So what did I get and do for Christmas....

Hello all.

Christmas is a great time of the year, when Make Up dreams sometimes do come true.

Mine did this year even if I brought half of them for myself.

One of the gifts I bought for myself was the bargain soap and glory box from boots.

I got all this for £25.

It made me very happy, especially when I found out it had sold out just a few hours after I bought it.

Inside the fab box was all of this.

• Clean On Me Creamy Clarifying Shower Gel, 500 ml
  
• The Righteous Butter Body Butter, 300 ml
• Flake Away Body Scrub, 300ml
  
• Girligo Scented Body Moisturising Mist, 100 ml
  
• Glad Hair Day Ultra-Shine Super-Shampoo, 250 ml
  
• The Breakfast Scrub Body Smoother, 300 ml
  
• Hand Food Hydrating Hand Cream, 125 ml
  
• Scrub Your Nose In It Face Scrub And Mask, 125 ml
  
• Super Colour Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Gloss in ‘Pink Apricot,’ 7 ml
  
• Off Your Face Cleansing Wipes, 25 wipes
  
• Giant Super Sudsy Shower Puff

Pretty :)

Got to use it yet so will keep you updated on the things that work and the things that don't.

Then in the sale I accidently bought this.

On sale at just £10. It came with the bag, a shower puff (How many of these do I own now), a shower scrub, two body lotions and two bath cremes.

I couldn't resist at that price and it looks very pretty in my room.

The Beauty related presents I got were even more great.

My friend even brought me something off my top five wish list post.

It was the Urban decay NYC book of shadows III

And my friends it is beautiful.

16 eyeshadows, 2 eye pencils and the primer.

The colours in it are amazing. Lots more greens, oranges and blues. Colours that I needed more of in my collection.

I will be showing you some new trendy eyeshadow looks with this baby in the future.

The last big beauty pack I got was from Avon

With a mixture of goodies which are complete essentials such as shower gel, deodorant, body lotion plus loads more and you also got the metal basket which is fantastic for storing more beauty products in.

Got to love things that you can reuse. :)

So even though I got lots and lots of beautiful things.

I still have plenty of room for more beauty products (Well I don't but I will find room :))

Hope you got lots of lovely things for Christmas too.

A new start for ready for 2011.

Hey all.

Hope you had a fab Christmas and have a brill new year.

This post is just a quick one to tell you about some of the new changes to the blog.

After weeks of humming and arrrrhing. I have decided to change the name and the web address of the blog.

I have done this for two reasons.

One. Not many people were finding the blog with the old name, it was too vague really and secondly because I personally didn't like it much.

So I have changed the name of it to.

Get your glitter out.

Now this may seem a bit rude but I have to explain it with a bit of back story.

As most people know I am obsessed by and with glitter. It makes my day if I am all glittery.

Me and my lovely friend Jen used to text each other before we went out at university, explaining what we were wearing, doing and so forth and I can't remember who came up with it but before long, get your glitter out was a sign of a good night out.

It might seem a bizarre name choice but since this blog does focus a lot on going out make up. It seemed fitting.

So I hope the name goes down well and ready for 2011 I have some new developments in the offering.

First off I have set up twitter for the blog.

You can follow me @getyourglitter

I will post questions, new blog updates and much more on the site.

Second big news is that from the first week in January I will be going weekly.

I will try to do at least one post a week. To keep you all updated.

It seems only fair. :)

That is it for now but I will be posting a new blog very shortly.

Thank you for the support in 2010 and see you in 2011.

Tiff x

Eyebrow plucking. Lets make it a little easier.

Hello all.

Hope New year went well for you.

So today I am going to talk about how to make eyebrow plucking easier.

Some people go though so much pain. Some people bleed, go bright red and the pain is just too unbearable.

To be honest plucking your eyebrows is one of the most tedious jobs to do, yet do it right and not only can it frame your face but it makes your eye make up pop too.

So lets make it easy, starting from today.

The first job is to shape the eyebrow.

The best trick to do this is to use a eyeliner to help guide you, to where and where not to pluck.

This my untidy eyebrow.

The first place is to place the pencil at the side of your nose and draw an imaginary line to your eyebrow.

The second place is see where your pupil rests in the middle of your eye. This gives you your arch guide.

The third place is to draw an imaginary line from your nose to the outer corner of your eyebrow.

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Purple eyeliner may not be the best look but at least you get the jist. :)

Once you have a rough idea of the shape of the eyebrow you can start plucking. The second hardest part about plucking eyebrows is the pain factor. Now over the years I have heard many ways to try an soothe the pain. The funnest one I ever heard was to use bonjela to numb the pain, all it did was make my eyebrows harder to pluck. I am a big believer in more natural ways.

The best trick is to help the hair follicle open so the hair is easier to remove and the best way to do this is...

Hot water. Not so hot that you burn yourself but hot enough to stand. Using tissue or a cotton pad place the hot water on your eyebrow. After a minute it should make it easier to pluck.

If after you pluck you still have some redness and you prefer a gel to ease the swelling/redness down then the best way to go is aloe vera gel,which you can buy a small tube of in health food shops, then store it in the fridge for extra coolness.

Here is the finished product. Yes it still hurt and no matter how good you pluck you will always find a stray hair. Without fail.

But the best rules to stick to are.

Get a pair of tweezers you can work with. I use ones that look like scissors but most people find the conventional ones easier. Do what works best for you.

Don't pluck eyebrow hair from the top of your eyebrow. It tends to lead to misshapen brows and disaster.

Just take it slowly and remember no two eyebrows are the same so don't worry too much if they aren't identical.

Try to pluck after a bath/shower or use the hot water trick to open the hair follicles. Easier plucking means less pain.

And try to stick to natural products to put on the eye afterwards and try to not put make up on straight away.

I hope that helps and any questions you have you can ask me personally on twitter at @getyourglitter.

Just a winters tale...

Hello bloggers.

Today it has been snowing so bad here that buses stopped running and nearly all the schools were shut.

So to entertain you whilst it is cold out I thought I would show you my winter look.

Now I wore this make up on Saturday whilst out with my friend and she told me that it was perfect for the environment we was in. (Cold and snowy)

So I will recreate it for you.

Of course you would start with the base, which is concealer, foundation and powder but you know all that so I will get to the nitty gritty of the eyes, cheeks and lips.

The lips for this look have to be nude either beige or pink would work well with this look depending on what skin colour you have. Since I am the palest of white, pink is my choice with the nude lip colour. Then just add either a clear or similar light lip gloss to set your lip colour off.

Next is the cheeks. For this look you should try to go for stain rather then block colour. Has it gives more of a colour sheen. A nice pink works well but you can always go for a coral base is pink is not suited to your skin.

Then for the eyes. I used a white glitter under the arch of the eyebrow and in the corner of the eye. Then placed a ice blue colour just after the white in the corner of the eye. Then to stop it looking block like. I used a baby pink eyeshadow to soften the tone and help create the ice effect look.

I then finished with lashings of black mascara, a sweep of liquid eyeliner and then placed some multi coloured glitter gel on the bottom eyelashes to give them a twinkle.

This is the finished article.

This look is quite easy to achieve but you can always alter the colours and the products to create your own winter look.

Products used are the urban decay palette in Uzi, kiddie pool and grifter.

Barry M liquid eyeliner in black

Topshop liquid lip and cheek stain in bitten berry

Avon sparkle lash and eyeliner

Lancome juicy tube in pink sparkle

and Models own lipstick in baby pink.