Fall & Festive Favourites

A lot of people have requested a "Fall Favourites" video recently with all my favourite nail polishes for this season. As we're coming to the end of Autumn and Winter is fast approaching I thought I'd combine the two in one big, picture heavy post. So here it is.. All the shades I'm drawn to at this (my personal favourite) time of year...

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Fall Favourites

L-R W7 in Khaki, Deborah Lippmann in Waking Up In Vegas, Rimmel Pro in Beige Style, Barry M in Chocolate, 2True in shade 46, MAC in Soiree and No 7 Stay Perfect in Hot to Trot.

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Festive Favourites

L-R L&B in Red, Nails Inc in Hampstead Heath, Barry M in Red Black, Barry M in Red Glitter, MAC in Bad Fairy, Miners in Dorothy's Shoes, Miners in Mulberry Shimmer and Miners in Molten.

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One of my favourite polishes for Winter/Christmas time is this shade from MAC - Bad Fairy. Unfortunately it was limited edition (from the venomous villains collection) so I don't like to use it often but I do think this Miners shade is a pretty good dupe and it's just £2.99! It doesn't quite have the same sparkly impact but I think you'll agree it's very similar.

I did of course film a video for this too.. I will post it below once it's live :)

Warm Winter Look

What I used...

Garnier BB Cream in Light

YSL Touche Eclat in Light

Maybelline Superstay 24 Concealer in Light 2

Rimmel Stay Matte Powder in Translucent

ELF Studio Cool Bronzer

MAC Blush in Desert Rose

HD Brows Palette in Vamp

Too Faced Natural Eye Palette (Silk Teddy, Erotica and Sexpresso)

2True Easyglide Khol Liner

Maybelline One by One Mascara

Miners Matte Factor Lip Colour in Peach

Really loved this look.. it's glowy and bronzed but still winter-appropriate. I filmed a tutorial and will post it here once it's live! 

NOTD - Miners Plum

Plum, a beautiful, wearable raspberry shade. The easiest formula I've applied in a long time, I might have been able to get away with just the one coat. Even within one brand formula can be hit and miss so I'm really pleased with this one.

I'll remind you this is from the A/W collection I blogged about previously.

This is the only colour that's not *new* for the season. It's a relaunch but it's my favourite of the five.

You can shop the A/W collection here for at £2.99 each

New Nails from Miners - A/W '11

This week I received the new Miners A/W Nail Polish shades to review. When I first saw them online I couldn't wait to get my hands on them, they are so different to last years A/W collection. This time around they've gone for glossy opaque colours where as previously Miners have favoured the shimmery/frost finishes which I'm not entirely on board with. Before I even begin I love "Weekend in Paris" which may seem like a boring old red but it's a little on the pink side and different to any other I have in my collection. As we near the festive season I can't get enough of red nail polish. Without further ado.. here they are..

L-R - Fairytale of New York, London Calling, Bangkok Blues, Weekend in Paris and Plum

The first I tried was Fairytale of New York, it's the one colour I'd have never picked up so I guess I was out of my comfort zone. I wasn't expecting much and I wasn't exactly wowed. I don't think green is the best colour on me and this is not the autumnal shade I'd have chosen. It's more like a racing green. I really love the Miners formula, they go on nicely in two coats and are reasonably chip-resistant so I will definitely get through the rest of the collection and post as and when I wear them.

You can buy the new range from Miners.co.uk priced at £2.99 each

Have you tried anything from this budget brand?

Oh my GOSH!!!

I was lucky enough to receive some fabulous GOSH products in the post today from the generous people at Superdug... here's a little looksie and what I got...

        

       

once I've had change to really play around with the stuff I'll get a review out but as of right now I'm just an excited little bunny with new toys... the last couple of days have been a complete beauty overload... I think that's me for a week or two... I don't think I really NEED anything else now... want is a different matter of course ;) but I think after this huge bundle of products I've acquired in the last 24 hours perhaps I'll focus on skincare for a while... base/primer etc counts as skincare right??... what about eyeshadow? lipgloss?....


xoxo
miss bb

Blonde vs Brunette

So Autumn is upon us and I've been blonde for some time now...

