8 BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ | BLOGMAS DAY 18

Hello lovelies, welcome to blogmas day 18! We are so so close to the end and I can't believe I have got this far!
Apologies in advance if my posts aren't too long/in depth or are up at weird times...or if I am just not that active on twitter in the nest few days; I'm starting new shift times from tomorrow at 4am and will probably struggle to be alive.
Anyway, today I am going to be telling you about 8 books you need to get your hands on this Christmas! When you just need a few minutes to chill, books are the best way to get lost!


Enjoy!

10 WAYS TO DE-STRESS THIS CHRISTMAS | BLOGMAS DAY 17

Hi my loves, welcome to blogmas day 17! Today I'm going to be sharing some tips with you all for when the Christmas stress gets too much!


We all need a break sometimes and whether its work problems, home problems or personal problems, sometimes we just need to take a minute to breathe.


Enjoy!

2018 BLOGGING GOALS | BLOGMAS DAY 16

Hello loves, welcome back to blogmas! Today I'm going to be sharing with you my 2018 blogging goals. I am a fairly new and very small blog and that doesn't really matter to me, but I do have some goals i'd love to achieve next year so that all my hard work pays off!


Enjoy!

2017: A YEAR IN PHOTOS | BLOGMAS DAY 15

Hello loves, welcome to blogmas day 15! I thought it would be fun to do a post about my 2017 in photos! This year has been the best year ever and I wanted to share some of the amazing memories I have had. I hope this inspires you guys to do the same!

NEW YEARS GOALS AND RESOLUTIONS | BLOGMAS DAY 14

Hello loves, welcome to Blogmas day 14! Today I'm going to be sharing with you my list of goals and resolutions for 2018!

The New Year is just around the corner which is so scary, but I am excited for everything that 2018 has the potential to bring!

Enjoy!

THE ORDINARY FOUNDATION REVIEW | BLOGMAS DAY 13

Hello my lovelies, welcome to blogmas day 13! We are just over halfway through blogmas which is MENTAL!

You all know how much I love foundation, obsessing over the best ones for my skin type and my weird shade of white...so today I am bringing you a review of one of The Ordinary's foundations.

Enjoy!

10 THINGS I LOVE ABOUT CHRISTMAS | BLOGMAS DAY 12

Hello and welcome to Blogmas day 12! Today I'm going to be sharing with you 10 things I absolutely love about Christmas. I'd also love to hear what you guys love about it too...it's my absolute favourite time of the year!

HOLY GRAIL MAKEUP PRODUCTS | BLOGMAS DAY 11

 Hello everyone, welcome to blogmas day 11! Today I'm bringing you a post on my holy grail makeup products that I am constantly wearing over Christmas!


Hope you enjoy!

NETFLIX SHOWS YOU NEED TO SEE | BLOGMAS DAY 10

Hey lovelies, welcome to Blogmas day 10! Today I'm going to be giving you the lowdown on the series that you need to see on Netflix.


So, if you're looking to binge a new TV show over Christmas, keep reading!

FAVOURITE FESTIVE SCENTS | BLOGMAS DAY 9

Hello! It is Blogmas day 9! I'm not really sure how I'm still going but here we are!!
Today I have possibly one of my favourite things to talk about; my favourite scents at Christmas.


This doesn't have to just be candles, just scents in general, which is why I'm so bloody excited! Hope you enjoy!

CHRISTMAS WISH LIST 2017 | BLOGMAS DAY 8

Good evening lovelies! Welcome to Blogmas day 8! Today I am hitting you with my literal dream Christmas wishlist.


I haven't actually asked anyone for any of these for various reasons. Some of the items are hard to get, others I cant justify and others just came to me recently after I'd told everyone what I wanted.


Anyway, I hope this provides you with some inspo for yourself or gifts for other people!

BLOGGERS AND VLOGGERS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT | BLOGMAS DAY 7

Hey everyone!! I can't believe we are a week into blogmas...how mad is that?! Today I thought it'd be fun to share with you some Bloggers and Youtubers who I have been loving recently, particularly into the blogmas/vlogmas month.


I feel like well as recommending other people to you, its great to recognise how much hard work people put into their youtubes/blogs...us gals gotta lift eachother up!


