Sunday, 8 April 2012

The Expensive Edition- Bag & Purse

My Most Wanted is something reailstic i can aim for in the not-too-distant future, but the following are the kind of things that someone dreams of owning! 

One of my few and select goals in life, is to own a Mulberry bag. It is the most shallow of the goals, don't worry, but this Mulberry Cookie Bayswater is my ultimate dream bag. If ever find £995 of change jangling around in my pockets, i would buy this in a heartbeat. Mulberry is, for me, the ultimate luxury bag brand. But, as said, with luxury products, comes luxury prices. This iconic bag can be found here.

I'm not big on purses- my current number is a pastel green studded number, which i have used since i've had the need for a good purse...but this Ted Baker purse is simplistic and the daschund bobble is gorgeous. And cute. And although not being the priciest purse (£79 - the £320 Mulberry cookie cutter purse would be my *second* choice against this one-gasp!), it's more expensive than other purses that i've seen. This gorgeous purse can be found here, available in black and shell (cream), but shell would definitely be my shade of choice!

Most Wanted

All of us have made lists of things we wish to own some day, and mine for this fortnight contains 1 item.
This is from the Cambridge Satchel Company, and i love the colour, design and class of the satchel. It would be a toss up between the brown one and this gorgeous vivid scarlet bag, but i have a feeling the red would win, out of pure admiration for how unusual and stunning it is. I'd definitely pay the extra money to have my initials embossed into the satchel lip...how sublime! 
Unfortunately this satchel isn't cheap, (14 inch-£81, and an extra £5 per letter to be embossed, gulp) but it is unparalleled on quality and beauty...no high street satchels seem to compare...
Anyway, that is this fortnights one-item wonder. 
The satchel can be purchased from here. 
Are you as infatuated with this as me? ;)

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush in Dollface 80% Dupe

We all love a good dupe, right? So when sorting out my makeup collection, i stumbled across a pretty good one!
My Dad brought me back Tarte's Amazonian Clay Blush in Dollface from America, where it is avaliable in Sephora at $25 a pop. It's a light baby pink and lasts for ages with maximum pigmentation.

Meet the dupe: MUA blusher in Shade 2, from Superdrug at £1 for 2.4g (Dollface is 5.6g).

The top one is a heavily swatched MUA, the bottom is one swipe of Dollface. The pigmentation is obviously not the same, but after blending out the MUA, the colour similarity is obvious.


Considering there is a humongous price difference (considering the price of overseas shipping from Sephora...is that even possible?), and the colours are pretty darn similar, i'd nab the MUA blusher. It's not exactly the same formula wise, but the colour is very very similar, and fills a hole in anyones blusher collection.
What do you think of this dupe?

Becca Beach Tint in Watermelon

This came in my February glossybox, and i thought it was a sample. It was so tiny, i thought, it must be a nice sized deluxe sample, but upon further inspection, it is full size. Full. Size. Worth £28 no less. Big things were expected- and after looking at the full shade range on a Becca retailer's website, i'm quite glad Glossybox gave us Watermelon.
The packaging oozes high-end cool, and i keep the tube in the box purely because i don't have the heart to throw it away.


The tube is so small! That said, there is a definite reason...

...the crazy pigmentation. I squeezed a miniscule amount onto my hand and blended out (shown below).

It gives a gorgeous flush to the cheeks, and smells like watermelon. Just all round yum!

I'll be sad when this runs out, but i can't see myself repurchasing- £28 is a bit steep, even for a die-hard beauty addict. Thankyou glossybox!