Sweater Weather

Good evening my dears. Woke up today feeling relieved but also a bit sad at the fact yesterday was the last day of my BBC job. It’s been a hectic few months and now I can fully embrace unemployment until my next gig in January. I’ve got lots of catching up with family and friends to do, and some nice things planned for the coming weeks so I look forward to sharing them with you. YAY to a social life again! The early starts mean I still wake up early on my days off, so last weekend before a nice lunch with my Gran Liz I was able to indulge in taking a bit of time to get ready and do my hair and makeup properly (as opposed to looking a bit dishevelled during the week) and try out my new makeup from Bare Minerals, which I got after my make-under with them at the Glasgow Buchanan Galleries Boutique.

So, here’s my all star line up! From top to bottom, and left to right:

Touch Up Veil in Light, Ready Bronzer in Skinny Dip, Ready Blush in The Tease, Prime Time in Light, Marvelous Moxie Lipgloss in Rebel, Marvelous Moxie Lipliner in Empowered, Stroke Of Light Eye Brightener, Bare Skin Serum Foundation in Bare Natural, Lash Domination in Intense Black, Perfecting Face Brush, and Purely Nourishing Moisturiser

Here is all of the above on my wee face. I’ve had a less than satisfactory experience with Bare Minerals in the past with their pressed powder foundation, which seemed to cling to my skin in a scaly fashion and in ALL the wrong places. So I was a bit nervous about trying out their first liquid (well, serum!) foundation. But all my worries were over nothing and I was pleasantly surprised with how down right brilliant it is. Second round of nerves came when applying the foundation myself with the special brush, but it was actually pretty easy. You only need a few drops and you’re able to build it up to a heavier coverage if you were going on a night out for example, without it feeling or looking cakey. If I had to describe this combination of the primer, foundation and powder in one word it would be silky. The sort of face touching ‘oooooh’ silky.

This little group is taking permanent residence in my day to day makeup bag at the moment, with the addition of a black Estee Lauder gel eyeliner and my Benefit Browzings kit. It is literally all I need and is condensed enough to carry about with me on the move. I’d like to give special mention to the moisturiser which is really nourishing and my skin literally drinks it up! Also, the lipliner. It’s the perfect colour to wear on a daily basis that I can even have on it’s own blended into the rest of my lips. If you want to know any more specifics of each of the products just hit me up on twitter (@hellorogue) and I can tell you more. What suits my skin might not suit yours, but right now I’d like to thank Bare Minerals for eliminating my worried preconceptions and giving me a quick and easy daily winter makeup routine. HIGH FIVE.

Taking these photos make me realise that I majorly need a tripod, or someone to take outfit pictures for me! Myspace selfies are hard to do with a heavy SLR camera haha. So I apologise for that but hope you get the general idea. Now that I’m off work for a month and can actually plan out nice outfits each day I would love to do more outfit posts, if you’d like to see them of course?

Last friday I treated my Gran to lunch at Hutchesons in Glasgow (if you haven’t been yet, go, it’s amaze!) and we had their set lunch menu. It’s in the old National Trust building on Ingram Street and the interior is absolutely beautiful. I decided to go for a bit of double denim for a chilly day in town, with my loveheart shirt from Primark, fur lined denim jacket from Spartoo, and leopard print shoulder bag also from Spartoo. Black AA Disco pants not pictured because seriously, I mean it when I say I need someone to take my outfit photos haha. I have been wearing my personalised name necklace from Punky Pins all day, every day! Having quite an unusual name it’s always been hard to get personalised items straight off the shelf (take me back to being sad in the pencil case aisle at Tesco the week before going back to school) I had a few name necklaces from Punky Pins in my late teens and was pleased to see they are still going strong. They are one of the few online jewellery places I’ve bought from who have good prices and their necklaces don’t turn your neck green after 5 minutes. Winning.

With today being my first day off I managed to stay rather productive. I went to Bath Street Tattoo Collective to get a new tattoo from the lovely Rizza Boo who was doing a guest spot there (you can have a nosy on my instagram @hellorogue) then met a friend for coffee and managed to finish off my Christmas shopping. Tomorrow I am going Ice Skating at George Square and for lunch with my old flatmate, then going to the Biffy Clyro gig at night. Some other bits and pieces I’ve got to look forward to over the next few weeks are Blitzed next Saturday (which is a 1940’s themed club night) a few nights away at a wigwam with the girls on the Sunday, and a screening of The Wizard Of Oz with Jelly and Gin the following Thursday 18th. It’s the last of a few films they are showing (the other is Gremlins on the 11th) and it basically consists of eating and drinking bite sized food and cocktails along with the film, and Mr Wolf signals throughout the screening when you are to do so. Wizard of Oz is one of my all time favourite films, so safe to say I am excited and extremely intrigued is an understatement! I’ve never been to or heard of another event quite like it. Tickets are still on sale for pretty much all I have mentioned above (apart from Biffy Clyro, boooo) so let me know fellow Glasgow people if I will be seeing any of you there. December, you are an absolute gem already ♥