My Mac lip liner collection

Out of all the makeup bits I have from Mac I have found that I collect lip liner after lip liner, must be something to do with the vast amount of colours or their versatility. Sometimes I use them for the simple lip liner other times combined with a brush of Lush Honey Trap to my lips I apply a lip liner over and fill in all my lips leaving me satisfied with nice soft lips. 

I may not have tonnes of them but the ones I do have are each useful for their different reasons, I have some of the classic colours such as Spice and Soar after the Kylie Jenner lip hype but I also have colours that I heard from online such as in Youtuber LoveLaughandMakeup who recommended Dervish and Whirl in her Mac makeup Hauls. I managed to give each lip liner a run down and a swatch to explain the colours and their uses with a personal score at the end…

from top to bottom Beet, Nightmoth, Plum, Spice

Beet 8/10

described as a vivid reddish- pink I bought this lip liner to go with my M.A.C Red lipstick and the Editorial Reds lip pro palette which contains 6 of mac's most popular reddish lipsticks such as Lady Danger, Russian Red and Ruby Woo.

Nightmoth 9/10

described as a blackened plum this lipliner does wonders to go with lipsticks such as Dare You and Rebel, I originally bought this lip liner to try out some ombre lip looks with light lip sticks such as Russian Red for example and it looks amazing especially for a halloween look if your brave.

Plum 10/10

My all time FAVOURITE lip liner! The perfest gift from Nathan while he was deployed, I use this lip liner on a daily basis because it works so well, the colour is pretty much explained in the title although the swatch is very dark it is gorgeous! I usually pair this with Mac's Mehr which is described as a 'dirty blue pink' colour but more a dirty pink than blue and the two compliment each other so well as the lip liner gives it a darker edge to the lips. In my eyes a MUST HAVE!

Spice 10/10

described as 'pink cinnamon stick' this is the newest lip liner to my collection as a Christmas present of my mum as she knows about my lip liner obsession. This lipliner is very dark on me as I am pale but it does have some orange undertone underneath it. This for me is an adventurous lip liner due to its deep colour but I love it underneath light lip sticks so it can deepen the colour of the lipstick.

from top to bottom Whirl,Dervish,Soar,Boldly Bare

Whirl 8/10

described as a dusty-rose this lipliner is frequently called the Kylie Jenner lipliner, it is a perfect colour and one I have been looking for everywhere. I was lucky to pick this up for my birthday in September when Mac had received a whole new delivery of stock so they had all the popular colours in stock including this one. I enjoy also wearing this lipliner with Mac Mehr lipstick but also the Select Plum Pro Lip Palette which includes some beautiful autumnal colours such as Twig, Amorous and Cyber.

Dervish 8/10

known as a pinky mauve colour, with a highly pigment matte texture this lipliner is more like a pinky nude but it works perfectly for an everyday lip look. I came across this lipliner in LoveLaughandMakeup's What's in my makeup bag video and was going into mac frequently to purchase it but it was always unavailable but my mum finally bought it for me for doing well in my  university results. For the past couple of weeks this has been my go to lip liner along with Plum as they work well with my Select Plum pro lip palette as it is an easy go to look.

Soar 8/10

described as a mid tone pinkish brown it is a beautiful lip liner although the swatch picture does not do it justice. I loved this lip liner during the winter as it comes across like a brown with pink running throughout. I enjoy this with Please Me Lipstick from Mac and Captive from my Select Plums lip pro palette (can't you tell I'm a huge fan of those palettes hahaha). I find this lip liner out of most to be very long lasting given it is matte, I initially bought this lipliner along with Whirl and Spice because of online blogs saying they were the most popular so I wanted to find out for myself. A lot of people use these colours especially to recreate the Kylie Jenner lip look.

Boldly Bare 8/10

and last but not least my first ever mac lip liner, described as a medium orange-brown with a matte finish. As my first mac lip liner I paired this with mac's cremesheen Peach Blossom and totally fell in love I wore it everywhere shopping, to uni I was obsessed! This like most of the lip liners in this review are all year round lip liners because I don't think any are just for a certain season this lipliner however is so versatile. It is very close to my own lip colour but gives it a little more of a kick because it gives it a slight warmth.

Well thank you for reading my lip liner collection, hopefully I can collect more in the next coming months and do another post!

Army Relationships: 5 things you probably didn't know

For a very long time i have wanted to write my own blog mainly because I always have a lot to say and because I enjoy to write and share my thoughts with the people around me, even if no one was to read this. As of recent I became engaged to my boyfriend Nathan of a year and a half and I couldn't be any happier as he is such a sweetheart and its the cliche I feel I have known him for so much longer than almost 2 years. However, there are a few things i have noticed throughout this time that has either aggravated me or made me think 'why?!' so here goes '5 things I wasn't told before becoming a soldier's girlfriend….'

