Bargain Ebay Finds!!

Hello Lovelies!!!
Its been so long since I wrote a blog post, I have been so busy with college I have just had no idea of what to write about but I'm back today with a post I'm super excited to share with you, so bare with this one might be a long one!

I have recently been obsessed with Ebay and watching peoples Ebay finds on you-tube, I decided to risk it and order a few bits off there and I'm so happy with the bits I have brought so I wanted to share them with you today! I will try and find the links for everything and post them on here so you can purchase these bits if you are interested!

The first thing I ordered was some make up brushes, I have brought some make up brushes of here previously and I love them, I have had them for over 2 years and they are still going strong so I thought I'd give it another go and try some more. The ones I brought were a pack of 20 and it includes mainly eye brushes and one foundation brush, unfortunately I don't have the full set to photograph as I have gifted some to my mum and nan some. I only paid £4.95 for these. Link here.

Overall I am so happy with these brushes they feel like such good quality, they are lovely and soft and gentle on the eyes and for the price even if they don't last long I really don't mind! Also the delivery was so good on these brushes they came sooner then what they said.

The next thing I purchased was some false stiletto nails, it was a pack of 600 and they are all different sizes, they came with a free nail glue which if I am honest was rubbish but the nails are such good quality and I love how these are clear so that I can paint them what ever colour or pattern I like. I have already done my nails a few time and I have done my mums and she was very impressed with them. The first time I wore these I had a lady I served at work asking me where i had got them done, lets just say she was very impressed when I told her I did them myself. These were a complete bargain at £4.95. Link here. These again came so quick, I ordered them on a Saturday night about 8pm and they were delivered to me on Monday.

The next item I brought i was very cautious about as I have never brought make up off Ebay before. I decided to buy the LA girl Pro concealer HD, I have heard so many good reviews about this foundation but I didn't know where i could buy it in the UK. I brought this in the lightest shade I think which is Porcelain, I didn't know what to expect when this arrived I only paid £3.50, Link here but i am super impressed this has now become my favourite concealer! It is such high coverage and so creamy and covers my blemishes so well, I honestly would recommend this to everyone.

My last 3 purchases I will probably have people moaning at me for buying this but I really wanted to just see what they were like. I decided to try some MAC lipsticks, I straight away knew these were fake as one was £2.99 and the other was £1.89  links here & here, so I didn't have high expectation. The first one to arrive was the £1.89 one which was supposed to be in the shade Please me, Well as you can tell from the pictures it is certainly not the same colour as what Please me is supposed to be, I would say this is pretty similar to MAC's amplify, this smells exactly what my other mac lipsticks smell like and when I apply this to my lips its so lovely and buttery and not drying at all so I am pretty happy with this lipstick even if it wasn't what I expecting. The packaging even feels the same as my others and the sticker on the bottom even looks pretty real (see pictures).

The next lipstick was not impressed by, when this arrived it felt fake and the sticker on the bottom showed me it clearly wasn't real. The colour is nothing like the picture, this was supposed to be in the shade Lovelorn but its nothing like what the actual colour is like. This lipstick has a very strange smell to it and it very dry, when I applied it to my had you really have to press quite hard in order for the colour to come out. I have not yet dared to try this on my lips but i would not recommend this one!

The last thing I ordered has to be my favourite of them all, this is the Too faced chocolate bar palette, I picked this up for only £4.69 including delivery, I really wasn't expecting much from this palette as it was so cheap but today it arrived and oh my god, i couldn't believe what i was seeing, its exactly the same as the actual chocolate bar palette, the box even had a serial number on it and looked real, the only give away is that the colours don't actually have the shade names on the inside but it has a little insert with it. This smells exactly like chocolate and the colours are so pigmented and creamy, I tried this out straight away on myself and then on my mum and we are both super impressed with it. Unfortunately I cant find the link for the one I purchased but I have managed to find one similar here. The only problem I have with this one is that the lid fell off when I opened it but I have managed to fix it.

