BATISTE XXL VOLUME DRY SHAMPOO

I went into boots recently looking for Dry Shampoo for brown hair but of course, they didn't have any. While looking for an alternative, I came across this xxl volume batiste dry shampoo and since I was going out that same night, volume sounded good to me so I decided to try it.

L'OREAL TRUE MATCH FOUNDATION

When I tried this foundation a couple of months ago I remember not really liking it. I spotted it again in my drawer the other day so I decided to give it a second chance and I am soooo happy I did.

ESSENCE LIPSTICKS

Lately I have been a bit obsessed with buying and trying cheaper makeup. I have recently fallen in love with Essence makeup so I decided to pick up three lipsticks and give them a go. I got these in the Essence stand in Penny's.

01 Coral Calling, 02 All You Need is Red, 07 Natural Beauty

MAKE-UP OF THE DAY

I created this look using only Essence makeup products, apart from my eyebrows. I used Essence eyeshadows in the shades (party all night, get ready, pop eye, dance all night). I also used essence extreme crazy volume mascara and essence liquid ink waterproof eyeliner :)

This is my first makeup of the day post but I want to start doing them regularly so bare with me, I haven't got the angles right for taking pictures of it yet. Thanks for reading!

ORGANISING MY MAKEUP

I have been super unhappy with my makeup organisation for ages now so yesterday I decided I was going to fix it up. I took an old set of drawers that we had in our shed and made dividers for inside each drawer. To make these dividers I measured the width, length and depth of one drawer and cut cardboard to these measurements. This way of making them is super easy but can take some time especially if you use thick cardboard like I did which is hard to cut through. 

ESSENCE PURCHASES

I went into Penny's and couldn't resist buying some Essence products. I am a bit obsessed with the brand lately so I picked up these few things. 

I got three lipsticks in the colours 02-All You Need is Red, 01-Coral Calling and 07-Natural Beauty. I also got two blushes in the shades 60-lifes a cherry and 30-secret it-girl. I already have one of these blushes and I absolutely love it. They are very very pigmented and the colours are lovely so I chose these two. 

I also got a lip liner in the shade 12-wish me a rose because I don't own any and I heard these ones are good. I then got a back up of my favourite mascara at the moment, the I love extreme crazy volume mascara. This mascara is super and I will always repurchase it! Thanks for reading :)

WET N' WILD

After finding a Wet n' Wild stand in the pharmacy in the Supervalu behind my college, I quickly went back to buy some things. Some of the things I got include these three lipsticks.

 pink suga, just peachy, rose bud

BLOG MAKEOVER

I just gave my blog a makeover and I think I love it. After being off this for so long I found that it looked kind of boring and crappy. But now, I changed it up and I think it looks great, although knowing me, in a few months I'll probably be fed up of this one and change it again, oh well! :)

before

after

BACK TO BLOGGING!

It's actually been a whole six weeks since I have been on here, I have wanted to come on so many times but haven't been able to since my laptop charger broke.

I have been without a laptop for over a month now. I ordered a new charger and that arrived today so I am hoping to start doing regular posts on here again, especially since I have bought quite a few new things since my last post! Thanks for reading!

RIMMEL STAY MATTE FOUNDATION

I love love LOVE this foundation! I only bought it yesterday but I wore it for the whole day today. I applied it at 7:30am and now it is 18:40pm and I am still impressed with it. It lasted me a good nine hours which was really surprising to me. I got a tiny bit shiny within the last two hours but it wasn't bad at all. I tried going over it with a powder to see if that worked and it did to an extent but I wouldn't wear it any longer than 10 hours. Which is perfect for me because it lasted me from when I left for college to when I got home.

RIMMEL, NYC, W7

I was feeling down today so I bought myself a few new things! I heard loads of good things about the Rimmel Stay Matte foundation and since foundations are my weak spot I just had to have it and it only cost me €5.99.

