Paris!

In March I went to Paris and I deffo left my heart there! I miss it so much ! If you've not been you NEED to go! I took this picture on our last day. I look at this picture everyday. I had the most amazing time! This is my favourite picture from the trip! ❤️❤️❤️

I'm going to London in October so I will blog that more! But I just wanted to share this picture if you'd like to see more pictures from my trip to Paris comment down below!

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Makeup

On Tuesday night me and my boyfriend went watching Pharrell and this was my makeup for it! I went for a quite smokey look with a darker shade all over the lid with warm colours in the crease! 
   Through my brows I used my Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow in Chocolate, to highlight my brow bone I used Prolongwear concealer in NC20 and Gesso Shadow from MAC.  I primed my lid using Soft Ocher Paintpot by mac. I always use a Paintpot to prime my eyes!  So for my eyes I started off using Orange Soda from the ABH Lavish Palette to blend then I used Caramel and Morocco from the Amrezy Palette to deepen the crease! I spend a lot of time blending to make sure each colour blends perfectly in to the other! 
On my lid I packed on Swiss Chocolate by 
Mac this is one of my favourite brown shades ever! I used it from inner corner to outer corner! Over the top of it I used Damson Pressed Pigment, this product was limited edition but it's just a really dark purple with gold glitter, you could use any gold glitter! Lastly I repeated all the shades on top of my eye under my lash line, I used Orange Soda, Caramel, Morocco and Swiss Chocolate and blended it out. I used Eldora lashes in the style H160! These lashes are amazing one of my favourite styles! 
On my lips I have Spice Lip liner and Myth lipstick both by MAC! 

If there is anything I haven't mentioned in this picture that you would like to know just comment down below! Follow my Instagram for daily posts! @ellietaylorrxx 
Thank you!
Ellie x

Lipstick collection

My makeup collection is very big and it's still growing! I have drawers full of skincare, face products, eye products and then lip products. Now if you know me or follow me on Instagram you will know how much of a lip ADDICT I am. I love buying lipsticks, lipgloss, lipliner! Just anything lip related. My lip draw has to be my favourite even though it's a big mess, I just love the chaos of this draw! 

My lip draw.

This draw is as full as full can be! I just love it! There's 2 acrylic lipstick holders which I got from ebay, these used to originally hold all of my mac lipsticks, but then my collection got too big so it had to be moved! These acrylic holders hold 24 lipsticks each. The first one is full of my more 'high end' lipsticks like Tom Ford, Chanel, YSL, Dior, Armarni, Charlotte Tilbury, Nars and there's some Illamasqua lipsticks in there aswell as an Urban Decay one.  The one behind that holds a mixture of high end and drugstore brands such as NYX, Bobbi Brown, Lime Crime, Smashbox, Bare Minerals, Make Up For Ever and some Mac Sheen Supremes.  Next to the lipstick holders is the big mess of my lipglosses! I have so many lipglosses and I don't even realise! The ones either side of my lip liners look a lot tidier than the bigger one in the back! The little basket things they're in are from IKEA, everything in my makeup drawers are kept in these little baskets! It's funny looking at my lipglosses because there all nude & peach! I love a nude lip and if i'm ever going to try out a new product I always purchase it in a nude or a peach because they are my 'safe' colours and wear them near enough everyday! Most of my lipglosses are mac as I work there! But there's also some Bobbi Brown, NYX, Illamasqua & Bare Minerals. The basket in the back holds my most used lipglosses, there's some Gerard Cosmetics, Urban Decay, Too Faced, Chanel, Dior, YSL & Nars to name a few! Some of my Favourites include the Dior Addict Fluid Sticks, I have these in the shades 239 & 219 and I love these! They stay glossy and on your lips all day! I love my Gerard Cosmetic glosses there so pigmented and creamy. I am also a fan of the YSL Glossy Stains these are sheerer than the Dior Fluid Sticks but they leave a stain/tint on the lip and stay super glossy!  The last thing to talk about in this draw are my lip liners. I cannot wear a lipstick/lipgloss without one! I have SO many! Mac are my favourites for lipliner because there are so many colours to choose from! My favourite lipliner from Mac is Stripdown it may be my all time favourite lipliner! Other than Mac lip liners I have Topshop (these are amazing and creamy! Just not as long wearing as a mac lipliner) Sephora, NYX (amazing lip liners!) Bare Minerals (another favourite of mine) Nars & Model Co. and more!  My Mac lipstick collection isn't kept in this draw as it got soooo big it needed its own set of drawers...
   

So this is my mac lipstick collection
It's embarrassing how many I actually own! In these draws I have 112 mac lipsticks! I know i'm obsessed! I can't resist when A limited edition collection comes out, the first thing I look at is the lipsticks, it's even better if there in limited edition packaging! Some of my favourite packaging this year has been the Alluring Aquatics collection, it was metallic turquoise with 3D water droplets! It was so cute!  All of my lipsticks are in colour order, so when I buy a new on they all get moved around so the new one can fit it! I sometimes take a picture of them all lined up with there lids off but now I only do it when there's quite a few new lipsticks going in because it takes sooooo long to take all the lids off and put them back on! These are my babies, my pride and joy! I love love love when I buy a new lipstick and it goes in here. I know it's a weird addiction but I love it! I love how it looks and it's definitely my favourite thing in my room and my makeup collection! 

