Recent Videos.

Happy Sunday Sparkles,

I have been a busy little bee this weekend with my recording so I thought I would share with you the videos that have been uploaded to my youtube channel Makeup by Tink.

This video is a recent haul, well we all know just how much we love to see the goodies others have gotten dont we?!?!

On my instagram, facebook and twitter I asked you guys to give me some questions to answer and this is the resulting video. 

We ended up with a drunken visitor last night so I escaped into the spare room to record my video to share the quick tip I mentioned from the benefit counter for using the pore fessional primer. This works well also with NYX pore filler and other primers that do the same job or are meant to anyway lol.

I am off out for a nice  long walk as the sun is shinning again today and then maybe record another video or two while my roast pork is cooking mmmm cauliflower cheese and roast spuds mmmm, so what do you all have planned?

stay beautiful and sparkle

love and tigger onesies lol

Vikkie

First time with benefit

Hello My Sparkles, 

I know it has been a while since I have managed to update here, please forgive me I have been away to visit family back home in Liverpool.  

One of the good things of having to fly is of course duty free lol. 

While I was waiting for my flight out of Liverpool I killed time by sitting and being pampered at the Benefit booth in Duty free. 

We all know how good the pore fessional primer is meant to be and if you dont where oh where have you been. 

A quick tip for the primer is not to use it as a base on its own but to mix it in with your foundation before applying it. This worked a real treat. I will do a video over the weekend with some helpful hints like this so watch out for that. 

I decided to get my self the primping with the stars kit which includes: 

Stay dont Stray a concealer and eyeshadow primer. 

Some Kind of Gorgeous  a foundation faker in medium 

Benetint a rose coloured lip and cheek stain

The Pore Fessional Primer 

Girl meets pearl a liquid pearl for the face 

There Real Mascara. 

I am in love with the pore fessional and the mascara and to be honest plan on buying the full size versions next time I am in the UK as i am sorry to say they are not on sale here in Norway.. Over the weekend I will also do a full review of the products mentioned in the kit but just wanted to give you a little peek of some goodies Ive tried recently. 

Dont forget to head over to the FACEBOOK PAGE and sign up for the monthly swap for march. Hope you all have a great weekend. 

Love and sparkles 

Vikkie 

Something to look forward to

Hi Sparkles, 

Wow it is all happening for me at the moment some really exciting news today I will be attending a press night being held by lily lulu fashion in Manchester, UK in March. I have been asked to do a blog post for them. The event will be a preview of their new stock before it goes on sale online, clothing will be available to buy on the night and a percentage of this will go to cancer research uk. I am excited about this opportunity and thrilled at being given the chance to do this.

I just thought I would share this with you all as quick as possible. 

Speak to you all soon 

dont forget to sparkle 

love and fashion 

Vikkie 

Palettes

Good Morning my little Gems that you all are, How are you doing today? 

Well as you know for my everyday makeup I am all about high street options and try to stay away from the high end cosmetics that I use in my MUA kit. The reason for this is I think Beauty is for everyone regardless of the budget they have. 

Saying that I would like to share with you my recent buys from an Amazon seller. Jazooli, they also have a website which can be found HERE.

I ordered the 120 colour eyeshadow palette which was 9.35

88 colour eyeshadow palette in neutrals which was 7.99

and 15 shade colour concealer palette for 2.99 

(all pr ices are in british pound stirling) 

Everything was dispatched within 24 hours which gets a big thumbs up from me. It was well packaged for shipping and the sleek black containers are light weight and easy to store. 

I know I know you dont care about all that do you all you want to know about is the product its self. On opening the boxes I was impressed with the different colours and shades. They contain a good selection of neutral, vibrant, shimmer and speckled shades. There is no way you can be disappointed with the variation in each palette.

Pigmentation looked good and for the price you cant really complain. I would recommend always using a base of either eyeshadow primer or a white eyeshadow pencil, you will see why below. 

They are nice and smooth and blend really well.However I have only swatched these so will let you know about length of wear over the weekend as you can imagine with that amount of colour I am sure going to play this week. 

With Eye Shadow Primer. 

With White eye shadow pencil as a base.

With No base. 

As you can see with a base of some sort these are pretty vibrant colours. Without I would say they are great for a more muted effect say for day time look or even a younger person. 

Over all my first impressions are that these eye shadow palettes are great value for money and I would recommend you giving them ago. I will be re purchasing for sure when I need to, and they will also make good value gifts for other makeup loving friends. 

Dont forget to let me know what you think of them if you have already purchased or end up buying yourself one. I am interested in your opinions. 

Much love and eye shadow 

Vikkie 

Disclaimer: I have not been compensated in anyway for this review. All views shared are my own and are unbiased in anyway. 

