FACE by Pixiwoo

Well this is going to be a different review but its one I cannot wait to write.

If you don't know here is a little background on pixiwoo who are Sam&Nic Chapman who created the you tube channel pixiwoo. They wrote and published this amazing book that came out on 20th November 2016 and oh my I was excited to receive this a few weeks ago.

Sam & Nic are two beautifully stunning  very  creative and talented make up artists from Norwich in England.

I discovered them by typing into you tube make up tutorials and I have never looked back they have even gave me more of an interest and insight into the world of make up.

So naturally when They posted a video reveling that this book was coming out the excitement was too much and I just had to have it and now with reading the book cover to cover man I am glad to have purchased it.

 Can we just take a minute to just appreciate the effort and work that has gone into the book, not only have the girls done a fantastic job of writing it and creating it for there followers and fellow peers but they took it a step further and added a free app face with the book, so you can get the app that works along with the book to give you even more content.

 At the beginning of every chapter there is the phone icon, so you get the app open it and scan the phone over the page and up comes a pixiwoo video fantastic!!!!!.

I personally enjoyed reading the skin section in particular and also the finishes chapter and also lips and eyes.

I have always loved make up since being very little and my mum never wore any so I was always watching others like my bigger cousins doing theres till I was allowed to have some off my own. I confess  to not  being amazing at doing make up but man as I am sure all of us have done over the years I have had some major make up disasters!!!!.

It wasn't really till the last few years I have built up an interest in make up and added to my collection and I didn't even bother with the likes of foundation brushes. I used my fingers and always just used the little sponge applicators that came with the eye shadows or the sponge with the compact.

Now discovering pixiwoo videos and not only that but there brush brand real techniques how on earth did I manage without the brushes for all the different steps within applying my make up.It defiantly is essential to have thee right tools before using make up and I would recommend everyone getting some make up brushes and real technique are amazing and also very affordable.

With reading this book obviously I know that it is important to have good skin care first and foremost before then going onto finding the right shades of foundations and the finish to suit you. 

Again over the years I have had way to much bronzer and looked like been tangoed and got tide lines as not blended properly and totally the wrong color match, now I go to make up counters and ask plenty of questions and get sample before even considering buying I fully advice this don't feel embarrassed.

To conclude I would like to say how proud I am of the very talented, down to earth, funny and informative pixiwoo woman.

Sam & Nic you are so inspirational your working ethic and drive is outstanding, the amount of hours and time and effort you both put in with your pixiwoo channel and real techniques and being fantastic parents at the same time you both deserve some serious recognition for all that you do.

I sincerely wish you both well in all that you do within your future and look forward to more from you both.

You can purchase this book from Amazon.

and also check out you tube channel pixiwoo for make up tutorials and advice there funny and down to earth and great fun.  

 

The Body Shop Pinita Colada Body Butter

Well lets talk body butters, When it comes to my body and moisturizing I have to say I'm not religious in applying it which I should be better at.

When it comes to the body shop My all time love is the Strawberry range. 

I have from time to time tried other scents and fragrances within the body shop range, I have heard of and seen this pinita colada collection that was launched in the summer.

I don't go into body shop as much as I used to back in the day so I never smelt or tried this range, So when I was I Glasgow recently I went in to body shop smelt it and fell in love with the scent.

As you can imagine its a very sweet scent with it being a mixture of pineapple and coconut.

I personally have never tried the actual drink but I imagine its super sweet tasting if the scent is anything to go by.

Its a very light weight cream but intensely moisturizing aimed at normal to dry skin.

Unfortunately it is limited edition so once its gone its gone which is a total shame.

There is a shower gel, body sorbet and a body scrub within the range and I have been lucky enough to enjoy the cream which is now done but I have the sorbet and scrub.

I can't say enough great things about it just a pity it is limited edition if your near a body shop go in see if they still got it and grab it.

have a good one guys x.

Too Faced Chocolate Pallette

This is nothing one of thee amazing palettes brought out by Too Faced, it comes in a tin like casing like the sweet peach palette and yes this one smells like chocolate!!!.

