Lets be honest, how many of us love going to a wedding or special occasion because it gives you a chance to crack out the make up you reserve for such occasions...

When thinking about my make up for the wedding we attended last weekend, my go to foundation is Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation. It was my foundation of choice for my wedding day after reading a lot of reviews and is always my go to if I know I am going to be wearing my foundation all day and night. It also photographs amazingly well.
I saw an advert pop up on my Facebook a couple of days before the wedding for a free 10 day sample of double wear and since I was going to the day before the wedding I figured I would get matched and pick up a sample since I had heard that sometimes during your pregnancy your skin pigmentation can change...
I went to the Estee Lauder Counter at my local debenhams and got chatting to the lovely lady who chatted to me not only about the double wear but also the newest in the double wear family, the double wear light. I decided to give the double wear light a go which offers a sheer to medium coverage which is buildable and is available in 10 shades - not quite the 50 offered by the double wear original however the wonderful lady on the counter soon took to trying the different shades on my face to find the perfect match. After trying a few shades, we decided on intensity 3.0 and away I came with my 10 day sample. Straight away I was impressed with how the sample felt on my skin so decided to give it a go for the wedding. I'll do a better review when I've used my 10 day sample properly.

So as promised I thought I would share with you what make up I wore for the Christmas party on Saturday night.


Excuse the very blurry photo - and this was before I'd had a drink!!!

So what did I use?

Now I don't know about anyone else but I am one of those people who overpacks rather than under packs. As I hadn't been to Centre Parc's before so I wasn't really sure what to expect. I chucked some bits into my make up bag not really knowing what I would and would not use but I thought I would share with you anyway.

• Maybelline Brow Drama Sculpting Mascara 
• Soap and Glory Super Cat Liner 
• Topshop Khol Liner 
• Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara 
• Covergirl Mascara 
• Maybelline Baby Skin 
• Bobbi Brown Corrector 
• Bobbi Brown Concealor 
• Maybelline Matt Face Powder 
• Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation 
• Build your own Mac Palette 
• Mac Paint pot in Bare Study
• No 7 Mineral Foundation 
• Clinique Blusher 
• Naked 2 Palette 
• Benefit Rockateur Blush 
• Hoola Bronzer 

So its that time once again... First of all where did February go? Wasn't I just celebrating my birthday like 2 minutes ago??

And so, with that I thought I would share with you my February Favourites. I have been trying a couple of new products over the past couple of weeks and the past few months and a few have firmly make themselves into my favourites :)


Can we just take a moment to appreciate the beautifulness that is this palette! I think I have worn this pretty much every day since I got it just before christmas! These colours are absolutely stunning! Unlike the other palettes this one contains beautiful purple and rose gold shades. It is so wearable but can be smoked for a night time look too!


This was a product I picked up just after it was released this month. I am a massive fan of the Benefit Hello Oxygen foundation as you know, and when I spotted this new No 7 offering out on the shelves of Boots I figured I would give it a go. The thing I love about the Benefit one is that although it is really light and a little bit goes a long way, it has great coverage so I wanted to see how this one measured up to it. This foundation in my opinion is a great dupe of the Benefit one. Available in 14 shades as part of the No7 match made service it has a great coverage for such a light and 'thin' fountain.

 This is a bit of an odd one to include in a favourites video considering I have only worn it for about a week in the month. Well I did my nails in the first picture with the Rimmel Gold Top Coat Glitter a couple of weeks ago and it rekindled my love for it. I had it in my Boots Advent Calendar at christmas but it was a mini one so when I went to Nottingham last week I picked up a full sized one. The nails on the right are the ones I did last night and I used the Nails inc as a base coat for my Cath Kidston inspired nails so technically I suppose you could say I used it twice in February. This is such a nice neutral shade.

I thought I would bob on and just share a few nosey photos with you from my birthday celebrations over the past couple of days - my birthday having been yesterday!

On Friday night me and my family decided that we were going to go out for a Curry. One of the curry places that we have our take away if ever we have one has just moved to a new bigger venue and we have never tried the restaurant part of it so we decided we would go here. Here I am with my Dad and mum on the left and my brother and his fiancé on the right! We had such a lovely night and a right giggle.

Yesterday we went out for breakfast - just the 4 of us which was lovely - obviously as we are growing up these occurrences of there just being the 4 of us are getting less and less and my brother obviously spends a lot of time with his fiancé so it is lovely when the 4 of us actually do things like this!

I opened my presents yesterday morning and was greeted with this gorgeous new ring - I knew this is what I was having as I had picked it a few weeks ago and had to have my ring finger remeasured as the reason I wanted to get a new ring is that my other one I had for my 18th was getting too big so I have swapped it on to my middle finger on my left hand for now.



 My brother and his fiancé got me a cocktail making set complete with recipe book, shaker and little umbrellas and we definitely had some fun with this last night!


And of course what is a birthday without cake? We had my Nanna and grandad round to our house last night and my brothers fiancé and had a buffet and cake and a good old giggle!

Overall a pretty smashing birthday I would say! And so far 25 is treating me quite well! Lets hope being a quarter of a century stays this good!


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I haven't done one of these for a while so I thought I would share one with you today. I am afraid the actually picture of me isn't that good - I always seem to struggle to take a good picture of myself. Anyway enough rambling, here it is...

As you can see you can't really get a proper idea of it but you can get the general gist.. basically I went for a really simple face and a nude coloured eye. Here is the products that I used:

• Rimmel BB Cream in medium 
• Benefit Porefessional 
• Soap and Glory Kick Ass Concealor
• Soap and Glory Trick and Treatment 
• Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in Sandstorm
• Topshop Cream Blush in Acting Up
• No 7 Bronzer 
• MUA Eyeshadow Primer
• Urban Decay Naked Palette - Shades Virgin and Sidecar
• Maybeline Masterpeice Liquid Liner 
• Benefit Bad Lash liner 
• Rimmel Accelerator Mascara in Brown 
• Mac Mineralize Skin Finish in Soft and Gentle
• Bourjois Rouge Addition Lipstick in Rose Tweed

Brushes:

• Real Techniques Buffing Brush 
• Real Tecniques Delux crease brush 
• Real Techniques Powder Brush 
• Real Techniques Contour Brush 
• Real Techniques Shadow Brush 
• Lauren Luke Blending Brush 
• Real Techniques Blush Brush

Firstly seriously how many Real Techniques brushes do I have! Although to be fair they are amazing and affordable which is why I love them, plus the quality is great. I am really loving the Urban Decay palette at the moment. It has been my go to palette every day since I brought it I think - my other shadows will probably be feeling neglected. I am also loving the new Rimmel Mascara. I will do a separate review on both of these but so far so good :)