A Cliche Pastel Springtime Post!

This was what I wore to see The Hunger Games film numero uno this week. (Mini-review: I quite liked it! Not as good as the book but kinda nice in a simplified way.)

I used my Urban Decay 15th Anniversary palette (Vanilla, Tainted, Omen and Deep End) over their Eden Primer Potion. Kryolan blue gel liner in the waterline and Fyrinnae Winter Again on the inner corner. The Balm Cabana Boy blush and a MAC cremesheen glass from the Daphne Guinness collection (pale pink) finished the look. Foundation was my old trusty Laura Mercier oil-free tinted moisturiser with a drop of my Illamasqua Skinbase foundation in it (as the former is too light and the latter WAY too dark for me).

This look I wore to work. I wanted a soft look that felt really comfortable and easy to wear. This is Butterfly Dreams pigment from the Vera collection (used wet with water-based mixing medium from MAC pro) with a little Omega, Texture and Charcoal Brown in the crease. Lips are Butterfly Dreams plushglass over the top.

Ok, not strictly pastels but quite au naturel and Spring-y. This has been my go-to make-up since I discovered liquid eyeliner when I was 15; a decade of love...only now I have Omega eyeshadow for soft eyebrow filling and eye-crease defining. Lips are Prolongwear lip pencil in Absolutely It with Butterfly Dreams plushglass on top.

Posting regularly seems easy again, I'm on it! :) I finally ordered some Face and Body foundation and Fix+ etc for my kit. Exciting stuff.

Ruth x

Attempt at a darker EOTD

I love colourful make-up but I feel like I neglect darker looks. For this reason, I have been using Blackout from the Urban Decay 15th Anniversary palette quite a lot. Yesterday I wore this to work. I used Pixie Epoxy for a pop of shimmer in the centre of the lid and patted MAC Mutiny Pigment on top. I used Blackout and Evidence for the smokey edges and Vanilla as a brow highlight. NYX jumbo pencil in Milk was my sticky base for Sugarpill chromalust in Tiara (silver) as my inner corner highlight.

UD 15th Anniversary Work Look

I still didn't bother with many of the neutrals. This look used Flow (Inner corner), Deep End (Above crease), Omen (Lid), Blackout (To create a soft cut-crease) and Ace (under lower lashes). I love my new earrings and hair streak because they match Deep End. I have a more exciting post coming later on today, please pop back!

Ruth x
I have stopped using Liz Earle cleanse and polish every day for fear of my skin beginning to produce too much sebum (ick). And now I have a few little bumpy spot thing :( Maybe I'll just have to be more gentle with my muslin cloths.

Urban Decay 15th Anniversary Palette - so far so good!

I really love the texture of the eyeshadows in this palette above all else. I am already over the finger print Hell that is it's shiny metal packaging... because Blackout is INCREDIBLE. I'm sure anyone who cares to has seen plenty of swatches, reviews etc as I have been up to my eyeballs in information about this one myself.

Of course it's silly if you buy into the hype around a product (just because it sold out in America and so on) and end up with dupes or a generally unneeded product (no matter how good it is). I will say this - it has many similar colours to the Naked Palette (variations on a theme) and the teal and purples are similar to MUA £1 eyeshadows I own but rarely use. However, I love it! Haha. Flow is such a weird colour (peachy shimmer) - definatlely unique to my stash. And overall, they're all just that little bit different enough for me. And they're so smoooooooooooooth.

I have probably passed over into true make-up madness (ooh that sounds fun, I hope I have).