H&M face masks!

Bonjour my darlings!

Yes I'm posting on my blog, on a Saturday! Like I should every week! Oppsy! 

My long term; long distance friend came all the way from New Zealand and stayed with me for a week in England! When in the Oxford street H&M we found their face masks which living in such a small town we don't have them in our h&m! So with them only being 99p each I picked up a few and we decided to give them a go and have a girly pamper night!

I bought two of the Raspberry smoothie ones and two of the other berry smoothie ones! I've only used the Raspberry one so far but it was the best face mask I have ever used ever ever ever! It leaves your skin feeling happy and moisturised which made me super happy because I have been suffering with dry skin on my forehead for the past few weeks and this sorted the problem! 

Not only is it super beneficial to your skin it also smells amazing and is so easy and nice to put on, it's like a moisturiser texture and not super sticky and it goes on really easily and washes off just the same!

If your looking for a face mask for a girly night but are on a budget then defo the H&M ones because they are such good value and are so amazing to use!

Sorry this is only a short blog post I will do some better ones this week!

What face masks do you use? Let me know in the comments!

Love Emily x

Live the Adventure

Good Morning Worldddd!

It's Sunday morning and I've decided that I want to do a bit of a different blog post for you today! Although this blog has primarily been beauty based so far, which I apologise for, I did say that I wanted to do some lifestyle posts for you to, so here we are!

Live the Adventure

Recently my friend who's a year older than me has been offered the most amazing opportunity but it's the other side of the world and he's really struggling to make a decision on what to do! This really excited me and inspired this blog post!

If your going to live by anything in your life it should be 'just do it'. It's what I live by. You can spend your entire life doing what you want to do, travelling the world, seeing different places, exploring different cultures and learning new things! You don't even have to leave the country you live in if you don't want to, just find things that will make you happy and give you new experiences, our you could base your life around what makes other people happy and only do things which keep the other people around you happy. If the people around you don't support what YOU want to do then they don't deserve to be in your life!

Sometimes I think it's hard to work out what makes you happy because you've spent so long trying to fit in or do things which the people around you enjoy rather than what you enjoy! 

So make the change which I have made recently, withdraw yourself for just a day, and find what really makes YOU happy, no one else just you. When you've done this you will have a whole new perspective on life and everything you do. I guarantee that as soon as you start doing what makes you happy and thinking about yourself you will feel so much better and become a much happier person!

If I could give one bit of advise to everyone it would be to,

Live the life that you want to lead.

I really hope that this hasn't come across as me being preachy and shoving my opinions down your throat! I didn't want it to be like that, I just wanted to remind you all that your happiness is important too! 

I'm going to leave this post with a really lovely quote which I found on Pinterest this morning, which relates to this post! 

Thank you for reading and I hope this has helped you in becoming a happier person! 

Let me know in the comments what makes you happy and/ or places to visit which have made you happy! 

Emily x 

What's in my make up bag? April 2014

Okay! I know I said I was going to update more regularly but I haven't been:-( in my defence I took these photos for this post back in Feb, just never got round to writing a post on it! So here goes...

WHATS IN MY MAKE UP BAG?

Before we begin I really don't have any order to this and my make up bag is full of the most random bits and pieces!

First of we have a picture of my make up bag. My make up bag is a travel/wash bag from ted baker with a beautiful see through butterfly print which I love. Unfortunately it is a bit small for all my make up and I can't actually close it so I'm definatly looking for a new bigger make up bag? Any suggestions? 

My make up bag.

Okay so now for what's actually in it! I have my favourite three which is my foundation which is a collection colour match one in Light 2, the baby skin pore eraser which I cannot live without and then maybelline dream fresh BB cream! All three I use ALOT and are my make up essentials!

My favourite three.

Next is my mascara's, I don't use mascara on a regular basis which I know for a beauty blogger is extremely weird but I'm constantly rubbing my eyes because of my hayfever especially this time of year so I don't bother haha! Only of I go out. But for someone who doesn't wear it very often I have LOADS! I won't explain them all to you because I've made it so you can see the names, they are all in black. But my favourite is the big and bold NYC one. If you do want any reviews or me to tell you about them and what they are please comment below! 

My mascara collection! Opps!

Next in my make up bag I have my concealers, I have three. The collection cover up stick, Hit The Spot concealer(one bought from my local drug store) and Avons color trend concealer. I like the ones in almost lipstick packaging, can you tell haha? The Hit The Spot is probably my favourite & it was only 99p which is even better!

My three concealers! 

Moving on I have my eyeliners, don't really have many eyeliners again because I very rarely use them unless I'm going out sonewhere! I have one liquid which is absolutely brilliant, may write a review on this one soon. It's the Rimmel Scandaleyes fine point eyeliner. The next is a collection Kohl black pencil eyeliner again which I quite like and lastly a glitter eyeliner which I bought YEARS ago from collection and finally just a body shop pot of glitter I can apply on top of my eyeliner!

