Monday 30 May 2011

Benefit high beam vs no.7 illuminator

Higlighter gives the va-va-boomness that extra glow on your skin and help give an illusion for more depth and a 3-Dness (wtf not even a word) on your face.
The benefit high beam retails in for £18 which contains 13 ml of products. The high beam has a pink undertone, the product may only have 13ml but u do not need much to give you that GLOW believe me it will last you a very very long time. The no.7 highlighter retails in for £10.50 for 30 ml only available in Boots. It has a peach undertone but boots do also have one with a pink undertone. Both are in the form of a liquid formula so its easy to blend under or over your foundation.


(lol can't really see it)

(With Flash last pic)
L- High beam R- no.7

High beam comes in a nail polish package with a brush applicator.

With the no.7 highlighter it comes with a built in brush where you can twist them on and off to stop the product from coming out.

Where to apply-
Apply on the apple of our cheeks, cupids bow, browbones and a bit on the t-zone, apply only little because throughout the day it can make you look oily rather then give a healthy glow.
Personally I love both of them for different undertone colours it gives. With the no.7 highlighter I love the peach undertone colour as it compliments my skintone. I dislike the applicator brush, when you need to squeeze the product out it can give out too much of it and goes to waste. With high beam I do also like the pink undertone colour and I like the brush applicator as you can use the amount you want. The high beam may be a bit pricey but I believe its an investment and you would not really require another highlighter. With the no.7, I think as its a drugstore product the quality of it is very good and I don't really know any other drugstore highlighters that has the same quality of the no.7 highlighter.

Sunday 29 May 2011

Simple and easy leopard print nails tutorial

Easy and cheap way to update your nails by using old polishes! You can easily do this by yourself, even on both sides of your hands, it doesn't have to be perfect as its easy to clear the mess!

Need:
Two nail varnish colours of your choice Models Own Pink Fizz(L) and Utopia (R).
  • An old liquid black eyeliner preferably with a thin brush (Rimmel London Glam eyes professional liquid eyeliner).
  • Top coat (Rimmel Matte Finish top coat)
    • Apply the choice of nail varnish on your nails (don't mind my ugly unpolished nails..thats why i asked my baini who has nice long nails)














  • Let your nails dry and then with the black liquid eyeliner draw on parallel squiggly borderlines allowing a small space between the parallel lines to fill the second nail varnish colour in that space. Make the different squiggly borders in different sizes, it does not have to be perfect. If you make a mistake with the liner then just rub it off with a cotton bud, the nail varnish won't be affected as its just eyeliner.














  • With the second nail varnish colour of your choice, fill in the space between the squiggly parallel lines.

  • Let that dry and then use a top coat over the nails to give it a lasting finish. I used Rimmels Matte Finish Top coat which makes the nail polish last up to 10 days, plus I personally prefer a matte finish on this design as I think it gives a 3-D finish (probably because of the glitter nail varnish too). But if you prefer an opaque and shiny finish then it is perfectly fine too.

If some cannot be bothered to do this then just get these nail strips from boots!

TRESemme and Batiste dry shampoo review























Naturally my hair gets greasy very quickly and I don't like to wash it everyday as its not healthy, but over a year ago I found out about this god given gift, Dry shampoo. I started with the Batiste range retailing around £2 depending on where you purchase it.

With Batiste Original I could not stand the smell of it so I opted for the one which gives a tropical smell, (they have them in other smells) which is ok but still do not like the smell overall. It does the job of removing the oil and odour also giving volume to my hair, which is its main purpose. But it comes with a consequence, it leaves my hair feeling very dry which i find annoying.

But, tresemme has came out with their dry shampoo for normal to oily hair and does the same job but with this it does not leave my hair dry! But it retails around £4.38 for 200ml.

I shake the can before I spray on the dry shampoo on my roots and brush it out. I have left Batiste for Treseeme dry shampoo. So if anyone wants to try dry shampoo I definetly recommend Treseeme if you don't want your hair to feel dry.