YouTube Tutorial: GOSH Cosmetics - Bohemian Gypsy

Heya guys!

I know this blogpost is way over due, but I was busy at the time I uploaded it to youtube and didn't have the time to write this. But here is the list of the products I used and some pictures:

FACE:
- MAC Studio Fix Foundation - NC42
- MAC Blush - Melba

EYES:
- Urban Decay Primer Potion
- MAC Bare Study Paintpot
- Gosh Cosmetics Eye Shadow Quad - Bohemian Gypsy
- L.A. Colours - Nebula
- Barry M Kohl Pencil - Black
- Maybelline One by One Mascara

LIPS:

- Barry M Lip Gloss Wand - 10

August Favourites!

I cannot believe it's already August. It's probably the most favourite time of year for me because it means that my birthday is right around the corner (which, as I get older, isn't really a good thing) and it also means that autumn is closing in on us, and autumn is by far my favourite season =D

Anyway... here are my August favourites. As I said in the video, I can't take any pictures of the collection because annoyingly my camera has decided to break itself (literally... it broke and no-one knows how so I'm sticking to "it broke itself").

1. MAC Paint Pot - Groundwork
2. MAC Eye Shadow - Wedge
3. MAC Eye Shadow - Handwritten
4. Barry M Dazzle Dust - DD82 Mint Green
5. Johnson and Johnson Facial Moisturiser - Dreamy Skin Night Moisturiser and Daily Essentials Facial Moisturise with SPF15
6. MAC Blush - Melba
7. MAC Brush 217 Blending Brush
8. Inglot Brush 28PO
9. GOSH Nail Lacquers - Miss Mole, Miss Grey and Wild Lilac
10. Inglot Brush cleanser

MAC Online
Inglot Online
GOSH Online
GOSH Nail Lacquer Mini Review (feat. Miss Mole and Miss Grey)

Youtube Video - August Favourites

If you have any further questions about any of the products or would like a review on any of the products please feel free to either comment below this blogpost or below the video.

Thanks for reading,

Chanel
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Product Rave: - GOSH Nail Lacquer's

Hey guys!

GOSH is a cosmetic company that is sold in the UK (not too sure where else it's sold but I know it's not available in the US, sorry =[ ) only in Superdrug. Personally, I find it's a fantastic drugstore brand that might provide products with a drugstore price, but has 'high-end make up worthy' quality. My GOSH collection has grown over the last year or so since I found out how great they are; from eyeliners to brushes to eyeshadows. But my latest addition to my GOSH collection is a series of their nail lacquers.

I have quite a few of them but more recently I bought two new colours - Miss Grey and Miss Mole.

Miss Grey - This is a great colour. I've wanted a grey nail polish for ages and when I saw this one I just knew I had to pick it up.

Miss Mole - I actually saw this colour on my hairdressers nails and loved it so much, but couldn't quite get my hands on the exact nail polish she had used. This is a great dupe, and I love it! =D

In general, I love all of the GOSH Nail Lacquers just because they're such great quality. And more often than not, GOSH is 3 for 2 in Superdrug so they're cheap too ... which is always a plus ;)

There are many advantages to these GOSH Nail Lacquers. The consistency is great, with most of the colours you only need one coat of the nail lacquer to get the true, opaue colour, and they dry pretty quickly too. The brush also helps with easy application.

The main disadvantage is that there isn't a wide variety of colours just yet - hopefully they'll continue to build on their collection, as will I. But the colours they do have are certainly unique and worth buying.

Tried them? Let me know your verdict ;)

Thanks for reading,

Chanel

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July Favourites

Hey guys,

As always, here's my monthly post where I share with you all my favourite products of the month!

1. Too Faced Shadow Insurance
2. MAC Eyeshadow - Ricepaper
3. MAC Lipstick - Costa Chic
4. MAC Cremesheen Glass - You've Got It (In the groove collection)
5. Bobbi Brown Treatment Lip Shine SPF 15 - #08 Sunset Bronze
6. MAC Superglass - Tunnel of Love
7. Bobbi Brown Skin Foundation SPF 15 - #05 Honey
8. GOSH Nail Lacquer - #584 Deep Purple

For a review on any of the products please comment below or click here to go to the video and comment there! If you have any further questions feel free to ask them! =]

Thanks for reading

Chanel
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Youtube tutorial - Prêt-à-Papier Look 1

Hey guys!


