Jessica's Blog Giveaway

jleighbeauty Blog Giveaway

Hi everyone, please check out the link below so you can enter this great blog giveaway. Anyone can enter as long as they follow her blog.

You can find all the rules on Jessica's blog.
Go to:

http://jessica-ex-oh.blogspot.com/2010/04/my-100-followers-giveaway-more-prizes.html#comment-form

The prizes all look really great and there are up to 3 entries per person.

The Rules:
1. You must be a follower of her blog, after all this is to thank her followers.
2. You must be 18 or over to enter, if not make sure you have permission from your parents as I will need your address if you win.
3. The contest will end on 4th May at 11.59pm GMT - all winners will be notified within one week of the competition closing on her blog and via email.
4. There will be three winners, whoever is drawn first will have a pick of the prizes and so forth
5. It is open worldwide

How To Enter:
1. For one entry please write 'Enter Me' in the comments below and and don't forget to leave your email address!
2. For two entries do as above then follow her on Twitter and tweet about her giveaway (@jelighbeauty - link on the left)
3. For three entries do both above and do a post and/or a link and picture on your blog to her giveaway.

Do not forget to post a link to your blog in the comment.
So if you do all three this means you will have three entries.

Get cracking with all your entries guys.

Green or Blue...? You Decide.

Green or Blue?

Hi everyone, so I have a video at the moment asking for your opinion on my next YouTube video. The choice is between a green look or a blue look. As you can see from the photos below, they are similar looks just using different colours.

So, to let me know which you would prefer to see you can either comment at the bottom of this post. Or you can go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RipuAjcnpLc and leave me a comment letting me know which you would prefer.

I look forward to the outcome. So get voting my lovelies.

legseleven7 - Blog Give Away

Illamasqua Body Electrics Give Away

Hello my lovelies, I just thought I would do a quick post to let you know about the legseleven7 - Blog Givea Away. Check out the link below to enter:

http://legseleven7.blogspot.com/2010/04/illamasqua-body-electrics-giveaway.html

The rules of her contest are as follows:

1. You must be a follower of her blog.
2. If you are under 16, please get the permission of a parent before entering, as if you win, she'll need your postal address to send you your prize.
3. To enter, you must write 'enter me' in her blog comments section.
4. If you wish, you can do a blog post about this. If you do, let her know, because she'll put an extra entry in the random.org number generator for you :)
5. The closing date is Saturday 24th April so please get your entry in before 5pm BST (yay, hehe) that day.

Good luck ladies!

Review: Sleek Sunset Palette

Sleek Sunset.

So, I decided to do a review on the Sleek Sunset palette. I have had this for some time now, so have used it enough to be able to share my thoughts and opinions with you.

So the palette looks like this:










The palette costs £4.99 from Superdrug (or from the Sleek website: http://www.sleekmakeup.com/EN/index.aspx ) which is an absolute bargain considering you get a great big mirror that you can actually see your whole face in. You also get 12 colours in each palette. Every one of the colours is lovely and soft making them easy to blend and they are really highly pigmented too. Each of the colours has some sort or shimmer or sparkle to it EXCEPT the black. This is a just a lovely rich matte black as you can see from the swatches below. (Colours have been swatched in palette order). You wouldn't want to drop this though as it would probably be more than the mirror that would shatter.

I did try to photograph the swatches in different light so you could get a better idea of how they show up on the skin. I am also aware that my skin is pale so the colours are going to look different on different skin tones. As the colours are so pigmented they would easily show up on even the darkest skin tones.

On the website they have pictures of different women with varying skin tones with different products on their skin, so this could help give you an idea how colours would show up on darker skin tones.

Each of the colours have a honeycombe type pattern on, which I find makes it so easy to pick the colour up on your brush. The colours can seem a little crumbly in texture, but they wash onto the eyelids with ease, and they last all day long when applied to a good base or primer. I find the matte black works brilliantly as a black eyeliner. It would also make a really easy smokey eye. I have used the black mainly as an eyeliner and it works great just to make your lashes look thicker, but it would also blend easily for a more subtle look.

I can't wait to get some more Sleek palettes. I hope they still have the limited Bohemian palette so I get a chance to try that out too.

Join The Breakfast Club

***The following information is from the March/April 2010 Boots Health & Beauty Magazine***

Eating a good breakfast can help your health, says recent research. Nutritionist Sara Stanner explains why.

Breakfast gives you the energy that you need to start the day, but we Brits tend to skip it 31% of the time (that's 113 missed breakfasts a year!). 'You should really make the effort, as studies show that people who eat breakfast tend to have a more balanced diet, are less likely to be overweight, and feel more alert and able to concentrate during the day,' says Sara. Here's how to get it right:

You need... new ideas for a tasty healthy breakfast.

'A combination of starchy food, fibre and protein is ideal,' Sara explains. 'For example, try a currant bun, with a glass of pure fruit juice and a pot of low-fat yogurt. Or you could have grilled kippers in a roll with a smoothie made from lower-fat milk and fresh or canned fruit.'

You need... a meal that fits in with your weight-loss plan.

'Research shows that people who eat a healthy breakfast are less likely to have high-sugar and high-fat snacks in the morning,' says Sara. 'A low glycaemic index (GI) breakfast, such as porridge or another wholegrain cereal, is a good option, as it will keep you feeling full for longer.'

You need... food on the run.

It only takes a few minutes to prepare and eat a bowl of cereal - and this can provide around 25% of some of the essential vitamins you need each day. But if you barely have time for that , there are various healthy snacks you could consider eating on the move - go for a cereal or muesli bar, banana, wholemeal muffin or scone, piece of toast, yogurt, smoothie or a handful of unsalted nuts and dried fruit.

