Colour

Spring is on its way! (Sort of). I love brighter clothing - although I do dress in black a lot, oops - and spring is the perfect opportunity to accessorise with bright colours. My favourite way to do this is to use bright bags; yellow, pink, green. LOVE.

Seeing as I tend to dress in darker colours (although I did buy a very pretty yellow blouse the other day, which doesn't really count as dark) I am all for spicing up my outfit with a pop of colour. My most recent bag purchase, a yellow bag - £17.99 from New Look, has come in particularly useful. Yellow is one of my favourite colours and a spacious bag is something I'm always lacking. Feels pretty good quality for the price as well, I'm very pleased with it.

I am extremely excited to bring these colours into the spring (although the green satchel was from an AW14 collection - seems more of a Spring colour to me) and for the weather to make it easier to be more colourful. And to ditch coats, they get in my way.

Do any of you like colourful bags/accessories/clothing? I just think it's a lovely way to make your outfit more interesting.

Thanks for reading,
Eleanor xx

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MAC Lipstick Collection

In the last month or two I have purchased a few MAC lipsticks and I have definitely been enjoying them quite a lot as would be expected from a lover of lipstick like me. I am fairly new to more expensive make up so MAC isn't a brand I have owned a lot of products from before so my collection is only just beginning and hopefully will continue to grow in the coming months/years. If anyone is reading I would love it if you could recommend some good ones as I'm kind of spoiled for choice whenever I'm at the MAC counter! Currently considering getting Impassioned.
I have 3 lipsticks from MAC at the moment (pictured below in the following order) - Angel, Bombshell + New York Apple.

If you are familiar with these lipsticks you may well have noticed that they are all of the Frost finish. This was far from intentional, these were simply the colours which I happened to like (please bear in mind that the swatches provided aren't particularly good as my camera hates me today). I am definitely interested in trying some of the other finishes when I next buy a MAC lipstick.

Angel is a fairly subtle baby pink colour that edges towards a nude, although I definitely wouldn't describe it as a nude. I really like this colour but I wear it the least as unfortunately it melted slightly and snapped off. It is now partially reassembled but I'm wary of breaking it again. May repurchase to avoid the the stress of breaking it. You could definitely wear this as an everyday lipstick and would not have to be reserved for more exciting occasions.

Much brighter than Angel, Bombshell is an eye-catching pink colour. I typically wear a pink lip rather than a red so these two lipsticks are great for me. I find it to be the least moisturising of the three but isn't particularly drying compared to some lipsticks I have.

My favourite (and the most recently purchased) of the lipsticks is New York Apple. It's such a gorgeous berry red that you could either play up for the evening or down to wear casually. It is also the most moisturising of the three from my experiences so far. I just love the colour and I feel that it would look good on most skin tones and I also think that it would be more suitable for the Autumn/Fall and Winter months so I look forward to getting a lot of wear from it soon!