tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31571372474724457682024-02-20T18:24:51.552+00:00Holly MixturesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09523169521827578320noreply@blogger.comBlogger122125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3157137247472445768.post-10074944007607138142015-11-01T19:11:00.000+00:002015-11-01T19:16:22.522+00:00I'd Say This Was a Miss Sporty 'Pump Up Booster 24 Hour Waterproof Mascara' Review, But That Would Be a Lie...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've decided something.</div>
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I should have more baths.</div>
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Not because I stink...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(although I probably do more often than I'd like to talk about)</span></div>
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...but because great things happen to people in baths.</div>
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1. You get clean.</div>
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2. You get to use all the awesome bath stuff people buy you for various birthdays or Christmas.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">or in my case, ASDA's finest "bath soak" in blue, obvs...'cos it matches my mums towels. :/</span></div>
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3. You can pretend to be a mermaid and use your hair, plus the bubbles to be all siren like and seductive and stuff, to the ermmm...imaginary and extremely handsome Prince chilling somewhere on the nearby <strike>taps</strike> rocks.</div>
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4. You can invent stuff. </div>
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Some girl out there definitely invented the idea of bubble bath while pretending to be a mermaid and realising she had no bubble-bra to hide her dignity while trying to turn on her <strike>taps</strike> Prince.</div>
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Good god, maybe this is what's been missing for the best part of the last year!!</div>
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While I've been stinking out half of Huddersfield with my non-bathed self, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(jk I have showers 'kay?) </span>my poor little blog right here has laid empty, bare, and neglected.</div>
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Untouched by any kind of keyboard action, and in dangerously high risk of landing me in trouble for false self-advertising; I'd love to try and convince you all that I've been 23 for 2 years, but ermmm...sadly I'm now 25, and on reaching my ripe old age I've seemingly gone all old and forgotten how to use any form of technology, and deff's can't change that little number in the side bar under my also 2-year-old photo.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Pretty sure it's actually almost 3 years old, that photo. I could have pink hair for all you guys know now...and you'd have noooo idea...oooh intriguing. ;)</span></div>
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Oh well, I'm just gonna have to stay looking that young and fresh faced. </div>
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Probs still be showing you my 23 year old self when I'm 30, and I'm definitely cool with that...</div>
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Anywaysssss...clearly some things never change and I'll still ramble at you for years before getting on with it.</div>
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So, the reason we're here, is because I actually got my brain in gear and decided to write a post.</div>
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Now, this wasn't the post I intended to write this week...I did plan on writing an entirely different eyelash related post, but while pondering how to begin that one, something small but significant happened, and, well, this one just popped into my newly cleared and chilled out head, and, well, 23 year old me style, I was off...</div>
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You see, I'm lazy.</div>
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I was just chilling there, in't bath, as you do.</div>
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My hair definitely needed washing the day before and not that day, my car definitely did need fixing, and, well, I'd say I had clothes to iron, but actually I just never iron 'cos gym clothes don't kinda need it, so that one sorts itself.</div>
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This particular day though, I was feeling extra lazy, and didn't bother to remove what was left of my post-gym make-up, (mascara, and a brown smudge above the outer half of my left eye, which I think used to be an eyebrow) this is bad, because it meant that in my laziness, I was going to have to get up and out of the ultra-peng warm water, and get my cleanser from across the room, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(probs only needed to lean over actually, bathroom ain't that big...) </span>but ermm, nahh.</div>
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I decided instead, that while washing my haur, I'd just smudge a bit of water across my eyes and get my mascara off the non-blogger friendly way, (meh, we use the term 'blogger' very loosely with me these days, who needs fancy cleanser?) but pretty soon, I realised this just wasn't happening.</div>
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My mascara was naaaat budging.</div>
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Thing is, I'd used my £3.99 bargain mascara today.</div>
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The one 'Miss Mascara Snob 2013' over here scoffed and giggled at in Boots, buying it earlier this Summer for the sake of one day, (Tough Mudder) needing a waterproof mascara, but refusing to pay for a 'better' one, 'cos 'waterproof ones are rubbish and never work anyway'.</div>
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WRONG!!</div>
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No, not even just wrong - beyond wrong!</div>
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I might as well have been trying to peel an orange wearing boxing gloves, while on the moon, when the orange is on Earth.</div>
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Not happening.</div>
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I'm serious, it did not move!</div>
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The mascara in question is the <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Miss-Sporty-Pump-Up-Booster-24-hour-Waterproof-Mascara_1321351/" target="_blank">Miss Sporty 'Pump Up Booster 24 Hour Waterproof' mascara</a>, which sells for a teeny £3.99 in Boots.</div>
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Now I'm not gonna beat around the bush here, as a mascara, if you're a mascara snob, (a la moi before my reformation) and you want extra long, extra black, extra voluminous lashes, then babe, step away - just go - this ain't for you.</div>
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It really does live up to its price tag in all other ways. :/</div>
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It ain't gonna make you look like you've just sprouted your own pair of Eyelure's, so long they'll be clicking their own fingers in a 'Z' shape while claiming "uh-huh yes honey I grew these all myself", at you. No.</div>
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It's more of a *deep in-take of breath* 'natural look' :|.</div>
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Call it, 'barely there', even.</div>
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These are the lashes we ladies would go for when attempting the 'I woke up like this' look, desperately trying to convince <strike>the world </strike>Instagram that we're fresh faced natural beauties, when actually it's all #lies.</div>
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In total weird contrastingness however, despite sadly lacking on the lashes, this mascara loves to add blackness, volume and length to ermm...your lids.</div>
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Upper and lower.</div>
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In fact just everywhere.</div>
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Actual. Wettest. Mascara. Ever.</div>
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Try and get this on your lashes and nowhere else. I dare you.</div>
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This stuff will be on your lids, your cheeks, your nose, hell it'll be on your toes if you're not careful!</div>
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And don't, I beg you, sneeze anywhere within 1 hour of application.</div>
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It <u>WILL</u> still be wet.</div>
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And it <u>WILL</u> be making you represent the plight of almost extinct pandas around the world.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peeps <u>will</u> be giving you their £3 a month and awaiting their update on Paula the Panda and her cubs deep in the forests of China, seriously.</span><br />
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Don't do it guys. Don't sneeze. Use sanitiser.</div>
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It is your friend.</div>
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Oh yeah, and 'cos it's 3000% waterproof, once it's all over your eyes/face/feet/walls/you get the picture, just <u>try</u> and fix that mess girl.</div>
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Sorry in advance...</div>
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To sum up. If you're keen on saving the panda and want to advertise their plight whenever you have the sniffles, buy this.</div>
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If you wanna look like Beyonce and wake up pretending you're not wearing make-up when you totes are, buy this.</div>
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And finally, if, like me, you're about to jump into a pool of ice water, a muddy swamp, the odd river, and/or do 3276483 spin/Grit classes a week, all with a very real risk of post-class/event photographic evidence appearing on social media and you want to look even 1% human...buy this.</div>
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If you're wanting lashes like Kim K, long, dark, thick and *ahem* suspiciously Eyelure-like, then honey don't buy them.</div>
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In fact go straight for the extensions, ain't no mascara on Earth gonna give you lashes like those, any more than Kylie Jenner's 'lip-kit' is gonna give you her lips.</div>
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Can't buy surgery in Boots girls, soz...</div>
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You can buy bubble bath though...and not just in blue, get matching those bathrooms guys, mermaid style. </div>
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Your Prince awaits.</div>
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I have little to no understanding of Kim Kardashian right now.</div>
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1. The fact that she thought platinum blonde hair was a good idea.</div>
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2. The fact that she insists on encasing her feet in shoes which resemble cages and make her look about a foot tall.</div>
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3. The fact that her derrière is larger than last weeks supermoon, and would definitely block out more sunlight than an eclipse.</div>
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4. The fact that recently, my all too frequent Mail Online showbiz section stalking sessions show at least 237265429 articles per day of Kim, seemingly trying to out-misery-gut her other half.</div>
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What is this constant pouty, glum looking facial expression which Kim seems to have adopted more and more of late?</div>
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Why is it necessary?</div>
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Is she afraid that removing such a pained and sullen look may crease her latest dose of collagen? Or is it the sheer dosage of collagen itself making all facial movement a myth?</div>
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One thing's for sure - Kim truly has naff all to be miserable about, </div>
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I mean, if my bum could single<strike>-handedly-</strike>cheekedly (?) *cough* 'break the internet' and draw me enough income to buy China, (and therefore a country big enough to reside my second bum cheek) I'd look pretty bleeding happy.</div>
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Hell, I'd be more than happy to simply have an extra hour in bed a day, owed to not having to do my face in the morning.</div>
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Sadly however, we're not all as lucky as Kim.</div>
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We're not all able to use income generated by the size of our bootaaay's, to hire live in Make-up Artist's and look permanently polished, prepped and preened without the usual faffing, flapping and general fussing each time our left eyebrow totes decides not to match its buddy on't right.</div>
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This all changed one Saturday recently however...when I got the chance to go all Kardashian, and have my make-up done by a pro.</div>
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Now for me, ladies, (and cheeky blog reading gents) this is a big thing; I haven't had my make-up done since I was twelve, and my friend decided to give me a make-over in the style of a certain citrus fruit in her bedroom, complete with violet eyeshadow, and a lot of sticky glitter stuff.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Claire's Accessories was where it's at peeps.</span></div>
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Anyhow, off I popped to see my Fairy-Lash-Mother, and all round beauty genius, Rachel Brooker.</div>
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You may remember me raving about her <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/life-in-high-definition-hd-brows-review.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/my-amazing-eyelashes-experience-lvl.html" target="_blank">here</a>, when she's single handedly transformed my sadly lacking brows and lashes into, well...ones I didn't know I was capable of</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Love me some HD Brows.</span></div>
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Since my last visit, Rachel has furthered her already maaad skillz, to become a HD Brows Elite Trainer and Master Stylist, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(can she get an 'oooh'?)</span> so most products and brushes used on me were from the new <a href="http://hdbrows.com/index.php/shop/hdbrows.html" target="_blank">Make-up by HD Brows</a> range...and they're rather nice I'll have you know!</div>
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The look of the day was a perfect base, complete with lots of contouring, a soft smoky eye, lashings of liquid liner, and a natural lip.</div>
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Now for this part I'm going to credit Rachel hugely - because she's sent me so many juicy deets about each product, that right now I'm at risk of sounding like I know my shizzle...</div>
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So you know guys, right here I'm pretty much just the messenger.</div>
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Rachel began by buffing <a href="http://hdbrows.com/fluid-foundation.html" target="_blank">Fluid Foundation in shade 2 'Sand'</a> in to my skin, using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/kabuki-brush.html" target="_blank">Kabuki Brush</a> for a flawless finish. The foundation is a semi-matt, and coverage is adjustable depending on the result you're aiming for; a small amount either alone, or mixed with moisturiser can be buffed into the skin with either a kabuki or stipple brush for a lighter coverage, or for full coverage a larger amount, (Rachel suggests two pumps, or as much as is required for the desired effect) can be used. For a more luminous finish it can also be mixed with an illuminating primer (such as 'L'Oreal Lumi Magique'). The foundation not only feels beautiful on the skin, (in that non-existent, light 'I'm totally not wearing anything' way) but it is also extremely long lasting - something which I can vouch for fully, my face looked exactly the same hours later as it did immediately after application. Reeesult. </div>
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To conceal, Rachel used the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/conceal-and-correct-palette.html" target="_blank">Conceal and Correct Palette in shade 001 'Light-Medium'</a> under my eyes. Both the foundation and concealer were set with the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/finishing-powder.html" target="_blank">Translucent Finishing Powder</a>, applied using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/powder-brush.html" target="_blank">Powder Brush</a>, with the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-blending-brush.html" target="_blank">Eye Blending Brush</a> being used under my eyes.</div>
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To contour, (yusssss contouring ftw!!) Rachel applied shade 'Light Blonde', from the 'Bombshell' <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-and-brow-palette.html" target="_blank">'Eye & Brow Palette'</a>. Now I know what you're thinking...an eye/brow product to contour?!</div>
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To contour, it's great because it's a cool toned light brown, (queue me realising my bronzer ain't so great to contour with...) so really makes it look as though your bone structure really is just THAT good ;) </div>
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It was applied with the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/contour-brush.html" target="_blank">Contour Brush</a> in the hollows of my cheeks, around my jawline, and my forehead, and with the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-blending-brush.html" target="_blank">Eye Blending Brush</a> down the sides of my nose. This made a huge difference for me, as the bridge of my nose is quite wide, (forward facing photo's hate me) and this simple trick slimmed it down beyond recognition.</div>
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Blusher, (another first for me!) was used in the shade <a href="http://hdbrows.com/powder-blush.html" target="_blank">'Cosmo'</a>, and was applied using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/blusher-brush.html" target="_blank">Blusher Brush</a>, and highlight in the lovely champagne toned <a href="http://hdbrows.com/illuminator.html" target="_blank">'Illuminator'</a> was used on my cheek bones and down the bridge of my nose. I'm a HUGE lover of any kind of highlight, and this was no exception, I look at the photos below and seeing the glow on my cheekbones makes me happier than a kid at Christmas.</div>
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First of all, <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-primer.html" target="_blank">Eye Primer in shade 'Sand'</a> was applied using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/concealer-brush-1038.html" target="_blank">Concealer Brush</a>, to even out the skin tone and prevent any eyeshadow from creasing, as well as allowing the colours to 'pop' and look more vibrant. </div>
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Eyeshadow in the shade 'Honey', from the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eyeshadow-palette.html" target="_blank">'Foxy' Eyeshadow Palette</a> was blended into the crease using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-blending-brush.html" target="_blank">Eye Blending Brush</a>, and 'Truffle', also from this palette was used and blended into 'Honey', and into the outer V of my eye, using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/angled-eye-shading.html" target="_blank">Angled Eye Shadow Brush</a>. 'Truffle' was also used on the outer half of my lower lash line (applied with the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/smudger.html" target="_blank">Smudger Brush</a>).</div>