This palette contains 16 antioxidant rich powder infused matte and shimmer shades within the range of color such as natural browns, pinks and some plums. This palette is made with 100% natural cocoa powder.

 So this is inside the palette beautiful isn't it.

Lets go through them by row.

first row we have, Gilded Gan ache I think it look slightly like a khaki green tint with brown and gold shimmer.

White Chocolate the longer one in top row is just your standard matte white shade.

Milk Chocolate which is a milk brown matte.

Black Forest Truffle a plummy brown shimmer most shimmery one in palette.

Triple Fudge the last one on first row that is a matte dark brown.

Second Row, Salted Caramel is a matte peachy orange shade.

Marzipan one of my most used ones is a shimmery gold pink.

Semi-sweet this is matte brown, there is a lot of browns.  

Strawberry Bon Bon as described this is a pink and its also matte.

Candid Violet which is purple shimmer.

Amaretto oh my I love this shade another well used one.

Last row we have, Hazelnut a brown with slight golden shimmer.

Creme Brulee more golden shimmer.

Haute Chocolate love there play on words here is genius this is another darker brown with shimmer.

Cherry Cordial plum with shimmer another great shade I use.

Champagne Truffle is the other longer shade which is a pink shimmery shade that is alos great as a highlighter.

As with the Sweet Peach Palette I personally feel that these Too Faced palettes are much better quality than The Urban Decay ones.

Again I will put my instagram deatail to my page as I will out a instagram story video of swatches of this. 

My Instagram is make_up_lover1983.

thanks again guys have a great weekend x.

 

 

Too Faced Sweet Peach Palette

Well tonight I'm going to talk about one of my favorite eyeshadow palettes, the sweet peach and oh how sweet it is.

Lets start off by mentioning how beautiful the packaging is. It comes in this tin with the ombre pink to peach coloring with the too faced logo in the left hand corner and a big peach motif bottom right. 

And if that wasn't enough it smells amazingly peachy.

Lets take a look inside shall we....

da daaaaaaaaaa lol the beauty right....

Ok so inside there are 18 shadows and a good range of color to chose from.

Now I was going to swatch them on my arm and take a photo but never looks great so I will do swatches and add that video to my instagram story soon and leave my instagram for those who wish to add and see it.

Top Row from left- right is-:

• White peach which is a matte white good as a base and also can be used for a subtle highlight.
• Luscious is one of my most used shadows in the palette and I would say its a metallic slight shimmery rose gold sort of shadow and stunning on its on or mixed in with other shadows.
•  Just Peachy which is peach with slight shimmer and also good mixed in or used as a base shadow.
• Bless Her Heart a lovely light green with slight shimmer.

• Tempting which is a black with very slight shimmer in it and I personally would use it with a liner brush dry or wet as eye liner.
• Charmed,I'm Sure is matte brown.
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Middle Row.

• Nectar  slightly shimmery golden yellow shade good for inner corners of eyes.
•  Cobbler is coppery brown metallic 
• Candied Peach a bright peach with slight shimmer
• Bellini another one I use a lot a rose goldish brown 
• Peach Pit dark shimmery brown
• Delectable deep purple with slight shimmer
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Last Row.

• Peaches&Cream this is a matte or white color again good base shadow
• Georgia matte light pink 
• Caramelized metallic caramel brown
• Puree brown red undertone matte
• Summer Yum rust kinda color
• Talk Derby To Me  black with purple shimmery glitter 
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I was over the moon when I finally received this palette I always thought that the Urban Decay ones were the ultimate in Eye shadows but since using this and my Chocolate palette from too faced I have changed my mind.

I highly recommend this and the chocolate one to anyone over the urban decay, I mean don't get me wrong I have the urban decay ones and one I like most is naked 3 but I feel the quality of these too faced palettes are much better.

Well thats all for tonight I will do a instagram story video with swatches at some point and I will put my instagram details if you want to add me to see it. 

And also I will get a review of the chocolate bar palette up soon. 

Instgram is - make_up_lover1983.

