**CLOSED** International Giveaway to Win a Naked Smoky Palette

Hey guys, just letting you know that there is less than 2 days left to enter my international giveaway to win an Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette in case you haven't entered yet.

 If you would like to know more about the giveaway like extra info, terms and conditions etc, then click here to go to my original post about it. You can enter there or below on the Rafflecopter widget.

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**CLOSED** WIN an Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette | International Giveaway

Hey guys, today is the start of my brand new international giveaway to win an Urban Decay Naked Smoky palette. This giveaway is in celebration of my YouTube channel reaching 1600 subscribers!! Thank you to all of you who have subscribed to my channel and followed my blog <3 It means a lot to have so much support for them both. Anyway..on to the giveaway.

 As I've said already the giveaway is of an Urban Decay Naked Smoky Palette which is the newest Naked palette to come out. You might be able to tell by its name but this palette's eye shadows are perfect for creating smoky eye makeup looks. My first thought when I saw this palette was how cool the packaging is. It's just so pretty, probably my favourite of all the Naked palettes. It has a hard case which is great for storage and would be easy to wipe clean, unlike the furry sort of finish that the original Naked palette has.

 Inside you get twelve eye shadows. Some of them are shimmery and some are matte, although I think the majority of them are shimmery. The colours vary from warm golds and browns to cool blues and greys. This palette is so versatile that you could basically use it for any occasion, from an everyday look to a very dark makeup look.

 Here is a closer look at the colours:  

Now onto some of the conditions of the giveaway and the rules on how to enter. All entries will be verified to keep the giveaway fair. The giveaway will have already started when this blog post is published (18th August 2015) and will end midnight the 22nd September 2015. This is not a sponsored giveaway and the prize has been bought with my own money. Below are the different ways to enter the giveaway. 

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The winner will be notified within 24 hours after the giveaway ends and will have 48 hours to respond before I pick a different winner. I will do an update blog post to let you all know who the winner soon after the giveaway ends. Leave a comment below letting me know which is your favourite colour from the palette and why you would like to win it! Thank you all again for supporting my YouTube channel and good luck in the giveaway!!

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FOTD: Smokey Purple Makeup Look

Hey guys! I thought I would just share a quick face of the day with you. Here is a purple smokey eye done using the Naked 3 palette! This looks is really easy to create and it's lovely and natural looking for everyday wear. 

Products Used:

Face:

Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation

Essence Sun Club matte bronzing powder

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection concealer 

Eyes:

Colours from the Naked 3 palette:

Dust (all across the lid)

Nooner (through the crease)

Darkside (in the outer corner and under the eye)

Limit (to fill in brows)

Strange (to highlight) 

Maybelline The Falsies mascara

Lips:

Soap & Glory's super colour fabu-lipstick (The Missing Pink)

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Last Chance: Enter My International Giveaway To Win A Naked 3 Palette! (Closed)

Hey guys, I'm just reminding you all that my international giveaway to win an Urban Decay Naked 3 palette is ending tonight at midnight (IST) so this is the time for any last minute entries. Good luck to everyone. I will be announcing the winner in a blog post tomorrow :) Here is the original blog post if you want to read more about the giveaway.

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Pretty in Pink Makeup Look + Naked 3 Giveaway

Hey guys! So today I am showing you this gorgeous pink makeup look using the Naked 3 palette. As you might already know, I am holding an International Giveaway to win an Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette. You can enter the giveaway by clicking here.  Now on to how to achieve this makeup look. 

Products Used:

Face:

Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation

Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer

 Bourjois Délice De Soleil Bronzing Powder (to bronze face)

Eyes:

Dust from the Naked 3 palette (all over the lid)

Buzz from the Naked 3 palette (in the crease)

Strange from the Naked 3 palette (to highlight the brow bone)

Limit from the Naked 3 palette (to fill in the eyebrows)

17 eyeliner pencil in black

Benefit Bad Gal Lash mascara

Lips: 

Catrice Lipstick (130 frozen rose)

I hope you liked this very simple pink everyday makeup look. If you did, please give it a like on Bloglovin :)
If you haven't entered the international giveaway to win a Naked 3 palette yet, you can do it here.

Blogiversary + International Giveaway: Urban Decay Naked 3 Palette (Closed)

Hey guys, so today is the 1 year anniversary of my first blog post! I can't believe that it has been a whole year since I started this blog. Just thinking about the difference in the posts, the design and the readership,etc, I feel that my little blog has come quite a long way in twelve short months. I feel so proud to say that in one whole year that I didn't go one week without posting a blog post. Wooo! So to thank you all for continuing to read and support my blog over the last year, I am going to be running my best giveaway ever!!

I bought two naked 3 palettes last week, one for me and another for one of my lucky readers.

I will be using my one to do different makeup looks from the palette over the period of the giveaway and will be posting them on my blog so that you can see what great looks you can achieve with this palette. All the pictures below are of my palette so that the winner will get a brand new unopened identical Naked 3 palette.

