February Favourites...

This month has gone pretty god damn slow, don’t get me wrong, I have loved some of it, Valentines with Will was really nice, just a shame we only had the evening together. I have been pretty hands on in the making of my sister’s wedding invitations, she has designed them all herself we just spend a couple of nights putting them all together and ready to be mailed out so that was super fun! The downside of this month has been constantly working, I am still working two jobs and that means I have only had one day off this entire month, and it wasn’t even a weekend so I spent it by myself! 

I am still loving the ‘Game Of Thrones’ books, I featured the first one in my monthly book series, and am currently reading the second one, I am featuring a different book in the 2nd part of that series this month though, but keep an eye out for ‘Clash of Kings’ in my March monthly book. It’s really keeping my attention and I don’t want to put it down, but everything else has taken over this month and I haven't had chance to pick it up as much as I would have liked! 

I picked up the Nyx ‘Cannes’ soft Matte Lip cream early this month and I really really love the colour, a deep pink I would describe it as, you can see the colour in the photo below. But I’m not a fan of the formula at all, it’s very thick and pastey. I much prefer their liquid suede formula, so if any of you have suggestions on a good dupe of the colour of this one it would be amazing if you could leave it in a comment below! I don’t care if it’s a liquid lipstick or just a normal lipstick I just want that colour! 

Oh my goodness, Charlotte Tilbury Legendary Lashes Mascara is amazing. Definitely my holy grail mascara, I was gifted this mini for my birthday and I have been trying to keep hold of it as long as I can. I have never ever had a mascara that after one coat looks this beautiful. I will add a second coat just because I do really love my eyelashes thick but you wouldn't need to if you didn't want them extra clumpy. This mascara makes my lashes look full and long and separated in one sweep. It’s super black and I would say a fairly wet mascara so if you are not into that let it dry out a bit and it will still work wonders for your lashes. Beautiful. 

New season of ‘Call the Midwife’. Now this may not be everyones cup of tea, or you may not of even considered watching it. But you should seriously reconsider if that is the case. This show has got me hooked,  and I disappoint myself when I think about the fact that I didn't watch the first and maybe the second series, I think thats all I missed. I stumbled across my mum watching it one day and you know what its like, you’ll sit on the sofa for just 5 minutes an then realised you have watched the whole show and you couldn’t walk away. Now I will pre-warn you, this show is a tear jerker, but I love that, it is a happy show though, don’t get me wrong, there are sad moments, but overall I think but the end of each episode you’ll defo be in a feel good mood! 

Do you have any things you are loving this month? 

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