MUA 1D Lipstick : Rock Me - Louis

Okay... don't judge me. But yes it is true - I have bought one of the One Direction Kiss You lipsticks from MUA! 
I saw these a while ago and was actually really impressed when I first had a look, although I have to say I was definitely the oldest person there looking through the stand and I may have had a few looks of some tweens haha!
But for me it's not about the band, it's about the make-up!

Now I do like myself a bit of 1D (Zayn to be precise), I can't say I am a huge fan girl - but I do like them and their music!
So (like most of you aswell I bet) I wanted to have a look at this make-up collection everyone had be raving about! I know I'm a little late on uploading this post  as the Kiss You lipsticks came out months ago but I've been umming and arring about getting it for so long! (Although I have no idea why as they are a bargain!)

This shade is called "Rock Me" and it is the Louis shade!
I really liked all of the colours but thought I'd just pick up 1 to start off with. This is a gorgeous baby lavendar pink colour, such a pretty and original shade!
I have to say I love the packaging and the fact the lipstick is embossed with "1D" and " x and o's" it looks so cool and makes it look alot more expensive than it is, I'm impressed boys!

It is really soft and moisturising and once you have it on it stays on really well - although I was sad to use it for the first time and say goodbye to that cool 1D logo on the top!
The only thing I'd say is that it does need a few coats to get a good opaque colour.
This is perfect for both a casual day-to-day look and for a night out with a full face of make-up - I love it!

For only £3 I highly recommended these lipsticks - go check out the rest of the collection girls and boys, the other 4 are a total range of shades so there is something to please everyone!

Have you tried any of the MUA 1D Kiss You lipsticks?

OOTN : My BFF's Hen Night

This weekend it was my best friend's hen-do! It was a total surprise for her, all she knew was that she was going away! We whisked her down to Bournemouth and along with shopping and some good food we of course had a big night out!
I want to try and do my fashion based posts so I thought I'd share with you my outfit from Saturday night, this will be a very short post but hopefully you guys will like something a little different to my usual posts!

Dress : ASOS

I bought this dress back in the summer and had completely forgotten about it until I was hunting through my new wardrobe on Friday night trying to think of things to pack! It is so comfortable and has the prettiest embossed pattern all over it, I love how different it is. They also do it in white and it is in the sale for £12 which is a total bargain (original price £35) - in fact it is the cheapest thing I'm wearing! 

Lime Clutch Bag : Cheap Monday

Most of my outfits I had planned were super plain, being mainly black, so I thought getting a bright clutch bag would break it up a bit and brighten me up! I bought this from ASOS it was again in the sale for only £13.50 down from £35 - and by the looks of it, it is now sold out!

Shoes : Boohoo

I've mentioned these before on my blog in my May Favourites - they are the Rosalie Black Leather Look Buckle Demi Wedge from Boohoo! I got these months and months ago but because they go with so much I wear them all the time! They are so versatile and so comfortable (for the first few hours) - I love them.

I'm also wearing my hair piece from Wonderland Wigs! I recently did a post on this (here) - I am obsessed with this thing and cannot wait to invest in some more! 

They look so natural and are so so easy to attach and wear.... slowly being converted from extensions here! Saves me so much time when getting ready - my real hair now just looks so short, thin and drab, I need one of these permanently attached to my head!

I am also wearing Mac Studio Sculpt foundation, Rimmel's Apocalips in Big Bang and for my eyes I have used the Naked palette from Urban Decay and I have finished the look with Eylure 107 false eyelashes (as always!).

Let me know what you think of this short post and if you like my blog please follow via GFC and Bloglovin - I am so close to hitting 500 followers on Bloglovin and I am starting a giveaway as soon as I hit it as a massive thank you to everyone - how exciting!

Fabulous Hair In Seconds With Wonderland Wigs

Long hair, short hair, hair-up, hair down, clip-in extensions, weaves -I have literally had it all! But until recently I had never even considered a certain word.... wig or in nicer terms - a hair piece.
Over the last few months on twitter and on various places online I have seen so many girls trying out and wearing hair pieces- from the gorgeous girls in Geordie Shore to fellow beauty bloggers such as Liza from GlamBeautys. 
This made me curious... am I wasting time with the pain and hassle of extensions? How much are they? Would I be able to pull one off?  So when I was contacted recently about trying a hair piece out I jumped at the chance.

