This lipstick has become a holy grail of mine. I bought it a few weeks ago at MAC in Glasgow. I had wanted this particular shade for a while and since I was on holiday I thought "Why not? YOLO" So I got it.
The packaging is classic for MAC, nothing too jazzy. Not as cool as the limited edition one I reviewed earlier this week.
This product is mentioned all around the beauty community and the hype is well earned. The lipstick is so creamy and such a wearable shade. It's perfect for everyday wear no matter what you're doing since it's a nude. It feels very moisturizing on the lips which is very rare in a long-lasting matte lip product, especially in Winter.
I think "Velvet Teddy" is one of those shades that suits almost everyone. It's a warm-toned dark nude, almost a tan colour with hints of pink and almost peachy tones.
Overall, this lipstick is a must have! If you're looking for a nude lipstick, or you're looking to buy your first MAC lipstick, "Velvet Teddy" is definitely the one for you! I also think if you're looking for a staple everyday lipstick to wear to school, college or work this shade would be perfect!
Hope this blogpost helps you and that you enjoyed it. If you'd like to purchase this lipstick or any MAC products here is the link *NOT SPONSORED, Obviously*
Ever since my little MAC spree in Manchester and Glasgow a few weeks ago I'm a little obsessed! (Someone sign me up for rehab, please!!) Basically, I keep browsing the website clutching my debit card begging I don't spend money. I decided I would just save and then buy myself one for Christmas.
Then my plan was ruined as Graveyardgirl (Bunny Meyer) posted this instagram post of the new Magic Of The Night collection and I straight up DIED! Since MAC collections come out in America some days/weeks before they do here in the UK I had a little bit of time to research what I wanted. At first I thought maybe I'd buy all four lipsticks but then I had a mini brainwave/reality check and thought "I won't actually wear each colour, why don't I just get one so I get that ONE perfect colour and I still get to love the limited edition packaging?" So I decided out of all the shades I'd like and wear "Dark Side" the most.
So, I kept checking the MAC website daily and I don't know the exact release time but nothing was sold out so maybe I was early. I quickly bought it on Wednesday 28th. It arrived on Monday 2nd and was really well packaged. It arrived safe and perfect. I literally ripped open the package and DIED when I saw the purple reflective packaging, SO COOL!
The packaging is obviously the first thing you notice and next to my other MAC lipsticks you can tell it's limited edition and very different. I should think so considering it was £1.50 extra. (£17.00 altogether)
The actual lipstick is amazing, it is so incredibly creamy and the colour lasts so very long. I wore it Monday and fell asleep in it and it was still looking FINE AF after my nap. I also wore it to college on Tuesday and it lasted all day and I even got a "I really like your lip colour" compliment!
The only disappointments would be its not matte, but I knew that when I bought it and using powder through a tissue is easy enough. And packaging wise, it's quite difficult to see the product name on the bottom.
I hope you enjoyed this post, if you want to purchase the lipstick I did or anything from the collection here is the link to buy it. This isn't sponsored *obviously, it's MAC* but of course, I want to let you know where to get the things I talk about.
