January Favourites 2016 ♡

I know it's a little late to be doing a January favourites, but I really want to try and do a favourites post for every month. January was a strange month for me, it flew by but I was really busy, and my skin had a bit of a tantrum half way through, so I was a little scared to keep trying new things. I do have a few things though so I thought I'd mention them.

I tried quite a lot of skin care last month to try and calm my skin down, but the one thing that I found really helped was the Origins Super Spot Remover, it's a gel like spot treatment that contains salicylic acid which is perfect for reducing spots, but I had little rash like bumps on my forehead and this cleared it up so quickly, I wish I had used it on it straight away, it did dry my skin out but I used a very nourishing moisturiser (I'll include that in my February favourites as I started using that in February but it was the Make a Difference Plus ultra nourishing cream)

For the most part of this month I've been layering two Mac blushes, Cheek Pollen and Stereo Rose mineralise skin finish, unfortunately they are both limited edition and aren't in stock, but together they give a beautiful natural glowy look to the cheeks, I had purple hair for the first half of the month so kept my cheeks quite neutral and these were perfect, Mac do have a habit of reusing their limited edition items in new collections, and I know Stereo Rose is re-released quite a bit so it might be worth keeping an eye out for them.

Another two products I've been using together have been the Urban Decay Gwen Stefani eyeshadow palette, and the Charlotte Tilbury Vintage Vamp palette, I love these both individually, but I also find that using "punk" from the Gwen Stefani palette with the Vintage Vamp shades, and blending out with Anaheim looks so pretty, they are both so pretty and I've been loving putting together different colour combinations.

L-R UD Baby-Anaheim-Stark-Steady-Punk-Charlotte Tilbury

With having bright hair for most of the month I stuck to more neutral lip colours, Invasion by Gerard Cosmetics is a beautiful grey toned nude, it's a liquid lip stain but is actually quite comfortable to wear, I wish the brand was easier to get hold of because I'd love to try more of them! 

I was so excited to see Ellie Goulding was coming out with a Mac collection, and I love the colour of her Only You Lipstick, but unfortunately despite their claims that it is a cremsheen formula it is definitely more of a lustre, so I found that putting it over Soar lipliner makes a really pretty, easy to wear colour, perfect for a nice everyday lip colour.

The last lip product that I was loving in January was Mac Persistence, it's a peachy cinnamon colour that is pretty without being too bright or dark, I love the formula of Mac matte lipsticks, they are creamy and quite long lasting, I wore this in place of red/bright lipsticks so that it wouldn't clash with my hair and it worked really well.

L-R Invasion-Soar-Only You-Soar & Only You-Persistence-Cheek Pollen-Stereo Rose-Cheek Pollen & Stereo Rose

I've discovered a few new TV shows in January, I started to watch Luther at Christmas, but finished it in January and loved it, it's a detective show set in London, and it really addictive! I don't know if there will be more series, but I really hope they do make more as it's so good, it was quite scary but if you like slightly more gripping, chilling shows you will love this! I also discovered Tattoo Fixers and am hooked on it, the second series is on at the moment, but I've also been watching the first series on 4OD as it's so good, it's basically three really good tattoo artists fixing peoples dodgy tattoos, the artists are amazing and I really want a tattoo by them now, they are really funny and the tattoos are stunning, love it! Finally Pretty Little Liars came back this month, I wasn't sure if the whole five years later thing would work but it really does, the new story line is really interesting, and refreshing after years of the same. 

 I read The Five People you Meet in Heaven last month and absolutely loved it, the story is really thought provoking, I really didn't want it to end, I'm going to review this book soon so I won't go into it now but I'd really recommend it, it was quite a quick read as well. I think there is a film based on the story which I'd love to watch as well.

As for music really liked X Ambassadors, I listened to their VHS album a lot last month and loved it, I really like Gorgeous, Feather and Hang On. I also really like Nina Nesbitt's Chewing Gum and The Weeknd's In The Night.

That's it for my January favourites, it was quite a long, rambly post so thank you so much if you got through it, I'm already really looking forward to writing my February one, the year is going so fast already!

Thankyou for reading ♡