So that's all my purchases! I have ordered some sunglasses and some other bits and pieces but they haven't arrived yet, if you want another blog post like this including the items I have brought let me know! I really enjoyed writing this post and buying all the items its made me want to get back into regular blogging! Let me know what you thought. My twitter is shelbsbeauty_
Love Shelbs x x

PS:- Sorry for the photos being so dark, the sun has been behind the clouds all day!!

The Winter Tag

THE WINTER TAG – QUESTIONS:

1. What’s your favourite thing about Winter?
   I quite like the chilly mornings and getting all wrapped up warm to go out, I love the colder nights and getting snuggled up in big dressing gowns and cozy pyjamas blankets I prefer to be chilly rather then hot so I looooove winter.
2. Scarves or beanies?
   I never really wear hats because they just don't suit my head shape but I have a very big love for scarves and I have a wide collection of the to the fact my mum means at me for having so many, but to me you can never have enough scarves.
3. Favourite holiday movie?
   I have recently discovered the movie Arthur Christmas and it's now my favourite Christmas movie it's such a cute movie but Elf is also a top favourite of mine.
4. Favourite winter nail polish?
   Anything with glitter in it but I picked up a nail varnish from pound land and its a revlon one called vintage rose and its such a nice reddy colour.
5. Favourite holiday drink?
   Any type of hot chocolate espically a mint one.
6. Top 3 winter essentials?
   Fluffy socks, a cosy blanket and plenty of jumpers.
7. What’s 1 item on my Christmas list?
   I’d love Marc Jacobs decadence perfume the scent is so lovely.
8. Must have winter lip product?                                                                                                        I am obsessed with nude lips at the moment I have just purchased the too faced melted lipstick in nude and its so pretty and Vaseline/ lip balm is a must have.
9. Favourite winter candle scents?                                                                                                     I love the Yankee candle Christmas cookie scent and anything cooking related i love at this time of the year.
10. Whats your Christmas day outfit?                                                                                                   It's usually just a pair of comfy jeans, slippers and the most tackiest Christmas jumper I can find its traditon in my family to find the tackiest we can find to wear!       

My Favourite Autumn Outfit

Hi Lovlies! 

I finally braved it and went outside to take some blog picture outfits, this was the first time I've ever took outfit pictures outside and I felt so awkward and didn't know how to pose, my mum was my photographer for the day so that's why the pictures aren't the best!

I took a trip down to my local park and these are the pictures I took, sorry for the awkward posing

My coat is from primark and was only £25 which I think was such a bargain, I've had so many compliments and I've been told it's looks way more expensive. The fur trim is detachable so when it's warmer I take the fur off I think it's such a perfect colour for Autumn!

My jumper is my favourite part of the outfit and it's a grey role neck jumper from Topshop which was a little more on the expensive side at £38 but I think it's worth it, it is so soft and cosy and I know I will wear it so much through out Autumn and winter. I also paired the jumper with my red scarf from Topshop which I got last year and I think it was around £18 and it's super cosy. My black ripped jeans are from miss selfridge and I literally wear them all the time I think they were £36 and lastly my boots which are fro

Beauty And Clothing Haul

Hi Lovlies, so today was payday and I was in town, that's not a good mix I spent a lot! So I thought I'd put it in a blog post

Firstly I picked up this top from miss selfridge, I go to my one direction concert on Monday and thought this would be perfect, it was in the sale and was down from £25 to £20.

The next thing I picked up was possibly my favourite and was a complete bargain, I found this gem in tkmaxx for only £16.99!!! This retails in places such as Debenhams for £30 so I was super happy with this and I'm so excited to try out some looks no doubt there will be a blog post on this in the future.

The next two items I picked up I've been dying to try for ages these are the revlon colour burst lip crayons, these were on a 2 for £10 and I used my beauty points to pay for these, so they were basically free. I picked up the shade 225 sultry sulfureuse which is a matte shade and I'm already obsessed it's such a perfect shade for autumn and I can tell I'm going to get lots of wear out of this. The second is shade 145 ingenue which is a nude colour, I'm looking to do a post on this when I've tried them out a little more.

