Rainbow In The Dark

No sign of the mornin’ coming
You’ve been left on your own
Like a rainbow in the dark
Just a rainbow in the dark









Sugarpill Love+, Poison Plum, Flamepoint, Buttercupcake, 2am, Mochi, Acidberry, Lumi. Sleek Black, LA Colours Jumbo Eye Pencil in Iridescent Light, Collection2000 Extreme 24/7 pen liner in black, Barry M Glitter Liner in 07 Gold.

Experimenting with mattes on a shimmery base (didn’t go so well, bro – check out that outside edge. Whoopsie. ) and few other things. Also, Dio. Hope you liked!

MUA Pretty Pastels Palette: Looks and Swatches

Makeup Academy recently came out with a Professional range (which to my annoyance appears to be in no physical Superdrug in my vicinity) which included - shock! gasp! swoon! - palettes for £4. Four measly squid! I like a lot of the £1 MUA range, so when I bought some of the Professional range online to send to Wendy I couldn't resist picking up one to try myself.

I went for the Pretty Pastels palette, as I don't really have many pastel colours in my collection, but at that price I'm sure I'll end up catching them all! You get 12 colours in a pan and each one is 20p sized (but er, round.) Compared to, say, a Sleek palette, the packaging isn't as sturdy or fancy looking, but it's minimal (there's often a danger of tweeny packaging at low prices and there's none of that here - I love the fact this is grown up, affordable makeup), functional (I've slung it in my bag with no problems), and I like that you can see the colours.

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Top row, L-R. Top row on bare skin, bottom row over NYX JEP in Milk.

Bottom row, L-R. Top row on bare skin, bottom row over NYX JEP in Milk.

Compared to the swatches I've seen of the other palettes, these do seem to be a bit more sheer, but of couse they are pastels. The pigmentation on some is pretty good, such as that lovely orange and the champagne colour from the bottom row. I only wish the top left hand cream, which has a lovely pink shift showed up more - it's gorgeous but very little payoff. Work on that one and bring out a full size please, MUA!

Let's have a butchers at them on the eye then, shall we?

Great for a quick, subtle neutral look...

...or a work safe rainbow?! Yes?! It totally is, right?

All in all, a bargain for four quid! Although a couple of the colours could have better pigmentation, but there are also some beauties here. I can see myself getting a lot of use out of the palette, especially for transitionary/blending shades, and I'm sure I'll pick some more up soon - I've got my beady eye on Dusk Till Dawn!

Up above the streets and houses

So today I did two looks. I didn't like the first one, took it off, didn't like the second one.

Oh well, here they are anyway!





Yep, I did a rainbow look! Just because I'd never done one before. It was only ok, I didn't have an orange that matched the texture of my other shadows very well. It looked ok in the end but I'm going to meet my boyfriend and I thought he might like something a bit less.... clowny.


So I did this:





Now I know it looks ok (I used my new MUA duochrome shadow that I didn't swatch yesterday over NYX's Milk and Black Bean) but I tried about five times to put false lashes on today (he has decided he likes falsh lashes, which means I have an excuse to wear them now! :D) and it just wasnt happening, so I don't like it. Yes I'm being silly, no, I don't care.



My Outfit Of The Day: Primark tank, Volcom skirt. You can't see but I'm wearing embroidered chinese slippers with pink roses on for shoes, and cuuute little earrings with Sailor Jerry type swallows on. Now I'm going to add a black cropped cardi, navy military jacket and pale blue Alexander McQueen-style scarf. Speaking of AMcQ, that loooovely perfume bottle there is MyQueen perfume, which I have run out of but I adore.

Yay or nay on OOTD?

Love and kisses,

Robyn x