Hello!
As we are now officially in the festive period, I think it's time to be doing some Christmassy posts, so this 1st one will be my Festive Beauty Picks. Today I will be explaining the products that I think are most suited to the Festive Season.
I don't use all these products everyday, and do have other Festive products in the same category as some of these, these are just a few examples of what can be used during this season.
1. Bourjois Blush/Bronze in Sienne-85.
The first item on my beauty picks for this season is a bronzer from Bourjois in the shade 85 Sienne. You may think it's quite odd to be wearing bronzer in Winter, but for me I think it's an essential. I have a very pale complexion all the time, but in Winter I just look way too pale for my liking, so wearing a bit of bronzer all round my face tans me up ever-so slightly, and helps to vanish my pasty skin. I switch between this bronzer, and Seventeen Instant glow bronzer during the week, the Bourjois bronzer is a little over-priced for my liking at £7.99 for the amount of bronzer you get, but the little brush does add more value to it. However, my Seventeen bronzer is £4.59 for a larger pot, and just as good but without a brush.
2. Revlon Top Speed Nail Varnish in Ignite.
A red nail varnish is a must have in Winter, especially near Christmas time. My nail varnish is called Ignite and is from the Revlon Top Speed range, it's a very pretty red with some shimmer in which makes it even more perfect for this season. I think any sort of red/gold/neutral colour looks so pretty near Christmas time, obviously other colours do aswell, but these are the main ones that I love the best. I got this nail varnish from Fragrance Direct for 99p, and it was a great buy for such a minimal price, I highly recommend you check out the website and purchase a Revlon nail varnish from there.
3. Soap&Glory Handfood and Vanilla Sugar Foot Lotion.
I'm pretty sure nearly everyone suffers with dry hands during Winter-well I certainly do, but I also get quite dry feet as well which is a little odd, however I have a foot lotion called Vanilla Sugar from BHS, and it's an absolute darling for my feet. I like to apply this to my feet at night-time so that it sinks in throughout the night leaving me with moisturized, and lovely smelling feet in the morning. The hand cream I currently use is Hand Food by Soap&Glory, this also works wonders for me and sinks in very quickly, without leaving my hands feeling greasy or sticky afterwards. Unfortunately, I got the foot lotion ages ago and it's now not on sale any more, but another good foot lotion is Sanctuary Foot polish.
4. Collection 2000 Lasting Colour lipstick in Valentine.
Red lipsticks are worn throughout the whole year-not throughout a particular month, but my favourite time to wear red lipstick is Winter. There are lots of different shades of red worn this season, you have the dark reds to bright red and admittedly I'm more of a bright red girl, but I think any shade looks lovely on anyone. As you may know, Collection 2000 is a rather cheap and cheerful make-up brand than a Mac sort of brand, but their lipsticks are surprisingly good. I got this one for Halloween, and have worn it ever since, because I think it's very good at a very cheap price of £2.99.
5. Calvin Klein blusher in Heather Silk
Not only do I wear bronzer more in Winter, I also sometimes like to change up the bronzer for a deep pink/berry blusher, and this Calvin Klein blusher in Heather Silk meets my expectations dearly. With one very faint sweep of my brush over this blusher, I get a lot of product on my brush-this is quite annoying because I don't always want a full on pink look, but it doesn't bother me too much. I also got this from Fragrance Direct for £2.99 which is great value, and I saved £10 buying it from Fragrance Direct then a Calvin Klein retailer.
6. Urban Decay Naked Palette
My last and final beauty pick for Winter is my Urban Decay Naked Palette. I think all of these colours in the palette suit Winter SO much, all the different tones of browns suit that bronzed/gold look, and the deep black/greys suit the musky, smokey look. I wear the brown tones more because they suit me more in my opinion, and go with my usual makeup for Winter at the moment; red lipstick, bronzed cheeks, winged eyeliner, however it's very easy to create a very pretty Winter look with this palette, because all shades in the same colour range suit eachother. This palette goes out of stock a lot throughout the whole year because it's that popular, but I was lucky enough to get one, full priced, at £37.00-pretty pricey, but worth it.
The colours close up and on skin:
So those were my favourite beauty picks for the Christmas/Winter season, I hope to find more seasonal makeup items, and share them with you!
