My Fall Essentials

Rather than doing a September favourites post I decided to do a fall favourites/essentials type post because Fall is quite possibly my favourite season, but I kinda say that about every season except Spring to be honest.

Except for my obvious essentials like big cosy sweaters, mug fulls of hot chocolate/coffee and new boots, three very important things to me during Fall are of course candles, dark lipsticks and even darker nails.

My darkest lipstick (Is it a lipstick? I'm never sure.) is my Apocalips in Eclipse which I adore and wear sooo often in the autumn/winter months. The Bourjois Colour Boost is a rather new addition to my collection but one that I am again loving! Its a strong, long lasting, glossy formula needing minimal touch ups.

Apocalips in left and Colour boost on the right

And two of my favourite autumn candles (the Sugar and Spice one from Tesco's is actually my favourite candle ever, even beating my yankee candles.) help make my bedroom smell like Autumn even if it isnt. The left one is from Tesco and smells delicious and the right one is a Glade Vanilla one which smells just like vanilla fudge and I loveeeeeee it.

And finally the two nail colours I have been swapping between over the last 3 weeks are Barry M Matte nail paint in Crush and a grey BeautyUK one that doesn't seem to have a name. Being the rebellious child that I am I have taken to painting my nails in my free periods at school :0 which inevitably means I end up with at least three dreadfully smudged. 

So there we go, a round up of a few of my autumn favourites, tell me yours so I can have a look...

Mini Makeup Haul and Review

All the cosmetics were on 3 for 2 at boots before Christmas, so I took the opportunity to stock up! :D

From left to right I brought Bourjois Delice de Poudre Bronzing Powder, Barry M Matte nail Varnish in crush, Rimmel London apocalips in Stellar and Maybelline the Falsies mascara.

Now for some mini little reviews...

This is how the matte nail varnish looks, personally I was a little disappointed as it didn't really seem all that matte to me. I prefer to wear it with a layer of clear nail varnish over it to make it normal and glossy because the colour is still absolutely gorgeous and the perfect wintery shade!

This is the first bronzer I have ever used and  to be honest I was a bit scared that it would make me look totally orange because I'm so pale thats why I picked up the lighter shade, though you can't really see much difference between  the two. I proceeded with caution and indeed ended up loving it! Its perfect to add a golden glow to my face especially during the winter and just generally stop me from looking so pale all the time.

This mascara has to be one of the best mascaras I have ever used. Before using this my favourite was probably l'oreal telescopic but after using this for a couple of weeks I believe I may have found my new favourite. It lengthens my eyelashes brilliantly and genuinely does make it look like I'm wearing false lashes if I curl my lashes and put on 2-3 coats.

This lip lacquer is absolutely brilliant! Its basically like a really pigmented lip gloss which stains your lips so even after the lipgloss wears off you are still left with a colour on your lips, thats not to say that the lip gloss isnt long lasting though. As a result I really do like it. It's also very  pigmented and they offer a great range of colours which made it rather hard to pick, I also really wanted Big Bang (The dark red) and phenomenon (The shimmerless nude). Although it looks quite orangey in this photo its more of a red-ish colour with a hint of pink I'd say.

I have also now brought Eclipse (plum colour) and Nude Eclipse (Nude Colour) because they are so brilliant! I'll post about them later too!

So what are your opinions on these products?