Some of you may have seen this photo I put up at the weekend on Instagram and twitter saying "new hair don't care" and I have to say the response was insane.
So many of you and my friends were wanting to know what I had done to my hair - was it a weave? were they bonds? my usual clip-ins? but nope - it is a hair piece!

This is the Layered Flicked 3/4 Wig Hairpiece from Wonderland Wigs in the blonde shade 24/613.
The word wig is bound to freak people out, it did me. But the lovely people over at WW encouraged me to give it a go and see how I liked it... and I love it! 
The hair is synthetic but where it is already permanently styled you don't need to worry about using heat or products to style it yourself.
 Saying this, this was probably the only thing that scared me a little about trying it. The hair is not real human hair like most extensions I am used too and the only thing that thi menas really is that it does have a little bit of extra shine to it but I honestly don't think it notices that much and I am very particular when it comes to things like this! It is still as soft and nearly as natural as my clip-in extensions that I use now and then.

Now... lets talk about the application. It couldn't be more simple really, just put you put your hair into a low pony tail leaving out two large sections at the front and then grip it upwards onto your head, leaving the back of your head nice and flat.

You then just grip the top slide just in front of the crown of your head and fasten the other underneath your ponytail, it literally couldn't be easier.
After that just style the front to conceal the join where the hair piece starts and you are ready to go!
 I have found it works best if I have a quiff, wear a hairband or try and clip both sides back blending my hair and the synthetic hair together. HERE is a YouTube video to help you out a little more with the process.

The colour match for me is perfect, I had to send one back originally as the blonde was just too bright for my hair, but now I have a mixed blonde piece it works perfectly. (Especially with my roots starting to come through!)

This particular piece is only £25.99 - a fraction of the price of extensions nowadays and even though it isn't human hair you get twice as much for your money - thick and fabulous! And because they are so cheap it means you can buy more of them right!?
I cannot stop going through the Wonderland Wigs website and looking at all the other pieces and extensions they have, I need more in my life - such a fantastic, quick and  cheap way of changing your look without any extra damage or effort. I really want to try the  Blonde Dip Dye Extensions (Mixed Blonde/Pale Pink) they look so cool!

I would like to say a special thank you to all the girls at Wonderland Wigs who have all been so lovely and helped me out alot - go and follow them on twitter - @WonderlandWigs.

Have you tried out any wigs or hair pieces? I have been so pleasantly surprised and proud that I went out of my comfort zone and tried something new!


(***Disclaimer : This product was kindly sent to me by the lovely people at Wonderland Wigs. All thoughts, opinions and ideas are always my own and I would never include an item or product on A Yellow Brick Blog that I didn't truly believe in.)

New! Seventeen Stay Pout Lipsticks

I am a lipstick hoarder. It's true, I confess. 
My collection just keeps growing and growing and there's not a shade of pink, purple, orange or red that I don't want to try!
So when new lipstick ranges released my first reaction is to try them out and check out all the colours that are available.
This happened recently with Seventeen's new lipstick collection - Stay Pout.

(I would just like to firstly apologise for the quality of my photos for this post, really struggling with taking photos after work nowadays with it getting darker so much earlier, hope you can forgive me!)

I first heard about these whilst flicking through a beauty magazine a while ago and seeing a photo of the colour "Rule Breaker" - now this year I'm all about trying darker shades and venturing out of my comfort zone so I knew that I had to find this gorgeous plumy-red shade and try it out.
So when I saw the collection had been released I headed straight for Rule Breaker and swatched it! It was so pigmented and felt nice and hydrating after just one swatch that I was immediately sold and seeing as they were on offer (3 for £10 on all Seventeen products) I decided to grab another.... 5. I know, I know - issues.

I got a range colours from the dark reddy-purple to a cute baby pink and have been so impressed with them! 
They are probably about average in price for a drug-store brand lipstick at £4.49, but like I said at the moment Boots have all Seventeen products 3 for £10 which is a bargain - basically getting one for free!

1. Rule Breaker

2. Infared

3. Date Night

4. Make An Entrance

5. Delinquent

6. Kiss Me Quick

All these colours are fabulous and amazing additions to my ever growing lipstick collection.

