Wish list: Christmas

Christmas isn't too far away, so I thought it would be a good time to put together a wish list.

1. Apple iPad   2. Real Techniques brushes core collection and starter set  3. DKNY Be Delicious
4.  MAC Lipsticks in (l-r) Creme Cup, Angel and Lady Danger   5. Icing bag set and macaron baking mat

The top of my wish list is an iPad. I'm going to the UK for about 6 months next year and will be doing a lot of traveling. An iPad would be the perfect thing to take with me to use the internet while traveling. Of course I'd really like a MAC lipstick. I can't justify buying myself one at the moment so it would be great to get one as a gift. Shades I'd love are creme cup, lady danger or angel. I'd also like some Real Techniques brushes because I don't have any good brushes yet. I've heard good things about the expert face brush and the starter set would also be a great gift. There are a few perfumes that I'd like too, but I think my favourite of them is the DKNY Be Delicious. I got a sample in a subscription box and I really love the scent. I'd also like some baking equipment. I've been using disposable piping bags a lot and think it's time I get my own reusable one. I'd also like my own macaron mat because i've been using my sisters. It would also be handy to have 2 because I find the macarons bake better with a mat under the baking paper.

November Bellabox

I recieved this months bellabox yesterday. I'm pretty happy with this one as it contains almost all products I will get use out of.

John Plunkett Essentials Multi Vitamin Moisturiser ($9.95 for 20ml - full-size)
This is a face/neck/décolletage cream for normal to dry skin. I found it had kind of a weird smell (almost like playdough?) To me, this is just an ordinary face cream.

Swisse Hand Cream with Vitamin D and Pomegranate ($14.95 for 100ml - 30ml sample)
I really like this hand cream. I think it has a nice scent to it, and moisturises well. I like the sample size as it's great to put in my handbag and I always carry hand cream around. This is one of the better hand creams I've received in a subscription box.

Palmolive Strawberry Smoother Body Butter Body Wash ($6.49 for 400ml - sample size 50ml)
This is an exfoliating body wash. So far I've used it once and I think it's great, I'm glad I got this in my box.  It has a nice light strawberry scent.

Bioderma Crealine H2O Clensing Water ($39.95 for 250ml - sample size 20ml)
I'm a bit skeptical about this product. Are they just sending me water? This does work well at removing makeup, however I'm happy using remover wipes. It was good to try it out though.

4me Nail Polish Remover Pads ($3.49 for 30 wipes - full size)

I've never used a nail polish remover wipe before, and I'm almost out of remover so I'm happy I got these! They were really different from just using a cotton pad with liquid remover. They were a lot wetter so you got remover all over your fingers. They didn't have the strong smell that normal nail polish removers do. They took a lot longer to remove the polish, but I'm not sure if that's because I had a couple of coats of flakie polish over the top... I think they'd do better for something other than glitter polish. They did leave my nails feeling a lot nicer than normal polish remover and I can see myself being converted to these instead of normal polish remover.

Bloom Glitter Liquid Eyeliner ($14.95 for 4g -full sized)
I've recently been contemplating buying some glitter eyeliner so I am supper happy to receive this! I got the shade rising star which is primarily black and gold with bits of silver and bronze glitter. I used this when I went out to dinner last night over black eyeliner with goldy-brown smokey eyes and (I think) it looked really good. It also goes well with the pinky-gold eyeshadow I got in my last bellabox, which is great! (I have a friend who got a different shade, which she says goes well with the shade of
eyeshadow she got last time. Well played Bellabox!) I can't wait to use this more.

Skinmiso Pore Beauty Nose Pack ($21.99 for 10 sheets - 1 sheet sample)
This is supposed to get rid of blackheads and whiteheads on your nose and close pores. I don't have this problem so I'll be passing this on to someone else.

New lip products

(l-r) Australis colour inject mineral lipstick in Honky Tonk, Face of Australia lip quench in Lychee Crush and Essence stay with me lasting lipgloss in Me and My Ice Cream.

As you can see from my recent lipstick wishlist post, I've been wanting to try honky tonk and lychee crush. I managed to get honky tonk during the priceline 20% off sale, and, after a lot of searching, I found Lychee Crush at Big W. Honky Tonk is such a nice coraly pink colour, and it's not too in your face so it's good for every day wear. Unfortunately it doesn't last very long, only a couple of hours, and isn't so great for dry lips. I don't really need to talk about Lychee Crush, seeing as everyone ever already owns it, but I am super happy with it. I haven't actually bought a lipgloss in ages. I had some when I was in high school, and since then I've always thought of them as messy and sticky (of course because I used to buy cheeeeap brands, and back then they were horrible). This one is just the right about of glossy and not too sticky. It also has a really nice colour and is good for putting over pinky lipsticks or just by itself. I especially liked how cheap it was (less than $5!).

Australis honky tonk.

Face of Australia Lychee Crush

Essence me & my ice cream.

(l-r) honky tonk, lychee crush and me & my ice cream.

My life in pictures #1

Pictures from instagram of the last few weeks.

