MAC Ruby Woo Dupe?! ♥

Hey guys!

My last MAC lipstick dupe is one of my highest viewed posts so I thought if you guys enjoy them I would find another which is what I have done! WOO!

If you haven't seen my last dupe post it on was MAC Rebel you can read it here.

Okay, so the amazing thing about this dupe it that it's not a lipstick.

I needed a new red lip liner and to my surprise it was the same colour, texture and finish as MAC Ruby woo!

The lipliner is Rimmel 1000 kisses Lasting Finish lip liner pencil is 021 red dynamite!

This product retails for £2.99 at Superdrug and Boots!

This is MAC Ruby woo and retails for £15.50

I know MAC have recently brought out a lip liner matching this lipstick which costs £12.50 but that is still a £9.51 saving buying the Rimmel dupe!
This is the part you have all been wanting to see. The colour comparison!


Left - Rimmel lip liner pencil | Right - Mac Ruby Woo

Left - Rimmel lip liner pencil               Right - Mac Ruby Woo

As you can see from the swatches above they both look the same on the lips and in swatches!
Yes, Ruby woo is easier to apply and does show on the lips more red but with a couple of layers of the lip pencil you will get the same pigmentation.
The lip liner in my eyes is better for if you were going to go out and eat or drink with this product on due to it lasting and staining power on the lips.

If you have always wanted to try Ruby Woo but didn't want to spend the £15.50 for the lipstick then this is the perfect way to test it out and for £2.99 you're not breaking the bank on a lipstick that you may not like!

I hope you guys liked this post!
Let me know what you think!

Take Care

Post Soon x

Get to know me a little! ♥

Hey guys! 

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!! January has been and gone so quick! I hope the rest of this year goes slow else it is all going to go by in a blink of an eye! So any ways here is a little blog post of question I've found from different tags and added them all into one! So here we go!

1. What is your favourite make-up brand and why?

This is a difficult question. I use different brands for different parts of my makeup routine... I'm gonna have to say... Rimmel! They are one of the best drugstore make up brands with excellent quality products. (Some better than others) 

2. Favourite quote?

I don't really have a quote that I live by. At the moment I am reading a Demi Lovato Staying Strong 365 days a year book and each day they give you a quote to go with the day, each day I read it and try to live by that quote to the fullest (I may be doing a full book 'review' soon)

3. Do you colour your hair? 

I do. I never used to but I have started to know since I started to want purple hair, you guys may have read about me changing my hair colour in a previous blog post!

4. Do you have any pets?

I have a dog called Jasper who is a staffy cross, we are not sure on what he is crossed with as we got him from a local dog home. He's currently lying next to me in bed asleep, the lazy poop haha!

5. What was your favourite subject in school?

I only take 3 lessons... Film Studies, Media and Music... Media is my favourite out of all of them!

6. What's your favourite book? 

At the moment it has to be Demi Lovato's Staying Strong 365 days a year book, its perfect!

7. What's your favourite colour?

Every shades of blue... unless they are too light or too dark haha!

8. What's your favourite animal?

Do unicorns count? I like pandas, polar bears and penguins... you know the every day animals... I love dogs, i am a dog person

9. What's your Favourite perfume?

Again i have many... Lady gaga Fame, Taylor swift Wonderstruck, One Direction, Avon Infinity moments (I think that's what its called) :'D

10. What's your favourite season?

My favorite season is Winter, i prefer to be cold and able to warm myself up instead of being hot and trying to find a way to cool down. I'm just not a big on the snow, its pretty to look at but when i have to travel in it... noooooo

11. Have you been out of the country?

Yes, I've been to Greece many times and in April i am travelling to New Zealand which for me is half way around the world, im so excited but at the same time scared, i've never been on a plane for more than 6 hours....

12. Do you speak any other languages?

Not really, I had french lessons back in high school but i can only remember certain things which wouldn't help when visiting France haha!

13. Do you have any siblings?

Yes! I have a brother :)

14. What's your favourite make up shop?

Superdrug is the place to go when your make up shopping, i honestly love that shop and can spend hours in there!

15. What's your favourite restaurant?

Nandos. Nandos. Nandos. 

16. Who are some of your favorite YouTubers?

I have so many... Zoe Sugg, Joe Sugg, Alfie Deyes, Marcus Butler, Tanya Burr, Jim Chapman, Pixiwoo, Emma Pickles, Caspar Lee, Thatsojack, shaaanxo, Grace Helbig, Mazzi Maz, Sam Pepper, MyNamesChai,  BeautyCrush, Promise Phan, Michelle Phan, Tyler Oakly... MANY MANY MANY MORE!

17. What are some of your favourite TV shows?

Eastenders, The Following, The Walking Dead. I have loads more, its depends on my mood haha

18. PC or Mac?

I have many PC's around the house but i love to use the Mac's at school for editing and being all creative, its so much easier and I just love the look of them.

19. What phone do you have?

iPhone 4s :)

20.  Starbucks or Costa?

Is this really a question? Obviously Starbucks <3

Only 20 questions! I could have put many more in here but i thought this could just be a part one and if you guys like it i could carry on with more questions like this for you guys to get to know me a bit more. Hope you enjoyed this little get to know me tag, and are having a great start to February!
Take Care.
Post Soon x 

Gradient Sunset Nail Tutorial ♥

Hey Guys! 
Many of you will not know this but i love doing my nails and experimenting with new designs and colours.

Recently i have been loving the gradient look and with it sort of being the summer time i thought it would be a great idea to do a little nail tutorial which you guys can do yourself or to your friends. There are many tutorials on YouTube which shows you how to add a palm tree or little birds onto this design but for me i just wanted it to be plain, simple and bright!

So i hope you enjoy my step by step picture tutorial to help you achieve this vibrant look!

I first started off with 3 beautiful colours. A red, yellow and bubblegum pink!
Now you can use any colours that your guys want but due to me watching the 'sunset' look i decided upon these.

The colours from left to right: ELF Smokin' Hot, NYC Lexington Yellow, ELF Gum Pink.
These colours really did blend well together creating the contract between the colours.
 The next thing you will be needing is a cosmetic make up wedge sponge, you can get these rather cheap if you get them from the right places. I got mine from ELF while on a little bit of a spending spree in the past and have never used them for makeup as ive always used a brush. You get 8 of them online for £1.50 from ELF which i feel is a bargain!
The next thing i did was apply these colours onto the sponge in stripes, starting with the yellow and then pink followed finally by the red it should look something like this 

Now you have your colours ready get your nail prepared for the colours with a base case! (For this mini tutorial im just going to used a fake nail so you can really see the end results) If you want to save some time paint the base before you start.
If your do end up using sheer colours i would add a base coat of white to enhance the colour. I however didn't do this as the colours i have very bold and do not need any help enhancing.
Time to apply the colours from the sponge into your nail! 

You're going to do this by placing the sponge on your nail directly and start to rock the sponge over your nail to allow the colour to transfer. Once you have done this it should look something like this! 

As you can see the colours have blended really well and you can fully see where one colour should start and end.

Next your going to allow this to full dry and then add a top coat to seal in the design! For this I used a matte topcoat.

or you could give the Sally Hansen super shine top coat if you're looking for that shiny nail look (or any other topcoat of your choice) ! 

Once applied it should look something like this (all adding a top coat will really do is hold your polish design for longer and blend the colours together more evenly! 

And that is it! 

Simple right? I told you but would be, even though the summer time isn't really the classic summer time here in England doesn't mean you nails can't be bright and colourful! 

I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial I hope to do more in the future for you guys if you liked them! 

Have a good day/night

 Take care x

NEW HAIR COLOUR! ♥

Hey guys!

Today's post is both lifestyle and beauty as you guys can probably tell from the title!
Now for the past couple of years ive been the type of person that has never been on the band wagon of always dying their hair from blonde to brown to red etc but there comes a time in everyone's life were you just have to take the bull by the horns and take that leap of faith! How cheesy did that sound?!

I've always been slightly worried because of seeing many friends and people around me dying their hair and then sometimes something going wrong along with all the disaster stories about peoples hair falling out!

The colour that i used was L'Oreal Paris Feria in P38 Violet Vendetta.

This hair dye retails for around £5 but it may be cheaper in certain shops due to promotions. 

(My own pictures, sorry for the energy drink sneaking its way into the first picture)

From the back of the box i thought my hair would have more of a purple undertone than i actually have. I would have inserted a picture of my hair before and after but i completely forgot i was going to do a blog post about it and by the time i remembered i already had my roots coloured. At the moment in time i am using my iPhone 4s to take pictures with and for some unknown reason my hair colour isn't picking up as much as i would like it too!

In the natural light the purple in my hair really does shine through. The formula for this dye for me was no problem, the packaging does tell you to test a strand of hair out of visible site for example a section behind the ear. The things i found that was rather strange about this hair colour compared to the other ones i have been looking at is that they say you should test it 48 hours before you plan on dying your whole head, many of them i have looking into have only said 24 hours, this however didn't bother me, i had already waited one day one more couldn't hurt ha!

If your planning on dying your hair at any time i would recommend having your split ends trimmed off as i found with the simple test strand that the colour did stick to the ends more than it should because of the moisture that they are needing.

Washing the dye out of my hair took for what seemed like forever! Every single time i thought it has all finally come out a magic piece of hair would appear with loads of dye. Make sure with any hair dye you use that all  the dye is washed out fully because you don't want to be ruining a towel ha!

Overall i am happy with my hair colour and the process that i went through and who knows i may end up being even more daring with colours next time! 

I hope you guys enjoyed this post and found it helpful if you were like me and a tad worried about dying your hair, try some semi-permanent colours before settling and always follow the instructions in the box!

EDIT

I thought i would just add to this post as its been a while since i used this hair colour. Honestly for me, it isn't the best hair colour i have used. Every single time i washed my hair more and more colour leaked out and many times it seemed as if i was washing the colour off my hair again. I think it may have something to do with my hair type as to why it does that because its not only this hair dye that has done it many of the others i have tried do too. Due to it washing out i had many random brown patches from where the colour has just simply washed out and compared to other hair dye this one didn't really give off  the purple-ness i would have wanted, but let me know what you guys think about this product as i would love to know if it worked for you!

Take care x