Eyeliners! 

Next we have all of my face powders, blushes and bronzes! I'm not going to explain all of these as they are pretty self explanatory but again if you want me to or want any reviews please comment below.

Face powders!

Next we have all my 'tools' if you like! I have many brushes and sharpeners which are definatly a necessity in every make up bag! My foundation brush, the pink one, is from primark and it was £1.50 and it's honestly the best one I've used! The rest are mainly from the body shop years ago!  

Face tools

Okay nearly finished now! Next we have all of my eyeshadows, again I don't use them very often but I like to have a collection for when I go out. Maybe this year I should try from now I. To wear more eye make up! I have an MUA pallet, some No.7 singles and some Barry M dazzle dust pots a loreal single, colour tattoo pot and then some cheap pallets!

Eyeshadows.

LASTLY on the make up side of things is the favourite part of my make up bag... MY lipsticks!!!! I absolutely adore lipsticks! I have absolutely loads and there is still so many I want! 

Below are all my MUA lipsticks which as you probably know are all £1 each. I want to get all 16 basic shades then all their matte ones too!

MUA lipsticks

Below is all of my Avon ones. Mostly the colour trend ones. I have got two more avon lipsticks since I took these photos but I'll share them with you another day! 

Avon lipsticks.

Lastly I have my more "high end" lipsticks. Although my blog is all about the cheap and amazing products it wouldn't be fair for me to judge them as good if I haven't tried the other more high end ones so I have a topshop one, a Mac one, a Dior lipgloss and then just some collection and others which didn't fit any of the other lipstick categories before!

Here's all of my lipsticks together aww

Lipsticks

now for just some super random things which I keep in my make up bag!

Bobby pins and hairbands-  every girls best friend.

Make up wipes, these are No.7 and are fab!

A nail file and my favorite nail varnishes and also a nail design pallet thingy and eyelash glue...( told you it was random!!)

My VO5 hair oooomph powder!

OK SO THATS IT!! That is my make up collection!

Well isn't that one of the longest blog posts ever! If you've managed to read all the way to here I salute you and thank you! If you have any questions on any of the products or you want to know what one is or you want reviews please let me know. Also if you want any particular blog posts in the future please let me know!

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Hope you enjoyed this post! 

Thank youuuuuuu xo 

Collection 2000 Colour Match Foundation

Hi there!

Ooooh it's Wednesday and look at me being motivated and organised and posting! 

Today's blog post is based around the foundation which I've been using for the past few months which is the Collection 2000 ( I thought they'd changed to just Collection but this is a new product and they're labeled as Collection 2000) Colour Match Foundation.

I realise I'm holding it wonky and can I take a moment to apologise for my awful nails. Must paint them pretty soon!

This foundation is absolutely brilliant. I've been using dream matte mousse for so many years I decided I wanted a change and I also had no money so this was perfect. At £5.99 it really is a bargain!! It's SPF 20 and uses the whole oxygen complex to let your skin breath. It honestly doesn't feel like your wearing foundation it's great but it gives a very natural finish.

My skins not brilliant and with no make up quite blotchy but this foundation adapts to your skin tone and reflects your natural tones which is absolutely great as I don't have any bloches but I don't looked "caked" in make up.

It's a really great liquid foundation which is so inexpensive and lasts a really long time. I wear make up pretty much everyday and one bottle lasts me on average 2 months if not more. 

The colour I have it in is light 2. My skin tone is between ivory and beige they both work well. So light 2 fits me perfectly. 

I'd also like to mention the packaging. I love the fact that it is a glass bottle with pink writing and a pink lid as it is really simple and doesn't look tacky like some cheap foundations but also doesn't look to over the top and fancy. It's simple but classy and I love the casing for this foundation.

I would definatly recommend this foundation to anyone. I'll leave a link below so you can check it and and see what other colours they have and the price ect ect.

Thank you for reading this post! Please follow meeee!

Comment or tweet me what you want to see me do next. What you liked, disliked and any products which you would want me to review!

 

Sunday I'll be posting a "what's in my make up bag" blog so make sure you keep an eye out. 

http://www.superdrug.com/search?q=Collection+2000+foundation&searchsubmit=Search

Have a lovely day!

Emily x

Twitter - @emrosee_x 

Happy New Year!

Alohaaaaaaa!

So it's finally here, it's 2014. I hope you all had a lovely new year! I'm currently in the bath thinking of all the things I hope this year will mean for me and one thing which I want to achieve is this blog and not neglecting it. I started this blog towards the end if 2013 with high hopes for it but I've neglected it and only posted twice. So here I am starting the year off as I mean to go on!!