1. It's sooooooo vicious
Not just other girls but the mentality of it too, I am naturally a very shy and anxious person and with Nathan's job there are gonna be times like weddings and such where I am going to meet people he works with which is daunting enough. However, not all the time are these people exactly nice back it seem's like army lads have a very weird sense of humour like they LOVEEEEE to insult girls a lot and think they wont get offended or saying anything back. I'm 100% a hot head and when someone takes something too far I cannot bite my tongue especially if it involves anyone saying anything bad about Nathan because he works so hard to provide a future for us both.

This however is a minor issue in comparison to the dreaded 'army wives' this is the appropriate time to add in horror music because some of these ladies are on the dark side literally hahaha. I have only ever been to Nathan's army barracks twice as he is based down South and it is a four hour drive from Manchester to their and honestly I only go to spend time with Nathan with the pressure of family and everything sometimes you just want a break. Anyway, when visiting camp all the other soldiers I met were lovely however the girls/ladies for some reason are SO RUDE… for absolutely no reason see maybe its a location thing but even though I have anxiety I'm not rude to people, it it literally like a pack of lions that wait for a moment to attack with them staring and figuring out who you are and who you 'belong' too all while flipping their highlighted hair that Pam did from the local hairdressers hunnie xoxo.

Now Nathan is a pretty highly respected soldier in his battalion and everyone knows he's a hard working guy (well that's what he's told me hahaha) but to the wives hell no that does not matter because their husbands are top ranks like sergeants and corporals so they look down at you because your just a partner of a lance corporal or a fusilier. It's pretty harsh because not once will these women talk to you and have no clue who you are or what you do as a job but until your partner is a better rank you don't fit in, that's why I'm so thankful I don't live down South and do not have to deal with this everyday.

2. It makes you worry more than normal
When your other half is not in the army there is less of a chance they will get seriously hurt in comparison to a soldier's girlfriend that hears a lot of stories about someone accidentally firing a gun and killing her boyfriend or how much damage a mortar can do. It's like having a constant toothache and you hope they are okay but when you finally get a text you feel a little relieved but the feeling always comes back hahaha. Along with the constant fear of them getting hurt isn't enough there is also the worry of deployments, I have only had one major one so far and I hated every second even though I was happy he was having a great time when he wasn't working.

The only time I don't worry about Nathan is when we are together or when he is sleeping because I know he is safe or I'm by his side hahaha. The only nice thing about the deployment/training is when you receive unexpected texts and you appreciate what they are doing for you (maybe it's just the fact you miss them that makes you all sopey but it's a nice feeling) and the moment they return and you see them for the first time nothing compares to that moment.

3. Girls are desperate for a soldier
Linking back to the first reason girls in regards to soldiers are vicious, it seems like having a soldier as a boyfriend is a bragging right but when I met Nathan I had no clue he was in the army until he sent me a Snapchat at work and I was like ''oh you are in the army?" yet it never changed my opinion of him. It makes me proud of him but I have no need or want to scream it to the world because that is who he is and that is who I support. However, there are always people in this world that use situations for their own person gains. I have always had faith in Nathan and full trust as he has never gave me reasons to doubt him yet after his return from Canada I received a rather 'cruel' message shall I say from a random girl implying Nathan had been unfaithful and without even asking him I felt crushed and heartbroken but piecing it together I realised that Nathan had not done this and after speaking to Nathan's sergeant he told me girls do this a lot to ruin something special all because of jealousy and his wife told me the same that girls had this done to her several times. Honestly, it made me and Nathan closer and stuck the thought in my mind that you cannot trust everything someone says to you especially this stranger that I knew nothing about. That was 5 months ago now and me and Nathan are looking forward to getting our own place and two big dogs and just having a family.

'Sometimes some people just want to see the world burn' 

4. Everything feels a little rushed sometimes
This is probably a big one along with number 5 anyone reading this probably thinks 'she met her fiancé 18 months ago and you are already engaged thats so fast' but combined with the worry and the lack of time together every second together is special so engagements sometimes do come pretty quickly under this circumstance. I have had to explain this many times but when you feel like the person you love could go to work and be hurt or not come back at all due to a horrific accident then you kind of feel like you wanna be near them and be more than just a girlfriend/boyfriend because you never know how long you have together left. You just want to enjoy what little time you have and the more aggravation I get from wanting to be happy and an adult the more I distance myself from the people who don't agree (normally people who's opinions don't matter and don't know anything about my life or Nathan's).

5. Everyone thinks their opinion matters
This is the one that makes me want to scream, with the thought of an engagement and things being 'rushed' people around you suddenly assume their opinions are the centre of your attention and that you should listen to them. For a long time I was asked if being engaged was the right choice and honestly it is because I love Nathan I have known that since the moment I met him and I never understand when it became anyone's duty to stop two people making their relationship stronger. People have assumed that because they have been with their partner for longer that their next step is to get engaged but I shouldn't  because 'I haven't been through enough to know it's love and the right choice' but these opinions come from people who know very little of my relationship or about me and Nathan as people. Sometimes you just have to do what makes yourself happy and be a little selfish rather than making other happy.

Well thank you my lovelies for reading my first blog post! All my love,