YouTube Update + NOTD

Hey Beauties! I hope all is well. This is just a quick YouTube Update post. One is my August Hits and Misses and the other is a Smokey Brown/Green Makeup Tutorial. I hope you enjoy both video's. Also above is my NOTD - Summer is finally coming to an end so I want to get the last out of my Ice Cream Fingers!!!! x x x

Creation: The Forest Of Sparkle

Hey Beauties,

I hope you have all had a wonderful August! I made my return from beautiful San Diego a few weeks ago and have been thrown back into the busy, yet exciting and fun lifestyle of Vienna. The heat in Vienna has been truly immense this week being between 32-38 degrees every single day!!! So in attempt to keep myself out of the sun for at least one of the days I came up with this creation, which for some odd reason wanted to name The Forest Of Sparkle - I think it had a lot to do with the green (being the trees) and the purples (being the vibrant flowers) used for the looks. Check out the tutorial below on how to recreate this look and I hope you find some use for it and have fun trying the look out yourselves! Love Joanna Louise x x x

Face:

Nars Sheer Glow Foundation 

Mac Translucent Setting Powder

Mac Blusher in Pink Swoon

Eyes:

Urban Decay Eye Potion Primer

Both Eyeshadows from the Nars Sugarland Duo Palette

Shu Uemura Paint Pot in ME Purple/ME Violet

Urban Decay Psychedelic Sister

Mac Young Punk

Bourjois Paris Metallic Eyeliner in Noir

Estee Lauder Sumptuous Extreme Mascara

Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Lip Barrier

Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Cosmetic Glitter in Emerald

Lips:

Maybelline Colour Sensational Lipstick in Intense Pink

Mac Eyeliner in Mint

Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Cosmetic Glitter in Emerald

Be Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful Cosmetic Glitter in Gold

As always I love to hear what you beauties think so Let Me Know, Comment Below x x x

Review: IQ Cosmetics Brilliance Gloss

Hey Beauties!

Ok, so I know I trashed their Metallic Green nail polish in my last review - but their lip glosses may have just put IQ Cosmetics back into my good books! After receiving some 20% off vouchers for their Brilliance Gloss range, I figured that at €4 a gloss (€4.99 rrp), nothing could be as bad as my experience with their polish, not to mention that all the shades of the glosses in this range had caught my eye.

From a glance all the shades (9 in total) look extremely wearable and would suit any skin tone. The packaging, I find is compact yet stylish, and for the price doesn't look tacky at all - I don't know maybe you may feel differently about that! I ended up purchasing 4 shades; Candy, Amour, Rose and Kisses.

The first thing I noticed about the lip glosses was the consistency of them. I tend to find that inexpensive drugstore Lip Glosses are quite runny, wear off easily, therefore needing more applications throughout the day. These glosses however, are almost like a sheer lipstick, with the consistency being thick yet easy to apply. Even though the colours looks bold in the tube they actually apply really sheer on first application. The colours can be worked on and deepened with further applications but won't reach the same vibrancy as the colour you see from the packaging. The texture is smooth, not grainy, and doesn't leave too much of a sticky feeling though there is a little of that! The glosses do have a slight chocolaty/sweet smell to them but no taste. The smell isn't over empowering and definitely is not strong enough to put you off the product if you don't like scented glosses.

Result: I think for the price (€4.99 Per Gloss) and the quality of the product it's definitely a must try product. The shades are extremely wearable for everyday yet can jazz up any night time look. 

Do you beauties have any current favourite beauty products? Let me Know, Comment Below x x x

Review: IQ Cosmetics Nail Effect

Hi Beauties,
Once again I must apologies for my absence! After returning from my cousins wedding in May I was thrown back (or I chose to be thrown back!) into working 4 different jobs and time flew by before I realised that I hadn't blogged in ages!

Which brings me to my first post in a while - and I must warn this is a bit of a rant post due to the quality of the product being rubbish! So I apologise in advance about the moan but very rarely do I ever blog negatively about a product and I guess the time has come. IQ Cosmetics Nail Effect in Metallic Green (€4.99) really caught my eye when I was on the hunt for some fresh Summer polishes. I loved the tone of green and the metallic sheen contained in the bottle.

