TOP FIVE AFFORDABLE MAKEUP PRODUCTS

There's something I have to confess... I own A LOT of drugstore makeup.  And I'm not ashamed, although my purse might be as I'm always spending! I just love makeup so much - all the colours and brands and designs and the packaging and the product itself and I could just go on and on and on. And after collecting makeup for at least 2 years now, I have come across some (affordable!) gems which I just have to share with you.

The first product is the Model and Co. Lip Laquer in the colour Creme Brulee. It's actually the perfect combination of nude and pink and has such great staying power that I've worn this non-stop since I bought it. I should probably give my other lip prods some love so they don't feel left out.

Next is Maybelline's Volum Express The Falsies Big Eyes Mascara (what a long name!). I swear this is the best mascara to ever grace the planet. It doesn't clump, smudge, or look cakey, instead it opens my eyes SO MUCH and makes my eyes look amazing. I love it!

I think my most used product out of all of these must be Rimmel's Professional Eyebrow Pencil. I have used it almost every single day since I purchased it, and I wouldn't want to live a day without it. What I love most about this is that I can choose how much I fill in my brows depending on my mood, the occasion, and the rest of my makeup. It's so buildable and results in such a nice finish.

I have been wearing Rimmel's 60 seconds nail polish in the shade Princess Pink non-stop this month. It is seriously the perfect natural colour - mostly nude but with the slightest hint of pink so that it is practically the same colour as my nails, but darker. The finish is so glossy and smooth, and I can even wear it to school without the teachers noticing and getting me in trouble for wearing nail polish.

Lastly I want to include my Mineral Primer from Nude by Nature, which for some reason isn't available anymore. This was the best I could find - I think it's the same product but with a different name and design. If I wear a BB-cream or foundation, this primer HAS to go under it. Without it everything slides off my oily face within 2 hours. Such a lifesaver.

Now, there's something I have to tell you all. As I am such a procrastinator and as a result don't post blog posts as much as I really should, I decided that this month I'm going to challenge myself to 2 or 3 good quality posts per week. Mondays will be "Makeup Monday", Fridays will be "Fashion Friday", and I might post a lifestyle post another time during the week  if I feel like it. Hopefully you're excited (I definitely am!) and have a fabulous rest of the week :)

Bridget xx

MY WINTER NAIL PICKS

So as we are well into winter now, I thought I'd better get around to doing a post on my favourite nail colours for this season. As you can see I'm really liking the blues, whites and silvers this season, and most of them are shimmery, too. I don't know why but these colours always appeal to me during the winter. It must remind me of the snow and the sky (although here in Perth it never snows)!

At the moment, as I type this, I'm wearing the glittery silver shade from OPI. I've had this polish for maybe 2 years now (is that bad? Is there an expiry date for nail polishes? I don't know), and I love it very very much. The two polishes from Polished London I picked up only very recently, and have only worn them once or twice but I'll be definitely wearing them again before winter ends. The Sally Hansen nail polish is my first one in her range, and I still haven't tried that! It looks absolutely gorgeous though, so I had to include it in this post. And lastly, the dark blue glittery polish from Formula X. I've had this for 3 months now and let me just say - the quality of this stuff is amazing. Even though I love getting cheap makeup and nail polish, the expensive stuff from high quality brands is always worth the buy. The Formula X polish was over triple the amount of the Polished London one, but was SO WORTH IT - it had great staying power, and the pigments were amazing.

From left to right: Polished London in Miss Navy, Formula X in Vortex, Triple Shine by Sally Hansen in the shade 170 - Great White, Polished London (again) in Notting Hill, and OPI in the shade 025 Corrination.

What nail polishes will you be wearing for the rest of winter? Leave me a comment below; I'd love to have a chat. Oh and how are you liking my new blog design?

Bridget xx

WINTER SHOE COLLECTION // LOOKBOOK

Hey girls!

Sorry I haven't been around for a while - just had mid year exams. SO stressful. Thankfully they are over, and I got the results I wanted! Yay! I'm now on holiday, so more blog posts will be coming for you soon. Stay tuned!

So for a while now I've been wanting to make videos on youtube to go along side my blog, and finally I have gotten around to making one. Hope you enjoy :)

Bridget xx

RIMMEL STAY MATTE PRESSED POWDER // REVIEW

Hey lovlies,

Here's what the packaging looks like - ooo very nice!

I love how the product is in the shape of a crown, it adds a really nice finish to the packaging. Over time the crown shape disappears as you use more of the product.

I have this product in translucent, but if I buy it again I think I will buy it in a darker colour, maybe 003, as the translucent shade made my face quite white (or maybe I was just using too much...).

The first time I bought this was maybe two years ago, and I've been using it ever since. I had heard many beauty youtubers talk about this product, so I though I'd buy it too to join in and see what the hype was about.

The Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder aims to keep your make-up in place for up to 5 hours, which isnt actually a very long time. I wear it to school. and as my school lasts for 6 hours I am very shiny by the end of the day (it doesn't help that I have naturally very oily skin.... *sad face*).

Overall, I really like this product if I am just going out for a few hours, as for me the shine control only lasts for 2 or 3 hours. A bit disappointing, but definitely worth they buy if you have dry, normal or combination skin.

What's your favourite powder?

Bridget xx

WINTER WISHLIST 2015

As it's like, practically winter now, I thought I'd better start thinking about the new outfits I want (not that I hadn't been thinking about them for the last few months or anything.... I totally have). Here are the pieces that I've found so far on my hunt for the perfect winter outfit:

Rimmel Kate Moss lipstick

Dotti Blazer

Katy Perry Killer Queen perfume

Ankle boots (google images)

Topshop knee-ripped skinny jeans

Frends headphones

H&M baseball top

Rimmel Apocalips lip laquer

Zara handbag

What do you think about the items I've chosen?

And most importantly, what's on your winter wishlist?

Bridget xx

15th BIRTHDAY // OUTFIT + DIARY

Hi everyone,

So, two days ago it was my 15th Birthday! I had such an amazing day. If you missed the post I did about turning 15 and my goals for the year, check it out here.

To start off the day I opened presents - yay! (also, a haul coming soon), and then we went out for breakfast.

We went to the Dome, where I had a bacon and eggs on toast with hash browns, mushrooms, baked beans, and avocado.

OOTD:

This is probably one of my favourite outfits for the autumn/winter season. I love the leather jacket so much, plus ripped jeans are my fave!

Jumper: Dotti

Leather Jacket: Dotti

Jeans: Lee Cooper

Shoes: Converse

Necklace: Thomas Sabo

We found this really cool wall by the restaurant, so I had to take the opportunity to take some really cool pictures! Let me know if you would like to see a tutorial on how I did my make-up, recently I have been using new products which I would love to share with you! 

Also, I recently got twitter! Follow me @westcoasttstyle, for updates, re-tweets and lots of fun stuff!

Bridget xx

THE LEIBSTER AWARD

Hey!

Just last month I was nominated by the gorgeous Cait from Beyond the Beauty Bag (beyondthebeautybag.blogspot.com) to do the Leibster award. Thanks you so much for that! 

If you didn't know, the Leibster award is a chance for bloggers to help get other small blogs noticed, which I think is such a cute idea!

Rules:
- Acknowledge the person who nominated you.
- Answer the questions given by the person who nominated you.
- Nominate 11 bloggers (if you can) and notify them. 
- Give them 11 questions to answer

My Questions:
1 // Why did you start blogging?
I've always love beauty, fashion and hairstyles, and one random day, over a year a go, I had an idea - I wanted to start a blog.

2// Where do you see yourself in ten years?
I'd love to be married, working at a teen fashion magazine (preferably DOLLY) or at a retail store. I'd also try pursuing a career in science, but I don't really know what options are out there. And obviously I'd love to continue blogging as that is my main passion, but overall I think my main goal is to be happy. :)

3 // High heels or flats?
Depends on the occasion! I love both too much ahah.

4 // What is your favourite thing to do to unwind?
Watching the latest episode of Arrow, reading a book or watching youtube

5 // Read the book or watch the movie?
Both! I'm one of those people who will almost always read the book before the movie, but then definitely go and see the movie afterward! The only time I wouldn't read the book first is if the library doesn't have it available fast enough (I get most of my books from the library as actually buying then is quite expensive as much as I love them).

6 // Which country would you love to visit?
Mykonos, Greece! It looks absolutely beautiful. Ad of course I would love to go back to France and England... I love them so much (and I've been there multiple times).

7// Favourite food?
I can't choose... but I think sushi, hot chips, and chocolate moose - they are AMAZING

8 // What's the one thing you cant live without? 
My phone... how would I contact anyone without it?

9 // If you could have any animal as a pet, what would it be? 
Wow - I have no idea! I've always loved white tigers... maybe a baby one of those.

10 // Favorite makeup brand? 
Maybelline... I love it so much! Most of my make-up is from there ahah.


11 // Winter or Summer?
This is probably the hardest question in the whole universe... I love both! Summer is so awesome because dresses and crop tops and BIKINIS... but you get hot and sweaty and the humidity makes my hair frizz and my make-up falls off. Winter is gorgeous, and the clothes are so cute, but somedays I have no energy to o anything as the weather is so depressing. I can't decide... sorry!

