Easy Rose Gold Nail Art

 It's been a while since I have done any form of nail art. I had some spare time the other night so I threw myself back into it.

2014 Beauty Favourites

2014 was a great year for me in terms of beauty products. I discovered a lot of products that I now love and I thought I would do a post about my top ten favourites.

Hitting Bottom! | Product Empties #2

Back from the doldrums with a new post - some rubbish I've been hoarding for this post. I've used up a few things, and thought I'd show you today!

Aussie Indies | Pretty Serious - The Pink One

If you love bright pinks, then the Pink One by Pretty Serious is a must have! The base is an awesomely bright pink, but what sets it apart form all the other bright pinks out there is the vivid blue shimmer in it. (As you could probably see in the bottle above.)

Rimmel Stay Matte liquid mousse foundation review

I picked up the Rimmel Stay Matte liquid mousse foundation a few months ago, at the Chemist's Warehouse 50% off cosmetics sale (bah long rant story about that sale.) This had apparently been reformulated, as the old one wasn't too great.

The foundation claims to be "feather-light, liquid mousse blends flawlessly for a natural-looking, all day shine control. Silky smooth formula leaves a perfectly matte, baby-soft finish. Lightweight texture won't feel heavy or greasy."

Drugstore Delights | Revlon Parfumerie - China Flower & African Tea Rose

Revlon released a new range recently, called Parfumerie. It's a collection of scented polishes. When Target had a buy one get one free sale recently, I thought I would pick up two - African Tea Rose and China Flower.

I love the bottle shape! It's adorable and luxe, with it's cute little rounded handle. If you can see above, I had them in my bag when I knocked it really hard against something by accident, cracking the corner of China Flower. (insert sad face.)

Ah well, what's more important is the polish inside it! How did I find them?

Haul | Priceline 40% off cosmetics sale

Priceline have 40% off cosmetics for today and tomorrow only. There's been a few things on my wishlist lately, so off I went... to four Pricelines.

The first one I went to was a small store and it was so packed that I just grabbed what I could reach and left. The second one was sold out of a shade I was after, and the third one was where I got most of what I needed. It was only in the fourth one that I finally got an eyeliner in a neutral shade, instead of bright blue ones.

So what did I managed to grab after all that running around?

Illamasqua - Fire Rose from the Glamore Collection

Illamasqua recently released their take on textured polishes, except theirs are called "Shattered Stars" in their Glamore collection. There were four polishes but I only bought one, as I think they were quite similar to some of the OPI ones I already have. The one I'm blogging about today is Fire Rose, a lovely rose pink shade with pink hex glitters.

Drugstore Delights | Maybelline ColorSensational Vivids Lipstick - Vivid Rose

The ColorSensational Vivids lipsticks range by Maybelline has some lovely bright colours. The one I'm showing you today is in the shade, Vivid Rose.

Vivid Rose is a gorgeous shade of bright pink. While I normally wear red, this is the one pink to make me fall in love with pinks. I'm quite picky with pink lipstick, as I always find them too cool against my skin tone, but this is perfect. The colour is insanely bright! I absolutely love it.

Aussie Indies | Sayuri - The Cat's Meow

Sayuri nail lacquer is one of my favourite Australian indie brands. She has some awesome polishes that speak to the throbbing heart of the pastel lover in me. My favourite collections are Speakeasy and Crystal Dreams. Today, I'm showing you a polish from Speakeasy, called The Cat's Meow.

Worth The Hype? | Clinique - Berry Pop blush

 

Clinique released four new blushes recently. I've heard a lot of love about these so I picked one up to try it. Australian prices suck hard, because this is $40 here, when in the US, it's around the $20 mark. I would've bought more, but narrowed it to one, which I'm showing you today, in Berry Pop.

Five Favourites | February

Rather than typing out a whole block of text about all my favourites for the month, I narrowed it down to five so that you're not here all day reading.

So what have I been absolutely loving this month?

Worth The Hype? | NARS - NARSissist eyeshadow palette

NARS' Narsissist eyeshadow palette was in stock on Mecca's website on Sunday and at the time of writing this, I can't seem to find it anymore. I guess everyone went zombie horde attack on live human on this... Having finished university, I thought, why not and splurged on this for myself. I went to my nearest Mecca store yesterday during my lunchbreak and the sales assistant told me that they only had three left by then. (Lucky me!)

