Hello hello! I thought I would bring it back to old blogging days (check out this post if you wanna see all my ramblings about the 'good ol' days' to quote Leave voters...it wouldn't be an Emilia Rachael blogpost without a Brexit reference surely?) and throw you a good ol' post about an experience I recently had with some lovely photos taken on my phone and just have a lil natter.

So as the title of this blog post (and the massive f*ck off picture above...) suggests, I went to the Keilidh Mua Masterclass Tour! I bought my ticket back in December when I was at home on a complete whim as I thought they'd sell out super quick (I was right) and honestly, the time flew by! So on Sunday I donned some amazingly colourful makeup and wandered on down to the Renaissance Hotel in Manchester to watch Keilidh do some makeup and a guest demo. For those of you who don't know, Keilidh is an Instagram makeup artist and YouTuber who I discovered after she won a Lunar Beauty contest and filmed a video with MannyMua, and honestly since then she's been one of my biggest inspirations - her looks are right up my street and she's 100% made me braver with colour, more confident in my skills and just generally improved my makeup ability. So obviously when I found out she was doing the tour I had to go and I pretty much screamed when I got my ticket confirmation through!

Anyway. The masterclass was quite a standard format - there was one guest demo with just an eyeshadow look, a short break and then Keilidh's demo followed by a meet and greet. I was surprised at how small the Manchester event was - it was super intimate and honestly I loved that, it made it feel like we were just her friends really! All in all the day was wonderful and I'm so glad I went - the meet and greet was amazing, I waited right until the end so no one was watching me see her (I'm gonna chat about this in a second) and I managed to have quite a good chat with her, she complimented my makeup (!!) and she was just such a lovely girl, so down-to-earth and so easy to talk to - she's such a pure and wholesome person and honestly I'd love to spend more time with her because I think we'd be such good friends! I also managed to meet Abby Roberts (abbyrobertsartistry on Instagram) and she remembered me which I was honestly so shook over, again such a sweet girl and seemed so happy to chat to people and take photos and things, she was adorable! (still cannot get over the fact she's only 17 though like whaaat)

(Becca and Erin who I went with!! You can find Becca's Twitter and Instagram here and Erin's Twitter here)

However, I did wanna take this opportunity to have a quick chat with you all about social anxiety. I've been diagnosed with GAD years ago but recently my anxiety has got very very social again - for all it's amazing-ness (??) the event got me more worked up than I have been for a long time. If there's anything that terrifies me and gets my anxiety going it's young teenage girls - I can't get out of my head the idea that they're all standing around judging me, looking at me, and I come out of these events feeling completely scrutinised and completely insecure in myself and my skills. I did also go to this alone - I met two girls who I chatted to a bit on Twitter first and we went together (by the way they were both so so lovely and it was amazing to finally put faces to names) but they both had VIP tickets so I spent quite a lot of the event on my own and oh, my God my heart was racing like you wouldn't believe. I just wanted to pop this in here just to say that it's okay to feel like this and it's okay to be nervous of ridiculous things (because who in their right mind is scared of teenagers). I just don't want to let it get to the point where it stops me doing things alone but I'm hoping the more I do the more it will ease and the more I'll be able to do. That's the hope anyway - if anyone has any excellent tips for social anxiety they'd be much appreciated!

That being said, I had such a good time and I'm so so glad I didn't let anxiety completely get the better of me and I actually went as it was an invaluable experience that I'll never forget and hopefully will get the chance to repeat in the future. 

Em xx

So Why DO You Wear So Much Makeup?

I'm one of those people that's never really had a thing. I'm not especially, stand-out good at anything, I don't really have any talents as such and growing up I seriously felt that. I play the comparison game way too much as it is, and when I was younger it was even worse. I played the trumpet but there was someone better than me and I wasn't really that good. I was awful at sports, I couldn't understand music or sing, in art class I was consistently one of the worst and academically I was only ever mediocre and average in my classes. I wasn't particularly pretty or outgoing or confident either, I didn't have loads of friends and I wasn't part of the popular group who were friends with the boys from the school over the road. Nothing I did ever really stood out or got any attention - basically, I've been a bit average my whole life and I've always felt that. I think some of it is due to seven years at grammar schools which put a massive amount of academic pressure on you, and I'm also convinced part of it comes from being a middle child - middle child syndrome is real, don't fight me. 

Things changed a lot when I left my first secondary school and started somewhere fresh for sixth form. I'd started my blog at this point and I'd begun to feel I was quite good at writing and being a helping hand for people who needed it. But the other thing that I'd fallen in love with at that point was makeup. I started wearing makeup when I was around fourteen - at my first school we weren't allowed to wear it until Year 10 so I didn't really know much about makeup until then. But I loved watching YouTube videos and reading beauty blogs and that's where my appreciation for makeup started. I discovered facepainting and SFX when I was about sixteen and that's when I felt that makeup was really becoming my thing. I went from strength to strength when I learned how to do winged eyeliner in December 2015 (genuinely it changed my life) and this is I guess where I really fell in love with the art of makeup.

