Kardashian Beauty Winner Revealed

Sorry that this is a little bit late but it's now time to announce the winner of my Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Eyeshadow Palette in Silhouette.

Thanks to all of you that entered this was one of the most successful giveaways that I've ever hosted but unfortunately there can only be one winner and that winner is....

Natalie W

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Congratulations Natalie x I'll be in touch shortly for your postal details x 

If you weren't lucky enough to win this time, don't worry I have plenty more giveaways planned including goodies from Maybelline, MUA and Yankee Candles, so please stay following xx  

A Review Of The Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Eyeshadow Palette In Silhouette And A Giveaway

I'm going to let you into a little secret, I have never ever watched an episode of Keeping Up With The Kardashians. I'm just not a fan of reality television and  the so called celebrities that it produces. That said it's impossible to not know who the Kardashians et al are, they're everywhere at the moment, putting their name to everything from clothing lines for Dorothy Perkins and Lipsy, to fragrance and now make up.

Every celebrity from A list, to Z list seems to have produced a fragrance, and I have to say I love the original Kim Kardashian fragrance, it's a fab budget dupe from the classic French fragrance Fracas, but when I heard they were producing a make up line I have to be honest and say I wasn't sure.

Well I wasn't sure until I saw some pictures then I fell in love. After Christmas I treated myself to a couple Kardashian Beauty palettes just to try the range out, and I have to say neither disappointed. I'm going to review the Khloe Kardazzle palette in a future post but first up I'm going to review the Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Shadow Palette in Silhouette.

Touch Tones Gradients are a range of three different eyeshadow palette, featuring a  number of eyeshadow shades that go from light to dark. The palette I chose, Silhouette contains a combination of greys, silvers and blues.

The palette contains two, matte, nude highlighting shades. The don't show up to well in the swatches but in real life they can be used alongside the other shades to either brighten or highlight, or on their own to give the eyelid a clean fresh look.

The rest of the shades range from light to dark and contain a pale silver grey, a darker silver grey, a mid blue, a darker blue grey and a dark navy blue. The pigmentation on all of these shades is superb, they are in a satin finish but they do all contain a little bit of shimmer so you can get a little bit of fallout.

The last shade in the palette is an intense sparkle shadow which features lots of silver, and white shimmer and glitter. You do get quite a bit of fallout with this shade but it gives a real evening, glamour look to the eyes.

This palette isn't all about heavy smokey eyes though, it's actually surprisingly versatile. Here are 4 different looks that I've created with it - first up a more subtle grey. silver look, perfect for daytime.

This look was created using the lightest highlight shade, and the two palest silver grey shades. I used the highlight on the brow bone, the lighter shade all over the lid and the darker shade in the crease.

Next a more traditional smokey grey, silver eye.

Again I used the lightest highlight shade. I then used the second silver, grey shade all over the lid, before packing a little bit of the darkest grey into the crease. It's a little bit more dramatic but it's still quite subtle. You could of course create a stronger look by using a lot more of the darker shade.

The final looks that I created are about blue, you can't see it too well in some of these pictures but this palette contains two blue based shades x

For this slightly smudgy look I used the darker of the highlight shades. I also used the lighter smokey blue shade all over the lid, with the darker shades smudged along the lash line and in the crease.

I love the smudgy blue look but if you wanted to glam it up and take it even further you can do by adding just a touch of the intense sparkle shadow as I've done here x

I have to say I like this palette way more than I expected too. I'm a bit scared of smokey eyes and dark greys and blues but I really enjoyed playing with this palette. You can use it to produce everything for a subtle grey / silver look to some dark, smokey and super sparkly. I also really enjoyed using the two matte highlight shades. I don't think that I'd ever used a matte shade for a highlight before but I can really see the benefit. It's a lot more subtle than using a shimmery shade, and it really gives a nice bright, clean look to the high.

If your not a fan of fallout this palette probably isn't for you. The shimmer shades are very pigmented and do contain a bit of sparkle so it's inevitable that you do get the odd stray bit of powder and the odd smear. The intense sparkle shadow is also very glittery, and can result in quite a bit of fallout.

These palettes are priced from around £11.95, and as much as I like this one I do think that it's a little bit overpriced, and whilst the product is decent, the packing is quite basic, so I really think you are paying a bit for the Kardashian name. That said I have enjoyed using it and I would definitely consider buying the other 2 Touch Tone palettes if they were reduced or on special offer. The official Kardashian Beauty stockist in the UK is feel unique but you can also find some of the range at HQ Hair and Amazon.

