AshleighRhiane: urban decay

I decided that after my last positive experience with urban decay (naked 3 is my my babe), I’d give one of their other products ago. That’s when I spotted the naked flushed palette. The palette comes in 3 different shades that are suitable for different skin tones, I personally didn't have a clue of what shade to go for. My boyfriend eventually convinced me to ask one of the counter ladies for help, and I’m glad I did because she was so so helpful! She looked at my face and told me that because I have warm toned skin with yellow undertones I’d be better suited to the 'streak' shade and she was definitely right.

The naked flushed palette contains a bronze, a highlight and a blush all of which are absolutely beautiful and perfect for my skin tone. You can get away with using them all separately or mixing them together and using them as one. I personally do both, some days I use the bronze and the highlight, the blush and the highlight, the blush and the bronzer or all 3 together; you can get away with a number of different options with this palette. I think urban decay have been really clever with this release as contouring has obviously been around for a long time, but it’s now starting to become really big with not just celebrities but with anyone brave enough to attempt it.

Personally, I’m a bit pants at it but I still attempt a slight contour without going too over the top and I really think that urban decay helps this work. I absolutely love the packaging. I find that the products do last me the day, although it does wear off by around about lunch time but that’s probably my own fault in not using a primer so I can’t really complain about that.

Although the photo above doesn't do the shades justice, I promise you they are absolutely stunning and you will just have to take my word for it!

I’d really recommend this product to make up lovers who want an everyday contour that’s not too dramatic, it’s especially good if you’re like me and struggle a bit to achieve the proper makeup artist contour. The colours are beautiful, the packaging is beautiful and I just really love it. Once again urban decay have created a product that its really high quality, it’s a higher budget product but it is definitely worth it!

Have you used Naked flushed? Or is there a different urban decay product that you love?

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Urban Decay Naked 3

bbloggers 08:42:00

So for Christmas I asked for a debenhams gift voucher and my dad was lovely enough to get me a £25 one for there, after being slightly hesitant because I was stuck between getting some more benefit products or getting the new naked 3 palette my two lovely friends Deanna (letsbe-makeup) and Becca told me the decision was simple and that I NEEDED the new naked 3 in my life. So I decided to get it, and because it was so soon after Christmas it took about a week to arrive and no word of a lie; I got home from work and saw I had a package and instantly knew what it was. I was on the phone to my friend hyperventilating because I was so excited and I'm so glad I got it because it is so fricking beautiful!

This is less a review and more just a post about how much I love the product! Urban Decay kept this one under their belts and it just suddenly appeared and the blogging world went nuts, if you haven't seen naked or naked 2 have you been living under a rock!? All three of the palettes are very neutral colours, the difference with naked 3 is that they are much more rose-hued colours with a few darker colours in the palette as well. I wasn't sure if I would be able to pull of many of the pinker colours because I'm actually quite warm skinned and I have very dark features, but so far I have been pleasantly surprised!

The first six colours are called strange, dust, burnout, limit, buzz and trick. Strange and trick are both matte shadows and 2 of my favourites in the palette because I have a weakness for matte products and as you can see from the swatch below they are all very light pink colours but they all look really classy and elegant when on. I personally find that the matte ones have much more wear simply because I feel I'd be able to incorporate them into my daily makeup (I've been wearing them for work already!), the more glittery ones I would be more likely to wear when going out somewhere but I'd still wear them just as much as the others! They all have high pigmentation which is great and whether I wear an eye primer or not, I still find that they last a long amount of time.

The darker end of the palette I haven't actually had a chance to wear a lot of yet, this is mainly because I wear my eyeliner everyday and so I find that if I wore too much on my eyes it would just be far too heavy and I don't think my work would appreciate my party/hooker make up!

The last six colours are called nooner, liar, factory, mugshot, darkside and blackheart. Once again all of these are super wearable shades and just look so beautiful one (as you can see in the swatch below), the only one I'm struggling to find a time to wear is blackheart. This is really annoying because it is such a stunning colour, it's basically plain black but with bits of red glitter in and everyone loves glitter! I'm sure I'll find a good time to wear it eventually, but apart from that they are all amazing colours. Nooner is another matte colour and it's a proper warm light brown colour, and I just love how it looks on and feel that because I have brown eyes it really brings out the colour in them.

