My most reached for make-up items ft. organiser

Oh hey guys!

I thought since I showed you my overall organisation of my beauty products I would go a little more in depth into my most reached make- up items and the new organiser I picked up from TK MAXX a couple of weeks ago. This organiser retails at £9.99 at TK MAXX, it has 14 small slots where as you can see lipsticks can be housed, there are also three deep tall slots where I house mascara, lip pencils and eye liners. Finally there is the main component at the very back which is deep and fairly long, I use this to house my main bulk of everyday products. I hope you guys enjoy this post. 

A picture of the overall look of the organiser with my most reached make-up items. 

Base: Gosh X-Ceptional wear foundation (11 porcelain), MAC Pro Longwear SPF foundation (nw15) , Estee Lauder Idealist Pore minimising Skin refinisher , Lasting Perfection Concealer (Fair 1), Sleek Face Contouring Kit (Fair). 

Brows/ Eyes: Rimmel Brow This Way Styling Gel (Clear), Maybelline Mega Plush Mascara (Very Black), Barry M Eyebrow Kit , Collection Extreme 24hr Felt Tip Liner (Black), Model Co. Eye define eye pencil . 

MAC Lipsticks: Viva Glam V,  Honey Love, Impassioned, So Chaud and Viva Glam I

Lip Pencils: (Rimmel)Addiction (18) , Spice (11), Eastend Snob (63) 

                    (MAC) Spice, Cherry

Lip Gloss: (Benefit) Kiss me quick (Discounted)

So I hope this helps, this is the most reached make-up on my vanity!

That's all for now

The Beauty Scenario TAG

The Questions:

1. You have to get rid of all your foundations and you can only keep one high end and one drugstore, which do you keep?

This one is particularly hard for me I shop 95% based on drugstore mainly because I'm not rolling in money yet, so the ratio of high end to drug store is a tad biased. However the drug store foundation I'm picking is based on the length of time I've used it for, it was the first foundation that didn't apply to my dry skin and turn into skin flakes (ewww gross I know). So the foundation in question is GOSH X-Ceptional Wear Foundation in Porcelain, not only is it a perfect fit for someone with dry skin but it was one of the first foundations that had my skin tone. It is average on the price scale at £7.99 and can be picked up at your nearest Superdrug.
I only own two "high end" foundations in the shape of Benefits Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow! and Estee Lauders infamous Double Wear foundation. Out of the two I definitely reach for Benefit more, it blends better into my face and offers a complete coverage that both matches my skin tone and enhances it. The foundation itself is also packaged beautifully in fact it is something that can be put on display in any room. You can grab your own bottle at Boots and its something I would recommend. Estee Lauder foundation made my skin flaky and I believe that I got given the wrong colour foundation which didn't help my view, I see why people rave about this foundation but with my skin now it doesn't quite work. You can pick your foundation Boots both foundations retail in there 20's which is almost 3 times more than GOSH.

2. You go for an interview and the lady interviewing you has lipstick on her teeth. Do you approach the subject or ignore it completely?

I think in this kind of situation I wouldn't draw attention to the issue, I feel that if I was to do such a thing then the interviewer would feel self conscious and it may count against me. The least I would do would be to do subtle things such as licking my own teeth in a hope that they would do the same.

3. You're not feeling yourself and need a pick me up. Which lipstick do you put on to make yourself feel beautiful?

I don't tend to wear lipstick a lot and when I do it's dramatic, a simple red lip never fails to make me feel amazing, my ultimate favorite has to be Fatal Red by Maybelline. It's cheap and cheerful and I feel like it suits my complexion pretty well. 


4. You go back in time for a day to your teenage years, how would you do your hair and makeup differently?

I didn't actually start to wear make-up until I was at least in year 10 (or Sophomore year) but I definitely went through a stage of wearing things that were the complete opposite of how God intended me to be. I straightened the life out of my natural curls, dyed it almost black and wore foundation that was darker than I was. I would shake the life out of myself if I could and tell myself to stick to natural stuff, don't be someone else for anybody just be true to you.

