Review | Barry M Gelly Hi-Shine Nail Polish!

L to R | Prickly Pear - Papaya - Green Berry

I thought it was appropriate to do a review on this seeing as i have tried more than one out so i actually have an opinion! I've seen many bloggers rave about this, like Zoella and Sprinkle of Glitter. So i bought one (Green Berry) to see what it was like and i loved it!

So today, i bought 2 more because they were on offer (2 for £6) I purchased 'Papaya' and 'Prickly Pear'. They are two amazing shades! Prickly pear is a light purple lavender colour and papaya is a pastel but bright light orangey coral colour... (hard to explain).

L to R | Prickly Pear - Papaya - Green Berry

I have fallen in love with these nail polishes, i never usually spend much on nail polishes and don't really invest in Barry M products, but these are something else. They are SO SHINY. They truly live up to the 'Hi-Shine' claim. No need for a top coat, they seriously don't change at all from when you put it on when it's wet, i couldn't tell when it was dry in the slightest, i just had to hope for the best!

'Prickly Pear'

I highly recommend these products, they are great for the summer (or what's left of it) or for any other season just to add a splash of colour to your outfit and complete your look. I'm currently wearing Prickly Pear now and i love it!!

Buy it HERE 


I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

Me wearing 'Prickly Pear'

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Lifestyle Post | RESULTS DAY

Me and 2 of my friends on results day! 

I'm 16 and have just left year 11, and 2 days ago i got my dreaded GCSE results, i wish examiners marked them quicker so you didn't have to go through 8 weeks of torture thinking about what you have or haven't failed and did terribly on. 

But the 22nd of August arrived and at about 5 past 10 i walked in to school, the results are released at 10 so when i got there there was loads of people walking out already saying letters so that made me so scared! I had to get walk past people asking me what i got when i didn't even have my envelope yet! 

Anyway, i got my envelope and opened it and teachers were watching me open it which is quite distressing! But once I'd got it out, i realised i hadn't done too badly! I got 2 A*'s!! In English Literature and Spanish! I seriously wasn't expecting any of them at all, so i was over the moon! 

I had 5 A's 4 B's 4 C's and 1 D (in chemistry, which I've never been good in and i expected to fail all 3 sciences so i was still very pleased) 

So i have 15 GCSE'S (well 16 if you count the D but I'm not sure if you do or not).

I enrol in college on Wednesday, which should be interesting. Life seems to be going at a rapid pace recently, i think it's time to slow it down! 

If you have any questions just leave a comment or email me and I'll definitely answer them! 

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

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No Posts For A Week!

I am going on holiday, and i won't have my phone or anything to do posts with, so unfortunately there will be no posts for a week!

if you haven't entered my Giveaway yet, make sure you do! It ends soon after i get back! enter HERE 

I will make sure to do lots of posts when i come back to make up for it(:

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

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SFX Make Up | Ripped Off Nail Look by Emma

Hello!
I’m Emma this is my first SFX make up post, which is going to become a monthly thing. I thought I’d start off with something quite basic. This post is a tutorial on a “ripped off nail” look, inspired by KlarieDelysArt, which is who I recreated and adapted this look from (mine is a little different to hers) Klaire is really good on YouTube and if you are into SFX makeup I would recommend her channel. KLAIRE'S CHANNEL.
What you will need: • One false nail (Cheaper the better) • Nail or lash glue • Lip brush • Red lipstick (close to a blood colour) • Scissors/nail file • Red food colouring • Paintbrush/ pen/ pencil • Red nail varnish

(All of these items are easy to get hold of, they are/should be widely available - it is possible for you to create this effect without some of the products, but for best results it is good to have all of them.)

STEP ONE

First, take your false nail and see what natural nail the bottom fits perfectly to, and then cut or file it down to the right length so that it looks realistic but don’t glue it down yet. Now rip it in half (this is why the cheaper the better because it’s easier to rip) and glue one half onto your nail, I used lash glue instead of nail glue just because it was easier to take off, because I wasn’t going to wear this for a long time, remember to keep the other half for step three.

Step One Complete. Half a false nail on finger.

STEP TWO

Next, take your red lipstick on your lip brush, and paint the half of your nail that doesn’t have the false nail, and try to get underneath the side of the false nail just a little bit. I used MUA lipstick in the shade 13. REVIEW HERE

Step Two. Lipstick on finger, looks like blood.

STEP THREE

Then with the other half of your false nail, rip that into half again, and glue the bottom half onto your nail, angled upwards because if it had just been ripped up, it wouldn’t stay in perfect position.

Step Three. Add more false nail.

STEP FOUR

Now with the end of your paint brush, pen or pencil, drop the food colouring into the small half of the nail, and all around your cuticle dabbing with your finger, and down the sides so it looks like the blood is trickling down your finger.

Step Four. Food colouring.

STEP 5 (Optional)

OPTIONAL: I thought that the top of the longer half of the false nail looked little too sharp, so I just dabbed a bit of red nail varnish around the top to make it look more realistic and less like a false nail.

