The Pale Skin Edit No. 1|Foundation

I personally like a foundation that is the correct colour for my skin. I have struggled for years to find the perfect foundation and i will admit even to this day i struggle. Within the Pale Skin Edit i will be updating you on my favourite items for pale skin...they may not work for you personally but for my skin they work, first lets talk about the base product, the foundation.

Well lets just say 9 times out of 10 you will have to avoid the drugstore and head to the high end shops to purchase a foundation which is no doubt more than £20. Frustrating i know, but it is better than not being colour matched and wearing a foundation that makes you look orange...unless that is what you like, then go for it. 

The Modern Renaissance Palette Review

I have been trying to get my hands on the latest Anastasia Beverly Hills palette for some time now, and it finally came back into stock on the Cult Beauty website. The price of the Modern Renaissance Palette is £41.00, a little pricey but you are getting 14 eyeshadows for that price, that is about £3 an eyeshadow. Although i will mention that the weight of each eyeshadow is less than usual. 

The colour combination is the perfect, the palette consists of warm eyeshadows, 11 matte shades and 3 metallic shadows, all of which go together beautifully. It is a versatile palette perfect for creating day to evening makeup looks.

The Struggles of the Drugstore Concealer

Does anyone else walk into Boots or Superdrug wanting that one concealer all the beauty bloggers are talking about? You go and swatch it on the back on your hand, and oh wait as per usual it is too dark for your skin and yet you swatched the lightest shade!

Now this happens to me on an occasional basis and it frustrates me so much. I mean, how hard is it for drugstore brands to bring out a concealer that is light enough for us pale people out there? 

Do not get me wrong, i have found a few which just about match my skin tone, but what if i want to do what everyone else does and buy a concealer a shade lighter so I can make my under eyes pop?

Now i would say i have tried probably nearly all drugstore concealers and had no luck for my skin, so I tend to steer clear of them and use high end concealers which cost double the price...but a girls got to cover those under eye circles.

I think the lightest drugstore concealer i have found has got to be the Collection lasting perfecting concealer (Fair 1). Of course the issue with this concealer is if you have dry under eyes or do not like full coverage under your eyes like i do then steer clear, as it will cake on you. It is an amazing concealer for spot covering but under my eyes it is just a disaster. 

The second drugstore concealer that is maybe a little too dark for my skin tone but i can sometimes just about get away with it is the Rimmel London Wake me up concealer (010 Ivory). I love this concealer it does what it says on the bottle, but again their lightest shade is a little too dark on my skin tone and my under eyes look orange compared to the rest of my face.

The third drugstore concealer which you would have all heard about and no doubt all went out and brought is the Maybelline Instant Anti-Age the eraser eye (Light). Great concealer again, but i wouldn't dare use it unless i had a tan, because yet again if i use this i get those lovely orange under eyes which does not look good. 

I Disappeared...

So I have not posted on this blog for an extremely long time...

Lets just say university life got tougher...that is what happens when you get into your third year of university. You become a hermit crab living under a rock within the IT suite with your best friend. I think I spent the majority of my life eating, writing and nearly crying in our university IT suite in the final weeks before my dissertation was due. But I can say my hard work paid off and I finished university in June! 

It is now January 2017...I still had 6 months where I was MIA. Long story short I forgot, my life has been like a rollercoaster. I spent a few weeks during summer in America forgetting about the worries of finding an actual job which related to my degree and having well earned fun. Then it was the panic of 'shit did I actually pass my degree or have a failed'. It was the longest wait of the summer....but I bloody did it and graduated back in November with a 2:1 (does a little dance to celebrate). Oh and not forgetting I had an amazing holiday in Holland with my boyfriend back in October. 

So long story cut short basically I was stressed at university...so forgot, then I had an amazing summer...so forgot and then I graduated...

Oh crap wait rewind...I graduated! That means surely I should have a proper job in the adult world, I mean that is what I got myself into £35,000 worth of dept right? Well no...I gradated, I am in masses of dept which no doubt will never get paid off and yet I am still working the same job I had before I went to university. Why? Because graduating from university does not guarantee you a job. I must say I haven't applied to thousands but i've applied to a fair few and not many actually have anything to do with my degree. Right now I am just trying to find my footings in the vast adult world. 

However, in retrospect I gained a few life experiences, people will steal your food and there really isn't much you can do about it. I have made some amazing lifelong friends and for the most part it was fun...but university is a bit like a rollercoaster, it is never smooth sailing! You make friends, you may lose friends, but most of all you realise who you are. 

So disappearing act explained...I am back.