I miss Blogging..

Hello my Lovelies, 

Yep, that's right.. I absolutely miss blogging. Not only has my laptop been broken since October (I'm borrowing my mums right now.) I only have a part time job at the moment and have more important things to pay then getting my laptop fixed.. :( So sad. 

Since I last blogged, my life has been just working, studying for my theory test, relaxing, hanging out with friends and spending time with my family and girlfriend. I just miss blogger so much, I love writing about my life and make up and other stuff and since I last blogged, I acquired loads more make up that I'd love to blog about over christmas but haven't had the chance. 

I hope all my followers and readers are well.. and again, I apologize for disappearing because I truly do love blogging. You can always keep in contact with me through my twitter @itsmisskarlee or my instagram @karleevalentine11 I'm always adding new pictures because I am obsessed with instagram! So come and follow this chubby chick and her adventures! Haha. Much loveee! x

P.s. You could always help me with funds.. Hahahaaaa.. Obviously I don't expect anyone too, just thought I'd advertise that! Blatantly begging, sorry! :) http://www.gofundme.com/HelpingKarlee

Instagram..

I have a new Instagram which im gonna link to my blog as soon as I get a laptop. Karleevalentine11 come and follow me beautifuls!!! :) x

I am still alive!

Hi beautifuls,

Just a quick blogpost to let you know that I'm still alive, Lol. I'm still using this blog but I haven't had a laptop because the stupid thing went and broke!!! Christmas left me so poor that my wages won't even cover getting it fixed! :( but I shall be back, hopefully by February, with more makeup looks, reviews, hauls and just my general thoughts and opinions! I am often on Instagram though and u can find me misskarlee11 :) although its private at the moment but I will accept!

Much love!!

Fifty shades of what?

Hello Beautifuls.

*If you haven't read Fifty Shades and you are planning too, please don't read this blog post as it may contain some spoilers.*

Having heard about the hype surrounding the Fifty Shades trilogy, around six weeks ago I decided to give it a read myself. Downloading it to my kindle, I was pretty excited to give these books a read. Almost everyone I knew was saying how much they loved it, even the people that never usually read books were singing its praises. I also loved the price of it, at £1.90 something for the kindle version, it was a lot cheaper then what it had been selling for. 

As I settled down in bed that night with a nice cup of tea, I turned on my kindle and started to read. 

For me, it wasn't one of those books where I was completely hooked. When I read hunger games for the first time, I literally could not put my kindle down for five minutes. With fifty shades, I mainly just picked up my kindle when I was bored. The story line felt a bit ridiculous, Anastasia Steele, (main female character) just completely accepts how Christian Grey (main male character) treats her. Christian is an obsessive stalker, anyone in the real world would be receiving psychiatric help if they seriously behaved like that. He has ways of knowing where she is at all times, he finds out where she works, where she lives. I know E.L. James created this book because it was a fantasy of hers, but it would have made a better read if it was more realistic. 

In my opinion the books are poorly written, the sex scenes are repetitive and EVERYTIME they have sex James describes Christian opening the condom wrapper as "the tell tale tearing of the foil packet." It drives me nuts. Anastasia comes across as pretty much inhuman in the books, there never comes a time when she's just like "Christian, you've had you're wicked way too much, I'm sore. I want to sleep!" Instead, she's turned on 24/7, even just thinking of Christian Grey gets her inner goddess excited. 

“My inner goddess has her sequins on and is warming up to

dance the rumba.” 

-E.L James, Fifty Shades Freed.

I would just love to know what the purpose of the inner goddess is in this story, I don't get it? Within five minutes, Ana goes from innocent virgin to complete sex addict, all with a little bit of help from her inner goddess. 

At the end of the first book, Ana leaves Christian for hitting her with a belt, but within months, as you read the beginning of the third book, they're married. Christian is violent and controlling, he seems to dismiss his behaviour to the fact that he was abused physically as a child, by his "Crack-whore mother and her boyfriend." 

Then there is Mrs Robinson, who is actually called Elena Lincoln, the woman who introduced Christian in to the world of BDSM when he was just FIFTEEN! Seriously? James could have made him older when this happened, instead of making one of her characters a paedophile. 

In every other page someone seems to smirk, or Ana starts biting her lip, rolling her eyes and sighing. Her vagina is described as her sex, it just doesn't sound right and I occasionally found my self replacing the word with something that made more sense to me. They always argue about the same thing, usually Ana not doing as she is asked, then they have this absolutely amazing make up sex. Ana never has a crap orgasm, she always "explodes around him" because he is the greatest lover in the world, clearly. I'm sure many women would be happy if they had their very own Mr. Grey, but it's just not real. 

I would watch the movie, but I don't think I'll be reading the books again. Maybe if I'm bored and on a long journey or something, but other then that they'll just be taking up memory in my kindle. I know I may sound harsh or bitchy, I don't mean to. There's just many things that bugged me about the books. It's my blog and my personal opinion, I know there are many people that are in love with the books, I'm just not one of them.

