January Goodies!

Although I had decided to start super saving and be more careful with my money, I saw the sales on Illamasqua and Yankee Candle and just had to buy something. You know when you are online browsing and then suddenly you have 6 things in your basket and you are convinced you need all those things - that's what happened. I love illamasqua, most of their products are expensive, probably slightly more so than MAC, but they are amazing quality & in their sale, the majority of products were £5 so I just had to bring a few home! This does not explain my naughty behaviour previously this month, where I bought a couple of fashion things which may have been in the sale, but were not necessary purchases! But I will include them in another post because I am very happy with the quality :) and don't want this one to get too long!

So first starting off with make-up! I saw that there was free UK delivery on orders over £35, so basically after adding 4 things to my basket, it made more sense to get more items to make up to that amount to save myself money on delivery....makes perfect sense Lauren!

So in the end I purchased 6 things... I got two nail varnishes; Vice - Berry, and Stagnate - Taupe Brown. I got their light liquid foundation in 120, which is actually my perfect shade! I kind of made an educated guess as to what shade I would be, and this just melts into my skin, it's lovely! I got a lipstick in Sangers which is a very true Red. Finally, I bought two pigments, Zeitgeist - Sparkly Black and Beguile - Pearlescent White Shimmer.

Now the quality of the nail varnishes is nice, must apply two coats because the first is very sheer, but they're described as chip resistant, and I see that now I'm wearing them (although my nails are very short - stress head broke them all off!) so I wont show a picture as they do not look attractive. But these shades are different finishes also, Stagnate reminds me very much so of Barry M's Mushroom in consistently, a very thick coat, but its slightly more muted down with more purple tone than Mushroom's Brown tone. Vice is just beautiful, I do not have a colour like it, but in all honesty I'm really confused by the finish, I would say it's a matte finish, as there's definitely no gloss, but it's difficult to tell on my nails at the moment! I may update you when my nails no longer look like a child's :) 

The pigments stole the show for me! They are absolutely gorgeous, from the packaging to the products within they score a 10/10. Zeitgeist is very similar in shade to Black Tide from MAC, but obviously it's in pigment form, it's a lot more blendable I've found, but still shows of the sparkle. In my experience, the shimmer in black tide was barely existent, but that might just be my one! Beguile, is an absolutely gorgeous shade, it is amazing for highlighting the inner corner of the eye and adding to a smokey eye to add a bit of glamour. I absolutely adore it, it makes me so happy seeing it's multi-colour sparkles! Beautiful! 

The lipstick I purchased was called Sangers, it's a true blood red, a bit more on the cherry side than my other lipsticks which tend to be darker, deeper reds. So I thought I'd go against the grain for a change, this lipstick is very creamy and not at all drying like lots of lipsticks I try. It seems to have the consistency of a lipstick that would be sheer, but it has excellent pigmentation :) 

Finally, the foundation! As previously stated I purchased Light Liquid Foundation in 120, the colour match is perfect, it's a light coverage foundation that seems quite watery but works into the skin really well giving a nice amount of coverage. I haven't used it properly yet, but I've read reviews that you can apply another layer, and it increases the coverage to medium, so I think with concealer this could be a good foundation for night time. I am definitely wanting to try their Skin Base foundation, but alas only LL was available in the sale for £10, so I'm pretty content for the moment!

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Finally the Yankee Candle! Sweet lord it smells like Heaven, I purchased this regular tumbler (I think) for £7.95, I think they retail for around £15? I am so happy with this purchase! It sits in my kitchen and it makes the whole house smell like I'm making cakes. Very beautiful scent, sweet and delicious, similar to Vanilla Cupcake which I also have in large, but I don't mind because I love these kind of scents!

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Seriously finally now! I bought a calendar for the year, Yes it's very late, because Snapfish took 2 weeks to deliver something that was meant to take 3 days to arrive. I complained, quite a bit, and they're sending me another couple of calendars, which is annoying because the next day the original ones arrived. Lordy me! But here's the January snap shot of me & one of my best friends Rochelle whilst we were visiting our other best friend Ellie in Liverpool! 

Hope you enjoyed this post & are having a lovely day :)

Let me know if you have a love for Illamasqua or Yankee like me, I'm always in search of inspiration!

xoxoxoxo