Decisions Decisions!

So there was a epic 'Goodbye' post, a closing down sale and a huge great big Blog hiatus where I didn't even log into Blogger.  But now the time has come to make a decision...  

To delete or not to delete?

 

Image Source - weheartit

I have no intention of going back to a dedicated beauty blog, but should I really delete a year and a half worth of posts, wipe the slate clean and start all over again?  I've been debating about this for a while so the time has come to put it out there to the great big wise blogging world.

As you are all bloggers or blog readers, what would you rather see?

- Revamp the existing defunct blog, thus causing confusion amongst existing followers
"Why am I suddenly following a blog about teacups and cheese?"
(NB. As much as I love a nice brew and a bit of Brie I have no intention of starting a teacup/cheese blog...but you get the point! lol)

- The bold move of deleting EVERYTHING, starting completely from scratch as if Wedgie was never here.
 OR
 - Keep the existing blog for reference purposes (you never know, someone might base a dissertation on 'The Works of MsWedgie') and start a side project of epically awesome proportions?  

Have you faced a similar decision and if so what did you do?  Or, have you followed a blog that overnight changed into something completely new much to your great disgruntlement and annoyance?  Any opinions here would be muchly appreciated!

Mucho love
MsWedgie
xXx

All Sale Items Must Go!! Make your offers! - CLOSED

SALE NOW CLOSED

OK Chaps and Chapettes...this is the last call out for anybody interested in the last few remaining items in my Blog Sale.  As I'm in an everything must go kinda mood, if anybody is interested in any of the remaining items just make me an offer (all sensible offers considered) and I'll see what I can do! :)

Items left for Sale (or for bartering over) are...

Benefit You Rebel Lite

OCC 'Pageant' Lip Tar

Illamasqua 'Plunge' Lipstick

Shiro 'Over 9000' Intertube

Shiro 'Sad Keanu' Intertube

All terms and conditions type stuff and pictures are available on the original post and If you want to make an offer just leave me a comment below with your offer and info! :)

xXx

Closing Down Blog Sale!!! - NOW CLOSED

So here it is as promised folks...it's my beauty blogging closing down sale!!! Please note that this is UK only folks!!


Photo Credit - icanhascheezburger

Ok...so there's no shoes in the sale (or kitties for that matter) but there are lots of lovely make up goodies so let the fun begin...

1. Large Pink Z Palette - £10 SOLD

Postage on this item is £3.00

This is as new! Used for blog post pictures and never used again.  I loved my leopard print Z Palette just a little bit more than than the baby pink one! :-)

 2. Benefit You Rebel Lite - £15 SOLD

This is brand new and unused!  

As much as I love 'You Rebel' having 3 back ups (yes 3...what can I say, they earned me lots of Boots Advantage points) is just a little bit excessive! :-)

 3. EZ Prez Pressing Medium and 6 empty pans - £4 SOLD

2fl oz bottle - usage shown

Bought from Costal Scents

I've pressed all I need to press and I no longer use it - 3 quarters left

4. Illamasqua 'Plunge' Lipstick - £8

Usage as shown - used with lip brush 4 or 5 times

 5. MAC 'Petticoat' MSF - £14 SOLD

Unboxed - swatched once, it's not my colour unfortunately

6. Shiro Intertube 'Over 9000' (Grapefruit)

7. Shiro Intertube 'Sad Keanu' (Blackberry)

Both of these have only been used for a blog post, so only used once. Love Intertubes but just don't wear these colours

***First person to put their hand up for one of these gets the sample of the very blue 'Robe and Wizard Hat'*** 

 9. OCC Lip Tar 'Pageant' - £5

10. Sleek Pout Paint 'Peachy Keen' - £2.50 SOLD

11. Sleek Pout Paint 'Milkshake' - £2.50 SOLD

Lip Tar used 3 or 4 times so pretty much no useage as a little goes a very very looooooonnnnggggg way! :)

Pout Paints swatched only once

 12. Front Cover 'Very Hot Very Cool' Palette - £7 SOLD

Postage on this item is £3

All colours have been swatched once and the only colours that have actually been used are 'Icicle', 'China Cup', 'Sand Shell' and 'Bracken'.  Hopefully you can see useage in the photos.

13. NYX LSS 'Sierra' (568) - £2.50 SOLD

14. NYX LSS 'Pumpkin Pie' (630) - £2 SOLD

15. NYX LSS 'Spell Bound' (644) - £2.50 SOLD

16. NYS LSS 'Fig' (640) - £2 SOLD

L to R - Sierra, Pumpkin Pie, Spell Bound, Fig

Sierra and Spell Bound have both been swatched once

Fig and Pumpkin Pie have both been used 2 or 3 times

So that's everything, apart from...

...the technical stuff

1. UK only I'm afraid. Offers will also not be accepted if they are anonymous! Sorry! :-(

2. Postage for all items (other stated otherwise) is £2 and will be sent 2nd Recorded Delivery with 25p for each additional item.

3. Just leave me a comment telling me what you want and your Paypal e-mail address and I'll send you an invoice.

4. Items are sold as seen - if you have any questions just lemme know and I'll do my best to help you out! :-)

5. All packages will contain 'sweeties' of some sort.  As seller I can not be held responsible for ruining anyones diet! ;-) lol

So that's it...happy shopping folks!! :-)

xXx

Goodbye my friends...going out of business and a sale!!

The time to say goodbye has finally come folks!  Don't worry, I'm not throwing myself off a building (or anything quite that dramatic) but I have finally made the decision to quit the beauty blogging world. 

Image Source weheartit

But why???

Well you may (or may not...but I won't hold that against ya) have noticed that I have been absent for a few months.  I thought maybe I was having a bloggers slump.  Lets face it we've all been there.  You buy a new lipstick and where as you'd usually be rushing to your computer to blog about it, you suddenly find that you'd rather do ANYTHING else other than take a gazillion pictures and talk about colours and textures and all that jazz.  Well the thing is that I felt like that 2 months ago and I'm still feeling the same now.  So, it is with a heavy heart that I have finally decided to leave the world of beauty blogging completely.

I still love love love reading other peoples beauty blogs, but I've completely lost the motivation to write about the same things myself.  My priorities have changing a lot over the last few months and unfortunately make up doesn't play the same big part in my life that it used to.

Quitting the blogging world forever?
Awwww hell no!!  I haven't lost my interest in blogging completely folks.  Once I've figured out a new focus I'll be back.  I'll either completely reinvent this blog or I'll scrap it and start all over again.  Either way I'll let you guys know what I'm doing and I hope some of you will want to stick with me.  

And finally...a going out of business sale
As I have had a complete re-evaluation of all things make up related, I have also come to the realisation that I have lots of stuff I don't actually use.  What better way to truly 'go out of business' than to close with a sale (UK only...sorry) which I know you'll love.  There are only a few bits and pieces but there are some juicy bargains to be had from Illamasqua, MAC, Sleek, OCC, