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2012-03-09T11:27:00.000+00:00

So yeah I've been rubbish with the blog, but this time I do have a good excuse!! I am currently incubating a little nerdling! So I've felt rubbish the last few months, anyway I'm feeling a million times better now!

Looking back on what I bought in November, I thought I better at least give my opinion on the products!

The Essence concealer is ok, it does the job but it's a bit dry and cakey. The colour combo is great for under eyes and blemish concealing, but it's a bit too dry for me.

Time for romance is lovely, it's easier to layer over another base layer of polish though, as the glitter moves about.

Space Queen is gorgeous layered over Nude it, really lovely, and I tend to wear those or Nude it under Barry M's black crackle glaze.

The Soap and Glory cosmetics are really better then I expected. The concealer although cream based isn't as drying as the Essence offering. It also comes with a setting powder which gives it a nice finish. The mascara is one of my everyday favourites, I love thick big brushes that don't clump and this ticks the boxes.

I was very disappointed with the ELF products, don't get me wrong I usually adore ELF, and a lot of my day to day stuff is from ELF, and I swear by their primer, eyebrow kit and Nars blusher/bronzer dupe. The gel eyeliner arrived as a dried out clump rattling around in the little case, and it still hasn't been reopened. The matte varnish is ok, the top was a bit damaged when it arrived though. The HD powder just doesn't do it for me, I like a slightly dewy finish and with the HD powder I just felt my face was very talc-y.

Now the No.1 product of the haul was the Maybelline gel eyeliner, I don't know what I did before I had this, it is so easy to use, and so easy to use for different looks. Usually whenever I do my make-up I end up with my eyeliner looking slightly different on each eye, not noticeable to anyone else, only to my OCD self.
I will rebuy and rebuy and rebuy this, if it goes off the market you will find me crying and building a shrine in the nearest Boots.

Powdawowza, love love love this too. Truthfully it went into my bag when I bought it and I forgot about it till about 2 weeks ago, but I've worn it everyday since. The Illuminating Bella Bamba is just scrumptious! All in all it's a great staple to have to throw into your bag, having the 3 in one is a great product.

Colossal Cat mascara, smells like turps, is quite watery and seems to clump my lashes together.

I use the No.7 Hot Cloth Cleanser every night and swear buy it now, and right now in Boots if you spend enough you can get a €7.50 voucher for No.7, the offer seems to be running till the 25th of March.

This week I bought:

Rimmel's wake me up foundation in Classic Beige. I normally use Mac Studio Sculpt in NW25. The colours are quite similar but the Rimmel is a bit pinker, although I look like I have cool skin, I'm afraid the cool undertones in the Rimmel are a bit too much for my skin. Although it seemed to settle after wearing it for a while. Consistency wise it's a liquid, and I prefer more a gel foundation. I've read some reviews and people have said there's no sparkle from their foundation, but I dare those people to stand in the sun and look again, I had a sample on my hand and the sun shone directly at it and I looked like Edward Cullen. All in all its actually a very good daytime foundation, the coverage was good and light. Although I think if I layered it up for more coverage it would have become very heavy. Rimmel only have 6 shades in the range and they do seem to favour the cooler mid range skin types. If you're quit pale, sallow or dark I don't think they'd completely suit you.

Rimmel Lasting finish 1000's kisses lip tints. These come in 4 different shades, Endless Blossom, Perpetual Plum, Nothing But Nude, Carry on Cherry. These come with a nib like a marker at one end and a lip balm on the other end. I bought the Nude shade and it's actually a great match for my own lip colour, it isn't too full on but makes my lips look a lot better.I think they were going for a Watermelon type smell, but it just reminds me of a magic marker smell! I've only had it 3 days and only used it 3 times, but I found last night it was already feeling quite dry, not much product was coming out and it seems it might be drying out already! I do really like it though!

Scandal'eyes my mascara addition was satisfied again, Rimmel had a 3 for 2 offer on so I grabbed this in addition to the products above. I still haven't tried it but I will today!

So all in all for €20 Rimmel isn't doing too bad, I'm going to give all the products another shot today. I can see the foundation slowly becoming a favourite once I get confirmation it's not looking so obviously pink to everyone else.

I also picked up a Real Techniques (From Pixiwoo) Stippling brush. The brush is fabulous! Before had been using an ELF Studio stippling brush and it was doing the job, but the RT's brush has a denser head and really helps with the near airbrush look everyone is after. I highly recommend this brush for everyone using liquid, gel or creme foundation.

Christmas!!

