Red Gradient lips

I really love the makeup trend right now where one lip is a different shade of the same colour to the other lip - I think it's so fun!

While I may not be brave enough to wear this, although they are super duper pretty

My gradient lips were a little different, I used Cherry by MAC which is a blue based red lipliner, so a cool blue.

Around the edges I used too much of a heavy hand in MAC brown lipliner in shade Chestnut. With a lot of heavy editing, the picture of how the lips turned out is okay! But I was just practising today, I'll be doing it for real on myself for a wedding in a couple weeks time, so by then I will hopefully have perfected the red gradient lip!

New video: How to do all different kids of eyeliner in under 4 minutes!

Whether you want retro, chunky, delicate, winged, exotic




Enjoy!!!

Money to burn? Me neither!

But still, it's fun to look!
If Pinterest isn't burning away at your free time then this will!

www.thisiswhyimbroke.com

This is why I'm broke sort of gives the whole game away of what the website is about but the greatest part is that it shows incredible innovative products but links directly to where you can buy them!
No more 'I love this but where can I get it!?'

Here are my favourites!!!

A rainbow shower!!

 A baby convict onesie!

 Chocolate duvet cover!

 A baby floor cleaner

 An Xbox controller bra

 Doesn't everyone want to smell of play-doh!? er...

What could be better than keeping pet fish in your sink?? - I wonder if maybe this is a bit cruel

Pinterest infecting my brain!

If ever there was a better way to waste away a lazy Sunday than on Pinterest please let me know, 1 hour feels like 1 minute and I'm just pinning even more furiously than before, I've collected my Summer wardrobe, my dream wedding, my dream holiday, my dream life I think!!!

Pinning long into the night!!!

For when you're sick of perfection

If you've had a whole Saturday spent watching seemingly perfect girls on YouTube that never appear to have a single flaw, imperfection or even a pimple in their life and it has made you feel like a dowdy individual that has not got out of your pjs all day (what.. I don't do that..er..)

Here is your little pick-me-up!
I don't know why, this really made me laugh!

It's a whole post called 'Pretty girls make Ugly faces' it really made me laugh! I love when people can poke fun at themselves and the way they look, and would only ever let the world see pictures of themselves looking made up and like perfection!
Here are my favourites:

Click here for more of these!

Black smokey eye!

For the first time in too long I'm all dressed up and made up!
Tonight I'm wearing my black charcoal makeup that I showed you how to do a little while back

My bag is from Primark, skirt is from Zara, black top from a charity shop and flat black pumps!

If you like my makeup, here's where you can learn how to do it too!

Valentines day treat: New Video!

As promised...
The majestical before and after video that is here to wipe all your worries about every last blemish away today!


I wish getting ready really did just take 2 minutes and 54 seconds!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY to you! Lots of love and so, so many strawberry cookies!

Twas the night before Cupid

I don't think Cupid was actually born tomorrow, I'm not entirely sure, I just wanted the title to sound festive really!
Maybe you have special plans tomorrow, or maybe you just want a quick insight into how you can go from looking like you just woke up to looking like you fell over and was dragged backwards through a bush to looking like you just had 12 hours of sleep and a month of spa treatments.
It's all coming your way as a Valentines day present tomorrow!

Yes it really does work and here is the before and after to prove it!



I know what you're thinking... you're thinking 'gosh...which one is the 'before' and which one is the 'after'....
Okay that was a joke (a bad one)

If there's hope for flawless skin and fresh face for me then there's hope for you!

It's nearly Valentines day!

As preparation for the most loving day of the year some might say.. I stayed in and baked pink strawberry butter cookies!
It was a pre-made kid for children I think so it wasn't really me doing any of the hard work, but I got the kit for christmas and thought that this was the perfect time to put it to use!
It came with the most beautiful heart shaped and hello kitty shaped cutter
but... the cooking instructions were in German which was...interesting to say the least, a little later on we found the English translation and luckily our interpretation skills were correct and we'd followed all the instructions perfectly.

 The strawberry dough tasted pretty delicious raw, and we were all totally amazed at how when you added the egg, the flour went from white to a pretty pastel pink!

 We ended up making about 4 batches out of that little amount of dough, it was crazy! I had to get an army of friends to help stick on the embellishments (sugar paper bows and kitty faces) I think in total there were probably about 60 cookies to go around and they were sooo supoer sweet and delicious, even the icing was strawberry!
I wish I could share them with you because it's going to be a struggle to get through 60 all by myself!

Rainy nights and the most beautiful stamp!

 I just have to show you the prettiest stamp! I think it is especially for Valentines day or something, but it has clusters of poppies all over it!

Outside looks kind of pretty too, although really it was raining so it was less fun to actually be there than it is to look at here, this is one of the pictures that I don't want to jump into!