Boots (Drugstore) Haul! ft. NEW Loreal lip products!

So today I went to boots and bought my sister a little present. (If you read my blog you might of seen that I bought her the Nicki Minaj perfume as a gift recently.) She takes photography for sixth form in school and lately the photos she's been taking for her exams have not been developing because of the school's bad chemicals and she has been really upset. So I decided I would buy her a present to cheer her up just in case they didn't come out this time. Luckily they did come out and so this was just a nice little surprise for her instead :)

So as boots were having a 3 for 2 on their Loreal makeup, I definitely took advantage! Loreal has come out with a couple new styles of lip products which I had heard a lot about on youtube. Apparently they are comparable to the YSL lip products. I have one of each of the original YSL products that these have been compared to (both the lipstick and the lipstain) and I will be doing a review with mine and my sister's thoughts on these products, comparing them to the YSL lip products. They had some other styles of lipstick that are like the YSL lipsticks in the plain tube (I'll be a LOT more detailed in my actual review!) but I didn't like any of the colours really so didn't get any of those.

Lipsticks- L'Oreal Rouge Caresse in shades
Cheeky Magenta
Lovely Rose
Metallic Coral.
Lipstains- L'Oreal Paris Glamshine stain splash in shades
Eve
Princess
Lolita.

Then I bought the Bourjous chocolate bronzer, which is something my sister and I have wanted forever!

I also bought a 3D Effect Lipgloss from Bourjous in Beige Elastic as I had it before and wanted a new one! (This one was for me!)

If you spent £12 or over on Bourjous you got a free blush and I chose this really cute one in Ashes of Roses.

I then gave her one of the new Lip Butters from Nivea in Vanilla and Macadamia. It smells absolutely beautiful and she said it was really soft.

So that is my haul.
Watch this space for the L'Oreal lip product reviews!

Thanks for reading!
When Shadows Remain
Bridget-Nicole
xoxo

OOTD- Blue Batwing.

Hello all!. So this is my first OOTD (outfit of the day) post. This was a genuine outfit of the day. I had a few job related things I had to do and this is what I wore as I wanted to go for a both smart yet casual look. I added the Primark sunglasses when we went on a beautiful walk (location where these pictures were taken) as it was rather sunny.

The Primark sunglasses are definitely a good buy. This specific pair has a diamante band across the top and on the sides. They are also a beautiful deep brown colour which I personally prefer to the black tint. At £2 a pair they are definitely a steal!!

The tunic/top is flows very nicely and has this beautiful almost damask print to it. It also has some studs on the top. This was actually a gift from a friend in America, but the brand is Cato if that is any help!

The makeup I did is just my everyday makeup with a nice brighter lipstick. All eyeshadows are by MAC and the lipstick is Snob by MAC.

As the sunglasses have a rose gold tint to the frame, I paired this outfit with my Michaels Kors rose gold watch. (I have a collage in detail of the watch on my instagram which is "bridgeexplicit")
I also paired the top with a purple cami underneath as the actual top is quite see through. It did come with a built in cami but I cut it out a while ago and to be honest prefer the purple one underneath it!

I chose to wear leggings but went for these leather look ones instead of the traditional plain black ones.

I paired this outfit with my favourite shoes at the moment, my Iron Fist dolly shoes.

They add a fun and cute little twist to the outfit in my opinion.


So there is my outfit. I hope you enjoyed this post:

Top: Cato
Leggings: Primark
Shoes: Iron Fist
Watch: Michael Kors
Sunglasses: Primark
Lipstick: Snob by MAC


Lots of love.
When Shadows Remain
Bridget Nicole
xoxo

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Perfume Review: Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday.

                                                                   

Hello and welcome to my very first blog post. This is my new blog "When Shadows Remain". I really wanted to start a blog because it looks like so much fun. I would really like to take a second to say hi and I hope you like the content on this blog :) 

Onto the review. 

I bought this perfume as both an impulse buy and a gift. It was a gift for my little sister but I bought it a bit randomly. As it is for my sister I probably won't end up wearing it as often but I will definitely be allowed to share it as we share quite a lot, if not all, of our perfumes. I really don't like most celebrity made perfumes as I feel they are all quite the same smelling and sometimes a bit too tryhard. That being said, I do actually own quite a few celebrity perfumes. This is definitely a surprise to me! 

I really thought that it wouldn't smell very nice considering that it was a Nicki Minaj perfume. I really wasn't sure what to make of the scent. I bought this from "The Perfume Shop" kiosk at my local shopping centre and they didn't have any testers (boohoo perfume shop! You need to sort that out!) and they wouldn't let you return it if you had opened it. So to be honest I was rather skeptical. I had no idea about the smell and was just going by the packaging and most probably the fact that my sister was a Nicki Minaj fan!

The Bottle:

The bottle to me is absolutely beautiful. I really like the body and head design! I think it's really unique and fun. The only thing I don't like is that the 30ml bottle DIDN'T come with the head as the bottle cap! It only came with the 50ml! 

The Fragrance:

It smells AMAZING! Very nice scent. It's very fruity and fresh and flowery and definitely more of a light day, summer scent! 

Top notes include Boysenberry, Starfruit and Italian Mandarin. And there is definitely an undertone of flowery goodness.

The Packaging:

The box is typical "Celeb" perfume box. Of course it is PINK and has a big picture of Nicki Minaj on the back of the box. It's very much expected for this perfume.

Price: 30ml (smalll)- £23.50 

50ml (bigger)- £28.50

(It came with a free laptop case which was actually really pretty but didn't actually fit my laptop)

I would overall rate this perfume a 4.5/5.

It also lasts pretty long! I would definitely recommend this perfume for the summer. Definitely check this one out!

So that concludes my review (and first blog post) hope you enjoyed it and I will try and improve!

When Shadows Remain.

Bridget Nicole.

xoxo