A new lease of life for baked eyeshadows..

..Courtesy of Fee at Makeup Savvy and Muhsine at Bubblegarm.


After reading Fee's post on scraping the top layer off baked products to leave them more pigmented I decided to have a go myself with Accessorize's baked duo in Rendezvous as after originally being impressed with it I then became less and less so as I used it a few more times. I tend to use this foiled, so with a wet brush, which seems to cause this problem of a frosty top-layer much faster than with a dry brush.


Here's the obligatory before shot:

Pale, washed out colour. This is relatively heavily swatched. 

Pretty shimmery colours in peachy and pale pink colours.. but with a frosty sheen

Time to score the surface of your baked shadow (or other baked product) to reveal fresh new surface!

Top to bottom: before & after. Both swatched over ELF's eyeshadow primer. There's a huge difference in pigmentation and the bottom swatches took a whole lot less loading onto the brush too! 

I look forward to being able to use this duo properly once again. 

Have you had pigmentation problems with baked products? Tried this? 

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Accessorize NOTD!

I thought I'd cleverly disguise my new year's post.... So first of all, Happy New Year!

And then onto the NOTD ;) this was what I wore for Christmas day this year...

Accessorize Pink Spice. A beautiful mix of pink and orangey-yellows. Love it!

Then I added a coat of ELF's "Twinkle" to it (which is a matte finish) and added a coat of INM's Out the Door to make it shiny again!

Hope you've all had a very happy Christmas period! 

Rach xx

P.S- giveaway winners coming soon!

NOTD - a repeat with a twist

Please excuse the dry cuticles... And hands...

This is Asda's Twister which is a matte finish, but after my last chipping disaster I used just a normal top coat with it. I used Accessorize's Ruby Sparkle all over on my thumb and ring finger and then on my nail tips too. 

I'm really pleased with this actually, pretty pretty :) 

Are you jumping on the glitter bandwagon this winter? 

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Accessorize NOTD

I had a right hassle trying to get hold of one of the Illusion polishes from Accessorize's new make up range.

I originally ordered Pink Spice online alongside a baked eyeshadow duo but it was cancelled (so I paid £2.95 postage for just the one item, I hate it when companies do that!) and eventually I got hold of Aztec after I popped into one of my local Accessorize branches in Shrewsbury where the lovely Yvonne helped me get hold of one by phoning another store and having them post it to me! 

I've not been disappointed though, it's a really amazing colour with decent wear and a lovely formula. All for £4! 

The base to it is almost a sheer bottle green colour with pink and yellow duochrome flashes when it hits the light. I ended up applying 3 coats as with 2 the tips of my nails were lighter than the rest of my nail due to the distribution of the glitter-y stuff inside the base. 3 coats makes it quite a bit darker than 2 and it almost looks like a purple-y/black base rather than the green, which I like. It lasted 3-4 days with a top coat before chipping occured and tip wear was impressive considering the amount of typing I do! 

Have you tried out the new Accessorize polishes?

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Accessorize make up range!

For some unknown reason I've been particularly excited about the launch of this range... It's absolutely huge, with over 150 items of nail polish, eyeshadow, baked bronzers and blusher, in unusual colours, for pretty impressive prices. Nothing's over £10 with lipsticks, bronzers and blushers at £5.

These are a few of my favourites after a quick browse:

With Love Merged Diva Blusher- baked blush- £5

Illusion Bronze Nail Polish- love this, probably my favourite of the lot! £4.

With Love Primer - £9 (for 30ml, which I think is a little out of keeping with the rest of the range, but hey!)

With Love Golden Sand baked bronzer, I've never been a bronzer kind of girl.. It always reminds me of utter disasters with magazine freebies when I was younger. This one looks pale enough for me to get away with... £5.

Je T'aime Magical Mocha nail polish. Looks like an unusual pewter-y purple kind of shade. £4.

With love velvet pink lipstick- £5.

The new Accessorize make up range is available online now, and will also be available in Accessorize and Superdrug stores too.

Accessorize have free delivery online for the next two weeks as well!

Anything take your fancy?

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