Tuesday, 5 June 2012

‘Tabasco’ Nails

Hello, my name is Liloo and I am addicted to Tabasco Sauce. It's not my fault, it's the way I've been brought up, we are raised to like spicy food and there is always some king of spicy sauce to accompany a dish. Don't get me wrong, I couldn't eat a vindaloo or something like that but I enjoy spicy food. Tabasco sauce is the just perfect way to add a spice to anything and I even carry a bottle in my handbag, and use it at work to accompany a bland diet soup, to spice up a big mac and all sorts. When I am invited to eat at someone's place (I don't remember the last time this happened though) the bottle stays in my bag as I think it would be a bit rude for the host, like the host didn't prepare a food which is tasty enough. In my country, it wouldn't be rude to pile up the spicy sauce on the side of your plate, but at the same time, the host would be offended if you ask for salt.


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Anyway, back to Tabasco: I absolutely love it and when I saw this 'spicy' red nail polish from Beautyuk, it instantly reminded of Tabasco Sauce and I just had to have it. There is one problem straight away with this polish: I don't know what it's called and I don't know if it comes in a separate bottle. I could have sworn it was released in their recent collection but I can't find it anywhere. I found 'Tabasco red' in the 'west end girl' £4.99 miniature set and it's without a doubt my favourite nail polish of the set. Trust me to like the polish which isn't sold separately and doesn't exist in a full size version.



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Tabasco was lovely to apply and took 3 coats to reach the opacity you see on my pictures. This is one more coat that I would normally like to apply but the colour is just so divine, I am happy to forgive that. 'Tabasco Red' screams summer for me. If your outfit allows for it, it would accessorize your hands perfectly at a barbecue, when you are about to tuck in that big fat juicy burger on a limited edition sunny day. The set is definitely worth getting for this colour alone.


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What: 'Tabasco Red' in Beautyuk Nail Polish Gift Set (no.4)
Where: Superdrug shops nationwide and beautyuk online store.
How much: £4.99 for 6 mini polishes
Disclaimer: Purchased with my own pennies
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Sunday, 20 February 2011

Earth Child ‘Forest’ Palette from BeautyUK - Review and FOTD

One item on my never ending wishlist of makeup products has been the 'Earth Child’ Eyeshadow Palette from Beauty UK, after being really impressed with my very first purchase from the brand, the Day and Night Palette (reviewed & fotd'ed here) So you can imagine how chuffed and bouncing up and down when Beauty Uk sent Earth Child (or the forest palette as I like to call it) for review purposes, especially for someone like me with a very small beauty  blog.


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The sturdy palette contains a lovely combination of 10 eyeshadow inspired by the theme of Earth, with 2 matte shadows (the black on the top row and the brown on the bottom) and 8 shimmery eyeshadows. All the shadows are very soft, you have to be gentle with them but in return they deliver a very good pigmentation. Despite their softness, I have not experienced not much fall out at all. The matte colours have almost a velvet feel to them and do not have this chalk effect which I have found lots of matte shadows have. The shimmery ones enchant me, they have the perfect amount of shimmer in them and are not 'in your face, disco ball' glittery.



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My favourite colours? hard to choose as I love them all. I'd say the star shadows of this palette are the copper (4) and the green colours (5 & 10) and this taupy grey (7) Colours 6 and 9 are perfect for highlighting, the black, used lightly (1) would intensify any colour combination you used on the lids and you can also use the matte brown (8) to fill in your eyebrows.



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In short, a perfect mix of colours and this palette gets all my thumbs up. If you usually find the eyeshadow palettes from beauty uk too bright, this might be for you. The best of all? Only £3.99. I’ve had a little play with the palette. I have used the colours marked with stars on the picture below:


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Additionally, I used my regular H&M black eyeliner, UNE skin glow eye pencil, and some falsies from Ardell. For the lips, my favourite lip stick of the moment: Mac Velvet Teddy with a little bit of Natural Collection Clear Lipgloss.


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