Favourite Eyeshadow Palette | #SBBC Day Two

 So it is day 2 of the September Beauty Blog Challenge (#SBBC) and today's topic is 'Favourite Eyeshadow Palette' and I didn't even have to think when I was deciding what to pick, it would have to be my Sleek Oh So Special Palette because I use it every day at the moment! There is such a great mix of colours from daytime through to night time.

As you can see towards the left of the palette are more neutral day colours and then on the right you have more night time colours. My favourites from this palette are the matte white in the top left hand corner, which I use as a matte highlight everyday. The shimmery copper brown, the dark charcoal brown which is great for in the crease, and the taupe colour. However I love and use all these colours.

As you can see from the swatches above, all the eyeshadows in this palette have crazy pigmentation! Especially the black, it is so pigmented and it is black, it doesn't go grey when swatched like most drugstore eye palettes do. This palette will only set you back £7.99 which works out at a complete bargain and in my opinion the Sleek Palettes are the best drugstore palettes available, I love the MUA ones however for me Sleek is even better! 

I have this in the Original as well but also want to pick up the Storm Palette. If you have any other Drugstore/highend palette suggestions then please leave me them in the comments!

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What is your favourite palette?

Beauty Haul | Giveaway Win & Duty Free! - #SBBC

After reading Girl Fridays Beauty Blog 's post on the September Beauty Blog Challenge #SBBC I have decided to try and take part! I really want to take part in a challenge like this, so if Sixth Form doesn't get on top of me, I should hopefully carry this on through the whole of September! So onto Day One's Post!

Recently I was lucky enough to win Kelsey Kate's giveaway and I won some great stuff that I have been wanting to try for ages! I also found out today that I have won the lovely Michelle from ThouShaltNotCovet 's giveaway to win a MAC RiRi Blusher and a gorgeous necklace so I will include that in a haul when it gets to me. Now onto some beauty bits.

The new Garnier primer which I am super excited to try, especially because it claims to get rid of shine and blur imperfections!

Next is a salt spray from Schwarzkopf which I am excited to try because I haven't yet jumped on the salt spray bandwagon, so I will be giving this a go.

A colour stay lipstick from Revlon, when these came out I really wanted to try one, but I never got round to picking one up!

This Nicole by OPI Polish in Hayley Good Looking, which is the best glitter polish ever! It is so beautiful and looks great layered over a white polish.

The Maybelline Rocket Volume Mascara in Waterproof, I love Maybelline mascaras and am excited to give this a go when my current mascara runs out.

Last but not least of the giveaway prizes are 2 of the Bourjois cream blushes which I am loving and appeared in my August favourites! These are really lovely and apply so nicely giving a natural bit of colour to my cheeks. 

I just want to say a massive thankyou to Kelsey for all these prizes, I love them all! Make sure you go and check out her blog if you haven't already.

Then whilst in duty free before my holiday I picked up the newest Benefit primer, and I am loving it! This stuff is like glue and I have been getting on really well with it, and I haven't found it sticky at all which was one of my worries. I will be posting a review of this soon! 

Thanks for reading,

Have you made any makeup purchases recently?

August Favourites 2013 || Makeup

Hello lovelies,

so I have decided to start doing favourites posts again, so if you enjoy this let me know in the comments, and leave me the links to your favourites posts too! I am going to be doing my favourites in 3 parts: Makeup, Haircare & Skincare. If you would like a random favourites post too, please let me know!

First up MACs paintpot in 'Bare Study' I have recently rediscovered this again and it makes the perfect base for all eyeshadows giving them a beautiful shimmer, and it works great as a base colour or in the inner corner to really open up your eyes!

Fashion Haul #1 | ASOS, H&M, & Debenhams

Sorry I am a bit late posting my first post after getting back from holiday but I have been super jet lagged so my days have been a bit messed up and crazy and I have been sleeping for most of them! I also had results day and have some Sixth Form work to do, but now I am back and blogging! 

Here is the first of 3(possible 4 - I'm going shopping on Monday!) hauls. I have a few more bits coming from H&M and then a beauty haul too! But here is my recent haul from ASOS, H&M and Debenhams. I did have a few more pairs of shoes and trousers from H&M but unfortunately they didn't fit so I had to send them back. All of these were purchased in the sale, but unfortunately the only "before" price I can remember is for the Espadrilles.

