NARS Laguna Bronzer, on the Next Hype.

NARS Bronzer in Laguna - £25

Yeah yeah, I know it's been ages! I've been extremely busy finding a job, keeping up with college (art most of the time!) and other things, mainly seeing my boyfriend and I just haven't had any time whatsoever to get a new blog up!
ANYWAY. My lovely mother bought me this bronzer as a sort of well done present for finally passing my driving theory after my fourth attempt (ha what am I!?), which was a huge relief because, as you can see, I was scraping up the last morsels from my last one and it was killing me that I could see nearly all the pan. Let me just say, this bronzer is 100% the best bronzer I have ever used. It's natural looking, great for contouring, doesn't go patchy, easy to blend and I could list about a million more things!
I reach for this bronzer every single day, ever since buying this I feel like my makeup routine isn't complete without it. The first one I bought was from Florida when I went in April so it has lasted me a good 5/6 months, which I think is great value for money especially with the quality of it too. I'm so thankful that it lasts a long time, it helps me justify the fairly steep price tag yay! It's the perfect balance between shimmer and matte, giving it a more natural look and the actual colour of the bronzer ius beautiful too, it helps create a gorgeous bronzed look rather than going orange on the skin like a lot of drugstore bronzers tend to! NARS packaging is my all time favourite, it's so sleek and glamorous and if I could afford to buy all my makeup from NARS just based on the packaging alone, I would definitely do it. If you're looking to buy this bronzer, it's available in Selfridges, NARS website, Asos and Space NK.
Have you ever tried Laguna?? 

Estēe Lauder Double Wear Foundation

Double Wear Foundation - £27.50

It feels like I haven't posted anything on here in absolutely ages even though its only been a day! On a recent quick trip into Bury for a job interview, I nipped into Debenhams to have a look at the double wear foundation as mine Maybelline one had started to look a little bit cakey and I was thinking about changing up my foundation to more of a high end brand anyway. I actually only went in for a sample to try out for a few days, but I was roped into trying the foundation with one of the women and then into buying it, well actually my mum bought it for me haha! 

I know full coverage foundations aren't for everybody especially around this time of year when it's a bit warmer so more people tend to reach for tinted moisturisers or BB creams. Me, however, I do not like light coverage foundation or anything else similar as I have scarred skin from having problems with my skin in the past and it's also quite blotchy on occasion too so I go for the full coverage and obviously Double Wear foundation ticks all these boxes! When applying it, I use around 2 pea sizedd amounts to cover my whole face and I buff it into my face, with this foundation I tend to find that a little goes a long way. It covers all my scars, blemishes and blotchiness 100% and I am totally in love with it. The finish of the foundation is matte but has quite a satin look to it too, making it look very natural. However, if you don't like the "make up" look, this foundation is not for you. The packaging of the bottle is really sleek and simple which I love but the fact that you have to tip it out of the bottle means that you can end up wearing/wasting more foundation than you need to which, for the price, will put a lot of people off but considering how amazing and true to what it says on the bottle this foundation is I think it is totally worth £27.50 and I will definitely buy it again.
Have you used Double Wear foundation before? What do you think? 

My First Graze Box

graze box - £3.89

The other day I was just browsing through some new posts of the bloggers I follow, and on one of them I follow had a promotion code for a free Graze box! The amount of times I have heard about these graze boxes was starting to get ridiculous considering I still hadn't tried one, so I stepped up finally and placed an order for one.
The website for Graze boxes is extremely easy to navigate and easy to read, making the order process very fast! They have over 100 products to look at and rate so they can choose a group of 4 snacks to send to you. The snacks, or "punnets" as they call them, that I received were the, Herby Bread Basket, Barbecue Pistachios, Honeycomb Crunch and the Apple & Cinnamon Flapjacks and all of them are so so nice! I cannot fault any of them. The portion sizes are extremely generous for the money you pay and the quality of the food is amazing too. All of the punnets say what makes each one good for you such as the Herby Bread Basket is classed as 'extra light' as it only has 87 calories in which is crazy considering its all bread products! I showed my mum the box and she'd heard about them before too in a few of the magazines she reads and loved it too, so I think we may be making a proper order of these soon, yay!
Overall I love the whole concept and content of Graze boxes and would love to get some more in the near future to try some more of their brilliant products! Have you ever tried a Graze box? What did you think??

Use this code 6C15KWZC to get your first free Graze Box!!

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MUA Undressed Palette

MUA Undressed Eyeshadow Palette - £4

I absolutely love eyeshadow at the moment but usually when i'm doing my make up, I reach for my usual NARS Cordura duo eyeshadow and I've been recently lusting over both Urban Decay Naked Palettes but at £36 for each palette, I cannot afford this! SO, I heard about the Heaven & Earth MUA Palette being released but never got round to buying it but the other day after I attempted my driving theory test for the THIRD TIME and failed, yet again (!!), I needed a cheer up and my Dad treated me to the Undressed one, which I prefer over the other "Naked" dupe that MUA do. Obviously, the eyeshadows in the Naked palette are of better quality and and have less fall down than this but for £4 the quality of these are amazing! They are highly pigmented and apply really well, however I don't like the applicator that it comes with but I can easily use one of my other brushes to apply and blend with!
On a day to day basis, I'll use shade 5 all over the, lid shade 10 on the outer corners and shade 9 in the crease but when it comes to going out the darker colours, which the Heaven & Earth palette doesn't have, are really useful to have.
What do you think of the MUA eyeshadow palettes?? 

