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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the next 10 years, my hair went through many transformations which caused a lot of damage. As lots of young girls do, I experimented with colours and styles and lengths. I have been back and forth from peroxide blonde to blacker than black and a fair few shades in between. My natural hair is medium-thick, frizzy and a mixture of wavy and curly. The fact that its not curly or straight has meant that I have always (and most likely always will) use a lot of heat to style it and get it looking presentable. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At about the age of 19 I made the decision that I wanted to grow my natural hair firstly long, and secondly healthy. I'd been wearing clip in hair extensions since the age of 16 and was tired of them. I wanted my natural hair to be as perfect as possible. 6 years later, I'm <i>almost </i>there. It's taken a long time because I am unlucky to have very slow growing hair (although this does have the benefit of not having to pluck my brows or shave my legs as often as most girls!) and through trial-and-errors in my haircare routine. As I've mentioned, my hair type makes it difficult to ditch the heat styling appliances, so I never did. I'm sure my hair 'recovery' would have been fair speedier had I retired my straighteners, but that was never going to be an option for me unless I wanted to spend a year of my life looking like something between Tracy Beaker and Janice from Friends. I also continued to dye my hair throughout this period, everything from professional bleaching to at-home balayage attempts and regular semi-permanent dying. Even the professional bleaching did a lot of damage to my hair, the most recent of these being only about 18 months ago. Before we get on to the things I did to help my hair, I thought I'd post some photos to see how short and how much thinner my hair got during my teenage years. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The above photos were both taken in 2010, the blonde one whilst I was still at school and the brunette one after starting my first year of university. I thought I'd make a list of all of the things I did to help my hair as much as possible. They're not things I did religiously, or for the whole 7 years since these photos were taken, but they are things that I think helped to get my hair healthier, and are things that I continue to do now. </span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Don't over wash your hair.</b> For some people this means being able to easily go three or four days, for others it means every other day. Using dry shampoo has been a life saver for me here. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Cut down on heat wherever possible. </b>This is one that I would love to make more effort with, but I definitely struggle here. I try to limit the heat styling to every time I wash my hair (e.g. if I curl it after washing it, I won't restyle with heat until after I've washed it again). </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Moisturise! </b>Just as your skin, your hair needs hydration. I use oils, serums, creams and mountains of conditioner on my hair. Looking back I think my hair started to make the most progress after I started making a conscious effort to keep it hydrated. This leads me nicely to my next point...</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Water. </b>Drink water! Keeping yourself hydrated is vital for a healthy <i>everything</i> including hair and skin.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Brushing gently. </b>I use my trusty tangle teezer, always. I find it to be so much more gentle on my hair than other brushes, and I'm always careful to brush the knots out the bottom and move up the shaft to avoid yanking or snapping any knots. It's especially careful to be gentle when your hair is went, as it breaks easier when wet. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Research. </b>I tried to do my homework as much as possible, reading other peoples hair stories or watching stories and haircare videos on YouTube. This is something I still love to do as I am by no means an expert. </span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Sleeping with protected hair. </b>I was finding my hair would be <i>so </i>knotty and tangled in the morning and it was causing damage to get the knots out. I started putting oil in the ends of my hair and wrapping it into a protective style to sleep, either plaiting or twisting and securing with a small hair tie at the ends. I find twisting rather than plaiting helps preserve the curls too! </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are the key points I can think of. The biggest recommendation I always see/hear is to get your hair trimmed regularly. Because my hair grows so slowly this is something I've always shied away from as it takes <i>months</i> to recover the length of just a teeny trim for me. I am still yet to reach the ideal length for my hair, but I am so much happier with it's overall health and thickness. Time to finish with some snaps of where my hair is at now, longer and far healthier! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photo above shows my lashes with and without Rapid Lash. I started using Rapid Lash around Feb/March 2016 and used it fairly consistently until around October last year. I loved the difference that it made to my lashes, but I got bored of daily use of the product for months on end and eventually stopped using it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The photo on the right was taken last week, having not used the lash serum for around four months, and now is the time that I am really starting to feel the difference. My lashes, are understandably, back to their natural state. Which in all honesty isn't that great. They're naturally curled, but thin and sparse. As you can see the very tips barely touch the crease of my eyelid, where as with Rapid Lash they were very comfortably extended past the crease. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Using the product is pretty simple, I applied every evening after my skin care routine to the root of my lashes on my top lid. I'd then gently massage the product in to the roots to help get the product more evenly distributed. Product can be used on top and bottom lashes, as well as eyebrows (although they do make a separate product for eyebrows if that's what you're after). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Boots and Superdrug stock Rapid Lash, but I recommend shopping around online as it can be considerably cheaper (previously around £18 on amazon as apposed to £40 in Boots). <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Eye-Make-up-Tools/RapidLash-Eye-Lash-Enhancing-Serum/B0097G3XDY/ref=sr_1_1_s_it?s=beauty&ie=UTF8&qid=1486923228&sr=1-1&keywords=rapid+lash" target="_blank">Amazon are currently stocking it for £29.99. </a> Let me know if you've got any good lash-serum recommendations, can't wait to get mine back to all fluttery and long! