Another 'Fashion' Haul + Contest prizes sneak peak pic!

I'm particularly excited today! 

I'm not sure if I mentioned this to you before but a while ago, H&M released a Hello Kitty jumper and I wasnted it SO badly but at the time I didn't have the money.
Literally, the moment I had the cash the jumper seemed to disappear from the edge of the Earth.  I found none in any of the London stores, none back home or selling on the internet.  I was devasted quite literally because that jumper is the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen.  The ironic thing is is that I'm not the biggest Hello Kitty fan - I don't know it's a bit like being obsessed with Elmo.  Elmo is cute but nothing to go nuts over yet people do.  I've never been one to go crazy at the sound of Hello Kitty but this jumper is just something else.

Guess what?

I FOUND IT!  They restocked more in my one back home and before I could do or say anything I found myself trailing for my size and hugged it like I had never hugged a new piece of clothing that was destined to be mine!

 Hello Kitty Jumper dress, H&M, £19.99

Also a new belt - I adore the zip and I just think it's a good accessory to toughen up any outfit!

Zip Belt, H&M, £5.99

Also picked up some stripey tights from Topshop - Beetlejuice anyone? :P

Stripey tights, Top Shop, £5 (I think?)

I know what you're thinking - isn't it a bit too cold for these?  The answer is Yes...iot is.  But I love it.

Black knee socks, Top Shop, £5

Below is a big impulse purchase, something I picked up whilst queuing.  An expensive one.  This bow brooch is just too adorable, you an definitely change up any outfit with this or even put it on your bag.  You can even pin onto a headband and fasten it to your hair.  I just adore it!  I have to, for the price i paid!

Lace bow brooch, Top Shop, £9.00

What's my obsession with bows right now?  A big bow for my hair with a clip at the back!  The velvety material makes it look very classy and chic, would turn plain cute to charmingly chic!

Velvet hair bow, ASOS.com, Approx £5

I fell in love with these earrings so badly.  My heart ached when I had to put them down so in the end I didn't and paid for them...then took them home!  I LOVE LOVE LOVE the details and its nothing like I have.  It looks like a mix of old english Victorian pieces mixed with something from the Far East.  I just adore it!

Pearl Earrings, Top Shop, £8

Oh I forgot to mention I picked these up from Collection 2000 - they are actually a lot better than you would think.  More on these in another blog!

Collection 2000 Glam Crystals Eyeliner, Boots, £2.99 each (I think!)

AND THIS IS THE FIRST TIME ANYONE HAS SEEN THIS!   I've been busily collecting contest prizes to do a whole series of mini contests.  So there will be many winners!  I'm busy thinking up contest themes and don't worry there will be contests for those who don't make videos.  Spread the word!

Peace x

Circle lenses, Amazing Concealer, ELF and SUPERDRUGS GET THE LOOK COMPETITION!!

Hello everyone!

I've been meaning to update for a while now but I couldn't because my internet has been acting up so I haven't had the internet for a good few days - which by the way has been excrutiating!  So, where shall I begin?

As you'll know I've recently bought new circle lenses.  I am loving these lenses a lot.  I purchased them from a website called Honeycolor and I think they are based in Malaysia. I know they are probably not the cheapest but I felt that I could trust the website; they have a lot of positive feedback on their site and a good range to choose from.  I recieved my lenses within a few weeks, safe and sound.  I've picked some dark grey ones and brown ones but after Christmas I would really like some dark green ones and maybe even dark blue or purple ones.  I absolutely adore these lenses!  I bought the brown ones particularly for an Angelababy look I will be doing soon :)  Here are some pictures:

Geo Angel Gray $22.90 ( I have more pictures in my previous post!)

 

Princess Eyes Camel Brown : $34.90

 

 

 

Sorry....cam whored a bit too much >_

So shipping cost my $3.49 and so brought the total to $61.29 which I don't think is a high price but no it isn't the cheapest.  I am so pleased with my purchase and would definitely recommend it.



Something else...

The best concealer in the world:

Purchased from QVC.co.uk.  It's fairly difficult to get hold of from the UK so I had to spend £22 at QVC to get this.  This was recommended by Michelle Phan and it worked wonders on her dark circles and needless to say - it did mine too.  I've got my sister hooked too.  A little goes such a long way and I tell no lie - I've put it all over my face before and I looked like some porcelain doll - fantastic!  Below is half a face done - surely you can tell?

(Left side is left untouched...right side is concealed!)

I adore this concealer and all of a sudden I've ignored all my other ones.... dear me!  It's worked best in terms of concealer my scars and blemishes compared to any other I've tried.  I feel very confident using this product!  Good buy!