2011-12-30T18:22:00.001+00:00

So it's been and gone.
This year was a non Christmas for me, I got the Winter Vomiting bug on Christmas Eve, slept through Christmas day and was only up and about on the 29th. Everything was such an anticlimax, and now I'm still feeling a bit tired and dodgy so we've nothing planned for NYE either!
Oh except for buying a new oven, should be exciting but we need a stop gap replacement from the old till we do the kitchen up.
Again as per usual GB has been an angel, he gave up his Christmas Day to nurse me back to health and missed out on his family dinner.
On the other hand we finished watching the first season of the awesomeness that is Game of Thrones!! If you haven't watched this, beg borrow or steal a Dvd of it! I'm also slightly excited about the trilogy DVD box-set I bought of the Larsson books, I have no interest in the American remakes, but I can't wait to settle down one day and watch the originals back to back.

Hi my name is Jacquie and I have a problem....

2011-11-10T10:16:00.000+00:00

Right I better address my problem once and for all, the GB is perplexed at why I keep buying "Stuff", he doesn't understand that my life would be incomplete without the new fandangled product, I am a Marketing persons wet dream.
In the last month I have bought:


Essence Concealer

Time for Romance

Space Queen

Nude it

Soap and Glory Thick and Fast Mascara

Soap and Glory Kick Ass concealer

Elf. Matt Finisher

I love this, it really gives a different look to all your old polishes!


Elf cream liner in midnight

I'm not a fan of this at all, when I unwrapped it it was bouncing around in its container, its very hard to pick up with the soft brush, maybe mine was dried out, but I was seriously unimpressed with it.
Unlike this:

Maybelline Eyestudio lasting drama gel liner

Now the Maybelline liner is amazing, the brush is hard enough and the product soft enough to pick a decent amount of product up. Plus the black is a true black, you just need one line, no re-dos needed.

Elf High Def powder.

Haven't had a chance to try this yet, but when I swatched it felt a bit chalky.

Benefit Powdawowza

I only picked this up last night, and haven't had a chance to try it yet.

I'm not a huge fan of this, it makes my lashes a bit spindly, and it has a very strong chemical smell, maybe I'll revisit it when it dries out a little.

Most of the above were just a few Euro and well worth the money, I've also bought the next two as presents:

Elf 83 piece essential collection

Elf 6 in 1 beauty to go.

And I bought 2 No.7 Hot Cloth, but I used my vouchers for them

This is fab, best thing to use last thing at night, it really leaves my face so smooth and soft.I usually stay well from cleansers of this sort as they tend to dry out my face, but this is spot on.

If GB found this blog and saw what I've bought this month he'd kill me, although I nearly sure he's picked up a good few games this month so we're equal. Plus he's playing the games so much he'd never find this blog!

He has warned me I need to curb my make-up habit before we have kids, he said he couldn't handle the fallout out if they got near my Naked Palette. He doesn't suspect I'm planning on putting locked high cabinets in the en suite

Ahem!

2011-11-09T10:38:00.000+00:00

So a year has passed since I updated this blog,to say I got bogged down with work and the Wedding is an understatement.
Now I know why some brides go crazy, weddings are scary shite!
So it's official Golden Boy is now my husband, now do I call him Golden Husband?
Anyway at least I have proof he married me willingly, and without being drugged and dragged up the aisle.

Decisions, Decisions.....

2010-11-02T15:03:00.000+00:00

So we're in the midst of looking at photographers, bands, thinking about favours, music, readings and number of guests.
I have no idea why anyone would want to do this as a profession, there is so much info out there and it is all slightly daunting!
I've discovered www.tenderweddings.com its a great premise, you submit your request, suppliers respond and sumit their quote through the site. Its a great way of keeping track of everything.
There's quite a lack of anything like this for Irish Brides, whereas US sites brim with tool, tips and tricks for their brides.

Oh but we've booked the car....Swoonnn....

Hair Dos

2010-09-16T21:24:00.001+00:00

I'm researching hairdos for the bridesmaids right now,luckily enough they both have long enough thick hair and are open to all suggestions, these pics are along the lines of what I'd like for them:

Schemes and Themes.....

2010-09-15T21:11:00.000+00:00

So here's some ideas for our wedding colour scheme, we're going for a Leinster themed wedding which means a navy/royal blue and yellow colour scheme.

The dress and the stress

2010-09-14T21:38:00.000+00:00

So I have the DRESS, it was the first one I picked up, and it's amazing. I decided to go to a sample sale to keep my mum and nan happy, I thought I could do that and then do proper dress shopping in January, which would be a more appropriate time frame .
How wrong was I? everyone started crying, I even asked my dad in (as his opinion mean a lot to me) and he started crying, so I bought the dress.

Stress wise we've had a hiccup with the hotel, so we might have to move it forward a week or so, The enormity of that hit me this morning, I'm getting married in less then 12 months. Its a bit scary. Of course I asked GB if he was worried or a bit panicky? of course he isn't level headed person that he is!!