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<a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-define.html" target="_blank">'Eye Define' pencil liner in 'Intense Black'</a> was blended under the eye to intensify the look, and black <a href="http://hdbrows.com/duo-gel-liner.html" target="_blank">'Duo Gel Liner' </a> was applied along my upper lash line, and winged out using the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/fine-angled-brow-brush.html" target="_blank">Fine Angled Brow Brush</a> immaculately - Rachel applied this with such precision and expertise that I seriously applaud her skill here; the liner was identical on each side, and her patience meant it came out perfectly.</div>
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The <a href="http://hdbrows.com/illuminator.html" target="_blank">'Illuminator'</a> previously used on my cheekbones and nose was used across the inner two-thirds of my lid and into my tear-duct to highlight. </div>
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Black <a href="http://hdbrows.com/volumising-mascara.html" target="_blank">'Volumising Mascara'</a> was applied to both my top and bottom lashes - in much smaller amounts than I'd normally use myself, (who knew spider lashes weren't a thing?) and <a href="http://hdbrows.com/faux-lashes.html" target="_blank">'Foxy'</a> faux lashes were applied to finish the eyes, (queue my mama actually believing they were my real lashes, and I'd somehow grown them in the couple of hours I was gone ha! Needless to say, she liked them a lot...) once again it was so strange to see my eyes this way, having always been completely useless with false lashes, but I loved them! The 'Foxy' lashes are long in length, but weren't so full on to detract from the rest of the face, and they complimented the rest of the make-up perfectly, they're probably the perfect lashes to use if you're wanting a natural evening look with just a subtle hint of 'boom, yeahh my lashes kick ass'.</div>
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Lipgloss in the natural shade <a href="http://hdbrows.com/lip-gloss.html" target="_blank">'Vintage'</a> was used to complete the look, and finish my make-up perfectly. I really liked that Rachel used this shade, as normally for myself I'd go all out colour wise, or use nothing - so it was such a great alternative, and has showed me the kind of natural colour which would suit me.</div>
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I love this look in general, but have never truly known how to do it and get it right, so to see it applied so immaculately on my face was amazing for me, Rachel is truly a pro.</div>
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I've always been more than a little fearful of foundation, (possibly from spending my day as an orange that's rolled in mud, aged twelve) so have stayed away from it altogether. Seeing it on my skin so flawlessly, erased any bad memories and connotations I had - in truth my skin has probably never looked better!</div>
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I wouldn't be so fearful of it again, and to know that there's a product out there in Make-up by HD Brows' <a href="http://hdbrows.com/fluid-foundation.html" target="_blank">'Sand'</a>, <span id="goog_2086113903"></span><span id="goog_2086113904"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> which can look as good, natural, and glowing as it did, is reassuring. My skin still looked and, more importantly FELT like my skin - just better, (seriously, my mum couldn't stop staring) and in my opinion that's all you could ever want from a foundation.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Now all I'd need is Rachel's expert application skills and I may be half way there haha...</span></div>
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The contouring was something of a revelation; I've ALWAYS contoured my face, and quite frankly I can't get enough, however I've always contoured with bronzer, and using the pale brown shades Rachel did was just so much more natural, and yet so effective, who knows? I may just give it a go...</div>
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Overall, I adored this make-up look; I felt so ultra-glamorous and girly, it really was a shame that it all had to come off at the end of the night (why god-dammit?!). I especially loved the contouring and the eyes, (and OBVSSS the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/illuminator.html" target="_blank">'Illuminator'</a>, magpie I am after all) I own the HD Brows <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eye-and-brow-palette.html" target="_blank">'Foxy' Eye & Brow Palette</a> already, and have often used it to create matte eyeshadow looks, so it's no surprise to me how much I loved the colours in the <a href="http://hdbrows.com/eyeshadow-palette.html" target="_blank">'Foxy' Eyeshadow Palette</a>, and the teeny iridescent particles these shades contain - it's been a long while since I last attempted liquid liner, but I used to love it, and have been a little inspired to dig it back out and try it again...although no doubt the chance of me re-creating those flicks with the precision that Rachel did, is more than a bit slim, and I may need a good free afternoon in the mirror before I can show the world.</div>
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So sadly, my time in Kim Kardashian's shoes, (not literally her shoes, I pretty much hate every pair she wears) came to an end...</div>
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And I can tell you now that I certainly did not adopt her long faced expression during my time in the MUA's chair, (mehh, I've got no collagen to crease in these cheeks) and in all honesty I was chuffed to bits with how my make-up looked.<br />
It was something very different and a fresh look for me, while still encompassing all the things I love most in my own make-up looks, a smokey eye, highlight, and contouring.<br />
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Rachel is ultra professional and a true talent; there's a reason why I call her my Fairy-Lash-Mother, she's experienced, creative and extremely passionate about what she does, (not to mention genuinely lovely) and it shows.<br />
She recently started her own business, and has a beauty room within her Huddersfield home, in the form of <a href="http://www.beautybrowsmakeup.co.uk/" target="_blank">'Beauty, Brows and Make-up Artistry by Rachel'</a>, and having visited it, it really is something special, and testament to the hard work she's put in to her career, constantly updating her skills and qualifications.<br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Little disclaimer here: I'm in no way affiliated with Rachel or HD Brows, and am not being paid/sponsored to post this, Rachel is merely a brilliant beauty therapist and make-up artist, and simply deserves a little recognition for it :)</span></i><br />
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I can't thank Rachel enough for doing my brows and make-up for me, I was well and truly pampered during my visit, and I can't wait to go back, (which I am next week in fact for some LVL lash goodness, woop!) I'll no doubt be causing myself endless wrinkles with the silly grin that is sure to be plastered across my face once she's done, in totally non-Kim Kardashian-esque fashion.<br />
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Ah well...never understood her anyway.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Wouldn't mind her live-in MUA though...</span><br />
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You can find Rachel via:<br />
<a href="http://beauty%2C%20brows%20%26%20make-up%20artistry%20by%20rachel/" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br />
<a href="http://www.beautybrowsmakeup.co.uk/" target="_blank">Her website</a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/rachel1980xxx" target="_blank">Twitter</a><br />
Email: rachel-brooker@hotmail.co.uk<br />
or contact on the phone directly on: 07990525258.<br />
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Also, cos we're lucky little so-and-so's, Rachel has kindly shared her stylist code, which allows you to receive a free brush when you spend over £35 on <a href="http://myhdbrows.com/" target="_blank">myhdbrows.com</a>.<br />
Her code is E950 and you can pop it in <a href="http://hdbrows.com/recommended/?stylistcode=" target="_blank">this little box right here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Told you she was good ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">You know you want to, you little rascals.</span></div>
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Holly's back, tell a friend,</div>
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I've been corrupted.</div>
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Taken to the dark side of life.</div>
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Life, where it's appropriate to skank around in manky trainers and a sweaty Nike top on a <strike>sometimes twice</strike> daily basis, with the remains of my crusty mascara sliding down my cheeks, and my left eyebrow definitely rubbing off on to my sweat towel.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Peng.</span></div>
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Life, where The Lad Bible provides the most intellectual reading of the day, and where Branston pickle is a normal addition to a Ryvita.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Definitely peng.</span></div>
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Life, where my nail file has gone missing and I don't even care about finding it; my nails are naff regardless.</div>
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Life, where blogging slackness is so severe that my side bar still says I'm 23, and I have little or no desire, (or software tbh) to change it.</div>
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What has become of me?!</div>
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I once outright worried on this here little page, that I was slowly becoming a man, but now I fear something so much, much worse... </div>
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My appearance this morning when my alarm starting screeching at me like some dirty banshee on speed, was more horrific than it was back in the dark days of October, when Halloween reared it's ugly head, and my presence vanished from the blogging world.</div>
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Like some crazed monster with a nasty case of 'bed-head' and even worse dark circles.</div>
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Hours later and if possible I look worse.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I didn't need a Halloween costume, I just am one.</span></div>
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I've had a shower and not combed my hair, so now fully resemble that dodgy girl from The Ring.</div>
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It is my fear, that somehow in this long four month period, I was abducted and corrupted by a dark and mysterious entity, stripped of all blogging know-how, and have been left to fester - luckily not in a well.</div>
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It is also my fear, that on some twisted level, I quite enjoy this new-found madness.</div>
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In fact, I've embraced it quite fully, as of Christmas Day...</div>
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See, on the day that Young Jeezy, (of the non-rapping variety) turned 2014 years old, an even deeper dark side appeared in my life, and I can assure you, my crazed self has taken it to another level...</div>
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See Christmas Day brought a small, dark package full of excitement - see there's little more exciting to even the most failed bloggers, (a la moi), than a new MAC lippy, and I got TWO!!</div>
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So exciting it was, that there was a real danger of such a gorgeous gift reverting me back to my former blogging self, and I very nearly sprang up and grabbed my dusty laptop there and then, and started typing away...</div>
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Anyways, so inside my small, dark package sat <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/168/310/Products/Lips/Lipstick/Lipstick/index.tmpl" target="_blank">MAC's 'Dark Side' lipstick</a>; a colour I've lusted after for a good while, ever since I bought an oxblood coloured skirt and had nowt to co-ordinate it with...</div>
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'Dark Side' is possibly the most perfect deep, oxblood coloured burgundy-red lipstick you are ever likely to find; the Barry M version I bought in desperation to match my skirt was certainly no match, and in fact just looked plain wrong.</div>
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Whether it's for a statement lip in the daytime, or for a Winter's night out, 'Dark Side' is possibly as nice as it gets - it has an 'amplified' finish with amazing pigmentation, but is buildable, so the less daring of us out there can still rock it fearlessly. There's no danger of it being so dark that you giving off that 'I'm dead' vibe with this one, it really is glossy, rich, warm and beautiful.</div>
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The application is lovely - I often worry that such dark colours will stick on those pesky dry patches and in the cracks, but no trouble here; it glides on and stays just where you want it to.</div>
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After several hours of wear I only had to re-apply once!! It sticks around well even through food, and only needed a slight touch up after the amazingness that was the pulled pork sandwich I ate on New Years Eve...</div>
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Now, as you know I'm all dark and devious these days and no rules or rotas can bind me,<br />
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but I do intend to blog just a leeeeettle bit more often than I have been doing, I won't even begin to say I'll write weekly, because quite frankly<strike> I have naff all to say</strike> I'm a rebel and feel this time should be spent trashing stuff and that.<br />
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I have a voice again!</div>
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Basically...I've lost my voice.</div>
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Don't know how or why, but it's gone.</div>
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Deserted me just like Rose deserted Jack on that plank of wood, saying she'd never let go and then doing just that five minutes later when he's snuffed it.</div>
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I've never felt so trapped!</div>
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Two days with no voice and I'm done for.</div>
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And she doesn't even bloody sing! </div>
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Simply, I miss my lovely friend Sahrah who recently got married and relocated to the <strike>wrong</strike> other side of the Pennines, away from me, our buddies, and Ali Shaan's pizzas, (snm) and thought I'd blog a little part of her day.</div>
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It's just over a year since I last blogged the marriage of two of my friends, Asian style, and my god what a day it was for me - I was living the dream well and truly, and wearing one of the most beautiful sari's I have ever seen.</div>
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Now of course I'll take any opportunity to live out my Princess Jasmine dream once again, so when my lovely Sahrah told me her amazing news/shielded herself from me jumping on her in wild excitement, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">*ahem*</span>, it was decided that a shopping trip was in order! </div>
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I chose a stunning suit in a graduated ombre coral pink, decorated with jewel coloured turquoise, orange, gold and purple strips, and finished with an embroidered piece layered over the top of the dress - literally too gorgeous for words...and EEEEK it was mine!</div>
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On went my suit, 'big' went my hair, and 'flicked' went more liquid eyeliner than I've worn since err...<a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/they-tried-to-make-me-go-to-rehab.html" target="_blank">the other, slightly less 'Princess-y' time I played dress up</a>.</div>
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The finishing touch came in the form a beautiful diamante tikka, worn in my hair and falling down my forehead, bought from Sahrah's sister Sanna's shop, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SparkleHijabsAccessories?fref=ts" target="_blank">'Sparkle Hijab's and Accessories'</a>...</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Pressure's on you too Munir, Aunty Holly awaits *cough cough* </i></td></tr>
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My laptop, ladies, (and sneaky gents) is sick, and the letter 'k' is sticking.</div>
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Two years ago tonight, as I turned the big 22, I sat on my comfy brown sofa and spent much of my night, as every night, reading blogs...no Blogger account, no Bloglovin' feed, I simply had a list of blog names that I liked, chilling in the 'Notes' section of my iPhone, waiting for my daily visit via Google...</div>
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I don't remember much more about that birthday - curry was involved and it was nice, but it was a strange time; a time which no longer exists.</div>
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The very next day, September 1st 2012, 'Holly Mixtures' was born.</div>
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See I loved reading blogs, and for as long as I could remember I had loved to write.</div>
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Sometimes I'd buy a product or an item of clothing and the accompanying blog post would be writing itself in my head, I knew exactly what I'd say and how I'd say it...I just never did.</div>
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From the moment I put finger to keypad I have <i>lovedddd</i> blogging, every single second of it - the photo's, the reading, the writing of course, and the amazing blogging buddies I've 'met' on the way...</div>
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I really do love you all <3</div>
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Last year was difficult. </div>
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On my one year blogging anniversary I put up a giveaway in celebration, it wasn't extravagant or anything amazing, but it was something...I wanted to show my appreciation.</div>
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You guys were the support blanket you never knew about, and reading your blogs, chatting to you on Twitter, and seeing your comments made my day, my week and my month <3.</div>
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My one-a-week blog posts were the focus of my weekends; my posts take a while to write, and they kept me out of the way.</div>
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Other than the lack of time, I lacked, (and still lack!) the products required for a stable blogging schedule; I owned/own less make-up than your average twelve year old and/or non-cross-dressing-male, (seriously, you'd be shocked) and this in itself has made more regular blogging a no-no, but I didn't care, I could put everything into my one-a-week posts and know it was okay.</div>
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2014 was born and so was a new chapter in my life.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Screw that it was a whole new flippin' book!</span></div>
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The run up to my second blogging birthday has been quiet, and I'd like to apologise for this, but things are just different now.</div>
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I blog for pleasure as always, and as always time is short and precious, but as strange as it seems even the nights I'm not busy these days seem to be filled with 'something else', I guess perhaps a peace which no longer only surfaces when I'm writing.</div>
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Today marks the eve of my little blog's second birthday, (and in fact is my actual 24th birthday) and I guess I just felt like a chat.</div>
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Tonight, sat on my parents' not-quite-as-comfy-but-so-much-better cream sofa, I have spent a very frustrating two hours editing photo's for a blog post which has now been slotted back into my growing 'drafts' section in favour of this one...because I'm the kind of girl who once I get something in my head, it stays there and won't leave until I let it out.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">E.g. <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/life.html" target="_blank">this post here</a>.</span></div>
