A Rimmel London Review: New Kate Moss Nude Lipsticks

Well unless you live under a rock (or don't give a rat's arse about beauty.. in which case, unless you're beyond bored, I don't recommend you read this) you'll of probably heard that Rimmel London has launched new Kate Moss lipsticks in a nude collection. I think Kate Moss is a model or something but she could be an astronaut for all I know. What I do know is that Kate Moss' lipsticks are the bomb.com so when I heard about these it was inevitable that I was gonna pick one up, well two actually ;)

I'm pretty sure there are 5 shades in the collection and then one lip barm thing?

I picked up the two darker colours; 45 and 48 as the others looked a little too light for my liking as they looked like they would make me look like I have "concealer lips" which isn't very hot and "you look ill" as my old head of year would say, haha. But I haven't tried them so I can't judge.

So here number 45 and number 48 in my attempt to be photograpery ;)

 

That photograpy effort tho...

Oh boy, now to attempt to describe them..

 45, on the left, is very smiler to my beloved 03 only this is slightly more sheer and pink toned (I think haha) It's also quite similar to my natural lip colour so it just adds a little something without shout "I'M WEARING LIPSTICK", if you know what I mean.

48, on the right, is defiantly my favourite out of the two. It's kind of like a coffee toned nude and reminds me of on Rachel on friends has worn before. I love my statement red lips, as you will know if you read my blog but bold nude lip is very refreshing and I've been reaching for this one a lot!

Please excuse my peach fuzz aha

also please ignore how messy it it is, I did it very quick and rushed 

They don't last very long on the lips but they wear quite evenly so there is no weird lines on your lips after an hour or so. Over all, I'm quite chuffed with them, especially 48!

If you're interested you can find them here or in most drugstores :)

And can we give me points for effort for curling my hair? Like seriously it never happens and short hair is super hard to curl aha.

Whale that's all folks!

Thank you for reading and I hope you enjoyed ^.^

Have you tried these out or want to? Leave me a comment!

Have a super fantastic day,

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

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Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge: First Impression

Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge 

Here's the sponge dry and at it's original size

And here's it when it's soaked in water and expanded

Now please excuse my weird faces..

 

Starting off with a clean face.

I applied Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation in True Ivory by putting a few pumps on the back of my hand and dabbing it all over my face with the flat side of the sponge.

 

 Then I used the curved side to blend it in by kind of bouncing it along until my foundation looked more or less seamless.

I then a applied  Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer in True Ivory to the places where it goes straight from the wand thing..

And blend blend blend! I used the pointed end for under my eyes and around my nose.

And voile la! I didn't really need to apply either foundation or concealer on this particular day because I was having a good skin day but I just wanted to try the sponge out :D

So my thoughts;

 I like it! It didn't blow my mind or anything and it hasn't converted me to sponges but I'm defiantly going to mix between my expert makeup brush and this. I don't know if it's just because I have bouncy skin (people have actually told me i have bouncy skin XD) but I found the bouncing motion for blending a little weird. Not a bad weird but still weird.. I did find however, that I love it for blending out my concealer rather then using my fingers. 

It says on the box to wash it after 1-3 washes so I'm going to wash it after 2. I've washed it once already and noticed that the foundation stain is still there somewhat. It doesn't bother me much because I'm not a germaphobe or anything but after a while it may become gross.

So all in all I think it's a pretty good sponge especially for the value. It seamlessly blend the product and is extremely easy to  use so in the morning if I'm running late and look sleep deprived I can whack on so concealer and dab dab dab and run! 

So rating out of 10, 1 being "what even is this?" and 10 being "my precious!" I'd give it a 8 which is good because 8 is my favourite number :)

 Thanks for reading!

Hope you enjoyed ^.^

Have you tried it? What did you think? Feel free to tell me in the comments below

Have a super fantastic day!

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

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Girl Online: Book Review

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I read Girl Online back in December after receiving form my lovely mother (thanks mum!). There has been a lot of attention on this book and not all of it good attention. I'm not sure exactly what happened but what I've gathered is that Zoe didn't write it all and some of it was ghost written. A lot of people seen to be upset or angry about this and I do understand why, I do. However personally it doesn't really bother me, I figured that she would have gotten help with writing it because people don't tend to randomly become a writer, not all on their own.

I'll admit this book only made it onto my Christmas list to Santa because I'm a big zoella fan, I watch her videos religiously and I love her blog. BUT this review is surprisingly not as bias as I thought it would be because just rating it on it's storyline and characters I genuinely loved it (okay it sounds really bias but its not, honest!)

Now bare with me as I'm not entirely sure how to write a book review haha /).(\ ....

The book is set in Brighten and follows the main character Penny, a 15 year old with a secret blog. Penny is dealing with anxiety and panic attacks which are new and scary to her and throughout the book it shows how they develop and how she deals with them. Penny lives next door to her very stylish gay best friend, Elliot who is dealing with his own problems. Penny goes through some embarrassing moments involving school as well as some friendship problems which make her anxiety worst. Then as if a fairy godmother granted her wish, she gets whisked away to New York where she soon meets the rock-godtastic Noah who sweeps her off her feet. The only thing is that Noah has his own secret that Penny is yet to find out about.

Okay so I suck at summing the story up without giving too much away but that ^^ is pretty much what the blurb says on the back of the book just reworded so yeah... Haha

I don't think I've ever read a book that I related to so much! Although I don't have panic attacks like Penny an I certainly have never met a Noah (although There's this guy at school who looks just like what I imagined Noah to look like ;)) there were so many times I laughed out loud purely because I related and knew exactly what she was talking about.

Penny is around my age so when she talks about school, especially since it's a British secondary school, it's easy to imagine and relate too (the struggles are real ;-;). Also she is quite an awkward and clumsy teenager and when she gets nervous she gets worse, just like me.

I could go on and on about all the mixed feels this book gave me, like all the LOL moments and the times I got butterflies (like when Noah showed up.. Ooh ) but I think you get the picture :)

I think the characters were we thought out well and were interesting and I fell in love with them but I felt like their speech didn't always flow very realistically, that didn't really affect my love for the book much. I also really enjoyed the plot but I guessed Noah's secret straight away which I honestly didn't see coming when he was first introduced but I felt like I could of been hidden better and would of been nice to find out when Penny did but at the same time it did create dramatic irony as we were just waiting for her to find out. So I admit this book wasn't by any means perfect but I still loved it.

This was a easy light read and a refreshing break from my usual fantasy and dystopian books that normally contain a kickass hero/heroine fighting against the forces of evil, I obviously love these books but it was lovely to just read about a regular teenager.

Being a Zoella fan, it's was great to see little snippets of her in this book like the blog posts weaved into the story, the fact it was set in Brighton where Zoe live and talks about all the places that Penny loves that Zoe also loves like The Lanes and the beach, also the little bits like where Penny wore a milkmaid braid which Zoe did a video of :)

I gave this book a 5 star rating, call me just a loyal fan joining the over-rated but I genuinely loved reading it. I think Zoe -or who ever wrote it- should be very proud and will probably reread this as I actually miss it and I can't wait the second one which I believe is coming out in November.

Have you read this book? I'd love to here your opinion on it in the comments!

Also do you have any books that you have read lately and recommend?

Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed! ^.^ 

CYA!

-Alice :) xx

This is the picture I took on Christmas ft. Rainbow Dash (my build a bear )

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