As the film goes, I will watch it, mainly to see how much of the story line they have actually kept. As for who should play Christian Grey, I don't know but I do think Ian Somerhalder is a great option for him. 

Ian Somerhalder.

Thanks for reading! 

Laters, baby.

Seven Deadly Sins: Greed.

Hello Beautifuls

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I know that it's been ages since I posted a seven deadly sins look. Almost THREE months to be exact! As you can see by the title, today I did greed/avarice. While I enjoyed creating this look, the glitter is taking forever to get off, it's everywhere. I used my iPhone to take pictures so I hope that the quality is ok. 

If you happened to have seen my other blog posts on the seven deadly sins series, you'll know that I always use these pictures I found on google as inspiration for the make-up look I create. 

Please ignore the fact that I'm wearing pyjamas. 

Products I used

Face:

-Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation in Ivory

- Garnier anti dark circles roll on concealer.

-Collection pressed powder.

-Rimmel eyebrow pencil in dark brown.

-MUA blusher in English Rose.

Eyes:

-NYX jumbo pencil in milk. (not pictured)

-MUA dusk till dawn palette, the first eyeshadow on  the left, bottom row. I applied this all over my lid, it's a gorgeous gold and looks amazing. 

- Sleek Au naturel palette. I applied second shadow on the bottom row in crease and winged it out, I also applied on lower lash line. Then I applied the third shadow in crease and blended. 

- Maybelline Gel liner in black was applied to water line.

- Then of course I curled my lashes!

- Mascara is from boots, 17 range. Ultimate length. I find it's not a clumpy mascara. 

Then using lash glue I applied gold body glitter on my face.

Lips:

-On my lips I applied A rimmel lipstick from the Kate Moss range called Rosette. 

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed! 

Mini Avon Haul and Look of the day!

Hello Beautifuls

❤

I've never had a chance to get my hands on some Avon products before, so when a relative told me a representative stopped by her house and that I could order some stuff if I wanted, I was pretty excited. I've always been meaning to order online but never actually got around to doing it. I can be LAZY! So, my stuff arrived one day last week and I haven't had much of a chance to try it out, so I won't be reviewing anything just yet. Due to my skin breaking out I've not really been able to apply make-up without causing more breakouts. 

The make-up products I ordered!

So, this is what I ordered, I also ordered a hair treatment set thing and a little perfume but those were gifts for someone and not for me. Ok so at the top of the picture is an Avon eyeliner brush, this came with the two gel liners because it was 3 products for £9.99 and those were the three I picked. Out of everything I've brought, I have actually had a little chance to try out the eye liner brush and on first impressions, I love it. It's precise and creates both thick and thin lines with ease. Then the Avon super shock gel liners, (top: Shimmering Sapphire. bottom: Blackened metal.) I tried the Shimmering Sapphire one out already. Although I can't give a full review because I've only used it once, I can say that I found it needed to be built up quite a bit to show the same colour that you see in the pot, as someone on instagram said to me, "it's a bit wishy washy." I can agree with that, but I do love the colour of it, I just wish that it was more pigmented. Not really tried the black one yet, but I will be giving full reviews once I've used them a little more. 

The colour trend lipsticks, (left: Passion. right: Amethyst) I found for £1.86 and I only ordered two, but I'm now wishing that I ordered some more. The colours are really pretty, although I have no idea how long they last for before you need to re-apply. I did think that the packaging was a little big for the amount of lipstick that you actually get, so before I opened it I did expect there to be a bit more product in the tube, but for £1.86 they are pretty colours and nicely pigmented. I now need to discover the lasting power on them to truly decide if I love them or not. 

The shimmering sapphire liner. The lipstick is Rimmel, Diva Red.

(Sorry it's not a clearer picture of the eyeliner)

Look of the day!

Technically, it's the look of yesterday.. But who cares? I created my eyes using a few purples from a Stila palette that I won from AdoreaBubbles and the eyeliner I used is the gel maybelline studio one. I used the avon eyeliner brush to apply and was impressed with the results! Happy girl! 

Thanks for reading!!

Summer and Phone Case!

Hello Beautifuls,

I know that I'm not great at keeping a regular blog, It's been completely hectic for me lately. I've not even had time to tweet! As everyone knows, in britain the summer is rubbish, but the beginning of last week we had some amazing weather so obviously I was out in the sunshine making the most of it. Now we are back to thunder storms and rain.

So, anyway.. I've been having a little idea floating around in my head for sometime, to decorate phone cases. I noticed there are a few people doing it and the cases always look gorgeous, I just had to give it a go. Last week I popped on ebay and had a look at cabochons and decoden, I fell in love with loads of the stuff! I picked up some bits and made a case for my phone, so here is a picture of my first ever attempt..

I'm actually pretty pleased with it, I've never done anything like this before. I usually get my creative side out with make up, but lately my skin is feeling a little sensitive! Anyway, I wanted to know what people think? So drop me some comments beauts!