Ps Love.. Primark Make Up (First Impressions)

Hey guys, 

Just a little post on some of the new make up products, that Primark has brought out. I have done a review on some of the old make up products had around a year or so ago.

But going by what I have seen on Youtube and instagram, ect, Primark have revamped their make up and held an event, that bloggers ect got some products. I'm obviously like one of the sheep and went to check it out myself. My closest Primark, took an absolute age to get them in though and still don't have the Eyeshadow palettes, which I really want to try. Get it sorted Primark, Edinburgh need the eye shadows. 

So instead, I have went for the following items, I picked up an extra eyebrow pencil in light (£1), felt eye liner (£1.50), Kohl eye liner (£1.50) and the volume boost mascara (£1). So I got a bunch of cosmetics for £5. I could have got some of the lipglosses and lipsticks available, but I picked up a lipstick when I first seen them in and I wasn't too impressed.

I have swatched both eyeliners on my hand and the felt tip liner is still as pigmented as it was when I first applied it on my hand. The kohl liner isn't as pigmented but still there. I haven't tried the mascara yet but I have high hopes for it. 

The packaging is very sleek, with matte black and gold accents. It does look very nice, I hope the products are as  good as the packaging. 

Have you guys tried any of the new Primark cosmetics? Do you like them? Leave me a comment. 

Bye Guys 

The one on the left is the felt tip liner (with a bit feathering) and the Kohl on right.

Marion

Seventeen Cheek Stamp Blush

Hey Everyone. 

I went to the local Fort, which has a load of shops, I only went to browse, but I ended up splurging some more money on Beauty things.
The first of that, is this little beauty, the Seventeen cheek stamp blush. It cost £4.99 and it comes in five different colours. You can buy them in boots. I got the colour stare struck, which is lovely dusty rose colour with some sparkle. 
To get the blush on, you use the applicator that, it comes with. You open it up and sort of stamp it into the lid that has the colour in it. You then dot it on your cheek and blend. The packaging is cute and the same sort of colour the blush is, it also has a small mirror, but it only says the shade name on the box.

I am in love with with concept of blush, it will most defo take pride of place in my day to day make up. You could also use a brush with this blush, but I do love the novel way of putting blush on. I do plan on buying more colours and hope Seventeen bring more colours out in this range.



Marion

This is the final product, blended in.

Blush before it being blended

Glitter Liners

Hey Guys, 

I was going to wait until I done a few themed weeks, one being all about the eyes. But I have decided that it just could not wait. 

As a girl, I can be prone to be a bit of a magpie when it comes to glitter, so when I found out that Collection had a line of glitter eye liner I had to check them out. Although I do remember when they first came out a while back, they released only a few colours. Now they have a lot of colours, near enough 10 shades I think. 
So whilst out a couple of days ago, I decided to pick one up, as I had watched a youtube video, where they are being duped for the Urban Decay heavy metal glitter liners. 
As I have a few really old Urban Decay liners, I thought I would do a little review on both of them and I also found a 17, starry eyes glitter liner. 


The Urban Decay, Heavy Metal liner £13-£14 get them here

I got these in a set of 3 quite a while back for Christmas, although I can only find 2 of them. I have Baked which is a bronze glitter and Stage Dive which is a lovely green colour. These dry quickly and I used to love putting these on top of a black eyeline to give a cat eye look extra ooomph. As these have a clear base to them, they can go on anything really. They do have a gorgeous range of colours, everything from pinks and purples to golds and silvers. 

 

The Collection Glam Crystals are around £2.98-£2.99 buy here
There are around 10-12 shades in this line, I found that Asdas instore had a lot more shades than anywhere else. I have the shade Va va voom, which is a pink, green and it has a hint of gold and silver in a clear base. This looks amazing with a cat eye, this is by far my favourite shade. It dries quickly and stays put. The shades range again from pinks and purples to mixed colours and silvers, golds. 