It's popular and for good reason – it's fifteen of their neutral-ish eyeshadows (plus a limited edition one) and the quality is awesome. Despite the hefty price tag ($115, thank god for Myer One gift vouchers), I really think it's worth it.

Aussie Indies | Mckfresh - Oz from the Sunnydale Collection

Mckfresh Nail Attire, an Australian indie polish brand, released a Buffy inspired collection a while ago, called the Sunnydale Collection. The one I'm showing you today is called Oz, an awesome dark shimmery bronze base with an equally awesome in your face scattered holo. (Awesome.)

Lush R&B Hair Moisturiser

I bought the R&B hair moisturiser from Lush a while ago. My bottle of Moroccan Oil was down to the last drops so I thought why not. It's been three years since I had a hair cut so my ends are really dry - yes, yes, I should get a trim but I keep procrastinating on it.

The Lush R&B hair moisturiser is suitable for dry or curly hair types. It's made of fresh ingredients, like organic avocado butter and olive oil. You run it through your damp hair (and scrunch your hair, too, if you want) and leave it in to dry. It's meant to tame frizzy hair and make it silky smooth. After reading so many great reviews and trying it out, I swear there is something wrong with me.

OPI Mariah Carey, Spring 2013 - The Impossible

I purchased a mini four pack of the Mariah Carey collection for OPI on a whim. I thought it was a good way to introduce myself to texture polishes. I was hesitant to dip my toes into liquid sands (as OPI calls textured polishes), because any nail polish addict knows what happened after the whirlwind that was shatters, right?

From the four, I put on The Impossible, which has a red jelly base and pink hex glitters. There were also some stars, but I didn't get any on of them on my nails. I didn't make an effort to fish them out, though.

Bad Beauty Beginnings | Benefit's High Beam

Here we go, again, another installment of Bad Beauty Beginnings! In case you don't know what this series is, I talk about all the horrible mistakes I made when I started out with make up! (Because, don't deny it, we've all been there...)

Up for today's post was my intial experience with using Benefit's High Beam!

(I actually wrote about this on my old blog. Something about Glee and Quinn sleeping with Puck because she felt fat that day and how I felt bad about my exam so I bought this.)

I was so excited about using this but to be honest, I didn't really have any idea how to use it!

I watched a Youtube video, thought I was absolutely pro, slathered it on, then used a cheapy eyeshadow brush on sale from Sportsgirl to rub it in.

Liebster Award

I got nominated by Peach Cordial for the Liebster Award a while ago! How lovely, go visit her blog NOW, it's a great read, and will give you good ideas on what to check out around Sydney.

What is the Liebster award, you say? I nabbed this sentence from her blog, so I hope she doesn't mind!

" Liebster is a German word that means dearest, and this award is given to up and coming bloggers with less than 200 followers who you think deserves more recognition."

The rules of the Liebster award are:

- List 11 random facts about yourself

- Answer the 11 questions which are given to you by your nominator

- Ask 11 new questions for all the bloggers that you nominate to win the award

- Nominate 9 bloggers with less then 200 followers to win the award

- Go to each of the blogger's pages to let them know about their nomination

- Thank the blogger who nominated you by mentioning them and link back to their blog

Let's get cracking!

Yeah, I tried to do a fancy picture. 

Put the volume up! | Products for bigger hair

I stayed over at my mum's for Mother's Day recently and didn't bring any of my usual hair care stuff with me.

(Did you all have a good Mother's Day? My mum really wanted to go to the Star for their eat all you can seafood thing. I ate so much smoked salmon that I really can't... oh gross.)

So after I showered, I did my usual "blow dry my hair upside down" thing, but when I looked into the mirror, I thought, "woah my hair still looks so... flat."

I guess the stuff that I use makes a difference, after all!

So, I thought I would let you all know what works for me!

Hitting Bottom! | Product Empties #1

Here are a couple of products I've hit bottom on/used up recently. I think I'll keep these posts short, to 4-5 products at a time. Firstly, so these posts aren't a massive block of text and also, so I don't have to keep empty containers around for too long. 

I've used up a whole lot more but these are the ones that I want to tell you about! (Because honestly, I doubt you care about some cheap Big W bath set I got for Christmas.)