Hope you enjoy!

THE PERFECT BROWN NUDE? | BLOGMAS DAY 6

Hey everyone! Welcome back to blogmas day 6! Today I have a lil review of a product I hadn't previously tried before, and possibly the nicest brown-nude ever!

Are the NYX lip lingerie's massively overhyped? Keep reading to find out my thoughts!

ULTIMATE PLAYLIST COLLECTION 2 | BLOGMAS DAY 5

Hello again! I did one of these posts months and months ago and everyone seemed to love it. I'd been planning on doing another playlist post but waited until now because I could chuck a bit of Christmas music in there...who doesn't love it?


Right, if you need some good music in your life, keep reading!

BENEFIT HOOLA LITE REVIEW | BLOGMAS DAY 4

 Hello there! Welcome to Blogmas day 4! Today I have a cheeky review of the Benefit Hoola Lite bronzer, aka baby sis to the normal Hoola.

I had been waiting for the day that this came out and got my hands on it in September (eek, a little late chlo), but thought I would give you guys the lowdown in case any of my pale gals are struggling with bronzers!

Enjoy!

GIFT GUIDE: STOCKING FILLERS | BLOGMAS DAY 3

Hello! Today I'm bringing you the first of my gift guide posts. This one is on cute little gifts you might want to get your friends or family or to stick in stockings this Christmas!

I tried to get some different stuff because I really didn't want to put like a notebook and a chocolate orange in here which is pretty basic. Some of these are a little quirky and different but I reckon they're great!

I hope you enjoy!

BEST DRUGSTORE CONTOUR KIT? | BLOGMAS DAY 2

 Hello again! Welcome back to Blogmas here on tintsofautumn! I've been testing this product out for a while to make sure I know how I feel and BOY IS THIS A GOOD ONE!
Also I hope you're all having a wonderful start to December, I'm so excited for Christmas!

Anyway, keep reading for a lil review on the NYX cream contour palette!

NOVEMBER FAVOURTIES | BLOGMAS DAY 1

Hello and welcome to my first ever attempt at Blogmas! I've been ridiculously busy with uni and life recently, but I'm so excited to give this a go!

The first post I'm bringing to you is my November Favourites...right on time for once! Let's get into the products I've been loving for the last month or so!

MAKEUP REVOLUTION LIQUID HIGHLIGHTER REVIEW

 Hello again everyone, this blog post is going to be a little review of the Makeup Revolution liquid highlighter.

Lots of brands are coming out with products like this, especially since the huge hype with Iconic London drops and the Cover FX drops.

The only other liquid highlighter I have tried is Benefits High Beam, which I did love but I wasn't keen on the shade. Does this one compare? Keep reading to find out!

THE SUNSHINE BLOGGER AWARD

I've been tagged in the Sunshine Blogger Awards by Anna from SparkleofGrace (check her out here!), so thank you for tagging me, it means a lot!!

The rules are that you recognise the blogger(s) who tagged you, answer the questions left for you in the blog post and then nominate 11 other bloggers and ask them 11 questions.

Lets get into the questions from Anna!

TOP 5 DRUGSTORE FOUNDATIONS

 

Hello everyone! You all know I love a good bargain, and where better to get that than the drugstore? If you're a regular on my blog you will also know that I love buying and reviewing foundations, especially with us pale girls in mind!

So, here are my top 5 foundations for all of you looking for products that don't break the bank and make your skin look flawless.

L'OREAL MATTE LIP PAINT REVIEW

Hello everyone! I'm really loving getting back into blogging again, I have so many posts planned and I'm so excited! I am also really pleased with how my blog is looking, it's making me feel so cosy.

Today I have a lil review for you on L'Oréal's new matte lip paints. I've seen these going around so naturally I had to give it a try, seeing as a few nude shades caught my attention.

Let's get into it!

SEPTEMBER WISH LIST

Hello there lovelies!! Today's post is going to be a lil September wish list for you, as I've seen so many pieces already for autumn that I love!! I absolutely love autumn and can't wait for cosy jumpers, Christmas films and scented candles.

