PRETTY YOUNG THING

This month I have decided to put together a monthly favourites blog post, I got some goodies for Christmas that i'm loving and a few bits I wanted to show you guys.

First up is my Urban Decay Smokey Palette, I reach for this most days, it's such a great everyday palette and you can create some amazing smokey eyes with it, see my full review here. Next up is this foundation by Loreal, it's their true match super blendable foundation. I've been using this for most of January and i'm loving it. It blends easy and lasts for most of the day, it's a good cheap everyday foundation. Next in beauty is this Loccitane hand cream, it has Almond milk in and just smells amazing, I always use Loccitane hand creams because they are the best and stop my hands from going dry. The Loreal False Lash Sculpt mascara is on offer with the foundation so I picked it up as I needed a new mascara. The wand is really good and you get such long lashes using this, I read loads of mixed reviews on this mascara but I like it, I always use a mascara on top to create more volume but this mascara gives you such amazing length and it's cheap.

I have a few non-beauty favourites aswell. I loved watching Zoella's vlogmas and decided to pick up her novel Girl Online, I couldn't put it down and loved it. I've picked up Girl Online on tour which is next on my list to read. I thought i'd include this marble notebook which I picked up in Urban Outfitters by Oh Deer. I love it so so much and tend you use it for my flat lays rather than writing notes inside because it's so pretty. And finally my Ted Baker coin purse. I fell in love with this is the Selfridges sale but didn't buy it and then 100% regretted not picking it up and then I couldn't find it anywhere as it sold out but then I managed to find one in the sale a few weeks later yay, I love it. It's perfect for my smaller bags and is big enough to keep my cards inside.

Hello 2016, I'm back and blogging again. I had a lovely Christmas and New Year and honestly it was so nice not blogging for a couple of weeks but now i'm back!  I thought i'd start with a review, I know i'm a little bit late to the Smoky palette hype, but I got it for Christmas and i've used it pretty much every day since! And it's as perfect as I thought it would be...

I have all of the Urban Decay Naked palettes and honestly they are so amazing, i'm always raving about them, I always recommend them to my friends, I think they are such great products and I think £38 for 12 shades is so good! I love the Original Naked palette the most because of my colouring browns and neutrals work better, they make me look warmer. Well that was before I got the Smoky Palette, I love it so much! It has everything you need!

The first four shades are shimmery shades, the first colour is a pink shade, 'High' and second is a gold shade 'Dirtysweet', these are gorgeous, such lovely pigments and colour payoff, as I said above this palette has everything! The next two shades are a brown 'Radar' and grey 'Armour', great for a subtle smoky eye, I use these in the crease! The brown looks amazing with the 'Dirtysweet' gold shade.

 'Slanted' is the 5th shade along which is a dark grey, it has a slight shimmer/ glitter, this is a lovely all over colour if your doing a really dark smoky eye or great in the crease for a lighter more subtle smoky eye.

The last 6 shades are more matte, I like using the matte shades to blend out my smoky eye or as an all over base colour. I've been using 'Black Market' loads this is a really dark black shade. ''Whiskey and Combust are neutral tones, a brown and a cream/nude shade, perfect for blending out or a base colour. ' Thirteen' is a perfect white matte shade. I use this on the brow bone to make any smoky eye stand out and pop!

Over all the Naked Smoky palette is amazing!   The shades are great and there's such a variety of shades that you could create so many different looks using this palette. I love the neutral shades in the palette aswell as the grey shades that you would usually associate with a smoky eye! The packaging is gorgeous, this is my favourite packaging out of all of the Naked palettes and the brush is so good! I love the fluffy end its amazing and the other end makes it easy to get into that crease and I love to apply shade along my lower lash line and this brush makes it so so easy!