What's In My Make Up Bag?

Putting on my make up is my favourite part of the day. Some people find it to be a chore or say they don't have time, etc. But I personally don't feel like myself until my make up is on. Even if its my day off and I am the only one in the house, I will still put a little concealer and mascara on just to brighten myself up, it makes me feel more awake and ready for the day. 

Some of the products in my make up bag, I have repurchased over years, some are more recent discoveries but all of which, I absolutely love. These products are kind of my go-to products, whether I'm getting ready for work or going out for a meal, a combination of these will see me through any occasion.

Base:

Laura Mercier - Foundation Primer - Protect - SPF 30

This primer is super light and really helps with the blending and longevity of my foundation. I love wearing this on an evening because it just adds a nice glow to your foundation and acts as an extra layer of moisture on your skin.

Estee Lauder - Double Wear Foundation - SPF 10 - Shade Desert Beige

Hands down my favourite foundation that I ever tried. Its around £30 a bottle but it is the best £30 I spend. One bottle lasts me a good 6 months as a little goes a long way. This foundation does not budge a single smidgen all day. Its a full coverage foundation so gives your skin that airbrushed, flawless look.

Collection - Lasting Perfection Concealer - Shade 2 Cool Medium

I use this for both blemishes and under my eyes. I love this concealer, its super affordable and stays all day. It works really well with my foundation as they are both high coverage so really helps to perfect my skin.

Real Techniques - Buffing Brush

I love using this to buff in my foundation. Because my foundation is full coverage, its important to make sure its blended and distributed evenly around my face. Otherwise I'll end up with splodges and streaks which obviously isn't the desired effect!

These brushes are super easy to clean, they never shed and are so wonderfully soft its like using a fluffy bunny's paw on your face.

For my concealer I use the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge. It's not photographed as it needs a bit of a wash...

Brows:

Urban Decay - Naked2 Basics Palette

I use the shade "Primal" with a hard angled brush to fill in my brows. Only slightly as my brows are pretty dark already. This palette is one of my absolute favourites as 5 out of the 6 shades are completely matte. I used to use this palette for my everyday eye shadow colours too but I have hit pan on my two favourites, "Stark" and "Frisk", I really need to buy a new one. I have always set my brows with any kind of clear mascara. That just works best for me as its super quick and I don't want to add any more colour to them. At the moment I am just using a Collection one. Its super cheap and does the job perfectly.

Tanya Burr Cosmetics - Candy Glam Palette - Beach Bronze and Pretty Peony

I received this palette as Christmas present from my lovely sister and have not stopped using it since. The eye shadows are gorgeous for when I'm not heading to work but my most used products in the palette have to be the bronze and the blush. They are both super pigmented and have a gorgeous finely milled texture to them. The bronzer is almost matte with a very slight gold shimmer through it and the blush is a beautiful pinched pink with also a lovely glow to it. Both products instantly make my skin look glowing and healthy. I love them. I apply these using the Bare Minerals Flawless Face brush for bronzer and the Real Techniques Bold Metals 100 Arched Powder Brush.

Eyes:

Mac Warm Neutrals Palette

Everyday for work I will just use a combination of "Warm Breeze" (Top row, second from left) and "Brulee" (Middle row, first on left). Warm breeze is a very pale pink with a very light shimmer and brulee is a completely matte, beige, off-white kind of colour. I just mix the two together and they just help to even out the colour of my eye lids. To apply these I use more Real Techniques brushes! The base shadow brush and the deluxe crease brush.

Maybelline Eye Studio Lasting Drama Gel Liner

When I'm not at work, 95% of the time I will have winged liner on. For some reason I am much better with pot and brush liners than I am with felt tip liners. I have bought this one from Maybelline several times now and I love it. I feel it lasts really well on me and doesn't smudge throughout the day. I use the little brush that comes with it to apply it.

Maybelline - Volum' Express The Falsies Black Drama Mascara

Stupidly I didn't realise this wasn't in the picture until afterwards but this is my favourite mascara of all time. Its super super black and gives me loads of volume and length. I have repurchased this mascara countless times now. I find it actually gets better as it dries out a little too.

Rimmel - Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal Eye Liner - Shade 005 Nude

When I've slept rubbish and my eyes look like a bag of potatoes, sometimes they need a bit of extra help. Adding a nude eyeliner onto my bottom water line really helps open up my eyes and instantly makes me look more awake even if I don't feel it. This one is soft and creamy and lasts all day.

