November Favourites!

 

So November has been and gone in the blink of an eye again. Hell, its pretty much mid December now. How does this happen? How do I get so busy all of a sudden that blogging becomes a distant memory? This November favourites post is well over due but anyway, here are some things I have been loving throughout November.

 
 



First up is a recently purchased foundation. It's the match perfection foundation by Rimmel London in the shade "103 True Ivory". I really like this foundation as the match is so close to my skin tone that it looks super natural but has a really good thick coverage thus to hide all my facial nastiness. I can't really find a fault with it. It blends amazingly well, it feels like silk on the face and best of all it's super affordable. Like most high street foundations this sits comfortably in the under £10 mark which for a 30ml bottle isn't bad at all. Especially considering you barely need any of this on to achieve the perfect look! Rimmel are on top form at the moment, I've said it before and I'll happily say it again. Next to their Wake me up foundation I think they've got foundation formula's down to a T.

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the eyes this month I've been grabbing for this pretty much daily. Maybelline's colour tattoo 24 hour cream eyeshadow in "35- on and on bronze" is so beautiful and perfect for the autumn. I really love how versatile this shadow is too. While it's very pigmented you can control the depth of colour really easily. Some days when I don't feel like having a heavy eye look I will just sweep this all over the lid and be ready to go. And on other days I do like to build this up for a darker more metallic eye look. I find using a brush with this does help control where it's going as with it being a cream it can get a little messy. I love how this lights up the eyes with its' shine without being glittery or sparkly. It is sophisticated and goes pretty much with any look you create. I especially love this with just a slick of liquid eye liner and a nice nude lipstick.

 

And as always I team this up with another of this month's favourites, Avon's eye primer. Oh my days I must rant and rave about this daily. I just can't get enough of it. I find it stops any eye make up from moving throughout the day. It prevents fall out when using powder eye shadows and with it being a beautiful light cream colour you can wear it alone as an eye shadow all it itself. I also sneakily use this as concealer if I'm in a hurry and it has the coverage to do the job. This stuff is honestly my saviour this autumn.

 

 

 

Also on the eyes this month I've been adoring this combination. First I like to line my lower and upper lash line with this Bourjois queen attitude kohl kajal liner. I've had this for so long it's amazing. I must have picked it up around this time last year and it became one of those products I forgot I owned until I found it lurking away in a drawer somewhere. And unsurprisingly I've grown to love it all over again. It is SO pigmented and it just will not budge from that water line for hours on end. I find it hard to find a liner that will last there so this is a miracle for me. With it being nearer to the end however it has become hard to use as a regular eye liner so I do only use it on the water line now, however this is where it looks the most fantastic anyway.

 

I pair the liner with this trio eye shadow pallet by Collection. This pallet is called "2 naughty in nude" and as you can see holds two powder eye shadows and a cream base/highlight colour. I don't really touch the cream colour much but I love the powders so very much. The beige looks fantastic either alone or as an inner eyelid highlight and brow bone highlight. And the dark brown is just superb. I like to sweep this all over the lid really making sure I build up the colour as much as possible. Unfortunately you can't really tell in the picture but it isn't just brown. It has really gorgeous red and purple undertones and teeny tiny bit of glitter in it too. On, it doesn't look glittery, just bright and vibrant and utterly breath taking. As these are by Collection you can imagine that they are stupidly cheap. If you buy yourself ONE thing this month, make it this.

 

 

 

On my lips this month I have been wearing this one heck of a lot. Also by Collection, this is the lipstick "Tallulah" from the Deluxe collection. Although it looks a bit of a Barbie girl pink it's not. It is just a really lovely light nudish pink colour and although highly pigmented it can applied to look astonishing. This is my go to lippy when I'm wearing a heavy eye look as it brings the whole look together perfectly. The formula is really nice to, it is creamy and sits well on the lip. The staying power it has it probably that of your average lipstick. The only drawback to this that I have found it the scent. It reminds me of the lipsticks I would use when I was about six. It a sickly chemically scent and while you may love it I personally can't stand it. Once it's on the lip you really don't notice it though, which is a good job really!

 

 

 

My favourite nail polish this month has to be Maybelline's Color show nail polish in "352 Downtown Red". Oh you know how I love my burgundy red's this time of the year and this polish is no exception to that collection. You can see the colour in the picture so I wont go in to that too much but the formulation of these nail varnishes is just fantastic. You do need a good two coats as the first coat can look a little opaque however once that second layer is on the colour looks just sensational. Also I had one of these polishes on (but in a deep purple colour) for four days. Four days. Yes, four. And that's without any chips, just looking perfect. I don't know what it is that makes these so damn amazing but I literally want the whole collection of these. And oh yeah, they're also ridiculously cheap. They have a nice wide application brush as well which while is not quite as wide as that of Rimmel's 60 sec collection, makes applying the nail varnish quick, easy and neat. I love these polishes. Someone go buy me them all please.

 

 

And finally on this months favourites list is my new Bourjois bronzer. It's the chocolate one that bloggers and vloggers alike rave about. I never really got the concept of this. Why would you want to smother your face in chocolate? It'd be sticky and gross. Then I took the plunge and bought it. Let me tell you I resented paying what I paid for it. That was at least until I brought it home and put it on. Oh man, word's can't even describe what a good bronzer this is. Even in autumn when I like to avoid using bronzers this is just perfect. It leaves your face looking really naturally sun kissed what with the minute bits of shimmer in it just brightening everything up perfectly.
And yes, the best thing about this is that it smells like chocolate. I think I use this daily more so I can sit there smelling it for ten minutes before I actually go to put it on my face. Well done Bourjois for bringing something girls love in to another thing girls love. Chocolate and make up, wicked. Now all they need to do is find a way to make this edible!


That's all that I have been loving this November enough to mention in a blog post. Hopefully I wont be so snowed under with working and seeing people and general Christmas festivity so much throughout December that I will have more time to blog. I've so many ideas as well. You'll have to keep an eye out for upcoming posts and also, leave me comments on what to blog about. I'd love to hear your suggestions!

Much love, G x