This is a gorgeous rose gold palette with lots of the colours following a rose gold colour scheme. There are 12 high quality Urban Decay eye shadows included in the palette and also included is a double sided brush to apply the eye shadows.

As well as this amazing palette, the winner will also get 4 samples of different Urban Decay Primer Potions. When using a primer potion under your eye shadow, the colour appears a lot more vibrant and the eye shadow lasts so much longer. The four different samples of primer potion that come with the Naked 3 Palette are Original, Eden, Sin and Anti Aging so you can try them all out and see which is your favourite. The palette retails at €44 euro so I think that we would all agree that it would be pretty nice to get one absolutely free. Even if you are the most unlucky person in the world, it really wouldn't hurt to enter this giveaway to get such a great palette. I know that I have been wanting to get it for a long time.

All entries will be verified to keep the giveaway fair. The giveaway will have already started at midnight on the 1st of May 2014 and end midnight on the 27th May 2014. This  is not a sponsored giveaway, all prizes have been bought with my own money.
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The winner will be notified by email within 48 hours of the giveaway’s closing, and I will also do an update blog post to let you all know who the winner is. Good luck to everyone and thank you for following and supporting my blog over the last year. It means a lot to me :)

Easy Makeup Look Using the Naked 2 Palette

Hey guys, so today, I wanted to do a quick post to show you a makeup look that I did using the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette which I recently reviewed. And..here is the look:

                          How to achieve this makeup look:

                                           Face: 

                            Bourjois Radiance Reveal Healthy Mix Foundation

                            Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer

                                           Eyes: 

                            Colours used in the Naked 2 palette:

                           Tease to fill in eyebrows

                           YDK all over the lid

                           Busted through the crease and the outer corner (blended out with a fluffy brush)

                           Curl eyelashes

                           Maybelline The Falsies mascara

                           Maybelline Expression Kajal Eye Liner in 33 black(to line the waterline + tight line)

                                           Lips:  

                            Essence lip liner 08 red blush

                            Mac's Russian Red lipstick 

I hope you liked this post :) If you did, please give it a like on Bloglovin or a +1 on Google Plus. Also, let me know in the comments down below if there are any celebrity makeup looks that you would like me to do in a blog post or even in a video on my new Youtube channel that is coming in the next few weeks.

Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette Review

Hey guys, today I'm doing a review of the infamous Naked 2 palette by Urban Decay. I've already reviewed the original Naked palette which you can read here. I love the both the Naked and Naked 2 palettes because I always really love to do a neutral eye look. I can't wait to get the Naked 3 palette and try it out.

So this is what the inside of the palette looks like. It contains twelve neutrally eye shadows, a mirror and a double sided brush with both a flat and a fluffy side. I think it also came with an Urban Decay lip gloss too, which is nice but I would have preferred if it came with an Urban Decay Primer Potion like the original Naked palette did. Urban Decay eye shadows are really good quality and last super long, especially when you use the Primer Potion with it. 

I prefer the first half of this palette (from L-R) to the other half because I love warm brown tones. I do use the other half too though because they are really gorgeous colours, and I recently did a blog post of a silver and black smokey eye using this palette. 

So here is a closer look at the colours that come in the palette:

 

And here are the swatches of the eye shadows:

So that is the Naked 2 Palette. I probably prefer the colours overall in this palette to the ones in the Naked palette but then one of my ultimate favourite eye shadow combinations (Sin & Buck) are in the Naked palette so I don't know which one I would choose if I had to choose between them. If you are interested in buying the Naked 2 palette, you can buy it here on the Urban Decay website or you can get it at your local Urban Decay counter.

I hope you liked this post. Give it a like on Bloglovin or a +1 on Google Plus if you did. I'm thinking of doing a giveaway of one of the Naked palettes in the next few months (maybe for my blog's 1 year anniversary in May) so let me know in the comments below if that would be a prize that you would like to win and also let me know which of the Naked palettes that you would like to win. 

Golden Christmas Makeup Look

Face

Elizabeth Arden Flawless Finish foundation (Porcelain Beige)
Rimmel's Wake Me Up concealer (in Soft Beige)
Bourjois' Délice de Soleil Bronzing Powder (14 Olive/Tanned Skin)(to bronze face)

17 Blush (First Kiss) (on the apples of the cheeks)

Eyes

Colours used in Urban Decay's Book of Shadows Volume III (New York City Palette):

Maui Wowie (all over the lid)
Suspect (on the outer half of the eyelid)
Smog (in the outer corner)

You can use any eye shadow to fill in your eyebrows and to highlight but here is what I used:

Brows- Urban Decay's Buck

Highlight- Urban Decay's Virgin 

24/7 Glide-On Eye Pencil (Zero) (to line the waterline + tightline)

Bobby Brown Gel Liner (Black Ink) (to line the upper lashline; winging it out slightly and upwards)

Curl Eyelashes 

Benefit's They're Real mascara (applied to lashes in a zigzag motion to avoid any clumps)

Lips

Essence Lip-liner (08 Red Blush) (to line lips)

Mac's Russian Red Lipstick

I hope you liked this post :) If you did, make sure to like it on bloglovin or give it a plus 1 on Google Plus. I'll be doing a lot more makeup looks in the new year so if you want to request a celebrity look, leave a comment below. 