This year is a big year for me, it's the year which I'm going to turn my life around. (Lame I know I know) So I want to start by thanking you for even reading this blog it does mean a lot to me!

I really want to commit to this blog so I have decided that I will post every Wednesday and Sunday on here for you and I will try my best to stick to it! I'm writing a list if all the products I want to talk about and all the different posts I want to make:-) ooooohy

So I'm going to stop rambling and leave you with a quote I found and really liked. Happy new year, I hope this year treats you well and you achieve everything you want to💕 

Emily x

Twitter - emrosee_x 

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One Direction Lipstick Review

One Direction Make up then? What are we thinking about that?

I gave in! I was determined not to but I'm a huge lipstick fan and for £3 I couldn't resist buying a few!

I have the Harry, Niall and Liam lipsticks.  My favourite one or should I say the one I use the most is the Harry one as I'm in love with the colour. I really like the packaging as it's quite simple but so different from other lipsticks that are available, I love the bullet shape and the black and red blocks of colour. I think the packaging / casing of the lipstick is brilliant!

LIAM LIPSTICK

I've had this one quite a while and I bought it back in the summer months when they first came out. This colour was great for summer as it's a bright shimmery pink, it's a really bright pink but not quite a hot pink as the shimmer seems to tone it down a little bit.  I did use it quite a lot in summer when the clothes that I wore were very bright and very  colourful however  now as we are entering winter I haven't used it in what seems like forever because it doesn't really go anymore which is really annoying. So if you are thinking of buying the Liam lipstick then I would warn you that it's a seasonal lipstick and you wouldn't use it all year round. 

This is what it looks like and the colour as you can see here is quite bright and very girly.

Below is a swatch that I've done so you can see the colour on my skin and it does come out pretty much the same colour, it doesn't really dull down at all which is good. However I've only had the swatch on my hand about 10 minutes and the colour is already starting to wear off which is annoying with a lipstick as you want a long lasting lipstick so that you don't have to keep reapplying it constantly. But for £3 we can't really complain about having to reapply it regularly. 

NIALL LIPSTICK

Unfortunately I really do not like the Niall lipstick. It is a very creaming light pinky almost orangey colour with a lot of shimmer in it. I bought it in the hope that i would be able to use it with any outfit and it wouldn't be obvious I was wearing lipstick but it would give my lips that extra something about them and that extra colour however I really don't like how it comes out I do quite like the colour it is in the casing however when it's on I don't really like the colour as it's not pigmented a lot a looks odd.

( the Niall lipstick is the top on and the Liam on is below)

HARRY LIPSTICK

I absolutely love the Harry Lipstick, I think that it's such a brilliant colour. I wear red lipstick a lot all through out the year. I know a lot of people prefer to use red lipsticks during the winter more than during the summer but because I have dark hair I can get away with a red lippy at anytime of the year. It's really hard to find a red lipstick that's not to dull but not to vampire style red. This lipstick is perfect it's bang in the middle of the red lipstick spectrum! ( can you tell I quite like this one?)

Below I've made a collage of the lipstick and the colour it is etc! 

I really do like the One Direction lipsticks. I'm not a screaming fan of One Direction but I decides to try their lipsticks and see what all the fuss is about and I'm defiantly glad I did because for £3 they are such a bargain and they have such lovely colours in there range. 

Please let me know what you think of this blog post and how I've done it in the comments and also please let me know if you want me to review any products or do any particular types of blog posts! I'm going to try and post as many posts as I can this week (hopefully one a day) and I'm also going to try and sort out a twitter and Instagram page to go with this blog for you. 

Thanks for reading!:-) have a brilliant dayyyyy! X 

Hiyaaaaa!!

PrettyLittleHighStreetFinds eh?

Took me ages to come up with a name which I liked and
which was available!! This is my first ever blog and well
this post is my first ever blog post! (How exciting?!)

Anyway, well what's the point in this blog?? I'll tell ya.

I'm a huge fan of beauty and fashion blogs and I always
find that the products or items shown are always a well
known expensive brand which lets face it most of us
(Including me) can't really afford!! But that doesn't mean
we have to go with out! I've created this blog because I
feel you can get just as good of a finish with cheaper
high-street products items and with this blog I can show you
what I find and what I think of them!

What can I expect from this blog??

Well I don't know really I'm just going to go with the flow!!
I'm really excited to do some hauls which will be both fashion
and beauty related however towards the festive season I will
probably do some lifestyle ones to! I also am really excited to
do some Get The Look posts from different celebrities, and of course
not forgetting the whole product reviews and recommendations! But I
will do all of this using the high-street 'alternatives'. I'm super excited and
I hope that you will all stick with me!



Thank youuuuu

xo

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