2010-09-08T11:41:00.000+00:00

I really really wish I was back there again!!!!

Holidays were fab, really lovely, mid 30s-40s everyday, it was way way too short, and back to my unreality...
Unreality because GB actually proposed 6 days after my last post!
I was and still am over the moon! I am the luckiest girl in the world.
Our weekends became a whirl of hotel viewing and wedding paraphernalia, but we've decided on a venue, a date, a church and a dress.....I'll update yis soon.

5 days in

2010-07-11T22:10:00.001+01:00

So I'm 5 days into the clean diet, according to the IPD day 5 is supposed to be the worst
Surprisingly enough today I feel great! :D
Day 1 was ok, just took a bit of readjusting to not go for the carb options.
Day 2/3 were a write off, I sweated, felt pukey, my head was spinning all day and I had a thumping headache, I was so close to giving up.
Day 4 I felt a bit hungover, but this morning I felt FAB!!!!

Its actually easier to eat this way then I thought it would be, but it is a bit expensive, all that meat and eggs!
This afternoon I went to a weight lifting intro session, now the GB is hugely into his weights, so I have all the equipment in the spare room, but refuse to let the GB watch me and give me hints, I'm sure it would end up with one of us killing the other.
So had a great session, Gill picked up all my bad habits...:D
So I dead-lifted 40kgs, I push pressed 20kgs and I think I squatted 40 or 50kgs, i was well proud, just have to work on my shoulders and keep up the hard work. Problem is obviously I don't have a squat rack in the spare room, so I have to find a way around that...Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I can only dream of doing whats been done in pic below!!!

(Rachel deadlifting 225lbs for a set of 3, new women's gym record Dec 21 2009 in crossfit kelowna USA)

Holiday Meltdown= D.I.E.T.

2010-07-07T15:58:00.000+01:00

Right so I convinced GB that we must have some sun this year, so we're heading off to the canaries in Aug.
So i decided to take myself in hand and run a bit, so I could hopefully look marginally better in a bikini....running wasn't the best idea at all.
I did my groin in on both sides and was laid up for a bit, all exercise was out, so the laziness crept in.
Now I have a deadline, in 7 weeks plus a couple of days I'll be on a plane with a bag full of bikinis, and I swear I'll look good in them if it kills me!
So I picked up the IPD book, or pink bible as its called by its followers (doncha know...;) )

So this is DAY 1 in the Carb free Jac house...I'm feeling O-K, a but weird but ok, I'm not hungry actually I'm quite full but I have that pre-headache head on right now, I can feel it coming but it's not quite here yet.

So I'm carb free, sugar free and caffeine free, I think the last one will kill me though.

Holiday Blues...

2010-03-15T22:58:00.003+00:00

So I'm back from Holidays and I'm hating it. Its bad enough being back in work, but having to work with eejits who get paid double my wages to dump work on my desk is unbearable.
But "Sure I'm lucky to have a job" Jesus Christ I'm going to start asking people who say that to me about their private personal circumstances.
BUT back to the Holidays, San Fran was super fantastic, Vegas was crazy, and 2 days was more then enough. Our luggage weight on the journey home was double what we brought over. One thing I noticed on the flights is the Americans obsession with "Carry-on" luggage, now to me carry-on means just that a handbag, small knapsack etc... OH but to these travellers it's a completely different ballgame, full size suitcases are wheeled on and shoved, pushed and forced into those tiny over head compartments, on the flight I didn't worry about dying in a ball of flames, I knew long before that happened I'd have been killed by a dislodged case.

SO I'm suffering from post holiday blues, and I'm trying to convince GB that we need to book something for September NOW! Because obviously everything good will be gone, there will be no late deals and I need something to look forward to dammit!

I'm thinking of doing some make-up reviews on here, I might as well put my vast collection to some use, and I can use it as an excuse when I buy some more stuff.....

I am useless

2010-02-12T11:55:00.003+00:00

I really am, it's 2010 now and I'm promising myself from now on I will update this thing at least every fortnight, except for the next 2 weeks as I'm off to San Francisco and Las Vegas!
I really can't wait for it, work is crappy right now and I need a break.
Right now I'm laid up in bed with a tummy bug, although my Golden Boy has been amazing and rigged up the TV box n the bedroom so I can get my Dr. Phil dose.

Right so whats happened since Oct 2008???
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm well I'm living with the Golden Boy,and he is just that, he's the nicest kindest most considerate person I've ever met, and I'm the luckiest girl in the world.
I'll stop now, I'm going to make myself vomit.

I've found out being an adult is crappy, between house insurance, waste charges, boilers blowing up, it's a bloody drain.
Again I'mrambling, but luckily enough I'm rambling to myself