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2014 has been a lucky year for me, I've spent time with my amazing family and friends, I've been on two incredible holidays, seen two very lovely people get married, and just this week bought my first proper car.</div>
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Blog wise, I've recently hit both 250 followers, AND passed 100,00 views, which is utterly INCREDIBLE, and despite the current lack of giveaway owed to being fully a**e-raped by car insurance, I genuinely, sincerely don't know what to say, other than from the bottom of my heart, and for everything...</div>
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I bring this post to you, ladies, (and gents) from a dark, dark place...</div>
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I'm sat typing this in 'Sweaty Mess Mode'.</div>
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I don't need a wee right now, therefore a shower is just not good enough a reason for me to remove my aching backside from the sofa, and attempt the journey to the bathroom.</div>
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My nails have the remains of what used to be orange nail polish on them, chipped to within an inch of their short lives. </div>
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Short due to the excessive snapping they've endured recently, without even the smallest attempt by myself to salvage the remains and file them into any form of neat shape.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nail polish remover is a myth to me.</span></div>
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My lashes have been without mascara for over two weeks - partially owed to the fact I have lash extensions on, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(yeah bwoiii, review coming soon*)</span> and partly due to the amount of sweat which has poured down my face of late, washing away almost all traces of anything which could have been deemed to make me look human.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Niiiiiiiiice.</span></div>
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To add to this, on my eyelids is what remains of my most treasured eyeshadow colours; all three of my day-to-day, (and night, I won't lie) MAC eyeshadows have reached the end of their lives.</div>
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Poor 'All That Glitters' was the first to go, all that remains in its little pan is a few small specks of pink-toned sparkle, literally just the glitter that gave it its name.</div>
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'Soba' and 'Naked Lunch' are clinging on to the edges of their silver abode for dear life, fearful of my eyeshadow brush.</div>
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Any day soon they'll be joining poor 'All That Glitters' in 'ahhh sheeeet we've crumbled' heaven.</div>
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Basically, in my blogging absence, I have become some sort of monster, neglecting not only this little space of goodness which I genuinely love so much, but also myself.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Alongside gallivanting off to Poland, a few weddings, and, well...the gym.)</span> </div>
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In fact the only item of make-up which I have purchased in the last six weeks is a replacement mascara, and actually pretty much the only mascara I've used in the entirety of 2014, therefore the only item I'm able to review right now.</div>
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I'm a mess.</div>
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I like doing this too much.</div>
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Give me a wee few minutes of non-rambliness to explain my real reason for this post:</div>
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<a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Soap-Glory-8482-Thick-Fast-Flash-Extensions-Mascara-High-Definition-Collagen-Coat_1281366/" target="_blank">Soap and Glory's 'Thick and Fast' mascara</a>, the high definition version...</div>
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Yeahh, see?</div>
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I can include proper stuff you know!</div>
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Basically, <strike>recently</strike> a few months ago, I was reading laaaats of blog posts from laaaats of lovely bloggers, and one brand just kept on popping up.</div>
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That brand, was 'Soap and Glory', and shamefully, I'd never used anything at all by them.</div>
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I decided this had to change, and therefore my advantage points took a beating (bare skint yo) in favour of my need for a new mascara which cost marginally more than I'd usually care to pay... £10.50 (for 10ml) - only justifiable 'cos people a.) seemed to like it, and b.) the packaging is really pretty and eye catching and I like TOTTTTES 'get' their sense of humour. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's like I <i>know</i> them.</span></div>
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No, seriously though, the packaging is GORRRRGEOUS.</div>
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Who doesn't love having a good golden shiny cylinder depositing black goo on their eyelashes?</div>
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Amusing box and nice tube aside, we all know it's whats inside that counts, and it doesn't disappoint!</div>
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First up, le brush.</div>
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The brush is unique; I mean, no, it's not. It's still a black bristly thing on the end of a plastic stick, but it's like, missing a bit!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Actually, it claims to be seven-sided, but I can defo only count like one round bit that randomly stops in the middle.)</span></div>
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It's as though Jesus himself has parted the bristles, sea style, to reveal a little mascara application trick which appeals to my unsteady hand in a massive way. Basically there is a V-shaped ridge disturbing the usual round shape of the bristles, which wouldn't photograph nearly well enough on my phone to show you.</div>
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A quick google search tells me you other nifty bloggers out there with much better cameras still didn't fare massively well here, I couldn't quite find/nab a photo which quite demo'ed it well enough.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Got high standards me, you know.</span></div>
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Anyways, in summary the brush kicks ass. </div>
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I use the edge of the V-groove to do my bottom lashes, and it goes on a dream. </div>
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Product wise, this mascara genuinely has one of THE best consistencies I have ever come across; it's not too thick or runny, too gloopy, too wet, too dry, it doesn't clump, it doesn't flake, it stays put all day, it volumises, lengthens, builds, defines, intensifies - the lot!</div>
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I can confirm that those little legends who wrote this stuff on't box didn't lie. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Serious, they even disclosed using lash inserts on their images.</span></div>
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It does all those things, and I love it!</div>
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The secret? </div>
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Must be that collagen...now I don't fancy it in my lips or owt bizarre like that, but on my lashes GOOD GOD GIVE ME MOREEE!</div>
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My eyes can also confirm that it is black.</div>
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Don't get how it relates to a film, but whatev's...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Oh sweet blogging niggle at the back of my minf, how I've missed shutting you up...</span></div>
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That aside, I'm still sat here in 'Sweaty Mess Mode', still avoiding both the bathroom, and the nail polish remover.</div>
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I'm also slightly tired, and the furry cushion next to me is starting to look like an inviting place for my head to rest...</div>
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Oh gosh...and there it is.</div>
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It begins; I've said it, I want the fur.</div>
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I'm afraid this could potentially be stage one of my ever looming 'cat lady' status; I even thought a dog was cute last week and voluntarily stroked it.</div>
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This is unusual.</div>
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It's like they <i>know<span style="font-size: xx-small;">.</span></i></div>
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They're subconsciously hooking their claws into my psyche and making me like them.</div>
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Give it a year and I'll have my first kitten.</div>
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Give it ten and I'll love my growing collection more than people.</div>
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Give it thirty and I'll be blogging, about my favourite kitty-wear, and which feline adorned cups and saucers I've added to my lust list.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">P.S A Sheba advert just came on the telly and I actually paid attention. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Feel like it's a sign and I should stock up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*not too soon, this is me we're talking about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">**Who isn't offended by my ragged appearance and/or smell.</span></div>
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How FIT does she look <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2620043/Nicole-Scherzinger-Lewis-Hamilton-stroll-hand-hand-heading-romantic-drive-million-dollar-car.html" target="_blank">here</a>?</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nicole loves it.</span></div>
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Literally, straight from her feet, and on to my own. Still warm.**</div>
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In all seriousness though, my Daily Mail online showbiz section stalking reached new high's last month, on the apparition of the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2620043/Nicole-Scherzinger-Lewis-Hamilton-stroll-hand-hand-heading-romantic-drive-million-dollar-car.html" target="_blank">nude heels related article</a>. </div>
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It did appear, there and then, that I shamefully gained a new foot fetish, and the amount of time spent staring at the two odd five-pronged objects at the bottom of her legs, (evolution is weird) was about as healthy as my former half-jar-of-peanut-butter-on-Ryvitas-in-microwave-obsession. </div>
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Over the next few days I spoke so frequently about my new obsession, which we shall entitle 'Shoesies: The Second Coming', <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(</span><a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2013_04_01_archive.html" style="font-size: x-small;" target="_blank">read part one here</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">) </span>that I even got my friends going - sending me even more fuellage in the form of an article showing <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2625667/Lucy-Mecklenburgh-Gemma-Collins-bear-gifts-celebrate-mother-Billie-Faiers.html" target="_blank">Lucy Mecklenburgh</a> <strike>hitting it first, Ray J style</strike> also donning said Shoesies.</div>
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Screw everything.</div>
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Screw houmous. (yes, that bad)***</div>
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Jumpsuit: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/holly.shepherd.1272?fref=ts" target="_blank">Minnie's</a> (Lindley, Huddersfield) £24.99 </div>
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Shoesies The Second: <a href="http://www.zara.com/uk/en/sale/woman/stock-clearance/shoes/leather-wide-heel-sandal-c555516p1669135.html" target="_blank">Zara (originally) £29.99</a></div>
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Okay, so in another moment of houmous disregarding madness - I went on a small shopping trip, resulting in me buying cute house stuff for my non-existent future abode, (Hudds peeps - if you haven't visited 'Snug' in Lindley, don't - unless you want no money left and a large dose of house envy, snm) and a rather nice jumpsuit, which believe it or not wasn't meant to be in the style of good old Scherzy, but I shall take the similarity willingly...ahem.</div>
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My gorgeous black and nude patterned jumpsuit was the nail in the coffin of a houmous free week, (still lying, lol) but my god it was worth it!<br />
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In the small space of ten minutes I picked up what is already my favourite outfit of the Summer so far, and the outfit my mum has had to practically prise off my back before it started to smell of something other than the dregs of my remaining perfume. </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">No, seriously, I used up the last of my Chloe last weekend while wearing this - I can still faintly smell it...therefore may never wash it again.</span></div>
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I loveeee the nude/beige print and my gawddd does it go with my heels! The skinny-ish straps are like tooootes in fashion right now, and the cut means any food baba's are hidden fully away - YEAHHHH MAN!!</div>
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The only thing is I added a small brown and very tatty belt where the elastic is at the waist, just to add a little extra something. :)</div>
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This jumpsuit was my debut purchase from the gorgeous, (and so cutely named!) <a href="https://www.facebook.com/holly.shepherd.1272?fref=ts" target="_blank">Minnie's</a>, a ladies fashion boutique which I'd heard about from several friends, but shamefully had never been to. Safe to say I'll almost definitely be returning, almost definitely soon... </div>
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Now I have the jumpsuit, and I have the shoes...</div>
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All I need now is to master the art of walking so gracefully in said shoes, without either an expression of pain, or wanting to chop my feet off.</div>
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I will wear them next month for a wedding if it kills me!</div>
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Talking of, when is Lewis gonna upstage me and present Scherzy with the diamonds she deserves?</div>
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Seriously, don't make me buy those Haribo...</div>
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Mehh...</div>
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Screw it.</div>
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If Lewis won't wife her<strike> then maybe he will wife me?</strike> I FRICKIN WILL! </div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm here Nicole, I'm here...</span></div>
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Oh Nicky -</div>
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It would be beautiful.</div>
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We can be shoe buddies for life.</div>
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What's mine is yours and all that...</div>
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Omg EEEEEE...</div>
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...maybe I could share your <u>entire</u> shoe wardrobe?!</div>
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ORRRR - maybe I could borrow your hairdresser too and therefore cure my own hair envy.</div>
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I'll even use Herbal Essences for you.</div>
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Cheers babes.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Nicole: If you read this, promise I'm not a massive stalker. You just have nice hair. And shoes.)</span></div>
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Last August I posted about a small miracle; the type of miracle that meant good old Hay-Zeus could turn water into wine, (the alki) and that allowed Dynamo to walk on't Thames in the style of said good old Hay-Zeus, neither getting soaked, nor contracting Typhoid or some other equally hideous waterborne disease.</div>
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This miracle was bigger than that.</div>
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Any of that.</div>
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Bigger than the pizza I ate last week.</div>
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Bigger than my growing collection of cheap, gold necklaces from eBay.</div>
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Jesus eat your heart out man - forget his miracles, this is so much more...</div>
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I ONLY WENT AND WON A COMPETITION DIDN'T I?!</div>
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I got my little MAC 'Woodwinked' eyeshadow and boy was I over the moon - see I don't win stuff, me;</div>
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I once won an art competition with no prize, and a running race where there was only myself and one other girl.<br />
I've been entering the Daybreak/Good Morning Britain/Whatever competition weekly for like four years now, (unless the prize is a motorhome, I ain't about that life) and have won naff all.</div>
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To actually win something once for me is just beyond comprehension.</div>
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I'm not sure what awesomeness I must have done in a past life to deserve such an honour, but the day that <a href="http://expatmake-upaddict.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Stacey's</a> little tweet arrived in my feed was, well...a good day.</div>
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In fact I squealed quite loudly, almost deafening a non-make up wearing friend of mine, who then had to sit through my endless descriptions of rosy shades and why a piece of metal with a few coloured powders in, is indeed so special.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">It totally is, right?</span></div>
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See...I had won *drumroll* the extremely beautiful <a href="http://www.houseoffraser.co.uk/Urban+Decay+Naked+3+Palette/193400614,default,pd.html" target="_blank">Urban Decay 'Naked 3'</a> palette, and my gawdddd it is gorgeous.<br />
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So believe it or not I'm actually gonna get on with this.</div>
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First off let's address the amazing prettiness going on in that there pink packaging.</div>
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It shines.</div>
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It's pink.</div>
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It has this cool embossed design thing going on which looks particularly awesome and nice on my shelf, and it shines just so nicely in the sun like it did on the day I took my photo's yurrr...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Photography extraordinaire I will be yo!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">iPhone crew.</span></div>
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Also, it's sturdy, like I am in no doubt that I could drop it and both it and it's contents would remain in-tact...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I won't be testing this purposely, but more than likely one day soon I will be able to confirm or deny this.</span></div>
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Next up, you open the palette, and you're greeted with the familiar mahoosive mirror, present in its predecessor, (we like, yes?) and the double ended synthetic shadow brush which is good, but like, I almost never use...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Just me?</span></div>
