Late to the Party

Models Own Make-up Mini Haul     We were recently in Leeds on a business/leisure trip when I came across a Model's Own store. I wasn't aware that Model's Own even had a make-up range, although I do own (and love) their nail varnish.   In store they had an amazing deal where nearly all products were buy 5 for £20. It didn't take me long to start adding items into my basket and it wasn't at all hard to quickly choose five items - in fact, it was pretty hard to actually whittle it down to just five - the product range is actually really impressive and very alluring!     The first item to catch my eye was the MyShadow Quad in Mediterranean Haze (RRP  £8.99). Using the top left pale matte colour as a base and then using a dome shadow brush with the pale, slightly shimmery blue; followed by the bottom right slightly shimmery dark brown over the lids and finally smudging the shimmery azure blue on the top right in the centre of my eyelids gave me

Naruko - Raw Job's Tears Supercritical CO2 Pore Minimizing & Brightening Lotion Review     The product   This lotion promises to target three main skin issues (according to Naruko's website ):   * Pore tightening - cleanses and tightens pores. Promising to repair large pores and rough and dull complexion caused by too much oil secretion; rids the skin of dead cell deposits.   * Fine whitening - the ingredients of Raw Job's Tears, polished Job's Tears, grape leaf essence, ethyl ascorbic acid and sodium ascorbyl phosphate brightens the skin and prevents melanogenesis.   * Oil-balancing - the ingredients of Evermat pore-tightening factor, hyaluronic acid, Tremella extract, saccharide isomerate and natural pine-extracted moisturising polysaccharide control over-production of oil.   I thought (and quite fairly, couldn't be blamed for thinking) that Raw Job's Tears was just a marketing name - because, let's face it, one of my favou

I thought it'd be fun/interesting to test out all the mascaras I owned to compare how they look and wear and which ones I'd buy again or steer well clear of in the future. I wore each mascara for the course of a day to really see how well they performed - I tried to keep my eye make-up similar each day and tested the mascaras without curling my eyelashes first. Below is a picture of what my peepers look like sans mascara. Oh dear! This is what I'm working with au naturel. I'm pretty uncomfortable looking at this picture. I think my eyes are looking quite expressionless when seen like this - which means that mascara really is an essential item or I actually am quite dead behind the eyes!     Rodial Glamolash Mascara XXL RRP: £24.00 Really liked this mascara - stayed put throughout the day with minimal under-eye smudging. Has a nice thick brush which separates and lengthens upper eyelashes and despite the size of the brush, is pretty good for the