100 follower giveaway! (closed)

Sorry this post has taken SO long to put up! I've been so busy lately, with uni, hospitals, job seeking etc etc but it's here! My 100 follower giveaway! I'm so glad I decided to pick up some things from my recent trip to the USA, I'm so thankful to everyone that I've met and all the people who follow my blog. I really didn't think anyone would ever want to read it lol

This giveaway will be a UK only giveaway. I'm hoping to have an international giveaway in the future though so hopefully you can all enter that :)

These are the things I've picked out for my giveaway:
Wet 'n' Wild trio palette in Sweet As Candy
Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Pink Frosting
EOS lipbalm in Summer Fruit
Slatkin & Co mini candle in Mango Beachwood from Bath & Bodyworks

To enter you need to be following me through GFC or Hello Cotton, please leave a comment on this post telling me which one you follow me on. If you follow through both you'll get 2 entries :) Just make sure you tell me your usernames in the comments below. I would do the same for Blog Lovin' but it doesn't tell me who my followers are :(

If you want to earn one more entry if you tweet this "@Linnetbirdxx is having a 100 follower giveaway, check it out here! greenfinchandlinnetbirdx.blogspot.com"

If you tweet just let me know your twitter username as well in the comments.

I hope this all made sense, you can earn up to 3 entries!

This giveaway will end on the 14th of May 2012 :)

FOTD

What's on my face?
The BalmThe Balm TimeBalm Face Primer
Coastal Scents Colour corrector Camo Quad
The Balm TimeBalm Concealer
Nutrogena Healthy Mix Foundation mixed with Maybelline Fit me Foundation
The Balm Betty-Lou Manizer Bronzer
Stila Love At First Blush
The Balm Sexy Mama Anti-Shine Transparent Powder
Benefit Stay Don't Stray
The Balm Nude Tude Palette in shades Sassy, Stand Offish, Sophisticated and Sleek
Maybelline Line Stylist Eye liner
Benefit Eye Bright 
Urban Decay Supercurl Curling Mascara
Stila Lip Glaze in Bubble Gum


All the products used are new purchases other than the eyeliner and mascara. I was in Santa Monica yesterday on 3rd Street Promenade, I love this area and haven't been back since last year so it was nice and the weather was quite hot too! It's just a shame I couldn't enjoy it more as I've caught a cold and have now lost my voice through coughing :( Planning on doing a give away at some point too, maybe when I get to 100 Followers so sometime before I leave I'll be popping into CVS to see what goodies they have :) Hope you all had a great weekend!

Whats in my travel makeup bag?

I've finally arrived in California and getting the urge to blog while I have some free time. Will be leaving tomorrow morning to drive down the coast to San Francisco, so won't be blogging whilst there but I'm gonna try write up a few today so then I can just post them :) Thought I'd do a quick post on what's in my travel makeup bag as I haven't written a proper post for a few days now.

Boujois Healthy Mix Foundation

Revlon Colorstay Foundation

Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer

Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation Sample 

Benefit High Beam

Rimmel Fix and Protect Primer

Benefit The Porefessional

Urbn Decay All Nighter Spray

Bourjois Healthy Balance Powder

Milani Mineral Blush

Bourjois Bronzing Powder

Urban Decay Supercurl Mascara x2

Paul and Joe Cat Eyeshadows

Maybelline Line Stylist Eye Liner

Too Faced Shadow Insurance (travel size)

Urban Decay Primer Potion (travel size)

Rouge Dior - Rare Amber

Rouge Coco Shine - Rivage

Maybelline Lip Gloss - Born With It

Usually I'd take a lot more makeup than this with me but I knew I'd be buying makeup whilst here so kept it to a minimum but no I look at it it looks like quite a lot lol I really like that I can take small travel size pieces with me because I know that with thing's like primer and mascara I don't use that much. The Paul & Joe cat palette is my new fave at the moment, the eyeshadows are really good quality. 

Hope you are all having a wonderful week, will get another post up as soon a I can :)

USA Makeup Wishlist

It's just under two weeks before I jet off to California to go visit my boyfriend so thought I'd share with you some of the things I plan on buying that we don't get over here.
1. EOS Lip Balms - Available from CVS
2. Maybelline 24 hr Color Tattoo - CVS
3. TheBalm Nude Tude Palette - Sephora and www.thebalm.com
4. Physicians Formula Happy Booster Powder - CVS
5. Fairy Drops Mascara - Sephora
6. Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush - CVS
7. NYX Jumbo pencils and other products - Ulta and Bed Bath and Beyong
8. Tarte Amazonian Clay Blush - Sephora
9. Hard Candy Products - Walmart
10. Revlon Photoready Airbrush Foundation - CVS
11. Nutrogena Healthy Skin Foundation - CVS
12. CoverGirl Cheekers - CVS
13. Bath and Body Works Products - B&B and www.bathandbodyworks.com


Hope you all enjoyed you weekend!

FOTD & Update

So Technically this is yesterday's FOTD but nevermind :) Yesterday I went out with some friends to TGI's which was nice, although it was absolutely packed in there and the day before I was up in Milton Keynes with my friend who was buying a BMW. 4 hours later and we were out, who knew buying a car could be so long and boring? We stopped off at the MK centre because I wanted to check the MAC counter in Debenhams as this is the nearest MAC counter in a Debenhams store to London. I've also been working on my new university project this week, basing it around the Camrillo State hospital in California which is now a University. I visited there last year, was kinda creepy seeing all the original bars on the windows still. Apparently this was the hospital that inspired the song Hotel California which is quite interesting. Thinking of going to the Bourjois Boutique tomorrow, as I'll be in London in the afternoon for my Uni workshop. I also spent some time this week trying to design a new header for this blog, it's changed about 4 times already. The current one I put together quickly so that I'd have something nice at the top instead of just a boring title. I like the layout but it's not quite "there" and it's starting to bug me, so if you randomly see the layout change that's why. Hopefully I can get it the way I want soon :)

I'm terrible at taking photos of myself, I can never see what I'm doing so I just have to guess, it's kind of difficult trying to hold a big heavy dslr still haha.

On my face:

Primers: Rimmel Fix & Perfect, Benefit The Porefessional

Foundation: Revlon Colorstay in 180 Sand Beige

Powder: Cover Girl Clean in 125 Buff Beige

Under eye concealer: Philosophy Eye Hope in Light

Bronzer: Too Faced Sun Bunny

Blush: Too Faced Who's your poppy

Eye Primer: Too Faced Shadow Insurance

Eye shadows: Too Faced Silk Stockings, La Cage & Rapture

Eye Liner: Maybelline Gel Liner

Mascara: Urban Decay Supercurl

Eyebrows: Filled in with the darkest colour in the Maybelline Stylish Smokes quad