Top 5 blushes

This post is sort of cheating, because I’ve lost one of my other favourite blushes, Darling Girl Fuji. So… sorry for lying, but I wanted to write this post anyway, and I probably would have had to do a top 6 if I could find it!

Clockwise from top, Inglot AMC Cream Blush in 88, Almay Blush in Peach 130, Accessorize Baked Blusher in Pretty Pink, Sleek Suede, Darling Girl Boardwalk.

L-R: Sleek Suede, Inglot 88, Almay Peach 130, Accessorize Pretty Pink, Darling Girl Boardwalk.

Sleek Suede:

Sleek Suede was released with the Nude collection (although it’s permanent, whee!). It’s a lovely peachy-brown, great for red heads and a bargain at £4.29. One of my favourites, I tend to use this at least twice a week. I’m also wearing it on the eyes and mixed with gloss in this photo!

Inglot AMC Blush in 88

 

Beautifully subtle colour for when I’m absolutely stuck for a colour choice as it goes with everything! I also use it as a light contour. These are the nicest formula of cream blush I’ve ever tried – they’re dead natural looking on the skin, super creamy and not greasy like some blushes, and a tiny bit goes a long way. I do need to set with a translucent powder or another blush for best longevity, but still an utter bargain at £9.

Almay Blush Peach 130

This, if I had to pick just one, is my favourite blush of all time. Bright without being scary, it goes with almost everything and lifts my complexion. I bought this for the measly sum of a quid in the pound shop and I am devastated that I’ll probably never find it again, so if you can think of a good alternative I will hug and kiss you A LOT.

Accessorize Pretty Pink

I mainly use this as a highlighter as it gives a beautiful glow. Screw all the MAC MSFs (this is supposedly a Moon River dupe) and what not, this costs bugger all at a fiver and is beautiful if you want just a hint of colour (for pale ladies!) and a gorgeous glow. I’m wearing it here with MUA blusher in shade 2 (an honourable mention, I must say) but if you enlarge the picture you can see the Accessorize blush. Laaaaaahve.

Darling Girl Boardwalk

A lovely bright coral – I’ve repurchased the mini size and really need to man up and buy the full size when this runs out. I really like how buildable this is – you can really amp it up if you want – and I’ve got compliments on this blush before, which is quite an odd thing to compliment someone on, I suppose, if you’re not a makeup junkie! Anyway, I love it, the quality is fantastic as with all DG blushes and it’s dead cheap.

 

Honourable mentions are MUA Shade 2, Stila Custom Color in Coral, MAC Springsheen and Darling Girl Fantasia.

 

What are your favourite blushes?

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In lieu of any humour or written entertainment, please turn your attention to some looks that have graced my face this week. I also ask that you politely ignore the stray hairs that have found their way into every single picture I have taken this week.




Eyes:
Lid: MAC Gesso, extended all the way to brow, Evil Shades Sylph on outer half.
Under brow bone: Shimmery shade from Wet n Wild Sky's the Limit Duo
Crease: Brighter shade from W&W duo
Lower Lashline: MUA eyeliner in Turquoise, lighter shade of Sky's the Limit Duo
Liner: Collection 2000 24/7 thing in Teal

Cheeks:
Almay Blush in 130 peach

Lips:
Darling Girl Liquid Kisses in Delight

Zing! This is the brightest look I have done in ages. It was weird to have such bright eyes again but I remembered why I liked it so much!




Eyes:
Under browbone: Living Dead Grrl Woooman
Crease: Fyrinnae Electro Koi
Lid: Fryinnae Leopard Print Galazy
Liner: High Voltage November Rain
Lower Lashline: Woooman/Electro Koi

Cheeks:
Darling Girl Fuji

Lips:
I can't remember! Sorry!

A pretty combination of shadows but I felt it was lacking something. When I work it out I really want to pair Woooman and Leopard Print Galaxy again.




Eyes:
Crease: Evil Shades Filigree
Lid: Highlight colour from Wet & Wild Night Elf palette (inner half) gold from NE, (outer half)
Outer V: Fire Opal
Lower lashline: Filigree/Fire Opal

Lid:

Cheeks:
Accessorize baked blusher in Pretty Pink
Sleek Contour Kit in Light

Lips:
MAC Russian Red

I wanted to use Filigree with Fire Opal and I got Russian Red in a package from Wendy today (Wonder Woman ftw!) so I had to use them all together. I would have felt sexy if I could have washed my hair today (boiler broken. Cue sad face.)

Next LOTDs are going to be some Sleek Bohemian looks!

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Turtle Beauty's Giveaway and Fall-y Goodness!

Except in Eng-er-land, we call it 'autumn,' innit.

In case you live under a rock, Cydonian of Turtle Beauty is having an awesome giveaway with LA Colours, China Glaze, Essie, Clinque and Maybelline! 'Citing! So go here and enter it thankyou plz, as it ends tomorrow.

Anyway, she asked people to do a fall look for extra entries, so today I finally got round to doing one:







Eyes:
UDPP/Pixie Epoxy
Rimmel kohl liner in Forest Green (lower lashline as a base)
Fyrinnae Damn Paladins (lid)
Fyrinnae Dressed to Kill (upper and lower lashlines, and blended out in the crease)
Hi-Fi Valentine Evenings (crease)

Face:
Mac blush in Springsheen
Sleek Contour Kit in Light

Lips:
Fyrinnae Lip Lustre in Devil Horns

I really liked this look. I know people don't think of green as being a very autumnal colour, but I really wanted to paired Dressed to Kill with some coppers or reds at some point, and it has a lot of gold shot through it too. It was a pain in the butt to get to stick, thank god for Pixie Epoxy!






Eyes:
TSS Angels Blush (lid)
TSS Gothic Glamour (crease and lower lashline)
Brown Kryolan AquaColour (liner)
Mac Gesso (highlight)

Face:
Almay Blush in Peach
NYX Mosaic Highlighter

Lips:
High Voltage Lip Candy in Kinky

Ok, so this picture is rank, but you get the point. Orange + brown = win. Plus I didn't have much time for my make-up that morning, and that always mean bright lippie.





Eyes:
Evil Shades Wistful (lid)
Evil Shades Double Barrell (crease and lower lashline)
Sleek matte brown from Bohemian palette (lower lashline)
Evil Shades Nymphette (liner)
Ancient NYC blue-toned shimmer powder for highlight

Face:
Oh, god, I don't know. Blush of some description.

Lips:
Cherry Carmex

In a bid to use my samples more (post coming up) I did a full Evil Shades eye. I'd not used Nymphette before and it's a totally gorgeous liner shade. I guess this is quite neutral and toned down for me, but I really liked it.


Plans for the weekend, peeps? I was going to go out tomorrow but I've been having really pooey dizzy spells so I think that plan is on the back burner. I'm hoping to drag my bloke to Camden to lust after corsets and cyber goth crap and try to persuade him that I really, really, really need high heeled Doc Martens on our next snowboarding trip. Failing that, make cup cakes. Gotta have a plan B.

xxx