I've Started a YouTube Channel...

I thought I'd do a little blog post about the fact I've started a YouTube channel where I will be posting make up looks. A major passion of mine is make up and thoroughly enjoy getting creative with my looks every day I do my make up. I always love helping people with finding products to suit their needs and teaching people make up techniques.

Here's a link to my YouTube channel-

Coco's Makeup Bag

And here are my first two videos which got uploaded recently...

Copper Halo Eye feat. Makeup Geek

Burgundy Eyes with Winged Liner Feat. Colourpop

If you like my videos so far I would love to get some more subscribers as I will be uploading (hopefully) on a regular basis. 

Come follow me on Instagram, I regularly post my make up looks on there.

Coco

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Beauty || Recent Favourites...

We're already 22 days into 2016, how did that happen?!

I have been thoroughly enjoying my make-up collection, mainly because I received a lot of lovely things for Christmas and I've treated myself to a few things recently as well.

I shall start off with a few new make-up brushes.

I have found a new obsession, the Zoeva Rose Golden make-up brush collection, which as of recently you can buy separately.

226 Smudger

228 Luxe Crease

105 Luxe Highlight

110 Face Shape

I have two go to brushes I use for my brows with brow pomade - 

The 310 Spot Liner Brush for doing delicate brush strokes to fill in the front of my brows and the 317 Wing Liner Brush to fill in the rest.

I also got my hands on the Real Techniques Bold Metals Essentials just after Christmas and have been loving the 200 Oval Shadow Brush for a quick all over the lid shading brush if I'm in a hurry.

At the end of last summer I bought my first higher end foundation and was completely blown away by Estee Lauder Double Wear foundation. It's the only foundation that doesn't slide off my oily face.
I've had to buy a white foundation to mix because I went more pale than I thought I would go this winter. So my Manic Panic Dreamtone Foundation in White (Virgin) has been an absolute saviour.
And locking all my make-up into place and getting rid of the powdery look I use the Makeup Revolution Oil Control Fixing Spray.

My absolute favourite mascara has been Maybelline Lash Sensational in Waterproof Black, it applies a decent amount of product and holds my curled lashes all day long with no smudging or flaking. 

In November last year I did my first Colourpop haul (see my last blog post for the full haul) so my Super Shock Shadows have been my new go to for fun eye make-up looks. My favourites (which are pictured above) are Central Perk, a deep matte maroon and Kindness from the Metamorphosis collection which is a sheer yet super pretty iridescent purple/blue, amazing for adding on top of darker eye shadow bases for a bit of glam.

Last week I bought my first Maybelline Color Tattoos, I thought they would be great bases for different eye make up looks. I got a range of neutral shades- Creme De Nude, Creamy Beige and Permanent Taupe. (Swatched above...)

These I very much blame Nikkie Tutorials for, my new favourite contour, blush and highlighter for adding some life to my fair winter skin. Swatches below...

NYX Blush in Taupe is a perfect cool toned brown and is subtle enough even for the fairest of skin tones. 

Milani Baked Blush in Luminoso is an amazingly versatile blush colour that goes with any make up look.

My new obsession is my Mary-Lou Manizer by theBalm, a gorgeous pale champagne gold. 

The two palettes pictured above are by Makeup Revolution, they were a present for Christmas from my boyfriend. 

The Hot Spice Blush Palette is  full of amazing warm orange/coral toned colours.

And the Radiance Palette is a beautiful highlighting palette, the colours are more subtle than your usual highlighters and this palette is said to be a close dupe for the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Palette. 

And finally these brow pomades by Anastasia Beverly Hills and Freedom Makeup have been my go to for filling in my brows but I shall be doing a more in depth post on these soon...

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a perfect 2016!!

Coco

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Colourpop || How to get Colourpop to the UK & Swatches...

This post is all about how I got Colourpop shipped to the UK. I will take you through how long it took and how to do it via an online shopping site that couriers overseas. 

I have wanted to try Colourpop for a super long time and finally plucked up the courage and did a fairly large order, some of which involve Christmas presents both to and from my sister. 

After watching many YouTube swatch videos and reading many blog posts I decided on several Super Shock Shadows and two Lippie Stix.

Colourpop is a very affordable makeup brand but only ships to the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a few others.

Almost all of their products are Vegan apart from a small list of eye shadows which you can read about here.

Here is a list of links to what I ordered, some of which I have swatched below 

(apart from my Christmas presents) -

Lippie Stix -

Tootsi

Lady

(I got 2 of each colour of Lippie Stix as a Christmas present to my sister, she does know...)

Eye Shadows -

Collection - 

Metamorphosis

Single Shadows -

Mixed Tape

Party Time

Bae

Central Perk

Partridge

Doe-A-Deer

So Quiche

La La

After watching this video where Jennie Jenkins from Beauty by JJ does a massive swatch video and explains how she got hers to the UK, I then decided that I would use the same postal system as she did -

>> comGateway.com <<

I found this website very easy to use, it basically allows you to buy from American sites via them and their courier business. And as Colourpop only allow American payments & addresses I had to use their BUYFORME service where I bought my items through them and then get delivered to their American address. 

The BUYFORME service does have a small fee of 10% of your order. 

My Colourpop order came to $80 and with their fee came to $88 (around £58). I didn't get charged postage from the Colourpop website as I think it's free over a certain amount.

After shopping via their website, I completed my order and received various confirmation emails. I placed my order on the 4th November. On the 7th I got another email saying that Colourpop had posted my order and it was on its way to my 'US Address', the day after (8th) it arrived which is where I then had to organise how fast and where I wanted it posted in the UK. This is where you pay for their postal service, my cost was $31.77 which is around £21.

My expected date of delivery was the 18th.
On the 10th I got another email with a tracking number which said expected delivery on the 16th. And sure enough it arrived on the 16th, I was at work at the time so couldn't wait to get home to photograph them (photos below...a lot of them).

From placing my order and it arriving at my door step took a total of 12 days.

Here is a summary of what I paid -

$80 (£53.14) - 11 x Colourpop products

$8 (£5.31) - 10% BUYFORME fee

$31.77 (£21.09) - Shipping to UK

TOTAL - $119.77 (£79.54)

UPDATE (24th November) - Import Tax - £21.76
NEW TOTAL - £101.30

Below you will find close up photos of all the products, I have tried to capture their colours as realistically as possible...

I really hope you found this useful and go on happily to purchase Colourpop products from the UK.

Make sure you follow me on Instagram - cfochler - where I will most likely be posting lots of makeup looks using these products.

Coco
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