Sparkle this New Year!

Hey guys, I sincerely hope you had a spectacular christmas and I hope new year brings everything your hoping for...  So when I think of new year, I think of green, this year. I don't know why last year it was purple and blue, this year its randomly green. So I had a play around earlier today and here is what I came up with, sorry still no pictures.

1.  You need to start with a good sticky base, Benefit Lemon Aid  is a good one. So apply this lightly and evenly from lashline to browbone with your finger.
2. Sweep a lightish green from lashline to crease. Something like this. 

This is Barry M dazzle dust in Lime

 3. Blend a darker,  brighter green into the crease of your eye with a tapered crease brush. Create a rounded shape at the edge of your eye. Use a green like this.

This is Barry M dazzle dust in Parrot Green

 4. Pat a shadow close to your skin tone under your browbone and blend into the crease colour.

5. Line your upper lashline with black liquid liner. Tightline and line your waterline with a black eyeliner pencil.

6. Time to add the sparkle, now in theory you could use silver or gold glitter, I used silver though. You need any cosmetic grade glitter in your chosen colour.Dampen your brush a little with water and pick up your glitter, pat it on the centre of your eyelid. Gently coat over the top of the glitter with a fixing gel (mine is brandless) Then gently blend it out, but make sure it is most concentrated in the centre.

7. Line your lower lashline with the fixing gel, and pat the glitter on top.

8. Sweep a genourous amount of black mascara on both sets of your eyelashes.

9. Dust your cheekbones with a neutral blush and an angled blush brush.

10. Slick your lips with a glossy peachy lipgloss and voila!

Have a sensational New year guys :)

'tis the season....

I apparently only have two followers, but a friend suggested I may have some readers that haven't followed me yet anyway...... Happy Christmas Eve, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to you all, I apologise if you don't celebrate christmas, I don't know what to wish you, Happy Holidays maybe? I sincerely hope you have a happy, healthy christmas and that all your wishes are fulfilled. If its just the two of you consider this a shout out.

Stay safe, happy and healthy across the holidays and into the new year.
Celina x

Many Faces of the Same Girl.

I realised today its beena couple days since I last posted, but I am actually completely exhausted lately. Christmas time can be so stressful, but I am so excited as my my grandmums coming over from trinidad :D But before I start babbling due to my exhaustion I am completely lacking in inspiriation for a topic. But anyway I decide to do this quick post, that alot of people wont bother with but, hey its my blog :)

Basically all I'm saying is every individual has many faces and many looks. Make up is supposed to express your mood and thats why we all have many faces. And you cant deny it, some days your feminine, some days your rockstarish, some days your in love with love and other days a cute couple could make you barf. Use make up to express how you feel, not to mask it :)

NOTW: ELF Nail Polish in Metal Madness

(For those that are not familiar with blog terms, NOTW means nailpolish of the week :)

Hey, If you read my recent ELF haul post, right at the end was this nail polish. Today is the first time I tried it and I swear I now know what love is. This polish is AMAZING!!!. I ordered mine on line and it come packaged like this....

I have to say I really like the bottle, instead of being round its more of a rectangular shape. I find it easier to hold and all round more comfortable  to work with. The brush is small but not too small. The formulation is amazing, it glides on smoothly and perfectly. Only one coat is required although two deepens the colour. oh and did I mention that this was a £1.50.

You can see the colour the best in the above photo, all photos were taken on my webcam so the colours aren't true to reality, unfortunatley. The colour is really hard to describe but the best I could come up with is this. Its a really dark gray, Graphite gray I would think. So it's a mettalic graphite, with iridescent glitter on top. Its truly beautiful, I normally wear black nail polish and this is a nice change without being to drastic. Ooooh I just larve it :)

Not the best shot :/ the colour in the bottle is pretty much the true colour, the colour on the nail is a bit off.

I tried to get a zoomed picture of a single nail. It didn't work but oh well.

To finish I LAARVE this polish :D

Remember your beautiful :)

Celina x

(I would just like to mention that I am in no way affiliated with ELF (or any other brand) any views and opinions expressed are my own, the product was bought with my own money. And honestly I wouldn't lie to you guys)

How to Beat the Winter Blues

Winter brings with it many fun and exciting prospects for some, snow, christmas and for most time of school and work.Not to mention all the delicious foods and spices that are usually only available around the christmas season. But winter does not come without its draw backs, frizzy hair, dry elbows, cracked lips. If your anything like me you hate cracked lips and dry elbows, it drives me insane. My hair is naturally frizzy, so that doesnt bother me. Here is my list of winter SOS items..

