It's looking like a beautiful day...

All this gorgeous weather is making me daydream about blue skies, sandy beaches and clear,turquoise water..

I don't know what I'm doing this summer yet but I should be going abroad for a little while as part of my course.. Have you any summer plans? :) x

Here comes the sun!

Ah sun. I'm not quite sure if it's my friend or foe!

I love the warm weather and the fact that you can leave your jacket at home, but as a very pale person who isn't too fond of extreme heat (although there's no fear of that here in Ireland!!) I'm wary of it!

I prefer to turn to bronzer if I'm going for a slightly tanned look. Except due to my paleness many bronzers look orange/brown/ just dirty looking on me. YUK.

However I may have found my new favourite bronzer. Step forward Rimmel Sunshimmer 3 in 1 shimmering bronzer in 001 Gold Princess.

 As you can see in this pic there's three shades. And they are all quite sheer and light. Perfect for pale skin!

Here they are swatched with the lightest colour to the darkest, left to right.

I had to swatch them quite heavily to even get this amount of colour! If you want a full on bronzer or if you have darker skin this probably isn't for you but for pale skinned girlies like me it's the business! :)

Now where did I leave my sunglasses...

* I'm not sure of the exact price.. around 11 euro I think for 9.9g of product so good enough.  I'll try and find out soon!*

Quirky accessories

I love accessories.

Since my clothes usually aren't very out there (I'm not bold enough for wet look leggings or the previously discussed leather shorts, sorry!) I try to make sure my accessories are different and stand out.

A recent purchase was this necklace from forever 21, 4.80 euros

Yes.. it's a robot.

Isn't it cute? I don't know what I'm gonna wear it with yet but I can see myself planning an outfit around it haha!

On a side  note it was my first time in Forever 21 (I know, I know but I've been super busy this year okay...) and to be honest, I wasn't really impressed. Everyone raved about it but I didn't see what the fuss was about. The pricing system really confused me, things I thought would be expensive were cheap and vice versa. Also it is huge and I had a headache after half an hour wandering around. Maybe I'm missing something?

P.S I've changed my blog format a little, let me know if you like/dislike it! :)

Two out of three ain't bad...

I felt like I was in a lipstick rut.
That's my excuse for this.. lipstick binge is the only thing I think I can call it.

I went up to the counter to pay, with two lipsticks and the girl serving tells me that theres a 3 for 2 on Rimmel.. what do I come back with.. another bloody lipstick.. *Sigh* I am a disaster.

So yeah if you aren't interested in lipstick skip this post!



Here we have Moisture Renew lipsticks in 200 Latino, 600 Soft Coral and 620 Coral Queen

I usually stick with shocking pinks or nudes so this was me choosing something different!! First up is 600 Soft Coral. 7.99 euro each but like I said I got 3 for 2 here.

 I was very alarmed by the fact that this is orangey looking in the bullet. There is nothing I hate more than orange lipstick. Ugh. Thankfully this is NOT orange but more of a peachy colour. Happy out so!

 I actually quite like it on! Nice and subtle but a change from nude.

Next is 200 Latino.

 This is a cool toned deep pink. I didn't expect it to be as pigmented as it was to be honest. It delivers quite a lot of colour and it's quite a dark pink. I'm not sure if this picture exactly does it justice..

Regardless I like it. I think I'll be keeping it for nights out though!

Last and eh least for me anyway is 620 Coral Queen.



Sorry about the blur!



My camera sort of failed me at this point. I just couldn't get it to capture the colour on my lips very well.. Anyway,I really am not liking this colour. It looks like a red-orange to me on my lips. Maybe it's the fact that my skin is paler than pale and the colour just really stands out but I don't think I'll be coming back to this!

But two out of three ain't bad, huh? :)

Spring nails: Catrice Ultimate nail lacquer in Run Forest Run!

I really wanted a nice green for my nails for Paddy's day but couldn't find one anywhere! It's just typical that I find one I love about a week later.

ANYWAY, this is Catrice Ultimate nail lacquer in Run Forest Run! (I'll admit I laughed at the name)

The photo of the bottle is with flash as is the last picture so I think the second picture is a more acurate representation of the colour. The name suggests it's a forest green but I don't know if I would call it that.. it's definitely not mint green either. I'd call it grass green but that's just me! :)

The bottle suggests applying two coats, but to be honest one coat seemed fine to me! I layered on another coat in the hope that it would stop it chipping quickly (A little tip wear 2 days later but that's not bad).

I love the colour (so springtime!) and I was really impressed with the price, 2.79 euros in Pennys for 10mls, considering some of the Rimmel polishes are over a fiver for 8mls. I think I'll be checking out Catrice more often!

Maybelline Eyestudio Lasting Drama Gel eyeliner 24hour wear

 After hearing about this on the wonderful http://www.beaut.ie/ I knew I had to give it a go. I usually use pencil eyeliner as I find liquid quite tricky to work with  and I can only use it when it comes in a pen! I use 17's Soft liner eye pen in Soft Jet.

I bought this in Boots for the introductory price of 8.99 euros, good really, you are getting gel eyeliner and a brush. Usually I tend to throw away brushes I get with products because well.. they usually suck. But this brush is good, really good.

The gel eyeliner is really easy to use and doesn't drag or crease. It lasts ALL DAY which I was really impressed by. Another thing which I was really happy about was that there was no awful tatooing of the upper eyelids (you know when after a while the eyeliner smudges on the upper eyelid creating a sort of half moon shape that makes you look like a crazy person...)

It's only available in Black for now but I'm sure we will be seeing some new colours soon!

New staple in my make-up bag I think!! :)

Who likes short shorts? .... Not me.

What is it about spring that brings out shorts season? I much rather wearing skirts or lovely dresses.
It's not even that I prefer them, it's.. this is a little embarrassing but.. I'm afraid of shorts.

There I said it.

Shorts completely puzzle me. My childhood memories tell me that back then shorts belonged to summertime, were available in bright neon colours or denim and even then I disliked them. I also dislike showing my legs in them (I'm short I feel they do me no favours!!). And what to you wear with them?? What tops/shoes etc?

However, in the last few years shorts have become ''cool'', a must-have really. Which I em, don't have. I feel like lately every magazine I open features leather shorts as THE item for spring/summer '11. I look at these magazines and these pictures below and I think 'Hmm they do look quite good'..

There's no denying it. They seem to make an outfit effortlessly amazing.

Maybe I could go for a leather skirt instead?!