You might also have noticed that my blog name/URL has changed and I've just designed and made my new header!! I realised that my blog name and theme is quite summery which to be honest isn't really me at all. Autumn is my favourite time of the year, and I thought it was about time I change my blog to reflect what I love!!

Let's get into the post...

L'OREAL PARADISE BROW POMADE...HOT OR NOT?

Hello my loves, I'm back with another makeup review for you!

Recently, I'm sure you've seen, L'oreal have come out with a new "paradise" range in this gorgeous rose gold packaging. I've seen a lot of people talking about the new mascara because apparently its comparable to the Too Faced Better Than Sex mascara.

However, I haven't seen anyone talking about their new brow pomade, which is what I reached for straight away! I feel like a lot of beauty YouTubers have a go-to eyebrow product and never really try anything new, which I find slightly annoying, so even in "full face of first impression" videos, they don't try a new eyebrow product.

ANYWAY, enough rambling, let's see how I got on with this pomade shall we?

WET N WILD PHOTOFOCUS FOUNDATION REVIEW

 Hello again, surprise surprise I have another foundation review for you...but you all know they're my fav thing to do and literally NOBODY on the internet caters for us oily gals so I'm taking one for the team.

Lets jump into the review!!

MORPHE BRONZED MOCHA PALETTE REVIEW

Hello there, as you can probably tell I invested in a new palette recently and thought I'd share a lil review with you.

Morphe have some bloody great eyeshadows and came out with two 25 shadow palettes; the bronzed mocha and the copper spice. I had a really hard time choosing between the two, but ultimately fell in love with the purple/red tones in the mocha so handed over my money and gave it a go

Here's what I thought!

HIT OR MISS: JEFFREE STAR LIQUID LIPSTICK

Hello everyone, long time no post right?

I have a little bit of explaining to do firstly, because I can't just fuck off for ages and not provide some sort of reason.

REVIEW: PHOTOBOX

Hello again,

I've got a quick lil post for you today about a website that I have fallen in love with this year, which you can order and print photos off.

I discovered Photobox when I got Josh a big photo block thing for valentines day, and it looked amazing!

I recently just ordered about 60 photos and had them printed and sent in polaroid style, and just wanted to talk about my experience with the company!

MONTHLY FEATURE: 2BUY2SEE2READ

Hello everyone! Here's the second instalment of my new monthly feature, 2Buy2See2Read!! This is basically my monthly favourites and recommendations of things I've genuinely enjoyed this month!! Without further ado, lets get into this post.

TOO FACED SWEET PEACH LIPGLOSS

Hey again!

I'm back with another new product review for you all. This one is a little weird for me because I am very much a matte kind of gal; matte lips, matte skin...you get it. However, this posts' lil star is a lipgloss from the Too Faced Sweet Peach collection.

So without rambling on, lets just get into this review!

HUDABEAUTY 3D HIGHLIGHTER PALETTE: PINK SANDS

Hellooo!! Yet another new makeup product that I got for my birthday..but I cannot ignore this!

This is the beautiful HudaBeauty 3D highlighter palette in the Pink Sands edition! I've never tried anything by this brand and to be honest, despite being told that this is really huge in the makeup world, I'd never heard of this before!

Lets dive in!

REVIEW: BENEFIT POREFESSIONAL PORE MINIMISING MAKEUP

Hello! Firstly, what a bloody mouthful this product is! As you can probably tell, this is a review on one of the products in the new porefessional range by Benefit.

I'm sure you've heard of the legendary porefessional primer, which is great...and they've decided to extend it!

Without hesitation, here's my thoughts!

REVIEW: ZOEVA CONTOUR SPECTRUM PALETTE

 Hello! As some of you may know I recently turned 20, and of course received some makeup for my birthday. I'd been looking for a good powder contour palette for aaaages, and had such a hard time choosing.

Cream contouring just doesn't seem to work for me, plus I'm useless and I have no idea at all how to do it.

I'd been debating for ages whether to ask for the Anastasia Beverley Hills contour palette, but I swear it was like £40 and honey I ain't paying that or getting anyone else to pay that amount. So I looked on the other end of the spectrum; I considered the NYX powder contour palette but I just wasn't sure.