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My first memory of yearning for longer hair dates back to the mid-1990s. As a young girl, I wanted nothing more in life than to have hair to rival the likes of Ariel, Jasmine and Pocahontas. I used to close my eyes at night and hope that when I opened them again in the morning I would have flowing, waist-length hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This set from Koko Couture is my first ever set of synthetic hair extensions. They are heat resistant and incredibly soft, so I can really see the benefit of synthetic hair. Synthetic tends to be shinier than real hair, and low quality synthetic can look down-right plastic. This hair on the other hand, blends perfectly with my natural hair (especially thanks to the perfect colour-match!). The set I have is the Lena, a 3 weft, 22-inch curly set <a href="https://www.kokocouture.co.uk/shop/hair/hair-extensions/selena-1-piece-weft-curly-hair-extensions-in-7/" target="_blank">available from KoKo Couture</a> for £19.99*. The third photo above is my natural hair, with no extensions in for comparison. The extensions add not just length, but also volume and an overall healthier look. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the draw-backs of clip-in extensions can be visible clips, which none of us want! My favourite hair-guru, Silvia, has got a great video on hiding the clips in your natural hair. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjc4X0FKnNc" target="_blank">Watch it here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Years ago, I used to have this cheap little liquid lipstick from ELF Cosmetics. It was a beautiful peachy shade, matte finish, long lasting. It was fabulous. Unfortunately the formula changed, and it was never the same again. Heartbroken, I've been on the lookout for a replacement for ages, and I've finally found one! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The formulation is obviously drying on the lips, as mattes and liquids both usually are. However, the longevity I've been getting with this product makes up for the drying nature. I always give my lips a little prep with something moisturising (8hour cream, lanolips, any rich lip balm really) before applying a matte or longer lasting lipstick, and that has certainly helped the texture of my lips when applying this product. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The doe foot applicator makes precision application really easy, although I've been finding that the applicator usually has too much product on it to start with, so I like to remove some of the product before applying to avoid making too much mess! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Best of all with this product, no lip liner necessary! I love having 'finished' looking lips with out having to faff around with 10 different products. Don't get me wrong, I love a good lip liner, but this is perfect for something quick and long lasting. Lips that you don't need to worry about throughout your business meeting, or dinner date. Perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a whole bunch of beautiful colours in the line, but of course I went for the neutral shade! If you're a little braver than me make sure you check out the rest of their collection - <em>gorgeous.</em></span></div>
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I thought today I'd share with you a typical everyday look for me, with some of my favourite products. What I reach for does vary on a daily basis, but the end result is always fairly similar (neutral tones on the eyes, contour, 'naked' lip colour).</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I recently made the leap from always using liquid foundations, to using powder or mineral based foundations. I love the bareMinerals matte foundation for a light and flawless base. For a little more help with coverage I also love the </span><a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Max-Factor-Facefinity-Compact_5878/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;" target="_blank">Max Factor Facefinity Compact Foundation</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For many years I have been wildly in love with the Urban Decay Naked palettes, and the original is definitely my <b>One. </b>All of the palettes have soft, neutral tones that are easy to wear everyday and easy to build into something more dramatic when wanted. They're the perfect do-it-all palettes and I'm dying to get my hands on the Naked Smokey. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Despite my most recent blog post (red lips - <a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/rimmel-only-1-best-of-best.html" target="_blank">read it here</a>) I've always been more comfortable with 'naked' lip colours, where my lips are just sort of perfected but not really changed. NARS Dolce Vita lipstick is nailing this look for me, it's a soft pink just a few shades brighter than my natural lip colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel like I've only recently become satisfied with my eyebrows. I've almost fully recovered from years of over-plucking, their shape is really coming back nicely, and I've found two perfect products for getting them 'ready'. The most important of these would definitely be the Anastasia Brow Wiz. It's the perfect ashy colour, has the perfect fine nib, has a perfectly handy spooley on one end. It just does it all, effortlessly. I find it's perfect for getting the shape and filling in any sparse areas, while a nice dark eyebrow gel (recently been obsessed with the L'Oreal one) completes the look and makes the hairs more defined for a more natural effect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">My eyelashes are not quite what I'd love them to be, so I always require a little extra help from something magical like Charlotte Tilburys Full Fat Lashes. Luckily they're naturally quite curly, so I rarely curl them but always put heaps of mascara on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I absolutely love a new drug store make up treat. There's something so satisfying about getting stuck in at the stand, picking up the bullets or palettes that catch your eye, swatching on the back of your hand and adding your favourites to the basket. So when I saw that Rimmel (one of my <i>absolute</i> drug store favourites) had launched a new line of lipsticks, I was in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The packaging of this lipstick is almost there but not quite. I like the black cover and base, and I love having the shade of the lipstick visible, but the shape of the lid is a little odd and less comfortable to hold, and the plastic feels a touch cheap. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The formulation is opaque yet smooth, it glides on the lips with an almost glossy texture but soon dries to a satin, comfortable finish. It's <i>quite </i>long lasting, not as long standing as some liquid or matte lipsticks, but the comfort factor is worth the extra need to reapply. