YSL Volume Effect Faux Cils Baby Doll Mascara Review!

Hey ladies!♥

Last weekend my £5 credit on my Debenhams beauty club card was about to run out, so as you can imagine, in a mad rush, i had to get to Debenhams and buy some makeup!

I browsed for ages as there is nothing i really wanted to get, but then i saw this little beauty and it was pretty much love at first sight, i had to have it.

It is the YSL Baby Doll Mascara, this retails for £24.50 in Debenhams but with my £5 points balance i picked it up for £19.50.

First of all, can we all just take a moment to appreciate the beauty of YSL's packaging. So simple yet effective. Packaging always draws me to a product and will often be a deciding factor in my actually buying it and YSL never fail me on that front.

The mascara itself is applied using a plastic wand with short spikes all over. Personally, plastic wands are my prefered mascara applicator over brushes and bristle wands so this was a plus for myself.

To show you one coat of this compared to my natural eyelashes with no makeup on:

No Mascara (creepy)

 Left Eye Mascara, Right Eye None

Both Eyes Mascara

 From Underneath the Lashes

I think these pictures give you a good look at the coverage and the lengthening properties of the mascara and you can really see that they accentuate my lashes quite a lot.

I think the easiest way to do this is to just tell you guys my own personal pro's and con's of this mascara and you can tell me your opinions too! So here goes:

PROS

Comes in four different shades so suits a lot of different people's needs.

Beautiful packaging.

Really lengthening.

Hardly any clumping at all and no flaking so far.

Nice formula, not sticky or too wet.

Nice smell!

Pretty name, i'm a sucker for names!

CONS

The price, i really cannot justify even £19.50 on a mascara never mind it's full price of £24.50.

It in comparison to YSL Shocking, not sure if i like it better, or the same?

I also am unsure if i like it better or just the same as my much cheaper L'Oreal False Lash Telescopic.

So, although there are more Pro's than Con's and i really do like this mascara a lot, i have to admit i probably won't repurchase as, to me, this is just not worth the price. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely and it really does look good on the eyes but is it the best? In my opinion, i like it just the same as i like my all time L'Oreal fave.

I don't regret this purchase though as i love YSL products and i do love this mascara too.

Have you tried YSL Baby Doll mascara?

What are your opinions?

A♥

MUA Pro-Base Fixing Mist Review!

Hey ♥

I hate spending a lot of time on my face and putting a lot of effort into my makeup, just for it to come off in a few hours, start going patchy and uneven and generally awful by the end of the day.

Because of this, I have tried a few 'fixing' sprays including those such as Urban Decay All Nighter Fixing Spray which i love but its not something I am able to splash out on all the time at £19 a bottle! 

When browsing my local superdrug recently I saw this little fixing spray in the MUA counter for £4 (will usually be £5) and thought I would give it a go.

Basically, this is designed to be sprayed over your finished face of makeup in 'horizontal swishing motions' until you feel you have enough coverage and clams to have a staying power of up to 8 hours, so I though I would put this to the test for you guys!

I put on my usual amount of a makeup for a normal day and used the spray as instructed to do so on the bottle. This is what I looked like (the lighting makes me look really white but, there's not much i can do, sad face!):

So four hours after, I had been outside, back inside, eaten lunch, had a coffee, done a few bits around the house. I took a picture of my face as soon as i got back in the house and this is what I looked like (still so bright! I do have bronzer on, it is still on, haha!):

And 8 hours after the application of my makeup, the max this product claims to last, without any touch ups to my make-up, I looked like this:

Some of my lipstick had obviously faded and looked a lot less vibrant in real life but i do have to eat and drink and no fixing-spray can stop that, haha! I won't lie to you so i will say i did put a bit more coloured lip gloss on after a little while, that's the only touch up i did! I also apologise for the crap pictures, the lighting is never on my side. I do have bronzer and blusher on which you can't really tell but, they stayed on pretty well all day with not much fade.

Overall, I quite like this product. In all honesty I think it lasts just as long as more expensive brands. I personally feel however, that the staying power of all products of this kind depend on what type/brand/amount of makeup you are wearing.