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Once you get past the hardware, it's on to the good stuff - the software, and the real reason you go 'ooooooh' on opening this palette.</div>
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Now, at first glance this palette terrified me. </div>
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I mean, I always believed the notion that any form of pink near my eyes would make my look like I'd had an emotional day, a run in with some onions, or some form of infection...</div>
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It was not lust at first sight shall we say...</div>
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But a few months, (and lots of blog post reading) down the line, I was both in love and convinced that the rose tones hues of the Naked 3 were right for me!</div>
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See a lot of the shades are pink toned, (ranging from warm-cool, light-dark) but not scary at all - there's no Barbie and definitely no conjunctivitis-like colours present.</div>
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<b><u>Strange:</u></b> an off white, slightly pink toned <b>matte</b> shade, perfect if you like a matte highlight.</div>
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<u style="font-weight: bold;">Dust:</u> metallic pale pink <b>glitter</b> shade - one of my favourites for across the lid, but falls out all over!</div>
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<b><u>Burnout:</u></b> a light <b>satin</b> peachy-pink shade, lovely across the lid.</div>
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<b><u>Limit:</u></b> A dusky but pale pink <b>matte</b> shade, perfect if you want a subtly defined crease...I prefer the darker 'Nooner', but then I like my eye drama.</div>
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<b><u>Buzz:</u></b> A true rose pink <b>glitter</b> shade - again beware of fall-out, but it's gorgeous!</div>
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<b><u>Trick:</u></b> another <b>glitter</b> but this time a peachy-copper tone, I LOVE this one. </div>
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<b><u>Nooner:</u></b> Darker than 'Limit'- my favourite to darken out the crease, a buildable, pink-brown <b>matte</b> shade.</div>
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This palette comes with four sample sized primers, (Original, Eden, Sin, and Anti-Ageing) and for god's sake USE THEM!</div>
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The picture below shows the shade 'Dust' both with and without primer, I'll be honest and brutal when I say that without primer 'Dust' literally becomes dust and umm...dusts off.</div>
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Oh and without primer your cheeks will become glitter balls 'cos I'm telling ya that stuff wants to escape down your face like some sort of shiny rebel, and it WILL...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">You know those times you can see a speck of glitter on your cheek out the corner of your eye but just can't quite find it?</span></div>
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I ain't about having chunky pink glitter on my cheeks man, what are we now - eight?</div>
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Glitter make-up died with the cancellation of my once beloved 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch' magazine subscription.</div>
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...and my hot pink Barry M Dazzle Dust phase.</div>
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Overall...it's safe to say I'm enjoying my beautiful Naked 3 experience, and I have to say to any doubters out there - the pink is neutral enough to work!</div>
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Uh-huh no conjunctivitis looking eyes on my face peeps - Urban Decay this must have been no mean feat, but you done good! </div>
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A pink toned palette that will genuinely suit all skin types and tones is something of a mission impossible - and when it's this pretty?</div>
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Ain't no-one gonna turn it down.</div>
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Oooh didn't I do well there?</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Slyly high five-ing myself for my own sheer strength and ability to shut my cake hole.</span></div>
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1. Wear primer.</div>
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2. The Daybreak/Good Morning Britain competition still eludes me.</div>
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3. Dynamo clearly is Jesus.</div>
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...And I have pretty Rose Gold tones on my eyes maynnn!!</div>
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Thank you Stacey doll, I'm one lucky girl. </div>
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<strike>Ultrabeat's 'Feeling Fine'</strike>, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(meh)</span></div>
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Nina Simone's 'I'm Feeling Good'.</div>
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Summat like that...</div>
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See today, I'm feeling good.</div>
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More than good.</div>
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I'm typing this on my newly restored laptop while Willow Smith-ing and whipping my newly rescued locks back and forth while typing like a multitaskable mo'fo.</div>
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Yes. <i>That</i> good.</div>
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During the last week, I have been <span style="background-color: white;">ü</span>ber constructive; I've done more gym sessions that I'd like to admit for fear of being sectioned, I have a new and rather spectacular phone, and I've regained my ailing typing skills in exceedingly quick time, no longer bashing the keys like a Tyrannosaurus Rex wondering how the hell it survived that asteroid, though unfortunately without evolving digits mini enough to type, therefore extinct-ing itself once more in the ultimate 'hand-over-face' moment.</div>
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Oh, and I have good eyebrows again.</div>
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Massive Gold Hoops - H&M £3.99 (?)</div>
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So on the day these photo's were taken, things were slightly umm...different shall we say.</div>
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These now feel like pictures of a slightly broken alien, who's phone was failing her, who's laptop refused to upload said photos due to extensive slowness, fullness, and general old age, and who's hair and eyebrows looked so inexplicable, the only description available is a slow, sad shaking of the head.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bad times.</span></div>
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If only you could see up close and clearer, you'd see the legs sprouting on my stationary over-eye caterpillars, and the unwanted colour gradation in my barnet.</div>
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Never in my life have I wanted long black streaks with oddly washed out gingery roots.</div>
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'Chocolate Brown' pssssht.</div>
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Even the weather had it in for me:</div>
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Torrential rain + hairspray + backcombing = might as well just shave it off Holl.</div>
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I did however, have an absolutely fantastic day with some rather amazing ladies in Leeds, eating food which can only be described as 'bare peng', and laughing more than I have in a while.</div>
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The bonus being that the rain actually stopped, right before I gave in to a new career in 'Ark Construction', meaning my Summery trousers weren't honestly too bad-a-choice!</div>
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Seriously though, how nice are these trousers?</div>
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It was one of those 'I could just walk out of the shop now, £30 richer, but have these on my mind until <strike>the end of time</strike> they're out of stock and beyond, and therefore live a life of regret...or I could just buy them.' moments.</div>
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I can't think of anything better I could have done with my £30.</div>
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1. Home dyes lie.</div>
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2. Get your eyebrows done, phobia of caterpillars or otherwise.</div>
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3. BUY THE GOD DAMN TROUSERS.</div>
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4. Even when your backcombing/hairspray has been rained into a matted paste - don't shave it, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!</div>
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The embarrassing moment where you realise you're out of practise and you're typing like your dad.</div>
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It is me, I'm here, I'm back, and I'm BLOGGINGGGGGGGGGGGG!!</div>
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It's like my fingers have seized up somewhat.</div>
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I've regressed back to the level of the previous generation, where after ten years of computer ownage I may just have progressed from 'single-index-finger-key-jabbing' to the only slightly less painful 'double-index-finger-key-jabbing'.</div>
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I witness an example of this daily you guys.</div>
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My poor Dad.</div>
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I'm feeling his frustration.</div>
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Karma has hunted me down and it's <strike>kicking my ass</strike> stripping me of my Level 3 in Key Skills ICT.</div>
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These pictures were taken weeks ago - in which time I've had... *you'll need those deep breaths again* bare nails.</div>
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The last time I had a full on decent nail painting session though...oh my my they were goooood!!</div>
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See I was feeling Summery, and the weather was agreeing.</div>
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Two of their <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Revlon-Nail-Enamel_33582/" target="_blank">Nail Enamel's</a> in 'One Perfect Coral' and 'Gold Goddess' were coming home avec moi.</div>
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First up is 'One Perfect Coral', and those crazy nail polish namers were ON IT with that one I tell ya.</div>
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It literally is the most vibrant and perfect coral-red, almost luminous, but without being offensive on the old irises. OH aaaand...and ladies, (cheeky gents, or otherwise) guess what?</div>
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No problems here, my nails stayed chip free for around three days, which included lots of washing up, working out, and well...working.</div>
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That 'Publish' button has escaped my life much like the 'on' button of the laptop has escaped my dads for much of the last ten years.</div>
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'That's an ermmm, interesting print you've got on that dress of yours there, Holly, did you ermm, visit Amsterdam recently and decide on a new way of life?'</div>
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It's just a nice dress.</div>
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The colours are flattering, and they'll look good with a tan.</div>
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OH AND IT'S PALM LEAF, OKAYY?!</div>
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Dress: <a href="http://www.motelrocks.com/products/Motel-Zena-Bodycon-Dress-in-Green-Palm-Leaf.html" target="_blank">Motel Rocks £32</a></div>
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Necklace: <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Fashion-Style-Lion-Head-Pendant-Gold-Flat-Chain-Statement-Choker-Chunky-Necklace-/301041743580?pt=UK_JewelleryWatches_WomensJewellery_Rings_SR&hash=item46177c76dc" target="_blank">eBay £1.15</a></div>
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They know when I'm stalking their website, adding this dress to my basket, (several times over the space of like a year or something) and leaving it in there - they email me to remind me, almost rubbing my excessive skintness in my face, reminding me that this dress is indeed an extortionate £32, and there ain't no way in the abode of Hades they're ever gonna sale section it...</div>
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But screw it, this month something extremely strange has occurred, and I was granted the gift of 'left-over-money', to do with whatever I pleased...</div>
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'You still have items in your basket Miss Gardiner, the questionably printed dress you've had your eyes on for endless time, it's there...in stock, in your size, it's pretty, it's devine, you must buy it, it must be yours, before it's too late...'</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Okay the email might not go exacccctly like that, but you get me. </span></div>
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Night after night I stared at the price tag, hoping I could somehow gain the powers of my childhood hero, Matilda, and magically sale section its ass, making me feel just slightly less naughty.</div>
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I ain't used to this spending shiz.</div>
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Like the <strike>questionable</strike> DEFINITE PALM PRINT covering the item of my desire.</div>
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Anyhoo, off I went for cocktails in Leeds, complete with my shoesies, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(lies, I wore them for photographic purposes only, can't walk in 'em)</span> and my beloved and eagerly awaited questionably printed dress!</div>
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My title maybe alluring, drawing you in ready for the 'is it?'/'is it not?' verdict, but I just can't even mince my words right now.</div>
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In fact, I feel so strongly here that I'MA BOLD AND UNDERLINE THIS FOR Y'ALL.</div>
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<b><u><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mega disappointment.</span></u></b></div>
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I could probably leave my blog post right there on that singular statement, given that it expresses all that I have to say on this, however it is me writing this, and therefore a huge and rambly rant is necessary.</div>
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It all began about two months ago, when I unwittingly found myself completely devoid of mascara, unable to scrape a single sweep more out of my tube, and without a replacement.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I know, I know, I mean whuuuuuut? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">A blogger without mascara?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">kmt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I have no excuses and clearly deserved all I got.</span></div>
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This sad realisation lead me to only one place...my mum's make-up bag, and the place where she'd just bought a brand new and extremely shiny, (me + shiny things = try and stop mehhh) mascara, which would you know it - just HAPPENED to be a new release from my old mascara love, L'Oreal...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Huge coincidence, I swear.</span></div>
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The benefit of the doubt was given, and a new mascara of my own purchased.</div>
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Miss Manga, so I thought, was never to darken these lashes of mine again...</div>
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Until, well, about six weeks later.</div>
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And here, ladies, (and you sneaky gents) is where the real story begins.</div>
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See it appears I didn't learn from my mistake, and I'd continued to use my mascara, knowing that the 'number of coats applied' to 'amount of product actually appearing' ratio was becoming more skew-whiff as each day passed, and my mascara was once again, indeed, deaded.</div>
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Aaaaand once again, I was without a replacement.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Scanning the area for a good brick wall for this head of mine as I type...seriously.</span></div>
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Back to my madre's bag of make-up I turned, and once again to a young Miss of the Manga variety, now slightly less new and liquid-y, in the hope that she'd be a little kinder to me in my <strike>hour</strike> six days of need...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Especially given that I was now risking conjunctivitis or something equally hideous and bare-eyes inducing, for both me and my poor mother.</span></div>
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First of all, Miss Manga, darling - if I'd wanted flat eyelashes, I wouldn't have spent ten minutes blumin' curling them?!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I wish that was an exaggeration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*hides face in shame*</span></div>
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I mean gawddd I forgave you in those early days where you were all runny and shiz, but you're six weeks old now, whyyyy, when I apply you, do my eyelashes suddenly want to flop and fall flatter than umm, a really flat thing (no, a pancake is not flat enough!)! </div>
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WHY, Miss Manga, do you seem to think I only wish to have three eyelashes?</div>
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WHO WANTS THREE EYELASHES PLEASE?</div>
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Why are you sticking them together in gigantic spidery clumps?</div>
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That ain't the definition of 'Mega Volume' gurl!</div>
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If you say you're gonna give me some much needed volume - do it the proper way and thicken up my damn lashes, don't be a fraudster and just stick my existing ones together claiming volume.</div>
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Miss Manga, darling, your packaging is pretty and while its pink shiny-ness does attract magpie's a la moi, (and clearly my mum) I'd get more use out of Harry Potter's flippin' phoenix feather wand, (no innuendo intended) which I do believe is straight up and down, smooth and has oh - no bristles at all, (seriously, no innuendo intended, lol) than the one you have supplied me with!</div>
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I mean, the weird rotating/bending in half thing?</div>
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Why?</div>
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Don't get it.</div>
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I've literally never ever in my life used a mascara and thought 'oh this would be so much easier if perhaps I could completely snap the wand in half'.</div>
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I mean, if anyone out there can enlighten me then by all means do, I genuinely am intrigued, but until such reason is provided for this mysterious design, I shall just continue my rant.</div>
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Believe it or not I'm not done!</div>
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The brush is tapered and bristly as opposed to plastic, and that's all good sometimes, but in this case I find it all just a bit fiddly!</div>
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Now I love a good 'small end' as much as the next girl who struggles to reach the inner corners, but there is just such a large size contrast in this case, that the fat end is full of gloop, and middle bottom lashes are, well, hard work!</div>
