August 2012 Favourites

Hey Pretties

I wanted to share with you today my favourites for the month of August.  I'm super excited to say goodbye to August as we also get to say goodbye to winter here in the Southern Hemisphere and hello to spring so I could not be happier!

As always I like to keep my favourites to just 5 to stop me from rambling and rambling and if there are any questions on specific products I can do a whole review.

Firstly I could not decide which blush was my favourite this month so I decided to include the two I have been using the most.

The first blush is 'Primrose' by Face Of Australia which is a medium dusty pink colour and the second is Fleur Power by Mac.  A stunning pinky/coral colour.

Next is my Inglot colour palette that I recently added to when I went to Chatswood.  I have particularly been loving the top three shades together as a warmer weather combo.

Next is my Revlon lip butter in Peach Parfait.  When I first bought this lip butter I wasn't particularly fussed with it but this month I have been really enjoying a nude(ish) lip and this is the perfect colour for that.

Lastly is a product by Rimmel London and it is the Exaggerate eye liner in noir.  I have not been well this month as I keep getting the flu on and off so I've been trying to get as much sleep as possible.  Quickly taking this eyeliner across my top and bottom lash line with a neutral colour swept across the lid has been getting me ready for work and out the door really quickly.

So tell me, what are your August favourites?

Sunday night haul - 2 weeks worth!

Hi my pretties

So I LOVE Sunday night haul night, but I missed out last week as I was in Melbourne!  So I have a pretty big haul to show you this week.  Two whole weeks worth of purchases including my Melbourne purchases and a few goodies have turned up I ordered ages ago, and some freebies turned up too.  I also got my first Lust Have It this week so it has been a really big one!

Here we go.....

So I guess I'll start at the top left and work my way across and down;

Inglot False Eyelashes
1000 Hour Natural Lashes in Nobel Black
Furless Cosmetics Bamboo travel brush set
FOA Barbados Nail Enamel in I Like To Mauve It
FOA Barbados Nail Enamel in Calypso - Gold
FOA Barbados Nail Enamel in You Blue Me Away
FOA Barbados Nail Enamel in Another Daiquiri Please
Eyeshadow brush from $2 shop
Furless Cosmetics Brush (I have no idea what sort it was a freebie with my order)
Urban Decay Naked palette
Inglot Palette with Matte 355, Matte 357, Matte 326, Pearl 423, Matte 334 (Inglot Experience blog post)
Urban Decay Primer Potion sample
Covergirl Wetslicks in Peaches N Gleam
BYS lipgloss in Ruby Red (BYS - stepping up in the game? blog post)
Blush Amour lipgloss/liner (freebie)
Loreal Base Magique primer (freebie)
Rimnel eyebrow pencil in 001 Dark Brown
Mirenesse Tight Liner in Caviar Black (freebie)
BYS palette in Summer Sheen
Benefit Bronzer in Hoola
Benefit Blush in Thrrrob
BYS blush in Pretty in Pink

Also this week I received my Lust Have It!

(May Lust Have It blog post)

So that is my beauty purchases for the past fortnight, some freebies, and a couple of things I had ordered a while ago (cough Benefit 5 week shipping time cough).  I also had a few other exciting purchases this weekend.  I have a new make up storage set up!  Some time this week I'll be making a video on that.  Yup that's right, a video.  I don't feel like I can give you guys the full experience in just a blog post so I'll be uploading a video to my blog.


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Hope you guys all had a great weekend!

What have you hauled this week?

My Inglot Experience

Hi Pretties

On my recent trip to Melbourne I decided I wanted to buy a matte Inglot palette.  As matte shadows are hard to come by in a palette I thought the Inglot Freedom System was a great idea to do this.  I bought the 10 pan palette for $15 as I thought the larger ones were a little on the heavy side for travelling and 5 shadows at $10 each to start myself off.  I caved, and one is not matte.  But super pretty!

At Inglot you can get your make up done for $70 and it is redeemable on product, so I pretty much got my make up done for free.  By the way the closest Inglot to me is a 2hr drive away, which is why I was so excited about it.

I made my appointment for 11am so I could look glamorous spending the day shopping and I got their early and the MUA got started straight away.  She was lovely.  Unfortunately I can't remember her name but I'm sure it starts with a C, and she worked at Inglot Chadstone.  I wanted to go with a pretty neutral look as I was just spending the day shopping then going out for a casual dinner, so we kept my make up pretty basic, with a nice bronze/gold eye.  With fake eyelashes.  As I am currently obsessed lol.  The blush was just a nice neutral pink and unfortunately as I took this photo about 8 hours later, I've topped up my lipstick with Mac Lovelorn.  The Inglot colour was very similar though.

I love the lashes!  They were so huge but so pretty :)  I managed to keep the box so I can re-use them as well.

Onto the palette!

As I said I bought the 10 pan palette and filled it with 5 shadows.  So the total cost so far was $65.  I left 5 spaces free as I know when I go to Sydney I'll go to Inglot and get annoyed I have no space, and having just got my Naked Palette I'm currently occupied playing with that.

I think the magnetic design of this is quite ingenious as well.  It's something that keeps it a little different from the other palettes around.

The MUA helped me pick colours to suit my skin tone so I really got a customised palette.

Matte 355 - A highlight

Matte 357 - Crease or lid

Matte 326 - Crease and eyeliner

Pearl 423 - So pretty!

Matte 334 - Lid or crease

Now I know the pearl one is not a matte shade, but it was too pretty for me to pass up!

The whole trip cost me $90 odd dollars as I got the eyelashes on top of the make over, and that also had a $10 application fee.  But I think it was well worth it.  I got the MUA's attention for an hour, my make up done, started off my palette and got some great eyelashes I'll be able to reuse.

Inglot trip was a sucess!

What do you think of the Freedom system?