January Favourites

Urban Decay's Naked palette, ELF stipple brush, 17 Wild Curls mascara, L'Oreal Telescopic mascara, ELF cream eyeliner, ELF essentials primer, ELF cover up and colour stick, Clarins' True Radiance foundation!

Urban Decay's Naked palette... I've used this just about every day now since I got it when it first came out (in November?) and I love it. It's simple, it's easy to choose a combination that works and the shadows are beautifully soft and pigmented. 

Clarins True Radiance foundation- perfect for evening out the complexion and brightening with it's dewy finish and gold coloured micro-particles this is a perfectly easy to wear, easy to blend foundation. It doesn't dry the dry parts of my face out and stops me looking shiny with it's oil free finish.

Both 17 Wild Curls and L'Oreal Telescopic have been favourites for a while now, either alone or layered... wild curls is great for volume and telescopic is fab for length. Together they're amaaazing.

L-R ELF cover up stick in apricot beige and color (bleurgh, COLOUR) stick in spotlight. ELF's cover up stick has become a firm favourite over the past couple of months, as my Clarins foundation is relatively light coverage and I'm prone to blemishes and redness this is great for splodging on underneath. I also use it on it's own. It's so easy to use and at £1.50 it's probably one of the best value-for-money things that I own. The colour stick makes a great highlighter, blends easily and looks perfect without any fuss. 

Once again ELF's eyelid primer, use this under every eyeshadow and it does just as well as UDPP in my opinion! Keeps shadows crease free and in place allll day long.

It's taken me a while to make my mind up about the ELF stipple brush. I'm not really sure that it's firm enough to use for application of foundation, but that's not something I've explored much.. however it's great for blushes- especially cream- and for stippling over my make up after using a setting spray of some description. Better than a certain Sigma F15 that I had to send back due to epic shedding! 

The cream eyeliner I've been using just about everyday. Not much more I can say about this! Full review here. 

If you're interested in finding out more about any of these let me know and I'll try and do a more detailed post on it :)

What are your current essentials?

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Naked palette....

... It's here and I love it! The shadows and soft, smooth and lovely, they glide on with wonderful amounts of pigmentation and the liners.. It's love! 

If you're interested in hearing/seeing more then let me know, otherwise I'll try and get some EOTD's up for you using it as I know I'm certainly all swatched out from the millions of blogs about this one :)

I do have one complaint, and that's not the palette itself, that would be Debenhams.. When my palette got here I discovered (after I'd swatched half baked myself) that 3 or 4 of the other shadows had been swatched themselves.. and not by me! Had this been anything else I would have sent it back but such was my desperation to try it out that I left it... I will be emailing Debenhams to let them know though.. Totally unacceptable!!

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Bargain Benefit Powderflage!

Image credit: Asos

Half price perfumes have this Powderflage concealer set (concealer plus brush) for just £9.99! 

Asos and Benefit currently sell them for £19.50 so it's a huge saving of nearly 50%

You can find it here

I also thought I'd remind you of an offer that I've posted previously... The Urban Decay Best of Urban set that has an RRP of £30 which currently sells for £10 on the Half Price Perfumes site here 

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Debenhams release Naked palette online today!

Today Debenhams released the new Urban Decay palettes online, and thanks to the lovely (blogless!) Becca I found out yesterday that all Beauty online is 10% off plus they have free delivery, making the Naked palette just £24.30 including delivery! 

I've ordered mine.. Will you be going for it?