Small hauls

Hello my lovely sparkles, 

Hope you have all had a good weekend. I know I have been MIA for a little while this week, life is a little hectic to say the least, between hubbie and mum being ill. Trying to build my web site, store and get my new business up and running, networking and getting ready for a photo shoot next month and setting u p 2 others for over the next couple of months its been none stop. 

As some of you may know I have been patiently waiting for my new camera and a small NYX order to arrive from the UK. Well after 2 weeks waiting you can imagine I am starting to think some bugger has made off with the parcel good old royal mail grrrr I am not a happy bunny. 

Anyways last week I took some much needed time out and hit some makeup stores. The first photo is items from a Norwegian boutique called Makeup Mecca. They are based in Oslo. I only got a few things like, 

falsies, 

brush soap 

a highlighter, 

bronzer, 

nail varnish and a new kabuki brush. 

The second small  haul is from various stores in a shopping centre in Sweden. Yep sounds strange I go to a different country to shop but trust me if you knew the difference in price so would you lol and it is only a 2 hour drive from home. 

I got a few different foundations i use the dark one for contouring. 

some nail varnish and nail treatment oil. 

Mascara and a Gel eye liner. I will be doing a review on these soon but just a quick mention I LOVE the gel liner. 

Another set of falsies and some concealer. 

Nothing but essentials right?!?!?! Well at least that's what I told hubbie lol. 

Some more exciting news to look forward to is my sample from ginvera uk to arrive ( lets hope royal mail get it right this time) moving swiftly along . . . I have been asked if I wanted to do a review of some of their products. I am excited to see if they live up to the company's hype time will tell. 

So on that front my dear sparkles I am going to say good night and swiftly move along to some other blog posts I have to catch up on. Speak to you all soon. 

Much love and foundation 

Vikkie 

Liebster Award

Tuesday, 11 February 2014

Hi my lovely Sparkles.

 I really enjoy meeting new bloggers and reading their posts and i'm so happy I got nominated by my twitter and blogger friend Cree ( you can check out her blog here.)

For anyone that doesn't know what the Liebster award is, its an award that connects bloggers with 200 followers or less on their blog and gives them an opportunity to meet and chat to other bloggers! Great idea really dont ya think? I have loved reading Cree's nominated blogs the problem comes when I have to find people with less than 200

followers to nominate as well lol.

     

Cree set 10 questions for me to answer so keep reading to find out my answers.



Questions:

1) What is your must have beauty product?

I think my must have beauty product is my bioderma cleanser. I feel with a good skin care routine you can use mot brands and price groups of makeup so long as you have a well taken care of canvas to start with. 

2) Do you prefer fashion or makeup?

I am much more a makeup kinda girl. I have only recently started getting into fashion. I know kinda strange at 32 years old lol. But I am much more a jeans and tank top and bike boots kinda girl lol. 

3) What's your favourite thing about blogging?

Favourite thing about blogging is getting to meet people and share my hints tips and finds. Plus its always a good way to vent about life in general at times. 

4) If you had to go without one product for a month what would it be?

Now this is a hard one lets think one product to go with out erm I think I will opt for blusher, everything else is far to important to not use. 

5) Your favourite YouTube guru's?

Links to  my fave tube Guru's are, 

MonsterMakeUpXx

Hannah Janes

Bunnie 

Tati

I am going to be horrid and not tell you why but leave you to go find out for yourselves. 

6) What are your favourite hobbies?

My Favourite hobbies apart from the obvious one of shopping,  are reading, I am such a HUGE book worm.

 Penpaling . . unfortunately many people now like the quicker route of emails but to me that lacks the personal touch. 

Crafting. . . I am very much into handmade altered art scrapbooking etc. 

Motorbikes. . .  my get down and dirty hobbie of riding and building motorbikes is prob one of my favs as hubbie and I can do it together. 

7) What's your favourite makeup product?

Hands down it has to be foundation. If you look at previous blog posts you will find out why. I just cant live without it. 

8) Your favourite social media site and why?

Thats a hard one. I like twitter for its quick instant one line no fuss system. 

Facebook for its more personal workings. 

I dont think I can choose between them in honesty. 

9) What's your favourite fashion piece for winter?

Has to be a good set of boots. I mean come on I live in Norway. Fashion aint the most important thing so long as ya stay warm in the 6 ft of snow lol. 

10) What's your favourite TV show and why?

My favouritee TV show is Sons of Anarchy. Jax, Happy, motorbikes need I say anymore. 