Origins Spot Remover Pads

Origins Spot Remover Blemish Treatment Pads - £22

These Origins Spot Remover Blemish Treatment Pads are a part of the "Spot Remover" family along with the Super Spot Remover Gel. On one side of the included pads, there is a bumpy, therefore exfoliating, side and each pad contains Salicylic Acid, Clove and Oregano. These work together to help unclog pores and to help get rid of, prevent and fade blemishes.
At first when I first saw these, I didn't like the thought of spreading around the bacteria on your face with one small pad and didn't think they would help my skin. However, once I got into the routine of using them in the AM and PM like the pot instructs you to do, they have 100% worked! The redness of the scars on my face have diminished significantly, I barely get any random breakouts anymore and the spots that I do get (when used along with the Super Spot Remover Gel) go within a few days and the redness of them is much smaller now than it was before I started using these pads. However, I have quite sensitive skin around my eyes so when I use the exfoliating side near my eyes, I find that it stings a little bit so I have to use the opposite side of the pad if necessary. Also, in relation to other Origins products, the packaging of these is fairly big and bulky so it is quite hard to store although this is a minor detail compared to how well they work. Overall, I think I will be repurchasing these very soon as I'm coming to the last few pads in my pot, oh nooo!! 

MAC Studio Finish Concealer

MAC Studio Finish SPF Concelear NC30 - £14.50

On the MAC Cosmetics website, they claim that the Studio Finish Concealer is a 'lightweight, creamy, discreetly opaque concealer' and to some extent I do agree with this. I wouldn't say that this is one of their lightweight concealers if you want to get good coverage like me although if using for things like blotchiness, it could definitely be seen as a lightweight concealer but if you want to cover spots, blemishes, scarring etc you definitely need to apply more to get fuller coverage, making it more on the medium/heavy side! 

For over a year now this has been my go-to concealer as I have a fair bit of spot scarring on my face and it covers the redness of blemishes really well and it stays put throughout the day with only needing to reapply minimal amounts during the day which I love! If you're looking for a concealer to cover up dark circles under your eyes, when first applying it, it does have good coverage for them however over the course of the day I have found that it sinks into the fine lines under the eyes so I would say it is slightly too heavy for this area of the face. If you have dry - normal skin, this concealer may not be the best for you as it is very creamy and doesn't apply very well around dry places/blemishes on the skin. 

I tend to use this concealer both under and over my foundation, however i do use a lighter shade under my foundation and when I use it I seem to have flawless skin coverage, which is what I am aiming for. I love this product and will probably always use this as it is in a reasonable price range of only £14.50 and it lasts for a good 6-12 months depending on how much you use. If you're looking to start a MAC collection this is definitely worth investing in to start off your collection especially for troubled skin.

Models Own Polishes

From thumb to little finger: Bare Beauty, Purple Blue Beetle Juice, Ibiza Mix, Indian Ocean & Hedonist

I've only recently started re-purchasing Models Own nail polishes as the first time I bought them i found them to chip/peel quite easily which really put me off! However, the amount of blogs that I follow that rave on about them and are constantly wearing them made me rethink this and buy some more. I decided on going for the buy 5 save £7 offer and so i chose these 5 which arrived 5 days after i ordered them but only because I ordered them on a Friday which was silly of me!
On the website, Bare Beauty looks more of a brown/beige nude tone and as I only have pink nude tones in my ever-growing collection of nail polishes I opted for this in hope that it would turn up being the same or at least similar to the swatch given on the website. Sadly, it turned up at my house and I was disappointed that it is actually more pink than brown, however, i an absolutely adore this colour! It's super glossy and even though it's on the pink of the "nude" scale, it still looks like a natural nail colour. Very good for when you're going for a more toned down look.
Purple Blue Beetle Juice and Indian Ocean are part of the "Beetlejuice" collection at Models Own and to be honest, at first I wasn't too fond of the whole one nail varnish but two colours type thing but after seeing a few of my favourite bloggers wearing the Indian Ocean colour, I added a couple to my basket. When wearing Indian Ocean the pink that you can see in the bottle disappears and is more of an undertone to the pale blue and the glitter. On the other hand, the Purple Blue Beetle Juice colour looks absolutely amazing when it's actually being worn on the nails. In the bottle you can only see much variation of colour when holding it to the light however when it is on the nails the gold glitter, the purple and the blue all stand out from each other, they seriously compliment each other so well.
The last two in my order are both part of the Hedkandi collection. Ibiza Mix is on every single persons blog ever at the moment, so I decided to see what the hype was about and added it to the basket. It looked so cool when it was in the bottle when it first arrived. I first used Ibiza Mix over the Hedonist colour and it does need, in my opinion, at least 2 layers to get it so it has a good coverage over a base colour though I am yet to try it on its own!  Hedonist is by far my favourite one of the five! I have only ever seen it worn with Ibiza Mix over the top so when I applied it and it turned into a matte nail polish I was over the moon! And it made me love it even more. On the picture above I am only wearing one coat of Hedonist and it is still so bright and it dries amazingly quick but not too quick that if you've missed a bit of nail it won't be the same layer.
Overall, they are all worth spending £5 on them each as I have found that none of them chip massively, unlike some of my Barry M polishes which is what I usually go for, although I don't keep them on for longer than 3 days at the most usually so I couldn't say what they're like for longer than that. They also dry reasonably quick but be careful with Ibiza Mix as that does take a bit longer than the other polishes. I will definitely be buying more Models Own polishes again to add to my expanding collection :-)