Another favourite purchase are these, all last winter I was after a pair of brown Chelsea boots and I couldn't find a nice pair anywhere, so this year when I came across these I nabbed them up these are from Debenhams and they are £29 but today they had 20% off and with my discount they worked quite cheap. 

Lastly i picked up this coat and I love it, it's from Debenhams it's £75 but with my discount and the sale it was only £45 which to me is a complete bargain and it's so cosy and warm! 

That's all I brought today but no doubt I'll be buying more over the next few weeks. Love Shelby x x 

Autumn Copper Eye Look | Naked 2

Helł lovelies! I have really be loving playing around with my eyeshadow so latlely as we are coming into the colder season, I love being able to wear heavier eyeshadow and not worry about it melting off my face. 

The other morning I created this look and I was so happy with it I had to share it on my blog (I had to blur out my college name if you wondering why the lanyard round my neck is blurred) this look is inspired by Zoella saying copper colours look really nice with blue eyes so I tried it out and really thought it made my eyes pop!

Firstly I started off with covering my lid with lots of the shade called chopper which is the beautiful coppery orange colour, I also brought this down under my eye which I don't usually do but I think it looked so nice with this look and then I put the shade snakebite in my crease to add a little more depth, I'm so happy with how this turned out and I think I will be wearing this look a lot. I think it would look so nice with a dark vampy red lip my favourite to wear with this look is the Rimmel Kate Moss shade in 08 which is possibly my favourite lipstick ever! I am going to try and add a close up picture but I'm afraid it's not the best! 

Love Shelby x x 

MUA Elysium Eyeshadow Palette | Review & Swatches

Hello Lovlies, right now as i write this for the second time I am so mad, I wrote this whole post out and when I went to save it blogger deleted it! Anyway today's blog post is a review on the MUA eyeshadow palette, I think MUA is such a underated brand it has such cheap makeup items which are all super high quality, this palette was only £4 and personally I think it is a dupe for the naked 3 pallet all the colours are super simalar and this is only a fraction of the price!

There is a mixture of matte and shimmery shades, I find that the shimmery shades don't have as much of a good if payoff as what the matte ones do, but with a good eyelid primer I find all this shades last me all day. As you can see I have a favourite and this is the shade charm I love this shade because it is the perfect matte and it is a lovely all over the lid shadow and can be worn anytime of the year.

I like to use the light shades like air and cherub as highlighter shades as they have a lovely glow to them. Down below you can see some swatches of the shades so you get a rough look of what they are like out of the pan. Personally I'm obsessed with the palette and for only £4 it's a complete bargain, I would recommend this to anyone if you are into pinky new shades! 

Do you have a favourite MUA product? Let me know in the comments if you do. 

Love Shelby x x 

Surprise Party | OOTD

Hi lovelies! I thought I would try something different today and do an outfit post as I haven't done one of these in ages, this outfit was for my boss at work surprise party it was a very good evening we even splashed out and had butlers in the buff, a very strange experience but let's not talk about that onto my outfit!

Top: miss selfridge - £25

Jeans : Topshop leigh jeans - £15 ( in sale ) 

Shoes : Faith @ Debenhams - £35

Bag: Debenhams - £15 

I am thinking about doing a post on my makeup which I wore for the night if you would like that leave a comment below! Love Shelby x x 

Collection Contour and Highlight Kit | Review

Hi lovelies! 

After seeing Zoe (zoella) talking about this contour kit in her favourites video I had to try it out and I'm so glad I picked it up! I picked it up from superdrug and when I brought it I think it was on an introductory  offer so it was half price and was only £2.79 which I though was a right bargain! 

After using this product a few times I though i am able to give it a review now as I know what it's like, for the price this contour kit is brilliant, the bronzer isn't at all glittery and it's such a nice colour and doesn't make my skin look dirty it looks like a really natural glow, I have been applying it with a contour brush which is one from the brand that eBay do and it applies really nicely and I can say this is one of my favourite bronzers so far.