I got such a mixture of shades from the dark purple/red of 'Rule Breaker' to the bright orange shade 'Make An Entrance' to the gorgeous baby pink 'Kiss Me Quick' I'm so glad I got such a wide range of colours. And even though shades 2 and 3 look similiar in the swatch there is a big difference in the shade of red which you can see in the previous photo of the lipsticks.

I think my favourite though has to be Delinquent - the gorgeous bright fuschia pink!

All these colours stay on so so well and keep the lips looking and feeling moisturised another great make-up purchase!

Have you tried any of the Stay Pout collection yet? Any colours you fancy trying out?

September Favourites

October is here so it would only be polite to bring you my September favourites! 

Yes it's those monthly products and things that I have been loving and obsessing over for the last 4 weeks!

September was a really fun month, my family just got a puppy, I moved out, I went to the Bestival, I met up with my friends from Florida and went to London to explore... it has been a gooden!

 Now it's October and probably going to be my busiest month this year so far, so keep an eye out for lots of posts coming your way soon....

There's beauty, there's skincare, there's haircare and of course a little something extra.... it wouldn't be a Kirstie favourites post without a random thing thrown in there!

We put so much pressure and strain on our feet day-in, day-out that I think it's so important to look after them and keep them looking pretty (as hard as that is for feet...ewww). There's nothing worse than toenails with no polish on, hard skin, dry skin..... a bit disgusting to talk abut but everyone gets it, especially after a summer of wearing sandals and flip flops 24/7.

This stuff is amazing for keeping my feet soft and thoroughly moisturised.  I love to give my feet a good pampering once a week or so, a long soak, a quick use of my 'Utterly fantastic foot buffer from Soap & Glory' and then smother this on before putting on some light cotton socks and taking myself off to bed to let it soak in overnight! The smell is so lovely and refreshing and totally wakes your feet up! In the morning my feet feel smooth, soft and smooth as a baby's bottom - fabulous!

I've always been so lucky with my skin, spots have always been a rare thing for me and I have always been so grateful for that. But over the last few weeks I have been getting a few friends on my face... and they haven't been the mot subtle of "friends", in fact, some have them have needed their on postcode! 

So as always I've rushed out and bought my savior - the rapid action treatment cream from Clearasil. This always works so well on my skin and I mentioned it before in The Skincare Tag I did back in July! I just pop this on the certain area a couple of times a day and it really helps with the redness and swelling of the spot which luckily means they don't lsat long at all! I highly recommend this stuff if you want a quick and easy way to reduce your spot size and redness!

If you read my blog regularly of have been here recently you would have seen the post I did on this product. I have used this literally everyday since purchasing it.

 It is a gorgeous highlighter and a fantastic dupe for Benefit's High Beam at just a fraction of the price.

 As a base, mixed with your foundation of just used on certain parts of your face to complete the look this stuff, in my opinion, is amazing - here is my post from a couple of weeks ago where we you can read all about it and check out a swatch! 

Again another product I have mentioned before. I had this in my "Beauty Buys Of The Week" in September and since then I have worn it a few times and have just been obsessed. It is shade 156 from Barry M and is one of their 'ultra moisturising lip paints'. Because it is now Autumn I have pushed myself to get out of my baby and bright pink bubble and venture out into using darker shades! This is a dark purple colour and I'm so glad I went out of my comfort zone and tried it as I really love it and definitely think I will be wearing it alot more over the next few months.

Nail polishes are something I buy every single month without fail, I don't know why but I'm always adding to my collection. So when I saw that my local Boots had released the Matte Barry M polishes I had to pick up this one.

I love black nail polish especially in Autumn and Winter and especially on my toes (looks great with peep toes). This is called Espresso and is just a plain matte black, something everyone needs in their collection I think and here else on the drug-store market can you get a good qulaity matte black polish? I can't wait to pick up the rest of the Matte collection but I have gel nails on the moment so it is little unnecessary buying all of them for now.

 Even if you have been living under a rock you know that I love Lee Stafford.
I normally use the Hair Growth treatment once a week but over the last month I have been chopping and changing through all the fabulous products I got in my Huge Lee Stafford Haul. 
I have been using this Breaking Hair Treatment a couple of times a week along with the Breaking Hair shampoo and conditioner and have loved the effect it has had on my hair. 
where I've started using clip-in extensions again this month I've wanted to make sure my hair is staying in a good condition.
 This product leaves my hair soft, strong and shiny and not to mention the amazing smell, my hair feels so much better from using this over the last 4/5 weeks on and off, another product from Mr. Stafford that is working wonders!

