April/ May Favourites!

Hellooooo,

It's favourites time! I'm doing a combined one because I feel you deserve it and I have quite a few.

I'll just jump right in because who's really interested in all the jabbering I do?

To start!

Make-up:

April/May were difficult months in terms of skin for me, I had a lot of deadlines due and I finished my first year of University (woo!) so I had a lot of stress spots creep up on me. In one sense I wanted to shove a bag over my head and use the highest coverage foundation I have but I held off and gave my skin a break.

My favourite combination of skin stuff these two months has definitely been MAC Face & Body foundation (in N1), MAC Select Cover-Up concealer (NW15), Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer (Ivory 010) and to keep my skin matte, I've been really enjoying the Soap & Glory 'One Heck Of A Blot' translucent powder.

MAC products are not cheap, let me just throw that out there. They're a treat. I'm a bit of a make-up enthusiast and the things that I work with I try and use the best quality I can get without going broke. MAC face & body is super, super light. It's more like a tinted moisturiser if anything, it covers up redness and makes your skin look super healthy and glowy so I love, love it.

As I said before, I've had some problems with my skin so I needed a good concealer. I went for the MAC Select Cover-Up after going to a counter in York and being matched up and I've fallen in love. You don't need that much of it so even though the packaging is really rather small, you get your money's worth.

(before I go on, it's best to get matched up with MAC products. I have warm toned skin so I often get NW or N1 when it comes to products from there)

I used to be a huge advocate for the Collection Lasting Perfection concealer for the looooongest time. It's in my last favourites I think, and it's in my old 'What's in my make-up bag' post. While it's still a brilliant concealer, I wanted something a little more radiant for under my eyes because I'm always tired so last time I went to stock up, I went for the Rimmel 'Wake Me Up' foundation that has a radiant glow and is anti-fatigue. It's also full coverage. I love it, it makes me look more awake even on those early morning starts and it makes my eyes look brighter so no need for stabbing my eyeballs with white eyeliner!

Just to mention that I changed mascaras after my benefit one ran out. I went to Twitter and asked someone to recommend a lengthening mascara and my beautiful friend Sophie (her blog is starting up soon and I'm so excited!!) told me about the L'Oreal 'Miss Manga' mascara and I absolutely love it. I went back today and bought my second tube! It's super black, volumizing, lengthening and I love the wand!

Moving swiftly on to blush. I used to use a MAC blush, then I moved onto a Rimmel blush and now I finally caved and bought a Benefit blush and oh my lanta. I ab-so-lutely LOVE it. I bought 'SugarBomb' which isn't one I've heard many people talk about before.

It's made up of four little triangles, one's an orange colour, one's a deepish reddy purple, one's a coral pink and the last is a red. It sounds horrific but once you swirl your brush in and apply it to your cheeks it gives the perfect summer glow. I've stopped using bronzer when I use this because it's just that side of glowing that you really don't need it! I'm in LOVE. It gives off a sort of orange/bronze colour which actually really suits us paler girls.

EYES WISE:

I was experimenting in early May with my Urban Decay Vice 2 palette. I've only really used the browns, light shimmery pinks and the huge mirror in this palette but I was bored and decided to play about. I can't believe I've never used these colours before, guys.

Firstly, I read somewhere the other day that people with blue eyes should mainly wear greys, browns and taupes on their eyes but hell to that!

One of my favourite looks that I created with the palette was by using two colours in particular. One is called 'STRIKE' which is  beaaaaautiful gold, sparkly colour on the inner part of my eye stretched out to the middle, and then I patted on 'POISON' which is a dark, earthy coloured green with pretty silver glitter in it and blended up and out. It looked beautiful. I added a little more of the gold on my inner corners to brighten it up a bit but I love it and I can't wait to wear it for a party or something with the green-y colour not being as harsh as a normal smokey eye with black would be!! Try it out and, if you're up for it, splurge out on the Vice 2 Palette because I am OBSESSED!

I have one favourite make-up brush this month and I literally can't live without it.

I got a brush set from ZOEVA in April (the rose gold collection) and I absolutely love it. The brush I'm most obsessed with is the 102 SILK FINISH brush. It just makes your foundation go on soooo incredibly flawless no matter what brand or coverage you use. I use it with everything from concealer to foundation to my puffy eye's cover up and, ah. I literally can't find fault with it. It cleans super easily, it dries incredibly soft and it NEVER loses its shape which used to be a problem with one of my old brushes.

The penultimate favourite is a little random for me. I was in Schue a few weeks ago and I saw some Nike Blazers on the rack and I fell in love. As soon as I tried them on, I bought them and I've been wearing them every day since. I'm not entirely sure what to say about trainers because I've never been a trainer girl but... Yes. I love them, I'm obsessed, they're super comfy and they go with everything!

Last but by no means least, I have been OBSESSED, so much so that my mum who has been a strictly dove showergel woman has started using it, with the Soap & Glory body was in LIME CRUSH. Oh holy mackerel. Just, do me a favour and go to Superdrug and smell it. If you don't buy it, just smell it. It literally smells like a lemon top from the beach. I'm convinced that you can even smell the ice cream. I can't hype it up enough. It smells delicious, the smell lasts but isn't overpowering, it leaves the bathroom smelling delicious and it's super hydrating if you have dry skin on your elbows or something. I want MORE!

So that's it! It's very chatty and no pictures but it's aaaaaall genuine. Obviously I'm not sponsored by anyone.

Thank for reading guys! Blog post next week... Mmmm... I haven't decided on what it's gonna be yet but it's gonna be good! (I hope)

Thanks for waiting for this :)

Laters,

Kate xx