The Body Shop - Trinity Walk Wakefield, A New Venture...

Hello fellow beauty followers!

Here's my first blog on behalf of The Body Shop - Trinity Walk, Wakefield! I've been excited to post this all for you to see what I've been trialing before the new range of products have been released for Spring 2015! 

The shop is so appealing to the eye, all you have to do is look at the pictures below to see for yourself...

                             

It's a pleasure to have been asked to recommend some products for you all to try out for yourselves! I didn't mention this in my last post but this is another amazing opportunity for me to learn more from the makeup/beauty industry! Thanks to the guys at Body Shop UK. 

You may have already seen my posts on my social networking sites in relation to me now working with The Body Shop, Wakefield store but I've even more exciting news... On the 5th and 6th February 2015 you can enjoy a splendid 30% off the original price of the product and that's not all... If you spend up to a certain amount you also receive a free gift.

Please don't forget to mention my blog to whoever serves you :), the guys within this store are wonderful when it comes to knowledge and assisting you with all your beauty needs ! You can also see my details within store on the local beauty wall! If you need any help from me or the guys there, don't hesitate to ask ! :)



on with the reviews...

Wonderblur - Nutriganics Drops of Youth range. rrp: £16.00

So you've tried a lot of different primers by now girls and maybe you're wanting to update your collection of skincare routine products, within its 30ml size I would definitely say The Body Shops version of the highly rated 'blur primer' is good for value at its bargain price.

You don't need to use a lot of product for it to glide effortlessly across your face or problem areas, I would recommend just a small pea sized amount and you will be guaranteed, this product will last you at least a few months. 

For application apply after all your usual skincare routine (cleanse, tone and moisturise) and wait for your moisturiser to sink in. You might want to look at what else The Body Shop offers in relation to your daily skincare routine! The salons experts will be happy to assist you down at Trinity Walk in Wakefield, to fit your skin type! The best for my skin is the tea tree range. 

One of the benefits I've found whilst using this product, is its wonderful for saving on my foundation! (Everyone loves a saving!) As I don't need to use as much as it blends so nicely on top. If you suffer from oily skin throughout the day this is perfect for a matte look as it has a hydrating technology of up to 12 hours with a flawless finish!  Give it a whirl and see how you get on!  :)

Shimmer Cubes - Palette 32 – rrp. £16.00

If you're into a shimmery eye, this look is the one for you! I've been a fan of the shimmer cubes for a few years now and I've had several different versions, however I loved that I was given this lovely spring 2015 one to trial, if you're like me and hate the winter, this has made me feel better knowing spring will be here soon and these colours were made to brighten up your day. 

I wear contact lenses, so if you're also a contact lens wearer these are 100% safe to use with! Most make up is this day in age but it's good to check what won't aggravate your eyes.

I used the 'Wonderblur' on my eye lids too to help keep the colour in place for an all-day look! You can use this palette with a dry or wet brush, which is perfect for how intense you would like the colour to be. (In my picture) I used a dry look and lined my eyes after application alongside mascara. I've known these palettes to last a long time so I think value for money at a small £16.00 isn't badly priced for something you could pay over double for at competitive companies. 

The best thing about this palette is. You can really play around with the colours, find what suits you. I think they work perfectly for fair coloured girls like myself as it contrasts well against pale skin and green eyes. The 'Shimmer Cube' comes in a range of different colours, so why not stock up on a few for different looks? :)

Lip & Cheek Velvet Stick - rrp £12.00

Lip and Cheek pencils are a popular purchase for most woman, these products remind me very much of the 'Clinique Chubby stick' range, as they are new to launch in Spring 2015 in five different shades. I tested out the Coral shade.

This perfectly compact product, promised a velvety texture on my skin, very easy to apply and had a slight floral aroma!

I love how you can use this as a lip colour or add a flush of colour to your cheek bones. 

Universal Shade - Lip and Cheek Velvet Stick  - rrp - £12.00

Now... Don't be put off at how odd this product looks as its ... yes you can see ... Black. 

