The Makeup Addict Tag!

Hello everyone!

I was recently tagged by the lovely Jaq from LazyDaysBeauty to do the Makeup Addict Tag! I love a good tag blog post so this is something right up my street! I'm also not feeling all that inspired this week, so this is a good round off for the week!

What product do you still keep buying more of despite having plenty in your collection?

Nail polishes. I've got at least 50 of all sorts of brands and colours, but I have sooo many red ones!

What's the one product you can't live without?

Mascara. I live for that on days were my eyes just look naked!

Favourite makeup brand?
Collection 2000 and Rimmel. Collection have great products for prices, as do Rimmel. They are the ones I will always go to first in a store.

How big is your makeup collection?
I dread to think. This time last year it would have been about 10-20 products, all of which were almost used up or broken. Now there must be a good 200 individual products, half of which are brand new and have only been used for swatching so far!

And how do you like to store it?

I have two drawers of my desk allocated to the best part of the collection, but I have some metal storage drawers for my every day things and brushes.

How many items of makeup have you got in your handbag at the moment?
Only two. A pressed powder and a powder brush. I don't carry anything else with me as I'm not the kind of girl who will 'top it up' at the end of the day. 

If you could raid another blogger's stash, who would it be?

Tanya Burr. She always has amazing products ready for her tutorials, so I guess her collection is pretty large! 

How long does your usual makeup routine take and how many products do you use?

It can take about 10 minutes or just under for day to day wear. I use 6 products and 4 brushes!

Have you ever bought makeup knowing you wouldn't use it?
Yes all the time. Oh a new eye shadow because a blogger recommended it / it's cheap / it's been hyped up. Happens all the time. 

Tag a few other makeup addicts to do the tag!

I'm tagging these lovelies:

Bea from As Seen By Bea

Gemma from Touch of Belle

Abbie from Not Just a Curl

And of course, if you want to do this tag, then do it! Let me know in the comments if you've done it so I can have a read :) Hope you have a great day and keep safe :)

Collection 2000 Sheer Loose Powder | #1 Barely There

Hello everyone!

Another Collection 2000 product! I'm so surprising am I not?! I've only ever used pressed powders, but thought I would give this a little try and see how I fared with it. This is #1 Barely There and was £2.99 from Superdrug. This is the same tone as my pressed powder (#1 Candelight, also Collection) so I knew at the least this would look okay on me.

Other than opening the pot and knocking a good deal of this all over my hands, arms and top - I have come to love this. It feel a lot lighter than a pressed powder when I apply it, and I can shake my powder brush off if there is too much on the brush. It comes with a little face puff/sponge, but I don't like them! My brush has done a perfect job with this!

I really like it and think I might now branch out with other brands to see how those fare against this one. Are you a pressed or loose powder user? Let me know! Hope you have a great day and keep safe :)

October Playlist

Hello everyone!

I've been listening to a lot of music as usual this month, so thought I would create this little list off all the songs I am loving right now! Click any of the titles to get taken to a YouTube video, so you can check them out for yourself :)


Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
One Direction - Right Now
Ellie Goulding - Goodness Gracious
OneRepublic- Love Runs Out
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
We The Kings - Can't Shake This
Nicki Minaj - Anaconda
Brandon & Leah - Showstopper
Linkin Park/Jay-Z - Numb/Encore
Mamma Mia OST - Mamma Mia!


Like any of the songs? Let me know below, and have a great day and keep safe :)

Zoella Beauty Range | New Brand!

Hello everyone!

So today I'm going to be reviewing Zoe Sugg's range of goodies, Zoella Beauty! I've been watching Zoe's vlogs for about two years now, and have been following her blog for over a year, and I think she is a pretty amazing person. So when I heard she was doing her own beauty range, I knew I needed to get it. It was out for about a week before I bought mine, and I noticed a serious lack of reviews and hype about the products. I was hoping to get a little insight into what I was buying, but I've only seen about five or six posts on the range.

I ordered mine from Superdrug and within a few days they arrived! I only picked up three items from the range. I chose the Fizz Bar for £5, the Candle for £5 and Blissful Mistful perfume for £8.

Right off the bat, I like the scent. The candle made the scent smell a little weirder, I have to say, but I'm putting it down to the wax smell too. I cannot for the life of me describe this scent. It's slightly floral, oriental and reminds me of some sweets from my childhood. Also, the packaging is beautiful and something that is much like Zoe's blog.

Lets start with the Fizz Bar. It comes wrapped in really nice polka paper with stickers in it saying 'Do Not Eat' - likely due to it resembling a chocolate bar! Unwrapped, it is a small block of 8 chunks ready to be broken off. To me, a fizz bar should produce a lot of fizzy bubbles and dissolve pretty quickly. I ran a bath, broke off two pieces and dropped them in. Not a lot happened really. There was a little bit of fizzing action, a few little bubbles popped on the surface and the water went a light shade of pink. Honestly, I'm a little disappointed. I guess I was expecting something as fizzy as a Lush product...

Onto the Candle. It comes in a small metal tin with the design all over it. It's a pretty small candle, but I like that it's in the tin with a lid so I can shut the smoke in when I blow it out! As far as a candle goes, it's pretty good. The scent is nice when it's alight, but it is really just a candle at the end of the day.

Last up is the perfume, Blissful Mistful. Honestly, this is the only product of the three that I actually really like. It's a nice palm sized bottle, with a red lid and top. The bottle is again, polka dot designed. This is the one product that smells delightful in this scent and it's not over powering at all. My Dad on the other hand, was not a fan of me sporting the scent all day. Like Zoe said in a recent vlog (4mins17seconds), she knows not everyone will like the scent!

Overall, I'm not a massive fan of the range so far. I'm thinking over getting the body lotion and bath soak just to see if they are better than the fizz bar and candle. I won't buy the candle or fizz bar again as I didn't find them all that great, but the perfume is something I will get again and I really loved it! I do like the prices though, as I know a lot of Zoe's audience are young teens who likely do not have jobs so parents are buying these for them, so that is something I like about the range.

Also, a wonderful blogger called Daisy from DaisyDaisyxxo, also done a post about this range and her's was refreshingly honest. You can read her review here. Have you tried any of the Zoella range yet, and if so, what did you think?