Products to use up in 2015 -- Part 2 --

I have a serious obsession with lip products! I own a total of 23 items! This is stupid because I rarely wear lip stick.. more like I feel over the top if I wore one to labs since no one around me is wearing one. Despite that, I seem to have accumulated some colourful ones that I have no idea how to use up but I shall try my best.

Similarly to my part 1, I have a full list of the products and have highlighted the one to finish this year!

Lip care products

• Etre belle liplift peel
• Vaseline cocoa butter
• Lip smacker strawberry
• the Body Shop Mango lip butter

Chubby sticks

• Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain (01)
• Revlon Matte Balm (225 Sultry)
•                                  (230 Complex)
•                                  (245 Audacious)
• Bourjois Color boost (01 Red Sunrise)
• Clinique Chubby stick (07 Super Strawberry) - sample

Lip Gloss

• Tanya Burr lip gloss (Champagne toast)
•                                   (Afternoon tea)
•                                   (Aurora)
• L'oreal Glam Shine Stain Splash (101 Lolita)
• Burt's Bees lip shine (050 Pucker)

Lip Stick

• Rimmel Moisture Renew (180 Vintage Pink)
• Rimmel Lasting Finish lipstick (206 Nude Pink)
• Maybelline Colorsansation (710 Sultry Snad)
• Revlon lip butter (027 Juicy Papaya)
• L'oreal Color Riche (461 Scarlett Cream)
• Kiko Lustrous Cream Lipstick (505 Dark Tea Rose)
• Kiko Velvet Mat-Satin lipstick (611 Autumn Pink)

Others

• Revlon Moisture Stain (030 Milan Moment)
• Rimmel Apocalips lacquer (101 Celestial)

Products to use up in 2015 -- Part 1 --

2014 has been the year that I truly found my passion for make up. The hours spent watching beauty related YouTube videos increased exponentially in a very unhealthy manner... Anyway, due to that my beauty stash has significantly increased to an unnecessary level. To be honest, I don't think it is a big collection but as a student with a tight budget, I would like to refrain myself from doing unnecessary make up purchases for this year. (and get the most of my money already spent!)
Inspired by megsmakeup8 and other YouTubers doing various projects like 'Project use it up 2015' or 'Project Pan 2015', I have decided to list down my aims here on my blog. I have listed all the make up I own and have highlighted the ones that I aim to finish this year!

My complete make up stash (minus lip product)

Products to work on this year!

Primer

• Maybelline Baby skin instant pore eraser - full + sample
• Bourjois Happy light base serum lumiere
• laura mercier foundation primer

Foundation

• Rimmel BB cream Matte (light) - sample
• Bourjois Healthy mix serum (51 light vanilla)
• L'oreal Nude Magique CC cream (anti-redness)
• Maybelline pure. BB Mineral BB watergel (01 natural beige)
• Maybelline Dream Matte mousse (010 ivory)
• Max Factor X Skin Luminizer foundation - sample

Powder

• Rimmel Stay Matte (004 sandstorm)

My first every time to hit pan on powders! so excited to finish this!!

Blusher

• Sleek Blush By 3 (369 Pink lemonade)
• Excel gradation cheek (apricot peach)
• Bourjois cream Blush (02) 
• Bellapierre Coral cheek&lip stain

Bronzer

• Bourjois Bronzing Powder
• Collection Bronze Glow Mosaic Powder (2 Radiant)
• Lacura Compact Powder (30 sun) (this is far too dark for me so I'm using it as a bronzer)

Highlighter

• Topshop Highlighter Horizon

Concealer

• Collection lasting perfection (2 cool medium) x2
• The Body Shop concealer stick (01)

Eyeliner

• Rimmel Scandeleyes waterproof (Black and Nude)
• Lollipops Long lasting Eyes pencil 701 (Black)
• L'oreal Color Riche Le Khol 120 immaculate snow (White)
• Revlon colorstay liquid eye pen (Black)
• Company eyeliner (Liquid Black)
• Eyeko Skinny liquid eyeliner (Navy)
• Maybelline lasting drama gel eyeliner (Black) - hit Pan

Brow

• Rimmel pro. eyebrow pencil (004 black brown)
• L'oreal Brow Artist Plumper
• Sana Powerstyle liquid brow pen 

Mascara

• So Susan flutter mascara
• Bourjois Volume 1 sec mascara
• L'oreal Volume Million Lashes So Couture So Black

Eyeshadow

• Maybelline dream mousse eyecolor (10 caramel Karma)
• Fasio double dazling eyes (C-2) (daiso Japan)
• elpha Pearl in Eyeshadow (C) (daiso Japan)
• MeMeMe Elegandt eyes trio (02)
• Maybelline Eyestudio diamond glow (22 Bronze Drama)
• FAKE! Urbandecay Naked original (very sad that I found this out! Pan as much as possible!)
• the Balm Nude'tude
• Sleek del mar 449 
• Urbandecay (probably fake but it actually works!) shadow primer potion

Lip products and all the other skincare & body care products to follow!