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks ago I did something radical. I went off piste, and bought a new concealer. For what feels like forever, I've used the oh-so-predictable Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer every single day, and it has never let me down. So when I had the urge to purchase a new concealer that I'd never tried before, it felt more than a little alien. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been testing this out and used it almost every day for the last two weeks, and at first wasn't sure how I felt about it. I've used it with both powder and liquid foundation, and applied it using fingers and a beauty blender. I've had the best results when teamed with liquid foundation (L'Oreal Infallible Matte) and applied with a beauty blender. This, however I am a little disappointed with as I've recently been moving to using powder foundations on an everyday basis and saving liquids for days requiring more coverage. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concealer is quite light in texture, certainly lighter than our beloved Collection one, but still offers good coverage for under eyes and blemishes. One of the main things that I love about this concealer is the amount of product that you get. 9ml for £17.50. When compared to NARS Creamy Concealer at £22 for 6ml, this seems like a total bargain! Of course, nothing beats the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer on affordability, but for a long lasting, good coverage concealer from MAC I think this is pretty good going.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a little Christmas delight from my boyfriend's wonderful mum. She always hits the nail on the head and generously gets me something perfect. This year, it was a limited edition MAC Look in a Box, which contains 2 cheek colours, 6 eye shadows, 2 lipsticks and one double ended brush (one end eye shadow, one end lip). The lip colours have a handy perspex lid over them, which stops any pesky fall out from the powders getting stuck in their creamy formula. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This box is called Sophisticate, and has classic neutrals for eyes (my favourite!), peach colours for the cheeks and one nude and one red for the lips. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LIPS<br />The red lip is True Red which is an amplified colour, and is more of a coral red than a blood red, which I've never tried before but surprisingly really suits my colouring. The nude lip is Love Happens, which is a pale peachy nude and goes perfectly for an effortless day time look, or a smokier eye in the evening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">EYES<br />The six shades are: Dance in the Dark (matte, dark brown), Sun Tweaked (pale copper, shimmery), Wedge (matte, mid brown), With Flair (warm, shimmery peach), Beautifully Charred (shimmer, dark brown), Hey (pale champagne, shimmery). They're buttery soft and easy to apply, the same usual quality from MAC eyeshadows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CHEEKS<br />Two peach offerings here, Linda is the darker of the two and will be the perfect highlighter for those with more olive skin tones, or for a summer glow. Cream Soda is the paler here, and it is a classic peach highlighter colour with plenty of shimmer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The set is so versatile and can be used for simple everyday looks, but can also be used to create more dramatic looks for evenings out. The ideal set to take when travelling as there is so much to chose from in one small package. Dreamy! Have you tried any total face sets before? This is my first, and I love it! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the time that I've been gone, I've started a new job (career, if we're being optimistic), and not only moved in with my boyfriend for the first time, but we've actually <i>somehow</i> managed to by ourselves a house. In London. I know, shocking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With a few impossible items crossed of my life goals, I am ready to get back to blogging. Watch this space for more posts, mostly beauty but perhaps some lifestyle and food thrown in for good measure. To keep up with my blog and me, follow me <a href="http://twitter.com/kittyheartsblog" target="_blank">@kittyheartsblog</a> (twitter) and <a href="http://instagram.com/kittwills" target="_blank">@kittwills</a> (instagram).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first is the <a href="http://www.charlottetilbury.com/uk/colour-chameleon-dark-pearl.html" target="_blank">Charlotte Tilbury Colour Chameleon </a>in <i>Dark Pearl </i>£19. This eyeshadow stick comes in a whole range of flattering shades, which CT have divided up and assigned to different eye colours - & whilst I'm sure you can mix and match a bit to suit your tastes, I really enjoy the extra thought that's gone into the products and the end user. This pencil glides on like an absolute dream, is blendable for a few moments before setting and becoming unsmudgable for a good few hours. I've used this pencil on the outer corner and crease for definition. I find when applied with no lid primer underneath this pencil doesn't last the full work day, and has started to crease by the time I'm leaving the office, but it's still there and the look is still pretty! The packaging of this pencil is a beautiful maroon and gold number, with the usual Charlotte Tilbury branding. Lovely. My one bug bear is that this is a pencil which requires sharpening. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first feature, goes to the beautiful Annabel. A fellow pageanter and blogger, her instagram is full of devine shots of make up, flowers and beautiful streets in West London. I mean, can you get more lush? Her feed is clean, artistic and effortlessly pretty. If you want to have a read of Annabels blog (I highly recommend...) <a href="http://mascara-and-maltesers.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">click here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The inventor of #doorappreciation and a hoarder of Chanel, I find inspiration in Arabella's instagram. Fabulous fashion, London living and the occasional pug puppy can be found on her feed. Also, look how monochrome, her fashion sense is just perfect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This feed belongs to my wonderful mum, who's every bit as Instagram obsessed as me. All the photo's are taken on her iPhone and they're all beautiful. She's giving me a run for my money in followers, so I think the proof is in the pudding!