Spring Fling Spring Brights By 17

This palette has been raved about so much in the blogging community, I couldn't resist picking it up. It's a beautiful eye shadow palette, that contains 4 different shades by 17.

Please excuse the slight thumb print at the bottom there.. it was a challenge to open with my nails. : ' )

Like I said, you get four different eye shadow shades within this palette. I absolutely adore the golds, (1 & 4) closely followed by the pink & lilac (2 & 3)

You can see from the swatches, the colours aren't exactly 'Spring Brights'. Infact, they aren't very pigmented at all, but if you aren't used to wearing colours on your eyes, these would probably suit you as a starter palette. I do wear eye shadows most days & prefer them to be slightly more pigmented, but for a sutle day time look, this is my new go-to palette.

17 also released the Hazy Days palette, which I'm quite keen to get my hands on too!

These palette's retail for around £5.99 from Boots - however I got mine from the 'clearence section' for £3! Bargain.

Have you tried this palette or the Hazy Days palette? 

OOTD - Grey Skies

Top - New Look / Leggins - Bellique / Earrings - Dorothy Perkins / Necklace - Unknown (gift) / Nails - Barry M & Models Own.

Hey dolls, here's my outfit from today. I spent the day round Cathy's house, drinking tea & gossipping & eating left over Shepard's pie. : )

Not much to say about this outfit except it kinda fits my mood at the moment. Spring / Summer has definitely disappeared from the UK & we're back to rain every day & floods in the most inconvenient places. My mum brought me these leggins home the other day & I fell in love. They are so soft it's unreal, but really hard to style!

Hope you're all well ladies, I'm off to see Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp tonight, so excited. : )

Ardingly Show '12

Hey dolls!

Yesterday the sun finally came out again (well, sort of.. a few spots of rain isn't too bad for the UK..) which was awesome, as we went to our local county show. Hard to explain, but it's basically a place filled with animals, stalls, food & drink, crafts & a fair. I go every year with my family. As some of you know, I keep chickens so we take them as a display to the shows.

This is Wilson, isn't he beautiful? : )

These are also both mine. Cute aren't they? It's so hard to take decent photos of chickens, they move so fast! This breed is bred to have no tail, I think they are adorable. My friend pointed out the other day I seem to own all the 'weird' breeds of chicken.. can't deny that one..

After the show, everyone came back to mine & it was nice enough to have a BBQ & a few drinks. Also, a couple of games of badminton got thrown in as well. : )

Hope you all had a lovely weekends, what did you get up too?



Week In Photos #7

Mohawk sheep / New leggins from Mum / Titanic poster / Sorting out my makeup / Sleek lipsticks (post here) / Jubilee nails / "Little Mo" / Gothic nails / Dinner / Night out / Spring Fling palette (post coming soon) / Danny's 18th.

Hi lovelies.

I've just got back from a two hour dog walk with my girls, it is pouring in the UK right now. I've got into my pj's, turned on my itunes & made myself a cup of tea. Bliss.

 

 I had to work every day over the Jubilee weekend except Monday, but still managed to paint my nails, squeeze in a movie night, a bit of scrabble & eat a large chocolate cake to celebrate. : )

How's your week been?

Sleek Makeup True Colour Lipstick

Hey lovelies, how are you all?

Wanted to show you these two lipsticks I picked up from Superdrug the other day.

I've never tried Sleek Lipsticks before so after doing a couple of swatches on my hand in the shop, I thought I'd give them a go. One is a barbie pink, called Amped & the other is a nude shade called Barely There. Apart from the colours being different, one is actually a matte lipstick & the other a sheen. To be honest, I don't have a favourite in this respect. Amped is a gorgeous bright pink but very drying for the lips, I always add a lipgloss when I wear it, but Barely There is so shiny, it just rubs off after a short while.

Despite one being drying & the other not being very durable, I do love the shades & the way they apply.



Swatches: top - Amped, bottom - Barely There.



Have you tried any of these lipsticks? What do you think?