F-You Bobbi Brown! EOTD

I've nearly finished my bargain Bobbi Brown book. I've never tried her products but judging from reviews I've seen on temptalia.com, I didn't think she'd be so anti-shimmer, anti-colour and anti-fun!! I suppose the 80's had just ended and she wanted people to go back to a more classic beauty - without the blue mascara and highly frosty eyeshadows that were popular back then - but it reads to me like she's a make-up nazi. She thinks, for example, that people with blue eyes should not wear blue eyeshadow. She actually says at one point "Don't wear blue and green eyeshadow together". 

Besides, all the make-up in there is big pouty brown 90's lips and blunt kohl liner. Yes, I broke all your rules today, Bobbi. And I enjoyed it.

I used:

Base: UDPP and 24/7 liner in Mildew (under green shadow)

Eyeshadows: MAC Venomous Villains l/e Mineralize eyeshadow duo in She Who Dares (green half on lid), NARS Rated R duo (blue half, in crease). Darkened with shimmery black Inglot AMC 65. Inner-corner highlight was my white frosty Make-up academy shadow. Blended the edges with matte skintone Inglot 352.

Liner: tightlined with Urban Decay 24/7 liner in Perversion (something Bobbi says will damage my eyes and also make them look smaller... ooh I don't know which is worse! /sarcasm) and UD 24/7 liner in Graffiti (lower lid).

Foundation: Illamasqua Rich Liquid foundation in 140 (as concealer), Clinique Almost Make-up in 01 Fair, Clinique translucent powder.

Blush: MAC Wonder Woman l/e Mighty Aphrodite blush (both colours swirled together).

Brows: lightest brown from Sleek Paraguaya palette (I lost the plastic insert with names on already!)

Mascara: Boujois Volumizer

Ruth x

Little shopping spree.

Today I saw that MAC Surf Baby was out. All I particularly wanted was the teal nail polish so today I set out to my local Boots to find a teal cream polish for a cheaper price! I wasn't going to pay 10 pounds for a nail polish and 2.95 postage. No ta, MAC.

I found a teal in the new 17 Supreme Shine range. It is called "Wave". It claims to last up to ten days, I already know it won't... but the colour is pretty. As it's 3 for the price of 2 on all cosmetics at Boots at the minute, I also repurchased my Holy Grail liquid liner Boujois liner clubbing in Ultra Black because I noticed today that my Illamasqua Precision Ink is running out and I just don't love it enough to spend that kind of money to replace it. My third choice was an old favourite (not HG, just had it a few times in the past and liked it) the Maybelline great lash. I've already got two mascaras to try, so this will be saved for after my Illamasqua Volume Mascara and Rimmel Lash Accelerator.

I've been using Simple facewipes for make-up removal for years but I'm always looking to find new ones. These Johnson's fragrance free wipes were 2 for £4. While I'm on the subject I'm currently using Simple Spot Clearing wipes, and though I like them, it feels like they're quite drying around my eyes. As my only other make-up removers at the minute are a MAC one, which I also find drying, and a super-duper cheap Boots one (from the basics fragrance-free range) which is slightly greasy but really good at removing mascara, I'm going back to standard wipes. On the plus side, my time of the month break-outs seem to be at a minimum.

I decided to buy Botanic's soothing eye make-up remover as I've seen it recommended in blogs and on youtube. It's only around £4 pounds and is one of those half-oil, half-waterbased liquid ones. Clinique have a similar one that I absolutely adore but this is much MUCH cheaper and here's hoping a new favourite, too. 

The other products I purchased today were Oilatum natural repair facecream and Pond's cold cream. I have some samples of Oilatum's body cream which is really rich and lovely, and I have used their scalp shampoo for about 5 years (I have a really weird scalp, it's complicated). The other reason I decided to get this is it's always out of stock because Pixiwoo recommended it and I wanted in on the action. Why not?
The cold cream I have heard mentioned in everything from crime novels (particularly, it first came to my attention in John Gilmore's Severed, a very grusome account of the Black Dahlia murder. You see, Elizabeth Short herself used cold cream to take off her cake make-up, don'tcha know. Yeah, I'm lame /derail)
to youtube videos by lovely ladies such as daisynation.

I checked out Superdrug too, just to see what offers they had on and if they had any new Sleek stuff. Turned out they had an offer of two pounds off when you bought two Sleek true-colour lipsticks. The truly orangey-peach shade I swatched and wanted was sold out (isn't it always the way with Sleek!?) but the two I did get I already love. They are matte shades in Papaya Punch (coral red) and Mystic (bright violet). This is a fun way for me to try out lipsticks, and they're actually really high quality. I might have to go back for the bright pink and a dark red, too!

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I spent a couple of minutes browsing a charity shop and this LEAPT out at me. As it was only two pounds I figured I got myself a (quite heavy to carry back from town) bargain! Yay!

A super-bright EOTD is coming up later on,

 Ruth x