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are just a selection of some of my favourite instagram feeds, but there are dozens that I love, and if you like this post, I'll make this into a regular feature for my favourite instagrammers. If you're not already following me on instagram, make sure you go follow me right now! <a href="http://kittwills/" target="_blank">@kittwills</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've never really enjoyed purchasing make up from a counter, with a make up artist on hand to assist. I like to get stuck in with my browsing, pick products up and feel the packaging, is it easy to open, how weighty is it, does it have a satisfying 'click' shut. All the minor details. I can't help but be put off by the make up counter assistants hovering around. A large number of them are fantastic, helpful, cheery and really know their products and want them to work the best for you. But there are a significant number who are certainly not helpful, and can make the purchasing of make up stressful and unpleasant for many of us. I have two products here, and two very different 'counter' experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to be well prepared and researched before purchasing any make up product, but especially one that's going to cost £20+. So before purchasing either of these products, I did my research and decided I'd like to try them, and tried to figure out roughly what colour I'd need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a total new experience for me, as I haven't really ventured into the mineral/powder foundation realm before, but I've heard endless great things about bareMinerals and decided it was time to bite the bullet. So after extensive online research into which one would best suit my skin, I ventured down to my local bareMinerals counter and set about the task of purchasing it. This was more trying that I had anticipated. The girl at the counter was busy helping another customer when I arrived, so I relished the opportunity to have a look at what else was available. When she was free, I asked for her help in trying out the Matte foundation and selecting a colour, but was swiftly informed it was time for her break, so she wouldn't be able to assist, and under no circumstances did she have time for a make over. A little taken aback, I assured her I wouldn't be long and wasn't interested in a make over, just buying a new foundation. She did try a few shades on me, matching to my jaw-line/chin, over the top of the foundation I was already wearing. Now, in steps my own stupidity. As this was the moment I should have asked if I could try them on my neck instead, and if I could actually look in a mirror to see the results, but it was a Sunday afternoon, and I'd made the effort to venture all the way to the shops specifically to buy this product, so silly me, I took the recommendation of the counter assistant and purchased the shade she chose. <i>Obviously</i> as soon as I got home and tried the product out for myself, I realised it was <b>far</b> too dark for my skin tone. Kicking myself, I decided to just mix the foundation with lighter concealers/foundations/highlighters to avoid taking it back for a refund. I have now decided to re-home it with one of my friends who's got the right skin tone for it. As a pale girl, I should have known to be careful with selecting anything but the lightest shade, and silly me for trusting the 'expert' at the counter. Not an ideal experience, and it's just one of many in my collection of unpleasant experiences.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's not all doom and gloom here, I have got a positive experience to share. A few weeks after my frustrating experience at bareMinerals, I decided I wanted to try the MAC Prep + Prime BB Cream, so I popped over to my local MAC store. I was greeted immediately by a friendly girl who asked if she could be of assistance, so I told her what I was looking for, and let her know that I was concerned about getting the right colour. She had a long hard look at my skin, and selected a few different shades, which she then applied to the back of my hand, and asked for my opinion. I asked if she would mind if I looked in natural lighting, to which she said 'good idea'. So I nipped onto the street and had a look, knowing my hand is a touch darker than my face/neck/chest I went for the lightest shade, which was a teeny bit lighter than my hand. She was really helpful and talked me through the product, letting me know what it's good for, and what it's not, making sure it was really going to do what I expected of it. The complete opposite to many other experiences I've had, and <i>oh</i> how I wish they were all that easy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think the key with make up counters is to be both well researched and confident. But even with these things, if you've got a bad counter assistant, it isn't going to be easy, and you run the risk of walking away with the wrong product. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would love to hear your experiences, and especially your tips for make up counters! Thanks for reading xx</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's nothing like adding an investment piece to your makeup collection. The rush of adrenalin from buying something </span><i style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">heavenly</i><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> that you know is worth the hard earned cash just for how pretty it is, let alone how well it will serve its purposes. For me, tools are one of the top things that are worth investing in. Good quality tools that are well looked after should last you years without needing replacements. And yet, it has taken me this long to get my hands on MAC brushes! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />I was a rather lucky lady this Christmas... my boyfriends lovely parents bought me the MAC Keepsakes Studio Brush Kit that comes with five beautiful white/silver brushes. Two face and three eye brushes, for blending to perfection. I've had real techniques brushes for a long while now and am a big fan (cannot wait to get my hands on their Bold Metals collection!), and even have a few Sephora brushes in my stash from a trip to NYC many moons ago... but this is my first delve into the Holy Grail that is MAC brushes. I've been wanting to start a collection of them for years, but they <i>are </i>quite an investment and I just never knew where to start, so this little kit is just perfect. These are limited edition brushes and are slightly shorter than their original twins, so below I've listed the equivalents from the permanent collection...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this for blush, it's dainty enough to get controlled colour application yet soft and full enough to give even coverage and blend well. Can also be used as a powder brush but I like to set my whole face with loose powder so a larger brush does a quicker job.