MUA Lipstick Shade 5

This is definately my go to lipstick at the moment. I absolutely love it. From the MUA collection at Superdrug it is an amazeballs £1 so is probably one of the cheapest around. This particular shade is a very light dusky pink colour with hints of glitter - fear not, the glitter is minimal and you will not look like you are going to a 7 year old's disco!

It actually applies quite sheer compared to some of the other colours in the range, but thats what i like about it. You can really slather it on so your lips are nice and creamy without worrying that you've made a complete mess, you don't even really need a mirror to pop it on, very handy! I like how natural it is and i've worn it to work a few times recently and had some nice comments, just goes to show you don't always have to have ridiculously bright lips! I'd say this is more of a daytime colour and would suit paler skin tones.. and for 100 pennies you can't go wrong! :)

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JessLoren x

May Splurges

Helloo everyone!

I realise this is the first time i've posted in about 3 weeks, i sincerely appologise for my lack of blogging!

I was really ill for about a week so basically just lay in bed feeling sorry for myself with my friends box set.. Then i've been pre-occupied with work - had loads of flights and also been trained on another aircraft which was another load of exams! (booo) I am now officially legal to fly on the B757 though, go me.

I have however found time to shop, and probably have steam coming off my bank card the amount of money i have spent in recent days! I thought i'd share some of my purchases with you. Most of you will realise that a LOT of the things i've bought have been quite popular amongst the blogging community lately and after reading such good reviews i've wanted in on a lot of it! other things i've just seen and liked the look of myself.

I'm absolutely loving the MUA range at Superdrug at the moment, after purchasing a bronzer and some of the lipsticks i was intruiged to try some other bits and bobs and with such a cheap pricetag on everything there really is no excuse! The nail polishes were £1 each and so far i have tried the bright pink one on the left and been extremely impressed with it! It was a such a good consistancy, really light and easy to apply and the colour pigmentation is suprising. I expected to need a fair few coats of this but it's safe to say i could easily have left it at just one. Fantastic little polish for a quick fix night out or something but of course stays on much better with a 2-3 coats. I am yet to try the other colours but the green is very unusual!

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The eyeshadow palette is the heaven and earth palette that i have been recommended countless times and thought i might as well give it a go. It was £4 and is gorgeous mix of neutral colours that will be great for day wear and also to build a smokey eye for a night out. Really excited to experiment with this one!

Most of you bloggers will be no stranger to this foundation and i've been dying to give it a go. I have read such good things about Rimmel Wake Me Up that i have high hopes for it working wonders on my own face! It was £8.99 in Boots, however they are still running the offer where if you spend over £10 on Rimmel products you receive the Scandaleyes Mascara for free (worth £6.99) I'm a sucker for a bargain and quite fancied trying this mascara as the brush is similar to my trusty Bourjois Volume Clubbing so i went for it, picking up a Lasting Finish 1000 Kisses in Nothing But Nude (£5.99) to seal the deal. I have invested in a lip pen before and found it really dried my lips out so when Rimmel brought this one out with the balm end i thought it really solved a problem. I am forever trying on the testers whilst i'm out and think the colours are fantastic but opted for this deep orange colour as i have pink lip products coming out of my ears! Again, very excited to get trying all of these - especially the foundation!

I've needed a new foundation brush for ages and i've read a lot about the Real Techniques range and how good they are. I ideally wanted the Buffing Brush but as this only comes in a set and i didn't particularly want the other ones in it i was reluctant to part with £21 for it so i opted for the more traditional foundation brush instead. This was £9.99 from boots and i am promising myself now that i will take good care of this one! Hoping this will make my new Rimmel foundation look that bit more fantabulous!

I've jumped on the BB cream bandwagon. This was on offer in Boots for £7.49 so i snapped one up in the light shade. No idea how this will work on my freckled skin but we shall see! Review to follow.

I actually used to hate Converse! When they first became popular i thought of them as like "weird mosher shoes" haha. Being the super cool kid i was wouldn't have been seen dead in a pair. However they've really grown on my over the years especially the lower ankle ones and i've been lusting after a white pair for ages! These were £40 from Schuh and the girl also gave me a cheeky 10% student discount even though i'm not a student! making them £36 :) lavly. They are so comfortable and will get a lot of wear with shorts and dresses this summer! I've also got my eye on the blue pair too!

