As you may or may not know, I have recently been to US of A, to the most magical place on the earth Disneyworld! The boy took me to Orlando Florida as a present for my 21st birthday - I know he is a keeper right!?
Since being back from Florida, I have become slightly addicted to all things American, my make up bag is filled to the brim with things from across the pond, completely overtaking all my old products from good old Blighty!
The second day I was over there was a day we solely allocated to one of my favorite past times shopping! We started off in the premium outlets on I-Drive (international drive for those of you who are not as obsessed as me ha), I was really excited about this mall as they have a Cosmetics Company Outlet (CCO), a shop full on discounted Estee Lauder brands including Bobbi Brown, MAC, Clinque, Origins, and of course Estee Lauder themselves. Surprisingly I only picked out one thing from the CCO, shocking I know!
I picked up the Estee Lauder Illuminating Powder Gelee in 01 Shimmering Sands, so far I have loved it, I have been sporting it everyday since I have been back! It is a gorgeous dusty rose/bronze colour with very small subtle glitter flex and a beautiful wave of golden shimmer running through. Its the perfect colour all year round, giving the sought after look of a healthy glow, its fairly similar to my well loved Mac Sunbasque blusher, however the Estee Lauder blush has a longer staying power and it is more shimmery and less glittery than Mac Sunbasque.
After the premium outlets we hightailed over to the Mall of Millenia. After having a HUGE lunch at The Cheesecake Factory, we began our mammoth shop.
What happened to be the first shop I saw? Well to my surprise it was Sephora.. The mothership was calling me home! Due to my extensive planning I had already looked at the Mall of Millenia shop directory and it didn't have Sephora on it, so you can imagine a delight when I saw it there in all its glory! The artist in there told me it had only opened 5 days prior to me getting there, must have known I was coming.
My poor boyfriend had to follow me around for about 45 minutes, maybe an hour! Bless him however he had obviously taken note when I was rambling on about what make up I cant get in the UK because he was pointing things out to me like Make-Up Forever and suggesting different products to me, he's a good egg!
I ended up getting 6 things and all 6 have made it into my everyday make up bag! All things that I have chosen are products I can't get or is really hard to get in the UK. I was in the there for well over 45 minutes - I can hear you all saying poor poor boy!
The first thing in the firing line was the Anastasia stand, I wanted so much from Anastasia, as I have heard such good things about it on the blogosophere and youtube world! After frantic swatching I decided on the Anastasia Brow Wiz in Brunette, I have been using it but it is taking me a while to get used to it as I am so used to wearing powder in my eyebrows.
Next up was Make Up Forever, I knew I wanted the Smokey Lash Mascara but I debating on the HD foundation but after searching I couldn't find it in my shade. I asked the artist working there, who was lovely I may add, suggested that I get colour matched so I agreed, however he colour matched me like I had never been colour matched me before, he used this little machine called the Colour IQ Pantone machine. Pantone is all the different shades of every colour, it goes into the depths of each shade of every colour - very technical. He took 3 snapshots on the Colour IQ Pantone one from my neck, one from my cheek and one from my fore head, he also entered my skin type and my coverage preference (medium if you would like to know), he matched me to all different foundations around the store, we came to a mutual decision to try the Tarte Amazonian Clay 12 Hr Foundation, it is a matte full/medium coverage foundation, as soon as I looked in the mirror it looked like perfection, my recent breakout/nightmare was completely covered without looking like a have a cake face, so that went straight in my basket, I was feeling slightly impulsive you know being in Florida and all that sun must have gone to my head. I am using it at the moment, I have to have I love it I am going to get another foundations because I want keep my Tarte one for special occasions I love it that much! Shortly after my foundation frenzy I went a bit nude lips crazy and another three products made it into my basket, all nude lip themed!
Beside the Tarte stand I spotted an array of Korres products, including the infamous lip butters, I be lined for the Jazmine flavour, I haven't looked back since its is simply gorgeous!
At this point my baskets was brimming, whilst I strolled around the shop, I was trying to think back at the numerous American youtubers that I watch. I then picked up a Buxom plumping lipgloss in the shade White Russian, to accompany this I bought a Sephora lip liner in 02 Cute Caramel, I bought this for 2 reasons, 1 because it would go perfectly with my Buxom White Russian Lipgloss and 2 because I wanted something from the Sephora line!
Whats on your make up wishlist?
Until next time,
Jess xx
