Seven Deadly Sins Beauty Tag

1. GREED: What is your most inexpensive beauty item? What is your most expensive?

My most inexpensive beauty item is Johnson’s refreshing face cleanser which is part of their face care range and cleans away impurities and all make-up, it’s incredible though, it cost two pounds at the most but it smells really wonderful and clean and leaves your face really smooth and refreshed. I really love it. I would bathe in it if I could.

My most expensive is probably my Urban Decay oz palettes I think, they cost 35 pounds each, but they are packaged so prettily and you get 8 eyeshadows in each, a saturated lip colour and a 24/7 eyeliner. I love them, the Theodora palette contains a lot of natural colours too which I don’t have and the Glinda palette has a great selection of pretty pastel and brights that are really ideal for spring and summer. And then there is the Sigma Resort palette,Ii always spend stupid amounts of money on eyeshadow palettes, they are my one weakness, that and Cookie Dough, and Galaxy chocolate and Pringles. . . Now that the sun is finally shining!

2. WRATH: What beauty products do you have a love/hate relationship with? What product has been the hardest to get?

I have a love/hate relationship with eyeliner, because I am so obsessed with watching tutorials and I always notice other girls' makeup and I think eyeliner really adds to it. Those perfect people with their rimmed eyes just look so effortless, and I can't apply it. I can't, not even normal pencil liner, or liquid or gel. I suck at it in fact. And this frustrates me, I can do my lower water line but not the top one. It really bothers me, only once have I been able to apply it and I was in shock for at least ten minutes.

As for what product has been the hardest to get, well, I watch a lot of Youtube tutorials and have just immersed myself and my debit card into all these incredible, must-have products that these Youtubers have introduced me too, and there are some palettes that I can’t get like Lorac palettes or most things from Sephora that doesn’t have a stand in Debenhams. Like Sigma products I can only get from Beauty Bay and it’s just a pain.

3. GLUTTONY: What is your most delicious beauty product?

I have this delicious tub of lip balm, it comes in a small pot and the scent is of vanilla and cream, it also tastes amazing as well as giving a good shine to your lips. I have ran out of the tub, but I got it as part of a gift set a few Christmases ago with vanilla and cream scented everything, it was so good. Good times, man, good times. But then, I very recently bought coconut scented oil a couple of days ago and have literally just been rubbing it into my skin every ten minutes, it smells incredible. I think I am addicted, need to stock up.

4. SLOTH: What beauty product do you neglect, due to laziness?

I never tend to wear full-on makeup in my every day life, I always wear mascara, eye shadow, and sometimes I apply foundation or a tinted BB cream. So I can skip a lot, especially contouring I rarely apply blusher because with my brown skintone I think you have to find the right shade so you don't look like an idiotic clown, and I only recently bought a bronzer.

5. PRIDE: What beauty product gives you the most self-confidence?

It honestly depends on the day, I think foundation can give you confidence, but usually I hate the idea of a layer of something thick on my skin, so I tend to go for the lighter coverage ones. I love eyeshadow, it adds a bit of colour to my face, because my entire self is just varying shades of brown minus the black hair, I love playing around with eye makeup and mascara of course is a must. I think all in all, it definitely the lashes, I curl and comb through my lashes before applying mascara and that makes me feel a lot better about my appearance.

6. LUST: What attributes do you find most attractive in the opposite sex?

Erm, tall, funny, I really think being just funny and goofy and kind can make someone really attractive, so sense of humour is really important. I like guys who are quite open and easy to talk to, I hate being the one who has to keep the conversation going, I like guys who just have things to say and are interesting, and of course being hot and intelligent helps. Being Ryan Gosling would help even more :)

7.ENVY: What items would you most like to receive as a gift?

Well, that’s kind of a weird question, I’m not very hard to buy for, I don’t mind fragrances. I would quite like a good solid pack of make up brushes, because mine are all jumbled, so I would like a nice varied set of say every brush you could ever even think of. But then my sister got a whole lot of makeup for her birthday from one of our recently married cousins, and they were really cute she got little eyeshadow palettes and creamy lipsticks and mascara, so anything really. Anything. I’m not like my Dad you won’t have to spend an entire afternoon in Debenhams trying to find me a gift!.

Why am I so obsessed with Fashion and Beauty?

Unlike some people, I only relatively recently began to get into beauty in a serious way, it wasn't something that clicked from the moment I was born, it wasn't an innate drive rather for the first fourteen to fifteen years of my life I couldn't have cared less. When I was younger, I wasn't a tomboy exactly, all this materialistic stuff just didn't interest me in the slightest. The clothes I wore were all a variation on a theme: jeans, T-shirt, jumper. I never wore nail varnish, unless I went to a wedding because they were considered a special occasion. At school, right through up until secondary (high) school, we were required to wear uniforms, so again I had little reason to be bothered about fashion and what was on-trend and wasn't. In addition to this, I was quite a shy child at school, I simply preferred to be invisible so I would wear little make-up and always have my hair in a plain and simple plait or ponytail because I didn't want to draw any attention to myself. I always felt that any scrutiny was bad scrutiny, this, of course, was before I discovered the genius of Oscar Wilde.

When I entered Sixth Form, it was the same situation, I had started to wear eyeshadow and mascara, because they were the easiest types of makeup to apply, but on most days I wouldn't bother, I didn't think that makeup application would make too much of a difference and I didn't want people to notice me because of the pretty glittery eyeshadow on my lids, I would rather they think I am pretty based on natural beauty and this is still true. There's a negative perception that people who are superficial enough to grant such importance to clothes and cosmetics are vain and shallow, when I think it should be stressed that just one part doesn't make the whole.

But one day, in the summer of my first year at Sixth Form (that would be junior year for Americans) my sister and I had planned a day out in London, a girly day full of shopping and seeing the sights; we had very high expectations. Naturally, being Britain it was on top form that day and rained constantly, so we spent the majority of it looking for places to hang out inside. So after going to M&M World (one of my favourite places to date) and ambling down Covent Garden, splurging in Harrods and finding this adorable tea shop with every single tea known to mankind, we spent at least three hours in Selfridges. We walked through each designer department staring at the glossy bags with security alarms that would cost more than two months rent until we reached the beauty department. It is ginormous. And I absolutely loved it.

All around us were long legged, perfectly waxed, tanned and made-up Amazonian women, with an arsenal of make up brushes strapped around their tiny waists. These make-up artists looked like models and my self esteem just deflated as I looked on with awe. They were perfect, and though I knew it was essentially expertly applied make-up that had allowed them to hide their flaws, if they even had any, I was still envious of their flawless finish.

So after this incredible day out, which was more fun than I could have imagined, I started to pay more attention to what I wore. Bearing in mind I was still lazy so I never put a full face of slap on and sometimes I didn't apply anything, but I did pay more attention to what clothes I donned, I became addicted to nail varnish, I love it and tend to match it to my mood rather than my clothes. And then I discovered a little thing called YouTube and started watching all these different make-up tutorials and gradually got more interested and started to buy more of the products, especially eye shadow paletttes.

I'm not rich or even well-off, my parents won't pay for my indulgences and I respect them for that, so everything I buy is either a product of my own hard-earned money or saved up cash or the miracle that is student finance. So if I don't post new products, or things from MAC and other high-end brands like YSL it's because some of us are still feeling the recession. Thanks for reading and I will post again soon.