[Oh] Dear Mac…

Question Of The Day: So does the local MAC assistant reeeeaaally know best?

(Rant alert)

Last week, I trecked out of my way to go to this MAC counter in Debhenams  (which is in a tiny, non-exciting corner of the boringest department store I’ve ever been in – but it’s the only one in my region so I have no choice!) to top up my concealer stash.

Now, after much trial and error in the past, I have established my MAC shade is NW30/35 depending on the product. Currently my foundation is NW30, so when I went to the counter to pick up a Studio Finish; why OH why did the MAC lady decide to give me NW35? She basically just wouldn’t get me a NW30 out the draw because she was so adamant I needed NW35.

OK, now I understand she is a make-up artist, and she probably knows more about make-up than me, so I propped myself on that seat and let her test it out on me (I could tell she was dying to do this). She buffed it on around my eyes and showed me; it looked ok, it kind of just blended in with my skin, it covered the dark bits, but it just didn’t look flattering!

However, the time on my parking ticket was rapidly running out and I really needed a concealer so I decided to go with ‘the make-up artist knows best’ and bought it.

Unfortunately when I got to my car, and worse – when I got home, I managed to examine it in much better lighting and established it looked awful! My eye area was darker and orange-er than my face; definitely not flattering at all.

Lo and behold, I will have to take another trip to this MAC counter to swap it for a NW30…Grrr.

Moral of the story; sometimes you need to be more assertive if you know you’re probably right, even if you are up against a moody, unapproachable MAC lady.

Disclaimer: I honestly don’t have anything against MAC MUA’s, lol, I have lovely friends who work/have worked at the MAC counter so I'm sure this is just a one off rant. :) Thanks for reading!

Loves xoxo

NAKED2 - get Naked..again?

So, today I walked into the office to find a couple of packages on my desk (instantly making my morning slightly less depressing), and I am happy to declare: I am the proud owner of an Urban Decay NAKED2 palette! Yep; I saw; I bought.

[REWIND..] If you’re into your make up, you’ll no doubt remember the MAJOR hype behind the original NAKED palette. I, admittedly, was quite late jumping on that bandwagon, the price was much more than I’d normally wish you pay for an eye shadow palette. However, I can honestly say, it remains one of my best purchases so far. I even had a few friends try out mine and go out and got themselves one! The colours are so pigmented and wearable, I literally use this on 90% of my day or night make up looks. (Here is a pic of my slightly battered but ever trustworthy original..)

About a month ago, I started seeing and hearing about the NAKED2 palette, mainly by those few lucky Youtubers who got to test out the palette before it went on sale, I think. I didn’t expect it to be on sale in the UK until Feb, but when I spotted it in the Debhenams newsletter that they already had it online and it was in stock, how could I NOT have bought it? Especially after the original one was out of stock for so long and almost impossible to get hold of!

I have had a little play with it; swatched, blended, with primer, without primer, etc… and I have concluded: I love it as much as the original.

There is definitely a couple more matt shades than the previous, which is always a thumbs up! the colours are so wearable and suited to almost all skin tones. I'm still to do some actual looks with it, but I see it being another well used addition to the make up collection.

The colours:
FOXY, HALF BAKED (the only one that is also in the original NAKED palette), BOOTY CALL, CHOPPER, TEASE, SNAKE BITE, SUSPECT, PISTOL, VERVE, YDK, BUSTED, BLACKOUT.

My fave's are FOXY (a matt cream bisque) and CHOPPER (a copper-gold); this these may be my most used!

And last but not least; the double sided brush and lipgloss...

How can you not be chuffed with a double ended brush? Here you go, after spending that slightly obscene amount on an eye-shadow palette you also deserve, not one, but TWO brushes (in one), Urban Decay are on it!
Although, having had a little try out of the brush, I do feel the crease brush isn't very dense and I do doubt I will be using this much when I have my MAC 217 at hand.

The mini Lip Junkie gloss is so cute; it is in the colour NAKED (pinky/peachy) which 'COOLS & PLUMPS' as it says on the back. It smells minty, and provides a very neutral, glossy look.

All in all, I am very happy with the palette and can't wait to put it through it's paces. Yeh, I've also read its more suited to cooler-tone skin shades, and this may possibly be true, however I genuinely believe you can rock these whatever skin tone you are.

Comment if you have this palette/ like it/ dislike it/anything at all really. :)

Thanks for reading darlings!

Loves xoxo

2012; the cliché of a ‘New year, New start’?

So, we are 13 days into the dreaded 2012 – how’s everyone’s resolutions going? *quick reflection moment*

Evidently, one of my resolutions was to start my blog, and stick to it this time! I am a compulsive starter of everything and continuer of very little – quite bad right? Well, 2012 aims to [hopefully] be different.

I have actively, and I think for the first time ever, made serious goals for myself this year, with checkpoints along the way, (sounds a bit OTT I know, but I can only get things done if they have deadlines!). Since graduating, there was so much I had wanted to do, and probably due to my very poor time management and crappy forward planning, very little of that was actually done.

No doubt you will hear of my accomplishments/failures this year (if you don’t, that means I’m neglecting my blog, in which case I give you the right to bug me until I get my derrière in gear), this is a pre-warning of possible rants, over-enthusiastic posts, and probably a lot of random photography along the way.

This is just a really quick/short blog to say I wish everyone the best of luck with their goals and aspirations for 2012 (if you don’t have any, think of some!), find your motivation, motivate others, do what you enjoy as much as you can, and - most of all - stay positive! =)

Loves, xoxo

P.S - if anyone knows how I can NOT think of Jay Sean's '2012' every time I look at the date, please tell me ASAP... damn you Jay!

First post... ever?!

ooo ello! ;)

So, evidently this is my first blogpost on blogger, so it's more of a 'test' post I guess, but I would like to say hiiiii, and welcome you to my blog! Expect random posts about...well, anything. There will probably be more fashion posts as that was my initial reason of creating it, but I am pretty sure I'll end up adding in bits of everything. 

Anywho, thanks for reading, and enjoy! Feel free to leave comments/questions/feedback - and follow if you like what you read!

Muchos love, xoxo

P.S - come follow me on Twitter @reshmaaa, and my youtube channel is currently in progress, so expect more info on that soon!