A/W Fashion and Accessories 2014 Wishlist

Winter is coming whether we like it or not (not). I have always been a summer girl at heart but I have decided to try embrace winter this year and more importantly embrace winter clothes, accessories, bags, shoes, scarves ect!! I'm trying to not spend much lately as I got into debt going to uni and on holiday, but it's really hard :( so I decided to make a winter wish list and slowly buy things off the list when I can afford them!

Topshop - Faux Fur Collar Coat £75

River Island - Black Chunky Platform Chelsea Boots £40

Zara - Aqu Sock Boot £29.99

Zara - Fleece Trousers £19.99

Zara - Crew-Neck Sweater in Navy Blue £45.99

Topman - Blue Mixed Twist Cable Jumper £30

Topman - Black Longer Length Jumper £32

Public Desire - Kendra Black Boots £22.99

Honour Over Glory- Patch Beanie Cranberry £15

Topshop - Check Print Jersey Coat

Zara - Mini City Bag £39.99

Timberland - Women's 6-Inch Premium Waterproof Internal Wedge Boots £165

Filofax - THE ORIGINAL ORGANISER PATENT £80

Boohoo - ABBY HIGH RISE RIPPED KNEE SUPER SKINNY JEANS £25

Accesorize - Ruby Check Blanket Scarf £19

Next - Metal Bar Detail Purse Blue £10

Even as i write this my list is constantly growing! Let me know what is on your wishlist and what you've already bought!! 

Love, 

x

Shu Sole Wishlist

Hello my lovely's :)

Fancy Cleated Platforms £19.99

I know it has been way too long but i had to finish uni which was very stressful and i had no time for anything! :( and have been so busy with work lately. I am wanting to get more into blogging and create more of a fashion based blog and instagram. SO go check out my Instagram @felicity182 and see my fashion inspo and all the clothing companies i have been falling in love with lately and also all the holiday clothes i have been buying.

So seeing as im poor and i cant spend any money at the moment i have been making lots of wishlists of things i wish i could buy and cant wait till i can buy them. To start off i have found an incredibly cheap but amazing shoe store on Instagram which im loving!!

Pink has never been my colour but i am slowly starting to LOVE it!! I feel like im about to go into a girly stage for the first time in my life and im secretly loving it. Theses first shoes are the Fancy Cleated Platforms in Pink. Normally at a great price of £24.99 but as i have just found out they are only £19.99 atm. (omg i am having to force myself not to buy them RIGHT NOW!!) They do them in 6 colours, Baby Pink, Black, Dark Tan, Silver Hologram, White and Yellow. I feel like i need them in black and white too but i am in love with more of their shoes so i can get them in black and white.

Reona Cleated Platforms £24.99

These are the Reona Cleated Platforms in Black, they use to be £39.99 and its now only £24.99 which is pretty great for 6inch heels. They are also in 6 colours, Black PU, Black Suede, Pink PU, Rose Gold, White PU, Tan PU. These are more like clubbing heels and for going out, where as i think the others you could dress down and wear during the day time too.

My final shoes are beauts and are perfect for day time and summer. They're called Nitty Strappy Shoes and are £22.99. They come in 4 colours, Black Pu, Black Suede, Tan PU, White PU. I personally love the white ones and think they are just gorgeous and so perfect for summer time and holiday! 

Go check them out http://www.shusole.com/

love, 

x

My Wish List

As always there is loads of products and clothes that i really want and think i need (i do need them haha) so i thought i would make a wish list and then in a few weeks will come back and see what i ended up getting or getting instead!

Here's a List of some of the clothes and accessories i want...

1. Topshop Super Soft Lounge Wear Trousers £25

2. Topshop NAIVE Cross Through Sandals £45

3. Topshop Medium Clean Satchel £28

4. Topshop Matte Nails in Hanky Panky £6 (colour light blue)

5. Topshop Matte Nails in Easy Peasy £6 (colour grey)

6. Michael Kors Ladies Watch MK5191 £209

7. Black Milk Woah Dude 2.0 Nana Suit Top £22.09 Bottoms £24.85

8. Forever 21 Sheer Crochet Lace Bralette £5.65 

Let me know what's on your Wish List at the moment 

love, 

x

Illamasqua Haul

my illamasqua delivery has ARRIVED!! I'm beyond excited I had to go home especially to use it! it arrived in a black box and with a load of black tissue in the bottom with the make up nicely placed on it! I have literally only been able to use them a few minutes ago so just going to talk about them quickly and then review them later!