Also ELF finally sent me Peachy Keen - gorgeous :) 

 Finally I wanted to talk about something important.  Take note everyone! 

Superdrugs contact me recently to ask if I could join in their competition!! 
The competition just requires you to make a christmas look following their few simple rules (see link for all the info!) and you win so so so much stuff!

Winner
Their Look will be featured on the Superdrug.com homepage for 2 weeks.
2 invitations to the UK Elite Model Final and the After Show Party, taking place at June 2010 in London.
A hair and makeup shoot with celebrity session stylist Paula Kingham, and one of the UK’s leading make up artists Sue Moxley of Famous Cosmetics.
A steel cosmetic box from Revlon worth £150
A GOSH Goody Bag worth £100
Second Prize
A GOSH goody bag worth £100
A steel cosmetic box from Revlon worth £150
A Bloom Gift Set
An Elite Make Up Purse
A set of 10 Barry M Nail Paints
Third Prize
A steel cosmetic box from Revlon worth £150
A steel cosmetic box from Revlon
An Elite Make Up Purse
A set of 10 Barry M Nail Paints
5 Customer Favourite Looks will each receive
3 Barry M Nail paints
£25 GOSH goody bag



So you have a good chance to win SOMETHING, so have a crack at it!  I will be entering ASAP now that my internet is back :)!  Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should do?  :)

Also as a thank you, Superdrug also sent me some products from GOSH - so thanks so much Superdrugs!

 

GOSH Eyeshadow Collection - unforunately got a bit ruined in the post I think!

Thanks everyone!!  Join in the competition and best of luck!

Honeycolor Circle Lenses!

Hi Everyone

Just wanted to show you a sneak peak of the Circle Lenses I've recieved in the post (FINALLY!)

I will do a more in depth post, right now I am rushing to do more uni work so I can't right now but here is a link to where I got them from.  


I do recommend them!

I will tell you which ones I got later, expect a video too!

I do find them hilarious.  I look a bit high in the first one.

Small Collective Haul

Quick Update:

Picked up two more MAC colour refills:

Left is Velvet Moss, right is Juiced - Both gorgeous!  I got these both for £6.49 including posting and packaging from an EBAY seller rather than the original £8.50 for refill (or I suppose the original £11.00!)  So I made a good saving! :)  She doesn't have that many MAC eyeshadows but go to see what else she has to offer (btw, GREAT COMMUNICATION and SPEEDY sending!)

Did I tell you I originally ordered Peachy Keen blusher from ELF cosmetics but they sent me Candid Coral?  Well never mind :) They are sending me Peachy Keen and I get to keep Candid Coral - what good service!

Comparable to MAC Springsheen - with less golden shimmer.  A very very pretty colour.

Decent concealer - very good for the price as well, nice consistency and good coverage.

Actually a lot more impressive than you'd think.  Designed to either wear alone or UNDER eyeshadows - transforms your regular eyeshadows and gives them an opalascent hue - now you can do more with your eyesshadows.

The colours at the bottom of the pairs have the transformer colours under them. 

 And thank you ELF for sending me a free lipgloss - happy 2nd year anniversary! 

Peace x

Pale or Yellow?

As you know I've been very busy with coursework so I haven't had any time to upload videos or anything.....let alone make any videos.  But I've got a lot in my mind that I'm afraid will eventually disappear and I'll forget to mention it so I need to quickly tell you guys!

I've recently had this new revelation in terms of my skin tone. Now being oriental Asian I know, and we all know, there are a different shades within our 'yellow' skin. 

You can either be a 'pale white' yellow like Sammi Cheng

Or more mid-yellow tone like Zhang Ziyi

All of which are natural.  That's why with the Missha BB Creams you'll get two shades of 'yellow' and thats why even though my sister and I are both related (obviously) we have different skin tones; her being more yellow toned and mine a more pink/white undertone. 

This isn't the more fantastic example but its the only one at hand: 

This is a picture of my brother in law, my sister, my mum and I when we were in Austria on a skiing holiday.  It's the better example I suppose because none of us have make up on (because who does that on holiday?!) but if you can see, I naturally am a bit more paler and my sister is more yellow. So needless to say I get the whiter pale from my mum and my sister gets darker skin from my dad's side of the family.  Hence why she is No.23 for BB cream and if I used No.23 it makes me brown. 


Now here is my dilemma.   What happens in the summer?  I tan like there is no tomorrow the moment the sun comes out, if the sun says hello, my skin just browns up like a turkey in an oven.  So that's annoying because I sat at my vanity table the other day and realised a lot of my foundations are not right.....AGAIN! 

So from now I'm going to have to separate my foundations (winter ones, summer ones) and it's interesting because there is a significant jump.  Let's talk MAC coding colours... in the winter I'm possibly a NC15 - NC20 and in the summer I could jump to a NC25-30.  This all depends so it's hard for me to find a good one. 