I started my Instagram account and people actually seemed to like my SFX stuff and my bodypainting, and even crappy close up pictures of my eye makeup of the day and I genuinely remember feeling so excited because I thought I'd finally found my thing. And turns out I had - I started getting more followers and my friends at school used to wait to see what makeup I'd wear that day, which glitter I'd use or if I did blue eyeliner. I remember one teacher telling me that my blue eyeliner was 'perhaps a little too bright for school' and I nearly gaped, astonished at her audacity. As I said earlier, I've never been a particularly outgoing person in terms of my demeanour or the clothes I wear and at that point makeup became the way I expressed myself - I wore glittery eyeshadow and blue eyeliner because I loved it, I loved the process of doing my makeup in the morning, half an hour of complete solidarity all to myself. I looked forward to doing it each morning and taking a picture and posting it on Instagram. I think the point where I really went makeup is MY thing was when I got voted 'best eyebrows' and 'best makeup' in my Year 13 yearbook polls last year!! The euphoria was real, kids.

University only developed my love - while I stopped bodypainting because I didn't want to be 'weird' I discovered that Manchester is much more open to crazy colourful eyeshadow and cool eyeliner than my little southern town is, and now that's my norm, it's actually rare to see me in neutral colours and no winged eyeliner now! And honestly, the online beauty community has just been wonderful - the inspiration and support I get online is madness and I feel like I'm in such a good place with my skills right now. I still have so much to learn but I'm getting better and learning more with each look I do and each look that gets more and more support just gives me even more confidence in myself and my skills and my 'thing' and the fact I have a thing - and it feels bloody brilliant.

Oh - and just to keep me humble and to remind everyone that practise is EVERYTHING (and having way too much time on my hands) here's a five year throwback.

Em xx

Staple Summer Makeup Products

Hello from very sunny and very beautiful Mallorca!! I am in fact writing this while sat in my kitchen, still stuck in dingy England, however I'm trying to go on a bit of a social media detox this week so therefore I'm scheduling lots of content now #realblogger #organised !!

So today I thought I'd show you some of my staple summer makeup items - I haven't done a makeup post in so long so thought it was about time. If you want to see some of the looks I do with these products you can head on over to my Instagram - serving fresh looks constantly! I did want to call this post 'my travel makeup bag' because if you're anywhere near as addicted to makeup as me you'll know the struggles of only taking a portion of your makeup collection on holiday rather than the entire thing, so I've only got my staples here with me so thought I'd chat a little about them.

Sleek 'Life's A Peach' blush

You'd be right in thinking I use this as an eyeshadow more often than not! It's such a soft peachy orange colour and looks gorgeous blended into the crease as a transition shade before layering darker oranges and pinks on top. The texture is so soft and it actually looks lovely as a blusher too, but I did buy it purely for the eyeshadow qualities!! Because it's a blusher, it doesn't pack quite as much pigment as an eyeshadow would but that also means it's incredibly buildable.

NYX Strobe of Genius palette

I love love love these highlighters - a gorgeous glow is definitely a must have for the summer and this palette offers so much choice. The golden white one is perfect for an all over glow, I use the bronzey pinky one as a blush and the lilac one looks beautiful with pink-toned eyeshadows. Just love it really. I'm the type of person that literally puts highlighter everywhere and it stays so wonderfully on my collarbones and shoulders too (I did mean everywhere)

Jeffree Star 'Rose Matter' liquid lipstick

This is a shade I've recently fallen in love with, I've had it for ages but it's quite a bright pink so felt quite self-conscious in it, but recently whipped it out again and have been loving it!! It goes with so many different eye looks and is such a lovely shade of pink, not too bright but not too dark, just the perfect petal shade. It's already a well known fact that the JS liquid lipsticks are my favourite formulas, I could wax lyrical for so long about them!

NYX Vivid Bright eyeliners

I loooove my colours when it comes to summer and one of the best products for adding a pop of colour to a normal eye look are these eyeliners - they apply so easily, the colours are so pigmented and they honestly can transform anything. The pink looks so good with Rose Matter lipstick and the bright blue compliments orangey toned eyeshadows so much, they're honestly just the perfect thing to spice up your summer makeup bag. (not all pictured bc I didn't bring them all with me hahahaha can you imagine)

Sleek Ultra Mattes V1 palette

I've loved this palette for a reeeeally long time but only just managed to figure out how to wear birght colours and make them look good - I kind of can't go a day without using this palette now! The yellow and orange look so cool blended out together and with the purple all over the lid. I'm still not sure about the greens and blues but I'm getting there!

