My course at AOFM........

Hi everyone, haven't posted for a while as I have been on a great course at the Academy of Film and Makeup in London. http://aofmakeup.com/ I decided a while a go that I wanted to pursue a career in make up and now I have the time to concentrate on it, I decided to go and get some formal training.

I cannot praise this course and the Academy enough, it was a brilliant week spent learning so much about make up right from basics through to advice on careers in bridal/tv/film/catwalk etc......

Jana and his team are really friendly and each day we were trained by a professional makeup artist who specialised in a specific filed of make up. This is so much better than just one teacher, as you get to learn so much more , and pick up loads of tips and hints. The course is mainly practical which is great, and we got to create different make up looks on each other every day.

One of the reasons I wanted to do this course was to see I suppose, if my heart was really in wanting to pursue make up as a career, and I can definitely now say it's 100% full speed ahead! I want to concentrate on Bridal makeup and am going to get a website going soon.

Will post some pics from the course soon , but I can definitely recommend this to anyone who is thinking of pursuing a career as a make up artist....xx

My Lip Favourites.... a return of Lipstick!!

Hi everyone, sorry it's been a while since my last post, but I feel with this blog I never want to just post random stuff just so I can post every day, It was never about that when I started this and it never will be!!!..Anyway on to the important stuff.....:)

I have always been a Lip gloss lover, I have far far to many..... Over the past couple of years I have probably worn Lip gloss daily and have only turned to Lipstick when I wanted a red shade, but that has all changed recently, mainly I must say due to watching lots of great videos from Lisa Eldridge http://www.lisaeldridge.com/ I decided to invest in a few more Lipsticks and have to say I have a few favourites that I wear every week, and thought I would share them with you.....

So from left to right MAC Vegas Volt.......MAC Dressmaker........MAC Jist.......Rimmel Coral......Maybelline Ambre Rose.

Vegas Volt and Jist have definitely become summer favourites and I wear them regularly, the Rimmel Coral is really easy to wear if you don't want an intense Coral, and Ambre Rose is a good go to every day nude. I don't tend to wear lip liner I prefer a more casual lip look and often just pat the colour on with my finger.

So whats your favourite summer Lipsticks...?..x

Jewellery Time!!!!!

We have a store called Outfit just opened where I live in Essex and its basically Top Shop Dorothy Perkins and Warehouse all in one big shop!!

As It's my lovely friend Rachel's Birthday on Saturday so I decided to pop in there to pick her up a couple of bit's..........Obviously I couldn't resist picking up a couple of things for myself too...bad girl!....:) and I thought I would share them with you. Top Shop jewellery seems to have really come down in price, and they had some really lovely pieces, as did DP, they have all the jewellery in 6 huge stands in this store and I was standing literally forever trying to choose, think the shop assistant was getting worried about me!!!! so I thought I would share with you what I picked up

Gold LOVE ring from Top Shop, thought this was really pretty and I seem to be liking the more delicate jewellery pieces which are around at the moment.....

£4

Silver Angel Wing earrings Top Shop....Love these!!! cant really say anymore than that!

£7

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Charm necklace Top Shop was really drawn to this, quite delicate and really liked the words and that fact that its silver and Gold so can wear with either gold or silver bracelets etc....

£8

Black BOW ring Top Shop, thought this was really cute I like my jewellery to be a bit different, I'm after the red LIPS ring I have seen in a few magazines but cant seem to get hold of one...:(

£4

Anyway hope you like these bits I cant wait to wear them...

Emma xx

FYI the nail polish Im wearing in these pics and LOVIN is MAC "to the beach" collection in Scorcher

No 7 Voucher time again!!!

I once again seem to have ended up with a few of the Boots No7 £5 off vouchers, (not that I'm complaining..:-) and I really like seeing what you girls get with yours, so I thought I would share.......

I picked up "The Hot Cloth Cleanser" I have heard alot of rave reviews about the Liz Earle one and have not tried this out yet, so I thought while I have the money off I would give the No7 version a whirl! I tried this out tonight, and I have to say I really like this form of cleansing, the hot cloth is really relaxing on your face, and just rough enough to make you feel like you are having some exfoliation when you rub the cleanser off...so far so good, my skin felt really clean afterwards. This costs around £12 but I got it for £7 with the voucher

I also picked up the No 7 "Anti dark spot facial protection in SPF30" I wanted a handbag sized SPF face cream that I could just whack on during the day (If we ever see the sun again!!!) and this one seems good. I definitely over exposed my self to too much sun during my teens, although luckily my face doesn't seem to have suffered because of this, but I feel now that I have to start using sun protection on a regular basis, I tan very easily so I don't normally bother apart from if I'm on holiday, but this year I think It has to become part of my skincare routine on a daily basis, so I'm going to pop this in my handbag and use during the day.!.....