A good lipbalm is essential all through the year, even more so during winter. Ideally you should use plain vaseline for your lips. but I hate the thick gloopy feeling, the smell and the taste.

About a year ago, I went on a school trip to a little village that I can't even remember the name of. It was snowy and freezing and I didn't bring a lipbalm. My lips cracked so bad that they bled in several spots. The village had two shops literally, neither carried lipbalms. Lipbalm has been my best friend ever since. My two favourites are......


Lip Therapy with Rose and Almond Oil Vaseline Rosy Lips £1.99 for 20g tin This is much lighter, thinner and all round much better that standard vaseline. I use this lipbalm all year round and I love it. Its light and silky, my lips have never been softer. I mean it. It gives you that nice, moisturized lip feeling without being greasy. It smells really nice and it has a slight rosy tint. Its tasteless which I completely love. And it comes in a cute, easy to carry with you little tin.

Nivea Lip Care SOS Lip Balm £3.20-£3.50 for 10ml tube. This is called SOS lip balm as it cant be used everyday. Its too thick and heavy. It has the same cosistency as a body butter/cream. I use it  when my lips are really cracked and dry or at night so I wake up with soft lips. You cannot use this as an everyday lipbalm! But its great when your lips are in bad condition! (Just to be clear)

For cracked/dry elbows, knees and feet you need a nice rich cream and I have two favourites.....

Johnson's Body Care 24hour Moisture Body Cream with Shea Butter 200ml (Sorry I'm unsure of the price, it was under £5 though) I like this cream because its thick and rich without being oily because its a water based cream. Its absorbed into the skin quickly, so you don't have that horrible greasy feeling on your skin. I naturally have very dry elbows, if I forget to cream them just once they will feel like a pumice stone. This cream is actually a life saver. I rub it in once a day and I have nice silky elbows. I would reccomend this all year round but its especially great in winter.

Sorry for the bad picture, it was taken on my webcam.

Body Shop Shea Body Butter £5.00 for 50ml
This is thick and creamy, I don't use it every day as it take its timevto be absorbed. You are left with the greasy skin feeling, but when it is finally absorbed your skin is so intensivley moisturized its unbelievable. I only buy this one at winter as I think its too heavy for the rest of the year.

You need to keep your hands sensuously soft during winter, there is nothing worse that scaly hands :/ I have two products for keeping my digits in perfect condition.....

Nivea SOS Relief Body Lotion with Calendula Oil 200ml (Unsure of price) This light and silky, just rub a drop into your hands and they are left feeling soft not greasy. I don't like the smell at all, it smells kind of chemically. But I guess that doesn't matter unless you plan to be sniffing your hands.

Burts Bees Lemon Butter Cuticle Creme £4 for 17g  This isn't an essential for everyone, it depends on the overall condition of your nails generally.My nails get in pretty poor condition during winter, so its an essential for me. Just massage this into your cuticles then along the length of your nails. To keep your nails at their best during winter apply this cuticle creme, then coat with a clear gloss and don't ever cut your cuticles.

Hair loves to a pain during the winter months, especially mine. I am mixed, so the unusual texture of my hair hates the cold and turns into an instant ball of frizz, that resembles an afro. My favourite product for helping control the frizz is...

Schwarzkopf Gliss Hair Repair Liquid Silk Express Repair Conditioner £1.99 at savers £4.99 else where To cut that stupidly long name short its basically a leave in conditioner. On the bottle it doesn't actually mention anything about frizz control but thats exactly what it does for me. Just roughly towel dry your hair, spray this on damp hair, the leave to dry naturally, when totally dry brush through your hair. This is amazing.

The best advice I can give for your hair during winter is..... Only wash it three/four times a week. That will help reduse the frizz and inbetween washes you can use a dry shampoo like....

Superdrug Dry Shampoo Away with the Fairies £1.99 for 150ml Just spray it into dry hair and it will look freshly washed, smell delicious (like berries) and feel soft and silky.

I hope you enjoyed this post and I hope I didn't ramble on :)

Remember your beautiful :)

Celina x

(I would just like to say, I am in no way affiliated with any brands mentioned (or any brand), Any views or opinions expressed are mine alone. I am not trying to sell you these products although I would suggest them for winter care.)

ELF Haul (Warning its a pretty big one!)

In my moneys opinion, emails are a curse. I got sent one of those spend this much and you get free postage + a free gift emails for ELF cosmetics! Those emails are lethal! My greedy fingers just cannot resist. My bank balance has been reduced again! but all in all I'm actually pretty happy with my purchases.

Before I get into the hauling, I just want to say if you haven't heard of ELF you are missing out! Their standard products are £1.50 and their studio line is £3.50. That is bargain and their products are pretty darn good quality!

