HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYYYY TO MEEEEE

 

I love looking back on old photos and remembering the good times. The fact that the photo above is 5 years ago baffles me. When did I turn 26?! Where has all the years gone?!  

But yes, today I am 26 years old. I have a VERY exciting day ahead of me. Keep your eyes peeled for what I have in store in an upcoming post. 

Dusty Girls

     

Back in June I went to Sheffield to attend THIS blogging event and one of the people giving a talk there was MooGoo. MooGoo is an Australian brand that is as natural as it can get. Their sister company Dusty Girls is that natural that you can eat the makeup, if you reallllllly wanted to. Although I highly doubt that it will taste night, but yano whatever floats your boat. Within the goodie bags MooGoo kindly gave us two products. The two I received are "Sunshine" Natural Mineral Bronzer and "Argyle Pink" Natural Mineral Lip Shine.

 

 

 

Argyle Pink is a super moisturising lip balm, that leaves a lovely hint of pink. As the name suggest it is slightly more towards the gloss side of lip balms as boy does this give your lips a sheen. It's very comfortable to wear, not heavy or sticky in the slightest. I adore the packaging on this too, its a very cute pink and slim enough to keep in your back pocket. At £9.50 it isn't the cheapest lip balm on the market but again you are paying for quality.

The Sunshine bronzer is next up, this all natural mineral bronzer is stunning. It isn't matte which I would prefer but luckily the shimmer in this is so slight it doesn't transfer onto the skin as much as I thought it would do. This isn't a bronzer I would contour with as its too deep toned for me, but to warm up my face its perfect. Sunshine really gives me that glow, that "I spent all yesterday in the sun, look at my tanned face" glow. At £15 I think its a fair price for the amount that you get. 

From using these two products, I really want to try more from the range, to see all of their products click here. What would you pick of the website?!

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Make A Splash - July 2015 BirchBox

Unani Aloe Vera Gel | £15 - This is a fast drying super soothing miracle gel and it will 100% be coming away with me next month when I go to Palma Nova. There is scent either which I really like because when I am on holiday there is nothing more than I hate when my after sun smell masks my perfume scent.

Pop Beauty "Peach Parfait" | £15.50 - My lord this little trio is gorgeous. The colours are to die for all shimmer, super creamy and blend like a dream. My favourite is the champagne colour which will be great for highlighting my brow bone.

Barley Prep, Blot & Blend Sponge | £5.99 - Ill be honest I am not struck on these sponges I will be honest. I have the Beauty Blender and nope, I think I need to sit and practise a little more.

Balance Me Congested Skin Serum | £16 - I think I now own nearly every Balance Me product, granted mostly in sample size but I seem to attract this brand. Not that I mind, I bloody love Balance Me. I have never used anything like this before and at the moment for some reason my skin is reverting back to its 14 year old self. So fingers crossed this helps get rid of them pesky spots. Oh it smells amazing too with a mixture of lavender, chamomile and aloe vera.

Benefit Dream Screen | £25 - Ill be honest, when I think of sun protection I don't think of Benefit. Dream Screen has a SPF 45 which is so amazing, with this size I will use this for my face. As there is no way this sample size will cover my arms and legs. And I know it sounds daft, but shaking this bottle up is strangely stratifying.

Cowshed Cow Pat Hand Cream | £18 - My first ever Cowshed product, this is a brand that I have been meaning to try for a long while. I have heard very good things. I am not overly keen on the scent of this hand cream, personally I didn't think grapefruit and coriander would ever be mixed but hey Cowshed you do you. I am yet to give it a test drive as I have 4568945894 hand creams but watch this space.

The products in this months box are perfectly matched to the Make A Splash theme and I am loving the bag that came with it, it will be perfect for when I am pool side on holiday.

What did you think of this months Birch-Bag?

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Vote for Vanity Vemon for the UK NYX Face Awards here

NYX Face Awards UK - Vanity Vemon

Well my little sugar plums, I am here today to ask a favour. My friend Emily or Vanity Vemon as she is more commonly known as on the Internet; has just placed in the top 10 of the NYX Face Awards.
Amazing I know! So what I want is you to vote for her when the voting is open. I will be tweeting out links and placing the link at the bottom of my upcoming blog posts.

Emily is one of the sweetest people I know, she is a fantastic makeup artist and is willing to give you advice whenever you ask. Her Facebook page Vanity Venom (you can find here) has exploded with over 11k likes on it and all for good reason. Her looks on herself and on other people are incredible, Emily's imagination knows no boundaries. How she comes up with these looks I have no idea, I obviously do not own the creative gene. One of Emily's biggest achievements to date was being flown out to America to be featured on Transformations with James St. James and you can watch that video here! Emily is a massive lover of the drag queen scene and has been featured appearing as some of the UKs top night clubs looking absolutely fabulous. But these are just words, I will let the following photos do the talking. 

Her two looks she has done for the UK NYX Face Awards have been amazing of course. The first round was based on the phrase "Quintessentially British" and the second round was based on a Festival theme. Below are both of Emily's video entries enjoy watching them and please watch this space for the voting links from me! For someone who comes from a smallish town in Nottinghamshire this girl is going to go far and we are all backing her!

VOTE FOR EMILY HERE

Thank you from myself and Emily!

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