The 17 Starry Eyes, you get these from Boots. 
 I can't find a link to these, but I know I only got it last year, so they should still be instore. I got mine on an offer with my boots advantage card. This seems to have a dark base and a dark silver/gray glitter. I love this for when I want full on sparkle, I also love that I don't need to put on a normal eyeliner first. 

These are only 3 of the many glitter eyeliners out there on the market. These are amazing to add just that extra bit of sparkle to any look. I would recommend the collection one, as they are so inexpensive and they do last a long time. So you should all go and try them, I'm not sure if they are anything like the Urban Decay ones, since my UD ones are a bit too old for me to say they are dupes or not. 

Have you got any glitter liner favourites, leave a comment to let me know which ones.

Until next time 

Marion

Blog Haul #2

Hey Guys and Dolls,

I have been out again this week and picked a few things. 
Firstly I picked up a few nail polishes from the George at Asda range. I picked up one of their normal range of polish, that costs £1.75 and I also grabbed one of their take on gel polish which was £3. I also picked up whilst in Asda a collection deluxe lipstick in the Red colour, I think I got it for around £2.50, I also picked up a George at Asda lipstick, I got a pink one, that cost £3.50.

Also that day I received a package of two Wet and Wild lipsticks from the states.I got 2 of the Matte lipsticks in an orange shade and a dark purple. In the same order I got a Lime Crime Pink Velvet Velvetine. I can't remember how much these were, but they are all gorgeous. 

Then yesterday I decided to go into Tesco's for a little browse and pick my dad up a birthday card. But I got dragged into the make aisle. I got sucked into the 3 for 2 offer on Barbara Daly make up range that Tesco's do. I picked up a a gel eyeliner, that cost £4, a eyeshadow crayon in the colour bronze gold, for £3 (reduced from £7). I also picked up something called helping hands that was reduced to £3.50, I have no clue what I do with it but I shall learn. 

I also recently bought the Garnier Miscellar Water, for £3.33, I look forward to using all of these products and there might be a few cheeky review coming your way.

Until next time guys.

Marion 

Glossy Box Feb 2014

Hey Guys and Dolls,

This month's Glossybox, finally got here yesterday... and I think I loved it. 
In this months box, I very luckily got 4 full sized products... Yes 4!! So this month is in complete contrast to last months box, where it was pretty much empty. 

This month the box was on a theme of 'Be Mine' concentrating on the Valentines Day sort of theme. I can live with it as the box this month is black and has lots of lipstick kisses on the lid, very pretty!

Lets get on to the products I received this month. 

The Nougat London, Sparkling body Shimmer (£14 for 250mls) 

This was a very good sample size of 100 mls and comes in the scent cherry blossom, so this wont be a for people who don't like to put scented lotions on. This is very shimmery in the bottle, but whilst on the skin, it gives off a subtle shimmer. This would be lovely for a night out on the decolletage or legs.

Toni and Guy Hair Meets Wardrobe Stick It Up Gum (£7.20 for 90ml)
This is a full size product, aimed at shorter haired people. Which obviously isn't me, but I can give it to my brother to try it out, as he likes to spike his hair up. Although on the glossybox card it says it can be used to put your hair up. We shall see and I will update you all.

Ciate London Paint Pot (£9 13.5ml)
This is the product, we knew we were getting this month. But saying that I got very excited in what shade of paint pot I got. I got Red Hot Chilli, which is gorgeous orange toned red in the bottle. I have a feeling it will go on a lot more orange than red though, which is fine by me.

Maybelline New York Master Kajal Liner ( £5.99 for 13g)
I had been eyeing these up in Superdrug and Boots since Christmas time last year, when they got released. But they didn't seem to be anything special. But swatched this and its so pigmented that I had to scrub my hand.I can only hope that it is like that on the eyes. 

Miners Cosmetics Cocktail Kiss ( £2.99 for 12ml)
This is nice as its full size but that is possibly the only positive I have about this. I do not really go for glosses and brown ones at that. 

Lastly I got a Lindt Lindor Treat Bar ( 79p)
This was nice, not a massive fan of Lindt, but it was yummy.

