Hopshopgo and Colourpop!

So this happened today whoops! I've been lusting over the colourpop ultra matte liquid lipsticks for a while now and they are silly cheap, $6 for a lipstick! Give me them all please. They sold out as soon as they where released but I awoke to a restock so thought why not. I picked up 4 of the ultra matte lipstick, a lippie stixx, a blusher and a highlighter. 

Unfortunately colourpop don't ship to the UK so I had to go through hopshopgo. I got free shipping from the colourpop website to the US address I was giving. Plenty of people have used hopshopgo like but I'm still super nervous about it all. Thankfully everything's done through paypal so my mind is slightly at ease. Hopefully I will be posting a update soon, can't wait to get my hands on these. And if hopshopgo is a win I've already got my basket at elf ready to checkout!

Peacocks wishlist.

I am so fussy where I buy my clothes from. I love tea dresses, they bring a vintage glamour to everyday dressing and are so flattering. I haven't found many I like out and about but recently I found the shop Peacocks. Now Peacocks has been around for years and years and I never went in, there used to be a Manchester city centre store which I would just pass with a meh! But oh boy I'm glad I decided to look on the site they have tons of tea dresses and they're gorgeous!

This dress was the first one I wowed at. Unfortunately it was out of stock on the site (but I have seen it instore) but I managed to nab it on ebay for £3, woo! I love it, I quickly tried it on before throwing it in the was (cos ya know ebay, I don't know where it had been !) but it is so flattering and true to size. The colour is stunning and the multi coloured bird and feather pattern is so unique.

<This one is numbero uno on my wish list (there's about 10) I love animal print and I think the cream colour would really set off my red, orange ombred hair. Also it would look awesome teamed with a little leather jacket. It's brand new in store and part of Peacocks online exclusive range and at only £12 it's a cheeky steal. It must be mine soon!
















Just look at it! I love the floral patterns on tea dresses, so vintage and feminine looking. This one also stands out as slightly different as it has a lace back. When I find a shop I love I tend to only buy from that shop until a sicken myself with (anyone out there like that?!) but I can't see that happening anytime soon with Peacocks. Some of the stuff is a bit meh for me but I'm so ashamed I overlooked this shop! If you like the look of the dresses that I have wish listed go to http://www.peacocks.co.uk/

Coconut oil!

Just a quick post to show my appreciation for coconut oil! I'd seen this used as a makeup remover and thought it would be good for me as my skin breaks out if I use anything on it, and I mean anything :( The first time I used it I thought it was amazing, just rubbed it all over my face and wiped my makeup off and it worked a treat. Leaving my skin all lovely and soft, I thought I'd found my miracle makeup remover. Sadly this is not it. After a couple of days my skin broke out into a spotty, red mess. Funnily the same two patches on either side of my nose, so back to square 1 on that one! BUT this is an actual miracle product. I'm sure I'm late to the party with this one but I use to on my arms and my nails and it has helped with my dry skin and cuticles noticeably in a week. I've also left it in my hair overnight as a conditioner. I have use it on my manky feet and they also look 10 times better.

 
On the left is a scrub I made, looks gross but my skin felt amazing after using it. I used olive oil, coconut oil and salt, just throwing everything in. The appealed to me as it was easy to make with stuff just lying around my house. Any tips on how to use coconut oil?? I have just discovered it and it seems to have no bounds with how awesome it is :D

About me.

Thought I'd do a wee introduction post as as I've been ever so rude and not done one yet! Hi :D my name's Danielle Morris and I am a 28 year old living in Manchester. I'm originally from Belfast but my parents moved here when I was 5/6 so I've lived in England for the majority of my life. Because I'm with my parents I've kept my accent kinda but it's warped and I've been mistaken for American, Australian, South African and French! On the left is a super posey, filtered selfie of myself as currently I'm in my PJs eating a gold bar (living the dream eh.)

On the right is one of the earliest pictures I can find of me on facebook. I used to be painfully shy and barely wear any makeup just because I wasn't that interested in it. That's all changed now especially the makeup part. As I said in my first post I don't have much spare money so hate wasting money on shite products so I became obsessed with reading beauty blogs and reviews on products I liked the look of. I couldn't find some reviews on stuff I wanted and thought why not start one myself? I love writing and miss doing so since I've left university so here I am!

So far I've only talked about beauty bits and bobs but I'd like my blog to be more of my interests as well which can include food, hair dye, dinosaurs, gaming, horror, books etc etc...if there is anything you would like to see or you think is missing from the internet please coment!?

Lee Stafford hair growth treatment review.

 Just a quick one today but after months of not buying Lee Stafford's hair that never grows past a certain length treatment I felt compelled to buy it on Friday. I don't really know why I haven't bought it in a while as I LOVE it! I suppose maybe because it's slightly pricey for a 200ML tub but even that's not really an excuse as they always seem to be on a 3 for 2 offer or 2 for £10, I think it just simply escaped my mind as I'm not to good at remembering to buy deep treatments for hair. If your hair is seriously frazzled like mine use it every day in between shampooing and conditioning or if your hair's not to bad once a week. I haven't bleached my hair since December or put any permanent colouring on it (which I'm proud of as I'm a crazy dye hard) so the condition not to end but the ends are still frizzy and it doesn't seem to grow.
   I have a nasty habit of picking my split ends but when my hair feels stronger at the end I can control it. My hair feels massively improved when I use this. No product can magically make your hair grow but this stuff strengthens the ends so your hair will stop breaking off which I can deal with until my hair gets longer for a good chop! Also it smells like sweets which is always a plus :D

Freedom Makeup haul part 2-the rest!