On a final note I just have to mention this Lip gloss from H&M, I have always been impressed with the small make up range they do, especially the nail varnishes which are excellent, and I have had a few of the lip glosses. My friend Rachel picked this one up a couple of weeks ago, and when she brought it round to show me, I knew I had to have it... It's a really summery Bubblegum pink shade and it is really really pigmented, it comes out very bright be warned...but I think its the perfect summer pink just teamed with basic makeup I think I will be wearing it alot... and also priced at £2.99 you cant really go wrong.

Have you guys tried any H&M make up products, or bough anything nice with your No7 vouchers this month?....xxx







Emma x

Body Shop.....Love

On a trip to my local shopping centre, I decided to pop into Body Shop and see whats new, every time I go in I want to pick up another Body Butter I love love love!!! the Coconut one, this is always in my suitcase for summer holidays, actually I love anything coconut scented bit of an obsession of mine and my mum and sister actually? must run in the family...:)

Anyway I pondered over the body butters and as I said I do love them for hols, but they do take a while to soak in and post shower in the mornings I want something moisturising but quick to apply, then I found this

Coconut Milk Body Lotion (Spray Bottle)

Scary pic! looks like a bird has just flown by!!!...Just trying to show the consistency......lol

I particularly like this firstly as it has a spray applicator, I think they have done this as the formulation of this is really runny, if you poured it out you would probably end up with half of it over the bathroom floor! Having said that I like the spray applicator, and although thin in consistency this lotion really soaks into the skin well and the fragrance is on par with the body butter although not sure the scent lasts so long.

These are £8 each but on offer at the moment 2 for £8 which is really good! they come in other scents too.

P.S If you are a lover of the Body Butters there on offer 2 for £15 at the moment including the Scrubs, really good value considering there normally £12 each....

What are your Body Shop Summer Favs...? x

FOTD!!!!!

I have been pondering over this for a while now.......My camera doesn't seem to be the greatest and some of the earlier pics I have taken are truly awful!

But heh were all on here for the same reason, a love of make-up and I like looking at other

peoples FOTD so here goes.....

Products used...

1. Foundation Chanel Vitalumiere .......Concealer MAC moisture cover NW25
2. Eyes MAC Paint Pot Bare Study as a base... BarryM Dazzle Dust in Coral No87.....outer corner MAC Woodwinked...... Mascara Benefit Bad Girl Lash
3. MAC Comfort Mineralize skin finish to contour and bronze
4. MAC Style Blusher
5. Revlon Coral Reef Lip Gloss

Well there you go!!!! Feels scary posting this but if you like this and want to see more then I will try some different looks.......

:)....xXx

Avon Calling...........

Now I have to say I have never really bought many Avon products in the past, the odd thing here and there when something has caught my eye, if the book has dropped through the door. But I have to say, there has been more and more about Avon products in the beauty press and magazines, and some of the products caught my eye.

Firstly was the Anew skincare range, this has been widely talked about and the eye cream was even featured in Vogue.com, Avon is massive in America and this eye cream was polled one of the best......so I thought I would have to give it a try......... http://www.avonshop.co.uk/

It comes in two parts a cream for your under eye area to smooth out fine lines, and a gel for your upper eye /brow bone to create a tightening and lifting effect! ( I could do with that!)

I have only been using this for a couple of days, so cant say anything review wise yet, but the gel part of the pot which you apply to the upper eyelid/brow bone does feel really refreshing and feels like the skin tightens after application, so we will see! The under eye part of the cream is nice I wouldn't say any different from my Clinique all about eyes, but I'm going o use the Avon one for the next two weeks and monitor the results!

Also from the Anew range I picked up one of there "Lifting Eye shadows" in the shade Moonlight

This is a really unusual colour a light lilac with shimmery pink undertones, perfectly on trend for this summers pastel shades, it's a really lovely colour, I'm not sure about the lifting bit! cant really see any eyeshadow doing that!!!

This shadow is a cream application that sets to a powder its really easy to apply, and I would say is better applied to the upper eye area as a highlighter. I tried and tried to get a good picture of this swatched on my hand but they just all came out rubbish!! having a nightmare with my camera at the minute I want to include swatches of everything I review..:(

Anyway So far so good with both of these products and I will keep you posted with a follow up review of the eye cream in a couple of weeks.

So what do you guys think of Avon? Any buys I should know about?......

P.S I know I said I was on a makeup ban but I did order this stuff over 3 weeks a go so that doesn't really count........does it???......:)

Emma x