CHANEL PERFECTION LUMIERE

I'M A BIT LATE ON THE BALL seeing as this came out much earlier in the year. I did try a sample at the time but wasn't blogging so I picked myself up another one to try out for you.
The colour I match up to is B20, which is a light shade with a golden undertone. This product has had mixed reviews as far as I'm aware, with some claiming it turns a lot darker once it has oxidized on the skin. Personally I havn't experienced this
(and I've tried it enough to know). Another problem people have been having is that they've found it quite drying. Again, it's not the most moisture packed of foundations but it's nothing a good layer of moisturizer underneath wont sort out.

PANTY TIME!

THIS IS AN UNUSUAL BLOG POST I KNOW, not the usual type anyway! I just wanted to share the panty love and tell everybody that New Look has some really cute ones at the moment. I couldn't help noticing these as I walked past them on my way to the shoe section (very strategically placed as they know everybody goes straight to the shoes in New Look!).

LUST LIST...

WE ALL HAVE ONE...and no I'm not talking about the list of celebs you that you ''would'', calm down ladies ;) This is my latest shopping lust list (well, about a third of it ahem). Maybe you'll discover something new to add to yours?

Starting with beauty:

Mac Pro Palette with 15 spaces £11.50. I really should have bought this when I got my eyeshadows because it's so sleek and I love the fact you can put all of the shades together and travel with it etc.

 Shu Uemura eyelash curler £20. Ok so who hasn't been bombarded with amazing comments about this eyelash curler? It's everywhere. The only reason I havn't got one is because £20 for what is essentially a slither of metal is simply ridonculous. I am intruiged by the hype though...

LUSH BRAZENED HONEY MASK

This is just a short review of a product I bought last weekend. I've used it a few times now and it's really quite delightful! This facemask has the job of brightening and pepping up dull skin. It's not particularly meant to deep cleanse or anything fancy, it's more of a ''hangover face mask'' I feel.

LIKE ALL LUSH FACE MASKS, it's packed with chunks of ''stuff''. In this case I think it's some sort of herb?! My boyfriend saw me and said ''oh someone's chundered on your face!''......niiice.

Why the stupid faces whenever there's a facemask knocking around? I'm guilty too apparently!
My only problem with this is that it's really hard to colour co-ordinate it with my dressing gowns. Like seriously what do you wear with a puke green? I hate when my facemask doesn't match my clothes. After trying it with all my different lounge clothes I finally felt able to go downstairs and face everybody. I decided on my red dressing gown as I felt it complimented the face mask best.
What I did descover was multi coloured ones with this is a big no no.

BLEACHING EYEBROWS

I DON'T KNOW WHETHER ANY OF YOU have had something that might not be wrong with your appearance, but you literally fixate on? For me there's usually something going on, like last year when I got back from a holiday in Cyprus, I was absolutely convinced I had suddenly aquired lines under my eyes and I wouldn't stop obsessing over it. I thought it was from sun damage on holiday even though I lathered myself in sun cream. I bought an eye cream and never thought about it again as it seemed to just go away...(it was completely psychological, I'm sure of it).
My point is that we're always trying to ''fix'' something and it's unhealthy and all that, I know, bla bla bla BUT there is one thing I've been thinking about for a while which concerns my eyebrows - they are just too dark for my hair!! This fixation I have been able to somewhat sort out with a little help from 'Jolen Cream Bleach'. It's meant for lightening excess dark facial hair, including eyebrows.

CHANEL ROUGE COCO 'TEHERAN'

I'M EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE I have purchased my FIRST Chanel lipstick. I have always loved the brand and adore their foundations/eyeshadows but I've just not been able to justify spending so much on a lipstick!  The lipstick I eventually bought is named Teheran and it's the lovechild of a pink lipstick and a coral lippy, beautiful! The lovely makeup assistant kept mentioning it's the best selling lipstick of their whole collection. I always swatch this when I walk past so I decided I should buy one (plus HoF had a 10% discount on beauty...perfect excuse!!!)

Here it iiiisss! I love the packaging, it's so chunky yet sleek if that makes sense?!

Mac splurge and SAMPLES!!!

OK SO THERE'S A REASON I HAVE CALLED my blog 'Living off samples' *insert sheepish face here*. I am literally like a squirrel hoarding nuts with the amount of samples I accumulate. It's great haha. Over the weekend I went to Plymouth as it's the nearest place that has a Mac counter (this makes me very excited). My boyfriend had to hang around while I looked at EVERYTHING Mac had to offer. I'm suprised at how little I actually ended up buying but I was only restrained by the fact that it does start to add up! I bought three eyeshadows and one beautiful lipstick which I will do a full review on soon but the lighting is rubbish for photos at the moment (10 pm, errr) so bare with me on that one...
Back to the samples! As I was in an unfamiliar town none of the makeup assistants know me so I took full advantage of the opportunity to blag some samples ;) See for yourself...

                I look naked - I can assure you I'm not! All the samples barely fit in my hand.