My Little Box Of Tricks

Review: Box Of Tricks

So, I ordered this palette from http://www.fragrancedirect.co.uk/on the weekend just gone and it was delivered on Tuesday (13th April) so I was really pleased with the speed of their service. I ordered two of them, so one for me and one for a spare or as a gift. Unfortunately when I opened the box one of them had been damaged. Good news though, I contacted them yesterday and before the end of the day they had already arranged to send me a brand new replacement.

So, onto the product itself. Once I opened the palette I was pleased with the selection of colours you get in the eyeshadows. The entire palette contains 15 x 1.5 g eyeshadows, 4 x 1 g lipglosses and 3 x 4 g blushers.

As you can see you get a row with really pretty purples, another row of lovely greens and a final row of lovely neutrals and browns. As soon as I looked at the colours, the bottom right hand colour reminded me of MAC's Blanc Type. I compared the shadow from the palette with my Blanc Type shadow so you can see how similar they look.

The colour on the left is the MAC shadow, just in case you wondered. So anyway, I swatched all the eyeshadow colours so you could get an idea of how they look on the skin.

Surprisingly the eyeshadows are actually well pigmented and easy to blend. The swatches are in the order of the palette. I used the eyeshadows yesterday and I managed to achieve such a quick and easy look. I used a primer underneath them and they stayed on all day without creasing. The palette is so convenient, and it could easily be kept in a handbag. I would suggest not throwing your bag around too heavily, just in case any of the shadows were to smash. I'm not sure how mine got smashed, so I'm not totally sure how much impact they can take.

The palette has a second section which pulls out from underneath, and this is a really great addition to the palette. It contains four lipglosses and 3 great size blushers. You can see from the photo below how they look in the palette.

The blushers in the palette are really pretty and they are also well pigmented and easy to blend together if you like to layer your blushers or "double blush". The colour on the left is a peachy coral colour, the middle colour is a lovely plum, but very wearable without looking over the top. Then the colour on the right is a lovely pink colour, this colour looks so pretty. Once on the cheeks it looks like you have come in from a fresh walk on the beach, it gives a lovely flushed colour. I swatched the blushers and lipglosses onto a piece of paper because the camera didn't pick it up properly on my arm. The flash just washed everything out.

The lipglosses are ok, they are nothing great. They do not have very much pigmentation and they don't really last on the lips for very long. I tried applying them using a lip brush and also by using my finger, but I still got the same washed out colours. The bright pink on the left gives the best pigmentation, but the peach colour next to it doesn't give any colour on my lips at all. The medium pink gives some colour, but again not very much. As for the lightest pink that did give some colour but very little as you can see from the above swatch. The 1st and 3rd colours are the most pigmented.

Overall I really like this palette a lot. It has a great size mirror in the lid that is more than big enough to see everything you are doing. There is also a good selection of well pigmented eyeshadows that blend easily and stay on all day. The blushers are also very nice on the skin. I imagine they would flatter any skin tone, although I'm not sure how well they would show up on darker skin tones. The size of the palette makes it so handy and transportable, even though I don't use the lipglosses the palette it still worth the £3.95 that I paid for it.

I would definitely recommend the palette to anybody who is looking for something that is convenient and versatile but without a big price tag. It is worth the price for the eyeshadows and blushers alone.

Check out http://www.fragrancedirect.co.uk/ and type W7 into the search box. They also have a great selection of other makeup products from the same range. They have really great prices too.

Let me know your thoughts on it if you buy one. Happy shopping guys.

Project 10 Pan here I come...!

So, I finally decided to take the plunge and do the project 10 pan challenge. To begin with I had no idea what I was going to chose for my 10 items. Considering I have a whole load of things to choose from.

I knew I couldn't promise to only use one eyeshadow for the project because I love them too much. So I didn't want to limit myself to just one. I did however manage to commit to just 1 mascara, 1 lipstick, 1 lipgloss & 1 blusher that I will use completely until they are gone gone gone.

So the products I ended up with for my project 10 pan are:

1. St. Ives 4 in 1 Gentle Facial Cleansing Wipes (So far I don't like them)
2. Marks & Spencer Lemon Hand Butter (It smells amazing)
3. Dermalogica Intensive Moisture Balance (For my day cream)
4. ELF Complexion Perfection Powder (As general powder & to "set" my makeup)
5. ELF Mineral Lipstick in Rosy Raisin (Which is a really great colour)
6. Clinique Blusher in Smouldering Plum (Pretty colour, but needs a light application)
7. Bourjois 3D Effect Lipgloss in Rose Mythic (It's about time this got used up, lol)
8. No. 7 Extreme Length Mascara (I'm undecided on this mascara so far)
9. No. 7 Protect & Perfect Night Cream (For my night cream, used today for the 1st time and feels quite nice)
10. No. 7 Protect & Perfect Beauty Serum (Have also used today for the 1st time, also feels nice. Will use this at night time only to add some extra oomph to the night cream)

I am looking forward to the challenge of only using these products until they are finished, and then buying something new to replace them. I will obviously still continue to use my foundation, concealer, eyeliner etc. Seeing as they are not products included in this round.

Once I have completed this challenge, depending how it goes I am likely to do another. I will even push myself that bit harder next time to commit to trying to use up other products I have such as body cream and perfume etc.

So project 10 pan, here I come. I will keep you all updated on how it goes and how I find it being on makeup rations, lol.

I challenge all of you to have a rummage in your makeup bag/collection and pick 10 products that you will use up.

Good luck...