100 follower giveaway!!!**CLOSED**

Hello lovely followers! To celebrate me (almost) reaching 100 blog followers (I am growing impatiant) I have decided to do a little giveaway for you all. There is a winners prize and a runners up prize.

Here are the prizes: (conditions below pics)

The winner will recieve this limited edition Sleek mediterranian collection 'Monaco' eyeshadow palette and 'Monte carlo' pout polish.

The runners up prize is this limited edition 17 vintage love perfect pastals eyeshadow palette and Aussie 3 minuite miracle conditioner sachet.

**The giveaway is open Internationally**

Here are the conditions:
-To enter you must be a subscriber of my blog and leave a comment in the comment box asking me to enter you.
For extra entries:
+1-retweet my giveaway on twitter: I'm entering @Allthingsrachy 's blog giveaway to win Sleek mediterranian goodies http://bit.ly/jqA78V
+1- Link my giveaway on your blogroll
+1- 'Like' my facebook page www.facebook.com/pages/All-things-Rachy/142597215810740
+1- Be a subscriber of my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/user/Allthingsrachy?feature=mhee

-Include proof of all of the above forms of entry in the comment box (links to the tweet and blogroll etc)

If you leave your email adress in the comment box it would also be a great help for contacting the winners.

After two weeks (CLOSING DATE IS 26th JUNE) I will pick a winner from all the entries using http://www.random.org/ randomiser.
When the winner and runner up have been picked I will reveal in a blog post and contact the winners straight away.
For all of this information in video form, plus a closer look at the prizes, check out the youtube giveaway video:

Good Luck! Rachy xx

Cath Kidston CUTE dress find

I was having a browse in Cath Kidston yesterday, I love all of the clothes in there they combine shapes and prints that I love..and I stumbled across one dress in my size that I lurvvved, and was happy to see it was on 50% sale :) Previously £85 (I would never pay that with my student budget!) it was reduced to £42.50...which I still shouldn't have spent as a student, but I couldn't help myself!

I realise it may not everyones cup of tea but I lovee the floral print on it and feel like a cute little granny wearing it hah.

I think this dress is pretty much the perfect summer dress for me. The print is lovely and bright, the fit is comfortable (not clingy or tight atall) and the material is 100% Viscose- not sure what that means but I like it.

I love the cute neckline <3

Not to mention the sleeves! Really like the band at the end of the sleeve. Sometimes I don't feel like getting my arms out, so this dress will be great for those days.
A little preview of the dress as modeled by me- face and hair are rough because I had just come back from shopping in the rain :(

I can't wait for this gloomy weather to brighten up so I can skip down to the park in the dress clutching my Oli&Nic apple bag :)

Rachy xxx

FOTD- first attempt at contouring!

Bronzer is something I have altogether avoided in the past, mostly because of my pale complextion and I can never seem to get it to work for me. Since beauty blogging I have become more aware of 'contouring' with bronzer and have decided it's high time I gave it a try. Nothing too dramatic mind you, I am a beginner (and I still havn't worked out if I like bronzer)
But here's my FOTD with an attempt of a bit of light contouring on the cheekbones (not that I have any):

Products used:
Face: Maybelline pure cover mineral concealer, Barbara Daly bronze glow, Maybelline dream touch blush-apricot, Jemma kidd Dewy glow- rose gold.

Eyes: Illamasqua brow cake- thunder, Bobbi brown concealer-porcelain, Mac prep + prime eye-light, INGLOT eyeshadows: AMC shine 30(brow bone), DS 465(lid), Peal 402 (crease& lower lash line), Pixi gel liner-onyx, Rimmel white eyeliner, Maybelline one by one volum' express mascara.

Lips: Mac- Vegas volt

Rachy xxx

What to buy your boyfriend from Lush

Today is my boyfriends 21st birthday (happy bday Seany!) and amongst a few other things I bought him a few bits from Lush cosmetics. I try to encourage any one I can to buy lush so that I can be surrounded by yummy smelling people haha. Getting boys into lush is a difficult one though (i'm lucky, Sean is a lover of lush not a hater) so I carefeully selected all of these bits to make them 'boy friendly'. Here's what I picked:

Sean is a fan of Lush's mintly and lemony scents, he already has the 'Dirty' showergel, so I tried to stick to those smells in choosing the gifts :)

1. Ice and a slice- two soaps, Ice blue (mint scent) and Bohemian (lemon). Obviously these soaps are great for girls too but I think they are especially suited to boys....you can hardly imagine a boy rocking a floral scented soap can you?!

2. Dirty solid perfume- Also suitable for girls but me and the Lush lady agreed that this purfume smells much better on a man. If you've smelt the Dirty shower gel it is similar to that. I don't really know how else to describe it other than a yummy minty boyish smell.

3.Too Drunk- Another minty smelling one. I am a huge fan of this product myself. You just drop it in bottom of the shower while you are washing and let it work its magic. It releases smells that are a perfect hangover cure (very helpfull for uni students like my and Sean!)..and also a very good cure for those birthday hangovers.

4. Ickle baby bot ballistic- I chose this one for pretty obvious reasons...its blue and shaped like a robot! Also has a very nice relaxing lavender scent.

Any of you ladies have other halves into lush?
Rachy xxx

Simple summer daytime look FOTD & Video

This is my simple peachy/coral/pink summer daytime look I have been wearing for the last few days, thought I'd share with you.

When I said 'illamasqua pearly eyeshadow' I meant INGLOT*.
Products used:
-Maybelline pure cover mineral concealer
-Illamasqua brow cake-thunder
-INGLOT pearl coloured eyeshadow
-Mac e/s: Gleam & Paradisco
-Pixi gel liner-onyx
-Maybelline one by one volum' express mascara
-Maybelline dream touch blush-apricot
-Jemma Kidd deqy glow- rose gold
-Topshop lipstick- ohh la la
and a spritz of Mac fix+

Rachy xxx

What's in my (large travel) makeup bag video

Here's what I took home with me in my makeup bag for a long weekend. May have overpacked a little and didn't end up using most of it :P I've learnt my lesson...
Again I have to appologise for the video being out of sync, this happened in the youtube uploading process and if anyone knows how to correct that it would be a great help
Enjoy...

Makeup bag at debenhams. Brand: Floozie by Frost and French- £12.60

Rachy xxx

Maybelline Dream Touch blush- Apricot (Mac Creamblend blush dupe!)

First of all I must appologise for the pictures in this post, I'm back home with no real way of blogging accept using my rubbishy iphone camera to upload pics..and I'm desparate to do a post! Hopefully you'll get a fair idea of the product I am describing though :)
The first two pictures are ones I found on google as the pictures I took were too rubbish :

Just tried to upload the swatch but the iphone pic was again too rubbish so I borrowed the swatch from this blog http://goldenglowww.blogspot.com/2011/06/maybelline-dream-touch-blush.html

Here's what the blush looks like on:

First impressions are that I am really impressed with this blush. Its super smooth and creamy and applies/blends so easily (I used my fingers) There are three colours; apricot, peach and a pink one (I think berry?)
I noticed that these blushes are a cheaper dupe for Mac creamblend blush and at around £6.50 they won't break the bank. I absolutely love the colour I picked, it is a really subtle light peach and I think it actually works as both a blush and highlight in one. I know I will get alot of use out of this and will probably keep it in my handbag as a touch up product :)
So there you go, that was my (somewhat failing) little post on Maybelline dream touch blush

Anyone else tried this blush? If so which colour?
Rachy xxx