 Left Pastel Pink Sneakers from H&M(although they are more of a gold colour!) £5

Faith Blue Glitter Canvas Espadrilles from Debenhams £14  £3.36

ASOS Swing Dress £16.50

H&M Patterned Top £4

H&M Linen Top £4

H&M Top £2

H&M Ankle Length Patterned Trousers from the Conscience Collection £8

H&M Bodycon £2 

H&M Patterned Felt Skirt £2

So I hope you enjoyed my little clothing haul, and I will be uploading my beauty haul on Saturday!

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From the Archives || MUA Blushers

I have decided that because the picture and content quality of some of my old blog posts from when I started my blog are absolutely horrendous that I would start to do a "from the archives" series where I re write reviews from my blog and re take photos with my current camera which is a lot better than the webcam I was using! So I hope you enjoy these updated posts and you may re discover some products you haven't used for a while! So for the first post in this series I will be re reviewing the MUA blushers, however please note these are the old versions, not the newly released ones.

REVIEW || Barry M Dazzle Dust

Ever since being given 3 of these at the Clothes Show in my Barry M Goodie Bag, I have fallen in love with the dazzle dusts! The two other shades I got were a green and a purple so I don't tend to wear those but I love these!

Just something I want to get out of the way first though, last week I was watching Tati from a GlamLifeGuru 's London haul and she picked one of these up and on the back it said 'Do not use around the eyes', this really confused me? Because on the Boots and Barry M website it markets these as an eyeshadow and Barry M even suggest using this as an eyeliner and an eyeshadow, so if anyone knows anything about this please leave a comment, it would be greatly appreciated! Now onto the review.

Guest Post #1 || What's On My Face

Hi lovelies! I've taken over for today's post here on Beaumaquillagex, while she's in Cuba - Nope not jealous at all! My name is Marie-Louise and I have a blog where I write about whatever my heart desires - beauty, lifestyle and a bit of fashion. So while Beau is getting tanned on a beach I'm going to entertain you with a What's On My Face.

I thought I would do a WOMF for todays post so you can get to know me a little better. It is a simpel, natural and fresh look.

These bits are some of my favourites at the moment. As it is hot, hot, HOT outside this summer, I haven't been able to wear foundation to cover up some imperfections, but my Garnier BB Cream Miracle Skin Perfector works great on my skin, it takes the redness without covering too much. I know that there are both negative and positive reviews out there but I find that this works perfectly as a 'tinted moisturiser'. So when I want to use this BB cream I'm not applying moisturiser first. To get a bronz-y sunkissed look I'm currently loving my The Body Shop Bronzing Powder in Medium Matte. It is the perfect shade and I'm going to hit pan soon - that is how much I love it! 

Something I often think about is: We use foundation/BB cream to cover up redness and other impefections, and then we go and apply blusher to look fresh? I don't know if it is just me being weird? ;) Lets stay on track. My favourite blusher this summer is my Illamasqua Cream Blusher in Dixie. I was one of the lucky ones who got some bits from the #twitter50 sale a couple of months ago. I did a haul, showing you what I got in the sale here -if you are feeling nosey. I'm definitely going to get my hands in some more. For highlighter I love my Illamasqua Gleam in Aurora which I also got in the sale. It is just beautiful! 

For the eyes I just rediscovered this beloved eyeshadow from Rimmel London in 030 Smokey Quartz. On the back it is described as perfect for blue eyes but I would also say it is perfect for brown eye! It's a perfect brown-shimmery-grey - if you know what I mean. It is perfect for just a wash over the lid. A liquid eyeliner is a must in my book. This L'Oréal Super Liner Garbon Gloss is perfect for the outer corner of the lid. It has a big-fat felt tip which I love for this purpose. To brighten up my eye I apply Rimmel London Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal in Nude. It gives my eye a more awakening and fresh look and I must say that this eyeliner is Ah-mazing! 

For mascara I love, LOVE Maybelline The Rocket. It gives my lashes length and volume! Can't say much about it other than, go get it if you don't already have it. You will thank me later! For bottom lashes I use my Clinique Bottom Lash Mascara which has a tiny brush that fits perfectly for the bottom lashes. 

Lastly for my lippies I just got my hands in this Clinique Chubby Stick in Roomiest Rose! I love it, but I really want to try some other, cheaper, versions of this :) So if you have any recommendations, let me know by tweeting (mlhauken) me or commenting on this post :)

This was my WOMF at the moment! Hope you liked it, if you did you can find more posts over on mlhauken.blogspot.co.uk where I'm also running a international giveaway <3 

Thanks so much for reading and thanks to the lovely Liv for letting me guest post while she is getting all tanned! ;) 

Have a lovely day <3 

Love 

Marie-Louise

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