Hope you enjoyed your boxes this month, let me know in the comments what you got. 

Marion

Foodie Review: Pizza Express West End Edinburgh

Hey G&D, 

Just a little post about another food Place. I feel like I've ate out a lot this week, even though it has only been twice properly. 
Back to this review though. 
I met up with my other half for some late Valentines dinner.

We decided to have dinner on Saturday night, we went to the Pizza Express in Edinburgh's West End. We went around 7pm and quick enough got a table for 2. 




 


We got asked our drink order quickly, I got a coke and it came within minutes of ordering. I ordered Bruschetta then a 4 cheese pizza. 
The Bruschetta I got was incredible. It was a huge chunk of garlic dough, covered with a tomato, red onion and garlic mix, that was then drizzled with pesto and a basil leaf to decorate.

I then got my 4 cheese pizza. This was a massive chore to eat. I do love cheese, but wow. I was defo cheesed out after eating this.

 
 I also got polenta chips to share with my other half. These were served with a honey mustard dressing on the side to dip. These were amazing, but still get beaten with another little Italian in Edinburgh.

My Coffee came with a little heart design on the top. I got a Baileys Latte. This was yummy. Double expresso and baileys flavoured milk.

I somehow didn't manage to take a picture of my dessert which was a Chocolate fudge cake. Which wasn't very nice, much too rich after everything I had eaten. But here is a picture of Joe's Chocolate ice cream and fudge cake sundae.


The service wasn't the best in the restaurant, it was slow service and not very friendly. I wouldn't go back to that particular restaurant but there is a few different ones in Edinburgh luckily. 




Hope you like these sort of posts. I'm sure there will be more of these sort of ones to come.
bye

Saturday Dinner Date FOTN

Hey Guys and Dolls, 

Hope you are all having a fabulous Valentines Weekend. My lovely other half took me out last night for dinner. 

So this is what I done to my face for going out for the dinner. 

This was the final look, I came up with. 

I used my usual face products of Fashionista Vanishing cream primer, Rimmel match perfection foundation and the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer. I finished my base with a light dusting of MUA pressed powder. I also used Benefit Hoola Bronzer and the glossybox glossy rosewood blusher. 







 


On my eyes I used Urban Decay primer potion to prime my eyes and the patted on Concretes Smut eye mineral shadow and on the outer corner I used Doe-eyed by Concrete too, Review here. I lined my eyes with Be a Bombshell and Soap and Glory smoulder Kohl, then finished with lashings of Maybelline Smokey eyes mascara. My eyebrows I done with the new PS.Love brow pencil in light, I got this in a recent primark trip.







 
 
I finished the look with one of my favourite lipsticks Urban Decay Catfight. I did mix some of a lighter pink lipstick, to give it more of a romantic colour.

Hope you all like this look. 







Blog soon 

M 
<3

 

Who needs Valentines

Hey Guys and Dolls, 

As social media has been full of gushy, over the top valentines day status's and such like. 
I thought I would do a little anti valentines day post. 
Surely a girl/guy should be able to show the person they love them in the same way as you do on Valentines Day. I don't get why everyone gets so wrapped up in Valentines Day. Yes I am currently taken, but I also pretty much got my other half a joke card as a gift. I'm not cynical or into romance for that matter. 
Yes I like the feeling of being in love, but I also love the freedom, that everyday is a new page to write on and make memories. 

Why should love be constricted to one day a year. Surely if you love someone unconditionally, then you prove that to them everyday? If you wanna buy your other half flowers for no reason then do so. It shouldn't be confined to February 14th. I spent the most of the day with my other half and my nephew, we had lunch and watched kids films. He then left so he could do a gig with his band. 