<a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/146/304/Products/Brushes/Face/129-PowderBlush-Brush/index.tmpl" target="_blank"> Available here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The MAC website states this brush can be used to 'apply, distribute and blend' your foundation, but personally I like to use this to apply and distribute, and blend with the beauty blender for a really flawless finish. <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/146/285/Products/Brushes/Face/190-Foundation-Brush/index.tmpl" target="_blank">Available here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the name suggests, this brush is perfect for blending eye shadows across the lid. It's quite a medium sized blending brush and is perfect for everyday use, it's my go-to crease blender at the moment. <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/145/265/Products/Brushes/Eye/224-Tapered-Blending-Brush/index.tmpl" target="_blank">Available here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The perfect companion for the Tapered Blending Brush, this brush is for more dense application of shadows to the lid area, and is great for applying shadow all over the lid or in more precise areas. <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/145/249/Products/Brushes/Eye/213-Fluff-Brush/index.tmpl" target="_blank">Available here.</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another one with a name that fits, this is a great little brush for applying eye liner. Personally I like to use this with a gel liner, but it can also be used with powder eyeshadows to create a soft liner look (for more intensity, use the eyeshadow damp). <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/145/812/Products/Brushes/Eye/209-Eye-Liner-Brush/index.tmpl" target="_blank">Available here.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Great make up shouldn't break the bank, and here's a perfect example of a brand that does all it can to fulfil that remit. I've been a big fan of sleek for a long time, and the obsession started with their perfect contouring palette, which has a gorgeous highlight and </span><a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/sleek-contour-palette.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">a dupe of Benefit Hoola</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> for the contour...all for the grand total of £6.99. (</span><a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/contouring-made-easy.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">More on this here</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">).</span><br /><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Today however, I'm featuring one of the much loved eye palettes, the i-Divine palette in Au Naturel, which has 12 subtle shades ranging from Ivory to Black in mattes and shimmers. Gorgeous. I've always been a fan of more neutral colours for all make up, especially eyes, so I of course love the colour selection available in this palette. The 12 shades give you the opportunity to create any type of neutral eye look you fancy, whether thats a really natural look with the paler colours all over the lid and some soft taupe through the crease, or a dramatic smokey eye using the matte black, shimmery cranberry and gold tones. It's essentially the ideal starter palette for someone wanting to have one palette to cover all the neutral options. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a big lover of the Urban Decay Naked palettes, I feel this blogpost cannot exist without some comparison. 12 shades, mattes and shimmers, neutral colours. The concept is the same, and as I've already expressed my approval of Sleek's colour selection, the only thing left to discuss is quality. I'm talking pigmentation and staying power. Of course, a palette that costs £7.99 is going to have a massive battle to beat the likes of eyeshadow heavyweights Urban Decay, but this palette sure offers up a good fight. The consistency and pigmentation of this palette are like no other at this price point, they're soft powders that allow even application and strong pigmentation. The softness means they blend well, so they're super easy to work with which is great for beginners or busy ladies. The staying power isn't as great as some of my more high end eyeshadows (Charlotte Tilbury, Nars) but for this price p</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">oint it's pretty darn good, and using a creme base or eyelid primer will help improve longevity. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultimately, this is a really great palette and as an added bonus it's the perfect pick for somebody working on a tighter budget. The Sleek i-Divine Palette <a href="http://www.sleekmakeup.com/makeup/eyes/eyeshadow/au-naturel-i-divine-au-naturel-i-divine" target="_blank">retails for £7.99</a> and is available online and at Boots & Superdrug. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I actually won this palette from a fellow blogger's... The very lovely Laura from </span><a href="http://www.musthavegirl.co.uk/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">www.musthavegirl.co.uk</a><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> sent this to me after I won her 200 follower giveaway - thank you so much Laura! x</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I tried all three of these foundations on their own and somehow none of them offered quite what I was looking for. Variations of too shiny, too thin, too drying. However, don't despair - this blogpost isn't all doom and gloom! I tried mixing the foundations, sometimes on their own and sometimes with others (most often the Rimmel Stay Matte Mousse Foundation - my full coverage partner in crime!) and the effects were mostly complimentary on my skin. </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mixing a foundation that's too dewy with one that's too drying, or one that's too heavy with one that's too sheer can often result in the most perfect balance and an almost taylor made foundation that's perfect for you. It can even work really well if you struggle to find the right colour for your skin, you can either mix two different colours of the same foundation, or two different foundations in two different colours (the latter being the method I most frequently use). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been mixing foundations for years, and most of the time it works really well, especially if you follow the golden rule for pairing base products. Y</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">ou just need to make sure that your primary ingredients match on your two (or more) foundations. (As far as I'm aware the two main primary ingredients are water or silicone.) Check the ingredients list, and if the first few words are Aqua/Water on your ingredients list for both, you can mix OR if they're some variation of a silicone (Easy to spot as the word will end in '-cone' as in silicone, dimethicone, etc... although some more complicated compounds end on '-xone', if unsure Google it!) then you can mix. If the primary ingredients match, your foundations will mix perfectly together, however if they don't match it could mean the foundations will separate on your skin after a few hours wear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My old faithfuls for my skin have been the <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Revlon-PhotoReady-Perfecting-Primer_1251374/" target="_blank">Revlon Photoready Primer</a>, the <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-London-Stay-Matte-Foundation_1378522/" target="_blank">Rimmel Stay Matte