Guest Blogger: Make-up Organisation

Today, the lovely Emma from Jolie Visage is going to share with you her make-up organisation. I hope you find this useful! :)

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Hello beautiful people,

Today I am blogging about my make up shake up which you can see here and how I organise my makeup.

Before I start, I would also like to apologise for the lack of picture quality - i am experiencing camera problems so all of the pictures have been taken on my Blackberry, not the best camera in the world and also for the makeup marks that appear in the photos, I swear they are not that bad in real life the camera seems to make them a hell of a lot worse!

Aside from that, enjoy! :)x

STEP 1 - MAKE UP CLEAR OUT

This step is very minimal for me, I tend to do this as I go along so I know what I need and am able to use everything so I thought I should do a joint blog for this and...

STEP 3 - GET AN ORGANISATION LAYOUT THAT WORKS FOR YOU

This step is the one that will feature most heavily in this blog. So away we go...

All of my makeup is stored in a chest of drawers on wheels so it is very easy to pull out and take into the living room to organise while I watch television. I can also pull out the drawers very easily so I can take a whole drawer and do my makeup in another room.

I do not know what this is called but I know it is from IKEA if that helps anyone.

And this is what it looks like...

As you can see there are 3 drawers. The top two are of the same size and are much smaller

than the third which is considerably larger.

So let's look at each drawer individually

This first drawer is the face drawer.

It contains foundations, concealer, primer, corrector, setting spray, blushes, bronzers and powders.

My foundations are kept in a box I bought from TK Maxx, from which I removed the lid. I also keep a loose blush/bronzer combo in here because I am afraid that it might spill if placed anywhere else and it also stops the foundations from lying on their sides so the product can easily come out.

This is all of my bronzers and blushes. They are stored in a little container than come in set of three from the pound shop.

This is a my "concealer box" although it also contains primer and  a corrector stick too. This is an old box I used to keep my hair curlers in.

These are my powders stored in a pink basket which I got in a set of two from again, the pound shop.

And that is my full face drawer.

Now onto the eye and lip drawer.

This eye and lip drawer contains lipstick, lip gloss, cheek and lip tints, eyeshadow, mascara, my carry around bag, a massive eyeshadow palette and eyeliner.

This is the eye section and the pink bag is my carry around bag that contains things I take around with me on a daily basis.

Now this brown holder originally package 3 body shop body butters before I decided it fitted better in my make up storage. I hold the kind of everyday eye products in here, and it changes often depending on which look I'm into. Mascara, eyeliner, eyeshadow, eyeshadow primers usually reside here.

If you remove the pink bag and brown holder, then you can see that underneath there is a massive eyeshadow palette with 77 colours! And in the back there is a mini winter palette with some lovely wintery colours.

The lip part of set up goes like this lipsticks and balms and tints to the left lip glosses and such to the right.

The left is a packaging from a gift set and right is a simple Tupperware box. I have so many lip glosses so this is the only thing that will fit them.

And finally... THE BOTTOM DRAWER.

Apologies for the glare here...

This is more of a storage drawer than anything else. This contains spare brushes, unopened makeup, makeup not right for the season, hair things and even unopened beauty products.

The silver box you can see above looks like this on the inside...

This is my party make up box, as you can see it is full of fake nails and lashes.

Underneath that layer it is full of crazy colours I would never wear during the day and that would just make it harder to get ready in the morning. This box is from an old perfume set.

This box contains all of my spare brushes I don't normally use. My mum made this box from the box my MAC delivery came in for my 14th birthday.

Behind that is the bag where I keep my hair sponge rollers, and you can see at the edge I keep my elf lip book down the side of this drawer.

These are all unopened skincare goodies behind my box of unopened makeup goodies shown here...

This box contains all of the makeup I haven't opened yet or that doesn't suit me at this time of year (many face products are too dark just now). I like to keep them separate and use up what I have before I open anything new.

So there is is my makeup collection and storage and STEP 1 and 3 in my Make Up Shake Up, I hope you have enjoyed reading it. And watch out for Step 2 coming soon.

And also I would like to thank Frances for letting me post on one of my favourite blogs.

Love Emma :)x

Guest Blogger: Peacock Eye Shadow Tutorial

Rebecca from Beautiful Beauty Addiction emailed me asking if she could do a tutorial on the Peacock eye shadow that she wore for the New Year. Here it is! :)

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Heyy everyone. This is the makeup i wore to my new years party! I wanted to replicate it for you! I went for peacock eyes because they are meant to be in this season. Last night i wore false lashes but left them out in this tutorial. enjoy xx

starting out with a fresh face i primed my eyes with No7 eye base.

using the storm pallette by sleek i chose the pearl shimmery colour. (back row, 2nd left.)

i then applied that colour all over my lid.

using the sleek circus pallette i took the two blue colours, two purple colours and green and blended them onto my eyes.

i placed the green on the inner third of my eye. then the light blue on the middle third of my eye. i then blended the dark blue into the outer v, remembering to blend all the colours in together.

i then added winged liner and mascara. i also placed the two purples on my lower lash line to add more colour.

i hope you guys like this tutorial and found it useful. let me know if youtry it out and if you liked it! until next time.....

