Funbooth!

At last week's Bertie event there was the Funbooth I told you all about, so at long last here are the photos from Petit Monstres' and I's visit to it!

What's in my make up bag.

Lately, I've been heavily influenced by the range of What's in my bag blogs, so I thought I would give you all an insight into my make up bag and what actually is inside it. Now I am probably the most indecisive person in the world, so this make up regime changes almost constantly, but for now, this is how it goes. 

So to start with, this is my make up bag! It's from an Anna Sui beauty set called Sui dreams and it's rather pretty, although it's far too worn out! As soon as pay day rolls around in T minus three days I am going to invest in a gorgeous Marc Jacobs one that I've had my eye on!

Now I suffer from having quite sensitive and dry skin so Simple skincare have always been one of my favourite brands. I use the 'kind to skin, replenishing, rich moisturiser', it provides twelve hour protection for skin, which really helps the dryness, especially if you use a non moisture based foundation like I do. It also contains no perfumes and no colouring which helps the sensitivity of the skin, as some perfumed moisturisers can really make my skin flare up and encourage redness and a stinging sensation. 

I tend to change foundations to have an experiment around and I love trying new ones! Lately I've been using Revlon's latest one 'Photoready'. Like I said earlier, it doesn't contain it's own self preserving moisture, so you definitely need to use a moisturiser underneath it, but it provides a really good coverage, and I only find myself having to touch up once or twice a day, so it's not like a lot of other moisturisers that I find melted all over my face an hour later! The only thing I would say is that the glitter in it can provide a somewhat Robert Pattinson vampire look in certain lights but it's all together one of the best high street foundations I have found!

Blusher is probably one of the most important components to my make up regime. I have very pale skin, so I very much try to work the rosy cheeks and pink colouring around the face, because I think it's one of the make up tones which flatters me best. Bobbi Brown has to be the ultimate favourite, after wasting so much of my teenage money on Bourjois blusher which crusts over as soon as you buy it, doesn't even come with that mini brush anymore!?, and almost put me off blusher for the longest time. Bobbi Brown provides enough colour, doesn't go patchy as the day progresses and with the right blush can really make the cheeks stand out!

                            

 So, as much as I just slated Bourjois' blusher, I have to say it's quite a different story with their lipstick! They are naturally vibrant with their colourings, the majority circling around the oranges, pinks and reds. Those happen to work amazingly well for my skin tone, so they are the perfect lipstick brand for me! I also love their originality when it comes to the design of their lipstick cases, instead of the normal lid, they have a sliding lid controlled by a metal circle button that sort of works in reverse, it's sublime!

Mascara is one of those things I never change, I have the one that works and I don't think I'll ever change it! I use 'YSL Everlong Mascara'. The easy twist, gold case makes it look as good as it actually is. I do have quite naturally long eyelashes anyway, and so this mascara really does help to define them, in comparison to a lot of others that claim to do so, but actually do not. It presents a uniquely classy look, and escapes from the all too repeated essex girl look, that too many mascaras seem to promote, fall into and scare off many customers with!

My eyes are probably one of the best features about my far too critical self, so my no 7 amazing eyes pencil really is one of the must haves, one end has the kohl eyeliner to define the bottoms of the eyes, and the other end of the stick has the brush to help smudge the line to create a smoky eyes look. Seeing as my facial features are rather dark, I also use it as an eyebrow pencil to help define them or a more full on look. 

So as my make up bag continues to stick with the reds and pinks theme that tends to be going on, we have the wonderwoman pigment by Mac that I blogged about a while ago! 

Nothing is as important as the brush to blend it properly, sticking a finger in the pot isn't only a bit gross, it means you're losing half the powder between your fingernails, and the journey. It also gives you a bit of a twelve year old putting eyeshadow on for the first time, and if you want to go for subtlety and avoid the cheap look that doesn't exactly match the price tag of any MAC product, blending is key!