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Lastability wise, Madame Manga, I'll give you this, you don't flake, and you have survived my ultimate mascara test - the spin class - unscathed, *mild applause* a feat 'The Falsies' didn't manage to accomplish!</div>
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It's black, proper black*, not that naff grey type.</div>
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Miss Manga was clearly a dodgy car sales(wo)man in a past life, making false claims for 'bargain' prices.</div>
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You know those annoying phone calls you get 27636251 times a week, informing you that you may be owed thousands of pounds because of a loan you never took out ten years ago?</div>
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Well, let me introduce you to three letters very similar, and possibly even more annoying than the evils-down-phone-inducing acronym that is 'PPI'...</div>
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'Pillow-Print-Nails'</div>
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The bane of my life, and the sole reason why this blog post has taken me four weeks to write.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Talk about missing the flipping boat.</span></div>
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Yes you guys, as I explained in my <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/ootn-outfit-repeater.html" target="_blank">last post</a>, I have a chronic problem involving going to bed waaay too soon after painting my nails, only to wake up with an unwanted criss-crossed pattern spoiling the sleek finish of my already, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(let's not kid ourselves here)</span> pretty poor manicure.</div>
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Let's just say it's a good job I think baba penguins are cute, 'cos there's only so much grey-brown a girl can wear on her nails when Spring is coming and the sun is starting to show itself...</div>
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Four times in a row I've worn this you guys.</div>
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Just so I can take some blumin' decent photo's of 'Penguin Chick' which aren't covered in pillow-print!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm a dedicated mo'fo' yo.</span></div>
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All ranting and 'PPN' problems aside, this nail polish is actually ridiculously exciting; umm it's by beauty queen and all round goddess Tanya Burr, I mean HELLOOOOOO?!</div>
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I've only watched her on YouTube since, well, the dawn of <strike>time</strike> her channel, and marvelled over things such as how gorgeous 'Woodwinked' eyeshadow looks on her, and how her have lips have the ability to pull off not only any colour, but make that colour look awesome in a way my non-existent top lip can't.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Realising I should stop there in fear of sounding like a crazed psycho-stalker, and reassure Tanya that if she should ever happen to come to Huddersfield, (umm, why would you not?) she shouldn't need extra security...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Looks around shiftily.*</span></div>
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So when I heard Tanya was bringing out her own lipgloss and nail polish range I was beyond excited!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not gonna lie - the lipgloss not so much.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Can't be doing with the stuff, regardless of whether it would make my lips look like Tanya's.</span></div>
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It wasn't long before my insane hyena-like drooling became too much, and my very first <a href="http://www.feelunique.com/" target="_blank">Feel Unique</a> order was placed, sending two of these gorgeous nail polish shades hurtling my way...in't back of a Royal Mail van.</div>
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The day they came through my letter box, well...it was a good 'un.<br />
First off I had decided on the shade 'Mini Marshmallows', because I kid you not I barely own any pink polish whatsoever! Not only that but pinky nudes are so on trend right now, it makes me twitch uncomfortably when I realise I own not a single item in this colour...</div>
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I mean it's kind of a travesty - especially for a girly girl a la moi, but somehow I just never seem to wear it?</div>
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OBVSSS, I decided this had to change, if only to stop my twitching left eye gaining newly formed and un-even wrinkles, and into my basket it went...</div>
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'Mini Marshmallows' is exactly the shade it's amazingly cute name describes - a pale, pastel pink reminiscent of, well, marshmallows <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(genius description there Holly, well done)</span>. It's a fairly subtle and even quite classy hue, which for pink-o-phobes like myself, is the perfect way to nod to a trend.</div>
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As a polish, I really like it; it's slightly runnier consistency allows it to be built up in thin coats, which my god is usually impossible for me!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not gonna lie, I did initially underestimate its runniness, and blobbed it on the kitchen table.</span></div>
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This means *ta-daaa* for once in my life my nails are relatively even, and at a slightly lower risk of PPN...</div>
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That is until you realise it's not quite opaque and therefore needs three coats, therefore the PPN risk returns*.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Successfully demonstrated in all it's glory on the second swatch picture down on my middle finger.</span></div>
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I had a relatively different experience with my second, (and slightly less phobia inducing) shade, the gorgeously named 'Penguin Chick', (ah-yes I have them *cough* limited edition version, missing the 'k'...lol)</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I honestly believe this shade could have been the most hideous shade of mushy pea green, and I'd have still bought it purely for its name...you go Tanya ;).</span></div>
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I can only describe 'Penguin Chick' as being greige; neither grey, nor brown, and neither warm, nor cool toned - but extremely interesting and unique.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Good. Cos I've not been wearing it a solid month, snm.</span></div>
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The consistency is somewhat thicker than 'Mini Marshmallows' and therefore more akin to what I'm used to,</div>
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and while this means I end up applying coats thicker than your average polar bear, I at least needed less of them to achieve an opaque finish! </div>
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Both polishes, despite their varying consistencies, dried relatively fast, (although sadly, without the ability to withstand material of the cotton variety) and lasted roughly four-to-five days without any huge chipping, before my crazed compulsion to pick took over...enough said.</div>
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Finish-wise, I always wear a top coat to add shine and strength, but both were sleek and shiny enough, (pillow incidents aside) to wear without.</div>
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Packaging-wise, I love the square shape, as it stands out from the rest of my collection, and again I'd like to use the word 'classy', (oooh) but my god I must be weak, cos those lids just don't wanna come off?!</div>
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Not only could I not get either lid off, (enter mum *and most avid reader* and a tea-towel, to the rescue) but I can't blumin' get the things back on either.</div>
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Now they are on, they're slightly off centre, and it's only a matter of time before my obsessive compulsive subconscious insists they be removed them from my view, and therefore removed from my nail polish shelf (yes, this exists)...I may not sleep otherwise.</div>
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Overall, for the mightily small price of £5.99 on <a href="http://www.feelunique.com/brands/tanya-burr/nails" target="_blank">Feel Unique</a> (and in Superdrug I believe), I reckon you can't go wrong with these gorgeous little pots of goodness, they're aptly and well quite frankly awesomely named, and though they vary, are lovely to apply and wear...even with added texturisation, ahem.<br />
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Reet you guys, after four long weeks, I've finally finished!</div>
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Thank GAWDDD for that you know, cos in all honesty this supposed 'heatwave' ain't quite reaching Huddersfield, and the days have been as grey as my nails right now.<br />
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I'm thinking if I switch it up for a bit of pastel pink prettiness in the form of 'Mini Marshmallows', the sunshine may re-appear and life will be awesome.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Even more fitting would be the gorgeous mint colour Tanya posted on her Twitter account...it made my hyena-like state temporarily return, and I'm <this> close to Feel Unique-ing that bad boy, and most likely several more.</span><br />
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For now though, I'm off to bed, (PPN risk free as my nails are still greige) before my phone dares to ring, most likely with a call from a <strike>company</strike> robot in Ecuador or some shiz, trying to give me free PPI money.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(remind me why I'm complaining again?)</span><br />
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Maybe tomorrow night I'll unleash my daring side and sample a new, Springtime colour in a bid try and defeat the evil, nail ruining beasts that are my pillows, and return the sky to a colour I deem acceptable.<br />
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Yet again I'm about to express to you, a HEEEOOOOUUUGE blogging failure.</div>
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Sack me and kick me outta the club, I am undeserving of my blogging page.</div>
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Today's post was meant to be about Tanya Burr and her new nail polishes...</div>
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However clearly, this has not happened.</div>
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I'm missing the bandwagon in quite spectacular fashion.</div>
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Today's excuse is merely that painting my nails takes time, and time is, well, hard to come by when you have delicious soup to make and nachos to devour.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Lawd knows you can't try and eat greasy, salsa-cheese laden nachos with wet nails, I wanna lick my fingers mayn!!</span></div>
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Anyhoo, while I've worn my pastel pink polish and taken *sort of* adequate photo's to demonstrate it's insane prettiness, I have now worn the second shade three, yes THREE times, in a row, in order to take photos, and each time have failed to do so before chipping appeared.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Clearly, despite the arrival of the Spring solstice, there still ain't enough daylight hours to satisfy me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">That, or you will have to make do with a background not containing blurred out flowers, or my mums now semi-famous chopping board.</span></div>
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I'm now MORE than prepared to review said polish, given that it's not been off my nails for more than a couple of hours in the last three weeks, and well, to be honest - one more application after this and I'll be holding a celebratory nail polish burning session* to relieve my boredom.</div>
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Alas, once again however, my base coat is on, and my nails are about to become the colour of a penguin baba...</div>
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For now the fourth time in a row.</div>
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Y'all know it will be a thorough review!</div>
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With its publishing being celebrated with the purchase of a shiny, new, and none-penguin like polish replacement...</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*I do not advocate this. It's flammable y'all, and if like me you wear hairspray, just don't.</span></div>
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Dogtooth Midi Skirt: <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/leja-dogtooth-midi-skirt" target="_blank">Missguided £9.99</a></div>
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White Crop Top: <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/kadisha-round-neck-crop-top" target="_blank">Missguided £3.99</a> (also worn in burgundy the next day ha!)</div>
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Heeled Chelsea Boots: <a href="http://www.newlook.com/shop/shoe-gallery/wide-fit-shoes-and-boots/wide-fit-black-chelsea-block-heel-ankle-boot_292621001" target="_blank">New Look £14.99 (oh em gee!)</a></div>
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Totally Overdone-But-Still-Gorgeous-Bloggeresque Lion Necklace: <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Queen-Style-Lion-Head-Pendant-Gold-Flat-Chain-Statement-Choker-Chunky-Necklace-/111235288973?pt=UK_JewelleryWatches_WomensJewellery_Rings_SR&hash=item19e623cf8d" target="_blank">eBay £1.98</a></div>
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So all nail post issues aside, I do at least have a little something to offer you today, in the form of a double OOTN.</div>
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I say double, because, shamefully, I wore this outfit two nights in a row.</div>
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Albeit with a different coloured crop top and shoes.</div>
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First off I'll give you one guess where this is from?</div>
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Guessed yet?</div>
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Yeah okay it's from <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/" target="_blank">Missguided</a>; I am weak and cannot keep away.</div>
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In fact just seeing the link I've posted right there ^^ is making me want to scroll through the 'New In' section and drool in an unhealthy, animalistic manner at all things made of fabric.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">And Scherzinger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Scherzinger, her sexual hair, and her new clothing collection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's only a matter of time...</span></div>
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Anyhoo, back to the task at hand here, and the <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/leja-dogtooth-midi-skirt" target="_blank">extremely gorgeous dogtooth midi skirt</a> which my prying eyes couldn't resist just last week...</div>
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See, that weekend I had two social occasions to dress up for, (I knoww, check me out ey?!) and I figured that when on a budget, a skirt covered in an extremely on-trend print and costing under a tenner is the way to go, especially when it can be matched with so many different things.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Enter Missguided's 'Sweet Deal' section, and my crop top obsession)</span></div>
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This particular outfit, was said skirt's outing numero uno, when I decided to pair it with a plain white crop top and a shed-load of big gold spangly stuff...which of course I NEVERRR usually do ;)</div>
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The skirt is actually amaaazing for the price, and my god it fits so well considering I had to do my usual online size gamble, (four for you Missguided, you go Missguided...<span style="font-size: xx-small;">they like candy canes, right?</span>)</div>
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This crop top is actually a replacement for an identical one I bought last Summer, which I put a hole in given that it's so thin.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">My advice - remember you get what you pay for with a £3.99 top; put it on gently, and for the love of god wear a white bra!</span></div>
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These were taken before I realised my lips were sadly lacking in 'Lady Danger', (don't worry, this situation was rectified) and that my mums theory of adding extra highlighter to the forming boulder on my left cheek would make the camera flash disguise it, was failing miserably.</div>
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On that note it's time for me to go - now realising I only have base coat on my nails and once again it's too late for me to apply even a single coat of nail polish without risking 'bed-sheet-print-nails'.</div>
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I swear, if I wanted textured polish I'd have bought those Barry M ones long ago!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tanya though darling, if ever you release a textured line - I swear I'll review it quicker, it'll be a doddle for me...</span></div>
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And on that note Bazza M - if ever you release a bed-sheet-print textured line, be sure to send 80% of the profits my way, so I can afford to get my nails done properly, or summat.</div>
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A proper full on mood.</div>
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That toddler you saw in ASDA having screaming ab-dabs t'other day has got nowt on me right now.</div>
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The 'Terrible Twenty-Three's' are an actual thing.</div>
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See it's almost time for a certain monthly occurrence, and Blogger just 'decides' it was cool to like, DELETE, (or rather, refuse to save in drafts like normal for me to come back to) my half-done post.</div>
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WHYYY, would Blogger be so inconsiderate? </div>
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When my time is limited as it is, and my fingers are itching to blog about bronzer, WHYYY, on the eve of such a specific event in the female calendar, would Blogger be so cruel?</div>
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As sunny as the day I took these snaps, when the blogging gods were smiling down on me and granting me some amazing natural light.</div>
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Too good to be true it seemed.</div>
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If my laptop keyboard wasn't broken before, it sure will be by the time I'm done with it.</div>
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Gah.</div>
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Now where are my Doritos?</div>
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Doritos make everything better.</div>
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Yes, bronzer makes EVERYTHING better.</div>
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So anyhoo when my little 'Sgrmfn' aka Amy from '<a href="http://srslylou.com/" target="_blank">Srslylou</a>' reviewed this little sparkly gem of a bronzer, my drooling became too much and I had to give in...</div>
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First of all, it has to be said - as beautiful as it looked both on Amy's blog, and in it's immensely classy packaging, (for the small price of £4.99) as it sat on the shelf in Boots, I was nervous.</div>
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I am afraid of shimmer!</div>
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Aside from the copious amounts of highlighter I like to blind you with in my OOTD images, my face is for the most part, matte, and only ever matte.</div>
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As far as bronzing goes, I really only ever use it to contour, so looking less dead is purely a bonus - and like, I seriously have no clue how, or even if you can contour with shimmer.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm thinking not, but I kind of still have, 'cos damn it my brush just goes to the hollows of my cheeks and doesn't know what else to do!</span></div>
