First time I've ever won anything... yay!

Fatemah Ali is a professional hair and makeup artist based in the UK. She has worked with many publications such as Asiana and Vanity Magazine.

I have been following Fatemah on Instagram for a while now and when I saw that she was announcing her 1k follower’s giveaway, I entered – and won.

The prize was an Arabic eye shadow palette. After winning I eagerly awaited the arrival of my palette. It finally arrived a week later – and boy, it was worth the wait. It came in a nice neat package but when opened it had the most amazing colour range – I fell in love with it in an instant and couldn’t wait to use it.

The colours were extremely pigmented, soft creamy shimmer shades. I’m really looking forward to using this palette more often. The palette is not the type of palette you would use every day, but you would definitely use as evening wear.

Here’s an example of the first look I did using this palette.





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28 Piece neutral (sometimes known as the warm) palette review.

This is a quick review of the neutral eye shadow palette that I recently purchased.

It is a 28 piece palette I brought from eBay for about £6. It has a great mix of matt and shimmer shades, in an ideal world I would have preferred more brown shades. Out of the 28 colours I love about 6 and will use about 20. The remaining 8 are a bit light for my skin tone, so I don’t think I will use them as much but I am not ruling them out completely as they can be used for highlighting the brow bone and the inner corner of the eye.

The pigmentation varies, sometimes there is a lot, sometimes there isn’t. The darker shades are definitely more pigmented – as for the less pigmented ones, there’s nothing stopping you from double coating and building the colour up. Also, I find that applying a white eye shadow base before hand and patting the colour on the lid using a flat end brush helps.

The colours are very good for every day looks and suit any skin tones. The matt black is very dark so a little goes along way.

For the price I paid it is a decent palette and I defiantly recommend it. Again, this is another palette that came slightly damaged despite the packaging, but for the price and one colour, I don't mind. I would have preferred it if one of the lighter colours was damaged instead of the dark one... but it’s still fine.

My Bargain shopping…

Like most people I absolutely love a bargain, so today I thought I’d share a few bits that I recently purchased at amazing prices…

The first item is a large clutch bag, from Clarks, its red satin material with love little gold stone work on it. I brought it for £8; it was reduced down from £24.99. Wow!!!

The second item is a pashmina scarf I purchased from TKmaxx for £4, reduced down from £12.99. It’s a large oversized pashmina, lovely material for the summer time.

And the last item which surprised me the most, an eye shadow palette from Next. I picked it up because I thought the colours were lovely looking and it just looked very cute. It was £6. When I tried it on I found the colours to be creamy and very pigmented. I wasn’t really expecting anything from this palette as it was £6 for I think ten natural warm colours, that’s 60p per colour. But when I tried it on, I fell in love with it. The texture is lovely and I will definitely be putting it to good use.

I will let you know if I find anymore great bargains… but in the meantime, enjoy shopping.