Also the reason why I began thinking this is because I was watching Gossmakeupartist recently and in his video he suggested that a woman should match her foundation to her chest - which makes so much more sense.  I've ALWAYS had this trouble with match my body because like a patchwork quilt, my body parts all different shades.  My face is darker than my legs and torso, yet my arms are always darker. 

The question is, what shade am I and what shoulder I go for?

I've decided that I'm more leaning towards the whiter pale shade a la my good friends Suzi and Lindy as opposed so my other darling friends Ling and Tiffany.

So I'm kind of in between which bugs me.  But if I look at my natural skin, once my tan has gone (which it has), I am very white, very pale (you must have noticed) and I should embrace that.  And rather than my face and chest being a different colour, I will work towards being all a whiter shade.  I used to use a more yellow toned foundation and if my chest was on show I would dust it with bronzer but now I think I will keep me one shade.  So thanks Gossmakeupartist for this revelation! lol!


Sorry, such a trivial post but I had to get it out there! 

What's your purpose?

Hello everyone!

It's not often that I write much about anything personal on this blog but I've long stopped writing at my personal blog because it reminds me too much of all the things that hurt me.  But I've been craving to write personally for a while because it's been a an addiction since I was a young girl.  Writing about feels really help me to de-clutter what's in my brain, sometimes I have so much in my head the thoughts begin to overlap one another and some are forgotten and somee keep springing to mind. 

So here is a new beginning to a new section for this blog: Helen's Hideaway

You know I've been constantly thinking to myself about where life is taking me.  To be honest these thoughts have been in my mind for a since I was a little girl; from a young age I've pondered on my purpose and wondered about my future.  I used to always ask myself "Why me?" and I didn't understand what the question meant but it wasn't referring to why bad things happen to me.  I was  more asking Why I've been put on this Earth?  
I guess before it wasn't so much of a question with a deeper meaning, just curiosity and confusion.  If I ask the same question now I would be asking what my purpose is and what I can do in this life to really make a difference.

For all that know me, knows that my 'general' goal is to help save the world.  I believe in some ways that I was given the heart I have for a reason and I know these hands are not just for eating and apply make up.  Forget the question of what I want to do with as a job....what is my purpose? 

I think I hit a certain point around college time when I realised what I was good at and what were my limits.  I understood that being an 'all rounder' that sky is my limit so as long as I push myself.  I didn't think I had much talent in anything that I loved and I don't excel in much either.  But then again I don't do badly in much.  I looked deep within and found that actually probably what the Big Guy above gave me was a good heart and a good soul.   My job is to help others and no matter what I do, I will do it.  I know that truthfully there are no limits to what I can achieve, I just have to really want it and do it.  I know that no matter what I do in life, I will be helping people smile one way or another. 

I recently watched a video of a favourite guru and her name is Elessa AKA Pursebuzz.  Pursebuzz was the first make up guru I ever watched and I was instantly hooked on her talent but more so her warm heartedness.  She recently uploaded a video talking more about herself, her job, her life and what she's been through.  I know a lot of people will say this but I really felt like I understood her and everything that came out of that beautiful mouth was easily what was already in my brain. 

Then it hit me ... this is what she has achieved....I can do it too. 

My purpose in life is to share, to touch others hearts and to change the world for the good, bit by bit.

What's yours?

Why Fresh Faced is sometimes the Best Face

Have a nice day everyone :)

Magnets for my Pro Palette!

For some of you who may be interested, I wanted to quickly show you the magnets that I purchased.

These were bought to stick onto the back of the pans of my MAC eyeshadows which I depot to put into my MAC pro palette!  So they are adhesive and come in a sheet 80 and they are 297 x 198 x 0.76mm in dimension.  These as fantastic and you can even use them to stick on photos to put on your fridge, or use them as clasp if you're making a note book ....be creative, these are much more versatile than you'd think.

Above is a picture of two metal pans; the one of the left is Humid which already has a magnet as I bought it as a refill.  To the right is my own metal pan eyeshadow with one of the magnets on it and as you can see it fits perfectly :)  And now my eyeshadows will not fall out and smash onto the floor. Yay!

I bought these magnets from First4magnets and right now it's buy one get one free. These magnets cost me £2.99 for a sheet which apparently works out to be less than 4p per magnet but I guess if you're buying one and getting one free it should be like....2p per magnet....HOW CHEAP!

So yeah for all you lovely people who want to make up their pro palettes and still haven't found any magnets...here you go.  I'll be looking into labelling my palettes real soon too.  Watch this space.


Helen x

PS. delivery was super quick, came within two days or so!