When I bought my palette way back in January I also picked one up to giveaway to one of you guys. So if you'd like to get your hands one , then all you have to do is fill in the form below. This giveaway is open worldwide and will end on Tuesday 1st April 2014.

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Thanks for reading and good luck x

January Buys - Stila, Kardashian Beauty, Avon, Top Shop And More x

Hey Guys x Sorry it's a little bit late but it's  January haul time!

Where to start? well we'll start off with a couple of sale purchases :) Although I'm not doing a spending diet or ban this year I'm still trying to be careful what I buy and what I spend so it seemed natural to shop the sales. Was it worth it? erm no not really. I don't know whether I'm turning into Scrooge in my old age but the January sales didn't wow me this year. Never the less I still picked a couple of things including this super bargain buy from the Stila website.

I managed to pick up the Stila Snow Angel Colour Palette and a 3.1 ml All Day Waterproof Volumizing Mascara for just £7.37  including postage

I have a few Stila items already but I'm so happy to have this palette in my collection. It contains 18 eyeshadows and 12 cheek colours and you also got a mini mascara which I'm excited to try.

as well as a little look book giving you an idea of what looks you can create with the palette.

All bar one of the shades in the palette are limited edition but the majority are fairly dupeable from shades in the Stila permanent line.. The only permanent colour in the palette  is probably the most popular Stila eyeshadow ever and my own personal favourite - Kitten - a gorgeous shimmery, champagne nude. (marked with a K below). The palette contains a mixture of mattes and shimmer and they all feel super soft to the touch and the pigmentation is superb. Here are a few swatches of first the eyeshadows and then the cheek colours x

Shades from right to left - 1 - Dashing, 2 - Icicle, 3 - Coal, 4 - Jingle, and 5 Sleigh

Again from right to left - 1 - Matte Melon, 2 - Shimmery Pink and 3 - Shimmery Coral
I'm wearing a few things from the palette in my January Haul video which you can see below or here x



My only other sale purchase was this top from Top Shop.

It's one of those love / hate things if I'm being honest but I love it. I love the neon lime  colour (it looks a lot brighter than this irl as hopefully you can see in the video) I also love the daisy burnout design. I got the size 16 which is a bit tight at the moment but hopefully by the summer it will fit a bit better. I don't think I'm brave enough to wear it as is so I'll be wearing either a bandeau or a vest underneath

I also something else which you will either love or hate....

Another cat necklace from ebay :) I already bought one of these in a different style (see it here) but when I saw this little guy I just couldn't resist x This was just £1.29 including postage from this seller but if you search for cat necklace annoyingly now you can get it cheaper.

My next two purchases are courtesy of some of my Christmas money x Unless you've been living under a rock you'll know that there have been some fabulous make up palette releases over the last few months As much as I would have loved Naked 3 and the Narsissist  palettes I couldn't justify them. So I decided to spend a little less and buy a couple of things from a brand that I haven't tried before -  Kardashian Beauty.

First of all I got an eyeshadow palette - the Kardashian Beauty Touch Tones Gradient Shadows palette in Silhouette..

and I also got an eye and cheek palette - the Khloe Kardazzle palette.

I'm going to do a full review of both of these palettes in the next few weeks and I might even have one to give away.

My last two purchases were also beauty related  - first up the most gorgeous nail polish from the Pretty brand at Poundland

I love the speckled look of the feather effect polishes from Nails Inc but I could never justify the price. Thankfully the budget brands have followed the trend and I managed to pick up a few from ebay and this one from Poundland.

It has a jelly base filled with a combo of matte and shiny glitter strands, in shades of white, blue, turquoise and purple. The base is quite sheer but I guess you could build it up - I think to get the best finish though I'll probably use this layered up over block colours.

The last thing I bought was from Avon. My favourite foundation of 2013 was Avon Ideal Flawless Invisible Coverage Foundation in Ivory. The colour was perfect and I loved the texture, so I decided to try another one of their foundations.

The Avon Extra Lasting Liquid Foundation claims to withstand heat and humidity and last for up to 18 hours sounds pretty good to me so I thought I'd try it out. Again I went for the Ivory shade which is perfect for pale pink toned people like me x  The claims are pretty amazing so I'm going to put it through it paces and then do a full review x

So they were my January buys x If you have any questions please leave me a comment, and keep following my blog and my Instagram to see what I've bought this month xx