December Empties / Products I've Used Up

What better way to round off the year than with an Empties post.  Here are the last bunch of products that will be hitting the recycling bin for 2013.

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September Favourites

Is it October already?!  Time for me to do a recap of my most loved beauty products for the previous month then?  Here are my September Favourites in all their glory:-

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Tag: 10 Products I Would Repurchase

There have been some good tags doing the rounds on the blogosphere once again, and this one has been a recent favourite mine to read.  These are the 10 products that I would repurchase straight away if they randomly decided to disappear one day!  It was very difficult to pick just 10 of course, so all of these naturally fall into that coveted Holy Grail pile for me and represent just a handful of the insane amount of products that I use on a regular basis.  I was tagged by CSI Beauty and I tag any #bbloggers who are reading this and fancy doing it!

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Tag: How Much is My Face Worth?

This tag has been circulating the blogosphere recently and I've been enjoying reading everyone's posts so much that I thought I'd join in and do one myself.  So how much do you think my face is worth?

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Review: Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda Concealer Palette

They say good things come to those who wait and that's certainly been the case with this palette!  Say hello to my current HG concealer.

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My US Drugstore Make-Up Swap!

After seeing Alex's awesome US make-up swap that she did with Betzy, I decided I wanted to do one ASAP!  I've done a few make-up swaps in the past, but never with anyone overseas before, so I was beyond excited to get my hands on some products that you can't easily get hold of here in the UK.  I contacted Betzy and we arranged the swap.  We decided on a budget (all drugstore/highstreet) and what products we wanted from each other in advance, and then it was just a case of going shopping to pick everything up!

We did run into some delivery issues as my parcel randomly got held up by US Customs (I'm guessing because there were liquids involved?), but it finally arrived safely this morning and I couldn't wait to open it.

The goodies! Betzy suggested I try something from Milani, so I opted for one of their well loved eyeliners.  I got the Milani Infinite Liquid Eyeliner in 04 Forever, which is a beautiful rich metallic bronze shade, perfect for summer.  I've wanted to try out some of the famed NYX Powder Blushers for a while and I received one called Pinched,  a pretty peach shade with subtle silver shimmer.

Some products that I absolutely knew I wanted to get were some of the Revlon Lip Butter shades which were only available in the US.  I was sent two; Sugar Plum and Fig Jam, both of which I love and I'm so happy to have them in my collection.  Another product I had been coveting for some time and dying to try out was the Sonia Kashuk Hidden Agenda Concealer Palette which are a lot of Youtubers like Missglamorazzi often rave about.  So excited to try this out!

I'd also been eyeing the Wet 'n' Wild Coloricon Eyeshadow Trios and asked for one in neutral shades.  I got Silent Treatment which is gorgeous and Betzy also got me another one as an extra called Don't Steal My Thunder which looks great for doing a smokey eye with.  She also kindly gave me two Wet 'n' Wild Coloricon Shimmer Eye Pencils in Black and Copper, both of which look very pretty.

I am so pleased with everything and can't wait to try it all out, I'm going to be in swatching heaven!  You can see what I got Betzy over on her blog here.

Have you ever done an international swap like this?  Would you like to see any reviews for any of the above? 

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