October favourites

I don't normally do favourite posts as I tend to stick to the same things every month but in October I found a love for so many new things, plus, I just love photographing pictures with leaves in the background so yeah, here goes...

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B L A N K E T   S C A L F.

A blanket scalf is an absolute staple for fall and winter, not only does it keep you toastie but it also turns that plain black dress into a well thought off outfit, well, so people will think anyway!

My one in particular was from primark last year but honestly there are so many nice ones out right now, especially in places like H&M and River Island.

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R A I S A N S

Growimg up I was always that kid that was absolutely disgusted in the fact that my friends had boxes of raisins in their lunch box as a treat, and don't even get me started on how much it upset me finding them in a cookie, but recently I've been absolutely loving them! When I'm nervous I find having something to chew on makes me feel at ease and chewing gum is great and all but then you have to dispose of it after 5 minutes so I've started carrying round a box of raisins with me and yeah that's that.

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V I L L A G E   C A N D L E

I'm 99% sure I've raved about village candle over Yankee candle too many times already so ima just skip over that this time, but if you know, you know.

This one in particular is in the scent vanilla caramel swirl and guys, I literally can't even describe it to you but just know it smells absolutely incredible, it smells like warm food cooking at Christmas and if you are yet to try a village candle, let it be this one!

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K A T Y  P E R R Y
  P U R F U M E

I am unbelivebly picky when it comes to choosing a perfume that won't give me a headache so the fact I've actually nearly used this whole bottle is such a big deal, well to me anyway, but I'm so in love with the scent of the 'killer queen' perfume.

Im not even going to try and describe the scent to you because like honestly, I have no idea but the only other perfume I actually like is Armarni diamonds (the black one) but it's so expensive where as this is around £20 from Superdrug.

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A N A S T A S I A   B R O W   W I Z

This is again another shock product for me as in the past I've found these type of brow pencils impossible to use and was so reluctant to pay £16 for another disappointment but I must say I've actually been loving it, I brought the shades chocolate and dark

Brown as I wasn't sure which would work best and I tend to just mix them together for multi tonal brows.

I brought mine from BeautyBay but I'm sure Cult beauty also stock them!

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So yeah (I've said that so much lately) these are my October favourites which knowing me I'll probably hate next month, let me know in the comments if you've tried any of these products\..things and be sure to let me know what you're favourites was this month! 

Also I just wanted to mention that the next few posts will be Christmas gift guides!

TooFaced Sweet Peach Palette, Honest review.

 

I feel like there was such a big hype over the sweet peach palette that everyone felt they had to give it a good review and rave about it, I managed to get one when they were first released in Debenhams so I thought Its only right I do a completely honest review so when it gets re released people won't just be blind buying it like I did!🐚
* To have a bigger high quality version of any image just click on it*

So first let's talk about the palette itself in basic terms, it was £39 like the other palettes this size and contains 18 shades at 0.03OZ each,. I have to say I'm not really a fan off the too faced tin packaging, I absolutely adore the colours and ombré effect don't get me wrong but I feel the noise and the factory feel off the tin makes me feel like my shades will smash easily...anyone else? haha. I think the colour choices are spot on, there's really not one shade in the palette I wouldn't use and the shades that I normally would steer away from, the help booklet shows a way in which I can use them so for shade choices, it has to be a 10/10.

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Now the palettes USP, the peachy smell🍑 The smell is so strong I can promise you that, I was kind of disappointed with the strength of the chocolate sent in the other palettes but I can defiantly confirm this one smells of peaches, to be honest I think it may even be too strong. I myself don't really like fruity smells so I regrettably have this in the back of my draw to block the scent, and I'm sure I'm not the only one out there that don't like the peachy scent, hopefully on the next palette they will find a kind of middle ground with the scent strength, but then again that could just be me, because I'm damm sure I wouldn't be complaining. If the chocolate scent was this strong hahah!
In case you are unsure the palette is inspired by the peach fruit and not just the colour, hence the few purple toned shades...which I'm not mad at.

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Last but most certainly not least, swatches, I've found with the other palettes there's always one or two shades that are patchy, which yeah I guess you get that with every palette but for £40 you shouldn't be, idk just my opinion! I will swatch a row at a time starting top to bottom twice, I always use urban decay (completely having a mind fizzle and forgot what it's called) primer when doing an eye look so it's only right I do a swatch with a primer base as well, plus I find Too faced shadows tend to worth better with the help of a primer.

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My favourite shade out the whole palette has to be 'summer yum' It's such a diverse colour and in my option is has be best formulae in the palette,  Nector and Just Peachy And are also up there with my faves as well as Bless her heart. 

The colours that don't impress me much (shamelessly sang that as  Shania Twain) are  sadly  Georgia, Talk Derby to me And  Charmed I'm sure, this is because I wasn't happy with the formulae, I think the problem with Georgia is that it is too similar to my skin tone but Talk Derby to me and Charmed are a major disappointment, the shadows were chalky and didn't really show up well at all.

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To make sure I fully tested the product I decided to do an eye look, admittedly not the best as I was being rushed out the door, but enough of one to get a real feel for how the shadows worked, before I started I primed my eye with the Urban Decay primer and then set that with white peach. 

To create this look I  used Summer yum in the crease and then blended a mixture of Charmed I'm sure and caramelized into it, I then put Bless her heart all over the lid and Just peachy in my inner corner, to finish off the look I then softly blended a small amount of tempting into my outer V and White peach under my brow bone.  

I found that the shadows blended nicely, especially summer yum and I would say the pigmentation on the eye matches the swatches, which is quite surmising as usually you find it magically disappears!

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V E R D I C T .

If I tried it in store before hand would I still buy it? Ahh honestly I probably would purely for the fact it's a raved about limited edition product and I have no self restraint, but if I wasn't a makeup hoarder than I'd have to say no, it's not that the palette is bad, not at all, I just think (and this is a very personal review) that if I got to smell it before hand, combined with the one or two patchy shades and the tin packaging than I'd rather buy another palette with similar shades. 

Also before I finish I kind of just wanted to ask if anyone else is a bit salty about the fact they're re releasing this as a non limited edition palette? idk, I just think that the amount of time and effort people put into getting this palette as then being so happy as it was limited edition that its kind of rude for them to just bring it back out.. but then would I be saying this if I didn't get the palette? share with me your opinions!

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Let me know what you think in the comments and if you managed to get the palette first time round and what you think of it!