The KOHL

Kajal, Kohl, Surma... Call it whatever but today, women world over swear by it. Traditionally used since some infinity years in South Asia, Middle East and Northern Africa, the credit of making it a popular cosmetic perhaps goes to CLEOPATRA.

Cleopatra may have used kohl to protect her eyes from the sun's glare but today it has become an essential in every woman's vanity pouch. I for one cannot let a single day go by without kohl-ing my eyes.

We may use it for varied purposes, but the main purpose for a kohl to serve as a cosmetic is to emphasize and dramatize the eyes. I have been using kohl since the past 9 years now (yes I started young and no I am not old!) and can say for sure that I have finally found the method of application that suits me best!

Yes ladies... you all heard me right! It took me 9 long years... And no I am not slow or dumb. I have always liked the effect that kohl has had on my eyes but I could never find a way in which I was actually satisfied with its effect! And I am sorry to say that 90% of the women I see with kohl-rimmed eyes actually fail to impress me with their kohl-application. Ha ha, I know I know I have no right to be condescending but ladies... do you really not want to hear what I have to say?

Ok here I go... first it took me some experiments and hence loads of expenditure to zero-in on the form of kohl that suits me best. Yes you heard me right. The form of the kajal is important :)

My first tryst was with a waxy stick in a plastic-ky casing shaped liked a FAT PENCIL...Yes yes! you guys guessed it right! It was the LAKME KAJAL! Sad to say, it didn't really work for me. I didn't find it smooth enough and it smudged too :( But for the pocket money that I received while I was in school, it did see me through... Next i tried experimenting with a Kajal shaped like a conical crayon... I am sure you can imagine it... THE HIMALAYA KAJAL... Nah! It smudged a lot! And again it wasn't smooth enough or even black enough for me. I was starting to get a bit disillusioned here, but alas I did start earning some money by doing fashion shows for my college and yippee I bought my first internationally acclaimed brand's "kajal pencil". It was from CHAMBOR! It wasn't black or smooth enough for me (am sure you guessed it by now) but it was smudge proof! Yay! yay! Finally I get a smudge proof kajal pencil... But if there is a God, which I was sure of, I would soon find a kajal that'll be smooth/black enough! And soon enough when I tried a kajal pencil from another very very expensive brand I found the black and the texture that I was looking for. Thank You REVLON! I very happily wore it to an office function and AAAARrrgghhhhh by the end of the day it had run all over and I looked like a Raccoon :( Dude! What a disaster!!!

For a long time I alternated between my expensive smudge-proof CHAMBOR kajal and the super expensive smooth one from REVLON. I used the CHAMBOR one for when I was travelling or when I knew I'd have looooong days at work and used the REVLON one for cocktail parties and other such short events. But one day lighting struck! A storm brewed! And Voila! I had the perfect solution :) Yay Yay Yay! I knew the way out! I was fed up of choosing between smudge proof and perfect color and now I had the key to enjoying both... Yipee...

So finally all that was required was lining the internal rim of my eyes with REVLON's jet black kohl and using the CHAMBOR kohl to dramatize my eyes by applying it under my lashes and below my eyes :) The result? Super defined eyes and that too smudge proof :D

I Met Gemsmaquillage & FleurDeForce!

As many of you will already know, on Monday 16th August, Gemma and Fleur hosted a little meet-up in Manchester, just outside the main doors of Selfridges. I went along and met the girls (which was sooo wierd after watching them on YouTube for so long!) and we headed off to Starbucks for a Coffee and a bite to eat :) I brought my boyfriend, Zach along so he was nominated the photographer of the day ;) thank you sweetie! <3 Click on the photo's to enlarge them...

Below is a photo of Fleur, Gemma and myself as we met for the first time! Love this photo :)

We then walked back to Selfridges and browsed the beautiful makeup counters as well as the "posh ladies clothes" (hahaa!) There was so many lovely things I could have bought but we all seemed to just browse and I came away empty handed :( probably the best thing for my credit card right now though to be honest! Woops. Oh, and who can resist a photo in the huuuge mirror? Not us ;)

 After shopping, we thought that the obvious place to spend the rest of the day was the Champagne Bar. A wise choice made by all. Me and Boo went for the very nice yet very expensive Pino Grigio, whilst Fleur, Gemma and Caroline ordered their Rum & Tonics "with a dash of lime" - which were yummy! The photographer/my boyfriend ordered the manly choice: Beer.

We all had so much to talk about and it almost fealt as if we had known each other longer!

Here is a picture of me with the gorgeous girlies, Fleur and Boo :)

All of the girls I met that day were so lovely and the whole experience was different from anything I have done before. I guess I am so used to hanging out with the same group of friends, it was nice to be refreshed with a group of new girls, and new conversation topics. We had so much in common with regards to YouTube and our general love for the internet the the conversation topics were flowing!

The day really inspired me to have my own meet-up, giving me the chance to meet these girls again, as well as meeting more of my own subscribers! So, I was thinking of having one on Saturday 4th September (this year! haha) in Leeds! I will crack on with organising it now and write up a whole blog post as well as making a video on my YouTube channel about it so that you can get all the details :)

I wanted to thank Gemma and Fleur for a lovely day and I can't wait to see you again soon!

Love,  Sara

Results Night Out Makeup

So the latest video to hit my YouTube channel was designed with celebrations in mind. I am due to get my A-Level results tomorrow (Thursday 19th August) and I am actually not nervous? All of my friends are soo worried about it but I guess I am little calmer as I'm not going to University. Anyway, back on to the makeup! I used a mixture of gold, bronze and black to create a nice smokey winged-out eye for the evenings events. Here are a few pics for you. Click them to enlarge them :)

The following picture was taken with the flash on so it shows off the makeup much better! 

A close up shot of the eye:

Here is just a geeky little scrunchy-face photo for the fun of it.

Here is the video showing how to achieve this look:

Let me know what you think :)

Junk Jewels

A few weeks ago I got a lovely little necklace and bracelet from a company called Junk Jewels. They are an online website that sell really cute gold and silver necklaces and bracelets. I have actually heard that Fern Cotton shops from them! You can check out the lovely little website here: http://www.junkjewels.co.uk/#

These are the things I got from the new collection...

 

This necklace is gold plated and features an anchor, heart shaped locket and a pink rose charm. I got the 17 inch chain which is £10.00 but you can get a longer chain of 30 inches, priced at £12.00. Cuuuuuute!

I then got this gold plated butterfly locket charm bracelet priced at £6.00. I got the smaller size for my skinny-binny wrists but it does come in a wider size for the same price :)

I would really encourage you to go and check out the website; some of the jewellery on there is to die for! Here are some of my top picks that I have my beady eye on ;)

Flying Swift Necklace

Gold Key Bracelet

Silver Branch Necklace

Silver Anchor Bracelet

Let me know what you like from the website!

Bye!

<3

Purple & Silver Sci-Fi Makeup

So I was supposed to be filming a 'Results Night Makeup Tutorial' today but due to not filming a makeup tutorial in foreverrrrr, I got a little makeup happy and it turned in to something kinda funky!? I'll post some pictures below for you. For those who still want the results night tutorial for Thursday evenings events, I will upload it either Friday or Saturday night for you :)

Have you checked out my groovy feather lashes!? They were £2 from good old Primark! Bargain. Anywayyy, I will put a link to the whole video with step-by-step instructions on how to get this look:

I hope you enjoyed the little post and I promise to update my blog more from now often :) I have much more time on my hands now so will be able to post more. Wahoooo!

Bye for now!