Hi lovely followers!!

Here's just a quick post showing some Halloween and hen party makeup in the last few weeks! They were actually done with a very similar technique making the eyes look wider, creating a more cat-like sultry eye! My lovely friend Claire was a fab model and really looked amazing in this orange and black eye makeup..not something everyone could carry off well but I guess she was wearing black and orange stripey tights and a witch costume for the occasion, so it was fine!

Here's Laura for her 'dirty dancing hen night' !! may be my age, but after being a huge fan of the film... sounds like a lot of fun to me!!

Did you try out anything more daring fro Halloween this year? I have to say it's a makeup artists dream!

 Jo xoxo

Hey there!! Here's just a quick blog about a few new lipsticks from MAC and a variety of Barbara daly nail polishes I fell for!

 So to start with here's the lip stick...first to show is from the felines collection at MAC called 'cunning', I was debating whether or not to buy 'media' which is a beautiful rich dark plum/berry shade but wasn't too sure if I would want to wear it everyday as it's fairly intense..so went for this one as the colour is beautiful, however it's more of a glossy finish which I think makes it slightly easier to pull off!

What do you think?? x

 Next was one I've been lusting after for a few weeks! Since going brunette I have had a thing for wearing more girly intense pink tones so thought 'impassioned' would be the best 'new me' shade! Also dabbed a little on my cheeks for a pretty flush x

 They're fairly cheap and cheerful at either £3 each or two for £5 so I thought I'd try out four! Love the berry tones and with names like, mulberry, shade, tinsel and cheeky cherry..felt very autumnal xx

In the photo above I'm wearing another favourite lipstick, creme d'nude! This for me feels like the perfect nude, not something I usually got for anymore but this is a lovely sheer slightly pinky toned nude which feels so moisturising on the lips!

Hope you like the swatches! Have you tried any new lipsticks recently?

Which are your favourites? xxox

Jo xx

So i did what most of the make-up loving population did...and got NAKED!

Can't say it wasn't inevitable! (hang my head in shame...;) )

In my hours of pain (long story..will try to get as much out of it as I can as it was really, truly, painful..)

I desperately hoped for some sort of distraction..so when on facebook, debenhams and HOF (pet name from working at house of fraser) were saying the Urban Decay Naked palette was available online..I HAD to have a look. Bearing in mind my family thought I was about to run off to A & E and admit myself (seriously worse than childbirth pain ;)) I had to sneakily try and see if I could save myself from the torment and cheer myself up with this beautiful item..

Sorry to say, they had all sold out, however, once the antibiotics started to work, my lovely husband took me out for our 3 year anniversary meal (although I still couldn't eat or drink for that matter....and was on a curfew for when I required more pain relief) ..yet, we sat across the table from each other, john ordered his and my meal (mostly so he could eat mine if I couldn't manage).
It was actually, well, lovely! Not much different from our first dates where I refused to eat in his presence just in case I looked silly/got food stuck in between my teeth/other vain reasons!! Not a bad diet..oh dear...I digress..

While trying to decide which film to watch and needing a 'pain killer taking break' we headed over to boots, for a non essential purchase of tweezers..??! and although I was pacing up and down the isles in total agony from said pain killers ( i know, weird) I saw it...well, three of them, sat on a lonely shelf!

Okay, embarrassingly, I could hardly speak but when I saw a lady in front of me picking one up, I casually (ahem) grabbed the other two...muttering something under my breath about how she'd regret it if she didn't buy it NOW!

So, to cut a verrrrry long story short, I have it! and LOVE it..! Of course!

Will soon upload some pics of Friday's look I did, Kim Kardashian inspired! x0x0x

MAC haul and a rare night out!

I've been watching faaar too many hauls recently and have had a MAC wishlist for so long! Nothing very exciting but i've been meaning to make an effort with my MAC eyeshadow collection so that I can start the de-potting process, so finally.. with the intention of 'kit replenishment for bridal work' (not that I need any excuses) I was so excited, I know, not at all cool, but with another make-up fan at my side we were on a mission..

first call starbucks for a caramel machiatto with whipped cream...OH SO BAD! but so yummy!

I'm sorry the pics are no way in order, I'm yet to get to grips with uploading loads of pics!

Okay, so back to front..here is me, with the make-up on, for my yummy mummy night out (lol..I know, but you have to love the term)

Kristen Stewart inspired make-up, messy, muddy smokey make-up.. been a little too obsessed with twilight since my 'twilight week' of all 3 books and films in a week.

