~*~ REVIEW ~*~ Etude House Dear Girls Oil Control Pact - Positive

Hello Everyone!

I recently purchased a small haul of make up! After posting a photo to the sites Facebook page quite a few people asked me to review my purchases when they arrived, so as promised, here's a review for the first that arrived, Etude House's Dear Girls Oil pact.

Now, my reason for purchasing this is quite simple, I suffer from combination skin and usually use a UK purchased coloured powder compact to combat this, which was all fine and dandy until I realised that despite trying several different brands, both high and low brand, NONE of them match my skin tone. Not even close. (Don't get me started on foundation, that's a story for another day!) The closet match I could find was oddly Poundlands own brand, but it seems like this is never in stock in the right shade.

So off I set on the internet to try and find something that was suitable for combination skin that wouldn't leave me looking like a can of Tango. I did consider buying the same pact I had before from Etude house but I couldn't find any for sale and came across the Dear Girls pact and Zero Sebum. I went for the Dear Girls powder as I wanted a compact I could easily throw in my bag and take out and about with me. So I placed my order online (This was not direct from Etude but the AU Rose Rose shop.) Then waited for my make up to turn up! This didn't take very long to arrive at all and came wrapped up in bubble wrap in a sturdy box.

First things first, look out how cute the packaging is! I really love Etude's attention to detail with these boxes, they are always bright and happy looking. The box also has the ingredients list and other useful information in Korean and in English.

Inside was the compact! This is made of a smooth plastic with the Dear Girls logo on it. It feels very well made and is easy to open, but not so easy that it would come open in your bag.

Opening the compact you'll find a mirror, a sponge for applying the power and the powder itself. The mirror is great, it's very clear and not blurred at all.

The powder has an adorable bird design on it! It smells quite delicate and isn't heavily fragranced.

The puff is perfect for picking up just the right amount of powder and lets you apply it where you need it smoothly. It's very easy to apply as it just glides on. 

Being white I was a little worried this would wash me out as I am already quite pale, but it didn't at all. (I didn't blend this in so well on my hand so you could see where the powder was, else it's fairly invisible!) I was really pleased with how long this lasted - I usually apply make up before leaving for work (around 6:30-7:15am) and this lasted till about 3:00pm before I needed to touch it up! It's also very light so it doesn't feel like your skin is caked in powder.

I'm really pleased with this purchase and I'd definitely buy it again. At just under £5 I think this is well worth the price as a little goes quite a long way too!

Have you tried out this compact before? Let me know you thoughts in the comments!

Ta-Ta for now,

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An interview with Chiichanny!

Hello Everyone!

Today I have a very special interview for you! I think by now that you've seen my gorgeous little Becky logo up in the banner - the gorgeous Chiichanny created her for me on commission! Chiichanny has agreed to a fun little interview with myself so you can learn more about her and her beautiful art!

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Q: Your artist name is Chiichanny - who is behind Chiichanny and what made you pick the name, tell us a bit about yourself?

HEYA! yep im known as Chiichanny, but the lady behind the alias is Jade Love ::waves::

My name is a small but I guess kinda funny story, the first anime I ever fully watched from start to end was Chobits and I completely adored it, with Chii being my favourite character, when I finally got to the online world, I tried to join a forum and chii/chii-chan and all the sorts were taken, so I remixed it and decided to go with Chiichanny all as one word and it just kinda stuck from there haha. I think if I could go back in time and pick another name for my artist alias I probably would have, but after having the name for about 10 years, I just felt that it was too late to change my Alias now when many people out there DO know me as chiichanny, so yeah. As for more about me, I'm Female, live in the UK and I'm currently 24, my star sign is a scorpio and zodiac is a Horse... I'M A SCORPION HORSE a Horpio

Q: How long have you been an artist? What made you decide to share your beautiful art with the world?

Since I could hold a pen, scribble on walls, floors, anywhere haha. I didnt start taking it seriously til I was about 13 and I just knew that art was my passion and something I really loved doing, so I tried to keep taking it to the next level, when I was 14 I started going on art forums and such and I just kept going from there! I joined Deviantart about 8/9 years ago to share my work around, at the time I just wanted others to see, what is the point of doing anything if no one will ever know about it? ^^

Q: What inspires you?

Anything and Everything, I get inspired at random, ideas will just appear from the most random things and I'll want to draw it. It can be a puddle, a cloud, some rubbish or I'll just randomly think of something, its hard question to answer for me because its never consistent!

Q: What is your favourite medium to work with?

Although I love digital, I love Paint, pencils and markers for my traditional work.

Q: How do you think your art style has changed over the last few years?

Well when I first started I was drawing realism because at schools and such this is what they taught you, when I discovered video games and anime, my work progressed, I was drawing characters from the shows and when I got older I was confident enough to make my own characters, since then I've been evolving my work to reflect myself, my feelings and who I am inside.

Q: What would you like to achieve in the future?

I'd love to make a living out of my work, sell at conventions, online, and such. I want to make comic books, have a business with lots of hand made dolls to sell and then human clothes, accessories and more!

