MAC Devilishly Dark Palette Review

Hi guys,

The other day I was shopping at Bicester Village ( an outlet where they sell end of line, high end clothing for a much cheaper price) when I went into one of my favourite stores-The Cosmetics Company.

I always wonder in admiring all the high end brands such as Bobbi Brown, MAC, Origins, Estee Lauder and Smashbox. I love having a browse and swatching all the lipsticks and eyeshadows. Whilst I was in the MAC section I saw this MAC palette which had some lovely colours which were nice and neutral with a yellow colour aswell. I bought it for £21 instead of £30 which made me very happy as eyeshadow pan's are £10 each as it is, let alone the case itself. This is something I had not seen before so I knew I needed to snap it up quick!

Top To Bottom: Manila Paper, Goldmine, Honey Lust & Devilishly Dark

I love how these swatch. They are so beautifully pigmented and the colour payoff is amazing! Here is the look I cam up with using these 4 colours:

I would highly recommend a palette like this if you are interested in a palette which can be used on a regular basis.I find that MAC eyeshadows really easy to blend and know that I will be purchasing more in the near future.

I hope you enjoy this blogpost!

Emily x x x

My Expedition To Nicaragua!

Hello everyone!

So I am finally back from the most incredible and most challenging experience of my life! I can honestly say that it was the most amazing month of my life. It was an experience that I will keep with me forever. It is very hard for me to put into words just how much I learnt and what we actually did out there because everyday we did something different. But lets start from the begining...

About 2 years ago our school had an assembly where one of our teachers talked about an expedition to Nicaragua in 2014. At the time I was in year 10 and hearing about this country and what we would be doing out there really made me think 'Wow, this is something I never usually would do but it sounds like a once in a life time opportunity'. After talking to my parents at home we decided to go to the after school evening where the company who we would be going with (Outlook Expeditions) gave a talk in detail about the expedition. After seeing the slideshow and video with people raving about their expedition I was sold.

After lots of fundraising, monday meetings (for literally years) Monday the 7th eleven of us left for our expedition to Nicaragua.

If I wrote about every single day I would be here forever. So instead I am going to show you pictures of my trip. I warn you now that they are not the best quality which is down to the fact that I took my old Fuji camera (fuchsia pink-I got it for my 13th birthday).I won't include group photos as some people may not want them to be posted on here. Here are some of my best photos of my expedition..

A Cathedral/ Bell Tower In Granada (first place we went to)

The View From The Top Of The Bell Tower

A Beautiful Cathedral In Granada

Volcano Conception (We Climbed For 6 1/2 hours and reached 1000 metres!)

Just To Put It Into Perspective

My First Homestay (We Slept In The Room On The Right)

At Our Homestay 30 Chickens Slept In Their Tree " Pollo In A Tree! "

We Worked On An Environmental Farm 'Bona Fide Project' For 6 Days (Link Will Be Below)

Beautiful Volcanoes

Leon

Leon Looking Beautiful

The Streets Of Leon

After Hiking For 7 Hours We Set Up Camp On Telica (Live Volcano)

On Top Of Telica

Sunset On Telica

Sunrise On Telica ( We Woke Up At 5 AM)

Telica

We Ran Down This Volcano

We Trekked 9 Hours To Get To This View

We Had Some R & R Time At This Beach

Sunset

Beautiful Sunset On The Beach

Boat Ride

We Camped At The Top Of This Canyon- Somoto

The Canyon

More Beautiful Sunsets

Here are just some of the pictures from my trip! I hope you enjoyed looking at them. If you ever get the opportunity to go on an expedition please please please do it! I honestly can't express how much I learnt and how much it improved me as a person. I learnt many things from this experience and created memories which will stay with me for life.

I have a beauty related post coming later this week!

Emily x x x