Messy is actually a much harder look to achieve than i thought!

so back to the haul (sorry for the confusion!) here are the beautiful shadows..i know, not all that exciting, you've probably all had them for ages, but i've been too busy marvelling at other products till recently..

oooh...love this...tanya of pixi2woo has raved about this combined with vanilla pigment and i'm afraid i'm I can't help myself if someone says it's so good. Gorgeous strong rosey pink, leaving a glowy, pretty cheek!

swatch of eyeshadows

pre-de-pot!

two arguably boring pigments but I LOVE them, so versatile, for eyes, cheekbones, brow bon, mixed with moisturiser for a gorgeous skin sheen! yummy!



another pixi2woo favourite, I have hush and a few other highlighters but this one always looks so beautiful on her tutorials.

The lot of them..ooh I had lots of fun with these! xx

Make-up Milestones (just a quickie!) ;)

Just a vaguely random one.. i literally have thousands of photo's, I take them ALL the time, anyone would think I either walk around with a make-up brush in my hand OR a camera....

This basically means I have a full and detailed photographic record of pretty much every possibly situation happening in my life, which may have something to do with why I have quite a photographic memory (figures huh??!) Aaanyway, here are just a few pics which make me smile when I think of how life has changed for me such a lot since this time last year. ( I was then a bank manager..i know... weird!)

Here's my first ever photo shoot working with Annia Harrup photography..it was very very cold but thanks to my lovely friend Kate, we got through it and I have to say, although I was a little slow.. the end results were amazing!

Post Sam and Nicola Chapman/PIXIWOO/FASHIONFACE tv course work! Soaping out brows is down to you Sam, thank you!!

Pre- FASHIONFACE course, I love this one, okay, it's certainly no way perfect make-up.. but it kept me thinking I was doing the right thing booking on the course!

Aww.. I look so young..and with MUCH less make-up on! (yeah, I did it myself..) haha! My lovely wedding day to my lovely man john x aww x little mash in the background with grandpa!

totally forgot about this pic! Will never ever forget the wonderful time I had back in Feb 2010 with the lovely ladies on the course! Change life moment..! xx xx xx

make-over make-up mummy!

well..i did it, there's no surprises with the amount of times I take photos of my make-up that I would jump at the chance of someone else taking a much better version for me!

Here is the end result- I have to say..I do rather like them..kinda weird being the model though!

Hope you like them..

Photo's by the lovely Gemma Dwyer of purple princess photgraphy

Also.. i will explain in another post v soon why I've been terrible at blogging recently! Basically as it's not that an exciting topic and also as it's a weird one! Looking forward to getting back to blogging properly soon.. be prepared for plenty on new ones coming up v soon! x

Just a few new looks!

Summer warm peachy with a flash of gorgeous turquoise pencil ( i look happy??!)

crazy brights look (doing prep for a shoot, not for going out of the house! ;) )


warm toned eyes with pink lips and pretty cheeks

same, up close! (with the eyelash extensions on)

plum haze smokey eyes! fresh glowy skin x

I don't really buy much make-up.. oops! yes i do!

I was sat thinking about which may be my favourite make-up item I've recently purchased, and although I seriously do need these items (ahem!) I couldn't really decide on a favourite, so thought I'd blog about them all! I have to say though, I'm not necessarily a make-up snob (meant in an inoffensive manner, of course) I actually love all kinds of make-up, just as long as it looks pretty and does the job! so.. here they are, my new, (in the last 2 months) favourites!

MAC melon pigment (thanks to Nic @pixiwoo for the recommendation) It's fab for highlighting and makes me feel all summery and glowing!

MAC lilicent BLUSHCREME. It's a beautiful delicate cream blush which is build able for a gorgeous peachy cheek

Illamasqua Rich liquid foundation in RF 120 is a full coverage foundation, perfect for a blank canvas to work on. Beware though, its a tough cookie to work in! Also illamasqua nail varnish in Blow, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it! Lemon to the max... and Illamasqua sheer lip gloss in torture. You will notice there's a definite theme with the coral! It's amazing over a peachy lipstick!

The beautiful elegance of Chanel's new Rouge Coco lipsticks! This one is Cambon and gorgeous!

Lip glosses from left, Benefit- kiss you, Revlon- no 200, No 17- Peach Melba, Barry M- 53

There will be more- I'll post those soon!! xx Hope enough for now x