Step 5 (optional) Dab red nail varnish.

And that’s it Like I said, as this is my first post on the blog I decided just to go for something small, but in the future I will do more facial sfx. I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, and if anyone has any requests or suggestions for next month, I will be happy to recreate them for you, just leave a comment and I'll get back to you! ~Emma

VISIT KLAIRE'S CHANNEL HERE

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Lifestyle Post | Facebook Page

Just a quick update:
I have set up a facebook page as it is easier than posting posts on my normal facebook page, i still post them on my twitter page and everything but i just think it is better to have a separate page!

I would love it if you are interested in my posts if you could give it a little 'like' (:

MY FACEBOOK PAGE

Also if you haven't entered my Giveaway yet! You still can HERE 

I'm going to Alton Towers tomorrow to go on #thesmiler... HOPEFULLY it won't break down on me like it has been doing the past few weeks!!

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

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MUA | 1D Little Things Collection - Cheek Tint in Coral Cutie

Coral Cutie Cheek Tint - Little Things Collection.

When i saw the Little Things collection get released, i said to myself, as much as i love One Direction... I'm not going to buy products i don't need, so no more lipsticks because I've got a drawer full of them... and i don't need any more nail polished for the same reason. But then i saw the cheek tints... and i don't own a cheek tint, and because there was a coral shade i decided that would be the one and ONLY thing i would buy from them.

Cute Packaging!!

I hadn't seen them in a Superdrug yet and i they weren't online when i looked so i panicked a bit... but then i went in to my Superdrug the other day and low and behold it was there :D I picked it up because i knew they were a favourite so they would sell out quickly, so i bought it without hesitation.

Swatch of Coral Cutie

I find it so so cute! I proper love it because there's so much of it, and it just seems like it is going to last for such a long long time it's great! It goes on really well, i absolutely love the shade! It reminds me of a cream version of MUA's powder blush in 'Lolly' which i adore. It's such a small container as well, so you can take it everywhere with you, it will just fit in a pocket or a bag or anything, so you can top up the colour on your cheeks, even though you don't really need to because it really lasts!!

The cheek tint also doubles up as a lipstick, which is cute! I recommend this product if you like adding a colour on your cheeks that is a little bit different, and for only £3 it still almost matches MUA's incredible prices. It is totally worth it for £3... this is going to last me forEVER.

Cuteeee

(PS if you haven't entered my GIVEAWAY yet, which features MUA nail products and and MUA blusher, and 3 nails inc. polishes! Just click HERE to go to the page!) 
Buy the One Direction Cheek Tint in store, they aren't available online yet!! But they will be available on MUA's site.

Shop MUA's Site HERE

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

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*ENDED* GIVEAWAY | MUA & Nails Inc.

This giveaway is UK ONLY. If you enter and you are from outside the UK, i won't be able to send it to you unless you pay for postage as i don't really have any money haha, anyway!

I have decided to do a giveaway, as i have collected some little items together to give to someone in a couple of weeks time(: I am giving away these products because i either have one similar or have too many of these products. All of the products in the giveaway are nail products, except for my Marshmallow Blusher from MUA - i am giving this away because it doesn't suit my skin tone.

PRODUCTS IN THE GIVEAWAY

• MUA Love Hearts Nail Polish - U&I
• MUA Fur Effect Nails - Fluffy Bobbin (3/4's left as i swatched and it got a bit messy)
• MUA Nail Polish in Plum Noir
• 3 Nails Inc. Polishes, 3 shades (no names) a light pink, dark forest green and dark purple/brown. 

The blushers packaging is a little bit worn down, purely because it has been in a drawer for a while. 

ALL of the products have been swatched, but there is still almost all left in them and 3/4's in the fur effect. 

I love all these products(: and it's free! So there's no harm in entering!!! 

HOW TO ENTER 

Enter using the Raffle Copter below, you can earn up to 9 entires, and even more if you do some each day! Just Subscribe to me on YouTube, follow me on Twitter, Tweet about it and follow me on blog lovin' for 9 entries. You can tweet once every day for extra entries!

THE GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED. OVER 100 ENTRIES! THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND WELL DONE TO HANNAH YARDLEY

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Haul | MUA - Make Up Academy + FashionistA

Guess what came in the post today? My MUA haul! I got very excited by this as i love their products! So i thought i would share with you what i purchased. 

Favourite Foundation!

First i re-purchased something. Their Matte Foundation. I have been loving this, it is so cheap and amazing. Really good quality. So i wanted to buy it again, and seeing as it was in the sale, i couldn't resist!! It was only £1, bargain! I will be writing reviews on all of these products soon! 

FashionistA Style Brows Kit

Love the packaging

The next thing i decided to get was the Style Brows Brow Kit. I've had my eye on this for a while, it is £7 in Superdrug... and only £3.50 online, so i waited until i wanted other items off the site before i ordered, but i finally have it! This looks so cool and sleek. I love the packaging! It is so stylish and amazing. I'm very excited to use this as it looks like it is amazing quality. I'm especially excited to use that fixing gel! 

