Monthly favourites!!

How has your January been? As dull, dreary and dragging as mine? I thought so!

January is the worst, no-one has any money, the festivities are all over and everyone is holding out for pay-day, but don't worry it's all over now! It's 324 days until the next January..... scratch that I don't want to think about it.

What have I been loving this month?! Aren't you all dying to know? Lets start with my new found love. 'Etsy' planner stickers oh my christ  these have made my life, better, organised, and cute! I bought quite a few as the clock struck 12 on NYE and pay day came in! I have work ones and cleaning ones and gym ones. You should really check them out and I don't go all out mad and have a full weekly spread like you see in YouTube videos, no no no, I just have them stuck in my little 'Paperchase' diary that I bought towards the end of last year. I'm thinking of doing a post on my fave 'Etsy' planner shops soon? What do you guys think?

Okay, okay, moving on before I get obsessive. My super duper cute River Island double pom pom hat I got for christmas, it's that perfect cutesy pink and I know you are probably thinking, "Charlotte, you knit, make one yourself!" But I saw this online back in November and asked for it for Christmas, and I didn't take it off all day after I took it out from under the tree!

I am absolutely loving my Urban Decay Ultimate Basics palette for a matte neutral eye and then adding a pop of colour under my waterline with MAC 'Stars n' Rockets' or 'Aquadisiac' really adds something else to a simple day look I think! Pair it with MAC's Whirl or Velvet Teddy Lipstick and you are good to go!

And my final love which has only been the last two weeks of the month is getting back into the gym and having a personal trainer, my PT is really helping me to push myself a lot further than I have been doing before and I am really feeling that muscle ache still a few days after each session now rather than just a little for the next day! I really hope I am going to tone up quickly and lose those bits of weight that appeared during that last year of uni from all those take-aways and lack of exercise. I have two amazing hen-do's this year, one which I will defo need a bikini for and then two equally amazing weddings to follow them and I want to be feeling my best. Plus I have some really hot skirts that either can't fit into or don't feel good in anymore! I want them back in my wardrobe!

Have you kick-started January with a BANG?!

Charlotte Rose

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Hot Spice.

I was recently taking my daily moment of perusing through Pinterest when I stumbled across a pin about this beautiful palette. I feel I am always really limited with blushers and not something I really reach out for when shopping, and more of just a purchase when my current one is running low, with only 3 blushers in my collection I saw this palette and felt it was a necessary buy for me. Once I had clicked through and found the item on Superdrug and saw the 'oh so wonderful' price of just £6 I immediately clicked add to basket. For the price you pay I think the pigmentation of these shades are more than you would expected and in no way does the packaging look cheap or tacky, with a lovely big mirror there's nothing more you could want!

With a beautiful selection of 8 warm shades I feel that my collection has warmly welcomed this Makeup Revolution Hot Spice Blush Palette. This palette includes 6 matte shades and 2 shimmer, the top right shade would be a perfect highlight whilst the top left would make a cute, warm contour! 

Stay Hot and Spicy!

Charlotte Rose

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MAC Haul

Hey Everyone! So this post leads on nicely from my previous about my trip to London as all these purchases were made in London at the newly opened MAC store in Covent Garden! It was really nice in there a small store but was split over two levels! As always in a MAC store the staff were so helpful especially as this was my first ever MAC purchases. These Products were split over two visits as after buying my first products I couldn't wait to get more.

 So the first time I went in I was looking to start a brush collection, I never apply foundation or anything like that so I was focused on brushes for application of eye shadow. I ended up purchasing the 224 brush for blending and the 213 brush for application, I decided to go for just one application brush currently as I already own other brushes, although not MAC, that I use to apply eye shadow and was desperate for a blending brush! And so that leads to my next purchase, the MAC Brush Cleanser, which for just £10 is well worth buying to prolong the life of your brushes, and in fact to just keep them clean, I have never cleaned any of my brushes before because they were just cheap, but when I decided to clean them after purchasing this product I cleaned my Bourjois Paris Kabuki Brush and it was so dirty it was ridiculous! I didn't use the brush cleanser for this but baby shampoo to deep clean my brush and did this four times to my Kabuki and it still isn't completely clean! So that was all I bought on my first trip in! 

On to my second trip... Kyle promised to buy me something from MAC for eating a whole chilli or something, I can't really remember! So we went back ... He ended up buying me more than just one product. Kyle spotted the nail varnishes and knowing my obsession with nail varnishes he led me straight over, I picked up this gorgeous colour called Soiree, it's a really pale bronze gold shimmer colour and I immediately fell in love with it and had to have it! although I love the colour I think it is a bit too expensive for what you get, priced at £11, yes you get a fair amount of the nail lacquer but it chips really easily, I never use an under or overcoat of clear varnish and my other nail varnishes, mainly Barry M still don't chip quite so easily, Soiree started chipping after 1/2 days... I am going to purchase a top coat and see if that makes a lot of difference. Next Kyle suggested eye shadows and getting a palette, personally I think it is really silly you have to buy the palette and the insert I understand this is so you can choose blush or eye shadow insert  but you would always buy a palette for blush and eye shadow anyway, you are never going to switch the inserts over in one palette in my opinion! Unless you buy all your products potted and not as just the pan. Anyway I then had to pick eye shadows, I settled on getting three shadows and they would be neutral colours. I chose Blanc Type first, a perfect highlight colour, then Sable as I like the medium brown with the shimmer it had, and then the matte dark brown Mystery. I do love all three of these colours and may post a Make-up look containing them soon so keep looking out for that! 

Hope you enjoyed this post! 

Thanks, Charlotte Rose x