Nails of the Week - Rimmel Portobello Pink

This week’s colour is portobello pink, a beautiful barbie-like pink colour with a shimmer finish. I love the colour and the formulation is perfect, spreading easily without streaking. The brush can cover the whole nail well, and you can easily get away with the one coat, although I always opt for two.

The only thing that’s not so good about it, is that it does not live up to the 60 second claim taking much longer than that. I even ended up with bed sheets annoyingly after going to bed thinking it was finally dry.

Project 10 Pan

I’ve taken the scary decision to do a project 10 pan, for any not familiar with the idea, basically until I use up 10 chosen items I won’t be buying anything new.

Generally I consider myself to be good with my spending habits and how I use things, my last few hauls are not representative of my general shopping habits! I don’t tend to have more than one of a kind opened and in use (with the exception of face masks) and I like to use something up then move onto the next thing. I am mostly curious to see how long this will take as well as see how much I will get through with other things too in that time.

Aside for being good for my purse this will also free up space for a few items I have on my wish list which I will treat myself to at the end. Let me know if you would like to see a wish list post.

The 10 items are;

        

        

In picture order:

• Tresemme heat protectant and Samy Joouge curl cream reviewed here. I still need to find my perfect hair care combination so I want to use up the remainder and give some new things a try. 
• Ungaro Fever perfume from Avon I am over half way through with this, and have been using it every day so I should finish it fairly quickly.
• Bare Minerals night treatment, after my 2 month test I stopped using it, but for the sake of not wasting it I’m back to using it every night.
• Resurf-a-stick microdermabrasion stick - again reviewed here, but I am actually looking to by a home microdermabrasion tool once the project 10 pan is over so this needs to get used up.
• Smashbox primer - I am nearly done with this, although I really liked it in the beginning, I think it may be breaking me out when I use it, but I can’t be sure and I’m keen to start using the Witch primer which is meant to help with blemishes.
• Witch concealer stick - I don’t like this, so I really want to use it up and go back to my ELF concealer.
• Bourgeois mineral radiance - although I have used up so much already, to get to this stage has taken a year so of all the products I think this will be the hardest to use up! 
• Anew reversalist serum - this is not something I would have picked up usually but I won this in a Christmas hamper from Avon and have only just got round to using it. Will review soon! 
• Finally, Avon anew eyeshadow, mostly I am just bored of this, I featured it in my everyday makeup post and I have much better shadows I could use. Again I think this will be another which takes the longest time! 

If you have a project 10 pan or plan on starting one, please feel free to post the link below and we can go through the process together! I’m very apprehensive about it, I know as soon as I place a limit on myself I will want something that much more, so I’m hoping it won’t be too hard! But considering my recent spending splurges they will hopefully be enough to contain me for a while.

Sunday Night Thoughts - Fake Beauty

I read this article on fake beauty this week and was surprised at the definition of ‘fake'. So I wanted to pose that question to anyone with an opinion on the topic and ask what do you consider to be fake?

I personally have always thought of cosmetic surgery as being the definition, something that is a permanent and drastic change to your appearance. Just to be clear I have no objections with people getting cosmetic surgery, I am very much of a live and let live attitude. But I was surprised in the article to read on the list of ‘bold treatments’ that things like nail art were considered to be fake beauty. I understand that I wasn’t born with bright red/orange/purple etc nails but surely that doesn’t put me a category of ‘faking it’?

I have always thought makeup enhances beauty, as well as gives confidence. The article suggests the new faking it, is going by what we individually think looks good rather than actually trying to convince others that is what we really look like all the time. But surely this isn’t a bad thing? Or have I just been completely taken in by advertising and media and not seen that we are all thinking that it is ok to enhance  our hair, lashes, and nails on a daily basis and not see anything wrong with this.

What do you consider faking-it in terms of beauty?