It was my most interesting product to try out as it baffled me how it works, with its unique formula it can be used on lips and cheeks to deliver a poppy/berry colour by reacting to your own personal pH level.

I'm not sure if I'm a fan of the colour it goes on me but I have swatched below for you to see. The more you apply the intensity increase therefore a deeper colour. I think I'm just so used to pastel colours, and this is why I can't get used to it been so dark on me. 

It's a nice matte look so you can accompany with lipgloss if you feel the need, however I like the matte effect. This also matches the same price as the previous Velvet Stick shown above at only £12.00. If you want to try something a little of of the ordinary, then why not invest in this universal velvet stick, it can change colours with how hydrated/ dehydrated you are. 

and there you have it!

Don't forget to go down and see the products for yourselves and make great savings on the 5th and 6th February! Let me know what you get! I may well be popping down myself on the 6th to test out some more of the new range. 

Hope to see you there!

Teri-Rochelle xo

Bargain Buys...

Today I went shopping for some home things and I couldn't resist looking into a few beauty places a long the way, I thought I would share with you what Make-Up items I purchased today and for a very small price of just £10.00.

I am not usually into the cheaper Make-Up brands for items such as Eye Shadow as you can usually really tell if they are poor quality and I also find them harder to blend if the colour isn't as pigmented or not as easy to blend onto the skin.

I have seen GOSHcosmetics in Superdrug before but never really stopped to explore.

Today I bought two items as Superdrug were promoting any 2 products for £10.00.

I bought the new 9 SHADES Shadow Collection (which comes in 3 different variety's.) The one I bought is called 002 To Have Fun With in LA and has some beautiful pigmented greens, blues and purples, which are perfect for my eye colour. I have done a swatch below to show you just how pigmented these are.

It also comes with an handy compact mirror fitted inside, 

The second product I bought was the Forever Eye Shadow in shade 05 Grey.

These metallic eye shadow sticks are amazing, they glide onto your skin effortlessly and are also waterproof so should last easily all day! These come in all different colours but I just wanted to get one that I believe I would wear the most to trial out.

That's all for now my lovelies, please let me know if there are any Make-Up brands that surprised you with the quality, that made you want to buy!

See you soon, 

Teri-Rochelle xo

Kiko - Make up Milano

It makes me really excited to write this Blog surrounding Kiko Make up, as I had never really heard of it before up until recently. Their brand really is amazing!

I bought a few products and the total came to less than £35! in comparison to other leading Make up brands this is a complete saving for me, as with other Make up brands I would be lucky to get 2/3 products for this amount.

Today I visited their new store in Leeds Trinity Walk, if you haven't been yet, then definitely go and experiment when you get the chance to!

So.... here is what I bought..

Kiko - Cheeky Colour, Creamy Blush in the shade 01 (a peachy orange colour) at a fabulous price of £5.50 as it was in the sale.

 

Kiko - Mixing Solution, this is used for when mixing pigments together to ensure the highest blendability and hold, this cost £3.90 which I think is brilliant for a 50ml bottle which will last me a while.

Kiko- Extra Volume Lipgloss, in the shade 14. (pearlescent lilac colour) for £2.90 which again was in the sale, and I like the sound of this gloss and what it does for you. Clinically tested to create Volume, Fullness and Smoothness in time and also Maximum Moisture for the entire day. 

Kiko - Colour Sphere, Duo Eye Shadow in the shade 211. This is a Dark green with glitter duo which you can also mix with water to help blend onto the eye for a better all day hold. This was £4.80.

    

I got Kiko - Infinity Eyeshadows in the shades 253, 407 & 273. These cost £5.90 each. These shadows are incredibly pigmented, easy to blend and are like velvet to touch. Just like the shadow above you can also use these wet or dry.

                      

As I bought 3 of these lovely colours, I got a FREE palette, as part of the [Clics]System reusable palette container. They come in different sizes so dependent on how many you buy the palettes are available with 1, 3, 4, 9 or 24 compartments. (I could of easily gone up to 24 shadows, but restrained myself)

I go to Venice, Italy at the end of October, so really looking forward to visiting the store there. I would highly recommend them for value as well as highly pigmented colours.