That was until I saw this beauty on BeautyBay and fell in love. I was immediately drawn to the colours, which I'll get into in a second.

So yeah, kindly I was given this for my birthday by Josh and it came in the most beautiful white box all wrapped up in black paper, I felt like royalty haha!

Anyway, lets get into the review!

OOTN: LITTLE WHITE DRESS

Hi! I recently went to a dinner and dance that had a kind of formal, shirt and tie dress code. Obviously as soon as I found out I was going I was immediately stressed about what to wear.

In the end I decided to go with the gorgeous white dress you can see in the picture.

Keep reading to see the deets!

MONTHLY FEATURE: 2BUY2SEE2READ

Hey everyone! I've decided to start a new monthly feature on my blog, called 2Buy2See2Read...which basically are posts where I recommend things for you guys to read, see and buy. I know favourites posts have been in my blog before and are kind of the cult favourite, but I wanted to make it my own! Kind of like you see "holy grails and fails" or "hits and oh god no's" on YouTube.

Anyway, I struggle to find products to write about in monthly favourites so I think this little regular feature will motivate me to find new things to talk about!! I'm really excited to share my favourite things with you because I know so many people will love them too. My blog has been getting so much positive feedback and new viewers recently and I'm so proud that I'm 100% focussing on this...I really love it!

Without further ado, let us start this month's post!

A little bit of info about me!

I'm currently trying to "claim" my blog on Bloglovin' so, seeing as I have to make a whole new post just to do that, here's a little bit of info about me!

20 LIFE LESSONS IN 20 YEARS

Hello! Today I turn 20 years old, which I cannot quite believe myself. I know that 18 is like the time when you become an adult (sort of), but I feel like by 20 people expect you to kind of have your shit together. I most definitely do not have my shit together.
I'm still in uni, outside uni I am still living at home, I have a part time job and little money that is really mine and that isn't part of my overdraft.

I feel like although I clearly still have a whole lifetime ahead of me, that I have learnt a fair few lessons over my very brief lifespan thus far, and thought I'd share them

Here we go, 20 useless facts I have learnt in my 20 years of life.

EVERYTHING WRONG WITH 13 REASONS WHY - AN OPEN LETTER

Dear 13 Reasons Why,

REVIEW: MAC MINERALIZE SKINFINISH

Hello again!

I have a little pile of makeup that's been sitting around for months waiting to be tried and I'm finally just getting to it.

Today is a quick lil review of a natural highlighter. You know me, I love being so highlighted I can be seen from space but I really have fallen in love with this product and it's so natural and gorgeous.

So if you're looking for a natural highlighter this is definitely the blog post for you!

APRIL FAVOURITE: NYX BUTTER GLOSS

Hello again! I love doing these one product monthly favourites because I don't have the money to buy loads of makeup, and can just give you a quick run down on my ultimate fave over the past 4-ish weeks.

Now, as you might have guessed from my previous blog posts, I love a matte lip. I just think you can't go wrong with a beautiful, flawless matte base and a gorgeous matte lip to go with it. I'm not about the dewy skin or the glossy lip life.

However, about a month or two ago, I watched Hannah Renee's full face of holy grail products tutorial, I believe. I saw her nude, glossy lip and fell in love, which is very, very unlike me.
The product she was using was the NYX butter gloss in the shade Fortune Cookie.

So, without any more rambling, let us dive right in to this favourites post!

MAC LIPSTICK COLLECTION

Hello everyone!
Today I have a quick post about my mac lipstick collection. I'm pretty sure that Mac lipsticks are the only ones I use. I feel like I need to branch out a bit more because my collection is getting a little bit crazy. I really want to try more liquid lipsticks other than stick lipsticks like these, but my Mac collection is just so damn reliable, and I love the colours and how long they last.

I've included pictures of the lipsticks themselves and swatches as well.

Here's my collection!

MARCH FAVOURITE: L'OREAL INFALLIBLE COVER

Hello again! I can't believe it's pretty much April right now. I turn 20 in a month and a half. I leave my second year of uni in just over a month and a half. It's mad. Anyway, I haven't been able to try much makeup recently because I am poor, however I did discover a beauty a few weeks ago that L'Oréal just recently released in their new collection.
Of course it's a foundation, you should know this by now. I had heard so many good things about this foundation so naturally I had to give it a try, and it ended up being my favourite product of the month!!