I spent the evening with my family of boys and even got the midnight cuddles from my nephew. I got a chocolate heart and a card from my nephew. Lets be honest, why would I ever need any other boy to love me as long as he does. His love his is the purest of love that you could get from anyone. It also goes to show, that you do not need a boyfriend or girlfriend to show you the best kind of love.  
So don't beat yourself up if you didn't get any presents or cards yesterday, they are just things that the heart doesn't need or necessarily want. As long as you have the love from someone, whether it be a cat, dog, family, friends or spouse. All you need to know is there is someone in the world that loves you each and everyday and doesn't need Valentines Day to prove it.

Love 

M

Urban Decay Super Saturated Review

Cake Date #1

Hey Guys and Dolls, 

This is just a little review of a cake shop that has recently opened at Fort Kinnaird.  
The shop in question is Patisserie Valerie. I think this one has only been open a short while and there is another one in Edinburgh at a more central location on North Bridge. 

This one was very lovely and clean. The staff were also very friendly and child friendly, which is always a plus point. I do normally have lunches and cake stops with my 5 year old nephew. Today was no different for my cake and friend date, Johnathan was with us. 

We sat down and looked through the menu, they had everything you'd need for a 3 course meal, to a very nice cream tea and cakes. We settled for a cream tea (which came with 2 scones and condiments and a pot of earl grey tea), Johnathan had some lemon iced tea and a chocolate mouse cake, Jade had some peach iced tea and a double chocolate gateau, the best part was that it only cost £19, which is not too bad. 

It is definitely worth going too, you like something sweet. Everyone enjoyed it, including the little one. 


Bye <3

Posh Tea

Barry M Silk Nail Paints

Hey Guys and Dolls,

Since I have not heard much about these new released nail polishes from Barry M. I thought I might as well do a quick post on them. 

I bought mine from my local Tesco store but these will be released in Boots and Superdrug too. It cost me £3.99 and I got the shade Meadow, which is nice pastel green colour. 

This is what Barry M says about this collection on nail paint. 
'Silk's beautiful matte sheen gives nails a luxurious chic finish. In a collection of pretty pastel shades inspired by nature, its the perfect polish for a fresh take on spring.'
In the collection there is 6 pastel shades, from green, blue, pink and purple to 2 nudes. As Barry M says, these will be perfect for the up and coming spring and summer seasons. 
The Colour I have is Meadows and its a pretty pastel green, with a pearl sheen to it. It is not my usual nail colour, as I am all over the dark and matte shades just now, but I think I might get a lot of wear out of it when the right season comes. 

I will post a swatch picture of it once, I get it on my nails. 

Bye guys. 

x

Saturday Night: Face Of The Night #1

Hey My Lovelies. 

This is just a super quick post on the make up I wore out on the 8th February.

This is how I had my make up on Saturday night.

 I had a soft smokey purple eye, I used my Mac shadows in Sable and Sketch and lined my eyes with Be a Bombshell felt tip liner and on my bottle waterline, I used my Soap and Glory purple eyeliner that I got in a christmas set. I then used plenty Smokey mascara by Maybelline. 
For my eyebrows I used my Accessorise Eyebrow kit.  

Please Excuse the pout

On my face I used the Urban Decay foundation in 3.5, after I had moisturised and primed my skin by using the Vanishing Cream by Fashionista. I used a blush by The Balm and contoured using Soap and Glory. I concealed my blemishes and undereye bags with the Collection Lasting Perfection concealer. 
On my lips I used OCC lip tar in Anime.


Hope you like these kind of post. 

Bye guys.

Primark Beauty Bits Blog Haul.

Hey there guys and dolls,

I'm just in from a recent trip into Edinburgh City centre, I only really went into town to kill a day in the half term. As I have my 5 year old nephew, I thought, we would head into town to kill some time.

I ended up spoiling him, with food and I also got him a game for the playstation. I also went into Primark to browse, as you do. 

I came across the beauty bit in Primark and thought I would pick a few things up and share what I got with you guys.

I firstly picked up some of the new make up wipes, I picked up the P.S range Oil balancing facial cleansing wipes, which were pack of 2 for £1. Also so from the new P.S range I picked up a eyebrow pencil in Light for £1 and a bright pink lipstick, also £1. 