Foundation</a>, <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Maybelline-Fit-Me-Concealer_1279343/" target="_blank">Maybelline Fit Me Concealer</a> and the wonderful <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-London-Match-Perfection-Silky-Loose-Powder_1296961/" target="_blank">Rimmel Match Perfection Loose Powder</a>. This combination leaves me with the perfect matte-velvet complexion that lasts all day. I've recently been reaching for the <a href="http://eyeslipsface.co.uk/en/restofworld/blush/blush/invt/83130" target="_blank">ELF Studio Blush in Twinkle Pink</a>, as this blush has a few flecks of gold running through it and it's great for really brightening your skin for a youthful appearance. For my contouring, I use one of my all time Holy Grail items, the <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Sleek-MakeUp-Face-Contour-Kit_1395740/" target="_blank">Sleek Contour Kit</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bold, beautiful eyes are a must-have for any make up look I do, and my love of bold eyes probably goes a long way to explaining my love of subtle, neutral lips. Recently, I have been favouring the beautiful <a href="http://www.feelunique.com/p/Urban-Decay-Naked-Palette" target="_blank">Urban Decay Naked Palette</a>. I have been through phases of loving all three but currently my make up is all about the original. Next on my eyes is the <a href="http://uk.spacenk.com/faux-cils-mascara/MUK200005157.html" target="_blank">Chantecaille Faux Cils</a> mascara, which gives beautiful fluttery eyelashes with zero clumps. I love the soft bristles of the wand on this mascara. I've also been wearing my trusty <a href="http://www.superdrug.com/Make-Up-Offers/L%27Oreal-Superliner-Black-Lacquer/p/382079#.VDwQl7xdXIo" target="_blank">L'Oreal Super Liner</a>, which somehow got left out of the photos above! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been reaching for the oh-so-easy to use <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Smashbox-Brow-Tech-To-Go_1272241/" target="_blank">Smashbox Brow Tech To Go</a> pencil for my eyebrows recently, as this is such a fool proof quick fix, with the waxy pencil on one end and the clear setting gel in the other, it's the perfect all in one brow product. You can find my full review of the product <a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/smashbox-brow-tech-to-go.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I've been favouring the Freida lipstick from the original <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/LOreal-Paris-Color-Riche-Exclusive-Nudes_1369339/" target="_blank">L'Oreal Collection Privee</a>. This is a beautiful purple-toned nude lipstick with a bit of shimmer. I wear it lightly swiped across the lips straight from the bullet, and well blended in. You can find a more in-depth review of this, and two other shades from the collection <a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/loreal-collection-privee-lipsticks.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This polish is has a lot of very fine specks of silver glitter suspended in a sheer pink polish, it gives more of a shimmer effect than a glitter one and gives a subtle, beautiful finish. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05643541881420781175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365496430190120369.post-1611116551826318452014-10-08T11:23:00.000+01:002014-10-08T17:19:20.523+01:00Face of The Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but I love a good <i>Face of The Day</i> post. There's something quite satisfying about having a nosey at what others wear on their face on a daily basis. Here's some of yesterdays picks, and these are all favourites of mine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had this for a few months now, and I can't stop reaching for it. We all know how loved the NARS blushes and bronzers are, and whilst this is a shade I hear a little less about than the others (*Ahem* <i>Orgasm</i>) the quality of the product remains the same. This shade is a muted, matte pink-brown and is just heavenly. </span></div>
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<a href="http://uk.spacenk.com/blush/MUK101030288.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£28 available at Space NK</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a sucker for nude, or your-lips-but-better lip products, and this one is a great version, leaning towards the peach-nude tones. This is my only NARS lip pencil and I love the satin range, they're smooth and non-drying on the lips, very easily blended and when layered have great staying power.</span></div>
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<a href="http://uk.spacenk.com/satin-lip-pencil/MUS300023951.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£18 available at Space NK</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with pretty much all YSL products, I adore the packaging on this bad boy. Gold and shiny and beautiful - who can argue with that? Oh and it gives a pretty wonderful effect on the lashes too - wide eyed and full of volume. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Yves-Saint-Laurent-Volume-Effet-Faux-Cils-Luxurious-Mascara_8026/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£23 Available at Boots</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an oldy, but a goody. I love this stuff and must have repurchased-and-repurchased-and-repurchased dozens of times, and honestly, I can't imagine ever switching to another eyeliner unless they discontinue it or I encounter some kind of eyeliner related disaster. It has a flexible, fine nib that is so easy to work with and can give both thick or thin lines. Love it! This is the dip-nib-in-pot kind of eyeliner rather than a felt tip pen kind, as I tend to find those dry out more quickly.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.superdrug.com/Make-Up-Offers/L%27Oreal-Superliner-Black-Lacquer/p/382079#.VDUMDLxdXIo" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£6.49 available at Superdrug</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a foundation that I've been using for years, and it's a really lovely light-medium coverage with a velvet matte finish. One of the main things I love about Chanel Foundations is that they come pale enough for me whilst still being a good match for my skin tone. This one is lovely and I love the glass bottle it comes in, with the oh-so-handy pump. Really want to try the Perfection Lumiere Velvet too. I wear shade 10 Beige.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.boots.com/en/CHANEL-PERFECTION-LUMIERE-Long-Wear-Flawless-Fluid-Makeup-SPF-10_1247048/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£36 available at Boots</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you've seen my <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWa56g4NSE" target="_blank">Contouring Made Easy video</a> then you'll know I'm a big fan of the Face Form palette too, and I recently managed to get my hands on the Contour Kit, a more compact version of the bronzer and highlighter than I love, without the far too glittery blush. The sleek bronzer is the best I've found for contouring, it's pigmented, buildable and so easy to blend it makes contouring a dream. </span></div>