Well there are my answers. I hope you have enjoyed reading this post. I will be back later with some more blogs I am going to nominate but to begin with I am going to say 

annabeebeauty

Beth

Kimmy

Hannah

Harriet

and your questions to answer are: 

1) What is your must have beauty product?
2) Do you prefer fashion or makeup?
3) What's your favourite thing about blogging?
4) Whats the one makeup/skin care product do you really want to try?
5) If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be and why?
6) What are your favourite hobbies?
7) What's your favourite makeup product?
8) Are you more adventurous with your eyeshadow or lipstick? 
9) What's your favourite fashion piece ?
10) What's your favourite TV show and why?

Have fun guys x 

Love and sparkles 

Vikkie 

Something different its Time to Talk

Hello my Dear Sparkles, 

Todays post is gonna be a little different and  hope you don't mind. today is the first ever Time to Talk day. It has started in the UK but I am in Norway as you know and think this needs to be world wide so I have decided to take part. 

Basically It’s time to talk, it’s Time to Change. 
It's time we were all able to talk openly about mental health. 

Saying that where on earth do I start . . . 

Well I am a 32 year old girl who has lived with diagnosed Bipolor and Impulse control disorder since my mid teens. What is bipolor I hear you ask well Bipolar disorder, also known as bipolar affective disorder, manic-depressive disorder, or manic depression, is a mental illness classified bypsychiatry as a mood disorder. Individuals with bipolar disorder experience episodes of an elevated or agitated mood known as mania alternating with episodes of depression.for more information click here.

 And Impulse control is Impulse control disorder (ICD) is a class of psychiatric disorders characterized by impulsivity – failure to resist a temptation, urge or impulse that may harm oneself or others. 

Types of Impulse Control Disorder

There are a number of different conditions that fall under the umbrella of impulse control disorders. The one factor that all of these conditions share is that there is an obvious loss of control. The six main categories are:

• Pathological gambling
• Trichotillomania is where people have an impulse to pull out their own hair
• Pyromania is when the individual causes fires without any reasonable motive
• Kleptomania is where people steal even though there is no need for them to do so
• Intermittent explosive disorder causes people to have violent outburst even though there is no real trigger for the behavior
• There are also other examples of impulse control disorder that fall under the category of not otherwise specified in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders. This category includes such behavior as sex addiction, compulsive shopping, and self-harm. Modern phenomenon like Internet addiction is sometimes also considered to belong in this group.

Impulsive control disorders are considered to belong to a wider group of mental health conditions known as obsessive-compulsive disorders.You can find more information about ICD here.

I guess  my teenage years where the hardest, I got myself into some right messes not knowing how to or being able to control myself. I just had to go with my urges and didn't think of the out come. To be perfectly honest with you, at times I still don't, although now it tends to focus around other aspects. I get a real high out of shopping esp for other people. I know some of you will be thinking here that it could be a lot worse, but try explaining that to my bank manager. Spending is the least physically harmful to myself or others but over the years I have done so many things I am not proud of, scared people away, upset people, hurt them, and I am deeply sorry. I have never been able to explain or make them see why. I just run off or shut myself away from everything. Living with ICD and Bipolor is hard, very hard infact. I have become very good at hiding my illnesses because not many people understand or can get past the stigma that comes with mental health illnesses. Sometimes it is hard to know what is the real me and what is the me people expect to see. 

Charli Bruce over at secrets behind the closet door says it all so much better than me I urge you to head over and read what she has wrote about living with Bi polor. 

I didn't understand my extreme happiness and sadness, and never talked about it because I was ashamed. After it nearly took my life,many times, I learned it has a name: Bipolar Disorder. I will never be silent about my feelings again, and I will never be ashamed because it makes me who I am: very passionate, very creative, very loving, very everything. 

My highs make me feel like I'm on drugs, and my lows have made me consider suicide. I am both anti-social and extremely personable. I feel out of place everywhere I go, unless I'm home or with my support group. I choose to live and educate people about who we really are: not killers, not "crazy", but people with misplaced energy.

This is one of the hardest posts I have written and yes I am finding it really hard. How do I explain that yes I have mental health issues, yes i can be rather unstable at times, one second i can be laughing and joking the next I could be having suicidal thoughts. I take medication to help keep me more stable and they work. I am able to hold down a job without a problem, I have good friends and family and a wonderful husband all are supportive and without them I don;t know what I would do. Should I tell you something I am scared the big what if in my life is what if during one depressive episode I dont have hubbie or friends around me what if my drugs are not as helpful as they are day to day, what if the suicidal thoughts and self harm is one step further and my life is over. . . What if . . . . . 

On that note I am going to leave it here I dont know what else to say but please if you have any questions do ask I will answer as honestly as I can. And go over to Charlis blog and read it, as I said she words it so much better than I can. Please educate yourselves educate ur family and lets stop the stigma around mental health. 

Love and foundation 

Vikkie