And that brings me to the end of a few products I definitely couldn't live without in the summer. Hope you enjoyed this quick little post and I'll see you again in a few days time (hopefully)

What are your staple summer products?

Em xx

Who Should And Shouldn't Be Included In Pride? | A Quick Guide 🌈

Hello helo hello and welcome to a fun social awareness blog post!! I wanna just put a quick disclaimer out right now that this post is chock full of my own opinions - don't take anything I say as gospel or fact because it's most likely not, and I'm only gonna encourage healthy discussion on this topic rather than hate and backlash!! Aight, back to rainbows and happiness.

makeup deets are over on my instagram!!!

There's been many a tweet floating around on the internet about 'who Pride is for' this year. As far as I know we've never really had this narrative going on around Pride Month before, or if we did I've not really seen it, but this year it seems to be even more prevalent. And the one thing that seems to be incredibly prevalent is asexuals, aromantic and agender people being excluded from Pride on the grounds that they can still be cishet (cisgender/heteronormative) and therefore are excluded from Pride and celebrating Pride Month.

Here's a bit of education for ya. Asexual (ace) = people who are not sexually attracted to other people, aromantic (aro) = people who are not romantically attracted to other people and agender = people who don't identify with either male or female. The updated LGBT acronym is now LGBTQ+A, meaning Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Ace/Aro/Agender. As far as I know, the term 'queer' (having studied this in depth in my first year of uni) includes anything outside social norms, therefore becoming an umbrella term for all types of sexualities that aren't exclusively cishet. There are a lot of terms to get your head around, trust me!! Now, the tricky thing is, these terms, especially queer, have many different meanings and people attach different things to them, but that's what I understand those terms to mean and that's how I explain them to other people.

In my opinion, the purpose of Gay Pride has changed a lot in the last ten or so years. It's a movement designed to end discrimination and violence against LGBTQ+A, as well as to promote our self affirmation, equal rights and increase our visibility as a community. While Pride is still for all those things, it's also now to celebrate our differences and the differences in the ways in which we love, and to break the stigma down surrounding our sexual diversity.

Because of this, I really disagree with the narrative that 'aces aren't included in Pride'. I'm gonna throw back to the days when bisexual people weren't just discriminated against outside the LG community but also inside it. I remember gay people online saying to me 'you're just a lesbian and can't admit it' and 'you're not really gay, you're just pretending to be bi because it's different' and this narrative is even still going on someplaces, with people saying 'you're only bi because it's fashionable'. I remember the exclusion I faced and I remember feeling unwanted in a community that was to celebrate sexual diversity. Bisexuality, like any sexuality, is a tough thing to understand if you don't identify with it, but that doesn't mean it isn't valid. Bisexual people have faced abuse at previous Pride marches due to being in a m/f (male/female, aka hetero) relationship. In my eyes, this just isn't fair. Bisexuality is real, it's valid and no one should be made to feel like it's not.

This is exactly the same with asexual/aromantic. 

Ace/aro is still a 'queer' sexuality. They are included in the acronym. They are confused about their identity and who on earth are we to say that Pride is not for them because they appear to be cishet? I know what exclusion from this community can feel like and while I can't completely understand ace/aro, I know people who are ace and therefore have secondhand experience of what it's like to be excluded from something that should be for everyone. Ace/aro people have their identities erased all over the place - the fact I had to put a note in the beginning of this post explaining what these terms and identities mean shows this - and we don't need this same sort of erasure in LGBT spaces either. The acronym used to be LGT before bisexuality got included, so why are we still not accepting Q+A at the end?

In my opinion, the only people Pride is not for, are people who are going to hurl abuse at the celebrators for whatever reasons - homophobia, biphobia, transphobia or for just being cishet. It's my opinion that straight allies (straight people who support Pride) shouldn't be excluded from Pride either. While Pride is not exclusively for them, why should we stop anyone celebrating love? Pride is not for gatekeeping.

Surely, Pride is to celebrate love for just being love, and it doesn't matter HOW you love.

I know that there are some seriously differing opinions on this topic and it's very sensitive indeed, but this narrative that Pride is only for a certain approved list of identities and sexualities has really only cropped up very recently, and I think it's plain wrong and it actually draws just more boundaries than we need - it's entirely counter-productive and defeats the point of Pride. Our queer community is one of the most inclusive out there, so why are we excluding people that are in the same boat as bisexual people once were? It can feel confusing enough to not know how to identify yourself, or not know where you fit in, but being told that you don't belong at a festival of love - it's just awful that we're still supporting this idea in 2018. 

There are no rules over who gets to celebrate all the diverse, beautiful, messy ways in which we love.