Thank you for reading! 

See you soon,

Teri-Rochelle xo

It started with a Holiday... that led to the American Make-up Haul

Every blog has to start somewhere and for me it was a brain wave I had whilst I was shopping in a Make Up shop whilst I was on holiday in Florida.

I have such a passion for Make Up and always have done since a very young age, in fact it has and still is the only thing I have ever continuously found fascinating. For me its the idea that we can change how we look from just simple blushers, eye-shadows, liners and lipsticks.

So below is all the exciting little buys I bought whilst I was away, its took me near enough a month to get round to writing this as I have been busy preparing for college and working my full time job. Life is about to get exciting!

The first place I visited was The Cosmetics Company Outlet , the link you can click on takes you the UK's version but I was overwhelmed by how cheap it was at the American Premium outlets that I couldn't resist buying as much as I did.

To the left is a wonderful candy pink coloured blush from Smashbox


The shade is called Prism.




This is generally is my favourite kind of Blush, as I am very pale normally (without a holiday tan) and I think this colour tends to suit me best.






The below Foundation you can see is in the shade Bone and is one of my favourite foundations to use, its absolutely amazing for coverage, Estée Lauder completely got this right when they released the Double Wear formula, brilliant for if you want that Matte finish. This was 1 of 3 foundations I bought on my trip, I am so glad I found this little beauty, as this was one of the biggest savings I made, I worked it out to be around £12.00! Absolute bargain when you think of how much it is in the UK.

Smashbox returns again in the below items, I found these wonderful lip glosses from the Smashbox Wonder Vision collection and as you can see I did a swatch of each below. They are great to wear alone, or over a Lipstick a similar colour.

The Smashbox Photo Finish Primer below is one of my fave pics from their collection, as its specially formulated for blemishs it works perfectly against my skin, if you're like me and have sensitive skin, this is probably the best one from their collection you could use.

I was so happy to find a lot of MAC products as these are typically my most favourable Make up to use. The following are Eye Shadow palettes, which I just LOVE, and cannot wait to use.

The first palette I found was this Nude,Golds and Black Shimmer coloured palette, named 'greenluxe'

 This palette is perfect for nights out with a good eye primer or can be toned down for a day look.

The next palette palette named melt my heart also by MAC is perfect for the black smokey eye look, another one of my personal favourite looks to have for a night out. The silver is perfect on the lid, with the black smokes and white used for an highlighting effect in the tear ducts. 

 The below palette, I purchased for a good friend of mine called Drew, she always looks amazing with brown smokey eyes and she pulls off the look perfectly, I had to get her this palette. It was made for her. It's called Desert Camouflage, within the palette are 4 eye shadows and a blush.

The next palette shown below, was also for a good friend for a belated but yet super fitting birthday present, I wanted to keep this one myself as the colours are lovely! it's from the RiRi collection and this palette is named 2xDare.

The below palette is perfect for my skin tone as its subtle pinks and then deeper purples, a lovely palette for when you fancy a change to the usual nude and browns. This palette is named pinkluxe and has 5 beautiful shades to design with.

MAC Pro Longwear Paint Pot's are the holy grail of making your eye make up pop. I love these, they're perfect for putting as a base on top of your primer and then applying your shadow. I picked the colours below as they match with a lot of the eye shadow shades I tend to wear, MAC have a range of Paint Pots to choose from so I would highly recommend you to check them out. The colours I chose are bare study and dangerous cuvee.

I am so glad I found MAC Mineralize Eye Shadow because the colour these entail are fabulous. Below is the colour blue flame. They're for a more daring look but as you can see are very pigmented so will look great to stand out.

Below is MAC Pigment, which I chose in the colour cornflower these tend to last a long time and I think you get enough for what you pay for at 4.5g. 

Below is the last item that I purchased from The Cosmetics Company Outlet again it's MAC. These two Pressed Pigments are glittery and fit together perfectly. The colours I chose are Jet Couture and Englightening

On one of my last days I visited Walgreens which was really good for your general day to day Make up buys, as these items were purchased at a pharmacy the prices were even lower than expected.

