New Storage and Vanity!

Hey everyone,

Long time no see!  Hope you're all doing well.

I decided I'd make a new post finally on my new storage and vanity table I bought from IKEA.

I picked up the 9 drawer ALEX unit and the MALM vanity table - I'm sure you've all seen tons of these but I figured I'd show mine anyway. :)

This is it. Please excuse the mess... lol.

I keep my brushes, eyeliners, eye-makeup remover, fix+, face products, q-tips, cotton balls, cotton rounds and hair products used daily on top along with a mirror and a towel to wipe my brushes off.

This is the first half of the drawer.

In the little plastic tray (old q-tip box) I keep every day items. Eye drops, mascaras, concealer, eye lash curlers, eye primers.  The little square at the back has mini UD 24/7 pencils, tweezers and nail clippers.  Beside that are two powders.

Beside the long tray is my face primer I'm testing out, my EL DW foundation and MAC Mineralised Skin Finish Natural.  I also keep my little make-up bag I take out with me beside it - I have a different powder in there, blotting sheets and interchange lipsticks accordingly.

Beside that are my... 5 I think, MAC quads and an ELF palette.

Moving along (excuse my lounge pants), I have 3 plastic drawer organisers that I bought from Morrisons a while ago.  Eye, face and lips.

Eyes: I keep all my MAC shadows in here (I don't have a 15 palette), some loose NYX shadows, Sugarpill, MUFE, MAC Paint Pot in Painterly and some other random eye products.

Face: I use this to store my cheek products.  MAC blushes, NYX blushes, a NARS blush and some ELF blushes.. I also have my Benefit samples from last year in there and a Bronzer from Bourjois which I don't use as it turns me orange *sigh* lol.

Lips:  I keep all lip products here.  Primarily MAC and NYX lipsticks live in here, some Milani and other random brands but those are the ones I have the most.  I have a couple lipliners, lip glosses which I don't use etc, lol.

Beside that I keep my makeup wipes, eyelash glue and some bobby pins at the back to the right.

This is the top of the ALEX unit.  I keep my perfumes up here, some keep-sake gifts from my 21st birthday, deoderant and a few bits of jewellery.  Mainly my Pandora bracelet, necklace and some random rings.

This top drawer is all nail polish.  OPI, China Glaze, Nails Inc, Revlon, Beauty UK, etc.  I keep my base coat, top coat, strengthener and cuticle oil at the back.

This is my palette drawer.  I have all my eBay palettes at the back, sleek palettes, UD palettes, Sugarpill, NYX etc and a MAC palette from Christmas just gone.

This drawer is just extra space, to be honest.  I keep a body moisturiser in there, my Clarisonic brush heads, teeth whiteners, there's a Lancome lipstick sample in there and an empty Clinique box.  The make-up bag at the back has Clarisonic cleansers in it.

From here I have 2 more drawers this size completely empty (yay for growing room!) and so now I'll show you the bigger drawers.

This first one is hair stuff.  Again - please excuse my lounge pants and slippers, you'll see them a couple more times.

In here I keep my hair dryer, Babyliss Big Hair, some random straighteners, hair brushes, hair ties, bobby pins, and some random products like mousse and hairspray that I rarely use.

This is my LUSH drawer.  Just a mix of bath bombs, bubble bars, face masks, soap etc.

This drawer here is an odd one.  It has a little nail station thing that I do my nails on, random bits of nail stuff like quick dry spray, nail files etc.  I also keep lashes in here and face paints.

This is the final drawer.  I keep extra things in here like cotton rounds, q-tips, cotton balls, make-up wipes, brush cleanser and garbage bags for my mini garbage under the table.

This is just a bit more of a close up of the desk.  I'm still thinking of adding a mirror behind it - but we'll see.  I also have a picture of my Mom on her wedding day to my Dad that I plan on putting up beside there.

Hope you've enjoyed this!  I'm so happy and excited to have it so organised, I completely outgrew my last storage area and I feel like this just looks so much more adult and ... professional, albeit my not being one.

Talk soon! 

P.S - Follow me on my new Twitter.  www.twitter.com/cosmeticicle :)

Upcoming Posts - Your Ideas Wanted!

Hi everyone,

I'm wanting to get back on track with my blog posts.  I have a few ideas, but I'd really like your input on some things you'd like to see here.


Ideas I have up coming:

Clarisonic Plus Review
Liz Earle Review
Nails Inc Polishes Review/Swatches
Kindle 4 Review

I'd love to know what ideas you have.  I've been out of the loop for so long I need help getting back on track!

Hope you're all doing well :)


xoxo

Happy New Year!

Hello everyone,

Happy New Year!

I hope 2012 is an amazing year for each and every one of you.  I say this every year, but I *really* hope this year is better than last year.

I went out with some friends, had some drinks and a dance, a kiss at midnight and home at 3am!

I unfortunately don't really have many decent photos of myself but my friend took a very odd photo of me that I thought I'd post.

Yeah - no idea what I was doing...

This is also a photo of the club I was in when the clock struck midnight.

 

How did you guys spend your New Years Eve 2011?

Merry Christmas!

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to post quickly to say...

Merry Christmas!

I hope you all have a fabulous day with all your loved ones, also hope Santa was very good to you!

