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Collective Beauty Haul // YSL, Ben Nye, Coastal Scents, NYX and more!

My long overdue collective haul video! Obviously I had a tonne more products I wanted to add (makeup junkie much?) but I didn't want to bore the life out of you guys! I hope you enjoy and stay tuned to the blog for posts about the items featured in this video! Much love! Natalie x

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Shopping My Stash: Festive Bronze

As a beauty blogger and makeup collector (I think 'addict' is too strong of a word) I find myself in constant battle regarding the need for more makeup or not.

The dialogue goes a bit like so...

"Oh my gossssh, that gold eyeshadow is a-ma-zing, look at how beautiful it is, but...I already have a gold eyeshadow, in fact I have like 4...yeah but I don't really have one that's this beautiful...actually yeah, I probably do...but it is so beautiful...I MUST HAVE IT!"

And thus another item is added to my never ending collection.

Now this may not be such a bad series of events if you're an MUA or aspiring to become one, but I am neither of these things, I just like make up!

So in the spirit of all things thrifty I decided to shop my stash to avoid spending frivolous money on more make up (cough cough, I am still coming for you Heroine lipstick.)

I have A LOT of products that I fell truly, madly, deeply in love with but placed to the side when new products caught my eye which is not only a shame but also sometimes a waste of money.

So last night whilst I was having a play with some of the products that I had bought during summer and placed to the side, I decided to use them to create a super easy festive look with glitter.

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For this look I grabbed several products that were literally collecting dust in my collection.

Firstly for my base I used my Touche Eclat Foundation in B70 from YSL. I had heard so many great things about this foundation so I had to pick it up. The finish of this foundation is DIVINE! So fresh and flawless, it instantly gives your skin a glow, the only negative I have to say about this is that it's too light for me as a base and this is the main reason why I do not reach for it as frequently as I would like to. I've had to warm up my face with my bronzer for these pictures which is a shame because I really do love this foundation.

Next for the eyes which were SUPER simple!

I simply placed some of NYX's Jumbo Pencil in Bronze on my lid, blended it out and then applied one of the most gorgeous glitters around on top of that.

Now, let me start off by saying I'm not actually that fond of glitter at all, to be honest I'm indifferent to it, a majority, if not all looks work just as well with a shimmery shade, however I decided to pick up what I thought was a pigment at IMATS but when I got home I realised pigments were actually called 'pigments' at MAC and not 'Reflects,' alas I worked with what I had.

I placed MAC's Reflects Bronze on top of the jumbo pencil using a damp synthetic brush. Until now I had never really realised how beautiful this glitter was, it's not as chunky as normal glitter but it has texture unlike pigments which gives you the perfect amount of subtle sparkle as you can see above. 

Then lips!

You guys know about my love of red lips but most times when you go heavy on the eyes it's best to keep the lips simple so I decided to change it up and reach for one of my Sleek Lip4 palettes.

I had bought 4 of these palettes during the summer but I had sadly never really used them.

I reached for the Havana palette which holds some beautiful brown tones and nudes. 

I firstly lined a majority my lips with NYX's Cocoa lip liner, I then applied the shade Frappucino to the center of the lips and blended well. Afterwards I added my favourite lip gloss NYX's lip gloss in Miami Babe to warm up the colour a little and then some of Hard Candy's Plexi Gloss on top of that for a subtle shine.

And voila!

The result, the above super simple festive look!

I hope you like!

Just goes to show what gems you can create by looking around at what you already have!

What do you think of this look?

Do you shop your stash?

If not, do you think you will do now?

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Autumn/Winter Makeup Tutorial

Hi lovelies!

I'm back with my second make up tutorial that I am really excited about as it is perfect for this season!

I'm not normally one for 'trends' but I am aware that others do prefer to wear a berry/vampy/dark lip for A/W.

This is a very simple and wearable everyday look making good use of the Wet N Wild Vanity Palette!

Remember you can also change up the lip colour, I normally reach for this look when I'm wearing my infamous red lips!

Products Used

FACE:

Wet n Wild Vanity Palette (Brown)

Maybelline Brow Drama in Dark Brown

MAC Studio Finish Concealer in NC50

MAC Oil Control Lotion

Hard Candy Sheer Envy Primer

Graftobian High Definition Color Palette in Warm #3 (Ginger, Winter Wheat and Femme Fatale)

Natural Collection Loose Powder in Warm Translucent

Sleek Suede Effect Pressed Powder in SE03

Covergirl Queen Bronzer in Ebony Bronze Q120

NYX HD Grinding Blush in 03 Apricot

MAC MSF in Gold Deposit 

Smashbox Halo Hydrating Perfecting Powder in Dark

EYES:

ELF Mineral Eyeshadow Primer

Wet n Wild Vanity Palette (all the matte shades and the copper shimmer shade)

Inglot E/S in No. 335

Makeup Geek Gel Liner in Immortal (love this stuff!)

Benefit They're Real Mascara

LIPS:

Barry M Lip Liner in Plum No.11

YSL Rouge Pur Couture in 39 Pourpre Divin

BRUSHES USED:

"MAC" eBay Brushes

MUA Brushes

Real Techniques Brushes

Hope you enjoy!

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Kaleidocolours

Jumpsuit: Topshop/ Converses: Size?/ Earrings: eBay/ Sunnies: Primark/
Lipstick: Limecrime Posionberry and YSL Rouge Pur Couture in 39

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YSL Buys

YSL Babydoll Mascara/ YSL Rouge Pur Couture in 39

Working within walking distance of Oxford Street has it's pros and cons. 

Pros include the vast array of shops, however this is also considered a con in my eyes as I happily add to my ever expanding wishlist!

After work on Thursday my colleagues and I headed to Oxford Street to take advantage of the high street beauty offers.

However somehow (I cannot figure out how!) I ended up at the YSL counter in Debenhams.

I have never been a YSL girl, I own nothing from this luxury brand and to be perfectly honest I had no plans to buy anything from them until I saw Tanya Burr's video. 

I loved the look of Touche Eclat foundation on her so I wanted to try this out but I became distracted by the GORGEOUS range of lipsticks on offer.

I swatched until I had no space left on my hand and vowed to pick up the gorgeous purple that had caught my eye.

Cue two days later and an overwhelming amount of begging to my brother... I took my short lil self to my local Debenhams in order to pick up the YSL Shocking Mascara and the purple lipstick I had swatched.

The lady at the counter was super nice! 

Instead of the Shocking Mascara she recommend YSL's newest mascara Babydoll which worked much better for me as I found upon testing Shocking my lashes clumped up A LOT.

She then matched my shade of Touche Eclat foundation to B70 and finished off with a GORGEOUS YSL bronzer in 30.

It was safe to say I was fully YSL'd up!

I left happy and very impressed.

When I got home I wasted no time swatching my new lipstick!

I picked up YSL Rouge Pur Couture Lipstick in 39 Pourpre Divin

This lipstick is DE-vine! 

I mean with YSL you get what you pay for!!

It glides on fabulously and provides the most beautiful smell as well as colour.

Here I'm wearing the Babydoll mascara as well as my new gorgeous lipstick.

I think the pictures sell how seductive this lipstick really is!

I can finally end my strenuous mission of finding the perfect purple lipstick!

Thanks YSL!

Do you have any YSL products?

What do you recommend?

Dont forget to enter my GIVEAWAY due to end on the 2nd June 2013.

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