So there we have it, my make up bag. Do any of you have any products you've been raving about lately? Leave a comment or shoot me a tweet @sophieeryan to let me know!

Love you guys lots!

Sophie xo

Reddy Steady Dyed!

So in light of all the changes going on in my life recently I thought I would go with the usual behaviour for me and dye my hair! (I tend to do this everytime something happens, just like I buy a new pair of heels with every boy I date!)

I decided on a nice shade of red, as I've gone red before a couple of years ago and really loved it, it seems to suit my colouring really well and I don't find that the darker shades of red are really too clashy with any of the things I wear. 

Kissing the natural brunette hair goodbye!

Here's the shade of red I went before (can't believe I actually had the guts to post this picture here!!!!) as you can see it's a much more auburn and subtle shade than the one I've ended with now. 

My red passion packet of hair dye!

All mixed, and ready to go, (The orange here looks so dodge!?)

My squeezed out tube of colour creme in shade 43. 

Sophie Wears:

MAC Wonder Woman Pigment in Fuschia

No. 7 Easy Blend Kohl Eyeliner

Bourjois Everlast Lipstick in Rose

Bobbi Brown Blusher in Rose

Revlon Photoready Foundation in Ivory

Orange cropped tank with pocket detail - H&M

What do you guys think of the colour?

I have to say I'm loving it! Have any of you dyed your hair recently? What colour?

Lots of love, Sophie xoxo

Bertie Shoes SS 11 Event!

Hey guys! Hope you're all okay! Wednesday, I was lucky enough to be invited to Bertie Shoes' blogging event of the launch of their 2011 collection! 

The event took place in their Covent Garden store where Petit Monstres and I crowded in to witness the array of what they thought summer had to offer shoe lovers all around london!

With sandwiches, gaymers, haribo and sandwiches on offer to entertain our mouths while we playfully filled out sheets with what we liked about the shoes, the event and how to individualise the styling of our favourite pairs!

By far, the favourite of the night was the the 'Palenta' a cherry, wedge measuring 11cm in height with three straps above the peep toe opening, stretching upto the ankle. Teamed with three oversized gold buckles, they are also available in Black and cream, but red seemed by far the most popular colour.

This was taken in the store with my blackberry, hence the bad quality and why they look so very purple!

                                                                      

Some other goodies lurking secretly in my Bertie bag!

 Guess have always sent me ridiculously fat press releases, and this was no exception, they don't seem to value filtering or editing as a valid PR technique? The pack contains 4 wading booklets of mens and womens watches and jewellery, so many beautiful items but some editing would really of helped my attention span here!

The new Guess heart pendant necklace RRp £45, a really beautful and simple item. My new favourite piece of jewellery (close ups to come soon!)

Rituals nail varnish, which I found remarkably fast drying, I seem to of momentarily lost the picture of the actual bottle, so here is the nail polish in action instead. 

Bright Fuschia

 Well my blood sugar WAS running low!!!

The new loves of my life....

          The shoes are the remarkably comfy but sophisticated wedges I seem to of been searching for my whole life! The bold cherry colour makes them so vibrant and special, whereas still making them suitable for everyday wear (I don't think work will quite approve of these, but uni will definitely be seeing lots of them!)

I was quite a sheep in getting these, 

Bertie Shoes - "You bloggers were going mad over those!"

But I think it's going to be so interesting to put the personal style of each selected blogger to the test in somewhat of a style off to see how different they look when teamed with a different concept or outfit, despite being the same pair of shoes!

I just want to say one final thankyou to Bertie Shoes for letting me be a part of the amazing event, I met so many lovely people, had so much fun and really had a lovely time!

FUNBOOTH PHOTOS GOING UP SOON

Do you have any faves from the Bertie SS11 collection? Were you at the event? Let me know

Sophie xo

60s nights, leather dry cleaning and AWOL

Hello everyone! So sorry I've been AWOL for a while! I've had so many stressful doses of crazy family arguments and subsequently have moved out of home! But to brighten up the stress yesterday I found out that I was accepted on to the FDA Fashion Marketing and Promotion Course at University of The Art's London College of Fashion! I'm very very excited! It means I'll be getting the chance of working at Paris Fashion event Pret a Porter and a six month internship in New York City, as well as a degree duh!

