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!

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

Taylor Swiftin' it up | Black floppy hats & red lips with MAC, YSL & Revlon

Now, I have never been the type to wear red lipstick, even though I have an abundance of them. I used to think that red lips were just... too sexy for me. But damn it, something just feels so right when I put on my black floppy hat and wear it with red lipstick. 

Maybe it's the Taylor Swift fan girl in me, who knows. (Yes, might as well confess, guys, I love her. And thanks to the internet, I now sing and bleat like a goat to I Knew You Were Trouble.)

I have been loving wearing these three red lipsticks in the past couple of weeks. (Well, okay, the Revlon isn't technically a lipstick...)

Bad Beauty Beginnings | MAC Sea & Sky mineralize eye shadow + a swatch!

Thought it would be funny to look back on my hilarious and horrible histories with make up. So here is series! Reminisce with me as I'm sure we've all been there. (Or I could be the only noob who did these mistakes...)

In the three years that I've worn make up, it was only in the last two of them that I realised, yes, there really is a time and place for certain colours.

One of my mistakes when I was younger and naive when it came to make up involved MAC Sea & Sky mineralize eyeshadow.

When I saw it at my neareast MAC counter, I was mesmerized by its' marbled goodness and thought, hellz yeah, I need this in my life. I totally didn't have a blue eyeshadow, so it was a must.

You can only imagine my glee when I brought it home. I was so excited that I wore it the next day when I went to work. Back then, I worked at a very traditional menswear retail store.

Chanel Poudre Signee de Chanel Illuminating Powder swatch | Glowy goodness, oh my!

My textbooks for university cost almost $600 this semester - huge gulp - so I decided to splurge on something expensive that wasn't boring. Enter the limited edition Chanel Illuminating Powder from their Printemps Precieux collection.

 It costs $90AUD but I had a few Myer vouchers from my birthday to use up, so I didn't have to pay the full price for it. Thank goodness, I had trouble enough as it is with realising how much it was.