Illamasqua Rich Liquid Foundation swatches and custom foundation mixing.

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Summer is coming and I don't know about you, but I find buying a ton of different foundations and concealers to match my skin tone as it changes with the seasons massively annoying.

My skin goes from nc15 ish in winter to around nc30/35 in summer.

Enter these babies!

I bought most of these from the Illamasqua sale on ASOS earlier this year and they were around £13ish as opposed to to £21.50 it usually is.

These are definitely full coverage and can attach to dry spots on your face something awful (even on my oily skin this happens) although I think that could be sorted out by using a good primer or exfoliating well. You only need the tiniest amount as they are highly pigmented and very creamy, I would say they are the foundation version of Sleek Pout Paints. Odd, but you will understand if you have tried both products.

Swatches.

Left to right.

140"For light to medium skin with golden undertones."210"For medium skin with neutral undertones." 320"For medium to dark skin with golden undertones."

100 "Pure white." 325"For dark skin with neutral undertones."

You may be wondering why I have 5, and that those dark shades seem a wee bit ambitious for an English summer, but these foundations are AMAZING at mixing.

I add a little (A LITTLE) of the appropriate colour to darken or lighten whatever my current foundation/concealer is and it works beautifully.

Their consistency is really perfect for it. You can change your foundation colour without changing your favourite foundation formula! (Mine would be Revlon Colorstay Combo/Oily)

Genius! And they will last forever!

Here's a very quick little mix a made by mixing 325, 100 and 140, so you can see what I mean.

As you can see these foundations are absolutely fantastic on their own.

Will definitely be buying some more.

Sydney Xxx

Urban Decay gets NAKED again!

Hello beauts! Hope you're all well.

Today I got a nice surprise form the postman, No not an early valentines, even better than that!

Yum!

To the swatches! As I've come to expect from Urban Decay the shadows are highly pigmented and creamy, all but one. Foxy is absolutely awful. Terrible colour pay off and just a powdery, chalky mess to be honest.

Left to right

Foxy (hmmm), Half Baked, Booty Call and Chopper.

Left to right.

Tease, Snakebite, Suspect and Pistol.

Left to right.

Verve, YDK, Busted and Blackout. Black out is a matt black ala Carbon, but its caught some of the sparkles from the other eyeshadows.

The full size double sided brush is a nice addition.

We also get a mini Lip Junkie gloss in Naked, of course. Pretty colour and it smells yummy like peppermint. Tingly goodness!

Hope the swatches have been helpful if you are still undecided!

You definitely don't "need" this palette if you have the original but I would say it's different enough. I am a bit miffed they put Half baked in it. I mean really, it's in almost every palette. STOP IT!

Sydney xoxo

MAC Haul Baby!

Shopping occurred, This is the aftermath.

I got studio Fix fluid NC15 and the little pump
Select sheer pressed powder
Fuidline in Blacktack
109 brush
Lip pencil in Magenta
Lipsticks in Blankety, Honey love,
Creme Team lipsticks in Creme cup and Lavender Whip
BBR Redhead lipstick in Marquise D'
Eyeliner in Teddy
Brow Set in Show off
BBR MSF in Blonde and Redhead
Eyeshadows in Shroom, Honey Lust, Tempting, Woodwinked and Romp (not pictured)
Phew!

Eyeshadows

L2R Shroom, Tempting, Honey Lust, Woodwinked
Romp at the bottom..I'm not keeping Romp, It's lovely
but it's far too similar to Tempting so I'm giving
it to my mum :)

Line up same as above. <3 style="font-weight: bold;">Lipsticks

L2R Lavender Whip, Creme Cup <3, onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6x1LETafSY2VHL1irZb4RPf6M0yoOGuNApNXU3LLaTCfUZ1jR-Vm9AhlyxnE8jPIZKi1ukkPzPng1N6ylRV3PyVV-svTUuHWeeXvhrwoGMZvsxFlYTBtIhgnnzNkhlFo9j9h0iiwY1QQ/s1600-h/Blog+024.JPG">Marquise D', Lavender Whip, Creme cup I LOVE creme cup.
Sorry I forgot to swatch the other two :S

Magenta lip pencil and Teddy eye kohl


MSFD <3

Blonde

Sorry about the writing on the hand!
The MSF going from light to dark, The swatch at the bottom is it mixed.


