Christmas 2016 - The outfits, the makeup and of course the product reviews!

Hello and welcome to 2016!

I hope 2016 is a fantastic year for all of you ❤️ I know I'm a little late for the HNY posts 🎉 to all my family and friends,, a huge Happy New Year! Hope you all have a happy and healthy 2016 🎀

Now with that,

Let’s get to the good stuff!

For the traditional Irish Christmas, you have the Turkey, stuffing, a box of roses, celebrations and a good 'aul selection box.

But the one thing you can count on for the perfect Irish Christmas is a ridiculous and irrational amount of drink.

How to jump-start the festivities is the 12 pubs of Christmas!

As you all know, now that I'm a business student in LIT in Limerick I don't get home a lot to Lahinch now that I live there.

In a small tiny town like Lahinch, you can imagine, there are barely 12 pubs!

I know the norm is to bare the almighty Christmas jumper, the uglier the better! Lights, bells the whole lot!

But myself and my friends decided to adorn a more modern approach!

I wore a khaki green dress, keeping in with the whole Christmas colour scheme. I bought a dress off Boohoo.com before the Christmas and I couldn’t wait to wear it!

It has two mini slits on the sides which elongate my legs.

My legs are a real problem area for me, mostly because they're too small for my body I'm not proportioned 100% in my favour!

Every girl has their issues don’t they?

But with a strappy sandal heel from Shoe Rack and a curly hair-do I was good to go!

To keep in with the whole Christmas theme, instead of the jumper I had a gold teddy-bear pin with a pearl belly and a ruby Christmas hat stuck into my dress.

He was my drinking buddy for the night! The girls and I all stayed in with the festive colours, reds, tartan, white and greens.

The next outfit was Christmas Day, I felt like Fran Drescher in this outfit! I got the skirt off Boohoo.com, I got most of my Christmas clothes from there, in one big haul!

The turtle neck is from Penneys of course with a pair of tights and black suede ankle boots, again from Penneys.

Christmas dinner was fab as always! Now to face the gym after being a slob for the past few weeks!

The next night out was St.Stephens night, I bought the dress on Boohoo.com (again of course!) I loved the dress because of the criss-cross pattern on the top. For a flat-chested gal it really helped it look like I had cleavage.

I gave the curly do a rest and straightened my hair with a darker eye and a brown-nude lip, a real Kardashian Style, all black, dead straight hair and a nude makeup look.

The next night out, which was my favourite was New Years eve!

Now I was completely strapped for a dress, so a quick message to one of the girls and I was sorted.

She told me she got the dress in Celebrity Boutique.

It was a gorgeous cerise pink bandage dress, which weighed a tonne and a half!

I paired that with a nude heel and a bag with similar makeup from St.Stephens day with a darker lip with plum and copper eyes.

Now for the make up products!

I used the same products for each look, except for the lip liner! Believe it or not, Penneys best!

The Catrice brand to be exact.

The shades I used for New Years eve and Christmas day was called Hey Macadamia Ahey! ( I know right...) And then I used another one for the 12 pubs called the Upper Brown Side.

I used my crown brush palette which I got off the fat man himself this year! I love it! My experience with the crown brush 10 colour concealer palette was that it was IDEAL for contouring!

I countoured with my Crown Brush palette over myfounation, blended it in with my beauty blender and then I used my NYX Christmas set which included contour powders that I've talked about a lot in numerous blogs I've written.

I got that originally as a present and I think you can get them in Shaws, but I havent seen it persoanlly myself. If any of my fab readersdo spot it please visit the CONTACT section on my website and drop me an email on where I can get it! Because both myself and my sister have both hit pan on our sets and are in serious and desperate need of refills!

I also used my Carli Bybel palette which I bought off BH cosmetics!

Link- http://www.bhcosmetics.com/products/carli-bybel I am literally obsessed with it!

Again I got it as a Christmas present, and the four highlighters and 10 eye-shadow shades are literally to die!

To see a video of the highlighter swatches click this link; https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1702279423351150

The plum and copper tones are what I used for my makeup look on new years and I've experimented with the highlighters.

My favourite so far has been the two middle ones.

I mixed and matched according to my foundation, I switched between my La Roche Posay foundation and my INGLOT HD foundation in shade 76.

The La Roche Posay was a lighter shade with better coverage although after a while it became slightly greasy so I recommend a good setting powder for under the eyes and for the face. A good under eye concealer setting powder is my W7 Banana Dreams discovery!

If you click this link http://kirstonifiedfashion.wix.com/kirstonifiedfashion#!Ben-NYE-Banana-Powder-Product-Review/fq70v/E8B66478-C476-423E-AB47-3B733793A3B3

It's a product review on the Ben NYE banana powder, which I feel the W7 is just as good. A powder for all round the face I would recommend Benefits Hello flawless! Or the Urban decay naked skin ultra-definition powder.

For the lashes I chose the trusted Ardell Demi-Wispies. I bought a few packs of those and bought DUO glue to apply them with.

The only issue I had with DUO glue was applying it. I found personally that the nozzle on the head of it was difficult to apply especially with my gel nails on!

Which brings me to my next point; the nails!

So there are two fantastic nail artists I want to mention in this blog post. First of all, Fiona Slade from O’Reillys in Limerick City who did a fantastic job on both sets of my nails ( the pink ones and the dark purple ones) and who is as sweet as anything!

Along with the fact that she is amazing at her job.

**Contact Info for Fiona**

Her facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/Nails-by-Fiona-at-o-reillys-1426341657672383/?fref=ts

Oreillys phone number - (061) 404 945

Another lady is Andrea from Hair 22 in Ennistymon Co.Clare who refilled the nails for me over the holidays while I was at home in Clare.

Unfortunately I’m new to her so I don’t have a last name, but if you contact Hair 22 in Ennistymon I’m sure you can book an appointment with her through them.

Andrea was so sweet aswell and I was super hungover the day I was in to her ( my appointment was the 23rd.... the day AFTER the 12 pubs at 9.30 in the morning!) she took such good care of me and my nails!

**Contact Info for Andrea**

Hair 22 Ennistymon - (065) 707 2585

Well that’s all from me now guys!

Stay tuned during the week for the last but certainly not least, Interviewee's are Miss Lisa Sexton, Deirdre Body-Guerin of Bodytreats Beautysalon ,Tanya-Rachel Makeup and Eva Haran!

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Thank you all for being so super supportive the past year and a bit!

And a happy and healthy 2016 to you all!

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Thanks again for all the support ladies and gents!

Lots of Love,

Kirstonified x