WHAT'S IN MY MOBILE MAKEUP BAG (MMB)

Hey Guys,

Super-quick post to share the contents of my MMB. The last time I did a post like this was 3years ago, how insane is that! The pictures are so shoddy, it's a miracle I still had people reading my posts at the time. If you have been a reader that long and you're still here, can I just say THANK YOU! You the real MVP! lol. You can view that post here.

I posted the picture below on my instagram page (@BeautyInLagos) on a whim yesterday, and a follower suggested I do a post on the blog as well. I'm just going to list the products, if you've got any questions about them leave me a comment and I will respond.

1. Dr. Lipp Original Nipple Balm For Lips
2. BMPro Matte Lipgloss 'Redd'
3. MAC Creme Sheen Lipstick 'Creme Cup'
4. MAC Creme Sheen Lipstick 'Peach Blossom'
5. YSL Mirror
6. E.L.F. Kabuki Face Brush
7. L.A. Colors Lip Pencil 'Capuccino'
8. Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder 
9. Perfume Atomizer
10. Bag Hook
11. Sleek Makeup Blot Sheets
12. Mini Nail File

What Makeup do you carry around?

Laters,

Ez xxX

TAG POST - What's in My Bag

Hiya Beauty-Lovers! Hope you are all well and had a restful weekend

So I was tagged by the lovely Barbara who blogs over at http://barbsiesmusings.blogspot.com to do a 'What's in My Bag' Post.

I know I had mentioned before here, that I love these sort of posts because it kind of allows you to know a bit more about the person behind the blog. So without much further-a-do......

Ta-da!! So here's the bag I tend to carry around a lot during the week. I rotate bags quite a bit, especially at the weekend, but during the week I like to stick to just 1 bag (2 at the most!) because I need a lot of essentials and I tend to forget to move some of them across to the new bag. You won't believe the number of times I have had to send for my electronic fob because I forgot it at home, in a bag I changed the night before.

I love this bag because its nice and big, don't know if you can tell from the picture. But it fits in all that I need on a day-to-day basis and more. I've had this bag for quite a long time, I'd say roughly about 4years now! And it is still going strong! :)

And here are the contents:

1.) Little Ankara-fabric purse where I keep all my change (N5, N20 & N50 notes). My Aunt gave this to me.

2.) My 2013 Dairy/Planner. I am always jotting things down and planning my to-do lists in advance.

3.) You can't really see it, but that's my office Identification Card (I.D.) clip-on holder.

4.) My Mobile Makeup Bag. The contents change quite a lot, but you can get the general idea from this here post I did a while ago

5.) iPad. I love watching Youtube beauty tutorials and this aids my addiction whilst on the move.

6.) Mini Sure Deodorant spray can. ALWAYS a necessity, you never know when you might need it.

7.) Soap & Glory 'Hand Food' hand-cream also a necessity. Love love love this hand-cream :)

8.) Bath & Body Works 'Vanilla Sprinkle Cookie' Antibacterial Hand Gel. Hate hand-shakes *ack* and I happen to have to shake people A LOT *shudder*. So I run through these like water. But I always wash my hands as soon as I can!

9.) Orbit Chewing Gum

10.) Advil Painkillers. Very handy, I hardly get headaches, but when I do it's usually from the heat.

11.) Wallet. Got all my bank cards,complimentary cards, few receipts and of  course, cash in there.

12.) Work keys and electronic fob.

13.) Home keys

14.) Blackberry, my other BB crashed the day before I took this picture, so had to crawl back to using my old bb. It's an oldie but a goodie! :)

15.) Official phone. This is only turned-on at office hours i.e. 8am-5pm Mon-Friday. Yes, I am serious :| 

16.) My Sunglasses. Also a necessity for me, unless I haven't got my lenses in that day and have to wear my prescription glasses.

17.) And of course my iPhone, which was used to take this here photo!

There you have it! The contents of my bag, hope you enjoyed this post and thanks Barbara for the tag :)

Laters,

Ez xxX

Outfit Of The Day - OOTD

The other day..

Cousin 'IT' (Addams Family) lol

Palazzo Pants: Mango N13,900

Mango Store

The Palms Shopping Mall
Lekki

Enjoy your weekend!

Laters,

Ez xxX

Haul Post - Lagos Makeup Fair

Hi Everyone!
So, as promised, I got a few items from the LMUF last weekend and I did say I was gonna share with you all what I got. So enjoy!

 First item I got was from Sacred.

It's a MAC PlushGlass lipgloss called 'Butterfly Dream' and it's  not opaque at all.

