Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Favourite Hair Products

Not technically 'products' but I am very lazy with my hair!!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Currently Reading

I'm currently reading The Finishing Touches by Hester Browne!

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Room Tour!

A tour of my slightly messy bedroom...

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: What's In My Bag?

An updated video on what's in my bag!  You can see my old one here.

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: The Movies Tag

The Movies Tag, questions in the down bar.

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: My Blogging Story

Here is a short video about how I got started blogging!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: OOTD 2

Here is our second Outfit Of The Day video!  I used my graduation for mine :)

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Favourite Book

This week we are talking about our favourite books, mine is The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Favourite Bath Product

A short video about my favourite bath product which is Dorothy from Lush!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Evening Makeup

Here is a little video of me doing a night out make up look :)

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My Everyday Makeup!

I made this video for my youtube channel but it's also quite appropriate for on here too as I haven't done a post like this before.

Products used:
Soap & Glory Glow Job
No7 Luminate Radiance Serum (not CF)
MUA Pro Conceal & Brighten Kit in Porcelain
Bourjois Volume Glamour Mascara
Liz Earle Brow Pencil in Dark
Bourjois Little Round Pot Blusher
ELF Translucent Mattifying Powder

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Pet Vlog!

This week we are introducing you to all our pets!!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt

Yes I am in my jammies... Don't judge me!  This is the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt tag which was started by TheLibraryOfSarah and you can find the original video here.  It was really fun to do and I recommend it if you make videos and enjoy reading!

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Beauty UK Matte FX Foundation & Blush

We had a bit of a kerfuffle dealing with Beauty UK to be honest...  When Paperbacks & Beauty Facts announced our launch, Beauty UK got in touch and offered to send us all some products to try.  We were all really excited about this as we were so new and it was amazing to be recognised at such an early stage.  HOWEVER, it all went downhill after that!  Basically we (I actually had nothing to do with it but thankfully a couple of the girls took charge of it!) ended up pretty much fighting with them in order to actually get the items, it seemed like they had changed their mind and didn't want to give us them anymore...  Finally we got them and although I did love the pink jiffy bag, it did seem a bit 'flung together'.  I think we were supposed to get a foundation, blush and nail varnish each but Charlotte got two nail varnishes and Hayley and I got none haha!

Anyway, rant over!  Firstly, the foundation is called Matte FX and I got the lightest shade, no. 1 Ivory, but it's too dark for me.  I am cool toned (i.e. pink based) and most high street foundations are warm (yellow) for some reason!  I can't wear this alone so obviously I can't give a very thorough review.  My Illamasqua foundation is too pale for me so I can mix it with this until I get a better colour.  In the photo I used a primer underneath, and as you can see the colour is definitely not right even though I did add a bit of the lighter one in.  I set it with an ELF powder which I don't really like but I'm trying to use it up...  It definitely does have a matte finish to it and it doesn't look too cakey - helps if you don't wear a crappy powder over it!  This foundation is only £2.99 and comes in 4 shades so if you can find a shade which matches your skintone then it's probably worth giving it a go, it is a bit of a bargain!

Fortunately the blusher from Beauty UK is a happier story.  I really like the colour, it's not something I would normally wear so it's always good to try those!  The one I got is called Rustic Peach and it's a peachy/coral colour with gold shimmer through it.  In the packaging it looks like really chunky gold glitter but fortunately it translates to just a nice gold glow on the skin.  This is also £2.99.

One issue I have with this brand is that I can't find the ingredients on the website and they are in tiny writing on the back of the packages.  As much as I would love to type them out for you, I nearly burst a blood vessel doing it last time (Buddha Beauty Night Cream) so I'm afraid I won't be doing that again in a hurry!  What I will say is that they contain what looks like a lot of synthetic chemicals, including parabens but what can you expect for £2.99?  Most of the high end brands still use those sort of things, but I felt I should give you that piece of info anyway.

I will probably use up the foundation and not repurchase, but I am looking forward to using the blusher.

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Favourite Shoes

I'm a bit behind as Blogger was playing up but I've finally managed to sort it out by embedding the html coding from the 'share' tab on Youtube which was suggested by the super smart Sarah from Sugarpuffish!  So here are my favourite pair of shoes!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Favourite Author

This week we are talking about our favourite authors.  Mine is Jodi Picoult and in the video I'm explaining why she's my fave and going through the books I've read by her telling you a little bit about them!

Please rate the video and subscribe if you enjoy - we appreciate any feedback!!

Who is your favourite author?

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts - Currently Reading

Watching the video to find out my thoughts so far on The Host by Stephanie Meyer!

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: OOTD

The second video for Paperbacks & Beauty Facts is an outfit of the day!  Subscribe to keep up to date with the other girls'.

Dress - Primark

Jacket - Primark

Shoes - Flossy

Foundation - Illamasqua Skin Base in Shade 2 & Bourjois Healthy Mix in 51

Eyebrows - Liz Earle Brow Pencil in Dark [review]

Eyes - Urban Decay e/s in Grifter (lid), Last Call (crease), Sin (brow highlight) and Polyester Bride (inner corners); and Nars Kuala Lumpur II (crease).

Blusher - Illamasqua Kiss

Lipstick - Avon Golden Wine (not CF)

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts: Week#1 Introduce Yourself

Okay so here is my first video for Paperbacks & Beauty Facts!  I say 'umm' and sniff a lot so sorry about that haha I will hopefully get better with time!!  I'd love it if you checked it out, as well as the other 2 videos which are up at the moment, and subscribe if you want to see more :)

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Paperbacks & Beauty Facts

Some of my more vigilant (constant vigilance!) readers may have noticed the new button which appeared in my sidebar recently.  Hayley from WaterPaintedDreams decided to start a collab youtube channel and invited myself and a few others bloggers to join in.  We have started this week and the first videos are just to introduce ourselves.

We are all assigned a day which we stick to; mine is Wednesday so my introduction video will be up then, and I'll post it on here too.  Today Hayley started off seeing as it was her idea, so it would be great if you could go and check out her [video] and possibly [subscribe] too if you want to see more!

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