The highlighter is such a beautiful colour and gives my cheeks the most perfect highlight, it's a little bit shimmery but not to much to the fact you will look like you're sparkling. I've never been very good at highlighting or contouring but this kit it's completely fool-proof as on the back it even has a little diagram which shows you the best places to put the bronzer and the highlighter to get the best affect.

That's it for this post, let me know what your favourite contour kit is in the comments as I'm really interested in trying out some more kits! Love Shelby x x 

 

The Best Nail Polish Ever?? | Next Nail Polish Review

Hello lovelies! 

I'm back this week with a review/ rave about the next nails vanishes, this are the best nails varnishes I have tried to date. The colours I have from left to right are fairy cake which is a matte shimmer, well jel which is a one coat coverage and Miami Heat which is a tinsel effect. I love the names they are just as pretty as the colours themselves!

My favourite has got to be well jel and it does exactly what it says on the tin it only needs one coat and it's completely opaque, I often find when I go to work my nail varnish chips so easily but this is the only one I have found which managed to last. I have yet try the other colours on my own nails but I have tested them out on my mum and she loves them aswell. The price of these are £4 and they were in a 3 for 2 offer so they only cost me £8 which to me is a complete bargain as these nail polishes are so good! 

I would recommend these polishes to anyone as they are so good I will definitely be going back to purchase some other colours. 

NOTE: I have made a Twitter for my blog, if you would like to follow me it's @shelbsbeauty_

Monthly Favourites | August 2015

Hello lovelies! So this is going to be my first proper blog post of the year and it's my monthly favourites!  ( I'm sorry the photos are pretty rubbish but I'll start using my camera instead of my phone. I have been really enjoying doing my make up this month so that leads onto my first favourite

The Loreal infallible 24-hr matte has been my favourite product this month, I can honestly say to you that this is the best foundation I have tried, I use the shade 11- vanilla and it is such a perfect match for me. I've been looking for a good full coverage foundation for so long and this is so good, it gives me such good coverage but it doesn't leave the skin feeling cakey or heavy and it matts my skin but still leaves my skin looking a little dewy but not oily which I love!

My second favourite is the collection eyes uncovered pallets in the nude shade, I brought this quite a while ago and wasn't very struck on it when I first brought it so just chucked it in my makeup draw and when I was clearing it out the other day I came across this and happened to give it another go and I'm so glad I did as I can create so many natural looks, I have mostly been reaching for the fourth shade along for my whole eyelid and the last dark shade in my crease and it just looks so nice and casual.

Another massive favourite of mine has been the NYC bronzer, I heard so many people raving about this and people said it was a dupe for the hoola bronzer so I picked it up it was super cheap and it really does a good job! I find some bronzers make my skin look like I've picked up a pile of dirt and rubbed it over my face but this makes me look nice and glowly the shade is called sunny and it's perfect for contouring and it's not glittery at all.

My last beauty favourite has been bene-tint I love the natural colour this gives and it's so easy just to throw on when your leaving the house, this has had a permanent place in my handbag I have yet to try this as a blush but I'm willing to give it a go.

I recently purchased the Jimmy choo perfume in the scent flash and I'm obsessed, it's such a long lasting scent and is really mature, I don't really know how to describe the scent but when your next in Debenhams or boots go and give it a sniff because I love it!

My last favourite of this month is the soap and glory - the righteous butter I'm obsessed with the smell of this and it's the inky moisturiser that actually helps my skin as I get very dry skin. I only have a sample that I got in a gift set but I will100% be purchasing a full sized tub!

I hope you enjoyed this blog post, I haven't actually got a schedule to post but I'll will try to post frequently. Love Shelby x x 

A Fresh Start

Hi lovelies, it's been a while. Well I fact I haven't blogged at all this year whoops!

I've decided to start up my blog again as I've missed it so much I've probably decided to start it up at the completely the wrong time as I go back to college next week but I'll try, I'm going to make a new Twitter for this blog which should be up in my next post which I'm hoping to be up very soon. I look forward to sharing my blogging life with you again!

Love Shelby x x 

Sheinside Review

Hi there!