5. You ask your hairdresser for a shoulder length Pixie Lott hair cut, but they hear wrong and give you a pixi cut. Do you a) Smile, say thank you, leave and call your mum hysterical b) Cry in the chair and things get awkward or c) Complain to the manager and demand a refund.

To be honest I would never ask for anything that short I am way to attached to my hair but let's say I do. In all honesty it would be the first option, I'm not generally someone who confronts someone or argues my mum however would march over there and demand that they fix it and give all my money back.

6. Your friend surprises you with a 4 day city break and you have 1 hour to pack. Which 'do it all' palette do you pack in your makeup bag?

Oh how I would love that friend! I don't tend to have a lot of high end makeup palettes in fact all of my palettes are affordable drug store brands. The MUA Undressed Palette is an amazing dupe for the Urban Decay Naked Palette so it combines all natural and glowy tones and shades to create both day and night looks anywhere. 

7. Your house has been robbed, don't worry everyone is safe, but your beauty stash has been raided. What's the product you really hope is safe?

I don't have one particular thing in my makeup products that I would think of straight away, I think out of everything I would choose to grab my Real Techniques Make-up brushes. I am proud of my growing collection they are by far my favorite brushes and super affordable!

8. Your friend borrows your makeup and returns it in awful condition. Do you a) Just pretend you haven't noticed b) Ask them to repurchase it or c) Secretly do the same to something of theirs

As I've previously said I am not one for confrontation and I doubt it would have been on purpose, I would just know to never lend them makeup again, I can't actually imagine any of my friends wouldn't repurchase or replace something that they would have messed up. 

My Christmas 2013

So most people tend to do a "What I got for Christmas tag" but to be honest my SD card stopped working so I couldn't do it before the deadline. This is instead a post on my whole Christmas experience.

So Christmas Eve was spent with my mum in the kitchen preparing the turkey, making snacks for the next day and sorting out the presents for Christmas day. Not much happened except the fact I sorted out my work outfit for the next day and what make-up I would be wearing. An exciting life I lead I know!

This is my stash of goodies from the day, a few DVD's including The Amazing Spider-man (Major Marvel fan!!!) body stuff, Soap and Glory box, Topshop bags and shoes, cheeky white wine from my beauty Victoria and a cute "remember me" bracelet from Shannon are among the bunch. I loved everything I received so thank you to everyone who got me a gift. 

So my make-up look for the day was created using the following:

Benefit Porefessional Primer

Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation in Cool Bone

Revlon Photo Ready Concealer in Fair

Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in Transparent
Sleek Vintage Romance Palette - Paris Gold (no longer sold)

Ted Baker Cant take my eyes off you - Gold (no longer sold)
Soap & Glory Supercat Eyeliner Pen in Black
Rimmel Kohl Eyeliner Pencil in Black
(For eyebrows) Natural Collection eyeshadow in Crushed Walnut
Natural Collection Clear Mascara (to set)
Rimmel Natural Bronzer in Sun Bronze
Natural Collection Blushed Cheeks in Peach Melba

Benefit High Beam Highlighter 
LA Colours lipliner Pencil in Forever Red

Maybelline Colour Sensational Lipstick in Fatal Red

Seen as I was working Christmas Day I decided to opt for the Christmas Jumper, this one was from Primark at a bargain £12!!

This is me looking slightly bald, despite the fact I have long hair it appears this way because I had it in a bun - the same way as I did my prom hair, with my beautiful bestie and colleague Jessy!!!

"Say Cheese" with Jade, Jessy, my sister Gemma and lovely Shannon as you may have noticed we opted for the Christmas Jumpers aside from the sexy Mrs Claus Aka Shannon!

                                                 Close up of my two beauties!

This is a picture stolen from my sisters Instagram account of the beautiful bracelets Shannon got us as she's left us for a tiny village in the middle of no where :(

This is a pretty picture of the beautifully matching jumper pair Jess and Victoria (stolen off Victoria's instagram) I love these girls like they are my sisters!

So the day was a very long day in fact for many like myself it consisted of an 8 hour shift with no breaks in between, however I love the team I work with and the girls in general made it a very happy and smooth running day. After getting home it was the usual Christmas dinner followed by alcohol and plenty of nibbles. 

I hope you guys had an amazing Christmas