I have just uploaded my instagram story video with swatched of this palette go have a look instagram address above.


 

Elemis Facial Assesment Report/ Elemis Pro- Radiance Cream Cleanser.

Hello guys well I am going to do a little bit of a different post tonight there is a review but also a recommendation and showing you a service that is out there for those of you interested in more depth about your skin.

 Well don't say I'm not committed as I am literally laying my face bare to you all haha.

 Last month when I was having a shopping trip in John Lewis in York I went to the Origins counter originally to look at eye creams, but there was no one on the counter from Origins as it was a Sunday.

So the lady working on Elemis came over to help me out, she was such a great help and gave me some samples after asking me actually what I was looking for.

Through our own doing myself and my friend decided to have a look at the Elemis counter since we were there without pressure from the lady at the counter. 

I know a lot of folks feel the over bearing nature of the hard sell from some department store counter sales assistants but I can safely say this was not the case.

So a few years ago I was told that I had dehydrated skin so knowing this obviously I went for products relating to the needs of my skin.

I mentioned to the Elemis consultant that I find that my skin is very dull and when wearing foundation no matter what brand it is or coverage my foundation seemed to just not sit right especially on my forehead and it also clung to my nose.

The consultant told me about this skin mapping facial assessment report that Elemis offers to customers which is completely free and doesn't take long at all. 

So I decided why not I will give it ago.

What you do for this skin assessment is you rest your chin on this machine and close your eyes and there is a flash as a scanner takes pictures of your face, it doesn't hurt or anything and takes no time at all then your therapist will go through the recommendations for you and also print out the photos while going through all the ins and outs of the scan.

There will also be a recommendation of the products within elemis range of products that are suggested for your skin necessities and type. 

My skin assessment showed that I have combination to oily skin and the main thing I need to concentrate on mostly is to ex foliate and this will make my skin less dull and also keep my make up on longer and sitting better on my skin.

With a few samples of the items the consultant had of what was recommended for me she gave to me which is amazing.

Since coming home and using the samples I have to say my skin looked and felt amazing.

Now obviously the skin care is expensive so I haven't bought all of the recommended skin care for me.

But at the beginning of this month July I ran out of my normal cleanser so decided I would get the Elemis Pro Radiance Cream Cleanser that I had a sample of and seemed great for my skin.

 

 This is amazing it retails at 30 pounds I got it for 25 as I had a voucher for where I bought it from.

Its a deep cleansing cream, it smells amazing and has loads of good ingredients.

It helps and defends against bad pollutants that can cause your skin to be dull.

It has Moringa seed, balancing great burdock, anti oxidant rich noni and acai fruits.  

The fragrance is sweet Brazilian orange, lavender, ylang ylang and patchouli veil for the face, whilst essential plant extracts purify and moisturize dehydrated skin, dissolve make up and remove dirt and impurities. 

It also comes in 150ml and you don't need a lot at all, I use it every singe day and I totally notice a difference and I highly recommend Elemis and going along to a counter and having the free assessment and There is no pressure to buy the products the staff were very helpful and knew there stuff.

well I hope this was informative and if you got any questions please leave a comment on the blog post once it is uploaded. 

you can find elemis online at-:

www.elemis.com

www.johnlewis.com

www.debenhams.com

have a great evening xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Too Faced Peach Leopard Brightnening&perfecting Bronzer

Hello folks happy Friday it's a pretty wet one here on Skye today.

But when you have such beautiful items in your collection to blog about the day just gets brighter.

I am soooo excited about this post you have no idea, I first discovered too faced make up in boots in Glasgow when I was at college up until then I had never even heard of the brand. As I have always been into make up you know it was inevitable there was going to be major purchasing going on.

I saw this beauty and it changed my bronzer experience completely in the past I had tried body shop ones and the little bronzing beads and brands like rimmel and even Barry m and they did nothing for me I looked like I had been tangoed or thrown mud on myself.

This all changed when I discovered this amazing bronzer, it has thee most subtle tones ever and it looks amazing on the skin, now I have medium toned skin and it works perfectly for me doesn't look caked on or muddy and orange in anyway, also with having the hint of peach through the bronzer it gives that slight bit of brightening radiance.

