all4p2p: December 2010

top ten products of twenty-ten.

As the year draws to a close and 2011 looms ever closer, I got to thinking about the year that has just past. Elections, world cups, friends, family and brand new makeup addictions have made twenty-ten a year to remember for a while. 2010 was really the year I got into makeup, got my first MAC lipstick and discovered my new found passion for all things beauty related, and of course the most important thing...

I started this blog.

I just want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your continual support with this blog. As I write this, I am only 5 followers off the 500 mark, and it still baffles me to think that people actually read what I write, so... thank you ♥

So now lets get down to the nitty gritty, to the amazing products that deserve the title of my 'ten ten products of twenty-ten'...

In no particular order...

Sleek I-Divine Storm Palette 12 beautiful pigmented colours that can be combined multiple ways to create gorgeous natural eye looks- win!

ELF Warm Bronzer Hands down, favourite bronzer. I love this and its a perfect colour. The lighter colour is a lovely highlight and for £3.50, who can complain?!

Cocoa Butter Vaseline The newcomer to the prestigious Vaseline family, this gorgeous smelling little pot of joy is sooo nice on the lips.

MAC Hue Lipstick The aforementioned 'first MAC lipstick', this is my most beautiful lipstick, the perfect shade for me!

2True Cheek and Lip Tint At only £2, this is a bargain dupe for Benefit's Benetint, and I love using it underneath ELF Blush in Berry Merry to create my favorite cheek combo.

Max Factor False Lash Effect Mascara All time favourite mascara. Fact.

ELF Cream Eyeliner This year I have really discovered my love for cream/gel liner, and this is my favourite at the moment, gorgeous pigmentation and easy to work with.

ELF Powder Brush Amazing value for money and perfect for applying liquid foundation, powder, blush and all types of makeup? Wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't tried it!

No7 Blend and Contour Brush My absolute favourite crease brush, and perfect for blending out too. Love it!

Absolutely everything and anything LUSH. This year the LUSH fiend as been released in me. Be afraid, be very afraid.

I would love to know what your 2010 favourites are!

Happy New Years! ♥

Christmas

Hey all, hope you've all been good :)

Sorry for not posting for a while but I have been amazingly busy!

Had a lovely Christmas and here is a short post to show you some images I took on my Christmas present,

the amazing Canon 500D (shown in earlier posts).

im dreaming of a white christmas.

Merry Christmas to my wonderful followers...

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May all your wishes come true... ♥

I bought this gorgeous top in London, Oxford Street Topshop. It was chaos, the place is huge and packed.

Silly idea to go on a saturday in the weeks running up to Christmas, but I had to check it out.

This £38 top is rather expensive and trust me I would never normally spend this much money on an top but I had just received my final pay check from my old job so I wanted to spoil myself. My best friend Lucie has just lost a load of weight, 3 and a half stone to be exact and she inspired me to get this top as we wanted something nice to wear out to town earlier this week for the last student night out before Christmas.

I've put it with a big chunky gold floral necklace from Primark to match with the gold zips and a black Topshop skirt with my Missguided shoe boots.

christmas wishlist.

With Christmas Day only a matter of hours away, I am getting all bouncy and excited at the thought of all those lovely goodies sitting under the tree, just taunting me to rip them open. Although Christmas is all about family, fun and friends, who doesn't love getting a treat just once a year!? So here's what I'm hoping for in my Christmas stocking...

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Urban Decay Naked Palette

MAC Mineralize Skin Finish

MAC Studio Finish Concealer

Coastal Scents 88 Ultra Shimmer Eye Shadow Palette

Coastal Scents Blush Palette

Benefit Hoola Bronzing Powder

a new camera

and a partridge in a pear tree... ♥

As I have decided that I want to try to become more involved with my blog,

I have invested in a Canon EOS D500. Otherwise known as 'my baby'.

I got it two weeks ago and have just been playing around with it really! I took it to the Aussie Event but that was the first actual time I had used it so excuse the bad pictures! I tried my best! I have always been interested in photography and I wanted to invest in something conveniently before christmas so that I could get some help with the financial side from the rest of the family :) I do photography club at university and I am on the student newspaper for the photography and gigs section so I needed something simple for beginners but able to do pretty much all that is required.

I LOVE THIS CAMERA! Its so easy to use but also so gorgeous with every shot it takes!

I take such good care of it because I love it to pieces! And I really want to get some stunning images for my blog so that I can develop my posts as much as some of my favourite bloggers!
What camera's do you all have?

Image above is not my own, from google images - its just pretty.

it's behind you!

Pantomimes are an essential part of Christmas tradition in England. Every year during the festive season we wrap up warm in cosy woollies and the latest trends and toddle off down to the local theater to see the Christmas pantomime. Well, maybe that's just me, but I certainly feel that it is a much loved tradition to go and shout 'its behind you!' at Widow Twanky, laugh at Button's corny jokes and generally have a good ole' time watching your favourite story tales brought to life.

For those of you unsure as to what a pantomime is, it is where actors (sometimes celebrities) put on a production of much loved fairy tales like Cinderella, Jack and the Bean Stalk etc. in a very jokey way. Its all a good laugh and everyone enjoys it, and of course they sell ice cream in the interval, nom nom nom.

I went to my local production of Aladdin last week, it was so fun and really got me into the Christmas spirit. I cannot wait for Christmas and New Year, eeeee, I'm so excited!

Here's what I wore to Aladdin ...

Top gift from my larvvvlleyyyy sister

Skirt Primark (£4)

Cardigan Primark

Eyes

Sleek Bad Gal Palette

Max Factor False Lash Effect

Avon Supershock Gel Liner

Lips

MAC Hue

So who's getting into the festive spirit, only 6 days to go!?

Aussie Hair Care Market 4th December

Now not all of you may remember, but I am an 'Aussie Angel'.

This is a title given to a small amount of bloggers to represent Aussie Hair Care.

On the 4th of December I went to London's La Danza Studios with my best friend Sam and Lucie for the Aussie Blogger's Market. Twelve lovely bloggers kindly put their skills to good use and set up stalls for all the rest of us to enjoy. The greatest thing was that it was my best mate Lucie's birthday so all got to have fun whilst having our hair and makeup done. We learnt how to flirt from top expert Elizabeth Clarke, how to turn our blogs into businesses, photography tips, how to be competitive bloggers and how to dress our individual shapes. It was such a fun day and I learnt so much to benefit my blog! We also left with some amazing photo-booth images and a goody bag as shown below! I will do a post on the hair products soon :)
I have been completely useless with keeping my blog up to date with everything I am doing due to university but now I am on my christmas break and I plan to keep right on track from now on :)
Thank you so much for the amazing day Aussie and I hope to go to another soon!
Please enjoy the very picture heavy post!
The current post on the Uncover Aussie website is a post about the day and there are pictures of some other great bloggers!