Rimmel Brow This Way

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I've been fascinated with products like these for a while as the brow craze seems to still be going strong. This is great news for me as I've always had, and loved, large brows. I never gave into thin-brow peer-pressure during high school and now full brows are in, I'm happy! Thanks Cara! 

Brow This Way is a tinted gel designed to give you defined and fixed brows for your whole day. I believe it comes in 4 different shades from blonde to dark brown.

I have absolutely no complaints with the packaging what-so-ever, I quite like that it's designed like a mascara tube. It's small size means it fits easily in a bag if you want to carry it around with you without taking up much space. The little mascara-style brush makes for easy application when brushing through your brows.

The formula is a lot like mascara and has a similar texture, yet this feels a lot lightweight. You can't feel it on your brows, which is fab! The tint is actually very pigmented, I bought dark brown (as I do have dark brows) and boy is this dark. I do have to be fairly careful with my application otherwise I end up with way too much brow gel which ends up everywhere, but I do feel like this will improve with time, much like a mascara. 

I'm loving using this to set my brows for the day on top of my usual brow routine, it just brings more to my eyebrows and I feel comfortable with knowing the hairs will stick in place all day as they do have a tendency to move!

Ellie x

Ciate Corrupted Neon Manicure

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During my recent visit to the Clothes Show Live, I picked up a £10 goodie bag (yes, £10!) that included 3 Ciate sets. Not bad, huh?! One of them was the Corrupted Neon mani set and I couldn't help but write about it asap.

Corrupted Neon is basically a kit to make your nails glow under UV light, and of course have super bright nails during the day. I think this is definitely one for summer! I remember when these sets came out and I was so interested, I'm so happy I finally have my hands on a set.

Inside the set comes a full-size polish of Big Yellow Taxi, a full-size bottle of neon yellow glitter and a mini sized black light topcoat. The topcoat is actually really cool to look at, as it has a slight blue tinge in the light where the UV will reflect from.

All you do is paint on the polish, sprinkle on the neon glitter and add the black light topcoat and you're done! Glowy nails under UV light. If you don't want the glittered finish you can miss that out and just apply the topcoat and it will still glow.

Have you tried this kit?

Ellie x

Rimmel Glitter Bomb Polish - Midnight Mistletoe

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Looking for the most festive glitter polish ever this season? Then go no further than Rimmel! Midnight Mistletoe is part of their Glitter Bomb range and it's probably the most Christmassy nail polish on the highstreet right now. You can't get much more festive than red and green glitter!

Ellie x

My First MAC Items - Creme in Your Coffee Lipstick & Mythology Eyeshadow

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I finally did it! I caved and purchased my first ever MAC items, and I genuinely couldn't be more excited. Leaving Selfridges with a little yellow bag with two very sleek looking black packages literally couldn't of made me happier. Merry Christmas to me!

I picked up the cremesheen lipstick Creme in Your Coffee after swatching it a few weeks ago and loving it. It's a gorgeous brown nude and suits my skin tone perfectly. It feels amazing on the lips and barely even moves, even with eating and drinking there's still a hint of colour and I love how nice it is to reapply. Plus what's better than pulling out one of those world-famous black bullets from your bag?

I also bought the eyeshadow Mythology, it's a stunning golden colour, I want to say copper or rose gold. The texture is good and feels buttery when swirling my brush around and applies like a dream. No fallout what-so-ever and it blended so nicely. I wore this on a very long day I had and it lasted for 12 hours without budging/smudging/creasing, so impressed!

I think I'm definitely hooked on MAC, I knew this would happen once trying a high-end brand! The texture and wear really is amazing. I can't wait to try out more products!

What's your favourite MAC products?

Ellie x

Ciate Gold Digga

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Another Ciate post today! Can you tell they're my favourite nail brand right now? On a recent trip to TK Maxx I came across a huge selection of Ciate polishes. I was instantly drawn to Gold Digga, as I am a gold loving girl anyway, but this is a polish I've been lusting after for so long.

The packaging as always is just gorgeous, I love the design of the bottles as they're just so easy to hold whilst you're painting your nails. The simple logo on the front of the bottle along with the cute little bow just really makes Ciate stand out as a higher end brand.

The polish itself is simply stunning. A beautiful warm gold, described by Ciate as a "bronze gold" completely suits my pale-yet-olive skin tone, and looks simply expensive. I'm certainly not turning down expensive looking nails. It is opaque in 2 coats.

This polish has just made me love Ciate even more than I already do, if you haven't checked them out before I highly recommend you do!

This usually retails at £9, but I paid £3.99 from TK Maxx.

Ellie x

Ciate Speed Dry Topcoat

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Along with my recent purchase of Ciate Gold Digga from TK Maxx, I also picked up the Speed Dry Topcoat. I have next to no patience when doing my nails, especially as there's always something to be done, so spending an hour waiting for topcoat to completely dry is just totally inconvenient!

Like all Ciate polishes, this is housed in an adorable glass bottle, still in the handy curved shape which makes it easy to hold.

I've found that this is completely dry and smudge-proof in around 5-10 minutes, perhaps not as fast as previous fast-drying topcoats, but certainly a lot faster than your regular topcoat. It's also pretty hardy, this polish lasted around 2 days without chipping which is an absolute mammoth amount of time considering the type of work I do at the garden center. Like I've said before, working in a garden center is a nails worst nightmare! It's pretty hardy stuff to last this long.

Overall I'm satisfied with this topcoat, it does what it says on the tin and helps make polish last, especially on my chip-prone nails!

Ellie x

Birmingham Haul: Primark, New Look & Boots

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Last Wednesday I went on a cute shopping day with my mum to Birmingham! Although Birmingham isn't too far from where I live, especially if travelling by train, I never seem to venture there often. I do love the mass diversity of stores and how much better they look than in my town, and there's usually way more choice of products in the stores too which is awesome.

I didn't go as mad as I thought I would, mainly because I'm stressing about my future flat deposit, but I still picked up some fab pieces.

Primark
Primark was my first stop, and surprisingly I didn't go mad! I love the things I picked up though. The pink and gold statement necklace is just stunning, and it seems like such good quality! I stocked up on some frilly socks too as they look adorable with boots and things, I adore the monochrome geometric pair. Those white snake print chunky shoes are my favourite buy of the day by far, they are just so cute, especially with those little zips at the front! The grey rose print joggers are nice too, and look good quality. They're very soft, have cuffed ankles and rope pulls.

New Look
I only bought two things from New Look, and forgot to photograph one of them! I'm seriously rubbish in the mornings. This stunning 3-tone satchel is one of the things, and oh my gosh am I in love. The black, burgundy croc and cream side panels are just beautiful. It's really spacious inside too, which is perfect as I always seem to carry loads of stuff around with me! The other item I bought was a gorgeous black wool coat, which I plan to do an OOTD with very soon!

H&M
I'm loving H&M at the moment, I can't go in there without leaving with something at the moment. This time, I chose this burgundy bowler hat (as I absolutely adore my black one!). I also picked up this oversized creamy-white jumper and I adore this. It still has a smallish neck so it looks smart with shirts, but is very long and super cosy - I was mega warm in this!

Boots
In Boots I picked up my basics, Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation and Stay Matte powder. However, I've added two new items to my makeup bag! I've been wanting a new primer for a while and I keep hearing good things about this. Stepping out of my Collection Lasting Perfection comfort zone, I've opted for the Wake Me Up concealer - will be reviewing these very soon!

Ellie x