The blogs I nominate are:
http://www.jeansspaceblog.blogspot.co.nz
http://princesspearle.blogspot.com
http://xhelseamay.wordpress.com/
http://blogxchelsea.wordpress.com
http://isabelleonthemoon.blogspot.com.au
http://lifeolola.blogspot.co.nz/

Your Questions:
1 // Favourite blog?
2 // Favourite youtube channel?
3 // Dream job?
4 // Dream holiday destination?
5 // Newest item of clothing and why you love it?
6 // Newest pair of shoes and why you love them?
7 // Most read book?
8 // Most watched movie?
9 // Go-to outfit?
10 // Go-to hairstyle?
11 // Holy-grail make-up products?

Thanks again to Cait for nominating me, and I hope you enjoyed this post :)

Bridget xx

P.S. I was also nominated for the One Lovely Blog award, which you can read here.

WOULD YOU RATHER // BEAUTY EDITION

Hey everyone!

I thought that because you guys don't know my very well and I haven't introduced my self properly I would do this tag that I found. Enjoy!

Q // Would you rather go out with messy hair and nice make-up or nice hair and no make-up?

A // I think nice hair and no make-up, because I don't normally wear much make-up (well unless I'm going out somewhere spesh) and I sometimes have good hair days.

Q // Would you rather leave the house with an obvious foundation line or overdone blush?

A // Overdone blush... and I would use a matte blush so it looks like I've exercised instead of looking like I've had an accident with glitter.

Q // Would you rather have a bad orange-y spray tan or really weird tan lines that can't be covered?

A // I would rather have a bad spray tan that makes me look orange because, really, who says that I have to leave the house?

Q // Would you rather have a bad haircut or bad hair color?

A // With a bad haircut as I could wear a hat or style it up in braids, but a bad hair colour is impossible to hide. I'll go with the bad haircut.

Q //  Would you rather give up using makeup brushes or mascara?

A //  Mascara is my life. So obviously I have to give up make-up brushes (I would actually just use a beauty blender sponge for foundation instead...loopholes!)

Q // Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, lipsticks and lip-glosses or lose all of your palettes and eye-shadows?

A // Even though I said already that I can't live without mascara... I only have one (well you only really need one at a time - saves money and space). But I have 100 palettes and eye shadows so no way in the world would I want to loose them. And well yeah I love my lippies but I gotta keep my eye shadows.

Q // Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again? 

A // Let me tell you this now... I, will never, ever, ever chop off all my hair. Ever. I have to chose never cutting my hair again - and I would fix those pesky split ends with lots of hair masks and serums.

Q // Would you rather have a coral cheek or a pink cheek?

A // Not that I wear blush (I am naturally very pink-cheeked...unfortunately), but if I did, I would go with pink, not coral. I like to leave the coral trend to the lips.

Q // If you had $1000 to spend, would you rather buy clothes or make-up? 

A // CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES CLOTHES....

 I think you get the picture...ahaha. In all seriousness, I already have enough make-up, but, no girl EVER has enough clothes.

Q // Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner, or eyeliner as lipstick? 

A // Eyeliner as lipstick... because it would be like using lip-liner/pencil thing (same texture i mean). And you can get eyeliner in all sorts of colours. And seriously ewwwwwww gross imagine putting lipstick on your eyelid. Never.

Q // Would you rather only use one eyeshadow color or one lip color for the rest of your life? 

A // One eyeshadow colour (golden-brown) because I NEED my red, coral, nude and pink lips.

Q // Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?

A // What kind of question is this? ahaha. I think I would wear summer clothes all year round because it would be too hot in summer with winter clothes on.

Q // Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails all year round?

A // I don't really wear dark nails or bright nails, just neutrals. But I'll go with bright nails as they are nice and cheery.

Q // Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or your favorite eye product?

A // Well... I think lip product as I love my mascara way too much to give it up. I don't even think I have a favorite lip product (ooops).

Q // Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a ponytail or a messy bun? 

A // My hair is quite curly so it's really hard to get it in or out of a bun but ponytails make my hair look really good so I'll choose ponytail.

Q // Would your rather never be able to paint your nails again or never use lip-gloss?

A // I think never use lip-gloss because I quite like painting my nails and I have enough other lip products that work just as good - or even better - than lip gloss.

Q // Would you rather shave your eyebrows and have none at all or sharpie them in everyday? 

A // Take one moment to imagine how weird we would look without eyebrows. I can't even. I'd rather sharpie them in, and I would use a brown fine liner sharpie so it would replicate an eyebrow pen or eyebrow gel (oooo sneaky).

AND FINALLY...

Q // Would you rather live without makeup or without nail polish?

A // Definitely nail polish... make-up is amazing and I love it way to much. And nail polish always chips so easily (I'd get stick on nails instead haha).

Wow - that was a lot of questions! I hope you learnt more about me from this fun tag, and comment below if you enjoyed this style of post - I know I definitely did!

TTYL,

Bridget xx

P.S. I've just realised after reading and editing this post that instead of properly answering most of the questions I have just found a way around them... oopps. haha