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Thank you
Ellie x

Anastasia Beverly Hills

So I was lucky enough to receive an amazing parcel off Anastasia Beverly Hills yesterday full of lots of amazing products! I'm already a huge fan of Anastasia's products including the Dipbrow, eyeshadows and Contour Kit so when this parcel came I was so excited to try more products from the amazing range!!




In this parcel I received 3 Dipbrows in the shades Soft Brown, Medium Brown and Dark Brown. I already use the Dipbrow in Chocolate so I know I love this product already! I also received the Brow Pro Palette this is so amazing! It has every brow shade you will ever need in it, it's a must have for any freelance kit! They also sent me the Brow Wiz in Soft Brown, Brunette and Chocolate, I've never used these but I really wanted to so i'm excited to try these out! I was also sent the Clear Brow Gel, I've heard lots of good things about the product and it didn't disappoint, I really want to try the tinted ones now I've tried this! In the parcel I also received the new Waterproof Creme Colour in Jet which is a black gel eyeliner, it's amazing it does not budge! I also received the Contour Kit which I already know I love! This product was hyped up to the max and it's worth the hype! The shades are so perfect! Anastasia has brought out 27 new contour and highlight shades that you can now create a palette and choose the shades to go in to it, you can purchase the contour refill pans at Anastasiabeverlyhills.com. I really want to try out the new shades and see what they are like! I was also sent the brushes in 12 (synthetic angled brow brush with a comb on) and 3 which is a liner brush and also the tweezers! If you've been wondering about these products and if you should try them out the answer is definitely! These products are so high quality and a little goes a long way! 

I'm so lucky to have received this parcel and I want to say a huge thank you to the girls at Anastasia Beverly Hills for sending me all of these amazing products to try! I'm looking forward to seeing what new products this amazing company brings out in the future! 

Where I buy Anastasia products in the UK: www.cultbeauty.co.uk

Also on www.beautybay.com

You can also buy www.anastasiabeverlyhills.com they ship worldwide

Hope this helped!

Ellie x

Some of my favourite hauls from this summer!

Confessions of a shopaholic

I buy a lot of makeup I know I do, everyone is always telling me how much of a shopaholic I am, and I know I am, i'm a self confessed shopaholic. I must buy new makeup every day or at least every other day. There's always a parcel waiting at my house and it makes me happy! Everyone always tells me 'you buy too much makeup!' And I really don't care, shopping/buying makeup makes me happy! Getting a new highlighter or new lipstick can brighten any bad day! I don't buy anything other than makeup (and black clothes for work!) If you get the same joy opening up your new makeup your in the right place!

Ellie x

MAC Alluring Aquatic collection

The new Alluring Aquatic collection launched on Thursday at MAC and I just love it! This is my collection. I got all 5 of the lipsticks, 1 gloss an extra dimension bronzer and the 127 split fibre brush. 

First let's talk about the packaging. It's just amazing. It's metallic turquoise with little water droplets on, the water drops are 3D I'd say, the packaging is bumpy to make it look like it's been splashed. This is probably some of my favourite packaging! 

So the 'Extra Dimension Bronzer' are a new thing for MAC they did the highlighters but for this collection they changed it up. There are 2 of these in the collection I got the lighter of the two, it's called Aphrodite's Shell. It's a warm golden colour with more of a pearlized glow finish rather than a glittery shimmery finish it's really pretty and such a nice soft colour. The 127 Split Fibre Brush is a new brush for this collection made up of half natural fibres and half synthetic fibres. This brush is SO soft! Probably the softest brush I've felt. It's not a rounded edge brush like the 129 powder brush each side is flat and they meet at the top in a flat point, it's a really nice brush and it comes in the turquoise colour to stick with the theme. (there is a split fibre eyeshadow brush that also came out with this collection) 

Now to my favourite MAC products, as you soon will learn, the lipsticks, from Left to Right the first one is Siren Song and it's a lustre finish it's a champagne goldy colour it's quite pale and sheer most peoples reaction is yuck but this one is so beautiful, on its own it can wash the face out but with a browny/pink toned lipliner this lipstick is beautiful! The next is Pet Me Please, this is a frost finish. I was never a huge frost fan until this collection launched it was all about metallic and glossy, it's a pink tone silver I'd say, it looks 10x better with a gloss over (which is the gloss I bought but will talk about it later). Next is Enchanted One, when we first saw this lipstick a month ago we knew this would be the one everyone wanted, it's the only matte in the collection it's a warm brown nudey colour it's very similar to MAC Cosy Up and MAC Kinda Sexy, it's such a nice lipstick it was the first to sell out online! The next two are Mystical which is a mid-tone creamy rose colour and Goddess of The Sea which is a darkish purple colour these two are both Creamsheen finishes and leave a slight hint of colour on the lips after the shine has gone. All the lipsticks in the collection are so nice and so different! I would defiantly recommend them and the packaging is AMAZE!

The last thing to talk about is the gloss. This gloss is beautiful it's called Water Deities. It's a pinky colour and it's got a beautiful shimmer. I would never usually wear a shimmery lipgloss or a frost lipstick but this gloss over the lipstick Pet Me Please is just so amazing! It makes your lips into a metallic pinky silver it's beautiful! It's so nice on its own also, I'd wear it with a lipliner personally but it's so pretty! There are 5 lipglass' in the collection and they are all beautiful but this one was my favourite! 

I hope you liked this post and hopefully it helped you!

Ellie x