Christmas Beauty Haul!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Hello everyone! 

I hope you had an amazing start to the New Year! I hope 2014 brings you all you wish for and more!

I am officially back from my holidays and boy do I miss being near the beach, and just lounging around with friends and having a laugh. Unfortunately life is not a holiday, if it was we would never appreciate it as much as we currently do.

So as you all know Christmas has come and past, and I thought I would do a haul on all the beauty gifts I received or bought over the end of the December.

Lets kick start this haul with Lime Crime.

I have wanted to buy Lime Crime lipsticks for years now but they are quite expensive so I always just admired them online and from afar. 

So as you can imagine when I opened my Christmas gift from my beautiful friend Stacey and discovered 4 of these gems I was in shock and in love. In fact I actually told her "I think I'm in love with you" and creeped her out a bit. 

Besides the point that she got me FOUR!!! of these amazing lipsticks she also chose amazing colours that I probably would have chosen myself, check them out below!

Glamour 101

A Beautiful deep red, amazingly pigmented and my favourite out of all 4.

Countessa Fluorescent

A beautiful Barbie / Nicki Minaj Pink. Highly Pigmented

Poisonberry

A Deep Purple, almost a metallic plum when on the lips. Beautiful and not a typical colour you would buy but I love it.

Centrifuchsia

Hot Pink in a tube, my second favourite, a colour that would suit everyone.

Apart from getting me these lipsticks my friend also chucked in a palette from Shany Cosmetics which I'd never heard of. Below are swatches of all the colours, you will be able to see most colours are pigmented but there are some that are lacking. I'd say the quality is like that of BH Cosmetics.

Moving on!

I also got a nail set from one of my other friends which is amazing! My nails are super short, and I can't ever seem to grow them long but I do love me some nail art! This kit is perfect for that and it was fun to mess around with; It's great for begginers like myself as it explains different ways to use everything included. (the nail file is missing because I was using it hehe)

Now here comes the fun part, while picking up some last minute christmas gifts I also picked up some products from W7 since the Chemist warehouse was having a 3 for 10 sale! can you say bargain?!

I tried using this as a mascara but it did not work, however as an eye liner and for adding glitter it was absolutely perfect! I put this on all my friends for New Years Eve!

This W7 Nudes pallete was a must have in my travel bag! The colours could be more pigmented but they made the perfect nude/ natural smokey eye.

The W7 Heavenly cream blush is just amazing, it stayed on my skin through the heat and humidity and gave me a beautiful glow.

These slightly shimmery bronzing pearls from W7 were beautiful to use on my tanned skin from the beach, it just made my skin glow! I also liked that it was not jam packed full of shimmer as most of these type of products are.

This Eyeshadow duo from Smooth Cosmetics was beautiful, I used this on my friend with Blue eyes and it just made them pop! I also used them on myself and it looked amazing. The shadows were extremely pigmented, however I find they work best applied with fingers and for some reason a brush doesn't pick up the colour as well.

And finally I picked up this 'Light Up' Lipgloss from W7. It's a beautiful champagne colour that can be worn by itself or ontop of a lipstick for a metallic finish. The cool thing about the 'Light Up' lipglosses is that when you open the cap there is a light that comes out so you can apply the lipgloss in the dark. Handy for if you're going out at night and there isn't a bathroom available for touch ups!

So there you have it, my beauty Christmas haul.

Let me know what you got for Christmas :)

xoS

Taylor Swift Red Concert, Moving houses, AFGW, and Christmas

Helloooo anybody out theree?

I've been gone for a few weeks now and boy is this time of year busy!

So let's catch up aye?
First off let me just say how amazing Taylor Swift was, she never ceases to surprise me with her performances and concerts! The Red Stadium tour was not a let down (I attended the sold out Sydney date 04/12/13), she sung her heart out and even shed some tears. Here's my favourite picture out of the hundreds I took :)

We were sitting in Section A5 so as you can imagine we were really close up to the stage, and we could see her perfectly, however we did also have a huge screen if we missed anything. What I can definitely say is I will always attend her tours as long as she comes to Australia.
The opening acts were pretty good too :) I'm not a huge fan of Neon trees but I do like a couple of songs, and I just adore Guy Sebastian, so if you haven't already check him out on youtube!
Here's a couple more photos;

During the past few weeks I've also been moving houses and now we're finally settled and I finally have the internet again so hopefully I can post more often. The new place is beautiful and it has a beautiful pool, barbecue and tennis court area for the community, of course I've been spending a lot of my time there.

Which leads me to my next point, on the 13th of December as I was lounging in the pool with a couple of friends, I received a notification on my instagram announcing I had won (along with 3 other people) a competition to attend the AFGW (Australian Fashion Graduates Week) launch party and fashion show, and I could bring a friend along and win some goodie bags filled with Face Of Australia products! (they hosted the competition that I won and were proud sponsors of the event).

