April Favourites

We are coming to the end of April... and you should all know what that means... a favourites post!!!

SONG

This month I have become a 1D fan. 

I have always liked One Direction but not been overly keen until recently for some unknown reason...this is probably Soph's fault that I'm now a bit obsessed but hey ho a bit of 1D never hurt anyone.

PRODUCT

I have decided to go for the Stila Girl Travel Palette - living the life in laguna as my favourite product because it was a very well spent £10!!

You can see more swatches and photos here

This is so useful for on-the-go makeup. It's all really natural colours which come out well (though you do need to do a little reapplying throughout the day but it's easy to put in your bag as it's so small) and its great that there is a little tutorial picture thing in there too.

This is fab for using at school or on a little day trip out where you want to keep it simple.

MOVIE

After seeing Chicago on broadway I have become a little bit over excited about the movie (even though it was made ages ago). I love the songs, I love Renee Zellweger, the dancing is unbelievable, great story line ahhhhhhhhhh I could go on and on....

ITEM OF CLOTHING

This is just a plain white standard tee (so I didn't bother photographing the whole thing) with a cute kissing fish design. I love it - it's so comfy and you can wear it with anything; jeans, leggings, shorts etc.

RANDOM

After stalking One Direction on youtube I found this video and have watched it about 15 times every day since. It brings a smile to my face (the first clip is by far the best!):

LOVE LOVE LOVE

Minka x

New Stila Palettes

 Look what arrived today.....

Collectable Beach Palette no.5 -living the life in laguna and in the know eye shadow palette

Living the Life in Laguna 

4 eye shadows:

 sand dollar, sunset, cove and bonfire

1 cheek colour:

 seashell

1 bronzing powder:

pacific coast highway

In the know eye shadow palette

10 matte eyeshadows:

air

wind

desert

clay

earth

driftwood

fire

rain

smoke

ebony

Smudge Stick waterproof eye liner:

halfmoon

this palette also comes with a 'lookbook' - showing 6 different looks / tutorials on how you can create them yourself:

I think both of these palettes are so beautiful and I cannot wait to properly try them out!!

You can probably tell that I have very little self discipline when it comes to two things... 

1) shopping

2) chocolate

In an attempt to confront the shopping issue I have left myself this note in my diary...!!!

With Love,

Minka x

Make-up snooping.....

On Wednesday night, I was supposed to be staying in our flat in London... however I had no windows in my bedroom due to them being in the process of getting replaced.

Therefore I popped over next door to stay with one of my bestest friends (I cannot tell you how perfect it is to live next door to your best friend).

The next morning she left rather early so I did a very very cheeky little snoop across her dressing table and documented a few of the things I was tempted to steal.....


I am slightly obsessed with her Urban Decay NAKED 2 palette. I am in love with it. Just look at the pretty colours I could play with it all day!!! 

It is definitely the product I am most jealous of... and she knows it. I will admit I had a little go with one of the colours, 'Chopper' - it's a perfect shimmery gold AND I WANT IT!!!!

She has a very beautiful nail polish collection, so I just chose my two favourites to show you. OPI 'French Quarter For Your Nails' and Topshop 'Stolen Sapphires".

The OPI is a gorgeous light stone grey. I thought it was a slightly unusual colour but I can imagine that it looks really nice on - I am a big fan of grey shades!!

I only own two Topshop nail polish's but I adore them and so when I saw this deep blue shade I felt heavenly. I know that these polish's work well and don't chip too quickly and it is such a pretty colour, omg I might just have to go out and buy it.


The last thing I picked out (she does have a lot of lovely stuff could I just add), was this foundation brush from Stila. 

I found a little collection of these: for liner, eyeshadow, power and lips too, I think. I love the colour of the handles and the brush tip as well. I don't actually own a foundation brush but I am very very tempted now that I have seen this.

I know that my dear best friend reads this blog - she will either love me or kill me now... but nonetheless I enjoyed my snooping immensely.

On a different note I have made an account on "We Heart It" and am love love loving it!
I think I may be a bit late getting this but for those who don't know it is basically like tumblr. If you would like to add me as a friend, my username is: minkas_world  (Soph also has it: soph_29 and her tumblr is naturu-l.tumblr.com)

So if you would like to enjoy looking at photos of cute animals, marilyn monroe, make-up, shoes, fit boys and other pretty things, do add me! 

Have a wonderful day,

Minka x