At the till I somehow decided I needed a 300 pack of no snag elastics, which were a £1. I also picked up a 4in 1 foot file ( it has 2 pumice stones, a foot file and a skin grate.) this was also only £1. Then last but no means least I pick up a little lip balm thing for my nephew as he has dry chapped lips. It is a Chupa Chups lip balm in apple flavour, which cost £1.50. 

Hope you like my little haul, I should hopefully have some reviews up soon. 

Bye lovelies :)

Lipstick Junkie

Hey Guys and Dolls, 


Recently I have became an absolute lipstick junkie. Every little shopping/browsing trip has had me buying a new lipstick. 

I have bought every sort of lipstick from a £15 one to ones that cost as little as £1. I have gone super crazy with them. 

Firstly I have bought a Urban Decay Revolution Lipstick in the colour catfight. This was bought purely for the name, as I am a proper cat lady in the making. But when I saw the colour I fell in love with it. Its a beautiful deep pink colour. I bought mine from Jenners in Edinburgh, you can buy it here. 

Next up I bought a matte lipstick from MUA. These little babies cost a mere £1, you cant get a lot for that nowadays. I love the normal formula of the £1 lipsticks, but these ones just don't deliver as much of a punch as the normal ones. I was quite disappointed in it. I got the wild berry shade, which looked like it would be a gorgeous dark reddy purple colour. It wasn't anything near as dark as that. The lipstick was very drying and patchy on the lips.

The other £1 lipstick I have is a little pink number, I got whilst out in town with my Mammy Bear. I got it whilst in a shop called Tiger. Not sure if they are anywhere else in the UK. But its just a little bright pink lippy that looks great.

Then I went out and bought a little hello kitty lipstick, mainly for the packaging. But the colour was absolutely gorgeous. Its a dark red colour. I'm not sure where these are available to buy online, but you can pick them in Primark and some B'N'S stores they cost £1.99. 

I then went a little bit crazy whilst looking at the Collection stands in superdrug. I got 2 of the Little Mix lipsticks, I got the Perrie (a dark purple mauve colour) and Jade ( a pinky nude colour), they are gorgeous, great pigmentation and they are so creamy. They cost £2.99 each from superdrug.

The last 2 lipsticks I have gotten recently are more Collection lipsticks but a different line of lipsticks they have out. These ones are from their Deluxe range. I got the colours Talullah (a light pink colour) and Prohibition ( a dark pink/red shade), these cost £3.99 normally but boots have them on offer, just now for £2.99. 

The last lipstick I want to speak about in a lip tar by OCC. I got it whilst buying some other things in a blog sale. I got the colour Anime, which a gorgeous hot pink.  I got it off of a make up artist who is moving to Singapore soon, so was selling her work make up. There is no link for this but here is a selection of OCC make up in Selfridges.


What are your favourite lipsticks?
Bye Guys

Marion <3

Concrete Minerals Eyeshadows

Hey Guys and Dolls,


I got some beautiful eye shadows for Christmas from my friend Lauren. This is just a quick review on them. 

I got 4 colours of the shadows. 

The Low Down
Concrete Minerals are preservative free, they don't use parabens and fillers. They are 100% vegan and cruelty free and made in USA. 
They are sold on cutecosmetics in the UK and cost £6 for 1.5gms. 

They have two ranges out, ones that are matte and shimmer ones. I have 4 colours from the shimmer range. I have Smut, X's and O's, Vanity and Doe Eyed. 

lt-rght  Smut, Doe eye, Vanity, X's&O's

My favourite of the bunch is X's and O's as it's so different from what I'm used to wearing. Although for every night out I have had since Christmas I have worn it. 

The Colours swatched on my hands.

Would I buy it again?
Yes I would happily buy more of these beauties. They work beautifully and last a long time with and without a primer being used. 
I do want the stack of black toned one that they have also on cutecosmetics. I will I have post some eye looks on my instagram using these eyeshadows. Check them out on Cheekie_maz on instagram.