Helloooooo! Today's post is the I ♡ Fall Tag! I hope you enjoy. 1. Favorite Fall lip product? This is so difficult for me as I love so many dark lips and try out so many different shades. But I recently purchased the MAC Viva Glam III and it's like a dark nude so is really wearable aswell as being a slightly daring colour. I've been wearing it every time I want to feel a little more autumn-y so I suppose for right now, that would be my answer. Would you like to see a blogpost on it soon? 2. Favorite Fall Nail Polish? Hmm, this is tough. Due to my job and my college course I'm actually not allowed to paint my nails which is such a shame but if I were allowed I'd definitely be going for a maroon-deep red colour or a dark purple such as Sinful Colors 'Let's Talk' or OPI's 'Bouquet of Violets'. Greens are also a Fall favourite and my favourite is Sinful Colors 'Kissy' I also like Sinful Colors 'Midnight Blue' during Autumn as it's really dark and lovely. 3. Favorite Starbucks Fall Drink? Honestly, I'm not a big coffee fan and there's literally no Starbucks near to where I live. However, if I do pass a Starbucks soon I will be popping in to try the Pumpkin Spice Latte as everyone raves about it and I just want to try it. Ooh crazy. I do love a good seasonal hot chocolate from Costa though! 4. Favorite Fall Candle? This is SO HARD!!!!!!(I will continue to complain about every question oops) But a few years ago I bought this huge 'Halloween' candle from Home Bargains and I have a lot left as it's so BIG! It isn't a brand so I can't let you know where to buy it or anything but it's lovely and definitely my favourite! 5. Favorite Fall accessory? Honestly, I barely wear necklaces, or jewelry in general but I do love a few rings, so I'd probably say them! 6. Haunted house or haunted hay ride? I WISH I KNEW! Here in Wales we don't have these, or at least not near where I live. I'm not sure about the greater UK but I've never been to one, except looked at the haunted house in Alton Towers. Looked at meaning I was too much of a wuss to actually ride it. 7. Favorite Halloween movie? Oops, I did a whole blogpost on this, recently. Something I didn't mention in that post but is a favourite for Halloween would be American Horror Story. The new season is so cool, if slightly sick and twisted, but cool all the same. If you've never seen it I definitely recommend watching all the series, especially Season 1 and 5, which is the current season, Hotel. 8. Favorite candy to eat on Halloween? I literally live for toffee apples, they're so freaking nice. I love it when they do apples with chocolate, and other toppings. I just love the contrast between apple and toffee/chocolate. If you've never had one, 1-you've never lived and 2-GO OUT RIGHT NOW AND PURCHASE ONE THEN EAT IT! 9. What are you dressing up as for Halloween? I'm tied between a hippy and a vampire, I think I'm swaying towards vampire though, every year I never dress really scary/creepy because I scare myself so I tend to just use it as an excuse to do fancy dress. I'm literally a wuss. 10. What is your Favorite thing about Fall? HALLOWEEEEEEN! I love it so much, it is my second favourite holiday to Christmas. I love the dressing up, the decorations, the scariness, and the weather oddly enough. I also looooove Bonfire Night and I cannot wait for it! Well, that's all for today. Leave me your answers down below to these questions, I tag you all! Thanks for readinnnnnng, Al x
Helllllllo!
This year for Halloween I decided to be a vampire, I was going to be a hippy but I just thought may aswell go scary! Me and Courtney had a really fun night together.
Courtney always comes up with these out-of-the-box elaborate costume ideas for Halloween and this year was no exception.. She was a dead tennis player, fully equipped with a tennis ball boob!
I wore this really pretty dress, originally from ASOS but I got it from Asos on Amazon, I think it was roughly £15. I also wore this really cool vampire collar that I got from Smiffy's, again on Amazon. My striped stockings are again from amazon.
My lipstick is MAC Viva Glam III and my makeup is very (excuse the pun) vampy. The blood and cuts are all done with lipsticks, set with a transparent powder.
I curled my hair simply, then we back-combed it to the extreme and added a few tiny plaits to add texture. I think my hair looked very vampire-esc.
Worst picture EVER but I used contact lenses in my eyes, we had a hell of a time trying to put these in but got there in the end! These are White Out contacts from MesmerEyes on amazon, I really liked them and I had no problems keeping them in, I could see OK and they didn't feel too uncomfortable when they were in.
I'll leave you with ths picture of me and my brother Charlie who came in for a goodnight cuddle while we were getting ready. He was dressed as Frankenstein, the cutest Frankenstein ever!!!
So for those of you who don't know I recently had a little trip around Britain to see One Direction twice. I went with my internet friend Nancy and it was so much fun so I thought I'd do an itinerary-style recap with all of the photos. If you prefer things in a video format, I also (using the term loosely) vlogged the trip.
Saturday 3rd October 2015
Me and Dad set off on the train at 9:08am, we got to Manchester for around 3pm and checked in to our hotel. I got changed and ready. Outfit info in vlog.
We set off to find the Arndale, literally just so I could get my Taco Bell kick! I LOVE TACO BELL!