If you want to know what I thought of the foundation just keep reading!

CHELTENHAM: LADIES DAY

Hello! As you all know, I love the races thanks to the introduction from my boyfriend back in September. I couldn't believe it when we got tickets to Ladies Day..like actual Ladies Day in Cheltenham. It honestly was such an amazing day out and the weather as you'll see in the photos, was perfect. In all, there were over 50,000 people there if I remember correctly.

I just thought I'd make a quick post about the day and include some photos because it's certainly something I won't forget, I'd definitely love to go back again next year.

TO MY MUM: 11 THANK YOU'S.

"I struggle so deeply
to understand
how someone can
put their entire soul
blood and energy
into someone
without wanting
anything in
return

- I will have to wait till i'm a mother" - Milk and Honey

Hopefully you all know that Mother's Day is just around the corner, and I am coming to realise as I get older that one day I'm not going to have my mum anymore, and that while she still graces the planet, I should let her know how much I appreciate her.

So hello mum, if you're reading this. Here are 11 things I want to thank you for.

MAKEUP REVOLUTION: RETRO LUXE LIQUID LIPSTICK

Hello again!

We all know that over the past year, big lips have been the in thing. It all started when Kylie Jenner just suddenly got hot. It was literally like she woke up one day looking fit as fuck and nobody knows when it all happened. At the start of this, she put her huge lips down to wearing MAC Velvet Teddy, which is now pretty much their best selling lipstick. Then of course we were introduced to Kylie Cosmetics, and since the launch, the liquid lipsticks and lip liners have by far been some of the most popular products.

Don't get me wrong, I love high end makeup...but Kylie's stuff is god damn expensive, especially seeing as you have to pay to ship her stuff over from America, and there's loads of controversy over people not even receiving their orders. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I was looking for a good dupe.

FINALLY she gets to the point ;)

Basically, our babes at Makeup Revolution released a new line of liquid lipsticks that come with matching liners. They're called the Retro Luxe Liquid Lipsticks, and are seen as a dupe for the Kylie lipkits. Now, it's time to quit the rambling and give you the down low on these babies.

VIOLET VOSS: HOLY GRAIL PALETTE

Hello! Recently, I received a gift from my lovely boyfriend for Valentines Day that I was not expecting at all. As you can tell, this is the beautiful Violet Voss Holy Grail palette. I honestly have been after this for ages but haven't had the money to "waste" per se on this.

I thought I'd do a little blog post about it with some photos and swatches, so don't mind my little pale twig arms!

I hope you enjoy and hopefully I can convince you to invest in the only palette you'll ever want to use again, haha!!

WHATS IN MY EVERYDAY MAKEUP BAG?

Hi everyone, today I'm bringing you a what's in my makeup bag post. I love seeing what other people have in their makeup bags so I thought I'd do my version of it. I do like to wear quite a lot of makeup but that's just me and that's completely okay. Everyone is different.

Anyway, here's what's in my everyday makeup bag and my thoughts about each product!!

(ANOTHER) FOUNDATION REVIEW- NARS ALL DAY LUMINOUS WEIGHTLESS

Hello again! Today I am here with another foundation review. Foundation is easily one of my favourite makeup products to try out, mainly because I'm so picky. My skin tone is so difficult to match and every "professional" that has matched a foundation to my skin has been completely and utterly wrong. There has never been a foundation that has completely matched me, which is probably why I'm on some sort of manhunt to try every foundation that ever existed.

In December I went to Birmingham and went shopping in the Bullring, and naturally went into Selfridges, died, and came back to life again. Oh, and I took my bank account with me too. I've always always wanted to try a NARS foundation because the YouTube beauty community just raves about them. I went up to the counter and asked the lady the difference between the Sheer Glow foundation and the Luminous Weightless. Naturally, I chose the Luminous Weightless because she said it's full coverage, and that's what I love in a foundation. I don't care if I look like I'm wearing foundation, that's the whole point. I want to be flawless, hahaha!

Anyway, without further ado, lets jump into this review.