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This bronzer is shimmery, but quite beautiful, and still oddly looks okay when used wrongly to contour - when the light isn't on it, it appears dark enough to give me my desired effect, and it looks good!</div>
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If applied properly, however, it looks really lovely, and adds a gorgeous healthy glow to your face.</div>
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I've even managed to work out how to look subtle using this, despite it's heavy pigmentation - shocking I know, but I did it. </div>
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The four shades used range from a pale, pinky bronze, (which is BEAUTIFUL to highlight, and got plenty of use on its own before I bought my long coveted <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/mac-mineralize-skin-finish-soft-gentle.html" target="_blank">MAC's 'Soft and Gentle'</a>) through gold, to a deep rusty bronze, all four of which can be used to create a few pretty amazing eye-shadow combo's. The shades are perfect in tone when blended together, neither too orange nor too muddy, and a great medium tone meaning it could be used effectively on a variety of skin tones.</div>
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With a simple statement reflecting the inconsiderateness of my laptop, it's left click button, and Blogger.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Also because I now have my Doritos but no dips, and in my current state of being this is tragic beyond comprehension.</span></div>
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Blogger - you are, simply, a MAN.</div>
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A man.</div>
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That is all.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*To any of the sneaky gents who may or may not read this, (yes, I see you) I don't mean to offend - it wasn't you, just the other non-reading males ;)</span></div>
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I've got my blogger head on today.<br />
I know, I know...<br />
It's been a while!<br />
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Slap my wrist ladies, (and gents) but sometimes you get a little caught up, and for one reason or another blogging becomes a challenge.<br />
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You know those times though, when you face such challenges, and deep and meaningful song lyrics attract your attention, being representative of your situation and therefore inspiring you.<br />
Well, this may explain my new-found love of a certain Bedingfield.<br />
And no, I'm not about to run through the streets proclaiming to every man that I'd have their babies,<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">weird,</span><br />
I am of course talking about Daniel of the Bedingfield variety, who, back in '99 wisely spoke, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(sang?)</span> about having some pretty tough stuff to overcome.<br />
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Like D.Bedderz himself,<br />
<i>'I gotta get through this'</i><br />
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He wasn't wrong.<br />
I gotta make it you guys, I gotta make it,<br />
Gotta make it through.<br />
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Such strong and umm, complicated lyrics have struck a chord with me deeply in recent times.<br />
The powerful verses, in which I can only half work out what he's saying, are more than a bit brilliant to have a good rave to, and it's not too tuneful that singing along <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(wailing?) </span>leaves me feeling low about my lack of talent...<br />
All of this, of course, happens to the sweet sounds of garage music, (RIP) and therefore is doubly awesome, as well as representative of my current blogging situation.<br />
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Talking of...<br />
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS IT IS DIRE!<br />
Forget a money tree man I just need more hours in't day!<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Although preferably not Mondays)</span><br />
I mean, like whereeee do they go?<br />
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I'm almost certain someone is robbing me of time itself, and I'm also almost certain it's the evil sister of D.Bedderz, racked with jealousy and stabbing me like a voodoo doll simply because her bro makes better, and slightly less bunny boiler style music.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Should have used a garage beat then shouldn't she, innit?</span><br />
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Fight back against <a href="http://hollyamberrio.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/life.html" target="_blank">life</a>, and against bunny boiling sisters who try and take your blogging time, and against the lack of self control that meant I used this eyeliner *shudders* ...WITHOUT taking pictures of it first.</div>
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Right then let's get stuck in - imagine me, looking like some creature from the dead, having had my six hours sleep seemingly slashed to about six minutes by said evil-garage-hating sister of D.Bedderz, and very much needing a pick-up.</div>
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Just a little something to brighten up zee eyes and make me look alive, the way my 'usual' look somehow doesn't right now.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Possibly owed to that fact that last years tan has finally faded, and my concealer has suddenly become to dark...but it's almost new and I'm saving for car insurance so screw it, I'm'a sit out in this new found fourteen degree heaven and soaaaak up dem sun rays.)</span></div>
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To solve my issue, I have put my hope and faith into the fair hands of <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-Scandal-Eyes-Waterproof-Kohl-Liner_1281559/" target="_blank">Rimmel's 'Scandaleyes Waterproof Kohl Kajal' Eyeliner in 'Nude'</a>, hoping that if my waterline is bright, then maybe umm...no-one will notice the fact my concealer no longer matches my face...</div>
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CREAMY AS ITS CREAM COLOURED NAME!</div>
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There is a reason why this line of pencils is so well loved, along with this particular shade being one of the only reasonably priced, (actually, quite ridiculously cheap at £3.99 a pop) nude pencils out there, you really are getting something of decent quality!</div>
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Boy does this go on like a dream? There's no scratching and no pulling, snagging - anything to fault the application of my new eye brightening buddy, it goes on beautifully, and it's deep pigmentation means you only need a single swipe across your waterline to cancel out the pink tones that scream 'just get me a bed, right here, now'. It makes you appear fresher and wide-eyed. </div>
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The colour is pretty much the perfect pale nude; it's so natural looking, it definitely gives you the 'I ain't wearing nuttin' - I just look like this POW' impression, it's not too pale that you get the stark, almost white effect, and not too dark that it looks orangey - meaning it will suit most fair skin tones just fine.</div>
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NO MORE WOCOES WOES!!</div>
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Uh-huh I challenge my eyes to try and water this stuff off, 'cos I'll tell you now it ain't happening!</div>
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The sun.</div>
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The centre of your world and your universe.</div>
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Life revolves around it.<br />
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You are Earth-like.</div>
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The other aspects of your life circle around you like little moons, your family, friends, hobbies and everything you enjoy.</div>
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Sometimes in life your moons aren't as appreciated as they should be, but loyally they orbit you and you stare into the sky, commenting on their beauty, you see them daily, you love them, you visit them, earn from them, write them, they are part of you, they're important.<br />
You mustn't forget them.</div>
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Meanwhile your sun glows beautifully, it tans you healthily and nice, it provides you with life, and in turn gives that life meaning.</div>
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You adore it.</div>
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You'd do anything for it.</div>
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Sometimes it's so beautiful you cannot even bear to look at it, thinking it is unworthy of your gaze, it is too precious and too special, it burns too brightly, but you sometimes sneak a glance.<br />
It is blinding.<br />
So bright you see no sun spots, no imperfections.<br />
It is perfect.</div>
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It makes you happy, it is warm.</div>
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Summer.</div>
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After a while the Winter may come; the sun still shines on those crisp, frosty mornings.<br />
Snow days are different and exciting, though rare, and you know your sun will always come to the rescue and melt it all away...the heat of Summer always returns and fills your world with light and beauty.</div>
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Everything grows.</div>
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The deep core of your planet is warm, it glows, it provides all of your planet with minerals and goodness, nature.</div>
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Your emotions come and go like the weather, but your faithful sun always burns the clouds away, your trusty moons make the tides rise and fall, but everything is okay, because you are attached to your sun, its gravity pulls you in.<br />
You are with it forever.</div>
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It is stable, everlasting, life giving, it provides, it loves you, you love it, you need it, it is yours.</div>
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And you are its.</div>
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You are its.</div>
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And you can never leave it.</div>
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Gravity.</div>
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You are its.</div>
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Sometimes during Winter, the sun doesn't shine as much, you long for it to shine, you don't feel so warm any more.<br />
The Winter can be so long at times...</div>
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You long for your sun, where is the sun?</div>
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You see it faintly through the dark clouds at times, but it is weak, unfamiliar, you don't recognise it, you try and find blankets to keep you warm instead.</div>
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You hide under them and wait for Summer...it's been so long since Summer now.</div>
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You look up at the sky, your moons are there, some of them are hiding behind the Winter clouds, you realise you haven't seen them in so long, maybe the sun was too bright?</div>
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You miss them.</div>
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They can't hear you, neither can the sun.</div>
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The sun isn't listening, it doesn't care.</div>
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Blankets.</div>
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Summer doesn't come any more. You spin once, twice, around your sun, explore it from every angle, every side, 360 degrees, you tilt on your axis time and time again, peering, searching, and waiting patiently, but something is wrong.</div>
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Your sun is changing.</div>
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Your star, once so bright and beautiful, the perfect distance from you, giving you warmth, light, life, it looks different now, it's red, angry, it's unnerving.</div>
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You're scared and you want to run away, you wish you were big and strong like Jupiter, further away, not so solid, not so breakable.</div>
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You wish to be Jupiter, but you look like Pluto. </div>
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A cold rock, dark, distant, small, insignificant.<br />
Demoted.<br />
Breakable like ice on a lake.</div>
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You realise your sun is dying, but it is dangerous.</div>
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It is growing, and it will engulf you in its flames.</div>
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You are its.</div>
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Your oceans are drying up, you still can't see your moons. They're not affecting the tides.</div>
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You don't call out to them any more, this is just a bad dream...it will go away.</div>
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The leaves haven't been on the trees for a long time, but now the trees are dying, they don't grow any more, they don't flourish.</div>
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The sun is back but it's too big, too hot, too strong.</div>
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Red. Angry. Scorching.</div>
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It has a fever, the temperature is too high, it's spreading to you, your clouds are all burned away now, and you're dangerously exposed.</div>
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Your mountains have crumbled, they eroded when the sea evaporated and washed over them one last time, like tears.</div>
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Grains of sand in a hot desert.</div>
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Not much else is left.</div>
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The red giant glows in the sky.</div>
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It isn't yours any more, you don't recognise it.</div>
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It burns you. </div>
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You don't want it.</div>
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But you are its.</div>
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It will devour you as it falls, right before it implodes.</div>
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It's coming for you, it's growing.</div>
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It's going to smother you, it's trying, it wants you.</div>
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You want to run, you need to run.</div>
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But you're no longer spinning; trapped in blazing, searing heat.</div>
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Trapped.</div>
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You're there a lifetime; stars take a long time to burn out.</div>
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The star is hurt, it no longer recognises you either.</div>
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You look like Pluto, Pluto isn't a beautiful place, it isn't happy, nor full of life.</div>
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But still it is theirs.</div>
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Pluto still orbits the sun.</div>
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You are its.</div>
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Forever.</div>
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Or not.</div>
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There is a mountain left on your planet, it has been hiding on the dark side, just one.</div>
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It is Everest.</div>
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You yearn for the top, for the snow capped peak that will soothe your burns.</div>
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But you have to climb it.</div>
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It's so high.</div>
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You fear you will never make it.</div>
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Fear.</div>
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You fear your mountain will come into the light, and be blasted and burned to dust, you will never have another mountain.</div>
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You have to climb it. you can do it, you can do it.</div>
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You're going to get frostbite, but it is better than being burned alive.</div>
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Your heart has frostbite.</div>
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Hypothermia slowed its beats a long time ago, deep in the dead of Winter, but you no longer fear the cold - you have blankets.</div>
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Then you reach the summit.</div>
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You're frozen, tired, exhausted, hurting, but you have climbed the biggest mountain in your world, in your body, in your mind.</div>
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Simultaneously, your sun implodes.</div>
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It is not a Supernova, it was never big enough. Not as big as it thought.</div>
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Not as big as you thought.</div>
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The heat from the explosion dries your last lakes; no more tears can fall.</div>
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It melts the ice at the top of your mountain, but Everest is in tact.</div>
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Strong. Jupiter.</div>
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Calm is coming, ascending, the sky is clearing.</div>
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The moons are shining, you can touch them, you can visit them, you can see their craters, the faces in the moon.<br />
They glow so beautifully, you realise they were there all along, they help, they bring back the tide so it rises in a non-destructive wave, washing away the residue, and you love them.</div>
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You always did.</div>
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The sky is so beautiful now.</div>
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It is full of stars, twinkling brightly from afar.</div>
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They light up your world, you never saw them before.</div>
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You notice another, a small dark star, it looks so distant now, it is a shell, a memory, you smile and nod to it in acknowledgement, but you don't want to look at it again.</div>
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You don't need to.</div>
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Its gravity cannot reach you.</div>
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Your planet has a single green shoot, it grows from the warmth of your core, the light reflected from your moons.</div>
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Your core never went cold; it powered your Everest.</div>
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It is stronger than you ever thought.</div>
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It is you.</div>
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You are not alone.</div>
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I am not alone.</div>
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This is my story, it's 2am, but I had words in my head that just had to come out.</div>
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This post might not be here long, but I wanted to share it with you...whoever else is awake at 2am, contemplating life.</div>
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Life is good :)</div>