Lips:

Christian Dior - Lip Glow Colour Reviver Balm

I have had this lip balm for a while now and it is just perfect for everyday. The balm in the bullet is a translucent pink type colour but as you apply the product it reacts to your lips and gives them a beautiful, healthy shine with a tint of colour that is supposedly perfect for you. This balm works a treat for me. Its super moisturising and gives my lips a pinky tint. It smells amazing too! Like Vanilla and Mint! Yum!

Collection - Moisturising Lip Butter - Vintage Rose 3

I recently bought this and have been loving it ever since. I love balms with a tint for everyday, they're just so easy apply and require zero upkeep efforts. This one from Collection isn't as moisturising as the Dior Lip Glow but the price margin is obviously pretty big so I didn't expect it to be. It still keeps my lips moisturised throughout the day when reapplied, I just have to use a little lip balm on a night for an extra moisture boost after a full day of wearing it. I love the nudey pink shade, I hate to say it but its the "your lips but better" type colour so just helps to brighten you up and finish off your make up. 

This clearly isn't a make up product but when travelling I do keep this in my make up bag. Escada Turquoise Summer is one of my all time favourite scents. I discovered this this year when perusing the duty free before jetting off to Corfu in July. Although it isn't summer now, I still wear it because I just love it. For me, its the perfect fruity, sweet scent without the sickly factor. Whenever I give it a spritz, it reminds me of the sunshine and eating delicious, juicy, fresh fruit for breakfast. The perfect thing to set me up for the day. 

This was a long post but I hope you enjoy it.

Whats in your make up bag?

My Bucket List

Credit to Adam for beautiful photo of sunset in Corfu.

I absolutely love reading posts about people's resolutions and life goals and anything along those lines, so I decided to do a post about what I have on my Bucket List!
I recently discovered and became obsessed with a website surprisingly called, Bucket List. Basically the site allows you to create your own profile onto which you can add things to your Bucket List based on what other people have added to theirs or suggestions from the site or you can simply upload your own. You can also have a list for the activities/goals you have already done/achieved on your Bucket List. Its very addictive and you soon end up with a list as long as your arm.
I wanted to narrow mine down and just talk about the top 10 things on my Bucket List.

1. Travel Australia. 
I feel like this is quite a popular one but still I would love to do it. I visited Australia with my family when I was younger and absolutely adored it but didn't appreciate it as much as I should have. I mean at 14 years old, a beach is a beach... Next time I would go for a least a good few months and see as much as I possibly could and maybe do some work out there too.
2. Feed a Giraffe.
Giraffes are just fantastic. Hands down, my favourite animal. It would just be a dream,
3. Go to Bora Bora
If you haven't heard of Bora Bora, first of all where have you been? and second of all, google it. Just one picture of it will explain everything better than I ever could. This is a huuuge dream of mine as I know it is quite a pricey trip but if I save really hard, maybe I'll get there before I'm 90. 
4. Go up in a hot air balloon.
Everything just looks beautiful from the sky. I love flying in aeroplanes just to see all the patchwork fields and matchbox houses. I feel like in hot air balloon the view would just be 100 times better.
5. Scuba dive on a shipwreck.
I find shipwrecks to be so eerie and interesting, I would love to see one up close. 
6. Go Whale Watching.
This one would be definitely one to do if I make it to Australia. It would just be breathtaking to see an animal of such huge size, in the flesh and not on the documentaries for once. 
7. Visit New York at Christmas time.
It just looks so beautiful and I would love to witness Christmas in such an amazing place that is New York. All of the lights and shop windows, it would just be heaven.
8. Stay in a tree house.
I would love to have some time away in one of those amazing modern tree houses. You'd be able to get snug by your little fire and look at the stars and oh it would just be wonderful.
9. Do the 365 Photo Project.
One year I would love to achieve this. At the moment I am saving up for a new camera, once I have that, I will do my best to get this one done. You basically take a photograph every day of the year. It would just be so cool to have documented a full year of my life in photographs. Something I could keep forever.
10. Create a Memory Jar.
This would be a great use for an old Yankee Candle jar or something like that. You write down your good memories or cool things that happen throughout the year, fold them up and pop them in a jar. Then at the end of the year you can open them up and see all the amazing things that happened that year. This would be a fantastic thing to do over lifetime if I would remember. 

Whats on your bucket list? I would love to know.