Guest Blogger: Soap and Glory Thick & Fast Mascara Review

Today, Rosie from RosieLizzieBeth is going to review Soap & Glory's Thick & Fast Mascara for you. I hope this is helpful to you, and do check out Rosie's blog :)
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Soap & Glory Cosmetics: Thick & Fast Mascara Review

I’m sure most of you will have read about the amazing ‘Big Splendour’ set by Soap & Glory by now, and like nearly every blogger I couldn’t resist the amazing offer. But when I opened the box the offers didn’t stop there! Included was a voucher for a whopping 200 bonus Boots points for spending £10 on Soap & Glory’s new cosmetics range. Another excuse to buy Soap & Glory?  Yes please! 

The stand itself was very appealing, all pink and pretty, and full of lovely looking products. The blushes in particular looked really nice, but I ended up going for their Thick & Fast mascara which retails at a very reasonable price of £10. The box it comes in is so cute, I don’t want to throw it away! The tube itself feels quite heavy and nice quality, and has a nice clean and simple black and pink design on it.

In comparison to other mascaras I have used, I would definitely put this up there with brands like Chanel and Mac. It stays on well all day and doesn’t flake or irritate my eyes like cheaper brands often do. It is actually very similar to Benefit’s Bad Gal Lash; the supersize brush, the consistency, the quality, and the design of the tube, but £6.50 cheaper! 

Taking into consideration that I have horrible short eyelashes and don’t get on well with eyelash curlers, I think this product is pretty good. I’ve been using it for a few days now and it hasn’t clumped at all- it separates the lashes but still thickens them which is great. It has also made my lashes look a bit longer and fanned out! Hurrah! 

After about 6 years of searching for my perfect mascara, I think I have found it! I really love this product! I’m a big fan of Soap & Glory’s bath/skin care products but was a little sceptical about a cosmetics range as their unique selling point is the amazing smells and the retro packaging, but I don’t really like garish packaging for cosmetics, and I also thought Benefit’s cosmetics would be too similar with the pun product names and similar style packaging. But I have now been persuaded otherwise! They have toned down the packaging for their make-up products and made it more simple, and the products all look to be of good quality in on trend shades.  I can’t wait to try out some more Soap & Glory cosmetics products soon!

If you try any products from Soap & Glory cosmetics let me know if they’re as fabulous as this mascara! @rosielizziebeth

Thank you to Frances for letting me write for her fabulous blog! Hope you all enjoyed reading!

Guest Blogger: Lush BIG Shampoo Review

Klara from Click Your Heels With Me emailed me asking if she could review a Lush product for you. Everybody loves Lush, so here it is! :)

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Before we get started I should introduce myself. My name is Klara and my blog is Click Your Heels With Me. I’ve only been blogging for a couple of months but have enjoyed reading Frances’s Blog for a while now. So when Frances posted asking for guest bloggers I thought this would be a perfect way to get some more experience.

Anyway enough with the waffle and onto the review! I am going to be reviewing for you LUSH’s BIG Shampoo. This is a product I’ve been using on and off for over a year, I think it is brilliant and I would like to share it with you guys.

LUSH describes the product as “Giving limp hair the volume it deserves with seaweed infusion to soften hair and citrus juices for shine. After using BIG, your hair will be bouncing back to life.” The Shampoo contains coarse sea salt to maintain the moisture balance of your skin, lime juice to promote shine and seaweed infusion to strengthen the hair from root to tip.

The product comes in a big 330g black tub. I find this a little awkward to use in the shower, I prefer shampoos in a bottle but the consistency of the product lends itself to this packaging. The best way I can describe the consistency is watered down jelly with sea salt chunks in. It’s a little unusual but you get used to it. The smell is beautiful it has a very clean, crisp, slightly citrusy smell which I adore however the smell doesn’t linger once the hair is dried.

I use just under a teaspoon of product to wash my hair. My hair is a bit past my shoulders at the moment. I don’t recommend this product for daily use as the sea salt content can be drying on your hair when used too often. I reserve this for a weekly clarifying hair treatment as it really works to remove build-up in your hair and leaves it looking shiny and voluminous.

The major downside to this product is the price. In Australia it is $25.95/330g, the UK £10.95/330g and US $24.95/330g. If you’re only using the product once or twice a week you can make it last. 

LUSH also has a program where if you collect 5 black pots you can return them to LUSH getting a free fresh facemask. So it’s worth keeping the empties!

If you’ve tried this product before let me know what you think in the comment section below.
Finally I’d just like to say a big Thank-you to Frances for allowing me to do this guest blog post.