You can see the shimmer in this picture

In fact I'll describe it as a sheer purple gloss with blue, purple and silver shimmer running through it. I do notice a little sheen of color when it's on my lips. But for the most part it's really sheer but very glossy. Oh, not sure you guys know this but the 'Plush Glass' formula glosses from MAC are actually 'plumping glosses'. That is they plump up your lip to make them appear fuller. So this lipgloss does sting a little like all other plumping glosses.

The 'Plush Glass' formula is really just to give a high-shine glossy effect. I just wanted a gloss I can wear when I don't feel like wearing color on my lips, but still want it to look like 'interesting'.. Can't really explain it.

MAC PlushGlass 'Butterfly Dream': N3650
Vendor: Sacred.
Email: admin@mysacredbeauty.com
Website: www.mysacredbeauty.com
Telephone: +234 80 76 76 76 76

BarryM Cosmestics!!!

BarryM Cosmetics Nail Polish "Matte White 66': N960

So last week was the MTV VMAs and I noticed Rihanna's toenails on the red carpet were White! I thought, I need me some white toenails too. So this was just perfect, got myself a nail polish from BarryM called 'Matt White', and it's a true-white color. I hate when white nail-polish isn't white-white! 

BarryM Lipstick '153': N1860

The Lipstick color is number '153' and it's a nice coral-pink. This so weird because the other day I was after a Coral lipstick (even tweeted about it) and I found THIS at the fair... FATE! The texture is like the typical BarryM creamy and the color payoff is awesome. Very opaque. Can't type a proper review till I've used it for a few weeks.

Vendor: Monade Skincare

Brand: BarryM

Office Address: Shop 020 Abeni Shopping Plaza II

                          52B Ligali Ayorinde Roundabout,

                          off Muri Okunola, VI Lagos.

Telephone: +234 802 761 4607 & +234 704 417 9462

Email: monadeskincare@gmail.com

So, funny story. I love using NYX Jumbo Eye Pencils as a base for my eyeshadows. I feel they really make my eyeshadow pop. I've got the white jumbo pencil (Milk) and the black (Black Bean). I use the white one when I'm going for a bridal-esque look and the black is a perfect base when I want to do a smokey eye. SO BACK TO MY STORY, I saw the pens and thought "yay more jumbo pencils for me". Picked the colors I wanted, paid for them, got home to take pictures for this post and noticed that they are actually infact LIP PENCILS! Jumbo LIP Pencils. I got the wrong ones!! hahahah!. In all my excitement, I forgot to actually CHECK what I was getting. But you know what? I'm still going to use them on my eyes.

I got three pencils.

NYX Jumbo Lip Pencils '703 Pink Nude' & '708 Iced Mocha': N1800 each

They would work as eyeshadow bases, don't you think? Who would wear such colors on their lips anyway (totally trying to convince myself here. work with me! lol)

NYX Long Pencil Lip 'LPL18 Pinky': N1800 

The lip pencil is a gorgeous really bright deep-pink! Very bold color. It reminds me of MAC's 'Girl About Town' Lipstick.

Vendor: Gifty's Daughter Beauty Attrium

Brand: NYX

Addresses: 6, Khana Street

                  D/Line, Port Harcourt

                  Rivers State.

                  Suite A7 Galleria Shopping

                  Complex, INEC Road,

                  Yenagoa, Bayelsa State

Telephone: +234 803 336 8927 & +234 805 165 4105

(Typing this address up for the NYX vendor I'm like "OMG THEY ARE NOT IN LAGOS!!!! WHYYYYYY!". Like seriously? In London I have to order it online and then in Lagos I'm gonna have to get them to deliver as well. NYX, Y U NO LIKE ME?)

And now for the Pièce De Résistance !

I got an acrylic stand! In Lagos, yes! 

Its got four levels and three cylinder-like holes running up one side.

It was really weird, my girl was talking to the lady at the stand telling her about my makeup acrylic drawers. Showing her pictures and asking if she had anything similar. And the lady explained to us that why she doesn't bring a lot of these acrylic stands in is because they are very fragile and always break. 

Acrylic Stand: N3500

And I totally understood her, because the way I got mine safely to Lagos was I put them in my pull-man. Like that was ALL I had in my little suitcase, I sacrificed my laptop, some powder makeup and a bunch of other stuff for those drawers to make it to Lagos safely. Ridiculous.

