If you’re a follower of my blog or Youtube channel, you might have noticed that recently I’ve been on a bit of a makeup binge, and have ended up with a fairly large collection of makeup I’ve yet to try!

As I have so much that I can test out and compare, I thought I’d do a few reviews on my blog and Youtube so you guys can hear my opinions on some products you may never have tried before either!

If you want to check out the hauls of these products then click on the videos below, and stay tuned for some reviews coming up very soon! 

  

   

Autumn/Fall DIY Decor

If you read my autumn blog post a couple of weeks ago, you'll probably be expecting an autumn/fall DIY decor video by now, so as promised, here it is!

I've never really decorated my room for the season (except Christmas of course) but this year as I'm in my own house, I wanted to give it a go for fall, as it is such a pretty season and has tonnes of potential for cute decor!
Everything I used for the DIY's are in the description bar of the video, most of the things I used were either really cheap, or free! (so what are you waiting for!?)
I had so much fun making this video so I really hope you enjoy it!

Hello Autumn!

So its' officially October (I don't know where September disappeared to!) which means it's definitely okay for me to start obsessing about autumn.

For the past two weeks I've literally lived on Pinterest and been super inspired by all the cute home decor DIY's people have been pinning! 

So I thought this year, I'd have a go at spicing up my decor a bit! 

To get into the fall spirit, me and my boyfriend went for a walk around our local park on the weekend and managed to pick up some pinecones to use in my decor crafts. I also cut down some thin branches from a corkscrew willow I have in my garden, as they are such an amazing curly shape! I'll be leaving these out to dry for about a week and I'll be using these for some of my fall DIY's too!

So keep an eye out for my autumn/fall DIY decor video and blog posts coming up within the next couple of weeks!
Can you guess what I'll be making?

ELF 100pc Marble Eyeshadow Palette Review

Hey guys, so if you're on this blog post because you just watched my ELF unboxing video on YouTube, then here's the first review I promised you! (it didn't take as long as I expected!)
If not, then this is just a quick review on one of the ELF products I received as part of a free gift when I purchased a few things from the ELF website! (and go watch my video!)
So I'm just going to go straight into the review!

So here is the pretty impressive eyeshadow palette, and as the title says, it contains 100 eyeshadows! (both mattes and shimmers), and when I found out this product retails at £15, I was quite impressed! However I was yet to try out the quality of the eyeshadows which is obviously the most important part.

So I did the pain-staking task of swatching all 100 eyeshadow colours when I had unpacked this product, and here are the images...

So as you can see in the images I swatched two rows of colours at a time and pieced the photos together, however when I finished this, I noticed that a lot of the colours are very similar, and I mean VERY similar, almost identical in some cases however there are a large range of colours still in this palette so I'm not going to complain too much.

In some cases, I was pretty unimpressed with the pigmentation of the colours, especially the more shimmery colours, however there were a range of colours I tested that had an AMAZING colour payoff and these were mostly the matte shades, which I guess actually works in my favour as I wear a lot more matte eyeshadows than shimmer. But overall as you can see in the image above, a lot of the colours turned out really nice and do look quite wearable. 

Obviously I swatched the colours above using my fingers, so I then tried out some of my preferred colours with brushes and tried out a few eye looks with them, and to be honest, I was a bit more disappointed with the colour payoff when using a brush, as the colour had to really be packed on before it looked as bright as the finger swatches. But either way I pulled off a couple of nice eye looks and for £15 for 100 eyeshadows, you can't go too wrong especially as this palette probably has a lot of colours you won't already have (especially in my case!)

So summing this review up, I would say that this palette would be great for someone starting out with eyeshadows and perhaps wants to try out new colours without spending a tonne of money, but for someone wanting more professional looking pigmented eyeshadows, I wouldn't recommend this palette as you'll probably be unimpressed with half of the colours. But like I said, I received this as a free gift from ELF so I can't really complain! 

I hope you enjoyed this review!