I like to change it up as you know and I've been growing my roots out with the option of maybe going for this whole "two tone" dark roots deal that seems to have been getting more and more popular..

I've always flipped between blonde and brunette once or twice a year and this is the season I'm usually uindecided.. maybe I can have both?

These are a few examples of the trend.. Some good, some BAD

Any opinions? drop me a comment I'd love to hear your opinions! It's taken me a while to come around to it and I will definitely go for a more subtle version but I like the idea of blonde without having the root upkeep. It has to be better for my hair and as I'm trying to grow it it may be the best option, I know if I go full on brunette I will end up bleaching it within an inch of its life again within a couple of months..

so what do we think???

 

Could I rock this trend? are any of you akready rocking it? hints,tips and the like are welcome

xoxo

miss bb

my A/W loves...

I am all about Autumn/Winter fashions! I never know what to wear in Summer but I <3 Autumn clothes..

here's a little "mood board" for my Autumn 2010

I have plans for missbudgetbeauty.com which will be a kind of webzine..

this kind of layout will feature heavily.. if you guys have any suggestions or wanna tell me what you'd like to see there... hit me up with some comments :)

xoxo

miss bb

I got NAKED!!!

Omg you guys I have wanted this palette soooo long and now I have it :)))

yay!

so..

here a few pictures...

How cute is the packaging?!

Its wasn't obvious to me in videos that the palette in actually like a velour type material and the letters are embossed in a kind of gold leatherette.. it's so cute and looks really luxe.. just hope I can keep it looking nice and not bust it up like most things I have... fingers crossed!

How gorgeous is this palette?! I mean reeeaally gorgoeus!

I wanted to post swatches on here, I think it's easier to see on my blog than on a video.. you can really see them all against the shades on the palette and against each other.

Right now I'm favouring sidecar and smogged as a cute bronze smokey combo but I know naked and buck will maked their way into every day eye rotation and LOVE half baked... it's maybe the prettiest colour in the palette.

Toasted is a really nice rose gold kina colour and gunmetal is really different, it's a matte glitter which I've not come across before, there's no shimmer in the powder at all!

I have come across the fallout problem that many people report with Urband Decay shadows because of how dense and packed with glitter they are ... but I'm sure using the primer and a shadow shaper will fix that. It's probably something I'll perfect over time. In the mean time I will be staying away from super glittery shadows for work when I don't have time to redo my base LOL.

So let me know what you guys think and if you have it yourself let me know your first thoughts, what are your favourite combos etc? I'd love to hear from you, also check out my Urban Decay NYC book of shadows III blog post and video.. in all honesty I don't now which palette I was more excited about but friday night.. I was a LUCKY GIRL!! :D x

xoxo

miss bb

Naked Palette Dupes...

Hi Guys!

Firstly thanks for all the kind and supportive message from everyone regarding the harsh hater comments left on formspring yesterday. It really means a lot that you guys would go out of your way to be outrgaed on my behalf lol.. Shows a united front to these people!!
Anywho, on to the swatching, I'd like to take this time to remind you AGAIN that this is NOT MY ARM!!!
It's a loaner arm for the purpose of swatching... my arm was already covered in swatches from me trying to find the right colours as I went a long, Hope you like the post and here's the link to the blog I found the original swatches from and tried to match up to (sometimes unsuccessfully I know)
http://www.vampyvarnish.com/2010/07/31/urban-decay-naked-palette-swatches-review/
This is my budget way of obtaining the unobtainable Naked Palette!!!

and here are the products I used

The toughest thing I found when finding dupes for Urban Decay colours (ever) is finding shimmers as highly pigmented! the closest I cam to any really great dupes I feel were the sahdes I had as kind of loose pigments.. very few of the pressed shadows gave the same kind of depth of colour you get from the UD palette.
So... I guess I still really do "need" the palette after all, but for the time being this excercise has at least refreshed my memory to some of the fabulous neutral shades I already own and maybe that will quench my beauty thirst... for now.

Miss BB