I recently ordered some clothes off Sheinside so i thought i would do a little review and show you the bits i got. I ordered four things but i haven't got any pictures of the jumpers so just imagine you see that!

The first thing i opened was this dress and i love it so much! It is a stripy shift dress and i think it was about £10. Im not very confident in dresses but i felt so nice in this dress. I brought this for my aunties party and im going to dress it up with jewellery and some heels to make it more dressy, i love how this can be casual and dressy. The material is so nice for how cheap it was so im pretty impressed. 

The dress in action. Meow.

The next thing i ordered was this cardie, i wasnt expecting much because it was only £12 i think so i though it may be a little scratchy or to big but it came and it fitted perfectly and the material is so soft and so cosy! Ive already worn this to college and it kept me so warm and cosy and i just really love it!

Close up of the pattern on the cardie.

This is possibly my favourite thing out of the whole order! This is a oversized stripy tshirt which it the warmest cosiest nicest material i have ever felt im actually in love! This was only £8 and is the best buy from my order and im so happy with it. I just paired this with a chunky necklace and black skinny jeans and it looked so effortless and nice!

Overall i was so happy with my order, it did take 3 weeks to come but the quality of the stuff made me forget all about that, the prices are very reasonable and postage was free so i would 100% recommend this website to you they have 1000's of things for great prices!

August Youtube Favourites

Hello Lovlies.

Today i wanted to make today's blogpost a little bit different, i was thinking maybe every month i could do a blogpost on people and videos i have been loving on youtube as well as maybe doing a normal favourites blogpost. I dont know if this would be something you like reading but let me know in the comments.

The youtubers i have been loving the most this month is the sacconejolys. If you don't know who they are you can find there channel here. I love them so much because watching their videos can instantly cheer me up, they are a Irish family that have recently moved to the UK. You have Jonathan, Anna, Emilia and Baby Eduardo. When they married instead of Anna dropping her name would put both together so you get Sacconejoly. They also have 6 Maltese dogs which are adorable! This family daily vlog so every single day you get a new video and a look into their life, i love how you can watch the children grow up and i would 100% that you give one of the videos a watch!

Another youtube family i enjoy watching not only this month but for the past year or so have been the shaytards, you can find there channel here. They are such a joyful happy family, even my mum enjoys watching them with me. You have Shay which is the Dad, you have mommytard who is Colette,  then you have sontard who is Gavin, princesstard who is Avia, babytard who is Emmi, rocktard who is Brock and lastly you have the new baby who is brotard but his real name is Daxton and he is the cutest baby you will ever see! I love this family because you can see how much there family has changed over the past 5 years they vlog every weekday and make my evenings worthwhile so i would check them out as well if i was you!

This is Louise who is also known as Sprinkleofglitter. You can find her channel here. Louise is someone i look up to, you might think it is weird to look up to someone who isn't exactly famous but i would be happy if i was half the mother she is to Darcy to any of my future children. She is such a strong women and can always manage to make me cry with laughter in her videos. I have been watching her for almost 2 years now and its been such a pleasure to see her channel grow. She should be way bigger on youtube because she is such a big inspiration for everything she has gone through so check out her youtube channel if you need to be cheered up or want to smile.

My favourite video this month was only posted yesterday so i don't really know if it counts but it is this one by Caspar Lee, you can find it here. It is such a heartwarming video and if any of my friends were to speak about me in the way i would be a mess because it is the cutest video I've seen. Caspar is usually one to joke about loads but this was on of his serious ones where he talks about how proud of his friends he is. I think ive been watching him for around 3 years now and i love him and his videos and he appeals to everyone and im so proud of how much his channel has grown.

Thats if for this blogpost let me know if you enjoyed this one and i could do one every month!

Our Moment: Review

Hi there!

I am back with another review today and this time it is on one of my favourite products i own! As you can probably tell today's blogpost is about One Directions - Our Moment fragrance. I love this so so so much, the packaging is so cute and reminds me of something princessy. This fragrance is meant to be a 'fruity, playful fragrance with fresh fruit and seasonal flowers hints with undertones of warm musk. I'm not really sure what all that smells like but this does smell so good!