What do you think about ace/aro people and their 'place' at Pride?

Em xx

November Favourites

Welcome to the most generic blogmas post ever!! I'm sure we're all bashing this one out at the moment so hopefully mine won't be too samey same!!

Favourite Winter Lipsticks

Wow. This is possibly one of the most generic blog posts ever during autumn/winter. But you know what, I'm a cliche blogger so I'm going to do it anyway!!

All of these lipsticks (apart from three), as you probably will have guessed, are indeed liquid lipsticks. I just don't seem to get on with normal stick lipsticks anymore. Liquid ones are so much easier to apply and much more long wearing and the best part is you just don't have to worry about smearing when you eat or drink!!

a fun autumn makeup look!

Hello everybody and welcome to my first blogpost in a while!!

Today I'm sharing these fun photos with you because this is a tutorial I filmed a while ago but have only just got round to editing and uploading (was uploaded today at 11am)

I mean, I do enjoy a LOT how well the eyeshadow matches the wall of my uni room, I think that's pretty cool and completely unintentional haha. Also s/o to Lily who gave out some handy photo editing tips in a recent post about how to get that lovely warm tone to photos, hopefully I'll have a few more to try it out on soon, as you can probably tell these got very red but I'm kind of enjoying it anyway?? I'm still trying to get my head around the ins and outs of colour theory but I'm liking having a new thing to focus on. Gives me a nice distraction from the bore that is Great Expectations, that's for sure.

A Chat About Inspiration And Creative Ruts

Uni life is great, I tell you that. Today I've done nothing but run a 5K with my sister this morning, subsequently eat my weight in food because I slept through my alarms and had no time to eat before the run...and that's it. Bored as hell, I decided to catch up on my YouTube watching and came across a new Klaire de Lys video on a simple elegant skull Halloween tutorial.

I LOVE this type of art style, the delicate shapes and patterns all working together to create one piece. You can't have one element of it without another. There's so much creativity involved in it too, so many different ways you can twist the patterns and make them your own. So, given that I haven't painted anything in an extremely long time, I decided to give this a try. It's simple and easy and so so quick to do - considering most of my paints take me a solid 2 hours and mostly more (that pink zombie thing I did was a solid 7 1/2 hours of work), to be able to sit down and create something in half an hour is quite nice.

It got me thinking about inspiration though and if this is the reason I haven't painted anything in so long. I mean, I know the practical reason is because I left all my paintbrushes at home when they should have come to Manchester with me and I only got them a week ago when my dad came up. But even before I moved out, it's still been ages since I did anything properly arty and I just can't figure out why. 

I sometimes get stuck in ruts when I can't think of any ideas for anything at all, whether it's art or writing or anything, I just can't hack it, and then I get stuck in ruts when I just can't be bothered. You'd think if you loved something that much you'd always be bothered to do it but honestly, sometimes I can't. My mind goes crazy at itself because one half of it is bursting with inspiration and ideas and the other half just doesn't want to do anything with those ideas. 

What always helps me in either of those ruts, though, is turning to my favourite artists for inspiration. Something that's quick and easy and something I know I can handle and something I know I can do. This sort of thing is still a challenge because of the artistic technique behind it, but it's a challenge I can easily take on. To tell you the truth, I think the last time I attempted to paint something (other than my Pride themed makeup) was when I tried once again to recreate my cracked skull makeup I did two years ago based on the Elsa Rhae video that first got me into body painting. And, even though it was another year after I'd done it again, I had another year of experience under my belt, it just was like I'd never picked up a paintbrush before. And when I know I can do something better than what I've done (if that makes sense) it frustrates me and it knocks my confidence and it doesn't just knock it - it batters it to a pulp and suddenly I am the most uninspired I've ever been. Its the same  thing that happened with my trumpet playing - I was good, I was ready to take my Grade 8, I was getting better and better, and then I got braces and it was like taking a hundred painful steps back to stage 1, and now nearly two and a half years later I haven't picked it up in a long time and I've lost the love I once had for playing music.

And God, I did not want that to happen with painting but once my confidence takes a knock it takes me so long to want to do whatever it is again. Like I said before - I'm inspired but I can't be bothered because I hate failure. I hate failing at something I used to be good at. 

So anyway, that's enough rambling, back to the point - I created something today and yes, while it was completely inspired by another artist and it was basically someone else's idea, that's okay and it's restored some of my confidence in myself and I'm happy and proud of what I've done today. It's not perfect but I'm not perfect and to be honest, my style isn't perfect and it never will be. I like a slightly more rough-around-the-edges style when it comes to body art. And can we just talk about my actual eye makeup please for a second, thank you Morphe 35O, thanking you kindly.

Will be back soon my friends. Lots of love to you all. The support means the world.

Em xx

Colourpop Super Shock Eyeshadow Review!