We got lost in Manchester coming home that night, which was a bit of an experience I suppose?? Funniest thing was, Dad asked two police officers who were in central Manchester and they literally had no idea where they even were either. SAME MANCHESTER POLICE, SAME. Thanks for the help lads!! Eventually (Not that long after, because I'm a genius) we arrived back at our hotel. We stayed in the room watching the England rugby game, since we are Welsh we happened to be cheering for the other team, obviously not very loud though, we ain't about that gettin' mugged life.
While we were out I saw this cute little canal bridge with locks on it. I think this is so cute and I just had to take a picture! I did my nails while we watched the rugby, these are a stick-on manicure, I love them!
Sunday 4th October 2015
Dad and I had to be out of the hotel by 11am so we headed down for breakfast at about 10am. (we had planned to go down for 8, but I'm lazy af) I loved my outfit for this day(details in vlog)!!
We left the hotel at around 11 and went for a walk to the train station. Nancy wasn't getting to Manchester until around 2pm so me and Dad found ourselves a little home in a pub called The Piccadilly just down the road from the station, where we were meeting Nancy and her Nan later on. Eventually we met them and we all headed to find our hotel. It was a looooong car ride since there were protests in Manchester meaning alot of roads were closed and we were redirected all around the place. Dad was supposed to go home on the train this day, but thanks to him coming with us and us getting lost he missed the train. Thankfully the Premier Inn gave us a slightly bigger room free of charge. -thank you Premier Inn xxxx-
Then we got ready for the One Direction concert. I wore this outfit, that I looooove. My top is either Topshop or River Island, my skirt is select and my shoes are actually tesco!! Cheap but so amazing. Lipstick is Topshop's Beguiled and eyelashes are Tanya Burr! Rings are from River Island! I loooove this outfit!
The boys were so amazing and our seats were ok. I booked them and I'm not pro so the seats aren't as amazing as they could've been but One Direction were so amazing it didn't even matter where we sat.
You know you partied too hard and had a great night when this is how you catch the lift back to your room;)
Monday 5th October 2015
Outfit today was basic, as we were literally just travelling the whole day. Red sox jersey is from a stall at V festival. Jeans are primark and shoes are Nike. Coat is peacocks and I love this coat, it's my main winter coat.
Before we set off to travel to Carlisle we decided to stop by the Arndale for a quick shop! I ended up buying my first MAC lipstick.
And then we headed off on our car ride to Carlisle, on the way there we stopped at a services and I happily indulged in a burger king.
When we got to Carisle we checked into our hotel and Me and Nancy had a bit of laptop time. Then we fell asleep, we were so tired from travelling all day!
Tuesday 6th October 2015
On Tuesday we literally just chilled all day on our laptops and watching Deal or No Deal. Crazy life we lead!! I think we just wanted to have a more relaxed day for one day of the holiday. That evening me and Nancy set off via taxi into the centre of Carlisle to see The Intern in the cinema, It was such a good film and I'm definitely gonna watch it again!! If you haven't seen it I definitely recommend it.
Wednesday 7th October 2015
On this day we set off from Carlisle and headed to Glasgow. We stopped off at Gretna Green for a quick browse in the Wee Big Shop. It's really lovely there and is famous for runaway marriages, which is romantic.
When we got to Glasgow we headed straight for the train station, we got to walk past the backstage of the arena, we didn't see the boys though!! We caught the train to the middle of Glasgow and stopped off for some shopping in Buchanan Galleries. I ended up buying a few things including another MAC lipstick and eyeshadow. To see everything I got you can watch my haul!
Buchanan Galleries was so much fun, especially since where I live we have literally no cool shops and no giant shopping centres! I also had my first Nando's this day and lost my Nando's virginity. What an experience, it's a bit like Taco Bell and I loved the chips! Next time I'll actually try something spicy as I literally went for no hotness apart from the chips. (Which were delicious!)
How creepy is this art on the bridge. I had to take a photo.
We then headed back to the hotel to get ready for the boys' show again!
My outfit was pretty basic. I wore the same Tesco shoes, a River Island top, Primark jeans and my bag is from Primark aswell. My eyelashes are Tanya Burr again and I wore Viva Glam III by Mac I think for my lips!