This is the top of the lid and many people have said how they don't really like the packaging, in a way i agree and in a way i disagree i love the shape of the bottle and the cute fancy writing and the lid but its not really that suitable to just throw in your bag because of the odd shape. I also find that the smell doesn't have a very good staying power so i would like to be able to throw it in my bag but it does look rather cute on my dresser.

I got the biggest bottle available of the perfume and it has lasted me quite a while. I got it around this time last year and i have just under half the bottle left considering i touch it up like 3 times some days so it is good quality for the price you pay. I think i  paid around £39 for it but it is cheaper in some places. The smaller size is £21 for 30ml and the medium size is £29 for 50ml and mine is £39 for 100ml.

My verdict on this product is that it is good value for you money if you don't want to take it around with you and i give it a 8/10.

Let me know if you have tried this perfume and what you think of it. What is your favourite perfume?

Cosy Sunday Outfits

Hi there!

This is just going to be a really short post today about an outfit i wore last Sunday. It was a rainy day so i wasn't planning on going anywhere and this is what i wore.

It was a really simple outfit, i just had an over sized grey thin material jumper on which is so cosy and comfortable and was only £5 from primark! I was also wearing black leggings from primark which were only £3 and for the price you cant go wrong although these do start to wear a bit thin so you can see your underwear so i only really wear mine indoors just in case. I was also wearing the cutest socks ever which i got from London zoo, they are supposed to look like ladybugs and are so comfy and are the softest thickest material and keep my toes nice and toasty warm, i think these were like £3 and they had so many different sorts.

Sorry this was such a short post i just wanted to add here how i got my GCSE results and I'm so happy with there i got mostly B's and C's which i was shocked when i see them because i didn't think i would get any B's and the same day i found out i had a job interview and the on the Friday i found out i got the job and start next Sunday! I may not be blogging as much as I'm starting college and starting work but i will find time to blog because i love it!

New dressing table

Hi there!

Ive been searching for a dressing table that i like for months now and i found one which i loved and it was on offer at £30 and when i went to buy it i found out it was sold out and they wasn't getting it restocked, so i searched again looking for one that i liked until i found this one! This is actually a Ikea desk but i brought a mirror and i use it as a dressing table. It was my first time putting something like this together and i done it all by myself, can i have a round of applause please?  I did actually struggle quite a bit but got it done in the end. This desk was on offer for the Ikea family for only £29 and then £9 delivery so i brought it and then the mirror i have on it is from the range and was £9.99 so it was a bit of a bargain. 

I literally love the detailing on the mirror it is really vintage because they have worn the paint in places and it matches perfectly with my desk and it the perfect size for me. But it just looks so much more expensive then what it actually was.

On either side of the mirror i have my deer pot which i have a blogpost on which you can find here. I also have my Hollister spray which i don't really use that much but i think it looks quite pretty but is more of a summer scent so i wont be using it any more this year. I also then have a pink candle and i cant remember the scent of the make but it smells delicious and i love it. Then i have a picture of me and my bestfriend, i just have that there because its pink and it all matches and looks adorable.

On the other side of have more beauty products behind the stuff i have my makeup brushes and its a shame you cant really see them as the pot they are in is so darn cute, I then have my urban decay setting spray which i use after I've done my makeup and does help me a lot because i have oily skin. I then have my body lotion which i put on my arms mainly because my skin gets quite dry. Then i have my Garnier micellar water which i love since i have been using it my skin has looked so much nicer and softer. Then i have my night time face cream which i put on after taking my make up off.

This is inside the draw which is a complete mess as the moment as i have yet to sort it out. I have so many bits in bobs in there like baby wipes, cotton pads, random pieces of makeup, hair spray, dry shampoo and some random hospital papers, i have no idea why they are in there. I might do another post on my makeup organisation when i get it sorted out if you would like to see that.

Lastly here is a picture of the whole desk you can see my makeup bag and naked palette there and overall i really love my desk and cant wait to get it sorted out and looking how i want it to look.