 

 

Road trip to the Swiss Alps --Part 2--

so this is the continuation of my trip in the Swiss Alps that was meant to be done during the Summer 2014. Yes I know its super late but this was one of the reason for starting my blog in the first place, I probably should finish off.

This part includes my three night stay in Interlaken. I was going to include all the routes taken but I seem to have thrown away all the paper and maps when I did the end of year clear out so here are some photos from the three days

Day 3
The morning started off looking muggy.

But we decided to go up the mountain anyway because you didn't want to waste any time while you were there right!? anyway it was my first time seeing glacier so close so it was very powering!

A coffee break was in order here!

The weather brightened up over the course of the day so we enjoyed Kouglehopf - a special cake of Alsace - 

Day 4
It was a gorgeous day so we went up Jungfraujoch (the highest railway station in Europe at 3454m. At the station there was a whole route round to the view point, summer skiing and an ice exhibition. Since it was so high, we started to get dizzy so we had to rush down. Having had a rest at a beautiful restaurant, we spent the day hiking down the mountain and I suddenly became a photographer for the day! Here are some small selection of the photos. It really was the most beautiful day!

Day 5
Unfortunately it was yet another muggy day and also the moving day to our next destination, Saas-Grund. We were hoping to go on a short hiking route but considering the weather, we did a train journey round before we left Interlaken.

Right! This was my adventure in Interlaken. It will be Saas-Grund next!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!
Feeling refreshed and ready to start a brand new year! (That's the spirit I want to be in but I've had a pretty lazy morning so far...)
So, to kick start this Year, I would like to make my new years resolution. This year is pretty special for me and I sense it is going to be quite a tough one. Firstly, it is the first time in a long while that I am making these New Years resolutions because as a child, I found myself not sticking to any of the unreasonable targets I make myself, hence felt pretty pointless making resolutions that I'm not going to follow anyway. Secondly I am graduating from University in June so with this comes the whole issue with that to do with my life after that and getting jobs and the whole shebang. With this in mind I an sure that some changes in myself is necessary to get me through this year and at the end of it fell happy with the outcome. therefore, I resort to making a New Years resolution

In order to make these resolutions I would like to do a quick reflection on 2014. It hasn't been great (academic wise). My final exams at the end of June came out pretty appalling. This being the results of my penultimate year, I am currently in a pretty dire situation. On a happier note, I have got my first ever boyfriend!!! Things I do with him is a first for me so each and every moment together has been a special one.
Returning to my academic topic...After moving up to my fourth and master year of my course (my degree is an integrated masters course i.e. I graduate for the first time with a masters qualification) I kept my motivation high to adjust to the new lab based lifestyle and told myself to be almost completely devoted in my research (since I have to spend some time doing my other lecture modules!). .... well, as usual or me, this stayed true for about the first month and I gradually became too comfortable and became my usual lazy self. So for 2015, I would like to utilise this amazing thing called 'To Do LIST' and actually write down what needs done by when and actually STICK TO IT! (need to do this daily! Is it only me who starts off sticking to the plan for Monday and then before I realise it, its already Friday!?)


Second thing is concerning my growing interest in beauty products. 2014 has been the year that I have fully gone into beauty videos on YouTube and have started subscribing to blogs and reading them. I am one of the later ones to get into make up. I never really wore any make up during my school years. I did own the basic sets of make up but never felt confident enough to wear it in public. A combination of learning more about the types of make up and the application techniques through YouTube and also maturing and generally feeling more confident with myself has made me start experimenting more with make up. This is all good and exciting stuff but there was one draw back to this. I started to spend far too much on make up (Well probably not that much but considering my budget and the actual necessity of some of these products, it did add up to unnecessary cost). I shall therefore, note down what I have in all my beauty stash (once I get back to uni) and then shall do 'Project Pan' and ban myself from buying any more products unless it is necessary.

Thirdly its about this blog. I started this blog in the summer of 2014 but have abandoned it since. It was initially to keep a written record of any exciting thing that happened to my life and hopefully to share some of my interests with anyone out there. I have managed to write up the blog posts that I aimed to do with in 2014 (said in the last post) so these are scheduled to come up in the next week whilst I'm away at my ski holiday! As stated in the the previous post, I aim to get at least one post out per week. I have nor yet made specific schedules yet because I shall need to find what works time wise whilst during term time.

I think I will conclude my resolutions here. There are more things that I would like to add to this list such as fitness routine  and losing weight and other things but knowing me I know it isn't realist to put all what I hope to do. It is probably better to stick properly to this main three. I wish the best to any of you who have managed to read this far and please look forward to how my blog and life develops for the course of this year.