 I always tell myself to moisturise more but sometimes in the morning and before I go to bed I'm in to much of a rush/or too lazy to do it. 
Queue Nivea's Express Hydration Primer, perfect for the morning and before I do my make-up. Not only is this stuff as hydrating as Nivea's moisturisers it really is a fantastic primer. 
It looks thick and creamy in the jar but you only need a tiny bit to cover your face and it turns straight into a clear primer perfect for make-up application. I have used this nearly every day in September, it is fantastic. Not greasy, not thick and helps my make-up stay on so so well.
 Another great product from Nivea.... they always seem to make their way into my monthly favourites .

Just a last quick thing - Ariana Grande's debut album. I have had this album on repeat since the day I got it on September 3rd. Yes, she has been in my favorites before back in July but I am still loving her and now I have a whole album to rave about!

It is called 'Yours truly' and has 13 tracks, including her singles The Way & Baby I.

 She is amazing, the best voice in the charts at the moment without a shadow of a doubt.  There is a song for every mood on this album and I dare you not to like it! My favourite songs are Honeymoon Avenue and Piano! Go Ariana..... hurry up and come to the UK on tour please!

John Frieda Everlasting Blonde Colour Preserving Duo

Now as you all know (or if you don't you will now) I am a huge Lee Stafford fan when it comes to my hair and taking care of it and have been now for the past year or so.
 But now and again I think to myself that stepping out of my little comfort zone and trying different brands is a good idea and I should really expand my collection of hair products (even though I don't even have enough space for them all as it is... it's a girl thing right?)
So when I was contacted recently about trying out some NEW products from John Frieda my hair and I jumped at the chance!

I'm going to be honest since watching a video from Fleur De Force a few years ago about a certain John Frieda range and the effect it had on her hair I have been a little reluctant to use their products. BUT saying this my mum had been using the same products for years and years and swears by them, so I suppose it is just personal opinion/experience. 

After reading the description for this certain shampoo and conditioner though - I was sold! 
These are the Everlasting Blonde, Colour Preserving, shampoo and conditioner and I have been using them for the past 3 weeks or so.
I have probably been using them only around twice a week even though it says to use every wash but I have to say I am highly impressed with the results.
These products are made to help maintain a bright blonde colour and are recommended for all shades of colour treated blonde hair.

I have my hair coloured every few months with a full head of highlights and I always try my best to keep the colour the same as it is the day I leave my hairdressers chair!
Sometimes my hair tends to fade and the blonde may become slightly duller/darker and just doesn't look like that vibrate light blonde I started with, so in the past I have used a number of different products. 
I've mentioned before the bleach blondes range from Lee Stafford which act like the "touch of silver" shampoos and conditioners that take out of the brassy or yellowy tones from your hair and are a purple coloured product.
 I was surprised to see that these products weren't also purple but I was actually kind of pleased as I find they dry my hair out alot. (FYI I have cut down using the bleach blonde range alot and only use them around twice a month now).
This month aswell I started wearing extensions again so keeping my hair the same colour is something I am desperate to keep up - extensions that don't blend are my worst nightmare. (I use Lush hair extensions in shade #60 'Lightest Blonde' and they are 18".)

After using this duo my hair feels silky smooth and soft. And not only is it shiny but and I can see a real difference in the lasting of my colour.
I last had my hair coloured at the end of August about 5 weeks ago and my blonde is still really bright and the tone is great.
I am soooo pleasantly surprised by the effect these products have had on my hair and I am so glad I went for it and tried them out! I definitely think this will be on my list of things to repurchase - hopefully it will help me stay away from the hairdressers (and the bleach) a little bit longer.... although unfortunately they will never cure my roots!
I believe these are £5.99 each from Boots but I'm sure prices vary and you can find out more about these here.


(***Disclaimer : This product was kindly sent to me by the lovely people at Forward3D. . All thoughts, opinions and ideas are always my own and I would never include an item or product on A Yellow Brick Blog that I didn't truly believe in.)