One Direction were, of course, amazing again and our seats, thanks to Nancy, were fricking amazing!!! She picked such good seats. Because we were sat on the side of the stage we could see the backstage door and we spent most of the run-up to the concert trying to work out who all the people were. After Jamie Lawson (the support act) played, he walked out of the door and we yelled in perfect timing "We love you Jamie!" and he waved at us, we then tweeted him and he tweeted me back, YAAAAS JAMIE! Our whole block was not ready to party at all before One Direction came on but Me and Nancy were literally so hype, we were singing to 5SOS when they came on the big screen and shout-singing to Jamie Lawson! After the show we obviously had an impromptu photoshoot on this cute window, much to the people in these hotel room's annoyance I'm sure!
Thursday 8th October 2015
This was the last day of my trip and my flight was at 11:45 and I stupidly got to the Airport at 9 thinking it was at 11am. So I had a 45 minute wait on my own until check in. Honestly, flying alone was really really scary and I was a bundle of nerves the whole day. I was absolutely pooping myself! Don't even get me started on take off, I hate taking off at the best of times so me, alone, pooping myself, taking off sitting by random strangers was a bit tragic. I was shaking the whole trip but chose not to let anyone know. I dealt with my nerves well and when we landed I was filled with relief. I sat next to a kind old lady on the plane who even offered me a bit of her KitKat, which I politely declined since I was feeling incredibly sick!
Even though I found it so incredibly scary I would definitely travel and fly alone again. I actually secretly enjoyed just being alone and reading. Next time I'd have more things for myself to do as I did find myself a bit bored. After we landed I had to catch a shuttle bus to a train station near by, sit at the station (which smelt of wee) alone for about an hour then get on a train to another place that is not my home. There I had a short wait for another train and finally I was home. It was an incredible trip and I'll definitely fly again!! This trip once again fueled my passion for travelling and I can't wait until my next experience.
So today, I wanted to discuss Tanya Burr's makeup range with you. I haven't gotten around to buying her beauty products yet but while I was on holiday a few weeks ago I decided to purchase two of her false lashes as obviously I went to One Direction and that's just a massive excuse to go OTT with your makeup, right?
I purchased the date night lashes for the Manchester show and the Bambi eyes lashes for the Glasgow show.
date night lashes
This is a rubbish picture, sorry. And you'll be happy to know I've had my eyebrows waxed since this. I adore these lashes, they really stand out and make your eyes pop. They're definitely not for everyday wear but for special occasions like One Direction concerts they're perfect ;) As far as the actual lash, they definitely didn't feel or look cheap.. The glue that came with them was good quality and mine stayed on all night, even through all of the yelling and screaming, and crying, and singing, and yelling, and shitting, and stuff. One problem I tend to find with eyelashes is that either the inner corner starts to peel, which didn't happen with these, or that when my eyes water(which is inevitable, they water ALL of the time) it affects the glue and the lashes start to fall off, which also didn't happen so YAY! FAB WOO. Just a shameless selfie to the right, I loved how my makeup looked for the Manchester show and I felt on fleek, even when RUNNING in heels around the arena to try and meet Jamie Lawson. We got close but I ended up just having a selfie with him very distant in the background, still a selfie though right? **Also he tweeted me, before the Glasgow show #goals**
For the Glasgow show I wore the bambi lashes. All of Tanya's products are packaged so beautifully and the lashes all look very nice in the packet, it makes you want to buy them all!
bambi eyes lashes
To me, these look alot more natural and are more wearable for everyday.. As you can tell the inner section has started peeling in this photo but that could be my fault(?) I'm genuinely not sure. The quality is the same and the glue is the same, all well-made and great products. I love the look of these and would definitely buy them again. Same with the Date Night lashes aswell!
So, overall I think these are brilliant products, fabulous quality and I'd definitely repurchase, It is such a plus that they are so cheap too! If you're interested in gettin yo'self some Tanya lash action then here's the Superdrug website. -http://www.superdrug.com/microsite/tanya-burr- Tanya advertises them as pretty and easy to apply lashes and it is 100% true on both accounts.
This product is mentioned all around the beauty community and the hype is well earned. The lipstick is so creamy and such a wearable shade. It's perfect for everyday wear no matter what you're doing since it's a nude. It feels very moisturizing on the lips which is very rare in a long-lasting matte lip product, especially in Winter.