Hey everyone!

Today's post is about the Colourpop Super Shock eyeshadows, as promised in my January beauty favourites post! I now have six of these, which I've collected in two batches. Me and my friends actually do group orders of Colourpop products to avoid the huge shipping and customs charge so it's a great way of doing it, but I'll talk a little more about how you can get round those costs later.

Top L-R Tassel, Sequin, Weenie

Bottom L-R Wattles, KathleenLights, Central Perk

L-R Central Perk, KathleenLights, Wattles, Weenie, Sequin, Tassel


Where to even start with these eyeshadows?! First off, the pigmentation (bar one but I'll talk about that later) is insane. You literally need one swipe of this stuff and it is so super pigmented that you just don't need anymore. Even Wattles, which is a matte shade, is super pigmented.

The only one that was a bit of a disappointment to me was Central Perk. I bought it because I didn't have any other colours like it, and such a deep burgundy really appealed to me for the autumn time, and I thought it would look insane with the gold shade as a halo eye. But then it arrived and it just seemed really dry and I could hardly pick up any product at all on my brush or my finger. Did anyone else have this problem with this shade or is it just me? I feel like it's just me because I looked at swtahces etc on Pinterest and elsewhere and it seemed to be exactly like the others. Slightly disappointed with it but it's no biggie because the other five blew my mind,



The consistency of these is weird - it's like a mix between a powder and a gel. Swatching them on your finger feels like you're dipping your finger into butter or something super soft but they're definitely a powder formula. One thing I would say is that you have to treat them more lke cream eyeshadows - if you leave the lid off for a long time they do dry out which is what's happened to my Tassel colour, and I did think that was what had happened to Central Perk but that arrived really weird so I don't know about that. Anyway.



These are much better applied with your fingers, however I find Wattles blends really well into my crease with the NYX 17 crease brush which is my favourite favourite crease brush ever. They are just so hugely metallic and shimmery and just add something so special to a look. I'm just quickly going to go into each shade (apart from Central Perk soz) into detail and give you some ideas for how to wear them etc.



Tassel a bright white with silver and hints of gold glitter - I love to use this in my inner corner and even as a highlight when I'm feeling super sparkly. You can see me wearing it in this post



Sequin a metallic pinky copper shade with blue and silver duochrome - I like to wear this all over my lid with Wattles in the crease for a super lowkey look, as you can see in this post again!



Weenie I don't have any pictures of this but it's a metallic rose gold, and part of the KathleenLights Where The Night Is collection. I like this in the centre of the lid with some darker pinks in the outer and inner corner for a bit of a more interesting and sparkly halo eye.



Wattles a beige peachy pink colour, with more of a matte/satin finish. This is such a perfect crease shade and also I love wearing this all over the lid with some glitter eyeliner, as you can see here and here



KathleenLights again, part of a KathleenLights collection, as the name suggests, but this time the Where The Light Is collection. This is the most beautiful bright bright golden copper colour and I love wearing this with orangey browns from the Morphe 35O palette (here), or with Red Ochre from the ABH MR palette for a halo eye.




So there we go - a review of some of the most beautiful eyeshadows I own. They only cost $5 each which works out at about £4, which is an absolute steal. However, the only snag is the $25 shipping charge and the customs charge you get hit with can bring the price of an order up massively. I bought Wattles, Sequin, Weenie and Tassel in a 24 hour free international shipping offer they did in November, which do pop up occasionally but I only caught it in the last 25 minutes, and KathleenLights and Central Perk I bought in a $5 shipping offer they did! These offers do pop up every now and then so it's a good idea to follow them on social media because that's where they tend to advertise them, especially Twitter I find! Like I said, me and my friends also do big group orders, there's about 11 of us who chip in so we get off the customs and shipping, our last order was $381 but we only got a £66 customs charge which was great, so we didn't have to pay that much. I'm pretty certain there are also those companies that order for you to an address in the USA and then they send it to you here for lower rates, which is how a lot of people got hold of Colourpop before they shipped to the UK, and also how people get Kylie Cosmetics for cheaper shipping too, so those might be worth looking into if the bank will be broken by the extortionate extra costs!


Hope you enjoyed this blog post, and I have more reviews coming soon! Have a lovely day my loves


Emilia xx

January Beauty Favourites 2017

here's a nice picture of my mum's birthday flowers that have been brightening up our kitchen on these dreary february days!!

Hello everyone! I'm only a few days late with this one which I'm very happy about hahaha! Finally getting on top of this?!