Soon as I saw it, I knew what I wanted to use it for. A stand for my nailpolish. This did not take up all my polish, so I'm going to buy another. My friends also go one each and they're using theirs for their makeup and brushes. I'll take a picture of theirs and write up a little post on it to give you guys more ideas on what to do with the stand. 

Unfortunately I haven't got any contact details for this vendor yet, but Mo' got her number so I'll get that off her and update this post with them. This Vendor had other acrylic stands, there was one with little holes for lipsticks (think you can see that in my sneak peak photo in the other LMUF post)

UPDATE!! Vendor Details!

Vendor: Hegai & Esther Makeup solutions

Address: 25, Akinsanya street, Taiwo bus stop Ojodu Berger

Telephone Numbers08128145774, 08066740850, 08035806183

Email Address: hegai.esther@gmail.com

Facebook Page: Hegai Esther Makeup Solutions

So that's all I got from the Fair. I haven't used any of the makeup yet ( I just got them), so can't do a proper review. I will have up reviews in a couple weeks, let you all know how I get on! Hope you guys enjoyed looking at what I got. Let me know what you  got if you attended the fair and also please tell me if you contact/visit any of these vendors, I wanna know what you get (nosey..lol) 

What do you think about the LMUF? 'Waste of Time' or 'Awesome Concept'?

Laters,

Ez xxX

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How I Store My Makeup

So I am kind of continuing with my 'personal' posts. I did ask you guys if you'd be interested in these sort of posts and the answer was an affirmative! lol.

Ok, so to start off, this isn't all the makeup I own, they are literally all over the place from bags, to cupboards. BUT, this IS most of the stuff I own.... and NO I do not use everything at once. Half of the time I forget about what I've got, this was the main reason behind me getting one these transparent stackable acrylic boxes. So I can see all I've got and it makes my makeup selection process much much easier.

So here's pretty-much how I store all my makeup. These are all sat on my vanity table in my room. I'll break it down bit by bit

 This is an acrylic rectangular open-top box (mouthful!!), It is not described to be used as a makeup holder or anything. But as soon as I saw it I knew what and what to put in it.

Its got three sections in it. From left to right I store my under-eye concealers, got my YSL Touche Eclat, Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection concealer, Garnier Under eye roll-on. Also got my everyday mascara and liquid liners, hair scissors and UD primer and my TBS blemish stick. In the middle compartment I've got some brushes (mostly eye and concealer brushes), lipliners and lipsticks. And in the last compartment I've got all my colored eyeliners and eyebrow pencils.

This is how I store my brushes (TBS, MAC, Blush Beauty & Real Techniques). The one on the left is actually a cup and the little masking tap that sits at the bottom is used as a little makeup trick I learnt (might do a post on this) and the right is a cookie jar. You guys won't believe what I use the top of the jar for...

Yezzir! THAT'S the top of the cookie jar that stores my brushes. I looked at it and thought, this can be used to store some makeup too.

It's kind of like my brow-grooming kit. In it Ive got my Tweezerman tweezers (best tweezers ever! by the way), a spoolie, lip brush which I use to apply concealer around my brows, sharpener, Maybelline gel liner and brush. I reach for most of these items everyday, especially the spoolie and gel liner. So it's very convenient that it's all stored this way.

These are my stackable acrylic drawers. I bought them in three separate sets. The top one opens two different ways, it can be pulled out like the rest of the drawers and the top can also be lifted open. The middle two drawers come together and then I bought the bottom one separately.

I keep my Liquid Foundations, Tinted Moisturisers, Face lotions, LipBalm, LipScrub, and a few Eyeshadows on the top.

First Drawer: Powders, Bronzers, Contour Palette (Sleek) and Concealer

Second Drawer: Mascara's, NYX Jumbo Pens, Primer, Black Kohl Eyeliners, Liquid Liners, Spoolies, LipLiner

Third Drawer: Blushers & Highlighters

Bottom Drawer: LipSticks and Glosses and a Brow Kit... Actually after looking at these photos think I should move my brow kit to the second drawer, with the mascaras and stuff. (At least I got something out of this post).

This is one of the cupboards in my vanity table. I've got all my Sleek Palettes (they're all underneath the MUA one you can see on the right) and my body shop cubes (top left), BarryM dazzle dust, some MAC shadows, lip balms and also my 'extra' makeup, for when I run out. There's quite a bit in the back of the cupboard and I also store some in a different cupboard. But they're quite hard to photograph, so didn't bother taking pictures.


So yeah, that's my main makeup storage. A bit photo-heavy, but you asked for it! Hope you enjoyed this post and maybe I've given someone some idea on how a little glass cup at home could be used as a makeup brush holder. I'd like to know some of you guys innovative makeup storage, cos I need some!