I also forget to mention the brush that you get with the palette, I wasn't really expecting a lot from it as in the past I've always been slightly disappointed by the applicators/brushes that come with make up products. I have to say though I was really impressed with the brush that it comes with, one end is for applying and the other is for blending. I use one for my whole lid and then another for the creases and they both work extremely well!

In most places the palette is actually out of stock, I was super lucky to manage to snatch it up before it was gone from everywhere. I bought it on the debenhams website and on there it is £37, but because of my gift card I managed to get it for £12 HOW AMAZING IS THAT?! I think without my gift card I would have been a lot less likely to buy it. Don't get me wrong it's an amazing palette, but if you're a bit of a poor person like me then you should probably consider your spending more wisely. Now that I have naked 3 though, I'm definitely starting to feel the need for the other 2...

What do you think about the naked 3 palette if you have it?

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Beauty cravings

bbloggers 16:41:00

I am so so so sorry times a million that I haven't posted recently! This Monday I started training as a receptionist and administrative assistant for an electrical company and I love it so much, but 5:30 starts and not getting hom until 6:30 that night is meaning that at the moment all I do is work and sleep constantly. I've finally had a chance to blog and I'm hoping to do a few this weekend just because I want to.

So I've been thinking about a few posts I can do, and at the moment there seems to be a large amount of beauty related products that I'm absolutely craving having in my possession and so I thought why not share them with everyone?

MAC matte lipstick

illamasqua nail polish

e.l.f essential eyelid primer

marc jacobs Daisy

Urban decay NAKED eye palette

Laura Mercier Silk Creme Foundation

So the MAC lipstick is pretty self explanatory, every girl in her lifetime should own atleast one piece of MAC and usually it seems to be one of their amazing lipsticks. I personally think their shades of red are to die for, but I'm still skeptical as to whether I can pull off red lips or not. I always feel slightly like a clown hooker and so usually steer clear of red lips, but I saw this matte lipstick in Russian red and its a dark red and I am more than tempted!

Secondly, until a few months ago I'd never really heard of illamasqua and now I constantly seem to find myself on their website and I adore all of their make-ups as they do such a large range and I really do recommend them to people because the variety is huge. I'm a big nail polish lover and all the colours and shades they do make me swoon! I'm especially a sucker for dark/deep reds and purples and so when I saw this my heart skipped a beat I think.

Recently I've started wearing eye shadow a lot more than I used to, I don't wear bold shades but something just to go on before my liquid liner because I feel it just adds a little more to my everyday look? I don't have a problem with it coming off luckily, but I am slightly tempted by the idea of an eyelid primer just to see if it makes it fade less. So I saw this e.l.f primer on sale on amazon I did think perhaps it would be a good buy?

I LOVE marc jacobs, seriously just everything about the brand. What is not to like?! It is so classy and yet so simple and chic and urgh I just love it so much. 'Daisy' is just one scent I smell and feel almost euphoric because its just such a sweet and pretty smell and I just don't think there's anything about it that I don't like.

I need this palette in my life, I think it is the perfect everyday palette with such warm and wearable shades and I just look at each individual colour and admire each of them. Even the blues and greens I look at and could see myself wearing them in one way or another, but its such an expensive palette and I really don't think I can justify spending money on it....yet (yay for christmas!)

Laura Mercier is another brand that I really like because to me it just seems very classy, and I've seen so many bloggers absolutely rave about the silk creme foundation and so I really want to try it because I'm quite fussy with foundation. I haven't found a foundation I really like it years, because my skin is constantly changing and I'm just very fussy. However, I'm too lazy to actually go out and spend time and money finding a foundation that I love. I feel I could have a real love affair with this beauty, so who knows...

Okay, now lastly there is EVERY SINGLE BRUSH that real techniques do. So I didn't see the point putting a link at the top, because I just want every single brush that they do. I love them all so much, the quality, the style, the variety EVERTHING ABOUT THEM I LOVE. I honestly am going to each family member to get me on brush each, because in all honesty they aren't a horrific price. Yet they aren't exactly the cheapest in the world, so if I get one brush from one family member it works out well and everyone wins!

Is there anything beauty wise that at them moment you really crave? Or is there anything on my list you have that actually isn't that good?

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