London Baby! What I Bought...

Les vêtements et le visage de la journée

Hey Everyone!

Its been months since I did an OOTD! This was Saturday's outfit- really casual but with quite bold eye makeup.  This is a really everyday, fling it on outfit. Its comfortable, easy but I think the colours (especially of the top) make it really cute.

Top- H&M

Jeans- H&M

Necklace- H Samuel

Eyes- MUA Trio in Innocence, No7 Amazing Eyes Liquid Liner, Benefit They're Real

Lips- Revlon Lip Butter in 050 Berry Smoothie

New Camera- Woohoo!

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Some of you may know that over Christmas my camera broke- sob. I guess that's what I get for letting my family use it! But anyway, we got a new one and I love it! Its the Canon PowerShot SX15 1S. It takes amazing pictures yet isn't overly complicated (though I have to get the hand of filming with it!) But the best news? It was only £69.99 in the Argos sale! Yay!

And just to show you how it compares to my old camera, here are two pictures of the same lipstick, the first with my old Fujifilm and the second with this!

So expect a whole lot of amazing pictures coming soon- I am loving using it and I'm taking heaps and heaps of pictures! 

The Fashion TAG

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Yesterday I was tagged by the lovely Melanie from http://makeupisdelish.blogspot.co.uk/ to do the fashion tag and I thought it looked like a great one do to!

1. How would you describe your style?

I don't know an exact name but definitely girly, oxford style. I might try and incorporate different trends as they pass but mostly I stick to the same kind of thing. 

2. What are your wardrobe staples?

Peter pan collar blouses!

3. Most expensive item in your closet?

I thought about this for ages and I don't actually have an extraordinarily expensive items in my wardrobe. They're mostly in the under £30 range! Maybe my Hollister cardigan actually which was about £60, but I don't wear it very often and actually I'm not sure if I still have it!

4. Most wanted item?

Pretty much everything from Topshop. More specifically though, I would like new tops and another good pair of jeans.

5. Favourite designer?

Again, since most of my clothes are high street I have little experience of designers! I'll say Dior as I did a project on Christian Dior for school a few years ago and I got a Dior skirt (age 12) from TKMaxx about 5 years ago for £15 that I often still try and squeeze into!

6. How much do you spend on clothes?

It depends how much I go shopping that month or if there are sales on etc but in general I don't spend a lot on clothes maybe £30 a month!

7. What are your favourite stores to shop at?

There are heaps- I was actually considering a blog post on this? But H&M, Primark, New Look and Forever 21.

8. Favourite fragrance?

In my current perfume collection its Marc Jacobs Daisy but I have samples of Dot and Lady Million which I love too.

9. What's your favourite way to do your hair?

Ideal situation, curly, though I rarely curl my hair and when I do it usually fails so I get someone else to! On a day to day basis I have 3 hairstyles:

Hair down with side pattern, high ponytail, messy bun (those are in order of easiest to most time consuming, bearing in mind hair down takes less than a minute and messy bun takes 5 minutes)

10. What is your go-to outfit when you have nothing to wear?

Probably my trusty H&M skinny jeans and a collared top- I'm so predictable!

11. One fashion trend you wish would come back or stay?

I want peplums to stay because I really like my peplum. I also want to see the kind of tie-dye trend come back in summer as I bought dye and a pair of cheap shorts but never dyed them!

12. Show us your most prized possession in your wardrobe.

H&M skinny jeans- I never have them off, particularly at this time of year!

13. Tag some people.

Instead of tagging specific people, I thought I'd tag you all- anyone reading this! Be sure to let me know in the comments if you do so I can read yours!

Review | Benefit They're Real

After hearing so many good things about Benefit's 'They're Real' mascara, I was delighted to discover it in my stocking this year. 

Not only did the box include the full size mascara (8.5g) but a mini too (5g); perfect for travelling.

With claims to be the 'World's #1 Mascara' I had pretty high expectations, and it does not disappoint. The formula is thick but not at all gloopy and glides onto the lashes with ease.

The wand is great- quite large and extra spiky. Its shape is pretty unusual, having a round tip with longer spikes which you are supposed to apply vertically to your lashes for length (or is is volume- one or the other!). 

Personally I like to apply my mascara the traditional way: wand horizontal. Anyway, despite my slight confusion, I manage to achieve amazing results with even one coat of this. Not only does it darken, lift and volumize my lashes, it makes them look so long! Its the best mascara I've ever used- its the 'do-all' mascara! 

A slight drawback is that for me, it ends up under my eyes in a few hours. I think I have exceptionally oily eyelids, because this seems to be happening with all my mascaras, but I've found a simple solution is to powder the eye area before and after application, and it'll stay in place. Another thing which is a bit of a pain is that its really difficult to get off- I find it worse than my previous waterproof one and I never manage to get it 100% off and always have black residue. Finally, I realised it definitely isn't tear/ water proof when I went to see Les Mis wearing it- not a good move!

However, I definitely think the pros out weigh the cons and the effect that can be achieved with this mascara is fantastic. It really frames eyes and does everything a mascara is supposed to do and more. Being the mascara junkie I am, I don't think this will be the only mascara I will use for the rest of my life, but it has and will remain to be a staple in my makeup collection and I am currently using it everyday!

Have you tried it? What are your thoughts?