As the picture about shows I bought a lot from Freedom Makeup. In my last post I just talked about the lip products and in this one I'll try and talk about the rest it. The range is very similar to Makeup Revolution so I tried to buy different things.

First up are the single eyeshadows. These where included in the spend over £25 and get £15 worth of free products (keep your eye out for similar deals, well worth it) While at first I wasn't to fussed about the eyeshadows I'm glad they came. The pink and the purple I'll have to find looks for as they're a bit out there for the the teal, duck egg colour and the coppery colour are gorgeous (there was a dark grey one my mum nabbed so I didn't get a change to swatch) The packaging looks very expensive, when they came they were in a little box and they are also very pigmented. They are £1 each or buy all 30 for £20.

This blush and highlight pallete also came with the offer I mentioned before. It is quite powdery but boy are the colours gorgeous. There are contour shades, pinks, peaches and a highlighter as well. Apologies for the highlighter not showing up to clearly on camera, it's subtle and shimmery.

This was soooo cheap at £2.50. It's similar to makeup revolution iconic 3 palette (the one that's a dupe for urban decay's naked 3) which I have and love. I always appreciate travel sized makeup as when I stay at my boyfriends I hate having to lug all my stuff about.

Opps I forgot to photograph the packaging (sorry) it is lovely and very professional looking. This is corrector palette which retails at £5.00. There are concealer ones but as I have loads of concealers I went for this. Though I mush admit the only one I know is the green colour cancels redness so I have only used that one as I have very rosy cheeks and it works a treat. Covering up my rosy cheeks so I can put blusher on later! Crazy world!

Pretty pretty makeup! I had to have it because it's gorgeous, I also thought it would be a nice peachy blusher as any peach coloured blusher is okay by me. I've watched reviews on it and seen it swatched and this one looks more like a bronzer. I don't want to swatch it myself and mess it up hehe so I've just left it for now. There are 3 more in different shades though aaaand it was only £2.50! Something I forgot to photo and I'm slapping myself as it's one of my faves is the pro contour kit in fair. The highlighter is okay, more of a matte than a shimmer, but the bronzer shade is the one for me.

You know that wasn't even all the stuff I got! There where a couple of blushers that retailed for £1 each as well that I forgot. But I have been using them and such good quality for the price. Overall I'm loving Freedom makeup, the quality is astounding and prices are even better! See anything you like?

Freedom Makeup haul part 1-lip products

I first heard about Freedom Makeup when I got a email from beautycrowd telling me about the launch. I checked it out and thought it looked so similar to Makeup Revolution's packaging, I found out a wee bit later it's a sister company of Makeup Revolution and offers affordable pro products. If you're familar with Revolution you'll know it's crazy cheap and Freedom is no different. When payday came I couldn't resist a cheeky order just to check it out. I ended up buying a lot and when you sign up for the newsletter you get a 20% off code. I got more lip products than anything else so I'll talk about them first.

The first lipsticks I swatched are the red collection. I'm a sucker for a red lippie so I knew I would like the whole collection. The lipsticks are £1 and the collections are buy 4 get 1 free so it would have been rude not to buy them! Off the top of my head they also have a bare collection and a pink one.

They are very similar to the makeup revolution £1 lipstick as in they are quite sheer but very creamy and glide right on. The first two in the picture on the right have red lipliner underneath which I would recommend as it just gives the lipstick a helping hand in popping and the lipstick will last longer. The last picture is one of the lipsticks without lipliner. Overall though I prefer a stronger colour I really like these, the colours are all gorgeous and for £1 are well worth a try!

These two colours are the same formula but not in the red collection. I think the first one came free in a spend over £25 offer, and though a little pale for me I think it would look gorgeous with a brown lipliner underneath it. The bottom colour just caught my eye on the website as I love deep berry colours. Once again these where £1.

The next thing I went on to order was the pro melts. They do have really good offers on them like buy the whole collection for £18, which for 8 melts at £3 each is a really good offer. The only reason I didn't was they're a few I wouldn't wear. I ended up getting TGIF which is a deep red and the browny nude D-ream. They also have a lip butter but that sounded more of a gloss to me while the melts sounded like melted lipstick.

They feel so nice on and really pigmented. The TGIF on the right I'm wearing with nothing underneath but I put a red lipliner (or pink would do it) on D-ream as it was to brown on me and didn't really suit me. But with the red lipliner I LOVE it! I really like these products and would defo buy them again.





I bought a whole lot more than these but just thought it easier to do the lip products separately. What do you think of Freedom makeup? Or do you prefer Makeup Revolution?