Lip Products:
Lipsticks: 

• ELF Lipstick in 7706 Posh - Unopened, as its actually for my mum, but it appears to be a really pretty deep red colour.
• ELF Lipstick in Gypsy - ALL MINE! Its a gorgeous bright pink colour, really bright.
• ELF Lipstick in Voodoo - Also mine, Its quite a deep browny, red.

 This picture, is horrible the pink is much brighter (Gypsy) and the second much redder (Voodoo), I just couldnt get a better quality pic/
 Lipglosses:

• Elf Hypershine Gloss in Berry Cherry - I really like this colour and it feels like lipbalm on the lips, the only 'fault' with this gloss is I don't like the smell, it has a very sickly sugary smell.

Im afraid there is no pic for the gloss as I couldn't get my webcam to pick up any colour from the gloss.
Lipbalms: 

• ELF Therapeutic Conditioning Balm in 8001 Strawberry Creme - Also unopened as its for my little sister. But it looks pretty good. The pinky tint is really nice.

Eye Products:

Eyeliners:

• ELF Shimmer Eyeliner Pencil in Gunmetal - This eyeliner is really great, its small and portable it has a built in shapner in the lid and all though its shimmery it does not feel gritty.
• ELF Waterproof Eyeliner Pen in Midnight Blue and Plum - I am pretty dissapointed with these, they last really long, apply smoothly and everything but the colours are pathetic. The blue looks like a black and the plum looks like a brown, So even though they are amazing eyeliners, they are not quite what I ordered.

Eyeshadows:

• ELF Brightening Eye Colour Quad in Punk Funk - I only ordered this because I needed one more item to get my total uo to the required amount and it looked like it would be fun to play with! I really like this quad except for the blue colour as it comes out as an ashy gray instead of blue but the rest are lovely :)
• ELF Smokey Eyes Palette - This was my free gift with the order and its my favourite part of the purchase! Irony huh? The colours are so pigmented and pretty and I LOVE it.

 Face Products:

• ELF Corrective Concealer Palette - Honestly I am in love with this, I have already ordered a back up. Its a coloured concealer palette, green for hiding redness (I use this so much), Pink for hiding and green tones in the skin, a yellow toned light concealer for blueness under the eyes and a darker yellow toned concealer for the same purpose. These are creamy and smooth and glide on so easily.

• ELF All Over Color Stick in Golden Peach - This a multi purpose cream stick, I like it as a cheek colour but on me it doesnt work for lips or eyes. But its a really nice cheek highlight because on my skintone its just a peachy golden glow.

• ELF Makeup Mist and Set - This is a light spray/mist that you just spray on after make up application and its supposed make your make up stay in place for 12 hours and refresh the skin. I haven't tried it yet as I haven't need 12 hours out of my make up yet. But seeing as 'tis the season, that shall change and I will do a full review later on.

 And finally a nail polish! Which is ELF Nail Polish in 1570 Metal Madness, OMG I am so suprised at this polish, I thought it would be cheap and watery, but its amazing, it glides on really easily and smooth and you actually only need one coat. Its a really beautiful sparkly dark grey/gunmetal colour.

 OMG you have no idea how long this post took, I'm actually exhausted :)


Remember your beautiful :)

Celina x

(I would just like to say I am in no way affiliated with ELF (or any other brand) all products were bought with my own money or my mums money (same thing really) except for one itme which was free with my order. All views and opinions expressed are mine and alone)

Frontcover to Go Eye Palette Review

So 'technically' this palette is actually one of my christmas gifts but being the curious mind I am I went exploring. Yes I know 14 and still can't resist hunting for my presents! I'm a perfect example of what curiosity did to the cat, even though I'm not a cat :) Back on topic onto the review....

Sorry for the pretty terrible image, as i still don't have camera access, its stolen (oooh!) and hand cropped etc.
Above is the palette which has 20 shadows, well actually 25 because 5 of the shadows are duo pans! I'm not sure of the standard price of this palette, I know my mum got it in a sale and it was £16. Which is pretty good for 25 shadows. Plus a brush (even though its crap) a shadow line (Will explain in a minute) and interchangeable palette (Read below)

All of the shadows in this palette are set on a black plastic tablet I guess and you can take each tablet out of the main palette. Like this...

The colours are slightly washed out in this picture as it was taken on my webcam, (which I don't like to do due to the poor quality) but anyway the idea was to show you that you can take the shadows out of the palette. They can all come out like shown and then you can put them in the interchangeable palette. Like so....