Q: It takes a lot of work to start a company, with Amare Dolls/Chiichanny what so far as been the most straight forward thing and what has been more complicated?

Gosh it is! for Amare Dolls, the most straight forward thing was designing the doll itself and then next to that is making it, that was the easiest part! The hardest part is the casting process, I had so many problems, like bubbles, leaking moulds, pimples, specs... I almost gave up at one point, but with help I finally got there! For my Art work, the idea is the easiest part, I have so many idea, the problem is making sure they are right and come across correctly once I'm drawing it, thats the hard part ^^

Q: Do you have a favourite piece of artwork by yourself?

I have two actually!

The first is the Huntress and the second is Butterfly Decay, even though I haven't finished Butterfly decay yet, I just like it!

Q: Where would you like to be in a years time?

Hmmmmmm I'd like to have my comic done, and I'd like to be earning at least part time minimum wage from my art and dolls by that point also haha. And have a years supply of Arizona Green Tea with Honey ... I'm addicted to it atm...

Q: If you could have any job in the world what would it be?

If I could have any part time paid job that I could just do whenever, I'd love to be a food and event critique, because I think I'd enjoy that in a wierd way XD

And just for fun!

Q: If you could have any job in the world what would it be?

If I could have any part time paid job that I could just do whenever, I'd love to be a food and event critique, because I think I'd enjoy that in a wierd way XD

(GIMME ALL YER FOOD!)

Q: Do you have a favourite character/TV Show?

I HAVE TOO MANY! Y U do this!Ok, its list time!The Walking Dead - ALL HAIL RICK
Breaking Bad
Steven Universe
Spongebob Squarepants
Digimon
as for characters:
Kasumi from Dead or Alive
Amethyst and Garnet from Steven Universe
Chii from Chobits
Yuna, Fran, Vincent Valentine, Shantoto, Cait Sith, SUMMONS and Tonberries - Final Fantasy X/XI/VII/XII
LORD OF THE RINGS CHARACTERS ARE JUST FFFFFFFFF amazing
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and Commander Data - Star Trek The Next Generation
This list could go on for a while....

So there we go! I personally love, love Chiichanny's art and I want to share it with the world!

To check out more of Chiichanny's art you can check out her Facebook page which contains links to Amare dolls and her webstore!

Chiichanny's Facebook page

Ta-ta for now!
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WRAPPZ ~*~Sponsored Review~*~ POSITIVE

Hello Lovelies!

Last week a posted a mini review about Wrappz - a UK based company who provide custom printed phone cases and skins for electronics. They very kindly sent me a voucher to try out their service! (I also used the free skin code, which is available in the other post about the company here: Wrappz).

Order was very straight forward and easy. I simply picked the phone I wanted to make a case for - an Iphone 4 (just as a note they also hvae cases for the iPhone 3 series which is unusual!) I selected the layout I wanted, uploaded my photo and checked the positioning and then added it to the cart! You can add text or even multiple photos to one case but I just had one in mind.

I did the same again for a laptop sleeve - my laptop is a little older so they didn't have a skin that would fit it, but that was fine as you can in[put your own measurements and they'll make one to size!

I placed my order Monday evening and the products arrived on Saturday morning- which I think is really quick considering these were custom printed for me. The one thing I did realise after I placed the order is that because I used the quick paypal check out I didn't create an account with Wrappz which meant that I couldn't track my order - but that was my own fault and something I'll remember for future shopping with them.

So here's my laptop before (it's covered in scratches after I accidentally dropped it!)

And after!

How cool is this? I'm absolutely loving this! It was super easy to apply and it makes such a difference to the laptop. The printing is really clear and bright and the vinyl super thick too.

This was the phone case I ordered! I'm really happy with this too - the print is really clear and vivid and the case is definitely made of a durable plastic - meaning I shouldn't break it any time soon!

I really love the items I ordered from Wrappz and I'll definitely be ordering from them again soon, as I'd quite like a skin for my phone as well. You can visit the Wrappz website yourself on the link below.

Wrappz

Ta-ta for now,

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An Interview with Desu Box!

A few days ago I came across an intreagueing new company, based in the UK. Desu Box! Desu Box are aiming to start a monthly subscription service that will delivered tasty Japanese sweets, drinks and snacks to your door. This seems like a fantastic idea to me as it'll cut down on shipping times from abroad, and as far as I'm aware there isn't already something like Desu Box in the UK. I love Japanese foods so I followed them on Facebook to get regular updates of when they might be ready to launch. As this is something I'm very interested in and I thought my dear readers may be too, I contacted the owners of Desu Box to see if they'd like to do a mini interview!

Hello Desu Box!

Thank you for agreeing to a mini interview! I'm hoping I can spread the word about yourselves!

Q: Your company name is Desu Box - who is behind Desu box and what made you pick the name?

