Summer's Here: River Island Outfit of The Day

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So today I went to London for a couple of things. Like actual events not that I just popped to London cause I needed some milk and cucumber. I do actually need some cucumber on that thought though. So yes I went to the big smoke for an exciting day, I can't reveal exactly what I was doing but it was very nerve racking/exciting at the same time, I also met Youtube sensation Tanya Burr at this secret going on and I did have a bit of a fan girl moment. I told her how much I loved her videos and well basically was like 'aaah.' I always get that way when I meet 'big' bloggers and youtubers! They're like celebrities in my eyes! Anyways so the other thing I went to London today was for the Debenhams A/W Press day. I'll do a separate post on this but I saw some great new products for A/W and fell in love with the home section. But like I said we'll leave that for another day!

Top: River Island (this has now sold out but there's a link for another top I bought which is similar)

Shorts: River Island 

Belt: Primark 

So again it was another lovely day here in the UK! But my gosh summer is not good in London, I think I've spent most of my day looking bedraggled thanks to the heat. The tubes are like something else! I was quite relieved when I got back home and had a little nap to sleep of a day's worth of travelling, nerves and being too hot! I do think I'm still a country girl at heart you know! I decided to go for quite a simple outfit today, shorts and a top. It's my favourite type of outfit, really simple but also can look nice. I wore my new orange and black silk top from River Island which I got in their sale for a cracking £10! I'd been eyeing this up full price so when I saw it was that cheap I couldn't resist. I love the colour, I think it really works with my dark hair and now natural tan (whooo) I'm sure it will be a holiday favourite. I also wore my River Island high waisted shorts which I really love as they're quite vintage. However they can show your bum as I realised today. So apologies to anyone in London who was blinded by the sight of a slight bum cheek. I don't normally take part in such behaviour. I also wore (well changed in the toilet before the events) my new Forever 21 wedges which are like a new love in my life. But again I'm going to dedicate a whole post to these babies, so you'll have to wait a couple of days before you get to hear the full verdict. Ooh I'm being very teasey today aren't I? Overall I had a good day and even got to see my Dad for a bit of lunch as he was in London too, so that was a nice bonus!

I hope you've all had a good day whatever you've been up to! I've heard through the grapevine the weather isn't going to be as great for the next couple of days so I hope you've been making the most of the sun!! Hope you all have a lovely evening :)

My New Favourite Foundation: My Face Cosmetics' My Mix Foundation

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I've become a bit of a foundation junkie of late, I seem to be always searching for the perfect foundation for both day and night. However with being a student (I may of finished university but I refuse to stop calling myself a student just yet) I haven't got bucket loads of money to just spend on high end foundations. However tempting it may be. Of course I do own some high end foundations that I wouldn't be without but I still love to find a good drugstore gem! I feel I have had one of those gem finding moments. My Face Cosmetics is a reasonably unknown brand to someone like me, I have heard of them but not really heard much about them. I'd never seen much hype on blogs or Youtube so I always used to bypass their stand in Boots. That was until one day I was in a little dream world browsing the stands and swatching to my hearts content when I noticed that the My Face Cosmetics stand had a big 75% off everything poster and a big trolley full of products. Well I am quite the bargain hunter and noticed their My Mix Foundation was on top of the trolley, I briefly remember seeing an article saying that Millie Mackintosh liked this and well you all know anything Millie uses I am all over like a heat rash. So I picked up a medium shade thinking well if it's rubbish it won't matter as it will be less than £5! I got to the till and paid £3.60 for this foundation which full price is £14.99, I thought wow what a bargain, I then went back to the stand just five minutes prior to being there before as I thought I might pick a couple more shades up as it was so cheap and something terrible had happened. The trolley with all the products had gone. The My Face Cosmetics stand was all sad and empty and to be honest it made me feel sad and empty. I however thought ' I hope this is rubbish as I won't get another one.'

My Face Cosmetics My Mix Foundation

Oh and here comes the fate of the make up gods, I don't like this foundation.... I LOVE IT. A typical sods law situation in where I have found a new love in my life. The My Mix foundation is the perfect coverage, it's medium so hides everything but feels incredibly light on your skin. There are also so many shades and shade variations, there's three types of each shade so for example medium 1 for rosy undertones, medium 2 for warm undertones etc. I picked up medium 3 as I didn't know there were different types of medium, I'm kicking myself for not picking up a medium 1 and 2 for paler days! The foundation colours are so well matched, they sink into your skin and adapt to your skin tone, when I have a fake tan on this matches my face so well! It's even okay for paler days when I add a light amount! The finish is matte in the right places and the dewy in the others, it gives the exact finish I love.. the Millie Mackintosh finish. Also I gave it the ultimate test, the night out test. This test is very crucial for foundations, some will fail and melt away with your inhibitions as the vodka and cokes mount up and some will leave you with the ghost face syndrome.

The finish of My Mix Foundation 

 When you find a good night out foundation you hold onto it and girls and any boys who may be reading this foundation passed the night out test with flying colours. It lasted in the hot clubs (granted I was home by 1 am but it had lasted since 6pm) and didn't give me a ghost face, yes that's right when I had that fateful horror of 'you have been tagged in a umpteen photos on Facebook' I was thinking ' will I have a white face and tanned body?' 'Will my arms look like a joint of gammon?' Thankfully the Facebook gods were on my side and my face matched my body. This means My Mix Foundation may be my new holy grail foundation. It looks good in the day, it looks good at night but I no longer can get it in Boots. The My Face Cosmetics stand has now been replaced by an Essie stand. I love nail polish as much as the next beauty blogger, but I'm still a little devastated that I can't just get this foundation so easily. I think you can buy it from the My Face website but if you see a stand in your boots with a 75% off sign, grab one of these or three foundations and run to the till! One last thing, when I got home and started to research this foundation for this post, I came across this article which claims my hero Cheryl Cole loves this foundation. Well I tell you what I almost wet my pants, could this foundation be any more perfect? I do have one con, the packaging is a bit messy see the above picture. Other than that I bloody love this foundation and well if it's good enough for Cheryl it's good enough for me.