Well first off the application was a little goopy and left a streaky finish despite having applied a base coat. However I hadn't pressed the panic button at that point as it was only the first coat but the streaky finish was even more apparent after the second coat! I decided the polish had to come off - except I had run out of nail polish remover and all the shops were shut! So the next morning I was straight out to top up on my remover's and when I finally did remove the hot streaky mess see what I discovered below!

To be put it plainly - I have never been so angry with a nail polish in my life! To apply so terribly and then have the cheek to stain my nails yellow! I am also partly angry because I was so in love with the colour but there is no way I'm even going to consider putting that polish on my nails again. Only now, three weeks after this mishap, have the yellow stains begun to grow out. Definitely a look I will be happy to avoid! The only plus to this situation is that I did purchase the Metallic Orange polish and had no problem with it whatsoever!

What have your recent beauty blunders been? Have you recently purchased a product that has angered you? Let Me Know, Comment Below x x x

Creation: Block Colour

Hey Beauties!

How are you all? I hope you are all good and are having a good May so far. Since the fashion world has been going a little block colour colour crazy, I thought I would create a look inspired by the trend. Obviously not a look I would rock on a normal day but for sure at a party! (especially if it has a 70's/80's theme to it!). 

I will also not be posting for about a week as I am off to Ireland for my cousins wedding and I want the trip to be completely free from work! I hope you understand. So I am going to wish you all a pleasant remainder of the weekend and a beautiful Next week! Joanna Louise x x x

As Always Let Me Know What You Think! Your Opinions Mean So Much To Me x x x

I Need An Occasion To Wear This Soon!!!

So I horrified myself today when I went to put on a pair of shoes on the way out to work - only to find that at least 7 pairs of my shoes (which basically means all of them!) were garbage material! To be honest I am not a big shoe person so forgive me for not noticing the fact that my shoe collection was crying to be revamped! So I went on a little manic shopping spree and along the way in H&M I came across this jumpsuit that looks so crazy I had to get it! Now I need an occasion to to wear the damn thing! I would wear it out on a normal day but I would like to debut the outfit at a fun event. Well I am heading to Ireland on Thursday for my cousin's wedding and whilst I will not be wearing it there - I'm sure with my crazy family there will be plenty of events to wear this outfit too!

I hope you beauties are all keeping well, Keeping this post simple and sweet just letting out all my excitement for this outfit! Of course Let me know what you think by commenting below! x x x

Review: Bliss Triple Oxygen Instant Energizing Mask

Bliss' Triple Oxygen Instant Energizing Mask offers an instant fix for dull, tired skin in just 5 minutes! Who doesn't have 5 minutes to spare to help give their face a little pick me up? This product squirts out in a serum like texture but once applied onto damp skin, transforms into a foamy texture. Over the next five minutes, watch as the bubbles disappear (supposedly the dehydrated area's of your face pulling in the oxygen), and once the time is up, rinse the product off and voila you're done. So how do I rate this product?

Pros:

I find this product almost the perfect thing to wake up to or to use when my skin is feeling a bit under the weather. The citrus smell is so wonderful it instantly perks me up and once the mask is in action the tingling sensation it gives my skin is amazing. It’s as if you can feel your face pulling the mask in. Plus it gives me five whole minutes of fun watching time, as I stare at myself in the mirror watching patches of the mask disappear faster than other areas depending on which area needs the hydration most. After washing the product off my skin really does glow and instantly looks refreshed, clean and hydrated and feels soft to the touch.

Cons:

Apart from hydrating my face and making it appear healthy it doesn’t have any other benefits like tackling my enormous pores (even though it does claim to help in that area!) or help to exfoliate my skin. It's also £39 for a 100ml, which is definitely a bit to pricey for such a mask.

Results:

The mask is good but not great and I think for the price I find this more of a novelty product rather than one that will help to improve my skin over time. Therefore I wouldn't repurchase this product. 

What do you beauties think? Have you tried this mask? What are your favourite Mask's? Let Me Know, Comment Below x x x