A: We’re a couple of friends, James (writing) and Jon, who both love Japanese tea, food and snacks. We (semi-)regularly go to the London Comic Con where we usually stock up on bags full of Pocky, Melon Pan and other snacks. Personally, I’m the one known for eating weird food at work!We thought about many different names and originally planned to come up with one that had a meaning, as Chanoyu does (the parent company we started), but in the end ‘Desu’ just sounded fun and out of the ordinary!

Q: Desu box is hoping to be a monthly box full of tasty Japanese goodies. What made you decide that you wanted to start a monthly subscription service, and why Japanese snacks?

A: I stumbled across a UK based retailer and while stocking up on a few snacks the thought just crossed my mind for a moment, but after looking for a subscription box and finding only international options I decided to research a little more, finding that these types of boxes are popular for almost every other niche, but with nothing already available in the UK (other than international options).

After attending so many conventions we’ve tried a myriad of foods - we also import Japanese tea (which is part of a future plan for the parent company, Chanoyu) and can’t stop drinking it! It’s been years of exploration that’s lead us to try so many different foods, so we had the idea that we would share the experience of trying new things with our friends.

Q: What’s your favourite thing about the thought of starting Desu Box?

A: My favourite thing must be that there are so many people I have spoken to who really want us to succeed so we can all try different snacks every month.

The emails we have had and the comments on Facebook are so supportive and positive, it’s quite amazing just how many people there are out there who think along the same kind of lines that we do! Considering we’re only eight days into starting, there must be so many more who think the same!

As a second favourite, there are many, many snacks that we haven’t yet tried ourselves, which we’re both really looking forward to trying!

Q: What would you like Desu Box to achieve in the future?

A: As long as we can meet our minimum Kickstarter funding goal that’s more than enough for us to ask! It would be so satisfying to know that others will be anticipating their boxes and will enjoy them every month.

We will have a very low funding goal of about 50 backers (we’re still not fully sure), which will mean we can just about pull this off, but we really want to put as much into the boxes as possible, so we’re talking with suppliers to negotiate lower prices for higher quantity orders.

Q: It takes a lot of work to start a company, what so far has been the most straight forward thing and what has been more complicated?

A:The most straightforward thing so far must be Facebook, which is turning out to be a great tool to help us reach new people, although it is getting expensive with all of these boosted posts!

We haven’t had anything complicated thus far so I’ll anticipate something for the future: Outreach. We’re currently compiling a list of blogs (like yours!J) whose visitors might be interested in us, so that we can contact them to see if the might give us a mention.

I would estimate that we might get about 5% of those blogs to spread the word about Desu box – at most 10%, so this will probably be the most difficult thing for us to achieve!

Q: Where would you like to see Desu Box in a years time?

A: A year is such a long time when it comes to this stuff – we could be running dry on minimal (~50) subscribers if the Kickstarter gets minimal funding, or maybe we might not even have started Desu box if the campaign doesn’t get enough backers. So this is hard!

What I’d really like to see is hundreds of fans who’re ecstatic to be part of a community, where we can all meet at conventions to discuss our favourite foods. Meeting the people who help make Desu box possible will be the real success for us!

And just for fun!

Q: If you could have any job in the world what would it be?

A: I won’t lie, I’ve always had a bit of an entrepreneurial way of thinking so the ideal job would have to be my own business. I would love to travel regularly, especially to Japan and China – with Chanoyu and Desu box I’m hoping that I can do that a bit further down the line – even if it is just for business! :D

Q: Do you have a favourite cute character?

A: Favourite cute character, hmmm… You’ve got me on this one! …Pikachu? :D

I really hope Desu box managed to fund their kickstarter as this would be a fantastic company to have in the UK.

If you'd like to support Desu Box or find out more you can reach them at the below

Website

Facebook

Ta-ta for now

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A Thank you to Chiichanny/Jade Love

Hello my lovelies!

By now, you should of hopefully noticed some changes around here! I've been tweaking the general layout for a week or so but now I've implemented the rest of the changes I wanted thanks to my lovely Jade Love/Chichanny! Look how lovely the new logo is (This was based on an outfit from a few weeks ago!) I'm just in love with her face!

If you'd like to commission Jade or check more of her beautiful artwork you can check out her page here:Chiichanny - Artist

Love Jo Jo Review ~*~Positive~*~

Hello Lovlies,

Today's post is a review of Love JoJo (http://www.lovejojo.com/)

Love JoJo is a UK based website that specialises in in Arkapasso alpacas, squishy phone charms, jewellery and lots more cute things! The store definitely has the widest range of alpacas that I've seen in the UK, and they stock quite a few different sizes too. They recently had a discount offer for obtaining 888 likes on their facebook page, and after coveting one of the alpacas for quite a while I decided to go a head and order.

Wonder Box Review! ~*~Positive ~*~

Hello my lovelies,

Today's post is a review of Wonder Box - the accessory store.

We're now on Facebook!

Hello Lovelies!

We're now on facebook!

Check https://www.facebook.com/beckyloukittnkaboodle to find us! (I've set this up so that those who don't use google+ can see when updates are posted and so that you can ask for tutorials/product reviews!

Once the page gets to 50 likes I'll host a giveaway!

Ta-ta for now
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