This is about as Christmassy as I get, lol!

Love you all :)

Christmas Wish List

Hey everyone,

So with only 6 days until Christmas and a tiny bit of spare time on my hands I thought I'd make a quick post with my Christmas wish-list.

I don't usually tend to "ask" for things.. I just hint - strongly. ;)

Typically though I'm now struggling to remember what I asked for.


So if I forget something I'll just add to it later.

1) Clarisonic Classic - I've been wanting this for close to a year now, I really feel like my skin could benefit from this after reading and watching so many reviews.  No matter how much I scrub it, it just doesn't feel or look (to me) "clean". 

2) Liz Earle Skincare Essentials Kit - This is another thing I've wanted to try for quite some time.  I've read and heard tons of reviews on these products and how amazing they are, and some even pair it with the Clarisonic so it's really a bonus extra!

 

3) Nails Inc set. - I saw a set on QVC of Nails Inc polishes, there was like 8 polishes for £22 - which is a STEAL if you know that Nails Inc polishes cost £11 each.  That's a £66 saving!  I love the quality of Nails Inc but can't ever really justify the cost, so this set would be great.

4) OPI Touring America Polishes - There are a few from this collection I'd like, and as I have a Sally's card I've told my Mom she can use it to go buy them for me, haha!

5) Kindle - I've wanted a Kindle for ages now, and I'd mentioned it quite a while ago but then I remembered I wanted the Clarisonic.  So whether or not I'll get it I don't know.  I can't be too selfish - I do have two younger brothers that need Christmas presents too.  I won't be too bummed out if I don't, but I would LOVE it if I did.


I think that's roughly it!  I know my Mom isn't finished my shopping so I may ask her for a make-up palette of some sort.  Maybe the new BOS from UD?  I'm not really interested in the new Naked2 palette.


What have you guys asked for Christmas? Are you done all your shopping? What about wrapping?

Also!  Please don't forget I have a NEW Twitter account!  I will be deleting my old one so if you'd like to chat to me follow me on Cosmeticicle !  :)

New Twitter & Update

Hey everyone,

Once again I'd like to apologise for being AWOL.  I'd planned on getting back on track with my posts and then I had to move house.

As I'm sure anyone who has moved house knows - it's stressful and takes up a TON of time.  Not only that, I also had no internet for 3 and a half weeks.

So after moving and having no internet, I then had to do a bunch of assessments etc for college so a lot of time went into making sure I passed (which I did!) them all.

I do plan on getting back on track with my blog.  I am really sorry I've been such a let down.

I've also made a new Twitter, specifically because people in my personal life whom I did not want seeing it did, and by which point I couldn't make it private.  I've already changed it on the side bar, but for those of you who don't have it yet my new account is called: Cosmeticicle -- It is set to private, so you'll have to "request" it but so long as I don't know you in my personal life, I'll happily accept you without a problem.

I do hope you're all doing well.  Christmas is so stressful!  Maybe Santa will be good to me this year and get me some nice things to blog about? :)

Are you guys all done your Christmas shopping?

Nails Inc Glamour Magazine

Hey everyone,

Today I'm going to talk about the Nails Inc polishes you get free with this months Glamour magazine.  There are four to choose from and if you're lucky and quick enough, you may get all of them.

So far I've only managed to find three of them, much to my dismay.

Basil Street, Tate and Piccadilly Circus are the ones I have - I'm still hunting for Victoria!

I have to say - I was shocked when I first swatched these polishes.  They went on so smoothly, so easily and SO opaque in just one coat!  I almost didn't use a second one, but couldn't help myself.  They are definitely worth the £11 original price tag - however I just can't justify it to myself to buy more.  Enough of my rambling, onto the swatches!

I'm going to add quickly that I've just taken these photos about 20mins ago, at around 5pm.  I have every light on in my bedroom trying to get a decent representation of them and I'm hoping they at least help you all some what get just an idea of what you'd be getting.

Bottles themselves:

 

Funnily enough, Piccadilly Circus looks like a really pretty pink-ish colour.. but when swatched, it's actually very dark.  I do however still find it to be very pretty.  I also have yet to see these in daylight so that could change how it looks perhaps.

Swatches!

L-R: Basil Street, Tate, Piccadilly Circus with flash

L-R: Basil Street, Tate, Piccadilly Circus without flash

I'm actually finding it difficult to tell you which is more accurate.  I suppose in the lighting I have, without flash is definitely seeming to be more accurate however I have to admit I'd kind of like it if it were the other way around.

I'm really sorry again I couldn't get better swatches, but hopefully this gives you an idea, somewhat of what you'll be in store for.  Also keep in mind that when you pick up the magazine - the name of the polish is not on the box of the polish so you'll be comparing them all to make sure each polish is slightly different in colour.

Drying time for these polishes is impressive.  It's taken me 25mins to swatch, take photos, edit photos and type this post up.  In this time the swatches are 90% dry - two coats.

Overall opinion - absolutely worth the £11 per bottle.  If you're like me and can't justify it, I strongly suggest you get them from the Glamour offer this month.  £8 total for £44 worth of polish?  It's a steal.  If you don't like the colour - give it to a friend!

I hope you're all well.