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I have a confession to make...</div>
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A deep, dark and extremely sinister confession.</div>
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One which will change your opinion of me *insert dramatic pause here* FOREVERRR.</div>
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I am in need of help.</div>
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My behaviour is out of control.</div>
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STALKER.</div>
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The police are probably on their way to me, blue sirens ablaze as I type these very words, and I wouldn't blame them.</div>
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I should be locked up, laptop confiscated and chained to the dirty bars of the cell which will no doubt become my home for twenty years or more, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(let's be real here, this is the UK, I'd get a month max) </span>for such a heinous crime cannot be ignored.</div>
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The victim of my stalking surely felt uneasy at my constant presence, my prying eyes fixed permanently upon their page.</div>
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My IP address listed forever in their traffic sources, lurking, waiting...</div>
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They were being watched.</div>
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But who is my victim, you ask?</div>
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Who is this poor soul, being torturously spied on like poor Bambi's mother in the hunters' shot gun viewfinder?</div>
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Their name, ladies, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(and sneaky gents) </span>is <a href="http://missguided.co.uk/" target="_blank">missguided.co.uk</a>, and more specifically <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/minako-one-shoulder-belted-jumpsuit" target="_blank">this page right here</a>...</div>
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Jumpsuit: <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/minako-one-shoulder-belted-jumpsuit" target="_blank">Missguided £37.99</a></div>
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Shoes: ASOS (bought on eBay) </div>
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Necklace: <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Queen-Style-Lion-Head-Pendant-Gold-Flat-Chain-Statement-Choker-Chunky-Necklace-/111235288973?pt=UK_JewelleryWatches_WomensJewellery_Rings_SR&hash=item19e623cf8d" target="_blank">eBay £1.98</a></div>
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This is my big confession.</div>
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My obsession began when out for the evening, and seeing my friend and fashion twin Chezni looking pretty damn awesome, (as per) in the most beautiful jumpsuit I have ever seen.</div>
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As soon as she uttered the words 'Missguided' in response to my 'where ever did you stumble across such beauty?' question...that was it.</div>
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See Missguided is familiar and well known territory to me; I've had many dealings and mini stalking episodes with them before, all resulting in the parting of funds from my bank account, and my items-of-clothing : number-of-coat-hangers ratio being ridiculously reduced.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Not to mention the fact that they're being stored in my brothers wardrobe, because I don't have one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">He's thrilled.</span></div>
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While patiently awaiting pay day, Missguided were the poor victims of my obsession, stalked almost daily, and in receipt of way too much of my attention and lusting desires, (just checking it was still in stock, of course) but alas...that day arrived, and in an almost Gollum-style incident, my precious new jumpsuit arrived.</div>
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It's like fate.</div>
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Not only did my size selection gamble pay off, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(this NEVER happens)</span> but it is just divine!</div>
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It's plain black aside from the golden detail of the detachable belt, and has a one-shoulder style which is a surprising hit!</div>
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I've not had it long and all I'll say is I'm most definitely an outfit repeater AND PROUD BABY!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'll probably get married in it one day, uh-huh - who wants a white dress when you can wear this fiiine piece of umm, polyester?</span></div>
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On my face I wore the slightly more vamped up 'usual', given that I was venturing into the unfamiliar territory that is, 'town' on a night out...but with my new and faithful friend 'Lady Danger' on my lips.<br />
Oh and red nails for good measure, cos after all <strike>it is the month of loveee</strike>, it matched my lipstick.<br />
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You'll be happy to know I'm now cured, (albeit temporarily I'm sure) of my Missguided stalking problem.<br />
Speaking to you guys about it has cleansed me of my sins and I now feel relieved.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">You're like my church or something.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">The internet is the wall thingy we're speaking through.</span><br />
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Missguided I'm sure feel a similar type of relief, I'm no longer drooling at their jumpsuit section, in between switching tabs, longingly gazing at my online banking page and wondering just how many more seconds it is until pay day...<br />
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Until I next find something beautiful,<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">which I'm fully aware could be like now, so I'm choosing not to even look.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Willpower, that is.</span><br />
Missguided, you're off the hook.<br />
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Sadly, the same cannot be said for <a href="http://www.motelrocks.com/" target="_blank">Motel Rocks</a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.motelrocks.com/products/Motel-Zena-Bodycon-Dress-in-Green-Palm-Leaf.html" target="_blank">This dress</a> has been on my radar for like a year or something ridic, and it's STILL not in the bleeding sale!<br />
Umm, just so you know, Motel, until it is...I'll be watching you...<br />
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*psssst, press play*</div>
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I've been blinking, I've been blinking...</div>
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I can't keep my eyes off it's sparkles baby,</div>
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I've been thinking, I've been thinking,</div>
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Why can't I keep my fingers swatching? </div>
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MSF I want you, na na...</div>
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Why can't I keep my fingers swatching? </div>
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MSF I want you, na na...</div>
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Shines like ice, shines like ice,</div>
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Feeling like an animal with this beauty on my screen,</div>
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Flashing lights, flashing lights, </div>
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My iPhone camera, clicking, clicking, clicking,</div>
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MSF I want you, na na...</div>
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Can't keep my eyes off those reviews,</div>
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MSF, I want you, na na...</div>
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Drunk in loveeeeeeee.</div>
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I wound up on the MAC site saying,</div>
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Oh baby,</div>
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Drunk in looooooooooveeeee,</div>
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Clicked it online,</div>
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Last thing I remember is me clicking 'checkout' and getting that confirmation email,</div>
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Drunk in loooooooveeee...</div>
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Clicked it online, LOVVVVVVVVVEEE, LOVEEEEEEEE</div>
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Clicked it online, LOVEEEEEEEEEEE, LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE</div>
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After several <strike>months</strike> years of lusting, umm-ing and ahh-ing, and just plain drooling after <a href="http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/159/782/Products/Face/Powder/Mineralize-Skinfinish/index.tmpl" target="_blank">MAC's 'Soft and Gentle' Mineralize Skinfinish</a>, my selfish needs have finally got the better of me.</div>
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I have caved, and am now the proud owner of, well...the most beautiful piece of champagne-pinky peach goodness ever to grace my letterbox, my iPhone lense, and now ladies, (and pesky gents) my face.</div>
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MAC's 'Soft and Gentle' is, well...every bit as beautiful, stunning and gorgeous as I ever imagined it could be.</div>
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The 378364885822 blog posts I've previously read on it didn't lie.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(and given that it costs £22 I'm glad they didn't!)</span></div>
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I really shouldn't worry about the price, you know.</div>
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I feel I may never, ever need to purchase another highlighting product again, for as long as I shall live!</div>
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A whopping 10g of product comes encased and swirled, all marble like and purrrty, in MAC's little circular pot, and when I say I can't imagine how long it would take to even dent, I'm not joking!</div>
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I'll probably cry when it does, however...</div>
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Colour-wise, it's just dreamy!</div>
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Highlighters I've used previously have been, well, a little pale, (ironically two of the three were bronzers) and left me in severe danger of looking as though I was trying to make tribal make-up a new 'thing', with white stripes on the tops of my cheeks, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(stemming from my lack of ability to know when to stop) </span>but 'Soft and Gentle' is just slightly darker and more peach toned, meaning it's less stark and more skin tone friendly - in fact I imagine and have seen how amazing this looks on any skin tone, it's literally a gem of peachy genius!</div>
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In another amazing cure for my lack or stopping power, (human glitter-ball's never look good you guys, don't make my mistake!) 'Soft and Gentle' isn't overly glittery, if in fact at all; it's so finely milled that each tiny, shimmering particle blends seamlessly into your skin, creating a natural glow and radiance that makes the luxury price tag even more worth it, and my sun-starved February skin appear surprisingly healthy.</div>
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I use this on the tops of my cheekbones, and as an inner corner highlight on my eyes, (my new 'thing' you guys, it's bad) but it can be dusted lightly all over for a dewy effect.</div>
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Lasting power-wise, so far, so good! I've retained my glowy cheeks for the full length of my make-up wear, including a Jillian Michaels session!</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Naughty I know, I'm normally so good at the gym, but like...I was too excited and couldn't bear to remove it before I got going :(</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Worth a blemish or two...</span></div>
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Overall, I sense that despite only owning this a short period of time, I have now found 'the one' when it comes to highlighting products - I genuinely can't see myself venturing away from this any time soon, and equally can't wait for Summer when it can be seen in actual sunny daylight, in all its shimmering glory!<br />
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To conclude and add yet more cheese...I'm just a bit Drunk In Love.<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*terrible, just terrible, I'll go hide my face in shame now, lol.*</span></div>
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It's on my face, LOVEEEEEEEEEEEE, LOVVVVVVVEEEE</div>
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It's on my face, LOOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEE, LOVEEEEEEEEEE.</div>
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Oh Bey, you actual dream girl, you.</div>
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I bet she like invented 'Soft and Gentle' or something...</div>
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She probably just like sang to a tub of baby powder and it all came together to listen, beginning to sparkle the moment her perfect breath graced its surface.</div>
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Some crazy part of my subconscious wishes to believe I could apply this and somehow just be her, in more ways than just <strike>singing</strike> ruining her songs when I'm alone, not caring for the safety of the windows, nor the floorboards (which are definitely old and should almost certainly not have fairy elephants prancing around on them, recreating a somewhat terrifying version of 'Survivor')...</div>
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It's not a cold and frosty morning.</div>
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It's not even morning, in fact yet again this post comes courtesy of some late night inspiration, stemming most likely from my first night sat doing naff all in weeks.</div>
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and I may even have time to change my mind...</div>
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Blogging for oh, the second time in a week!</div>
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The only thing missing tonight is my onesie, which I can't wear simply because it has feet in...gahh!</div>
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Usually, this would be the best bit, and my tootsies would be all toasty and warm, snuggled in their leopard print goodness, however no.</div>
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My toes are tacky and therefore now susceptible to frostbite.</div>
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Cut out boots: <a href="http://www.riverisland.com/women/shoes--boots/ankle-boots/Black-cut-out-buckle-side-Chelsea-boots-649129" target="_blank">River Island £38</a></div>
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Faux fur hairband: <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/281154339876?var=580216768024&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649" target="_blank">eBay £4.99</a></div>
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Mostly because it's SOOOO SNUGGLY and waaaaaaaaaarrrrrm.</div>
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The dress is a piece of actual perfection from the perfectly priced 'Sweet Deal' section of <a href="http://www.missguided.co.uk/" target="_blank">Missguided</a>, (which I believe come Summer I will own in its entirety...I'm an unstoppable Missguided machine!) and despite being only £7.49, is proper good stuff!</div>
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I swear they could stick a Topshop label on it, triple the price, and still call it a good value for money piece - Missy-G you little genius', you!!</div>
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See, I choose to believe that this cardi is something of a soul mate of mine.</div>
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Too regularly, my friend and Lady Danger twin Lucy had been flaunting this awesome zebra-ness in front of my face in the form of wearing her own, and it was torture.</div>
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Like a bull to a red flag, I simply cannot control myself around animal print of any kind, and on a regular basis my subconscious would hatch evil clothes stealing plans in order to claim her cardigan as my own.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In all honesty though, I wouldn't have put it past myself to go all 'bull' on her and charge, knocking her to the ground and ragging it from her.</span></div>
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My sneaky subconscious was even working on how to stretch it big enough to fit...and failing miserably.</div>
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I'd almost given up hope, until a random 'oh I'll just pop into H&M for a minute' decision was made...</div>
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Oh my dayzzz - it's like mother nature herself directed me in there!!</div>
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The last one.</div>
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All enticingly warm and zebra-like...</div>
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In my size.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Only two years too late on that one.</span></div>
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You know all those adverts on telly, asking you to adopt a Panda, or warning of the huge decline in their numbers?</div>
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To us ALLLLL.</div>
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Pandas are no longer endangered you guys.</div>
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For there's one right here typing this to you.</div>
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Ladies, (and you sneaky gentlemen, you)</div>
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I am, indeed, a panda.</div>
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Yes, it's true.</div>
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The dark circles around my eyes have grown from smudged mascara to full on black hole sized in recent weeks, and yet I just cannot slow down.</div>
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My concealer usage has gone from the sublime to the ridiculous, and I've even contemplated actually spending money on decent skincare in a bid to fully remove it at the end of the day.</div>
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Okay so what a lucky little so-and-so I am eyy?!</div>
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See my extremely talented and lovely friend <span style="font-family: inherit;">A<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.1875px;">ї</span>cha knows, (and shares) my magpie tendencies, and we've had several long discussions about sparkly stuff and all things make-up, and to my surprise she'd sent Santa my way with a little Christmas gift all the way from lands afar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first product in my little parcel of goodness was this rather gorgeous eyeshadow sphere in shade 105, containing a deep brown-black shot with microscopic silver glitter flecks, alongside a contrasting hot pink shot with golden glitter flecks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Oh my lordy lord!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Okay so after lots of 'ooooh-ing' and 'ahhh-ing' I decided I just had to put my MAC palette down for a day, (or ten) and get this piece of goodness on my eyes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now I'm not gonna lie to you, I've been a little afraid of pink shadows in my time, but less so recently after the revelation that is MAC's 'Cranberry' and the rosy hues of the Naked 3 palette - I decided, well it can't be so bad, right?</span><br />
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Despite looking so fabulously Barbie-esque in it's nicely packaged pot, the pink transfers a good deal paler than it is in the pan, meaning it's easy to use for a more subtle look, and definitely does not leave you looking like you've just had a good old cry.<br />