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<a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Sleek-MakeUp-Face-Contour-Kit_1395740/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">£6.49 available at Boots</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shroom, All That Glitters, Wedge and Espresso</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This quad was my first ever MAC purchase, about a year and a half a go. I adore the colours, they're the exact shades that I wear every single day, whether I'm using this palette or a different one. Gold-neutrals and matte browns are what my eye looks are all about. This is a great palette for travelling as it's compact, although I'm a strong believer that MAC eyeshadows are quite pricey for what they are, so I can't imagine purchasing any more of their shadows in the near future.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/154/907/Products/Eyes/Shadow/Eye-Shadow-Pro-Palette-Refill-Pan/index.tmpl" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eyeshadows £10 each when purchased for palette available at MAC</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/154/363/Products/Eyes/Shadow/Eye-Shadow/index.tmpl" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Eyeshadows £13 each when purchase for individual use available at MAC</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/1556/515/Products/Kit-Essentials/Pro-Palette/Pro-Palette-Eye-Shadow-X-4/index.tmpl" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pro Palette x 4 £5 available at MAC</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for reading, much love - Kitty.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05643541881420781175noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365496430190120369.post-48275312255462428102014-10-07T12:46:00.000+01:002014-10-08T17:19:07.029+01:00AW Nails<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Autumn is my favourite season for fashion, I love the layers and colour palettes and general snuggliness of the season, and all the excitement leading to Christmas! I also really love Autumn nail colours, as in the summer and spring months I tend to go for 'nude' and 'taupe' shades on the nails. I like a neutral palette for pretty much everything, so Autumn brings a refreshing change of being able to wear dark sumptuous colours on my nails!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The other day I was hunting for the perfect dark plummy-red tone, as I was wearing an old Jack Wills polish in the shade Burgundy which was chipping mercilessly. So, I dashed off at the first opportunity to hunt for something with a little bit more longevity and stumbled across this beauty. This is the first Max Factor nail polish I've ever tried, and the promise of 7-Day-Glossiness was all too much for me to resist, and the dark colour was just the type I was on the hunt for. And so, Ruby Fruit became my new nail essential!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always pair nail varnishes with my HG top-coat Seche Vite (even with the wondrous top coat, the Jack Wills polish was just hopeless!) and so far, I've had 4 days wear of Max Factors Glossfinity and it looks every bit as perfect as the day I painted them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you have a favourite go-to autumn shade? Let me know as I can't resist a good nail varnish splurge! X</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05643541881420781175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365496430190120369.post-24661880543876531212014-09-30T13:52:00.000+01:002014-10-08T17:19:49.703+01:00NARS duo: All About Eve<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The texture is lovely, not quite as creamy and pigmented as my sacred Urban Decay eyeshadows, but I find them easier to work with than Mac shadows. As you can see, the colours are very similar - which is perfect for me because it's the kind of colour I wear almost every day. The left shade is a little more brown toned and the right shade leans towards peachier shades but they're both beautiful and make the perfect highlight or lid shades. In the make up look above I'm wearing the left shade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also absolutely adore the chic and iconic NARS packaging that just looks so pretty on any dressing table. The size and style is pretty much identical to the NARS blushes - as you can spy in the background of the photo above. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At £25 a pop for 2 colours they aren't exactly the most economic purchase, but personally if I'm going to splurge on a product 9 times out of 10 it's going to be an eyeshadow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Overall a thumbs up from me... this isn't my only NARS eyeshadow duo and I'm sure I'll be adding more to my collection soon - I've got my eyes on Habarnera. You can find <a href="http://uk.spacenk.com/eyeshadow-duo/MUK101020274.html" target="_blank">NARS duos here</a> - they retail for £25. </span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05643541881420781175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365496430190120369.post-90203175759338032082014-09-23T13:33:00.001+01:002014-10-08T17:20:03.092+01:00AW; mini beauty haul <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I feel I should start off for apologising for my <i>more-than-month-long </i>absence from kittyhearts. Life got in the way; I had a dissertation to finish, a conference to present at & most importantly a holiday to dive into. I'm back now, and so eager to resume blogging, so I thought I'd kick start with a little haul that I bought yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have Abbie from <a href="http://www.abeautifuldelight.co.uk/" target="_blank">abeautifuldelight</a> and Sarah from <a href="http://www.andbeautyorsomething.com/" target="_blank">andbeautyorsomething</a> to blame for my most recent haul. I spotted Abbies haul on her instagram the other day which featured a couple of the Maybelline Color Drama lip pencils, as well as spying Sarahs blogpost featuring the same product... and I just <i>had</i> to get to Boots myself to <strike>check them out</strike> purchase them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As usual, Boots had loads of offers on (Maybelline, L'Oreal and all haircare were all on 3 for 2, along with tonnes of others), so it would have been rude not to...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've had a mini-version of this mask before, that came with the Bleach White Toner I used a few months a go, and oh-wow do I love this mask. It really does revive dry-damaged hair like no other, and my hairs been a little neglected the last few weeks so I can't wait to smother it in this stuff and have hair to rival Kate Beckinsale again (I wish). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a big batiste fan, and I love to have a healthy stock of dry shampoo for emergencies, so when I spied the Nourish & Enrich I knew it was a product for me. I've only used it once, but so far so good. It's one that tends to leave <i>a lot</i> of white behind, so use sparingly (or the night-before) on dark hair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a big lover of the bronzer in the Sleek Contour Kit, but when I saw April from <a href="http://www.beautifaceblog.com/" target="_blank">beautiface</a> mention this product <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7JBgjNbnmQ&list=UUm-GG3e3CuXdci4k1898p2w" target="_blank">in her video</a> I knew I had to get my hands on it. An almost-matte bronzer with quite a lot of product and a promising looking brush. I know a lot of #bbloggers can't stand the brushes that come with most cheek products, I swear by the brushes in the Benefit box blushes and this is a similar-ish shape so will hopefully be perfect for contouring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fell in love with this powder in the shop. The photograph doesn't, couldn't do justice to the iridescence of this powder, it looks like such a beautiful highlighter and I had massively high hopes for it. Until I got home and read the reviews on the Boots website. Ohhhh, how I wish I'd read the reviews pre-purchase. Apparently the beautiful highlight is just the top layer, and beneath is a disappointing matte powder. Gutted. I'm sure I shall be posting a proper review once I've tried this and gotten to the matte powder underneath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Always on the hunt for a great drug store concealer, I decided to try a L'Oreal one. I was initially going to get the Lumi Magique that I've heard a lot about, but after swatching I decided it was too sheer for my liking, and went for the more opaque La Touche Magique instead. I got the shade Natural Beige which on reflection in natural light is a little dark for me. Other than user-error in regards to colour selection, it seems like a good under-eye concealer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a growing collection of nail varnishes that belong to the 'nude' family. I love them, and somehow I can't stop purchasing ones that are stupidly similar. I do get a lot of wear out of them though, so it's not quite time for a nail-varnish-intervention. I picked up this sheer glitter colour to go over the top of my nudes to make them a little more interesting/glamorous/festive. I want to say it's more of a glimmer than a glitter. Lovely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The whole reason I went into Boots. Sarah had favourably compared them to the Nars lip pencils (which I love!) and they are obviously, considerably cheaper. After wearing this for most of yesterday with a gloss over the top and for most of today alone I can safely say that it's very similar to the Nars pencil but perhaps less drying and easier to blend-in. Really worth a try if you like matte lips. This shade is perfect the naked-lip shade. Love. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Inspired by how perfect Cheryl Fernandez-Versini has been looking lately, I really wanted to pick up a brown-pink-nude lip shade for the Autumn. I love a brown/gold smokey eye and I find the best lip shades to go with that are the more subtle nudes, and particularly the brown-pink nudes. This gloss is to-die for. Perfect perfect perfect shade for me. I love it! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's it for my haul! Have you been feeling spendy lately? Leave your blog-links below so I can look at all your wonderful posts. Love xx</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05643541881420781175noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4365496430190120369.post-1654488471969656042014-08-11T12:03:00.000+01:002014-10-08T17:20:15.874+01:00Hair Makeover with Andrew Barton ❀<div style="text-align: justify;">
A good few weeks ago now I was invited to the Grabble event at <a href="http://www.andrewbarton.tv/" target="_blank">Andrew Barton's salon</a> in Covent Garden. <a href="http://www.grabble.co.uk/" target="_blank">Grabble</a> is an online fashion platform which reminds me of Pinterest mixed with ASOS. I really recommend having a look at their site - it's a great place for fashion inspiration and fantastic way to find items too. I had a lot fun at their #GrabAMakeover event and I was the lucky winner of two prizes on their charity raffle. Today's post is about the Hair Makeover that I won with <a href="https://twitter.com/A_Barton" target="_blank">Andrew Barton himself!</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first picture shows my before hair, which is pretty much my natural colour with some slight ombre peeking through, if you havent already seen <a href="http://kittyhearts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/a-little-hair-adventure.html" target="_blank">this post on my hair adventure</a> a few months ago you might want to take a look. To sum up, over the last few months I've really wanted a subtle balayage-ombre through the ends of my hair, just to warm it up and add some modern dimension to my hair, I tried it myself and it didn't work so I coloured over it. I went Pinterest mad over the last few weeks since booking my appointment with Andrew and took along some photos of how I wanted the colour to look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The appointment started with a consultation with Jack, my lovely colourist and Andrew who would be cutting my hair. I showed them the photo's (mostly of Lily Aldridge) of the kind of look I was after and they were both very positive about the style and thought it would suit me, so Jack got straight to colouring my hair. After a few trips to replenish his stash of foils and much discussion of all things 'hair' and 'London' we were almost done with the colouring. Foils came out, bleach was rinsed and toner applied. After a little wait with the toner I was treated to a relaxing head massage and hair wash from Josh. Time for my cut with Andrew, he worked speedily and precisely giving my dreadful ends a much needed chop and adding some feminine shape to frame my face. He whipped out the hairdryer and round brush and gave my hair the best blow out I've ever had, and he made it all look so easy! I've been battling with a ceramic round brush for the last few weeks and can't imagine how I would ever create a curly, bouncing, smoothed style like he did for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The cut and colour are just perfect, they're exactly what I wanted and really make my hair feel modern and young. I had a lovely morning at the salon and was made to feel very welcome by all. I'd love to say a big thank you to Andrew and his team for doing such a great job with my hair, and if you're in need of a hair overhaul or a luxurious hair appointment I thoroughly recommend them! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you so much for reading, much love - Kitty.</span></div>
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