I do not regret this purchase and I think for the price it is a good little product and I would most likely purchase it again. I have noticed other brands, such as Collection, have a spray like this out at the moment and so I may have to give that a go too and have a little comparison!

Do you use products like this? If so let me know about them!

A ♥

50 Follower Giveaway!

Hi guys♥

So its a new year and one of my many resolutions is to try and blog a bit more. I really enjoy both writing and reading blogs and although I have only been blogging for a few months I am extremely grateful for all the support you guys have given me both on here and on twitter. 

Therefore, as my way of saying thank you for that & for gaining me 50 followers, i am doing this tiny little giveaway of my favourite thing of the past few months! As this is my first ever giveaway i am just making it really little as i plan for them to get bigger as i do more :)!

So, the prize you could win in this giveaway is...

♥Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in 107♥

I'm in love with this lipstick, its a pretty sort of winey/plum colour and goes with any outfit! You probably literally see me wearing it in the majority of my twitter/blog/instagram pictures so i really want one of you guys to win this from me in the hope you like it just as much as i do!

PLEASE READ ALL RULES:

To enter this giveaway you must follow this blog via GFC, leave a comment on this post telling me what you want to see more of from labellavida in 2013, and follow me on twitter (@labellavida2).

You can gain extra entries by tweeting about this giveaway and/or following me on Instagram (ashlee_yy).

Please only enter using one account and don't cheat as i want this to be fair for everyone :).

The giveaway is open to current followers as well as new followers but please do not just follow just for entry then unfollow straight after the giveaway. This is unfair to my followers who follow my blog because they genuinely like its content and so anyone found to be doing this will be excluded from future giveaways and their entries won't be counted.

Unfortunately this giveaway is only open to residents of the UK and you must be over 16 years of age or have the permission of your parent/guardian to give me your postal address should you win!

I accept no responsibility for items lost or damaged in the post and items are non-returnable.

Should you win i will contact you within 2 days of the contest ending via twitter so please check your @replies. I will then need you to DM me your name and address so i can get your prizes sent out to you as soon as possible :).

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Good Luck! ♥

Drugstore Face of the Day!

Hello ♥

I was going to my friends flat to hang out with the girls for a while the other night and thought i would do my face using cheap(ish) products and not use any high-end brands on my whole face just for fun really.

I do use all of these products anyway but i just thought i would use them all together and this is what i came up with:

I look asleep...

Products:

So on my face i have:

Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation: 100 Ivory

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Pressed Powder: 2 Medium

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer: 2 Light

ELF Complexion Perfection Tone Correction Pressed Powder: Translucent

Bourjois Bronzing Powder: 52

Barbra Daily Blusher: Flutter-Bies

MUA Undressed Palette: Shade 5- base, 4- outter corners, 11- crease, 1- highlight/browbone

ELF Eye Transformer: Upper Browbone

ELF Eye Brightener: Inner corners

Collection 2000 Skylash: Black

ELF Exact Lash Mascara: Black

Collection 2000 Liquid Liner: Black

Collection 2000 Pencil Liner: Black on bottom water line

GOSH Eyebrow Kit: Darkest Shade & Setting Gel

VIVO Eyebrow Pencil: Dark Brown (literally the best eyebrow pencil..ever! £2!)

Rimmel Kate Moss Matte Lipstick: 107

MUA Lip Liner: Brooding Plum

I think it went quite well really ...

(except my camera makes me look paler than i actually am!)

Hope you enjoyed!

What are your favourite drugstore makeup products/brands?

A♥

Weekend in Pictures!

Hello ♥

Top left to bottom right:

1// My crazy face. 2// My sexy new nails. 3// Boyfriends fizz face at my sneaky photo taking. 4// Toffee Apple! 5// First fail attempt at eyebrow tattoos. 6// Rose wine for dinner. 7// Empty purse again. 8// Models Own purchases, love! 9// Primark.. again.

What did you get up to this weekend?

A ♥