RIMMEL APOCALIPS LIP LACQUER

Left: Nude Eclipse    Right: Celestial

REAL TECHNIQUES MIRACLE COMPLEXION SPONGE

Ever since hearing about the beauty blender I have really wanted one because I had never used a sponge to apply my foundation. Obviously the beauty blender is super expensive and I could never bring myself to buy one especially since I have brushes that I can use. 

BATISTE DRY SHAMPOO

Batiste dry shampoo is literally a life saver for me. I only started using it towards the end of last year and I don't know how it took me so long to try it. I have used the batiste dry shampoo for dark hair too but I prefer this one because I feel like the dark hair one leaves your hair looking nice but feeling dirty so I found that during the day I would panic if I ran my fingers through my hair because I would think it looked dirty because it felt it but when I checked in a mirror it still looked good. With this one though I feel like it makes my hair look great but also feel great and it also smells nice. The only downside to it is that it has a white cast which if fine as long as you rub it in properly.

NEW YORK COLOR / NYC

Today on my way home I picked up three things from the brand NYC. I've heard a lot about this brand on YouTube because of how it's very affordable but still good quality. I didn't know I could get NYC over here so I was quite surprised when I found it. I picked up a mosaic face powder, lipstain and mascara. I tried all three of them out for the first time today and I am really quite happy with them.

REAL TECHNIQUES BRUSHES

names left to right: powder brush, expert face brush, buffing brush, contour brush, pointed foundation brush, deluxe crease brush, base shadow brush, brow brush, detailer brush, accent brush, pixel-point eyeliner brush

PRODUCTS I REGRET BUYING

1. RIMMEL SCANDALEYES MASCARA

I bought this a couple of months ago because I needed a new mascara and it was a decent price. The first time I tried it I found it was difficult to apply so I thought I just needed to get used to it. After trying it multiple times and hoping I would get used to it I gave up. I find that this mascara makes my lashes clump together, it's really hard to get them to separate, the brush is too big and I just wish I hadn't wasted my money on it.

MAYBELLINE BABY SKIN PORE ERASER

After all the hype about the Maybelline Baby Skin pore eraser I really wanted to try it out. I bought it in Boots for around 11euro, which I thought was a bit expensive but I wanted it so bad so I just got it.

ESSENCE EYESHADOWS

So I recently stumbled upon the brand essence, I don't know how I didn't know it before because it seems to be everywhere I look now that I do. I noticed the stand in a chemist one day so I had a look and seen that everything was really cheap. I didn't really have much hope for it since the prices were so low.

Colors left to right: strawberry ice cream, dance all night, get ready!, blockbuster, pop eye, skeye and sand, party all night.

REDECORATING

I'm sitting here in my bed and I can't stop stressing out about the state of my room. Between now and summer my main plan (other than passing college) is to do up and rearrange my room the way I have wanted to for so long. I think my first step is to buy new wardrobes then take out the ones I have, repaint the whole room (cream on three walls and red on the other), install new wardrobes, get a new bed frame, fix up the desk I have or get a new one and then it should be pretty much the way I want it..

Now, time to start saving. Thanks for reading :)

REVLON COLORSTAY FOUNDATION

The Revlon Colorstay liquid foundation used to be my number one holy grail foundation. I bought it years ago and I absolutely loved it. Back then I didn't have any foundation brushes or anything like that so I just applied it with my hands.

GARNIER BB CREAM

Ok so I got the Garnier BB Cream miracle skin perfecter for combination to oily skin. I have seen so many good reviews on it so I really wanted to try it myself and so far I really do like it.

INTRODUCTION

Okay so my name is Lauren, I am 21 years old and I have a huge interest in makeup and hair and beauty in general. I decided to make this blog because I have always wanted to do something like it where I could share my opinion about different products I use in my everyday life or new ones I have bought and want to try. Since I started watching beauty gurus on youtube I just wish I was doing something like what they do so I figured this was a start. I hope to keep up to date with it so let's see how it goes! Thanks for reading :)