Sunday, 22 July 2012

YSL Touche Eclat Foundation First Impressions

Hi girls. As you saw in my last post, I've been to my local beauty counter and picked up the latest YSL Touche Eclat foundation. I wore it for the first time today and thought I'd show you a before and after application picture and a photo after 6 hours wear.

This foundation applies flawlessly and is very light and lovely to apply. It's quite a light coverage but manages to make the skin look fantastic with only a small amount of product.
I only set the foundation with a tiny bit of powder because I wanted to see how well it lasted on it's own. My skin is combination - dry around the forehead and sides of the nose and gradually gets oilier on the cheeks and forehead during the day. As you can see in the last picture, my face seems shinier than it usually does with other foundations, which I'm so unhappy about because this foundation looks so good when you put it on at first!

I'm going to use up my tester and try out a bit more powder to set it to see how that goes.

Before:


After:


After 6 hours wear:


Testing new foundations.

I went into my local Boots and Debenhams and spoke to the girls on the Clinique and YSL counters. They kindly gave me some testers for some of their foundations. I've recently been trying Clinique Even Better which I didn't like, so I went back and got testers for the Stay Matte Oil Free and Redness Solutions Foundation to see of they suit my skin any better. The one I'm most excited about, though is the YSL Touche Éclat Foundation. Going to wear that one today I think!

Saturday, 21 July 2012

O.O.T.D Cross Tee, Wang, McQueen and Converse

Right, another attempt at a video went a bit better than last time... you can now watch in HD (I think!) 
Editing is still shoddy and lighting isn't the best but this was just a test for myself really to try out different settings on my camera.
Again, I'm waiting for the music to upload so if you can't hear it, come back later! :)


All outfit info below:

Cross Tshirt - Topshop
Skinny Jeans - Topshop
Socks - Primark or H&M
Shoes - Converse
Grey/brown Hoody - Topshop
Leather Jacket - River Island via. Carboot Sale
Bag - Rocco by Alexander Wang
Skull Ring - Alexander McQueen
Two thumb rings - Vintage
Watch - Michael Kors MK5137
Skull Bracelet - Links Of London

Shellac

So me and my bez went to get our nails done. Popped our Shellac cherry. I got Rosebud (baby mauve-pink) and J got Fedora (deep reddish black)

Sunday, 15 July 2012

O.O.T.D & my first video fail

Hi guys and girls! I had a lovely lie in this morning as I didn't need to be up for work, hurray!
It's cracking the flags here, lovely and warm so decided to get up and do what I do best which is spend an afternoon mooching round the shops!

I decided to try out something new today and film an OOTD for you all, but me being amazing at technology somehow managed to record it in the most rubbish quality ever. I'm also super rubbish at editing so...there's pretty much none of that so it's all choppy...
BUUUTTT, it took ages to import and export and upload and process and all that jazz so I thought I may as well put it on here anyway! If there's no sound now, hopefully in a little while there should be, as I'm waiting for an audioswap on youtube and it seems to be taking forever. Bear with me!


 I said it was ridiculously rubbish quality, didn't I! It's a good job I took some pics to go with it...


I wore my studded denim jacket from Topshop.
"Damned" t-shirt from Topshop.



Second Skin black skinny jeans from Cheap Monday.



Neutral makeup, simple winged black liner.


Watch is the MK5137 chronograph gold and silver by Michael Kors.
Studded gold bracelet from Topshop.
Beaded gold and pearl bracelet from BHS.


Bag is the 11" Classic Satchel by The Cambridge Satchel Company.
White Converse from JD.


Sorry for the crap quality of the video. If I do another one, I'll try and sort my camera settings out!

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

O.O.T.D Assessment day and interview.

So I'm back from my interview/assessment day.
Very long day full of presentation after presentation, waiting around, interviews, more presentations and a little bit more hanging about.

Took a quick snap before I ran out of the door to catch the early morning train.


Blazer from Topshop
Stripe sheer shirt from Topshop


Leggings from....Topshop!
Watch by Michael Kors


Bag is the 14" Cambridge Satchel
Flatforms from River Island

Don't think they're going to be offering me the job! But experience is experience, eh! We'll wait and see.

Home time...

...zzz

Interview time.

Wish me luck. Far too early to be on a train.