Shade U&I - Pastel Yellow

I realised i didn't own a pastel yellow nail polish, so i decided to invest in one as it is summer and cute nails are a must! I purchased a nail polish from their Love Hearts collection. I bought the shade U&I which looks very cute, and i can't wait to try it out! It was only £1.50 in the half price sale! I love MUA's £1 nail polishes, so i am hoping i like these ones equally. 

I am a sucker for dark red lipsticks, i just think they make your look so much more complete and just make you look better in general. But i only own one, so i thought it was time to look at other similar shades. I purchased the Double Take Shade 6 - Red Carpet from the FashionistA range. From the swatches i have done and the time i briefly had it on my lips, i feel like it is really great, i just need to wear it long enough to decide whether it lives up to its 'long wear' statement, which I'm sure it will, because the £1 MUA lipsticks do. And this one is worth £7, but i got it for £1.50!! Bargain. 

Red Carpet on lips.

Swatch

So that's all i purchased from MUA. Anyone who is new to MUA, i totally recommend you purchase some of their products, i have never seen such good quality with such a cheap price! I absolutely adore MUA. Reviews will come soon on all of these products, remember to follow me on my social networks at the top of the page to get updates on my posts! 

WHERE TO BUY

All products are off MUA's online site. Some of the products are available in Superdrug. 

• FashionistA | Double Take Lipstick | 6 Red Carpet - BUY HERE
• MUA | Matte Foundation - BUY HERE
• MUA |  Love Hearts Nail Polish - U&I - BUY HERE
• FashionistA |  Style Brows Kit - BUY HERE

Shop MUA's Site HERE

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

If you have any general questions to ask me, which i could answer in a blog post so any beauty related questions send me and EMAIL HERE with the subject line 'Beauty Question' 
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July | Favourites!

Hi!
I haven't done a monthly favourites post before, and seeing as I've had this blog for a couple of months  now i thought it would be a good idea to mention some of my favourites of the month!

BEAUTY FAVOURITES

Gelly Hi - Shine Nail Paint by Barry M - £3.99

I only have one shade of this, which is green berry. It is an absolutely amazing shade, sort of a brighter version of MUA's Pistachio Ice Cream which i love as well. This Nail polish goes on so smoothly and looks like false nails, they are so shiny it is unreal! I highly recommend these to anyone ever. They have so many shades, i was tempted to buy so many! I'm going to purchase more!
REVIEW HERE
BUY HERE

MUA Shade 1 Lipstick - £1

This has been my go - to lipstick for so long now, its such a wonderful deep red colour and i think it just completes your makeup look. It has real staying power and i LOVE IT. (TOP TIP: always dab down your lipstick with a tissue, it makes it last longer!)

BUY HERE

L'Oreal Paris Skin Perfection 3 in 1 Purifying Micellar Solution - RRP: £4.99 (on offer right now)

This is my favourite cleanser EVER. It just makes me feel so fresh faced and it removes ALL of my makeup effortlessly. I totally recommend this it is BRILLIANT

REVIEW HERE
BUY HERE

NYC Color 815A The Best of Broadway Quartet £3.17

I use this every day for a subtle eye look, I've been quite boring with my eyes recently, i haven't been too adventurous... but this still makes my eye makeup look lovely and i love it! Totally Recommend it to anyone. Its so easy. I use the brown to do my eyebrows with(:

BUY HERE

MUA Matte Perfect Loose Powder - £2.50

This powder sets my foundation and gives me a matte finish. It's definitely a favourite because it just gives you a flawless finish!

BUY HERE

eBay Beauty Blender Dupe -£0.99

This idea is just genius. I'm obsessed with using this it just gives me perfect foundation every day.

REVIEW HERE
BUY HERE

MUA Powder Blusher in Lolly - £1

This is a lovely summery shade suited best when you have a bit of a tan, it's so so cute. I just adore this, it's almost all gone!

BUY HERE

FASHION FAVOURITES

Denim Skirt 

I think a denim skirt just goes with basically my entire wardrobe... they're just brilliant and adorable. Perfect little summer fashion item!

Unsure where to buy! Sorry!

Navy Toms  - £37

These are the comfiest shoes i have ever owned. That is all i have to say.
BUY HERE

Strawberry Slippers - £3

THESE ARE THE CUTEST THINGS I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS. They are from Primark and i had to pick them up. WHO DOESN'T WANT strawberries on their feet?!?!? Super comfy too!!

BUY in store in Primark

So those are some of my Fashion/Beauty Favourites! Hope you enjoyed, leave a comment! Comment if you would take part in a giveaway i may or may not be doing x

I hope you had/are having/are about to have a wonderful day!

Lots of love,

Sam xx

If you have any general questions to ask me, which i could answer in a blog post so any beauty related questions send me and EMAIL HERE with the subject line 'Beauty Question' 
You can also ask me anything you want just use the subject line 'Blog' and I'll send you an email back with the answer, visit the Contact Page for any further details on business/general enquiries. 

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