Beth's Little Beauty Blog

Hello everyone, it is nearing the end of 2014 and I wanted to make a special blog post about this year in particular. While the end of 2013 and start of 2014 was incredibly hard for me, I wanted to recap on the positive things that have happened this year, on and off of my blog because 2014 has been quite eventful. I also have some favourites for December in this blog post too.

It's nearly the end of 2014 and I feel like the second half of this year has just flown by. This is a smokey and glittery eye that is perfect for seeing in the New Year.

Hello, everyone, I hope you all had a really great Christmas and had a fun-filled day! Today's blog post is a Christmas Gift Haul of the presents that I received yesterday. This isn't trying to brag about what I got, this is simply for anyone who is interested in seeing what I got, most of it being makeup.

On the tenth day of Christmas blogging, the Christmas tutorial today is a wearable one that is perfect for Christmas day. It can pass as a day or night look and I decided to use a technique that is quite popular recently; an ombré lip.

On the eighth day of Christmas blogging, it's a well known fact that I love baking, and eating, cupcakes. Of course I had to do Christmas cupcakes! These are really easy, yet effective, Christmas cupcakes that look so cute.

On the sixth day of Christmas blogging, I decided to do the Christmas Tag! Christmas is one week away so I thought I would tag some people at the end to spread festivity around the blogging community!

On the fifth day of Christmas blogging, my family and I have finally put up the Christmas decorations in our house. I am going to be showing you some of my favourite decorations and how we decorated the house this year.

On the fourth day of Christmas blogging, I decided to do a holly and ivy themed makeup look. Decorating with holly from the Common is always a tradition in our house and when it gets closer to Christmas I love the dark green holly colour. This tutorial is inspired somewhat by the song 'Holly and the Ivy' but also because holly and ivy is a traditional Christmas thing.

On the third day of Christmas blogging I am going to do a Christmas biscuit recipe. I am combining two things I love, Christmas and biscuits, to create this super easy Christmas recipe that are perfect treats for kids, or for the big kid within you. These are so fun to make and they just let your creativity run wild and you can decorate them in any way you like. I'm making snowflake patterns on a round biscuit but you can do any design, shape or pattern you want. 

On the second day of Christmas blogging, I decided to bring you my Christmas playlist. I started playing these Christmas songs in October because that is how much I love Christmas tunes, and even though it annoyed people it was fun. I also decided to add some Christmas films too because it's Christmas! Why not?

On the first day of Christmas blogging, I am doing a golden inspired look based on Christmas bells. This is a wearable look that has a nude lip and quite a bold winged eyeliner but I really like it and I hope you do too.

This is one of the three new Winter-themed palettes MUA Cosmetics have launched this year alone. This is the Romantic Efflorescence Palette, £4, which contains a range of matte and pearl eye shadows in a variety of golden and berry tones. 

MUA Cosmetics have yet again released another one of their classic 12-shade eye shadow palettes. This recently released palette is called 'Twelfth Night' and contains 12 jeweled inspired winter shades. When I saw that this palette was in Superdrug for £4, I immediately picked it up. 

The palette that I am using for the Winter inspired tutorial is the MUA Matte Winter Forest Palette. This palette has smokey, blue and brown tones which are perfect for the season. I will be using the blues as an inspiration of winter and I will be combining this with the brown shades to keep this look quite delicate and wearable throughout winter.

I've been on a bit of a Lush craze at the moment and this is the fourth product I am reviewing in the last two months. Today I am reviewing an exciting Christmas product called Luxury Lush Pud. This retails at £3.50.

Just in time for Winter, MUA Cosmetics have launched a new matte palette called Winter Forest. This contains another 10 matte shades that are perfect for the winter months. I loved the last MUA Matte Palette so fingers crossed this one is just as good.