My Travel Beauty Essentials

Hey Guys! As ye know I love makeup... a lot, so you can imagine how hard it was for me to narrow down my makeup to everything that I need to bring with me to France for four months. Even though I did in fact narrow it down, I still think that I managed to pick a lot of things to bring because I'm going for quite a long time and didn't know what kind of things I would need. So I narrowed it down to two brush belts of Real Techniques brushes, two eye shadow palettes and a fairly big makeup bag of all the other makeup I need and a few of my favourite Sigma brushes.

I know this looks like quite a lot but you have to remember that this has to do me for four months, If I was only going for a couple of days or a week or something I wouldn't take half as much.

The first must have that I needed to take was makeup brushes, I picked the Real Techniques starter set, the core collection, stippling brush and blush brush. I also decided to take the Sigma F30 large powder brush (for powder and bronzer), the Sigma E40 tapered blending brush (because it's good for blending out my eye shadow and creating a smokey eye), the Sigma E30 pencil brush ( to use when highlighting my inner corner or to bring the shadow under the eye) and the Sigma E65 small angle brush which is my favourite brush for eye liner. If I was only going away for a couple of days I would only bring the RT starter set, stippling brush and blush brush like I did when I went to Paris in May.

The next essentials I picked were face products. I chose the moisturiser Bright Here, Bright Now from Soap and Glory to make my skin look more radiant. I chose Benefit's The Porefessional as my primer, Rimmel's Wake Me Up foundation and Bourjois' Délice de Soleil Bronzing Powder. I then decided to bring loads of concealers (I don't know why), which were Soap and Glory's Trick or Treatment, a limited edition Mac Hello Kitty one, Rimmel's Wake Me Up one and Benefit's Erase Paste. I didn't add any powder because my Rimmel Stay Matte powder fell and shattered so I might just buy one over there.

The next few things I chose were eye makeup. I first chose a few brow products like a Sigma shadow to fill them in (It's called Scarlett but it's a lightish brown colour), a pair of tweezers and some Catrice brow gel. Then some eyelash curlers and They're Real mascara, followed by a number of different colour eyeliner pencils, an Essence eyeliner pen and Essence gel liner in black. I also decided to bring a tube of Urban Decay's Primer Potion to make my eye shadow last longer.

Next onto the eye shadows that the primer is making last longer :P I'm taking the Urban Decay Naked and Naked 2 palettes because they are great for everyday eye shadows, which is what I think I need mostly for college classes and day trips and things, but there are also some darker colours for night time. I decided to leave my Mac 15 eye shadow palette at home because I didn't want to risk losing it or shattering any of the eye shadows while travelling but it gives me a good excuse to use my Naked palettes a bit more again.

I decided to bring only two blushes which are my favourite two, Sugarbomb and Coralista which I'm just thinking now are both very summery blushes *adds 17's Blush in the colour First Kiss to bag :P I'm sure I'll still wear the Benefit ones anyway because I love them.

I chose to bring a lot of lip products because I usually choose a lipstick by however I feel on the day. I thought that bringing a lip balm would be a good idea for winter in case my lips get chapped. Then I chose number 7's Classic Rose, L'Oréal Caresse Lipstick (101 tempting lilac), Soap and Glory's The Missing Pink, Mac's Viva Glam V, Mac's Shy Girl and an Essence Lip Liner in the colour red blush (to go with Viva Glam V). I though those were a wide range of lip colours for every occasion and mood. It has now occurred to me that I should have taken the pictures with the lipsticks open and the colours showing but for some reason I didn't think of it when I took them and now they're all packed away. I will probably do some kind of lipstick post in the future anyway so you can see them or just update this when I get to France. I also decided to bring another lipstick last minute and added it to my handbag because I was watching Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Khloé was wearing a gorgeous bright orangey/red lip which reminded me of my No 7's gay geranium. (which I original didn't pack because I thought I wouldn't be bold enough to wear it and that it mightn't look that nice anyway)

UPDATE: L-R Classic Rose, Tempting Lilac, The Missing Pink, Viva Glam V, Shy Girl and Gay Geranium.

Lastly, I chose to bring some nail varnishes. I chose Bourjois' So Laque Nail Varnish in the colour Beige Glamour, Not SO Bora Bora-ing Pink from O.P.I., Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine Nail Paint in Blue Plum and another Bourjois So Laque but in the colour Abricot Ouaté. I just like them all and use them fairly often so chose them to bring.

So that was my travel beauty essentials :) Hope you liked this post. It's now 3 in the morning because I was working today, trying to pack and was exhausted when I came home from work so it's a couple of hours later than I intended it to be posted but I prefer to write at night anyway :) The next time I post I'll probably be in France, and hopefully it will be in the next few days once I get my internet sorted and everything. Good Night xx