I found the perfect Brow & Eye Highlighter from a company named Milani that I haven't had much experience with before, but I thought this would be perfect for under your brow bone, I was right! It works brilliantly and I am sure with it been a pencil it will last me a long time. I got mine in shade 2 (which would be perfect for all pale skin types) 

I had heard a lot of good reviews about the below product, and for such a low price I am glad I invested, I tend to use a lip scrub every night to make sure my lips are always fresh for applying lipstick the day after. EOS sticks to its name (Evolution of Smooth) as it does just that! I chose the flavour strawberry sorbet and it tastes yummy! I like the shape of this lipbalm as its different to just the standard tube balms. I would also recommend this product as its 100% natural ingredients.

I have used the below product for a while now, I purchased this when it was first released in the UK, this cheaper version of Benefits Porefessional is an absolute steal by Maybelline and I would highly recommned this primer to smooth out any imperfetions before applying your foundation. Babyskin -Instant Pore Eraser. It gives your skin a satiny feel and texture and I couldn't resist the opportunity to restock as I was running low on my current one.

The below only cost me $1 each! so I had to invest in 3! Wet-N-Wild do these fabulous little glitter shadows, I think they work great over the same eyeshadow colour to give it that extra sparkle.

I got mine in shades Groupie, Brass/Laiton and Bleached/Delave.

The final items I purchased in Walgreens were these Lip Pens by Revlon they are a mimic of Clinques Chubby Sticks but work in a similar way. These are great Lip Stains, I got mine in the colours 240 Striking Spectaculaire and 220 Showy Flamboyante.

The best place I visited for shopping on my trip was The Mall at Millenia where I first stepped into the most amazing shop in the World also known as Sephora I spent a good 2 hours in this shop, as its every make up idols Heaven. I just hope one day that they bring one of their stores to Leeds in the UK. I also visted the MAC shop which was next door to Sephora

From MAC I purchased, another Mineralize Eyeshadow in the shade Young Punk. These colours are so pigmented! I cannot wait to have the full range.

My favourite foundation in by MAC Studio Fix Fluid SPF 15. In the shade NW20. Perfect for me as I have pink undertones in my skin and is perfect for a small amount and full coverage.

Everyone who knows me, knows I LOVE glitter. These next products are perfect for me. Glitter Brilliants in shades Holographic and Pink.

                        

I have heard such good things about MAC Fix + which is used for setting your Make Up once you have applied all your facial beautys. I am so glad I invested in this!

Sephora coming up last! but by no means least! 

The Kat Von D range is amazing, the Make-up she provides is of amazing quality to the point nothing can move from your face whilst wearing, below are the items I bought within Kat Von D.

Lock it Tattoo Foundation in the shade 'Light 46'

                                                                  

Lock'n'Load Make Up Setting Mist.

Everlasting Liquid Lipstick in the shade 'Jeffree'

Waterproof Ink Liner in the shade 'Trooper'

Benefit - Bad Gal Lash

Sephora - Bronzed and blushing face palette.

Urban Decay - Anti-Aging Eyeshadow Primer Potion

Urban Decay - Original Eyeshadow Primer Potion.

Urban Decay - 24/7 Glide On Eye Pencil in shade 'Zero'

Too Faced - The Return of Sexy Palette, includes Perfect Eyes Waterproof Eyeliner and Shadow Insurance, Anti-Crease Eye Shadow Primer.

Too Faced - Sweethearts - Perfect Flush Blush.

and finally...... Anastasia Beverly Hills 

I was so happy to finally get my hands on these perfect eyebrow Make up goods. The only thing I was gutted about not getting was the Contour Kit as they had sold out everywhere!

This concludes my American Make Up Haul! I told you it was going to be a long one! If you have any questions about any of the items I bought please don't hesitate to ask! To all make up fanatics out there, you can probably see I like to spend most of my time researching which products I would love the most.

If you ever get the chance to visit Florida, Orlando, I would highly recommend it! There is definitely more to it than just Make Up :)

Thank you for reading and see you very soon!

Teri-Rochelle xo