October Favourites

This October (as you can tell by the title) I have decided to show you some of my five favourite beauty products!! Here it goes yaaaaay!

My first favourite it the MUA bronzer which is very shimmery. This is perfect for when I go to school every day and all I want is a simple shimmery glow to look healthy! They look very dark in the pan so I went for the lightest shade!

This RealTechniques Expert Face Brush has honestly been my absolute life saver. I have found a completely new way to apply my make up and it gives my foundation and concealer a really nice finish.

I wrote a blog post about this lip gloss very recently so I won't say much except that it is from Forever 21 and is my favourite lip gloss so far of Autumn/Winter.

My MUA Hide and Conceal Concealer is another of my school lifesavers. It's super cheap so I can afford to wear it every day in school. I apply it only under my eyes to make my dark circles look a bit less obvious!

This is one of my monthly favourites because as I have curly hair, it's a nightmare every morning to wake up to! After I wash my hair in the evening, I towel dry it, apply lots of this Aussie Miracle Recharge Frizz Remedy and then plait it and keep it like this overnight! It means my hair is a lot more manageable the next day! This is by far the best smelling leave in conditioner that I have tried!

Love Ellen

xo

Gifts from Greece

Hello everyone!

So my lovely boyfriend has just returned from a family holiday in Greece and I just thought I would share with you what he bought be because I genuinely love every present I was bought and I am so so grateful!

The first presents I opened were five cute wee bracelets all in my favourite colours. They were so adorable and I was so happy with them because I love bracelets and jewellery. With the bracelets, I also opened a keyring with the letter "E" on it and a little ball saying "Rhodes" with the Greek flag.

I then opened a massive bag of jelly sweets that also said "Rhodes" on them, and they are super tasty!

The final thing in that bag that I opened were two bars of Greek Olive Oil Soap and the packaging was just so lovely and one bar of soap had a key ring attached and the other had a magnet attached. The soaps smelt so good too! I can't wait to use them!

My boyfriend then pulled out a Sephora shopping bag and the first thing I saw in it was a handbag (although it wasn't from Sephora). I looked at it in closer detail and found out that it was a Mulberry bag and inside there was a matching Mulberry purse! I got super super excited because while he was away, I had been looking for a new bag but now I don't need to buy one!

The final two things that I opened were from Sephora. One was a beautiful nail polish which was a luminous violet colour in the shade Dirty Groove. The other item from Sephora was a beautiful make up palette. This palette contains four blushes, two bronzers, twelve shades of lipglosses, three cream eyeliners and thirty three different shades of eyeshadows which are both matte and shimmery. What I absolutely love about this palette is that all of the items are so highly pigmented so you can create some very dramatic looks!

Barry M Lip Stick (Genie)

Hello my lovelies!

Whilst I was on holiday in Majorca, I decided in the airport that I would spent some of my holiday on buying something that I've been wanting for a while. This was the Barry M Lip Paint in Genie.

This is not just any lipstick, but as you see it, it is green. Once you put it on your lips it turns into a pink, and the shade of pink is determined by the alkaline on your lips so it suits your own skin tone. When I heard of this when it came out I just thought it was such a good idea and for a reasonable £4.49! I bought mine from Boots in the airport.

I tried this on when I arrived in Majorca and I decided that I had fallen in love. I went with my two sisters to the pool and assumed it would be off by the time I had spent two hours in the pool - but it hadn't! This lipstick acted like a lip stain which I thought was so great so it doesn't easily wash off.

I now wear this every day on my lips and I sometimes put on a pink lipgloss or a nude lipstick over it and when that product begins to wear off, then the lovely pink lipstick appears!

The more times you apply this, the harsher the colour gets. So if you're only wanting a touch of pink on your lips, a minimal amount of this product is needed. But if you're wanting to go all out with a really vibrant pink lip, then keep applying the product until you build it up to the colour you want.

I showed a few of my friends this when I came home and they tried it on and now they've bought one themselves as well! This is now a must have in my travel make up bag - it's such a great idea and is a long lasting lipstick that will last you all day!

Thanks guys so much for reading! Love you all, xo