FOTD: Featuring the Givenchy Les Mini Prismes Travel Set

Friday afternoon I woke up feeling terribly sick and just wanted to spend all day in bed, but I motived myself to do something productive and got ready to hand out some resumes around locally. Knowing I may be speaking with potential employers, I tried to make myself half decent and tried out my new Givenchy Les Mini Prismes Travel set.

The Givenchy set is made up of a beautiful eyeshadow quad (which I forgot to photograph - doh!) a face powder and blush, which I all used on my face. These products are beautiful and I love the way they look on my skin, If you would like a full review on this set please let me know In the comments below!

I used Revlon Colour stay as my base, an oldie but a goodie. Defined my eyebrows with my favourite elf eyebrow kit in ash, and completed my eye look with a small cat eye using the rimmel waterproof liquid eyeliner and Catalinageo mascara. To pull it all together I used my Face of australia mineral eject lipstick in 'First kiss', the perfect my lips but better lipstick that moisturises and keeps the lips looking good in the cooler weather. 

And here was the finished look, super natural and ready for the job hunt. Not as perfected as I usually like but hey you can only do so much when your nose is constantly running and sleep is the only thing on your mind. Anyway, if you have any favourite products you like to use when your not feeling well please do share! 

Monique xx

Elf Cosmetics Haul

I recently made an order on Iherb using my referral points, meaning I only paid $4.50 postage for all these products (woohoo!). Since Iherb has recently got a huge selection of elf products in I decided I wanted to try some more out. Their eyebrow kit in Ash also happens to be a holy grail product of mine so I guess I set high expectations. Despite using my referral points, everything pictured is priced under $3, so these definitely won't break the bank!

I wanted to get some more brushes so I chose the Elf mineral powder brush, contour brush and complexion brush. My first impression is that these are amazing quality for $3 each! They feel super soft and well made, I guess only time will tell whether they are good or not though. I also bought the lip liner and blending brush duo in 'Natural' a deep nude colour. Another product I was impressed with at first - theres a lip brush attached to end that is so soft and I can't imagine it will blend but it will apply lipsticks beautifully.

With the eyebrow kit being one of my favourite products I decided to try out another brow product from Elf, the Eyeshadow lifter and filler. This is another duo ended product with the brow colour on one end and a light highlight colour on the other. I actually tried this out today and I found the pencil to be far too soft to apply straight from the tube, so I ended up using a brush to prevent looking like I rubbed chunky dirt through my brows. The highlight end was also a bit of a disappointment as it was darker than my natural skin tone despite it being the shade 'Ivory',  so there was definitely no highlight effect.

And lastly I got two face products, the Elf high definition under eye setting powder and clarifying pressed powder. I am excited to use these products as I have heard really great reviews about both! The clarifying powder was only $2 and contains salicylic acid which is interesting, hopefully it performs well, I'll definitely be tossing out the little powder puff that comes with it though. I also really don't understand the point of the little brush included with the under eye powder- thats not even big enough to set a Bratz doll's under eye area.

Anyway thats everything I picked out, If you have any favourites from Elf or want a more in depth review on a product mentioned please let me know!

Monique xx