C'ya 

M

Matte Lips

Hey Guys and Dolls,

Over the past few weeks I have fallen in love with the new to the high street, liquid lipstick. 
The two that I have currently tried are the Sleek Matte Me and MUA Luxe Velvet Lip Lacquer. 

Both of the products can be bought in Superdrug and Sleek have newly been released on Boots website, not seen a stand in a shop yet for it. 

I have 3 shades of the Matte me they are in 
Fandango Purple (bright fuschia purple)
Brink Pink (neon pink)

Party Pink (coral pink)

The MUA velvet lip lacquer's I have 4 shades, 

Reckless (true red)

Atomic (tomato/orangey red)

Kooky (dark purple)

Funk (deep pink)

So these lip sticks are meant to be similar to the Lime Crime Velvetines and Hourglass liquid lipsticks, both of which I need to purchase. I love matte lipsticks and these are the best I have found. The Matte Me ones last longer than the MUA ones. I will put a proper review of both of them in a few days (hopefully). 

These are defo worth the £3 (MUA) and £4.99 (sleek). I do plan on getting the other colours which is 1 more from MUA and 3 more from Sleek. 
I do wish there were more nude colours as it would make more variations of it.

Bye dolls
M

5 January Favourites

Hey Guys and Dolls,

This is just a quick post on some of the products I have been loving this month. 

Soap and Glory Eyeliners

I managed to pick up a set of the eyeliner sets that boots where doing for Christmas. 

The set has a black, brown, purple, green and blue liners (there will be a post up soon about them :)) These are the most creamy eyeliners I have EVER tested that are on the high street. I know in the permanent line you can get the black and brown liners.

Concrete Minerals eyeshadow in X's and O's

This was a gift I got for Christmas off of my friend Lauren and I absolutely love this colour. Its a magenta purple with silver sparkle, that looks amazing against my blue eyes. 

Maybelline The Volum' Express Colossal Smokey Mascara

I love this mascara. It gives me prefect lashes every time. Since the last mascara that I loved was £18 i decided to give this one a go, since I got it in my December Glossybox. It was really good and I'm highly impressed with it. 

Sleek Matte Me in Fandango Purple
I love wearing matte lips everyday and this is just the most perfect fuchsia purple to wear with a thin black eyeliner look. I do have an in depth post coming soon on them. 

Real Techniques Expert face brush
I bought this in a blog sale, as I was dubious on how good these actually were. I have bought a few cheaper alternatives before I seen it on the blog sale for £5. So I snapped it up and I'm definitely in love with it.


What have you dolls been loving this month?

Marion

The Phlegm Edinburgh's Rockabily Gods

Hey Guys and Dolls, 

Just a quick post on a band, I recently seen do a gig. 

The Phlegm, a Edinburgh based rockabily/psychobily band. I have had the pleasure of seeing these 3 laddies play around 8 times in the last 10 months. 
They are regulars at Henry's Cellar Bar in Edinburgh, they have done guest slots in supporting bands like jake and the jellyfish (also a band you guys need to check out) and another rockabily band called the Voodoo Kings.

They have been a band for many years and consist of Joe McGuigan (vocals/guitar), Grant McGuigan (bass/double bass/backing vocals) and Iain Robertson(drums).
During the set they played on the 29th January, they covered Gary Numan 'Cars' 

They also done original songs written by both Joe and Grant. This is a newly written song, by Grant McGuigan, Jet Board.

These young guys have done extremely well in the past 10 months that  I have been part of the crowd that they pull. I have went to the gigs with my girls and they have always had great things to say about the show afterwards. I love them as they are so unique in their style for such a young band. They have accomplished so much in such a short space of time and its great seeing them going from strength to strength. Their future is most definitely bright and I'm looking forward to seeing them grow more. 

Here is a few little recordings of my favourite songs they do. Ubangi Stomp.

Boys having babies

Check them out on facebook, twitter and their own band page. Make sure you all like and follow them. 

Till next time 

M
<3