So my first favourite I'm going to talk about are Colourpop eyeshadows. Because I'm addicted I now have six of these (me and my friends do group orders to get round the huge shipping and customs charges lol). I'm doing a post about these soon, so I'll tell you more about my shades in that, but I have Tassel, Sequin, Weenie (the one in this picture), Wattles, KathleenLights and Central Perk. They are super creamy and super super pigmented, especially the glittery ones which just pack such a metallic punch of colour on the eyelid and they're just so special for a more interesting look. The only one I'm not so impressed with is Central Perk, as it just seems a lot dryer and not at all as pigmented, so I don't know if anyone else has had that problem with that particular shade?

My second beauty favourite is the Morphe 35K palette. I have had one Morphe palette, the 35O for about six months now and love it so so much, so I asked for this for Christmas and my lovely parents got it for me along with a bunch of brushes which I'll talk about a bit later. It does not disappoint, and is just as amazing quality as the 35O. The shimmer shades are slightly more pigmented but that's always to be expected, but the mattes aren't chalky and there isn't much kickup at all which is always a winner for me, as it just makes your makeup so messy! This palette, if you're into blues and browns, is the only eyeshadow palette you'll ever need. There's so so many different looks you can do with it and so much variety. Plus, it's 35 eyeshadows for £22.95 on Beauty Bay. Morphe palettes are such a steal, I swear to God!

Here we have the Jeffree Star liquid lipsticks...again, I'm obsessed. My best friend Rach introduced me to these and I wore her Unicorn Blood to a party back in September, and instantly fell in love with it, hardly daring to believe I'd found a red lipstick that actually suits me! (a more detailed post with swatches is coming up!) So then Rach bought Unicorn Blood for me as a lil present when I was having a difficult couple of weeks, and I was hooked haha. I then asked for some for Christmas (yes, my whole Christmas list was makeup...) and my parents gave me Celebrity Skin, and my grandparents gave me Androgyny and Rose Matter. So, so, so grateful for it :)) I've always said that most of my makeup I do buy myself, my parents don't make a habit of  funding my makeup addiction (and I did a paper round for three years to fund it myself!) but when Christmas and my birthday roll around I do like to ask for some more high end bits and bobs. 

My favourite out of the four I've got has definitely got to be Celebrity Skin. Like I've found my perfect red in Unicorn Blood, I've found my perfect nude in this one. The formula, scent and staying power of all of them are just insane and they are definitely the most comfortable liquid lipsticks I've ever worn! They are slightly drying after a while but that's to be expected with any matte liquid lipstick. In the UK you can find them on Beauty Bay!

So my final beauty favourites are these brushes from Morphe. The bottom five are the ones I got for Christmas and then the top one, the MB16, I got myself a couple of weeks ago. I use all of them every day pretty much and adore them, perhaps with the exception of the E14, just because I don't often pack one colour all over - but I do like to use it for a browbone highlight. The E13 I use to pop a powder all over my lid to set my primer, the E24 for highlighting my inner corner, the E17 for concentrating colours into the outer corner and my crease, the B83 for putting one colour in the inner third of my lid and the MB16 for running colours under my lower lashline. Honestly, with just these six brushes you can do a whole eye look which is so great. They're also really really affordable, and such great quality brushes for the price. I've washed all of them twice and they haven't shed yet which is also a winner. You can find them on Beauty Bay in the UK!

Well that's it for my beauty favourites, I'll have another post in a couple of days for my other random favourites!

Also, just wanted to say that I'm going on my school ski trip this half term, so I set off on Friday! I am going to be scheduling posts over the week then so you won't miss out! I'll also do a lengthy post about it when I get back. I'm super excited because, as I'm in Year 13, it's my last chance to go on a school ski trip, which I've never done before even though I've been skiing since I was about five! I'm also excited to have a little break from life in general as everything's been very hectic lately, but that's only to be expected four months before A Levels, am I right?!

What products have you been loving through January? Let me know in the comments below!

See you all soon,

Emilia xx

City Of Stars, La La Land

Hello everyone! It's me, back again with a little post about this makeup look I came up with a couple of weeks ago. It's loosely inspired by La La Land, which I haven't seen yet but I'm waiting until it comes out on DVD! However, you all know how much I love a good musical so I've listened to the whole soundtrack twelve times over and love every single thing about it. 

So obviously, this is inspired by City of Stars as it's my favourite song from the soundtrack. Hope you like it!

I've kind of been stuck in a bit of a rut recently, and I wanted to go out of my comfort zone a little because I've not really been that adventurous as of late. But, I did get three new Makeup Revolution eyeshadow palettes today so I'm going to play around with them and hopefully come up with some new ideas, which you can keep up with on my makeup Instagram because I post a lot more over there!

PRODUCTS!

