Yoyo and Mui's summer giveaway

Yoyo and Mui from...
http://yuiomui.blogspot.co.uk/
and
http://yuiyoyo.blogspot.co.uk/

have decided to hold a joined summer give away with lots of skin food and My Beauty diary goodies up for grabs, good luck to everyone that enters!!! :)

link to giveaway post; http://yuiyoyo.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/yoyo-and-muis-summer-holiday-giveaway.html?showComment=1343769661237#c1169144132201355016

Apologies!

Hello everyone <3,
I am very sorry for being away for a while and not posting, I have actually been on a kind of mini-holiday, or a "stay-cation" in a beautiful fishing resort close by.
I did't actually go for the amazing fishing opportunities, but my sister was getting married!
It all went very well,  but the weeks up in-coming I was mostly staying at her house helping with wedding planning, and that is why I haven't posted in a loooong time.
I have to say I am not very frequent in blogging and I hope to pick up the pace a little more.
I prefer blogs that are updated a couple times a week instead of once a month haha!!
But anyway, these pictures are from quiet a while ago,

Firstly a mini-haul...
After watching more of dream high, I decided to stock up on hair accessories , so I could experiment with cuter hairstyles, so far I have only tried out the little bows and I am yet to try out the flowers!

I was also admiring the subtle stained cheeks that many of the actresses were wearing, so I got a lip and cheek stain by "2True". It was very cheap but actually the quality is quite good, I would paint it directly onto my cheeks because it dry's very quickly, but if I put a bit on my fingertips and tap it on, it spreads very well and looks very natural.

I bought a dark brown eye liner from boots brand "17" to use for my "wedding make up,"
it lasted well and id very pigmented, the felt tip could be slightly finer though, to make it easier to do thin lines!

I watched snow white and the huntsman a while back and really loved the way the make up was done for Kristen Stewart, so I tried tor recreate that look....

I quite liked the outcome!!

Thanks for reading!!!

xxxx

Thursday fun!

Hello,
On thursday I went shopping and picked up a lovely lace dress from Primark to wear that night becasue my friends were coming round, I have been wanting to update my wardrobe for a while and I really liked this dress

I have found a way to make the quality of my pics better, INSTAGRAM!!!!
This post was more of an experiment to see if it worked, and hopefully it does, yaaay!!!
No more horrible grainy pics, at least these are good until I get my new camera!!

Yaaaay!!!

This was basically what we did that night, ate music and listen to K-pop, which my friends say is growing on them!!

Thanks for reading!! :)

Hair Highlights and DIY nails

Hey everyone,
Yesterday I went to my local hair salon to get blonde highlights through my hair in time for my sisters upcoming wedding.
To tell you the truth I was actually a little apprehensive, before this I have never had my hair dyed or highlighted before, I guess I have never really had a problem with the colour or wanted to change it.
Usually my hair would naturally highlight in the sun, but because we have barely seen any sun yet it hasn't, so I decided to go get my hair highlighted!! I am very pleased with the results, it's strange but I actually feel way more gyaru with just a few blonde highlights haha!
Anyways here is a picture...

I apologise for the dressing gown, I get cold easily :)

I also got my hair cut and a new fringe, It's more full now, and just slightly sweeping off to this side, this picture doesn't really do it justice.

I also just DIY'd my nails, I paint them quite rarely now, and I should really do it more, I was originally going to do a spots and stripes design but I used sparkly nail varnish and I didn't think it would look right so I did silver tips instead!

Not too shabby I think :)

 Hopefully I will be posting up some Haul posts soon, well as soon as I get the package ^--^
Thanks for reading! xxxx

FOTD's

Hey Guys!
Today I am posting up a few more FOTD's, technically it's pretty much the same make up products over and over, but at least you get to see different looks!

First up I tried a sweet, summery Gyaru style, a little bit natural (i.e no false eyelashes)

Innisfree eco natural cover BB cream (review soon)

Collection 2000 concealer-fair

Rimmel London under eye concealer

Lily Lolo Mineral Foundation

Lily Lolo  blush in Candy Girl

Urban Decay eyeshadow in Zero (matte black)

Clinique mascara

Natural Collection lipgloss in toffee cream

Next I tried a subtle Ulzzang look....

Innisfree Eco natural Cover BB cream 

Collection 2000 concealer-fair

Rimmel London under-eye concealer

Lily lolo Mineral foundation

Beauty UK brown gel eyeliner

Body Shop eyeshadow duo-brown colour

Carins red lipstick(patted on to create stained effect)

Nivea Hydro care lipbalm (adds subtle shine)

You might be wondering how my eyes are green in the first picture and brown in the second, I just got a really cool eye colour changing app for my phone! In fact hopefully in my next post I will be listing my top favoirte photo editig application, just like XiaXue recently did!

In other news reviews that are up and coming will be Innisfree Eco natural Cover BB cream, Innisfree sebum control mineral powder (hopefuly) and Innisfree marbling brightener (hopefully)
Also I hope that if my exam results are good my dad will go halfers with me on a new camera, so the picture quality will be improved.
Thanks for reading!!! <3

Ena Matsumoto FOTD

Hey Guys,
today I decided I would try a make up look a little different from my usual.
I love Japanese Model Ena Matsumoto and decided to copy a look from a photoshoot picture of her. Not sure how this turned out...

Inspiration


I added in her famous triangle bottom lashes, and I realise my hand is on the stupid wrong side, damn!!

I am sorry It is in black and white....well grey, but I found this filter did it the most justice!!

I used...

 Innisfree Eco cover BB cream-review coming soon

Lily Lolo mineral foundation

Collection 2000 concealer

Beauty UK eyeshadow palette

Beauty UK Gel liner

Clinique mascara

Collection 2000 kohl eyeliner

Bourjois red lipstick-rose passion

Deep rose.red lipsgloss (unsure of name)

Thankyou

Candy Doll Make up base review

Hey guys,
A few weeks ago now, I ordered Candy Doll Makeup base off of Adam beauty.com and It arrived promptly.
I decided I should probably do a review so here it is....

Packaging
OK I had to Camwhore a bit with the product because the packaging was soooo cayoot, I know, I know vain much ^--^

Because of the filter and the general rubbishness of the quality of this photo here is a more close up one...

I would give the packaging a 4/5 !!

Coverage
Do not expect much coverage from this product, it is very light with a light cream/gel texture. When blended you can see shimmer particles appear. Unfortunately I ordered in shade 2 by mistake, and I should have ordered shade 1, so I have actually been using this for contering and bronzing as it has a nice sheen to it.
2/5

Swatches below.....

Swatched..

Blended

Sorry the colour looks different but the lighting changed, with really good blending I could probably get away with this.

Usefulness as Makeup base?
It smooths your pores out slightly but not dramatically, I couldn't really say this made my makeup stay that much longer, maybe a little bit. I do like the sheeny, sparkly effect of this though, for a night out or party makeup it would be lovely!
3/5

Overall I think I would have enjoyed this product more if I had gotten it in the right shade. But please dont expect this to provide any coverage.
Bye xxx