Hydra Veil - £27

this is a primer and loads of people have recommended this to me so I really wanted to try it! thought it would be great for me and my kit as need there make up to stay on long plus mine always come off quickly! texture wise it feels lovely as do a lot of silicone based primers but as I've only had it on for half an hour I can't tell you if it keeps your foundation on well yet! it comes with a cute and useful spatula that fits into the lid so you won't lose it plus the packaging is gorgeous!

Skin Base Foundation - £27

as I bought this foundation online I had to match it online to my skin tone, I bought this foundation for me to use but if I liked it on me and others I can always buy more for my kit in the future! I put it on tonight in bad lighting so to be honest I can't give you a good review but I barely used any and it seemed to be able to cover me well, and the colour seems to be a good match (thank goodness!) I will use it on Thursday which is a very long day for me and can review it well then to see if it stays put! hopefully used with the primer it will stay as my foundation always comes off! I got it in shade 4.

Skin Base Lift Comcealer - £16

lately I have been using concealer under my eyes a lot more as I find them really dark atm! but what I always find even when I use powder it creases almost instantly and throughout the day :/ I really dunno what to do about it and will have to try a few things to sort it out! but I use a bit and once again it creased, but it could of been cos I didn't blend it in enough! but the colour was a good match and the lightest shade (shade 1)

Eyebrow Cake in Stark - £15.50

I was worried about getting this colour as it was the redest shade but on the swatch on the website didn't look red at all, but sadly it's completely red and looks awful on me! it will be going in my kit tho as it will suit some people (mainly redheads) but I do really like the product itself

Sealing Gel - £7

I got this to use on the eyebrow cake as I want my eyebrow products to stay put plus it glides on easier than just eyeshadow, as I got the wrong shade eyebrow cake, I decided to try it out quickly with my mac eyeshadow that I use for my eyebrows (omega) I didn't have my eyebrow brush on me but on first use I did really like it and it's probably a product I can use in my kit a lot!

love, 

x

Dark Circles

something I suffer with is dark circles under my eyes, probably because I barely sleep and don't drink much water at all (it's awful I know I'm going to try get better at it!) As I don't tend to wear any make up lately it's become a real probably as I don't use products to cover it up! so recently I've been researching into the causes and treatments and products you can use to get rid of them or at least make them better!

some of the ones I have like the sound of I'm going to share with you, I will try a few out and see if any make a difference and if so I will do a review on it and show the progress! (if there is any hopefully)

method one 

take 2 teaspoons and put them in the freezer over night, take them out and let them rest for a little, then place them gently under the eyes, moving to cover the whole undereye, the coldness of the spoons should wake up your under eye and decrease black circles!

method two 

use an ice cube or two and wrap them up well and place them under the eyes till it melts, this is the same sort of thing as method one just a bit harder

method three 

create your own green tea ice cubes, make some strong green tea, poor into an ice cube tray and leave till they are done (normally a couple hours) then wrap them up the same making sure they aren't too cold and dab them under the eyes, green tea has been proven to minimise dark cycles and is used in a lot of expensive treatments you can buy for under the eye.

method four 

use under eye creams regularly and start from a young age! using eye cream every night makes the under eye skin more strong and the stronger it is the less sensitive it will be to becoming puffy and dark, look out for ones that have caffeine in them as this has been proven to help a lot with immediate dark circles under the eyes.

method five 

being dehydrated does a lot of bad things to the body and skin (I would know) so making sure you drink lots of water will help, also having a healthier life style like sleeping more and not drinking or smoking! I'm going to try drink lots more water but I don't know how I will be able to fit more sleep in atm because life is rather hectic atm

method six 

and lastly the good old fashioned cucumber or tea bags on the eyes. you can cut up very thin slices of cold cucumber and rest on your eyes for ten minutes or you can chill a tea bag (prefabally green tea) and then place on your eyes for ten minute!