So this week saw Jessie B's ninteenth birthday and I want to tell you all about this amazing little club we found. The moritz club on Soho's Wardour street do an authentic 1950s and 1960s night every thursday!

Now you know that when it comes to what I wear, I really can be a perfectionist, no matter how much I fight it, and this means preparation above everything. I've already begun planning my outfit for Ed's Dulwich leavers (how terrible) and unfortunately I really don't have a hope of affording the dress I have my eye on.

It's a French Connection Broderie Brogue leather cream shift minidress with artistic punched patterns all over. It's 100% leather, which means I would NOT love the specialist dry cleaning I would have to enlist my money in, or the stigma I represented by wearing it with my fur coat (oh dear)...

The picture won't upload right now but I will upload it in an edit later when my laptop isn't failing.

YAY there we go!

lots of love

Sophie xo

Today

Wonderwoman Pigment in Bright Fuschia

Bourjois Metallic Eyeliner Pencil in Emerald

Revlon Photoready

Label M Sea Salt Spray

MAC goes Wonderwoman

Hey everyone I hope you are all good! Today was a very happy make up day. As a lot of you know, my sister is moving to Australia so we had our last day for a very long time of sisterhood around London Town on somewhat of a spree. 

I've been excited about the Mac Wonderwoman collection for a while, whilst a lot of it is repackaged classics, such as the lipstick and lipglass. The pieces I most fantasised about, the eyeliner and the pigments, really do not fail to disappoint. 

PIGMENTS

The pigment I settled on was the bright fuschia, after some lusting after the Marine Ultra, I just had to ask myself when in the world I could really pass off blue eyeshadow, it's an 80s look that I just wasn't born with the superhuman power to pull off. 

The packaging is simply sublime, every layer got more and more exciting! 

The graphic designer for this collection really was amazing, because each piece has it's own unique take on what it means to be a superhero, and it really would never fail to fascinate me. 

So here is the finished look with a mac application small angled brush, the quality of the make up is really quite astounding, as it always is with MAC, this application was put on about twelve hours before the photo was taken, and it still looks just the same as it did upon application. That's something you don't get with most make up. At least you can be assured that you are getting the quality that you are paying for. 

Teamed here with a very subtle touch of Urban Decay glide on, as I reviewed last week and my new YSL mascara (that's coming soon, don't you worry!) it really is a lovely product that I would recommend to anyone. The beauty of their pigments has always been that you can make it as dramatic or subtle as you want, and as you can see here, subtlety is still very much achievable in such a bright and glamorous collection, something that I know has put several people off the collection. 

The other product that I didn't get the chance to purchase due to an indecisive nature and the fact that I don't want to splurge TOO much on payday, as I do need to eat and stuff for the next month.... It's the penultimate eyeliner, it really is like a sharpie pen, or a comic book pen even that would of been used to sketch Wonderwoman herself! The beauty of it being a simple pen that dries INSTANTLY really makes it the easiest application of any eyeliner I have ever used. I go off some eyeliners so much after the amount of disasters I have had with ink pot liquid eyeliners.... believe me you don't want to know. 

I'll definitely be getting it later this month, and review it straight away of course ;)

So here is the finished look, with Bobbi Brown Blusher in Nectar 11, and YSL Mascara in shade 1. 

I also treated myself to those with a diminishing John Lewis discount! I don't want to bombard you so I'll post some reviews of those products over the next week! 

I'd advise you to all rush out and buy the wonderwoman pigments RIGHT NOW, and the eyeliner if you like me are a clutz with eyeliner and don't wish to poison your eyes any more. 

Hope you're all doing amazing! :)

Sophie xo