As for the darker shade, (totes brown but it took me a few different lighting variations to decide) again it's pigmented but not too overpowering to be worn during the day, <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(although like, what I wear in the day is probably more than most of you want or need even on a night...bad times) </span>I love how this colour looks alone, when worn with a neutral matte shade on the lid, it's buildable and easy to blend with my old faithful cheapo brush, and/or my finger.<br />
Yezzurr.<br />
Together, the two colours beautifully complement each other; the pink shade warms up the brown-black shade beautifully when blended together through the edge of the lid and crease, and creates a look I've been really enjoying.<br />
The glitter is equally subtle, meaning it's perfect for daily wear, and the fallout is minor. I really like how one shade has silver glitter and the other has gold. Now, normally my OCD would be screaming 'HELLLLLL TO ZE FRICKIN' NO', but on this occasion I quite like the contrast; it's not too obvious on the eyes and, well, it's just pure prettiness!<br />
The packaging tells us that the shadow can also be used wet, and while this makes very little difference to the colour, the glitter seems to double in impact and sheen, and really dazzles!<br />
Longevity-wise, this lasted all day including a gym session on my eyes, and while the pink faded slightly, the darker colour stayed put and perfect all day, 5km run in the rain included!<br />
Reeeeeeesult.</div>
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Overall, I'm so happy with my first KIKO product, and guess what you little lovelies?<br />
THERE'S PLENTY MORE WHERE THIS CAME FROM!!<br />
Oooh, the suspense, I can hear your little hearts racing in anticipation...<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I don't blame you, mine would be too</span>.<br />
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Anyhoo, all racing hearts aside, it's now getting on for my bedtime.<br />
Yet again I'm up all late and busy, making my black holes even larger and more pronounced.<br />
I apologise in advance if the weather is especially naff tomorrow.<br />
It's highly likely that my black holes, (of the none-pretty-eyeshadow variety) will have grown so large they will have become self-aware, Terminator style, therefore gaining the sense of hunger and swallowing up our sun, solar system, and almost certainly terminating what is left of the panda population.<br />
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I shall be a lone panda.<br />
All alone.<br />
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Probably locked up in a zoo, being paraded to the world as a star attraction, given no more than one stick of bamboo a day, and most likely not being provided with any KIKO goodness to at least beautify my darkened eyes...<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">If I'm not swallowed up myself that is.</span><br />
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Leopards wouldn't have this problem now would they?<br />
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<i>I've got a new red lipstick, and it's extra gorgeous.</i></div>
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<i>The red shades of the species are more deadly than the nudes.</i>"</div>
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Okay so that was bad, really bad.</div>
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My new lipstick is holding my sanity hostage and I've fallen head over heels.</div>
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It seems, old Thatcher was wrong.</div>
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This lady has been turned.</div>
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'But Holly, who is she?' I hear you ask.</div>
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'Who is the darling who has stolen your heart?'</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">('And who is looking like having you appearing on one of those freakish TV shows where people have disturbing relationships with like cars and stuff'')</span></div>
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Just one wear and then you'll be at her command,</div>
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She's small, smooth, sleek and all suited up in black,</div>
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Christmas Day was a good day you guys, I mean not only did I sample copious amounts of my grandmas awesome culinary skills, but something of a small dream of mine came true.</div>
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See for the last few <strike>months</strike> years, I've had a lipstick craving so large it could conquer the Boots counter...</div>
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It's just the most perfect tomato red - so perfect that it can be worn with anything, and at any time of year,<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span>thanks to the subtle orange tones which distinguish it from its blue toned 'Ruby Woo' and 'Russian Red' counterparts. </div>
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Since I refused to take off an old Harry Potter one, (apart from to have a shower because like, it totally would naaat have withstood the water and I loved it too much to let such a tragedy occur) and subsequently ended up with a fairly severe reaction and weird dry patch of skin where it had been.</div>
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I had planned to spend my imaginary money in the Christmas sales treating myself to said tick-tock-loving, but as though listening in to my thoughts, (in a non-creepy way) an email from American website 'Born Pretty Store' popped into my inbox...</div>
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After a bit of research and lots of 'oooooh's and 'aaaah's at the various <a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/wrist-watches-c-430_433.html" target="_blank">wrist</a> and <a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/bracelet-watches-c-430_428.html" target="_blank">bracelet watches</a>, (oh and <a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/iphone-cases-c-305_280.html" target="_blank">iPhone 4/4S cases</a> because good god I need a new one!) I decided that there was just one I couldn't get out of my head...</div>
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A couple of weeks later and a gorgeous little package arrived at my house, containing what must be one of the most gorgeous watches I have ever seen! </div>
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The watch I was kindly sent is *deep breaths you guys* LEOPARD PRINT!!</div>
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Now oh my frickin' gosh, me being the leopard print fiend I am, just imagine my face upon seeing this.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">It was like when Simon Cowell first put One Direction together all over again.</span></div>
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I know it's the wrong big cat, but I almost deemed it necessary to go to the nearest hill and introduce my new watch to the world, Simba style, screaming 'Naaaaaaants Ingonyaaaaaama Bagithi Baba' at the top of my voice, and having all of Huddersfield gaze at my shiny new wrist-wear in admiration.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm reliably informed that this translates as 'Here Comes a Lion, Father'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Totes need to find out the word for 'leopard' instead, but whatev's.</span></div>
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The watch itself is very large, with a chunky faux leather strap, (a little stiff at first but after a couple of wears it feels much more comfortable) and a beautiful curved glass face with a leopard design. The buckle is rose gold, as is the detailing around the face, which is then ordained with sparkly rhinestones to, (if possible) make this watch even more beautiful!</div>
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Overall I have to say I am SOOOO happy with this watch, and 'Born Pretty Store' in every way, it was probably a bit too close to Christmas when I received my watch for me to say it, but if you're on a budget and still want to impress, these watches would make amazing gifts!</div>
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Now just when you thought the lovelies at '<a href="http://www.bornprettystore.com/" target="_blank">Born Pretty Store</a>' couldn't get any more generous, they're also kindly offering a 10% off discount code for all you little beauties, if you type in <b>HOLLYGC10 </b>when purchasing - yeyy!!<br />
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I'm looking forward to wearing my gorgeous leopard print beauty, and, well, embracing my inner cat, magpie, and ermm...weird monkey thing on the hill as I show it off to all of Huddersfield, 'Lion King' style.</div>
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I insist on buying and wearing stuff which shows off half my midriff and/or clings to me unnecessarily, and then go on to consume double my body weight in food, and most likely complain at being cold.</div>
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Clever girl I am.</div>
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Then again it's Christmas and if I can't dress up a little bit, knowing my mum will have her camera out at every given opportunity, then when can I?</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Apologies mum, I actually don't remember you getting your camera out at all yesterday...either that or my Christmas Day camera evasion skills are finally working...</span></div>
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Tartan Midi Skirt - <a href="http://www.karmaclothing.co.uk/karmaclothing-red-tartan-elasticated-waistband-midi-skirt-p4433" target="_blank">Karma Clothing £7.99</a></div>
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Black Crop Top - <a href="http://www.karmaclothing.co.uk/clothing-c1/vests-c9/t-shirts-c10/karmaclothing-cream-turtle-polo-neck-mini-crop-vest-p576" target="_blank">Karma Clothing £4.99 (other colours here)</a></div>
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Pointed Black Wedges - <a href="http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASOS-PARAMOUNT-Pointed-Wedges-size-uk-6-/111226331420?pt=UK_Women_s_Shoes&hash=item19e59b211c" target="_blank">ASOS/eBay £10 (other seller here!)</a></div>
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The thing is, getting my hands on this midriff and internal organ baring outfit was no mean feat. </div>
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How much do you hate it when you attempt to add something pretty to your basket, only for your laptop to laugh maliciously back in your face that the item you covet is 'out of stock', like some evil Grinch-like-Gremlin hell-bent on spoiling your Christmas outfit?</div>
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Well I'm pretty sure ASOS, Missguided, Boohoo, everywhere, was infected with a bug this month, a bug called 'human-population-all-following-same-trends', and therefore the tartan midi skirts of the online world had been somewhat decimated, rainforest style.</div>
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Mm-hmm seriously, I blame you guys.</div>
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I love you, but this is totes your fault.</div>
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It's probably you guys hiring out those diggers and destroying the Amazonian jungles of South America.</div>
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Wearing your stoopid, fancy, tartan skirts at the same time.</div>
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Even your hard hats are various shades of tartan and most probably even fur lined.</div>
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Trend deniers.</div>
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Denying me the latest trends since 2013.</div>
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I thought all hope was lost; I'd even trawled through weeks of Jess from <a href="http://www.copper-garden.co.uk/" target="_blank">'Copper Garden'</a>s posts in search of a link to the tartan skirt which was my inspiration.</div>
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Sadly it seemed the steamrollers had already reached their stock...</div>
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<i>'I shall never look as stylish as Jess, nor will I have clothes on Christmas Day.'</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> I feared for my poor grandmas eyes, and hoped she had enough snowman-covered napkins to spare my dignity.</span></div>
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Thankfully, a Google search of desperation lead me to Karma Clothing, which I've heard of but not bought from before, and to the skirt that saved my sanity!</div>
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I wasted no time, I feared that the steamrollers were stalking me and would soon be on my back, ridding the store of it's stock before I could even select a size!</div>
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This time though, I won!</div>
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And the £7.99 bargain beauty that is this skirt, was MINEEEE :D</div>
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With next day delivery it even arrived in time for me to wear it out for curry with my bestie...</div>
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Again, cold night and food baby -I really do never learn.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Screw my cold kidneys - I'll get my wear out of it now damn it!</span></div>
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A moment if you please, for my shoes.</div>
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They were an eBay (originally ASOS) bargain, and I snapped them up, brand new and boxed, for £10 including postage.</div>
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Then I'd collect all your amazing skirts and like, just wear them all.</div>
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I'm not dead.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Which would be totally cool 'cos like I'd be a ghost with the ability to touch actual objects such as my laptop and not have my hand go straight through the keys.</span></div>
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I've simply been absent without leave.</div>
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A blogging rebel who has just been, well, busy.</div>
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Don't worry it's not just you, my Christmas dec's aren't even fully up, and don't even get me started on the disaster that is my Christmas cards.</div>
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A possibly better fib would have been to tell you that this blog post was coming to you from the golden desert sands of Morocco.</div>
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Now all laptop-balanced-on-camel-hump issues aside, it's my hair that really drives me nuts.</div>
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Luckily for me, the people behind <a href="http://www.amazinghair.co.uk/" target="_blank">amazinghair.co.uk</a> had heard my plight and kindly sent me some 'MoroccanOil'*, so I could continue my Sherzy Hair Quest...</div>
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I've heard a ton about 'MoroccanOil' in the past and with most of it being 100% positive, boy was I excited to get my hands (or hair strands?) on it!</div>
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I use 'Argania Hair Oil' normally after washing my hair, but with quite a considerable price difference for the full sized products, ('MoroccanOil' being literally double the price) I was interested to see how the two compared; given that I love my Argan Oil, my new little blue labelled Moroccan friend had a challenge ahead!</div>
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'MoroccanOil' can be used as a conditioning product as well as a styling tool, and claims to transform and repair hair using proteins, vitamins, and antioxidants which help for shine, protection, and even drying time. </div>
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To use, I pour a teeny tiny amount of 'MoroccanOil', (I'd say pea sized, because a little goes a long way, but I probably use a double-pea sized amount, 'cos I've got a fair bit of hair, innit?) into the palm of my hand and rub together before running my palms and fingers through my hair, concentrating on the lengths - <span style="font-size: xx-small;">ain't nobody got time for silky roots maynnnn we need 'em BIG </span>- I like to do this when my hair is damp, but it can be used when dry.</div>
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Now I'm not gonna lie to you - the results are instantaneous! </div>
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My hair can look a bit on the frizzy side - especially after washing, and this just smooths everything all out, adding shine literally as soon as it's applied! </div>
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My hair is manageable and my brush glides through it more easily, my ends are tamed and although I doubt they really have been 'repaired', I can't see any visible split ends - YEAHHHHH MAN!! </div>
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Now I love my hair to have volume and I'll be honest, it's not gonna make your hair look huge or Cheryl Cole-esque. I imagine if you went overboard and applied too much it would be very flat indeed, and probably a bit on the greasy side, so err...just don't.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">God damn it I'm finally on my way to achieving hair sanctuary!</span></div>
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My hair isn't weighed down, and the smell is pleasant, and doesn't linger in the hair; I can still smell the strawberries of my shampoo, mmm.</div>
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As mad as it sounds I genuinely believe the claim that drying time improves too; I normally leave my hair to dry naturally and the time taken to dry from being damp and applying this, to being fully dry is definitely improved!</div>
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Overall I am mightily impressed - my hair looks and feels better than it has done since, well, birth, and I absolutely love my little blue labelled wonder bottle!</div>
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As far as the comparison between my 'Argania Hair Oil' and 'MoroccanOil' goes, they're reasonably similar - I'd say the Argania version could qualify as a decent dupe, but just lacks that extra bit of 'something' that justifies the doubled price tag.</div>
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I'm hoping that because such a little goes a long way, my bottle will last me long enough to save up some pennies for another bottle - and I'm a <strike>cheapo</strike> bargain hunter so y'all know this stuff is good!!</div>
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Right, it's time for me to get going, ironically I need a shower and to wash my hair - meaning it's 'MoroccanOil' time again oh yeahh.</div>
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Thankfully the only graveyard action really in this post comes from my hair being in Hair Heaven, (du-dum-dum-chhhh) and feeling more than a bit lovely.</div>
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It's been a long road to recovery for this mop on my head, but I genuinely believe I'm almost there, with 'MoroccanOil' as my new guardian angel :)</div>
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You can buy your own little blue labelled beauty in the form of 'Moroccan Oil' here from <a href="http://www.amazinghair.co.uk/" target="_blank">Amazing Hair</a>, and have your own bottle of guardian angel goodness.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">I'm sharing the loveage ;)</span></div>
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It's almost as good as I imagine a holiday to Morocco would be right now.</div>
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Sat on a sun lounger (or a camel, whatev's) with a pot of Moroccan Spiced houmous and pitta bread, (or to be honest just a spoon will do) with my silky new locks flowing lavishly around my shoulders in something of a L'Oreal moment...</div>
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I can almost smell the tagine.</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">*Mum, I'm lying, they're all done I swear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Apart from that you know I've left them at your house.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Love you.</span></div>
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