Laura Elizabeth xo

Thursday, 26 March 2015

The products I use on my skin

Nivea Lip Butter in Blueberry Blush
Boots Essentials Moisturising Cream
Simple Kind To Eye Balm
L'Oreal Skin Perfection Advanced Correcting Serum
La Roche-Posay Effaclar Duo +
La Roche-Posay Physiological Cleansing Gel

All of these products I incorporate into my skin care routine, they remove make-up, cleanse and soothe my skin. I'm always looking to change up my skin care products and see if any can match or top the products I use daily, however these are the products I am currently obsessed with!

Comment your with your favourite skin care products!

-Laura Elizabeth xo 

Monday, 23 March 2015

My Current Favourite Highlighters


MUA Undress Your Skin Highlighting Powder - Pink Shimmer
Seventeen Skin Wow 3 Way Highlighter 
the Balm Mary-Lou Manizer Luminizer 
MAC Pearlmatte Face Powder - Pink Buttercream

These are just a few of the highlighters in my collection and it's fair to say that a good highlighter product is my favourite step in my make-up routine. These four are my current favourites and I have an internal battle every morning on which one to use! 

In my opinion all four give a totally different effect on my skin but similarly give a spectacular finish, providing my skin with a lovely glow. They range in prices, but I have to say I am so impressed with Make Up Academy's highlighter product, at just £3 you can't go wrong! It gives a radiant glow to my skin and works just as well the more expensive products from the Balm and Mac. 

The Seventeen highlighter has three amazing uses to it, to prime, to add to your foundation (giving an effect similar to Rimmel's Wake Me Up foundation) and to add to the tops of your cheekbones for that perfect highlight. After using the product in all three ways, I have found that it gives a lovely luminous glow however you choose to use it. 

Mac's Pink Buttercream unfortunately was a limited edition product, and can also be used as a subtle pink blush or a glowing highlight. I find it gives the best results when I swirl all colours of the product together on one brush. 

The Balm's Mary-Lou Manizer is probably my top top favourite highlighter product. I find that this gives so much colour to the face and it is super pigmented so a little goes a long way! I'd class this as a champagne shade however I think it would look lovely on any skin tone. 

What are your thoughts on these products? What are your favourite highlighter products? I'd love to know!

-Laura Elizabeth xo 


Sunday, 22 March 2015

FOTD


Face Of The Day
YSL Flash Radiance 
MAC Studio Sculpt Foundation in NW20
MUA Power Brow 
MUA Trio Eyeshadow
Maybelline Colour Tattoo in Pink Gold
MUA Velvet Lip Lacquer in Halycon

To be honest, this has been more of my face of the week! Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. What make-up products are you loving right now?

-Laura Elizabeth xo

Tuesday, 17 March 2015

Make Up Academy Luxe - Powerbrow Shape and Highlight


I totally bought this product on a whim, with no previous research and after not reading any review or blog post prior to purchasing it. I didn't want to get my hopes up, 1) because its an eyebrow product and good ones are hard to find, 2) this make up range is fairly cheap and so it might not be as good as more expensive brands (although I know this isn't necessarily always the case) and 3) I have products from MUA which are perfectly good, but like I said, it's an eyebrow product! These products have to be good, and I've tried many that just haven't been all that great. 

However, I was really pleasantly surprised! Before using this product, my go to eyebrow product was, believe it or not, a powder palette from H&M which I used with the small angled brush that came with it, and this was my holy grail product for getting my eyebrows just right. Despite this, I fell in love with this product immediately and have been using it every day since. I find it works best for me when I use it light handedly - using a small amount of the product and building it up. I got mine in mid brown, and I believe there are only two other shades, 'fair' and 'dark brown' however I'm not 100% sure on that fact, there could be more, however these were the ones in stock when I was in Superdrug. 

The product has a small nib which twists upwards at the bottom to make more product available, and the other end has a highlighter which although is quite a pearly almost pink colour, which I wasn't too keen on at first, it compliments the brown colour beautifully. The only downfall I would say it has is the product can be easily smudged, so I would recommend using an eyebrow mascara or setter on top to keep the product in place. 






Ikea Furniture and Storage Dupes




My ultimate dream bedroom would be made up of the beautiful white furniture that Ikea stock, many a times I have spent ogling the furniture on the website and just wishing I had the money to completely re-do my room and fill it with the beautiful items from Ikea! 

However having done some research I discovered that there are a few other places in the UK that stock very similar furniture and storage systems, just like Ikea stock, including places such as Argos, Wilkinsons and Homebase! Here are the items I discovered!
Argos






  


Wilkinsons



Homebase 






These are just a few of the items I found on different websites, they do many other products that are famously known to be sold at Ikea. 

Hope you have a brilliant week!

-Laura Elizabeth xo

Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Cheltenham Races Ladies Day - What I would wear

Cheltenham Racecourse is hoping to bring colour to Ladies Day this Wednesday (11th March) celebrating under the campaign #ColourMeMarch. I was approached to create a blog post on what I would wear and I came up with a few ideas. 

I decided to create an outfit from items I found online. I picked this beautiful jumpsuit from Oasis as it's pretty, elegant and colourful, and I decided to pair it with a white blazer from River Island and matching blue accessories; the shoes also from River Island and the bag is Michael Kors. 


Cheltenham Races

I also decided to create an outfit based on clothing I personally own and felt that this outfit would be keeping with the colourful theme. 



I would wear this jumpsuit from Missguided and team it with a neutral coloured duster coat to complete the outfit. 

-Laura Elizabeth xo





Tuesday, 24 February 2015

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