My every day basket/makeup routine!

I thought I'd do a quick post on the makeup I use every day.  I generally leave a little basket on top of my train case and it has everything I need! I find it handy especially as I'm always in a hurry in the mornings trying to get everyone out the door on time! In the basket I have a little cup with my brushes in it, my CATRICE Concealer palette and CATRICE foundation (in the lightest shade of course! I'm super pale!) I use a CATRICE eyeshadow (now discontinued) to fill in my brows and lately I haven't bothered to wear eyeshadow during the week to save time, I usually just use the same shadow to do a quick line on my upper lid, stick on some eyeliner, mascara and blusher and off I go!
If I'm wearing eyeshadow I use my Too Faced shadow insurance or my Essence eyeshadow base.  At the minute I'm using Avon supershock gel eyeliner and I really love how black it is!  The mascara I'm using right now is Rimmel Scandaleyes and i have to say I'm not overly impressed with it but will keep using it til it runs out! I'm trying to avoid buying makeup at the minute!! I'm also using a CATRICE blusher (can you tell I love CATRICE?) And I really like the peachy pink colour of it, I find it gives me a healthy glow!
If its the weekend and I have some more time to get ready, I always pull out my Inglot palettes, I absolutely LOVE them!! I've posted about them several times in the past and am sure I will in the future too! I also love the Inglot Duraline which you can use to turn any eyeshadow into a liquid eyeliner! You just put a drop on the back of your hand, mix in some shadow and bobs your uncle, gorgeous long lasting eyeliner!
I hope you've enjoyed this post on my everyday makeup, please feel free to ask any questions!

**closed** My first ever giveaway!

Hey everyone! So my blog is almost a year old now and I figured I'd do something nice for all of you who have followed my journey, this blog has really been a great place for me to say how I'm feeling, be it happy or sad and I appreciate you all being there for me!  I know that this isn't your regular beauty blog, its been about my health too and I thank you all for reading my posts!
I tidied up my make up stash today and found some stuff that I haven't yet opened or used and I thought I could pass them on to a better home! These are all items that I have purchased or paid for myself!
So, up for grabs we have a couple of Barry M dazzle dusts in shade 8 & 68, a boots 17 eyeshadow shade 'style queen', a set of coloured eyeliners, an eyeko fat balm, an Essence nail polish in the now infamous shade, 'blue addicted', a tesco lipgloss trio, an ELF nail polish, a mini Dove body wash and conditioner and a Guess bag (which I got free with some perfume a while back and just never got around to using!) I know its nothing majorly expensive or anything but hey, everyone loves a chance to get something for free right? I might pick up another couple of bits in the next couple of weeks and throw them in too or make a runner up prize!
Entering couldn't be easier, simply follow my blog, leave a comment on this post and your email address! One entry each and the winner will be chosen by random.org! Its open internationally too!
The closing date for this competition will be Friday 3rd February at 6pm and I will announce the winner as soon as possible!

Photo catch -up!

Me and G, took me the whole day to convince him to let me paint his face then he couldn't stay still long enough for me to finish it! Ah well!

So, I haven't blogged in a while.  I haven't been in the mood for it so I didn't do it just for the sake of posting crap that you wouldn't want to read! I've been busy with my little men and doing plenty of baking! This post will mainly be just a few catch up photos!

My Halloween 'doll' makeup!

practice run on halloween makeup

Tried out my new food colouring I got on Ebay! Still need plenty of practice with the fondant but I'm getting there!

Buns my sister made all BY HERSELF for the first time ever!

Homemade millionaires shortbread, this was easy to make and YUMMY!

Practice run on Fondant mega mushroom and mario mushroom (I'm making a mario themed cake for my nephews birthday in a few weeks!)

Paper mache mario mushrooms for halloween!

1-UP!

Mega Mushroom!

Rainbow cake! This was yummy too!

My prize winning Mario and Luigi (plus their home made mario mushrooms!)

So, as you can see October has been a hectic month!

Polish it behind the door!

I've become a bit of a nail polish addict lately!! I have read a few posts this week about a new Essence polish called Blue Addicted which is a good dupe for a Deborah Lippmann (Who I've honestly never heard of but I have read that the polishes are expensive so thats good enough for me!) polish.  I thought it looked lovely in the photos so I picked up a couple of bottles ( I may be doing a giveaway soon!!) and a few other bits and pieces! The Essence range is just soooo affordable that its hard to spend too much on it!  I have picked up 9 polishes this week and in total they cost me......... €10.74!  I read a blog post by the lovely Karen from Lovely Girly Bits and had to pick up the 2 golden nail polishes she recommended and you can see them in the nail pics I have posted!  I also spent ten minutes taking it back off an hour later after walking the dog because my hands were in bits from holding the lead!!  I then decided to re-do them with another 2 of my new Essence polishes and ended up with a lovely sparkly blue that looks so much better than in the photos! I really have to ask santa for a new camera, my one really doesn't take great photos!


I'm  also posting some photos of my makeup over the last week... I hope you like it!!

Todays makeup.... Catrice and Collection 2000 pinks!

I used this on my nails today and it actually works!!

I've used this the last couple of days and it seems to be really good!!

I'm wearing this mascara in the top photo in this post! I like it!!

L-R:  Nail Art drops, Cool and the Gang, Clear as Ice, Fall for Me, Space Queen

L-R:  Blue Addicted (X2), Irreplaceable, Make it Golden, Rich & Pretty

2 Coats of Make it Golden over 2 coats of Irreplaceable!

Hooray! My eyelashes are looking so much better these days!!

Inglot Birthday haul.. part 1

As you already know, its my birthday this week so G told me he would buy me some more Inglot makeup!  We went to Dundrum early on Sunday (Man Utd were playing Chelsea at 4 so we had to make sure we got home for that!!) and he gave me €100 and told me to spend what I wanted! I decided to get a round palette and some lip colours but I ended up getting a brow wax and a concealer too.  The Meteor 20% discount is still on so its great value!  The lip colours are really pigmented and you only need a tiny bit to cover your lips!  You can also mix them to make your own colours which more than doubles your collection!!  I went for 4 pinky colours and 4 nude/browny colours.  I also got another eyeshadow palette which I'll post pictures of later!  In total I spend €72 so G told me to keep the change!! Whoop whoop!!  I met Little Kiva from Youtube who was working there and she gave me a voucher for a free makeup lesson so I'll hopefully get to use it before christmas!!

I had a mini heart attack while I was picking out my goodies, G had gone off for a walk with Ryan and Aaron had stayed with me.  I turned around and he had disappeared which is something Aaron would NEVER do!! I started to panic and looked all around but couldn't see him anywhere!  Then, I spotted him over at the ice cream stand with G, who had came back and didn't tell me!! I think my heart skipped a few beats, really scared the life out of me!!  I'm always so careful to keep him close to me when we're out in busy places, there are so many weirdos out there these days!!  Anyway, I hope you like these photos!

Todays eyeshadow!

The top right is a brow wax and bottom right is a concealer!

I didn't post a pic of this on me as I couldn't get a nice photo! It would look better mixed with another colour!

I mixed a couple of colours together to wear today so this is how it turned out: