everyday make up.

This is going to be a make up post but first.. THE BRITS! Are you watching? Adele was amazing, she always looks gorgeous! Also, my netball coach is at the BRITS! So random and so jealous. Moving on. 

Basically, I just thought I'd show you my daily make-up products. They're nothing too special and I'm not going to talk about them professionally because I'd be blagging it and it would not be convincing.  So here goes..

Rimmel London 'Hide the Blemish' Concealer. Honestly, I don't really find that concealer helps too much, it just seems to be sticky. But I don't like just leaving spots even though that would probably get rid of them quicker and layering concealer on top of them is very counter productive, it makes me a little more confident. I bought this concealer after I saw that my friend had it and it was really good, so I thought whats to loose. It was relatively cheap (as are all of the products here), something like £3 maybe. It's lasted me quite a long time but then I only use little bits at a time.

I can live without mascara to be honest. It seems to be most peoples 'always carry one with me' but I think I'd probably prefer an eye liner. Anyway, this is mine and practically all my friends go to mascara. It's a very good price and its a decent mascara. I think it costs about £2.99. I accidentally bought it in brown/black this time instead of black but can't tell much difference. Also, only available from Boots as its Boots' collection - Natural Collection.

 My Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse ♥
I use this everyday! I never really 'got on' with powder or liquid foundations when I first started using make up so I gave up with using it. Then along came mousse. I love it so much, its quite light on my skin and a little goes a looooong way. This has lasted me so long already and I've only used about half of the tub(?) Is it a tub? This is the most expensive piece of make up I own right now I think at something like £7.99. I have it in 040 - Fawn. 

I've literally only just started wearing blusher in the last few weeks and I've already picked up these two. They're from Superdrug's Collection 2000 (which I am a big fan of) and I have a (quite) pink one and a peachy one (warned you I wasn't professional). The peach one in the 03 Breathless pictured above shown on the right. It's already crumbled in the pot which is annoying as It's only been in my makeup bag for two days but it happens I suppose. The pink one's label has rubbed off but I think its in the shade Trouble. I often rub my blusher off because I'm not used to it yet and worry I look stupiddd. I'm a bit trial and error with it.  

My Collection 2000 Liquid eye liner pen. It so easy to apply, genuinely like a pen. It's called the Extreme 24 Hour Felt tip Liner. I've had one pen eye liner before, in black, and it came out green on my eyes. Safe to say I stopped using that rather quickly but this one is jet black when applied, which I love. It stays on throughout the day as well, which is always a bonus. I wear this almost without fail on my top lid every day. 

I also use a pretty standard black eye liner pencil on the bottom. I had a number 7 eyeliner a year or so ago that almost never smudged but it was quite expensive and I like cheap! I might invest in one again soon though, especially with this rain.

This is what I wear most days. I'm at school five days a week and there are obviously rules we have to stick to with our make up but I don't think I'd wear much too different if they said our make up could be as wacky as we liked.

This was wordy! Well done and thank you if you got to the end and managed to get through my rambles on what I wear. 

What are your make up dailies? 

Love Victoria xo 

50p calenders and some very bright fabric

Ah! I haven't posted properly in ages but I just haven't had time, which is strange because I don't recall doing anything particularly momentous, oh well, time flies eh. So, Happy Valentines day, hope you're having a good day, coupled up or not. Anyway, just a quick update for now, I want to do a kind of beauty/hair product post soon. I know nothing about beauty or hair for that matter but when has that ever stopped anyone and why should it. 

I went shopping with my Mum on Sunday, it was supposed to be a quick in-out shop but didn't end up as short as we planned, never mind. I got myself a cheeky Zac Efron calender for 50p, to replace my JLS one that has been hanging up for two months too long now. Making myself sound incredibly teenage right now, JLS then Zac Efron. But I love him and it was 50p. Reason enough i think. 

I took this picture quite quickly so it's a little blurred and there's a shadow because this is January's photo and so I had to hold February up with one hand at the same time. 

We made a quick trip to a near by-ish fabric shop too because I finally came up with a design for my textiles project. I've been playing around with a few designs that are all quite similar but it just wasn't quite right. This project is mostly marked on details and quality of making so I've decided to make a cushion cover. Hopefully I'll be able to incorporate several embroidery techniques with that. Also, I did a dress for my last project which I ended up hating by the end of it, so this will be a nice change. Anyway, getting back on track, there are petals/tiny flowers on my design so we got this sheer material (that doesn't photograph well) to go over a more opaque lighter shade of pink material for those. 

My attempt to show the sheerness of the fabric.

 I'm a bit nervous because this material frays a lot as you can see in the second photo. We'll see how it goes. Positive mental attitude!

Hope you all had a good weekend and have a good week! 

Love Victoria xo

jupe.

zara.

So, I haven't posted in a while. I wish it was because i'd been off having amazing adventures and all that but in actual fact I have a french speaking exam tomorrow and a whole lotta deadlines which seem to come way too quickly. 

I decided, just to keep some life in my blog, that I would post this skirt from Zara. I love that pleated skirts are coming in this season. I wasn't so sure about it at first but I've seen a few around that I like now. It'll give us a breather from the body con skirts at least. (I still love my body con skirts though). 

Opinions?

Back to French for me, au revoir ;)

Love Victoria xo 

it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Leo & Yasmin
(here)

I watched Channel 4's Beauty and the Beast: the ugly side of prejudice last night. It's about two people who live together for a week who are often defined by the way they look. I was a little iffy about watching this show because I got the impression it was going to be quite bad because I hadn't realised that both the people were often defined by their looks. That doesn't really get across why I was iffy too well, the words aren't coming, but I was just iffy about it. But I was wrong, it wasn't what I expected at all. 

Leo, who suffered third degree burns as a teenager (i think, can't remember the exact age but it was young) and has since then under gone 120 operations because of them, went to live in a house with Yasmin for a week. Yasmin has size J breasts and feels she is often defined by them. In the show you see her on a night out with her boyfriend, brother, some friends and Leo and she gets so many comments. She deals with them incredibly well, much better than I would. Yasmin's beauty routine could last for up to two hours and is described several times throughout the show as a mask. 

The show was lovely. It saw Yasmin take Leo to her cosmetic surgery consult in which she came out of with different thoughts about it. That, in fact, she might not want it as much as she thought she did or that she didn't need surgery to get the body she wanted. Also, Leo took Yasmin to a photo shoot where he was photographed for an exhibition of people with facial disfigurements. He had said he hated having his picture taken and that this was the first time he'd sat down for a portrait since his accident but that he actually felt comfortable while having it done, which was heart warming.

Over all, the programme was really interesting and just a genuinely nice watch because although the show is focussed on the looks it doesn't make you feel that too obviously as your watching it (if that makes sense). I was worried the show might be a little mean, but this episode deffinitely wasn't. It was inspiring and lovely. They really cared about each other  and their stories/opinions and it was so sweet. Although from the preview of next weeks episode it doesn't seem to go as smoothly. I can't decide if I'll watch it. 

here.

The one thing that does annoy me so so much about this show, is the name. Why 'Beauty and the beast'? Beast is such a horrible word and I feel encourages the issues they are trying to address in the show. Maybe they're trying to be ironic or something or maybe i'm just not getting it? Either way, I, personally, don't like it. I don't like a lot of the titles I see for these kinds of shows, not just on channel 4 however, but I suppose the title is there to draw people in. 


Did you see it? What did you think?
Love Victoria xo 

Price Tag - Jessie J ♪

I love this.
Take a listen, the lyrics are so good! 

Love Victoria xo 

Training Heels.

I need to apologise for the, what I think is, screwed up homework. it goes wrong sometimes, what can you do?

and again. 

Prom is five months away. Five months seems like a reasonable length of time to prepare right? Apparently not, everyone is freaking out about transportation, dresses, food and blah blah blah. I'm not too worried about all of that, I know we'll get it sorted (positive mental attitude!) but there is one thing that's had me a little worried of late. The shoes. I'm not worried about the colour/size/style/shoe-dress coordination, more the actual walking in them. 

I'm fifteen and can't walk in heels. I'll admit it, nothing to be ashamed of! I've never had any real need to wear heels. My friends houses and school don't really call for such attire, prom however does. So, I decided it was about time to settle the nerves and get practising. After all, they say practice makes perfect, and I'm not even after perfect, just adequate as to avoid any falls. Enter shopping. 

My mother and I found the beauties you see in the photos above in BHS on an after school shopping trip this week. I wouldn't normally think to look in BHS but I'm glad my mum suggested it. She's always right! I love the colour and because of the nude shade they will go with almost anything! They were in the sale too, which is extra bonus points! 

So from now on, I'll be lounging around the house in these heels to try and ensure my being at a constant vertical during prom. I'm focusing on walking, not even attempting stairs for fear of breaking something and have concluded that they're going to come off during the dancing! 

My recent step into the world of heels has made me wonder about a few things. What age do you begin wearing heels? Of course there is no age you should wear heels, to suggest such a thing would be silly in my eyes, but when is a common age, if there is one? I know people younger than me that have got heels down and then again I know some people older than me that stick to flats. I suppose it's down to the individual to choose whenever (if ever) they want to. 

How is your heels experience?

Love Victoria xo 

white white wedding.

here.

Oscar De La Renta is probably my all time favourite designers and through no fault of my own I ended up on the website. This is a wedding dress and it is out of the 'prom dress budget' by a zillion punds but I love it. It's beautiful!

Love Victoria xo