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13.4.15

What’s in My Bag? – Spring Edition

These have to be one of my favourite posts to read, trawling blogs to see what people like to carry around with them on a daily basis. As I’m new to the game of blogging, I thought what better way to get to know than seeing exactly what I carry around with me everyday?

Handbag

My handbag is a River Island Beige Cream Contrast Gusset Frame Bag that I got last summer, I started using it again recently and I absolutely love it. I find that the beige and black colour goes with everything, from heading to work or going out in the evening. I particularly love how the yellow on the inside and the buckle brightens the bag and adds a spring time pop of colour.

Clinique Make-Up Bag

I use my Clinique make-up bag to carry around my beauty essentials for the day this bag is actually quite large for daily make-up essentials but the handbag is big enough for it, so I thought why not?

Purse

River Island coral and beige colour purse, its bright, and beautiful and has plenty of card space and a zipped coin compartment, which ticks the boxes for me when it comes to purses.

Perfume

My scent of the moment is Daisy Dream by Marc Jacobs this floral but fruity fragrance is so fresh and beautiful; it is my current go to scent for this time of year.

Tangle Teaser

Since getting my tangle teaser at Christmas, it pretty much goes everywhere with me. Having long hair means you have to leave the house prepared for any pre-empted hair disasters.

Notepad

I got this little A5 notepad in Paperchase a few months ago to stick in my handbag and jot down ideas for blogs etc and I thought the pattern was cute. Even though I can take notes on my phone, there is just something about using the old fashioned paper and pen technique of crossing of list items that I find satisfying.

Hand Cream

Soap&GloryHand Food Hand Cream is my favourite hand cream of the moment the 50ml bottle is handy for my handbag. The non-greasy quick drying nature of the cream as well as the signature scent makes it s front runner for my handbag.

Phone

Samsung S4 Mini – not much else I can say on this, an absolute essential to my handbag!

Everyday Essentials

Glasses – Morgan brown and turquoise

Deodorant – Sure – Invisible Pure Compressed

Nail File

Carmex Strawberry Lip Balm

Bourjois Rouge Edition Velvet lipstick Happy Nude Year

Maybelline BabyLips Balm Repair

What are your handbag essentials this season?

Bernadette

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Let's - Make - Up

After years of an unhealthy obsession with anything and everything make-up related, and with what can only be described as an unnecessarily large make-up collection over half of which was probably past the expiry date, I decided that as part of my goals for 2015 I would complete a professional make-up course to learn professional techniques and tips and tricks of the trade. With being more organised also a priority, I jumped right in, armed with my notepad and make-up brushes and attended Ciara Daly's Foundation Make-Up Course at the beginning of the year.

The class was an intimate group of 12 people from differing career paths and varying level of make-up experience, from beauticians looking to up-skill to beginners starting afresh. This course combined both theory and practical sessions and I found them both equally as fascinating.

A little about the course content; the course covered Kit Requirements, Tools of Application, Client & Skin Preparation, Make-Up Application Techniques from Concealing and Corrective Camouflage, Evening Glamour, Bridal Make-Up to make-up through the decades.

I absolutely loved this course, my passion for make-up has grown and I have a much clearer understanding of make-up, tools, products and techniques. This understanding of make-up has essentially enabled me to reduce my make-up collection to include only the products I require for my kit and not the free eye-shadow palette I got stuck to my Shout magazine in 2003. My passion and excitement has taken over my free time, from researching the best make-up products for the desired look to experimenting with new looks and techniques. I have been so inspired by the people I have met throughout the course, having a better understanding of the industry locally and nationally and I am so excited to be part of it.

I have shared the photos from my first professional photoshoot as a trained Make-Up Artist, which was so exciting! I chose to do a vintage bridal look, a fresh look with a 1920's vibe.

Model - Caroline Taylor, Photographer - Norwood Photography,
Make - Up and Styling by myself.