Surprise Birthday Party - Nan 80th ♥

Hey guys!
Yesterday (Saturday 4th July) was my nans 80th birthday.
She never wants any fuss on her birthday and would rather just be left to have her day to herself.
However me being the grand-daughter that I am I couldn't let an 80th birthday not be celebrated.
I planned a surprise party and told everyone what was going on and just asked them to contribute to the cost. My aunt took her out for the day so I could rush round and put all the decorations up, do all the food and get everyone together for the arrival.
My uncle dressed as a beaver. Yes a beaver.

My nan cried as she got out the car and was so shocked to see everyone. She did make me laugh when she turned to me and said "I don't have enough cups for everyone to have a cup of tea" haha!
I took her in the house and showed her all the food and decorations that I had been working on all day.
She turned to me again and broke her heart crying on my shoulder.

Another surprise was on its way.
I made my nans cake for her birthday.
I have never ever ever made a cake in my life. Let alone a 2 tier cake!
It took me 4 days to make it all. Every single rose on the cake was hand made.

I didn't get any pictures of my makeup that day apart from a few pictures of my eye makeup. I was going to make a separate post for it but i thought i would just add it onto the end of this post haha!

I used a dark brown and black in the crease and blended it out. Took a wet brush into a gold/copper shadow and applied it to the crease. I applied a matte highlighter to the brow bone and the inner tear duct. My brows are my natural brows with a bit of brow gel brushed through them.

Overall the day was lovely even thought it was a bit stressful.

My nan had a good time which was the main things and everyone got to talk a reconnect after not seeing each other for a while.

Take Care

Post Soon x

Urban Decay Naked Basics: Real vs Fake. ♥

Hey guys!
Today's post is going to be about the Naked Basics Palette.
A couple of months ago I was gifted the Naked Basics from my mom on the way back from her trip to Spain.
I had been randomly looking on eBay as you do and a Naked Basics Palette came up which was ending soon. I've always wanted to do one of these comparison posts so today is the day i can finally do one! YEAH!
The Original Naked Basics retails for £22.00 on the official Urban Decay website and the fake i brought cost me £2.10 (on auction) I believe.

So let's look at them side by side.
Can you guess which one is the fake?

Left is the Original

Right is the fake

Okay! So the first picture of the outer packing you can see the the right one has more of a brown tint than the original one which is more of a golden colour. There are also small little details like the "B" in Basics being bolder on the fake one than the real one.

I have also found that the fake one tends to get more messy and scratch easily than the original as it is made of a a cheaper material.

If we take a look at the second picture we can see the inside of the palette. As you can see the names underneath the shadows have also changed. This will have been done for copyright allegations.

The colours in the pan are pretty much identical as you can see.

The only colour which does look different just from looking at the palette is "Faint". You can also see from the pictures that i have a couple of chips and scraps on it and that is due to the products in the pans which i will explain and you will see why when i show you the following pictures.

Okay so lets get on with the colours!
On each swatch the real Naked basics shadow is on the left and the sake is on the right

The first colour is "Faint" vs. "Half Baked"

As you can see "Half Baked" has a few more metallic finish that "Faint" as well as it being more white than "Faint" which has more of a cream base.

They are both however both beautiful colours and are so similar it is insane!

The next colour is "Foxy" vs. "Booty Call"

Both of these eye shadows are very powdery but "Foxy" does have more pigment than "Booty Call". They are pretty much the same colour, it is just a shame about the pigmentation of the fake shadow.

The next colour is "Walk of Shame" vs. "Chopper"


For some reason these shades didn't want to show up on my skin. As we can see from the picture above "Walk of Shame" is very soft and creamy compared to "Chopper" which is very powdery and has a lot of fall out. They are pretty much the same colours but like the shadows before the pigment is a let down.

The next colour is "Naked 2" vs. "YDK"

As we can see from the swatches "Naked 2" is a chocolate milk shade and "YDK" has more of a red tint to it. They is possibly the only one out of the whole fake palette which doesn't resemble the real one. The pigmentation on this colour from the fake palette isn't that bad and doesn't cause major fall out.

The next colour is "Faint" vs. "Busted"

From the picture we can see that "Faint" is a dark brown and has better pigmentation than "Busted". However this is one of my favourite colours from the fake palette. It is a good transition shade when creating a dark smokey eye.

The last shade is "Crave" vs. "Verve"

Both of these black shadows are rather fantastic, I have purchased worse single black shadows in the past from various brands. Both of these need building up. "Crave" is a bit more pigmented than "Verve". They both have the same amount of fall out but "Crave" is still the better shadow.

So all together you can see the different between each shadow and how to spot a real and a fake palette. You do get what you pay for and even though the fake palette isn't bad and the price was literally nothing i would still rather by the real one and know I have 6 well pigmented shadows to work with.

What do you guys think?

I hope you liked this blog post. I thought it would be something different to break up the festive celebration posts haha!

Happy Sunday!

Have a good day/night where ever you are in the world

Take Care

Post Soon x