It is the only bronzer I have literally used to the bitter end and hit pan on so you can imagine how disappointed I was when once out of this item and returning to boots to re purchase this bronzer they no longer had it, so I thought oh well this item must be very popular and is sold out I will try again another time.

To my dismay too faced has discontinued this item but have the pink leopard one in the collection still to this day.

I hunted high and low and could not find this item not even on e bay anywhere.

Then when on youtube a girl was talking about a website called glambots that you can buy and sell make up and low and behold there it was after years of hunting for it was my favorite bronzer.

So naturally I added it to my basket straight away without any hesitation.

As this company is based in the USA it took a few weeks to arrive but I am overjoyed to have it back in my life.

I have tweeted too faced and also written to them and posted on there instagram asking why they discontinued this item when they kept the pink version, according to customer services my messages have been passed onto the production team so fingers crossed we might see it back on the shelfs and on there website in permanent collection.

I have also just received a back up one from a girl selling one on e bay so I'm totally elated.

If you can't tell already this product is defiantly a staple that I would love to have in my collection for a long time to come and I would also love you all to be able to enjoy it with me. So also would be good if you got on board and contacted too faced also.

Anyway guys good to have this beauty back in my make up bag and I will enjoy it and lets hope you all get to also.

Much love 

Julie xxx

 

 

 

  

 

recently purchased lipsticks/gloss

Hello folks I am sorry I've not written a post in a while I like to be able to really have tried the products and used them enough to write about them and give my thoughts.

If you cant tell already I have a slight lipstick obsession going on lol.

The first brand of lip product that am going to write about it YSL.

These are from the YSL rouge volupte shine range.

I chose them in the shades number 44 and 8.

They come in the most beautiful luxurious gold packaging with the lovely ysl motif within a mesh type circles which also show the color of the produce on the packaging which is amazing.

They retail at 26 pound so more of a higher end cosmetic. They have an intense color pigmented glossy shine its very sheer but build able if want a more intense color and very comfortable to wear.

Its so moisturizing and like with all ysl lip products they smell amazing!.

Next up are my first ever Nars lipsticks.

 Nars is a light weight sheer textured lipstick which comes in fantastic range of shades it has good conditioners within the formula also antioxidants which nourish and protect.

I picked the color sexual healing which is the lighter shade and its a shimmering pink blossom.

Next color was dolce vita which is the darker shade and is a dusty pink.

These lipsticks retail at price of 21 pounds and they come in a lovely classic black packaging it feel a little swede on the outer packaging.

Moving onto Too Faced 

We have one of there melted liquefied long wear lipstick.

This is my only one of this range I went for the melted nude as if you haven't noticed already I go between nudes and pink or rosy toned lipsticks or glosses also retails at 17 pounds.

This is a liquid satin style of lipstick and as you can see from the picture it very pigmented and an amazing color pay off.

Its very intense and long wearing it also isn't drying which is even better. 

It comes in this cute packaging which too faced are great with there team make such cute and innovative products not only in the sense of ie. lipstick or eye shadows but also the outer packaging which catches your eye and look amazing in your collection.

  

You squeeze the lipstick out of the tube and it come out through a little sponge at the end and it smells like a really nice and sweet scent which I love. 

Lat but by no means least but this is the cheaper of the range I purchased is NYX.

 I was away in York and in there boots store the have a nyx counter so naturally being into cosmetics I had to have some ha.

I bought theses nyx butter glosses they are retailed at 5.00 pounds so reasonable.

Therte are many shades to chose from so one there for everyone.

As the name suggests they are very buttery in formula which is amazing and so smooth in application. There not sticky at all even though when trying them you might think they are going to be. Also fantastic color pay off.

I chose number 15 which is angel food cake and it the more dusty pink shade. 

And I also chose number 07 in color tiramisu which is a nice neutral brown shade and these also smell amazing and i highly recommend them.

well hope you have had a good weekend and speak to you all very soon. x