Now I attended the launch party but unfortunately I couldn't attend the actual fashion show as I had to work but I did contact FoA and they are sending my friend and I the goodie bags! so lovely of them :)

The launch party was amazing and we were able to see a few of the designs and meet the designers, it was lovely to talk to them about their designs.

And then lastly of course was Christmas, which was lovely.

I am of italian/spanish background so we celebrated Christmas eve and Christmas day with my family, I  recieved lots of goodies from them as well as from friends!

I will be doing a Christmas haul soon! so keep a lookout for that :)

Also I leave on the 29th for a holiday with my friends at Nelson Bay so I might not be posting within the next week, I do appologize!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and that you have an even more so amazing New Years.

xxS

Christmas in London and Favourite TV Shows

So it's no surprise (or maybe it is...well at least to some of you) that I am in love with anything and everything from the UK, from bloggers, youtubers, singers, bands, clothing, make up and stores. Just the whole entire UK in general! So it's no wonder that even while it's going to be blistering hot here in Sydney for Christmas I am in fact dreaming of a white Christmas (no pun intended) in London.

So basically all my wallpapers and everything Christmasy in my life is revolving around snow and the Uk. Yup. Addicted.

So while I should be celebrating spring and summer (which I love) I am in fact watching so many Zoella and Tanya videos that I feel like I'm getting prepared for a beautiful cold Christmas but in reality all I am preparing myself for is sweating. a lot of sweating. Ew. Santa hats in 40 degree weather just never seem to work out.

So before we move onto the next topic I'll leave you all with two pictures;

This is where I wish I was spending Christmas, walking near the London Eye.

And here is the reality. I give you; Christmas in Australia.

Okay moving on!

Next topic! My Favourite TV Shows of the moment, you might want to take a seat, grab a cup of tea, maybe hot chocolate or even something cold depending where you are while reading, there is quite a few!

The Originals

This show is my addiction! Every episode leaves me hanging on, and I am ashamed to admit that I thought the show would be awful, how completely wrong I was! Klaus (Joseph Morgan) is amazing, even while being an evil bastard he still manages to seduce you through the screen and can we mention two Aussie actresses are in this show! Claire Holt and Phoebe Tonkin! I hadn't seen much of them since H2O which was one of my favourite shows back in the day.

If you haven't already checked this show out, I suggest you do!

Reign

I was addicted to this show since before it aired, I had seen the promo and I couldn't wait for it to come out! Now that is has, it has me more hooked than before. If you like history but like a bit of extra drama this show is for you! Although it stays from actual history is is amazing  and I must admit I do prefer the show to the actual story. Mary, Francis, Bash... Can you say love?

Arrow

I've watched Arrow for awhile now and boy am I glad it's back, I missed my weekly fix of superheros and shirtless Oliver Queen. No but seriously this show is really good and I think both genders would enjoy it. There's not much more to say other than WATCH IT!

Grimm

Grimm... Well if you're not into superheros, you might be into fairytales or both! This show is a good mix of drama, fairytales, demons and crime. It took me a few episode to get hooked but boy, once I was hooked, I surrendered myself.

Revenge

A favourite of mine since the beginning, I even got my parents into this show, they're addicted too in case you're wondering! Emily Thorne and her plot for Revenge is refreshing as it sometimes makes me wonder about the lengths people go in this world to get what they want. I say, if you already haven't go and watch it, it gets better and better!

The Vampire Diaries

No surprises here, Girl meets Boy, boy likes girl, girl likes boy, oh did we mention a smoking hot brother?

I'm pretty sure everyone has already heard of this show.

Glee

Classic, simple, musical comedy.

RIP Corey Monteith.

Ravenswood

The newest show on my list, again, I have to admit I thought it would suck, but amazingly, it's pretty good, although some of the acting is a bit off sometimes. It's more supernatural themed than it's sister show Pretty Little Liars.

Pretty Little Liars

5 beautiful best friends, 1 dead. Mystery, Suspense.

A is watching.

Twisted

This show is aimed more towards teens but I still enjoyed the drama of it all. I can't say too much else as there hasn't been too many episodes, but hey! great time to catch up! as it has been confirmed that there will be more episodes!

Once Upon a Time

Another Fairytale based show, however this one is a bit more light hearted, although the character twists are amazing and I love the fact that Snow white isn't so fragile, she's tough. Ginnifer Goodwin is amazing.

Hart of Dixie

A light hearted Comedy, if you like Taylor swift, and you liked the OC, watch this.

So here are just some of my current favs.

Let me know what shows you've watched, which you like, which you don't!

xS