Eyes:

♥ Morphe 35K palette (will be featured in an upcoming post but has the most beautiful blues and greys in ever)

♥ Barry M Bold Silver eyeliner in the waterline - I've become so into doing this recently, it adds something so interesting to a look

♥ NYX Roll On Shimmer in Platinum on the browbone and inner corner - again, I love adding this to my inner corner because it just adds a little something else to an otherwise standard look

♥ NYX white eyeliner for the dots and stars - mine is drying out so I did struggle with this! I use it a lot more than I thought I would so I'm going to have to replace it soon!

♥ Maybelline Lash Sensational mascara

♥ FleurDeForce x Eylure lashes in Fully Fleur

Face:

♥ Revlon Skinlights Photoready illuminator underneath foundation 

♥ L'Oreal True Match in 1C

♥ Sleek Cream Contour Kit in Light

♥ The same NYX glitter as before for highlight

♥ Rimmel Stay Matte powder

Lips:

♥ MAC Boldly Bare liner

♥ Jeffree Star Celebrity Skin liquid lipstick

Long product list as always! I so wish it was acceptable to go out with starry eyelids every day, it would make my life so much better! Haha I joke but I do love this look so much, an adaptation of it would be so cool for a night out!

Hope you all loved this look as much as I do!

Emilia xx

Something A Little Prettier

Okay, so here's the post I was actually going to put up yesterday but decided to write something else lol

I did this bodypaint a few weeks ago in an evening when my parents weren't home (it sounds worse than it is - it's easier to do when they're not around because they laugh too much at me!), and I wanted to do something really kind of intricate and detailed and just pretty because I hardly ever do things like that and it's something I enjoy doing. I'm getting my fair share of disgusting SFX stuff from Phantom of the Opera at the moment, which we're putting on at school and yours truly is making all the prosthetics! It's the biggest piece of prosthesia I've ever done so I'm very excited. But as I said, that's fulfilling my slightly twisted, gory side so I thought I'd try and do something a bit prettier.

I've been super inspired lately by the work of Elsa Rhae, who's a bodypainter I watch on YouTube, and she's so ridiculously talented and I'm in love with her work. She does a lot of henna/menhi inspired art and I've kind of fallen in love with it too. It does test my artistic ability a lot more than my normal art, as it's so detailed and intricate, but that's what I love about it - it really pushes me to try and do the best I can.

So hold your breath, lads - there's a long product list for this one.

Eyes:

- Urban Decay Half Baked on the lid, Blackout in the crease and Snakebite to blend it all out and repeated on the lower lashline, with Half Baked in the inner corner

- Zoeva gel liner topped up with L'Oreal Superliner

- Diego Dalla Palma Lash Booster mascara (literally my favourite mascara ever)

- Eylure and Fleur De Force Fleur Loves lashes (yep, still in love with these eyelashes)

- NYX Tame and Frame brow pomade

Face:

- Revlon Skinlights Photoready Illuminator to prime

- L'Oreal True Match foundation in 1C (still the only drugstore foundation that matches my skintone)

- Seventeen Stay Time concealer in Extra Fair to highlight under eyes, chin, nose and forehead

- Sleek Cream Contour kit in Fair, darkest colours to contour and lightest colour to highlight

- Sleek Solstice highlight palette, Equinox mixed with Subsolar on nose, cheekbones, forehead and cupid's bow

Lips:

- MAC Half Red lipliner

- Bourjois Rouge Edition lipstick in Shade 14

- Black from iMagic flash palette for the ombre

- Urban Decay Half Baked on the centre of the lips

Body:

- Mehron black Paradise Paint

- Gold from iMagic flash palette (because I don't have $99 to spend on the real deal haha)

I really hope you all like this look and I might just try and do some more for you in the near future, maybe when things calm down a bit!

Emilia xx

Something A Little Prettier

Okay, so here's the post I was actually going to put up yesterday but decided to write something else lol

I did this bodypaint a few weeks ago in an evening when my parents weren't home (it sounds worse than it is - it's easier to do when they're not around because they laugh too much at me!), and I wanted to do something really kind of intricate and detailed and just pretty because I hardly ever do things like that and it's something I enjoy doing. I'm getting my fair share of disgusting SFX stuff from Phantom of the Opera at the moment, which we're putting on at school and yours truly is making all the prosthetics! It's the biggest piece of prosthesia I've ever done so I'm very excited. But as I said, that's fulfilling my slightly twisted, gory side so I thought I'd try and do something a bit prettier.

I've been super inspired lately by the work of Elsa Rhae, who's a bodypainter I watch on YouTube, and she's so ridiculously talented and I'm in love with her work. She does a lot of henna/menhi inspired art and I've kind of fallen in love with it too. It does test my artistic ability a lot more than my normal art, as it's so detailed and intricate, but that's what I love about it - it really pushes me to try and do the best I can.

So hold your breath, lads - there's a long product list for this one.