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1. Wearing my favourite necklace at the moment - it has teeth!
2.I've been at uni for almost 3 years and this is the first time I've managed to get a pictures of the cute rabbits that seem to be all over the place. They didn't run away from me this time!
3. Pulled up some carrots from the garden (they tasted better than store bought ones, btw).
4. Feeding time at the boys place. The cats go crazy - almost as crazy as my dogs at dinner time.
5. A picture from the photo a day challenge I'm doing on instagram, (day 6, favourite thing(s)).
6. Getting ready to work a late night shift (6-10) at my new job. I love being able to dress up pretty and not get covered in coffee grinds and chocolate powder.
7. Managed to find lip butters at Target for $13! Only got 1 though (strawberry shortcake. So bummed I didn't get more though because I realy like it). Also found season 8 of NCIS because I've almost finished season 7.
8. New tattoo almost healed. I'm so happy with it, it was worth taking 3 months to finish and all the pain.

Feel free to follow me on instagram. My username is Klerr.

Wish list: Blush

1. Benefit Hervana face powder   2. Benefit ChaCha tint lip & cheek stain
   3. Australis High Lights mineral face highligher in Pearl
4. Essence Breaking Dawn pt 2 Blush in Renesmee Red   5. Bourjois little round pot blush in Rose D'or.

So I might want to buy all of Benefit's box o' powders, but that would be silly, right? Hervana looks like the prettiest to me, and when I do a Benefit order in the near future this will be the first thing in my cart. I also love the colour of ChaCha Tint. I'm totally digging coral right now. But I'm not sure how great I'd go at using a cheek stain so I'll just stick to powders for now. I blogged recently about the Australis High Lights mineral face highlighter I won in gold recently, and this is their other shade. Pearl is a lighter, pink colour which I think would suit me a lot better (or at least I would feel more comfortable using). The essence blush is from their Breaking Dawn pt 2 collection and is called Renesmee Red. I think the only reason I want this (and pretty much the entire collection) is because it's Twilight and I used to be a massive fan of Twilight (ok, kinda still am a little...). Regardless, this blush looks a little dark and scary but I will probably end up buying it (and the entire collection) anyway. I'll make sure I give a review when I do! I've heard so many good things about Bourjois blushes but I am yet to buy one for myself and try it out. There are so many shades it's hard to pick a favourite but rose d'or looks like a really nice light pink.

I would also like to add that Rimmel's wake me up instant radiance shimmer touch in peach glow is another illuminator I'd like to try. It's such a pretty colour, but it's a little too close to my Nude by Nature illuminator that it's not worth the purchase. Also, I can't seem to find a picture of that shade on the internet! What's with that? I think it's the nicest of the 4 available shades.

ELF and NYX.

3 weeks ago I did an order from beautyjoint.com. I'd heard some good things about the ELF studio blushes, and I'd also been looking at NYX ultra pearl mania loose eyeshadows. There are a few sites selling both of these, but beautyjoint seemed to have the cheapest products and shipping, and I don't mind waiting for things.
Picking the blushes were easy. I wanted a coraly/peachy colour and peachy keen was a cool name. Yes, I chose things based on names rather than what they actually look like! I also chose tickled pink because I heard it was a lovely pink colour with minimal glitter. Choosing the pigments was a little tougher. I wanted some pinks because I didnt have any pink shadows, and pink is my favourite colour. I didn't want to just get 2, but trying to pick a 3rd was hard. There were so many lovely colours, but in the end I ended up just getting Penny, a colour I think goes with the pinks nicely. I also ordered a pack of 2 eyeshadow brushes from La Colours - a shader and a blender.
They came very well packaged in bubble wrap, the blushes wrapped together, and the eyeshadows and brushes wrapped together.

Tickled Pink (l) and Peachy Keen (r)

Peachy keen (l) and tickled pink (r)

You can see how sheer they are in the swatch. I tried to get more colour but I just couldn't. They're very powdery, almost chalky, too. Ok for $4 each, but I think it would be worth spending more to get better quality. In saying that, they're not this sheer when applied on the cheeks and you can build up a decent colour.

NYX ultra pearl mania baby pink (l), very pink pearl (m) and penny (r).

I put my Australis domed eyeshadow brush (from the 5 piece travel set) in for size comparison. The openings for this are pretty hard to get into, but I have some small bead containers coming that I will depot them into. These are also somewhat chalky in texture, and felt kinda weird when I applied them. They were only $3 each though, and the colour is nice, so I might get over that. They're pretty sheer too, but not so much when applied over a primer.

baby pink (l), very pink pearl and penny (r).

A photo showing the blender (l) and shader (r) brushes. You can tell from this photo how poor quality they are. They'll do the job though until I get around to buying some better quality brushes, and together they were only $2.25.

I would do an order from beautyjoint again, but I have read some horrible stories about them on the internet about appalling customer service and broken nail polishes.

Australis High Lights

I haven't really ever used highlighters. I'm still not really sure how they're supposed to work or where to put them. I only own 2, this one and Nude by Natures' flawless liquid lustre, and I haven't used either much.

This is one of Australis' 2 new High Lights Mineral Face highlighters. I won this from a Priceline competition on twitter. I got in the colour gold. I probably would have preferred their other shade, pearl, but I guess the world is set on me trying new things. It was free so I am not complaining. I like that it's a pump pack which makes it a lot easier to get only a little out (unlike my other which is in a tube and squirts wayyyyy too much out).

I've been using this on my cheeks over coral coloured blush. The colour is quite nice, and would be great for summer. It has a fine shimmer to it, and it is fairly long lasting considering I rarely use a primer. I'm sure I'll be able to get some good use out of it, but I'm more of a pink cheeks kinda gal. I will probably end up buying this in pearl though.

Heavily swatched (l) and blended (r).