TAG beauty things I suck at!

We were tagged by Bex from Bexberry.com to do the beauty things I suck at tag... Et voila!

For some reason the embedded video sometimes doesn't show.. It can be found Here !

If you have done this video (or any other tag) let us know in the comments!! 

Michelle x 

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Eurovision nail inspiration? Has to be done.

Hi guys! Well it's Eurovision tonight and I'm sure like myself you're all getting settled down to sit and take in the uh... wonders.

So to celebrate the occasion and because i'm a little bit bored of looking at my new plain short nails I've done a wee Eurovision inspired mani. Using M&S Autograph Purple & Purple Rain and Bundle Monster stamping plates I've created a very simple homage to the butterfly logo.

what do you think?!

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The one where I did something drastic... To my nails.

 I'm not blessed with naturally strong, easy to grow, non-flakey nails. Never have been and barring some dramatic hormonal change am unlikely to develop them.

So it's a challenge to keep them long and nicely shaped. I battle with them splitting and flaking every day and recently it's all just got a bit too much. So I've done something drastic. 

I've cut them all off! I'm starting over and for a while I'm going to keep them short in order to (hopefully) build up strength. 

Sally Hansen will be keeping me company along the way of course. And I'm looking into supplements to see if there any good (I usually hate supplements but sure we'll give a go eh?) 

"I'm actually panicking." "I've just cut all my nails off! Omg!!!" All of these thoughts are swirling through my head right now lol. Wish me luck!

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May Day FOTD

Something I haven't done in a very long time is sit and play with my makeup. If you look through my old Bebo & MySpace albums you'll see an embarrassing amount of "selfies" taken during my university insomniac days!
This practice has lessened over the years but hasn't completely gone away. Luckily blogging has given me the excuse to play and label it as a Face Of The Day. So here's how I spent my Bank Holiday Monday. How'd you spend yours?

Products Used:
Bourgeois Healthy Mix Serum 52
Benefit Fake Up 01
Barry M Dazzle Dust 29 Yellow Gold
Barry M Dazzle Dust 75 Lime
Inglot Liquid Eyeliner 34
Gosh Velvet Touch Eyeliner Green Devil
Daniel Sandler Jumbo Jet Mascara
Rimmel Apocalips 303 Apocaliptic

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S/S 2013 goodies from NYC, Rimmel & Sally Hansen

Last night I got to check out some of the new S/S Favourites from NYC, Rimmel & Sally Hansen courtesy of the lovely Fiona from CODY PR & Paddy from Makeup Pro Store. They introduced us to some new products and reintroduced some old faves and Paddy, who is one of Belfast's most well known make up artists, gave a short lecture on the new trends in makeup (such as blending different shades of foundation for contouring instead of using powders to keep your make up looking dewy)

I had a great time and have madly fallen for both Apocalips & Appelcious. You can see below I'm wearing Appelicious in Big Apple Red in my FOTD/NOTD. I'm also wearing NYC Big Bold Curl Mascara and Quick Drying Nail Polish in High Line Green (those of you who watch the voice may have noticed Jessie J wearing a similar green for the live auditions. Or is that just my obsession that made me zone in on them?)

Not bad if I do say so myself. Especially when you can spend less than a tenner for the lot!

What's in our..wow wait where'd it go?

Soooooo some of you may have seen the teaser for our next video and been like "Dayum, get that uploaded already".

Well, I can tell you that the video has been edited and lovingly prepared to be sent out into the world of YouTube.... Until I deleted the main files on my ipad and can no longer export the video anywhere. So, I thought no problem because I know for a fact that I just backed up my ipad because I know technology likes to play tricks on me. Plugged her into iTunes and its like "oh hey you got a new ipad! :D"

No.

So, I've been looking for other solutions and the best I can work out is to record the video while its playing in imovie (because the video itself can be played directly from there). Or find an app for that.

If anyone knows of any way I can salvage it from imovie please let me know!

In the mean time why not have a wee watch of the teaser again :) http://youtu.be/1m7tfPbcgKw

Michelle x

Baring our souls... and bags (the one where you get to hear us talk!)

We've been nervously holding on to this bad  boy for a couple of weeks now but the time has come to introduce ourselves verbally. We decided to do this by joining in on the "What's in my bag?" tag on YouTube.

So here it is!

Enjoy!