Although I love the idea of this interchangeable palette, its in reality slightly disappointing. The shadow come easily out of the main palette but to get them into the smaller one, you have to literally ram them in. Trying to take them out is worse. You have to push them from underneath and they fly out, risking breaking etc. I really do not like the smaller palette, but that is just personal opinion. Below is a picture of the empty palette which can hold 4 shadows....

Now onto the thing I mentioned earlier called a shadowline. This is the shadowline....

I would agree with you totally if you were thinking, that it just looks like a bad picture of a liquid liner. But trust me its so much more. When you open the little bottle you will infact discover that the liquid inside is clear. This clever little invention can turn any eyeshadow into a liquid liner. Nope, I'm serious! You just swirl the nib into any of the eyeshadows in the palette, it merges with the clear liquids and voila! you have a liquid liner. Cool huh?

Lastly before I (finally) move onto the shadows themselves is the brush. The brush is crap! It is duo ended crap. In my opinion it was to crap to even bother with a photo. You cant get any colour of the brush and onto your eyes. They are kinda scratchy. Just crap!

Now the shadows, now normally you would think with palettes like these that the shadows would be all talc and no pigment. You could not be more wrong! These are really pigmented and have a gorgeous finish. They are really silky and smooth to the touch which is always a bonus! I'm afraid I can't  tell you about their crease resistance or how long lasting they are. As I cant be wearing the colours, I shouldn't know the palette exists.

The first row of 5 shadows contains a green, to light blues, a deep blue and a silver. (As seen in below pic)

In order there is Tarn green, Bright Aqua, Azimuth (look how gorgeous!), Moondust and See the Stars.

The next row, I like to call the neutrals row.

In order there is Silver Dollar, Powder Puff, Frosted Almond (such a pretty neutral, golden tone, love it!) Pale Gold (More of a greeny gold) and Copper Coin ( This a beautiful deep shimmery brown)

The next row is the doubles row, each eyeshadow pan has two eyeshadow colours and there are some pretty awesome combos :)

In order there is Plovers egg + Nine iron, Bayou + Midnight, Peaches N Cream + Holly Berry, Limeade + Choc Ice and Magic Banana + Goose Down. They are such beautiful combinations, unfortunatley the last one will most likely remain unused, as I have never been a fan of yellow eyeshadows.

And the final row is contains the three shadows getting all the 'hype', as they are brand new! The three shadows are described in the palette as Hot Twinkle baked powder impreganted with glitter. Instead of being shimmery these are glittery.

In order there is Twinkling Grape, Black Spark, Twinkling Gold, Citronella Crush, Ginger Spice.

Isn't it such a pretty array of colours? I don;t think I mentoined this even though I should of, 13 of the shadows are baked and dome shaped, the rest are just flat. All shadows are shimmery, except the three glitters and all 5 of the double shadows.

I think I've covered everything, but if I've missed something I'll just add it in later :)

Remember your beautiful :)

Celina x

NYX Mini Haul: Lip Products :D

So I'm very sorry I haven't blogged in a while :( But I was really ill and off scholl for a while and then I had to catch up with the work I missed. So all my time was just sucked away. But anyway I'm back :)


So I got a lipstick and a lipgloss from NYX. I have only ever had an eyeliner from NYX before and I wasn't very impressed with it. I mean it was nice but it wasn't anything special. But I was still keen to try some other products as I have heard alot od rave reviews before. Really annoyingly, you cannot buy from NYX online unless you have an HSBC account which I do not. I can't find NYX in any stores, so I turned to faithful ebay :) And I found a lipstick and lipgloss combo for £1.99 including postage.


Lipstick: NYX Lip Smacking Fun  Colors in 529 Thalia

This lipstick has a nice creamy consistency and glides on the lips really well. The colour is a in theory very pretty dusky rose colour, its matte but shiny. Err its got no shimmers or anything, so the colour is matte but when applied its quite glossy/shiny if that makes sense. Unfortunately I don't like the colour, its too light for my skin tone and when I wear it I look ill and my lips look pasty. I don't know how long lasting this colour is as I haven't worn it for any long periods of time but I would imagine that it wouldn't last very long as its really creamy.

Lipgloss: NYX (lg159) Smokey Look

Unfortunatley I cant find a picture online and I still dont have access to a camera. I love this lipgloss!! Its a gorgeous nudey pink with slight shimmer. The only complaint I have with this gloss is it feels really heavy, even when wearing the smallest amount. It feels heavy and thick. It does not have any sheer element, it is more like a liquid lipstick. But I love it!. I wouldnt pair it with a lipstick though, I think that would be just too much, I think its one thats meant to be going solo.

Do you have any NYX products? What did you think?