So tell me, what's your innovative makeup storage item?

Laters,

Ez xxX


I know I may have used a lot of abbreviations for my makeup, but I was trying to minimize my word count on this post. If you would like to know what a particular abbreviation means just ask in the comment box below! :)

What's in My MakeUp Bag

Hi Guys!
So this is a post I LOVE reading from my favourite bloggers, and I thought "why don't a do one as well". I am such a nosey person in bloggerville. I love when bloggers do a 'What's in my bag' post, or 'How I store my makeup', or 'What I am wearing today'. These posts tell you a little bit more about the person, and most bloggers (myself included), don't really share their personal life on here, but a post like this makes you feel like you have been allowed to share in a bit of their life. Ok maybe not a 'What's in a MakeUp bag' post, but I am hoping you get my drift.

So on Instagram yesterday (Username: @BeautyInLagos), I posted a picture of my Mobile Makeup Bag (MMB), essentially the makeup I have on me when I am on the go. And I got the idea to do a post on it. Hope you like!

So here's my makeup bag. It actually came in a pack of 3 different sized bags, this is the smallest. I use the large one when I have to travel, it takes most of the makeup I need. The medium one used to be my mobile makeup bag, but I felt because it was big, I'd stuff sooooo much makeup I didn't necessarily need in it and it'll make my bag so heavy. SO yeah... downsizing was a necessity

Here's everything in it. I'll do a close-up of the contents in groups of Lips, Face and Eyes. I have only just realized this isn't everything, didn't get a picture of that d'oh lol

Lips:

I always have a light brown lip-liner, works perfectly with nude-lips. Mine's from LA Colors and it's called Capuccino. The popular one is 'BBQ' by MAC.

I always have a nude/pink-toned lippie and a bright/bold lippie, just incase I need to transition from day-to-night on the move. These are by TopShop makeup.These colours change week by week, or within the week; depending on my mood.

This lip balm is one of those 'Oh wow! this is amazing' products. I didn't expect this to do much because it's on of the items thats stuffed in those airline washbags, in this case it was in my British Airways one. I just thought to try it out whilst on the plane (I never bother with the bags, just the toothbrush and paste to use right before landing), and I was pleasantly surprised. Wish I had asked for some more now.

Face:

Kabuki brushes have got to be the BEST thing's ever. Small, dense bristles packed together nicely and picks up just enough product. These brushes are nice and convenient for powder touch-ups on the go. The other brush used to be for my powder touch-up, but now that the kabuki is in my life I have moved this up to be my blush brush on the go.

I ALWAYS have my blot powder with me. Sometimes I use blot paper instead (not pictured). I don't ever touch-up my makeup with actual powder. I feel our climate is faaar too humid to be reapplying powder every single time you get a 'shine', err hello 'CAKEY FACE', no thank you! This blot powder works perfectly for me and I have been using it for yearrsss without a single complaint. As you can see I have already hit pan, love it that much.

Higlighter always necessary when I feel like my face needs a little 'lift'. I can change my highlighter twice in a week, depends on the look I'm going for that day. This one is the popular 'Albatross' highlighter by NARS. I spend all week in the office and it can get a little dull in there, sweeping some highlighter on my cheekbones and down the bridge of my nose really does lift my mood some.

I ALWAYS have a peachy-toned blush with me. I feel like warm-toned blushes will work with nearly every makeup look one has going that day. Cooler-tones are a little more limiting, in my opinion.


Eyes:

There's just the one item for eyes in my bag. I always use eye primers before my eyeliners/shadows go on, and I they last all day for me. So I never need touch-ups in that department. However, I do need to touchup my waterline and tightline, cos these just don't stay put. This eyeliner by MUA is very pigmented and does the job perfectly, it even has a nifty little sharpener perfect when on the go.


So there's everything in my MMB! Do you think that's a lot of makeup to be lugging around? I don't think so, ESPECIALLY when I know I have downsized A LOT this month, you should've seen my bag in June.. So I need a pat on the back for this.lol. Hopefully I've inspired someone to put one extra item in their MMB or even start carrying an MMB around :D

So tell me, What's in your Mobile MakeUp Bag?

Laters,
Ez xxX

Let me know if you are interested in more personal posts like this. Like a 'What I wore today', 'How I store my makeup', stuff like that. I can understand if you guys won't be interested as most of these things aren't exactly available in Lagos. But if they are I'll be sure to update this post.