Eyes:

- Urban Decay Half Baked on the lid, Blackout in the crease and Snakebite to blend it all out and repeated on the lower lashline, with Half Baked in the inner corner

- Zoeva gel liner topped up with L'Oreal Superliner

- Diego Dalla Palma Lash Booster mascara (literally my favourite mascara ever)

- Eylure and Fleur De Force Fleur Loves lashes (yep, still in love with these eyelashes)

- NYX Tame and Frame brow pomade

Face:

- Revlon Skinlights Photoready Illuminator to prime

- L'Oreal True Match foundation in 1C (still the only drugstore foundation that matches my skintone)

- Seventeen Stay Time concealer in Extra Fair to highlight under eyes, chin, nose and forehead

- Sleek Cream Contour kit in Fair, darkest colours to contour and lightest colour to highlight

- Sleek Solstice highlight palette, Equinox mixed with Subsolar on nose, cheekbones, forehead and cupid's bow

Lips:

- MAC Half Red lipliner

- Bourjois Rouge Edition lipstick in Shade 14

- Black from iMagic flash palette for the ombre

- Urban Decay Half Baked on the centre of the lips

Body:

- Mehron black Paradise Paint

- Gold from iMagic flash palette (because I don't have $99 to spend on the real deal haha)

I really hope you all like this look and I might just try and do some more for you in the near future, maybe when things calm down a bit!

Emilia xx

"I'm Known For Being Quite Vexing."

Hey there puddins it's ya girl Harley Quinn!

Okay so who's excited for Suicide Squad?! I can't wait to go and see it, I've been waiting for so long and now that it's finally here I'm itching to go! I thought I'd have a lil go at the Harley makeup from it because I honestly adore it so much, being a makeup designer on that film must have been so much fun! For those of you who didn't know, that's basically the exact job I want - to be doing film and theatrical makeup on things like Suicide Squad where I can really push myself and test my limits. I love working under pressure, for some reason my work is always better when I have a time limit, it just gets my adrenaline going and my creative brain just works so much better. Working on film sets would basically be a dream come true for me.

Anyway, here's the products I used for this (if you want to know exactly how I did this look, the video will be up sometime this week hopefully, it depends on how well I get my life together lol)

Face
- L'Oreal True Match foundation in the shade 1C
- Seventeen Stay Time concealer in Extra Fair for highlighting under the eyes, nose, chin and forehead
- Sleek Cream Contour Kit in Light (bottom right for cheekbones and jawline, bottom middle for temples and nose, top left for highlighting under the eyes, nose and middle of forehead)
- NYX High Definition blush in Glow (the prettiest dusty bronzey pinky colour)
- E.l.f. Translucent Setting Powder under the eyes
- Sleek Contour Kit for highlighter
- Rimmel Stay Matte powder to set everything in place

Eyes
- Seventeen Stay Time for a base
- NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk for a white base for the colours to go on
- Sleek Ultra Mattes V1 Brights - Bolt for the blue, Pout for the pink, Pow! in the inner corner
- Makeup Revolution White Lights from Eyes Like Angels for inner corner and browbone highlight
- Urban Decay Blackout for the liner
- Maybelline Master Kajal liner for tightline and outer waterline
- NYX Milk pencil for the inner waterline
- Diego Dalla Palma Lash Booster mascara
- Eylure No. 107 lashes (cut up into outer corner lashes because I still can't apply full strip lashes lol)

Brows
- NYX Tame and Frame brow pomade in Blonde
- Anastasia Beverly Hills clear brow gel

Lips
- MAC Half Red lipliner
- Bourjois Rouge Edition lipstick in shade 14
- Body Shop lip roll on for that shiiiineee (I've literally had it for years and it's so shiny so I hardly ever wear it but literally keep it for things like this!)

Details
Heart and "Rotten" drawn with NYX Super Skinny Marker - this was possibly the most difficult part of the whole thing. Writing letters on your face in a mirror is terrifyingly hard, hence why it looks a little crap :') ah well, I tried!

Brushes
- Real Techniques Buffing brush
- Nanshy Concealer Perfector
- Zoeva 110 Face Shape
- B. Cosmetics Angled Contour and Blush brush
- RT Setting brush
- E.l.f. Small Tapered brush (highlight)
- EcoTools Large Powder brush
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Modern Renaissance brush for the blue
- Nanshy Crease brush for the pink
- Muji angled brush for the blue drippy things
- Ruby & Millie angled brush for the pink drippy things
- Nanshy angled detailer for brows
- Nanshy bent eyeliner brush for the black shadow liner
- Urban Decay Naked 2 brush (flat side) for the inner corner highlight


I'm so not used to having that much makeup on my face oh my lordy me. I was so glad to take it all off afterwards!

Hope you enjoyed this look, if you recreate it tweet me @emilia_rxchael because I'd love to see it!

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Emilia xx