Redhead
I think Brunette looked a little too dark for me.


Brow set in Show off


209 Brush + Fluidline = Amazing!
As I wear black eyeliner everyday and have so far been very loyal to my
Rimmel Exaggerate liquid liner and not found anything that I like using as much
I decided that I must move with the times and get funky with gel.
I did and I love it!


I was very tempted by Henna, Femme fi, Knight, Top knot and 100 Strokes
but they all looked like some Urban Decay ones I already have so I didn't bother.

Finally!

It's 5:51 am and as an extreme insomniac I have decided that NOW is the time to do this haul.
I have had bugger all to do for days then as soon as I decide to start a blog I become insanely busy.
Always the way eh?

Lets get to the good stuffs :)





OPI Nail polish in Elephantastic pink. This was part of the India collection that came out in summer 2008, I realized I needed it as soon as I saw it but never actually got round to getting it. Until now! Thank you ASOS! I was expecting it to be a bubble gum pink and it's actually got a more of and orangey feel to it.. almost coral but not quite. It's really bright, very pretty and goes really well with my new gold bangles!




Barry M Dazzle Dusts. I have not touched anything by Barry M since I was about 13 but I saw these two beauts and could not resist. The one on the left is Fawn 49 and Right is Old Gold 24.
Old gold is a nice MAC Refelcts Glitter Antique gold copy but a lot more subtle with less glitter which is brilliant as I love and wear Antique Gold a bit too much and it will be nice to be able to save it for special occasions.

Fawn on top and Old Gold on bottom.

Barry M Lipstick in 101 Marshmallow. I saw this on the internet took a leap of faith and ordered it before I had seen any swatches/reviews. SO glad I did!
After I had orderd I saw We Are Glitter had said that this is her everyday lippie so I knew once it came I would love it as I have a very similar make up look to hers. Before 101 I was wearing MAC Heatherette lipstick in Fleshpot which is nice but comes out quite orangey which just did not go with my skintone at all. I <3 onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwuIm-Hpg9aVTfnnyosues_Qhz-n0h73cRb3zp6PWBS1kL4FL_GJsstJziLlOgb7JuGJeMtCPjX2gdTzfddITdRGzBeu9SXjJuc9Sb_a0SZravFJ1A1UREsrAKFssupTfBSD-FYLiEGmA/s1600-h/Make+up+Blog+1+020.JPG">


Urban Decay Afterglow Blush in Quickie.
Love it love it love it. I'm very pale and this is very pink and gives a lovely china doll look.
It's very pigmented but really wearable and flattering.





I am a false lash feind and have ruined my natural lashes by wearing them every day so one of my new years resolutions was to stop wearing falsies and grow my own back out as they are good lashes and I am mean too them.
So this is me cheating at my new years resolution and telling myself that if I only wore one or two at the edge of my lashes it wouldn't count.
Well the glue does not work and it serves me right! I must stay away from the Eyelure ones because I know they will work and I must. not. cheat.




Fawn in inner eye corner and Old gold from half way out with a tiny bit of NARS Ondine in the crease. 101 lipstick. I have worn this every day since I got them, which is nice because I usually go for a much more dramatic eye and this look is so much easier but still pretty.
Please excuse my terrible eye bags but like I said I am a huge insomniac and only ever get around 3/4 hours a night!

It's now 7 am so I'm off to read The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by J.K. Rowling which I got today for £3 something in Asda!

Thank you to my very first follower Kerry1487

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