This picture really does these jeans no justice, they are MUCH nicer on! They're "soft skinnies" - £40 from Topshop and you might be suprised to know that this is the first pair of jeans i have purchased in about 4 years. I just stopped wearing them when i stopped being a size 8! Because I couldn't find any that suited/fitted me properly so just gave up looking and stuck to leggings! But came across these today and decided to give them a try. They are such a flattering cut for those of us who don't have washboard stomachs. I find Topshop jeans all seem to be designed as "hipsters" and this does not suit me at all, emphasises my hips and tum all wrong! these sit slightly higher around the waist, i wouldn't say they are "high waisted" as such but they do definately come up higher and the soft fabric means despite them being skinnies putting them on and taking them off isn't a complete battle! I love love love these jeans and can't wait to wear them with my Converse!

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And that ladies is where a lot of my money has gone, i have also made some purchases online at ASOS and H&M so will post about those when they arrive..

I've suddenly found myself willing payday along again haha. Whoops!

Hope the rain is finally clearing off for most of you

We were actually almost free of the wet stuff today :O

I will be doing some reviews on all this stuff very soon once i've got to grips with it!

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Much Love

JessLoren x

MUA Liquid Eyeliner

Finally got around to using my new MUA liquid eyeliner!

To be honest i'm still a little undecided on whether this product is for me. It had good and bad points which i'll share with you;

Good

* Price! Like all of the MUA range this is very affordable at £1

* Staying power. This didn't budge off my eye until i attacked it with a make up wipe

* The fine end which helps with the harder to reach area's of the eye

Not So Good

* The smaller sqaured off edge makes it hard get a good sweeping motion with the rest of the brush

* The shape of the brush only really helps if you want a thin line and makes thick lines difficult to achieve

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Overall its not a bad product but i think i prefer the Collection 2000 liquid eyeliner, as i prefer a more traditional brush shape and it's almost as cheap as this one. I do think this product would really appeal to someone who only wants a really thin and probably more natural looking line, also it'd good for touching up in little area's with the fine tip.

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JessLoren x

MUA Thoughts

Well today was my first day back at work! Well, kind of.. It was our induction day which meant a lot of sitting around and paperwork but still, the first time i've seen a lot of the other trolly dollies since the end of last season so i was damn sure wanted to look my best! Having been testing out my new MUA products in my own time for the last few days i decided i was confident enough to use them today in my mad rush to get ready! And i have to say I'm actually really impressed with some bits and a little underwhelmed with others..

My favourite by far are the lipsticks!



Today i went for shade 11 which is probably my favourite out of the 3 that i purchased. Its a gorgeous neutral deep browny-pink colour which to be honest looks boring as hell on the stick but really pretty on the lips, and great on a pale skin tone like mine. I was suprised at how smooth the texture of this product is and it left my lips feeling really moisturised and soft. I also found it stained my lips slightly meaning even when i thought i'd rubbed it all off i was still left with some colour. A big one for me is the horrible nasty taste you can get with some cheap lipsticks that really puts you off wearing them but these don't have that at all. For the £1 pricetag.. its a fantastic lippy! and i can see this being in my handbag for the rest of the summer.

 This was the product i was most excited about trying, the "extreme felt liner" .. I used to be big into eyeliner in my school days and then i kind of grew out of it.. But now i think i've realised that i have quite small eyes and eyeliner in the right places really helps to make them look bigger! On paper this product looks perfect; the dark colour you get from a normal eyeliner but the precision of a fine tipped pen, however i found it really hard to use. The eyeliner inside doesnt really soak the end of the pen properly so if you try applying with just the tip it feels quite dry and comes out patchy meaning you have to re-appy over and over to get a proper line. Also, because the tip is quite rigid, and not bendy and flexible like a normal eyeliner it's hard to use it on the more fiddly hard to reach places of your eye - you feel like your stabbing yourself! Overall i wasn't very impressed with this, but for the price (£2) it was worth a try and i think it would good for touching up on the go.

I've been quite stubborn with bronzers recently and haven't really branched out to try new brands but this one was only £2.50 and i really liked the shimmer it had. I also think anything too orange based looks ridiculous on my natural skin (unless i'm going tango for a night out) so the lighter brown and pink shades in this really appealed to me. This product definately delivers, it leaves my cheeks with a lovely sunkissed glow which is perfect for a natural look or can be topped up if you prefer a more obvious colour. I love this bronzer! - it's pretty to look at too :)

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I completely forgot to take a picture of my face with all the products and by the time i remembered the daylight had done one so i'll try and take another one soon so you can see everything together.

I'm still to properly try out the rest of my MUA haul but i'll be back to you with my opinions on that soon!

I can't wait to get some wages and try some more of this range. A few more lippes and possibly the mosaic blusher and eyeshadows, has anyone tried these?

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Much Love!

JessLoren x