I haven't yet tried any of these method but am definitely going to start and keep you updated on what I think works best and how long it takes to be effective!!

love,

x

Make Up Life ATM

hey guys, right sorry about no posts the last two days, it's just been super hectic at work and uni so just haven't had the time! just gonna have a quick ramble on about what's going on in my life make up wise to keep you updated and then tomorrow I can do another mac review and talk more into depth about my uni subject this week.

so I just placed a big order a few hours ago to illamasqua which I'm unbelievably excited about! should be coming early next week!! can't wait to try out what I bought!! hopefully colour wise it will match me as having to buy it online it was tricky and when in the London store for a demo earlier this year I didn't end up getting foundation tested so I didn't know what colour I was in skin base. but thank god for the Internet as I managed to find a chart which told me if I was that colour in mac I would be that colour in skin base so I could work it out! I will be keeping the rest of the products a surprise until they arrive so I can show them to you and once having used them can review them too!

I am now OBSESSED with watching start up make up kits on YouTube, honestly it's so fascinating seeing all the different products people think are good to start with the kit and how they pack everything and compress it down to fit in what ever carrier they are using for their kits! I have gotten plenty of ideas and over the next few months and Christmas I will be purchasing some and trying to really sort out my kit and make sure it's completely ready for any job I get thrown into! my mind has been taken over by the thought of buying a zuca bag! it's like every make up artists dream to have one and is the ideal thing to store your make up in when going on shoots ect!! hopefully in the next few weeks I will be able to get one and then will upload sooo many pictures and reviews!! it just sucks it's so pricey!!

this week at UNI we are focusing on special effects make up and making bald caps, applying them and also creating burns and scars and so on.. although I absolutely love horror films I have never been much into doing the make up for it myself but I do appreciate the art form completely it's just stunning! it will be fun and good to learn all about this side of the industry because I'm sure throughout my carer I will have to put these skills to good use!!

so yeah just what's been going on lately to keep you up to date..

love,

x

Inspiration

just wanted to show you some of the inspiring pieces of work that I have found lately. I love really rich colours and textures in make up and anything abstract and high fashion is what I find the most interesting, although this terms topic is on Victorian circus, so I think I will be researching a lot of black and white make up looks

love felicity x

love, 

x

Nail Art

I was going to do some product reviews but I'm not home at the moment so I thought I would show you some of the nail art designs I have done! over the last few years I've been obsessed with going over the top with nails and free drawing, it has been made easier since having fake nails as they are finally long enough to do a lot more designs plus I just like them all being the same size and shape constantly! if you want to know how I did any of them just comment below and I will do a separate post just on that and what products I used..

love, 

x

Nude Lipstick And Natural Make Up Look

For the last few months I haven't been wearing make up because I went on holiday and then decided I wanted to make my skin better! but since I've started going back to uni I have started to wear a little! today I thought I would go with nude lips to match my nude nails!! to create them I used mac stone lip liner all over the lips and over the top used a nude lipstick from my Charles fox lipstick palette.

for the rest of my make up I used mac face and body shade C3 a cream cheek tint, mac eyeshadow on my eyebrows and a tiny bit of mascara on the top eyelashes.

 

  

love,

x

How To Dye Your Hair Like Mine

If you follow me on anything you will know I dye my hair all the time! I get bored within a week and go another crazy colour!!

So i thought i would let you know how i did this hair colour, at the moment I have pink and purple split hair. I always use Directions hair dye! for my hair atm I mixed up two bowls with half a pot of carnation pink and half a pot of violet dye with a load of conditioner, once to the colour you desire wash and shampoo your hair then towel dry and comb through. apply the colours to where you want it to be and leave for at least an hour! wash off, condition treatment your hair for 5 mins at least then wash off and dry and style your hair like normal.. I love how it turned out this time and might even try and keep it for a while :)

 it then faded loads which I really love and it looks like this now..

 

love,

x