Monday 20 July 2015

Haul | IMATS 2015


On the 11th July I attended one of the biggest beauty conventions in the UK, IMATS. I've already wrote my post about my experience and you can read that here. So today I want to show you my haul of what I purchased. Please excuse the used brushes, I had previously took the pictures but I wasn't happy with them so I have since used some stuff so apologies for that. I've linked what is available to buy but if it's not linked then it's probably not available in the UK or online. 


Nanshy was one of the stalls I was most excited about visiting. Apart from buying makeup, brushes were the next thing I wanted most as I needed to build up my collection. I had followed Nanshys social media the week leading up to IMATS and was excited when they were offering a £5 off voucher for people going to IMATS. I picked up the Gobsmack Glamorous Onyx Black Face Brush Set and the Marvel 4 in 1 Makeup Blending Sponge. I've already used some of the brushes and they are totally worth the money, and have become my daily brushes!


Zoeva brushes were also on my list so we headed over to the Love Makeup stall and had a look at all the sets they had. Me and Jodie both settled on the Rose Gold Complete Eye Set which comes with 12 essential brushes to complete the perfect eye look. I haven't used all of them yet but the ones I have used I've instantly fallen in love with.


More brushes! Crown is amazing for good quality at a reasonable price so I picked up a couple of face & eye brushes and a makeup brush cleaner. The C473 Pro Contour has become my holy grail brush for contouring and I don't know how I ever got by without it. The C100 Tapered Blush is PERFECT for applying highlighter to the cheekbones and bridge of the nose.


I was so excited to see the BeautyB Cosmetics stall was selling some L.A.Girl products alongside The Balm and Milani so much that I think I may have squealed a little bit! I retained myself knowing I could always order more so I only picked up two of the Matte Flat Finish Pigment Glosses and a Pro Conceal HD Concealer. I have tried the concealer quickly and one of the Matte glosses and can see me using both items constantly.







The stall I hit the hardest was NYX. This was because they had products that aren't available in the UK yet, the queue for the NYX stall is always massive and also because the prices were so good. I'm quite impressed with what I ended up with considering the stand is so busy there's no time to look and swatch things, it's literally a grab and go stall. I picked up a lot of lip products this year including more Butter Glosses in Sugar Cookie, Eclair, Apple Strudel and Raspberry Tart to add to my collection. The main thing I wanted to make sure I got was the Butter Lipsticks. I just grabbed what I thought looked nice and ended up with JuJu, Hunk, Cotton Candy, Licorice and Razzle. I also picked up two of their Slim Lip Pencils in Bloom and Purple Rain, and finally on the lip front I got three of their Chunky Dunk Hydrating Lippies in Watermelon Cooler, Pomegranate Margarita and Berry Mojito. The rest was all face and eyes including the Matte Finish Makeup Setting Spray, Angel Veil Face Primer, HD Concealer, Infinate Shadow Stick, Eye Shadow Base, Baked Blush, Baked Illuminator and Tres Jolie Gel Pencil Liner.



Finally I picked up some more bits from Kiss Cosmetics after trying their Sheer Stick (my review can be read here) and loving it. The girls on the stall were so lovely and accommodating and not at all pushy to make sales. I picked up two Lip Vinyls in Seductive Damson and Birthday Suit. The two lippies I picked up were their Limited Edition Kisstick in Osculate Orchid and another Sheer Stick in Breezy Coral.

That is everything I picked up this year. I'm already looking forward to next year and have a mental shopping list going on. Hope you enjoyed this post!

Have you tried any of these items? Do you have a IMATS haul?

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Sunday 19 July 2015

Event | The Body Shop #SummerEdit










A week or two ago me and a bunch of fellow bloggers/youtubers were invited down to the Seattle hotel down Brighton Marina by The Body Shop for their #SummerEdit Event to see their new and upcoming products as well as some of their latest releases. There are so many amazing new products coming out and it was so nice to be able to try them out and experience the direction TBS are taking the brand. Now as I haven't seen some of my best blogging girls in a while I was busy catching up and testing products that I am a little light on photos of the actual event. At the end of the night we were graced with a goodie bag so I will probably have a post up at a later date about that. It was an amazing evening filled with amazing food (quite possibly the best chips I have ever tasted!!), beauty chat with my fellow ladies, the lovely Body Shop ladies and the experts they had there, beautiful scenery and of course gorgeous products.




Monday 13 July 2015

Lifestyle | IMATS London 2015


As everyone in the beauty community is probably aware, this weekend just gone was IMATS London 2015. This was my second year going with my fellow makeup obsessed friend Jodie and I felt this year was far better than our first. We had more of a plan of what stalls we wanted to hit plus the addition of brands that were new to IMATS made it all for a better experience. Some of my favourite brands/stalls there were NYX Cosmetics, Kiss Cosmetics, Nanshy, Crown Brush, Beauty B Cosmetics and the Love Makeup stall. Luckily we learnt from last year and hit the NYX stall first as when we thought of going back for round 2 the queue was half way round the hall and hadn't moved for 20-30 minutes. There were also so many amazing body art features going on that constantly had us gawping including Zoe Newlove and Anna Lingis at the Crown Brush stall. I will be following this post up with my IMATS haul so be on the look out for that but for now I thought I'd just show you the pictures I managed to snap in between spending my money so be warned it is very PICTURE HEAVY.



























Saturday 11 July 2015

Wishlist | IMATS 2015


As you're reading this I will be queuing up waiting to enter one of my most favourite places on earth... IMATS (also HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!). Last year was my first year attending and I am more excited for this year now I know what happens and the layout etc. This year is more exciting also because of the addition of some new brands that have never been at IMATS before.


So whilst I'm busy spending my months wages on makeup I thought I would let you in on some things I'm planning on buying...



Hope you don't mind this being a very short and simple post.

Let me know if you're going to IMATS this year. If you are, what are you planning on buying?