I thought it was finally time to show you guys the looks that I've come up with using the products that I bought from the Prêt-à-Papier MAC collection. So here's the first of a few:

This pictures were taken when I originally came up with the look, and I changed it slightly for the tutorial. Instead of lining my waterline with the black eyeliner and extending the upper lid liner slightly past the outer corner to make a wing (as in the pictures), I lined my water line with the GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner in 011 Sky High (blue eyeliner) and didn't extend the liner across my upper lash line past the outer corner of the eye.

These pictures just prove that there are so many different ways of wearing this look - and shows that you really don't need to add bright colours to it to make it 'pretty'.

List of products used:
EYES:
-MAC Paint Pot - Coral Crepe (Prêt-à-Papier)
-MAC Eyeshadow - Cut to fit (Prêt-à-Papier)
-120 Pro Palette - Dark grey
-MAC Eyeshadow - Tissueweight (Prêt-à-Papier)
-MAC Fluidline - Blacktrack
-GOSH Velvet Touch Waterproof Eyeliner - Sky High
-L'Oreal Double Extension Mascara - Ultra-lengthening Mascara


LIPS:
-MAC Amplified Lipstick - Kraft


FACE:
-E.L.F Cosmetics Shimmering Facial Whip - Toasted
-E.L.F Cosmetics Studio Blush - Candid Coral




Check out the tutorial here.


Thanks for reading,


Chanel
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Another contest entry for Princess Pinkcat's Rock the runway contest ...

So this is my second entry for Princess Pinkcat's "Rock the runway" contest and this one, as you can see, is a lot more extravagant that the last. This time I actually did have a rock star as inspiration. Who better, than Toyah Wilcox??

I found this picture by pure coincidence while looking for a picture of her with mad, crazy, colourful make up - the type of make up she used to wear when she was a hit punk rocker in the 80s! But instead - I came across this. It might be a recent picture of her as an actress instead of a punk rocker, but I think it's totally legit for the runway!

I have to say, this contest entry took me the longest to do out of all of them. Even longer than that Venetian Mask that I did, if anyone knows what I'm on about. That one had loads of dots to put around the design, and I thought that was intricate work. Although it may not seem difficult to do (and probably isn't for those of you who were born artists) but the line design on the forehead took me forever to do! And I used a new special little technique that I've recently learnt (im probably late with it, I always am lol) ;) ... but it still took forever, 'cause I just could NOT do the little swirl bit. So I decided to give up and alter the design a bit. You can tell...

Products Used:

EYES:

• 
  
  Barry M Kohl Pencil - KP25 Red
• 
  
  120 Pro Palette - Red
• 
  
  Barry M Kohl Pencil - KP1 Black
• 
  
  120 Pro Palette - Black

FOREHEAD:

• 
  
  Vaseline*
• 
  
  Barry M Dazzle Dust - DD66 Black (Black Lines)
• 
  
  Collection 2000 Dazzling Gel Liner - 11 Shake it up! (glitter liner over black lines)
• 
  
  2true Eye shadow Dazzlers - Shade No. 9 (Blue lines)
• 
  
  Collection 2000 Dazzling Gel Liner - 6 Night Fever (glitter liner over blue lines)
• 
  
  Barry M Dazzle Dust - DD44 Bronze (Gold area between blue lines)
• 
  
  GOSH Extreme Art Eyeliner - No. 08 (Blue dot in middle of forehead)
• 
  
  120 Pro Palette - White (White streak between lines by temples)

*I used vaseline to make the pigments a coloured liner. Just take a little bit of vaseline onto the back of your hand and mix your preferred coloured pigment into it to make it almost like a gel liner. Simple! =]

FACE:

• 
  
  Astral Moisturiser
• 
  
  Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer - 4 Deep

LIPS:

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  Barry M Lip Liner - LL3 Red
• 
  
  NYC Ultra Last Lipwear - 402B Red Flame
• 
  
  Clear lip gloss

That's everything I used, and even the new little technique that I've learnt with vaseline and pigments hehe.

I'll leave you with some more pictures now. Click here to go check out the contest video if you feel to, it's only me talking a little bit about what I did! =]

Enjoy!

Thanks for reading,

Chanel

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Contest Entry - Rocking The Runway With Princess PinkCat

I was so not in the mood for make up when I woke up this morning. I had a shower, spent some time with the mother (Happy Mother's Day =D) and then I saw myself in the mirror and thought 'AHH! NEED MAKE UP!' haha... so I started playing around with my 120 pro palette, trying to come up with something and created this look:

Since it's kinda jazzy and funky, I thought I'd use it as my contest entry, for Princess Pinkcat rocking the runway contest! =]

Products used:
EYES:
Barry M Fine Glitter Dust - FGD24 Toffee
120 pro palette - Purple, Grey and Pink
2true Effortless Waterproof Eyeliner - Black
Barry M Kohl Pencil - KP1 Black
Collection 2000 Dazzling Gel Liner - 11 Shake it up!
Barry M Kohl Pencil - KP10 Gold
L'oreal Double Extension Beauty Tubes Technology Mascara - Black

FACE:
Astral Original Moisturiser
Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Ultimate Wear Concealer- 4 Deep
Collection 2000 Pressed Powder - 2 Tender Touch
GOSH Natural Blush - 39 Electric Pink

LIPS:
Lush Sugar Lip Scrub - Bubblegum
Vaseline - Aloe Vera
NYC Lip Liner Pencil - 956
GOSH Velvet Touch Lipstick - 127 Mulberry

The standard of everyone elses entries are amazing and extravagant so I wanted to keep it simple to show that 'Rocking the Runway' doesn't always mean extravagant... having said that I don't think I'll win coz as I said, everyone elses is so amazing! But I'm glad I entered! PrincessPinkcat was my first ever subscriber so from here on out, I will enter every single one of her contests!! Lol ... This wasn't really my original idea but maybe I'll enter with that later on as she's extended the contest hehe. So for now, this is my entry! =D

Thanks again to PrincessPinkcat for holding the contest, and good luck to everyone who's entered! =D

If you wanna enter yourself, click here!

For more pictures visit my facebook!

Here are a few more pics for you =] ... comment and let me know if you think I should do a tutorial for it, if not, lemme know what you think of it anyway! =D

Thanks for reading,

Chanel
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Smokey Chocolate...

...and no I dont mean that literally lol. I did a new tutorial today and it's for the look that I was wearing in my Feb's Fab Faves! video.

I got fed up of wearing black eyeshadow all over my eye so I thought I'd go for brown instead, and it's turned out better than the black... I think so anyway =P

Personally... I would wear this look during the day (as with the all black look). But the all black look can border on emo if you wear it too dark or wear it too much! Lol... Not that that's a bad thing ... I have nothing against emo's ;) ... but I get bored easily - well, when it comes to make up anyway (always need a new look)! Haha =P  ... But yeah as I was saying - I would definitley wear this look out and about during the day, just because it is a lot more toned down than the all black. But don't get me wrong... I still think the all black look is totally sexy, but Im not planning on seducing anyone, anytime soon! ... Or am I? ;P

So anyways moving on... this look, I find, is a lot more simple to do than the Valentines Day Tutorial 2- Sexy black and red smokey eye! and it only involes using a few products too:

1. 
   
   Barry M Dazzle Dust - DD53 Chocolate (or any other dark brown eyeshadow you may have that has slight shimmer in it with a copper undertone)
2. 
   
   120 Pro Palette - Copper colour (or any other copper you may have - doesn't need to be shimmery or anything... just as long as it's copper)
3. 
   
   Barry M Kohl Pencil - KP1 Black (or basically just a standard black eye liner - you can use pencil, liquid, gel ... anything!)
4. 
   
   L'oreal double extension mascara - beauty tubes technology (or any other mascara of your choice =] )

And that's everything you need! So once you've got all of that, click here to find out how to get the look and you're ready! - There's also a little cheeky wink from me to you in that video too ... just coz I felt cheeky ;) haha

Thanks for reading,

Chanel

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