Have you ever tried My Face Cosmetics? I hope you've all had a great day, I've spent my Monday sunbathing, cleaning and getting frustrated about there being a lack of jobs in the sector I want in the area I live. Needless to say I took my frustration out on the kitchen work tops and also did Level 1 of the 30 day shred... after doing this my boyfriend comes home with a box of Kripsy Kreme donuts... well I may of worked off a bite of one so this means I can have one right and not feel totally guilty? I hope you enjoy the rest of your evening... I am of course excited about Made in Chelsea!!! :)

A Weekend In The Sun

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Little bit of a different post from me tonight, I couldn't quite decide what to post about so decided to go for a mixture of things that have consisted of my weekend in the sun! The weather has been truly lovely here in the UK, we've had a bit of a heatwave so that means spending as much time as possible in the hot weather! 

 So I've spent most of the weekend on my balcony on my new £13 Argos sun lounger which is easily the best £13 I've spent in a while! To keep me occupied I've been using my phone to browse Twitter, my Kindle where I read what I thought would be a chick lit book about a cougar instead it was very saucy! It would of turned the air blue! Still it was quite an amusing read. I've also been enjoying using the shuffle button on my Ipod, today some right gems were played; Busted, Girls Aloud and Kelly Clarkson. I do have some cool music on there I promise ;) 

 To make the most of this weather and my natural tan, a neon nail polish was needed. China Glaze's Flip Flop Fantasy really is the most perfect colour for summer, it's so bright and makes your hands look 100x more tanned!

 Finally this is the look I've been sporting in the hot weather, all I have on make up wise is a bit of concealer as I have broke out this week. Yes my skin obviously couldn't keep clear for more than two weeks, oh well hopefully it's just hormones! My Mauka Doctor and La Roche Products have been helping though! 

So there we go, there's my weekend in the sun! How have you spent this weekend? I hope you've all made the most of the sunshine! I'm off now to make the most of this summer evening, though I know I'll probably spend most of it glued to my screen watching Soccer Aid... Olly Murs in a football kit for 90 minutes? HELLO! :) 

The Liquid Sunshine In a Bottle: Benefit's Sun beam!

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Hope you've all been enjoying the sunshine that we've been experiencing here in the UK! I have been loving having the chance to have a little sunbathe and I am getting a nice natural tan at last! Whooo no more fake tan let's hope :) Although within the past couple of hours I have been suddenly swamped by hay fever, my eyes are streaming, nose is all stuffy and horrible and I'm sneezing every five minutes. I feel like that anti allergy tablet advert where the big flowers are chasing a man around, I feel the big flowers have found me on my balcony lying on my £13 sun lounger. So enough of my hay fever, it's time to get on to the good stuff. A product that will make you look like you've spent your past few days catching some rays. Benefit's newest addition to their line Sun Beam is the topic of conversation today and boy is it a good one!

You may remember (well it was only last week so not that far back to remember) that I went to a Benefit event in Bournemouth for the launch of Sun beam, I'm still dreaming about those scones we had at the event.. obsessed? Slightly. Sun Beam is what Benefit call 'liquid sunshine in a bottle' it's the perfect accessory for the summer. When I first heard about Sun Beam I thought 'this couldn't be more up my street', a liquid bronze highlight? Amazing. I've found that a lot of highlights out there are quite silvery/pink based so it's nice to see a bronze/gold based one but don't worry this isn't just for olive skin tones, it really will suit anyone. The colour is like a champagne colour, and when buffed into the skin it gives a gorgeous warm glow. There's many ways you can use Sun Beam, I've tried three (oooh get me) first of all is the pre make up application, so apply this before foundation and then under your foundation you'll have a nice glow. Secondly is to mix in with your foundation, but only a little bit as  we don't want any Cullen moments. Then thirdly which is my favourite way, applying to cheekbones, the nose and the chin over foundation to give a golden glow. Though I joked about the Cullen reference above you don't have to worry as Sun Beam is what I'd call a subtle highlight, it makes you look radiant and dewy rather than shimmery.

I've been really enjoying using this product, it looks great with peach blush and lips and now that I have a natural tan on my face (and a nose to rival Rudolph) it will look great paired with some tinted moisturiser for a natural look. Sun Beam is probably my favourite highlight ever (high praise indeed) and it will leave you with a bronzed glow that will make you look like you've spent the past ten days in the Caribbean. Sun Beam was launched on Monday and it is priced at £18.50 for 13 ml. You can purchase it from Benefit counters or online here.

Me wearing Sun Beam and swatches. 

So there we go, my new favourite summer product. Have you tried Sun Beam yet? Right I am off to retreat to my sun lounger on the balcony, little embarrassing story for you all, last night I went and bought a sun lounger from Argos as I was fed up of sunbathing on a chair, not the comfiest sunbathing equipment. So today I used my sun lounger for the first time and I thought I'd set it up properly but I sat down on it and the top bit collapsed meaning I went flying back legs in the air, on my balcony! I'd not put the legs down properly (no I wasn't too heavy before you ask) luckily this was at 10am so hopefully no one saw me, if they did though I will claim I was doing a intricate dance move. I hope you all have a lovely evening :)