Revolution - Colour Caos Palette

Last weekend I had a fancy dress hen to go to, the theme 80s glitz.  Naturally my thoughts instantly turned to make-up, neon eye shadow to be precise! And what a great opportunity it was to play with some bright eye shadows, making a change from my usual day to day neutral looks.  The only problem was I didn't own any bright eye shadows, I didn't want to spend a fortune on a palette as I rarely, if ever need them.  Off I went to Superdrug who had a great selection of affordable eye shadow palettes, I avoided the likes of Revlon and Rimmel as in the past their shadows have creased on me and pretty badly!  Revolution had the most impressive selection of bright colours and I eventually settled on the Colour Caos palette.

The Colour Caos palette has 12 shimmer shadows and 6 matte.  

At £6 this palette blew my socks off! I didn't have great expectations if I'm honest, all cheaper eye shadows I have tried in the past haven't performed well for me at all! I do have exceptionally oily eye lids and have always had real issues with keeping eye shadow looking good for a whole day or night! 

This palette however was not like the others! The shadow stayed put! I finished my make up at around 14:30 and I got back home and removed my make up at around 01:30 and the eye shadow still looked amazing! I was in shock!  Not only did they last amazingly well but they have great pigmentation too, the shimmer shades more so than the round matte shades at the bottom of the palette, those I didn't care for they were chalky and patchy when applied so we will forget about those!

Here are a couple of photos of the look I created, please excuse the quality and the fact I didn't think to take a photo with my eyes closed so you could see the whole look.  I really wasn't planning on writing a post about this palette but it has impressed me that much I just had too!

By Terry - Terrybly Densiliss Blush

Recently while browsing the Very exclusive website I came across the Terrybly Densiliss Blush.  I had been looking for a high end, splurge blusher to wear on my wedding day.  I have never bought anything from the brand before, and hadn't done any research into this blusher at all but had a slight moment of madness and decided to go for it!  I went for the shade Nude Dance.

At a whopping £52! this is the most expensive single blusher I own!

The first thing I noticed when I received this blusher was the packaging! The beautiful purple box and then the gorgeous purple suede pouch it sits in.  The blusher itself sits in a very weighty, silver metal case that feels very luxurious.  The packaging really impressed me, so many times in the past I have bought high end products and been instantly disappointed because of how cheap the packaging felt.  

ByTerry Terrybly Densiliss Blush £52.00 5.5g

Now for the most important bit, the performance!

Applying this blusher was a pleasure, I don't think I have ever felt utterly impressed with a product before! It goes on so smoothly, it blends effortlessly and the colour your left with is so pretty and natural looking! I can be slightly heavy handed when applying blusher, giving myself that 80s style stripe, not a great look! but with this it wasn't an issue! I apply it using the real techniques blusher brush, not the brush it comes with which is the only slightly disappointing thing about the product.

So overall I am in love! If I were to win the lotto I would be straight out to buy more! haha; )
Until then I will just have to add them to my wishlist!

Face shaving: My experience.

Facial hair, for most women this is a subject we'd rather not talk about.  But like it or not we all have it, some more than others.  This is nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about!  I'm one of the woman that has more noticable facial hair, mainly on my chin and top lip, the rest of my face has that fair peach fuzz that everyone has.  

I personally got a bit fed up of my top lip hair and so decided I wanted to get rid of it!  After doing lots of research on the different methods of hair removal,  I decided on shaving.  You have to use special facial razors you can't just use the same type you use for you legs! The brand everyone seemed to use and love were Tinkle these are available from Amazon and are the ones I went with.

  

Now the first time I shaved my face it was very strange and a little scary! I really didn't want to cut myself shaving! I just did my chin and top lip very slowly and carefully!  It was fine, did the job with no cuts! I will say that when the hair starts to grow back it does feel a little rough, not like stubble on a man but you can definitely feel it.  Apart from that I was quite impressed.

Second time around, after watching more tutorials I got a little brave and decided to shave off the peach fuzz too!  Lots of women were saying how amazing it was and how much better their make up looked! I wanted that too!  So I removed my make up making sure my face was squeaky clean and started shaving!  The shaving went smoothly, no cuts or anything I took it nice and slow.  Straight away my skin felt softer and smoother, so far so good! I toned my face and let it sit bare for a few hours then before bed applied my moisturizer.

Then the next morning I woke up to my face being covered in these tiny little spots that seemed to just be sitting under my skin.  Over the course of a week all of those tiny little spots, came to the surface and turned in to bigger angry spots!  For two weeks my skin was a mess and it hurt too!  It took a long time for my face to settle down.  I had added no new skin care to my routine, the only thing that had changed was the shaving so it must have been that! 

If you are considering trying it out I'm not saying you shouldn't, for a lot of people it works really well and everyone's skin is different.  All I'm saying is, do a small test patch first somewhere on your cheek (this was mainly my problem area) to see how your skin is going to react to it.  Don't do what I did and get carried away and do the whole face first time!