am I also right in saying too faced make the chocolate bar palettes not urban decay? Well this product managed to mix the two weirdly lol but I still like the colours. 

To see the product on the site click here. I got it for £7.00 which wasn't bad as the colours are super pigmented and pretty. 

Okay so the case totally gives it away. Looks plastic and is plastic, but we can't have such high hopes from Aliexpress (the home of counterfeit lol!)



I love the colours here so much! Shimmer is meant to be here! I sometimes use mauve as a transition colour. So far I've used the colour gold and that's it. Some of it's colours are very similar to the lorac palette like light bronze, pewter, garnet and deep purple but I'm so in love with all the golden colours on here the red gold is also beautiful. 

Steering away from makeup, I bought a wig from Aliexpress. It's most known for it's great wigs and extensions so I thought why not. I even found out about aliexpress through a youtuber who bought hair. 


I've not actually tried it yet, but it's really smooth and human like and has a lace front to make it look even more real. It was around £39 from an outlet called synthetic wig outlet on aliexpress. I paid an extra £20 for it to be shipped within 3-5 days by fedex otherwise the free postage was 30-60 days from China so it was a must lol. I can't wait to try it and I'll have another update for you guys when I do. 

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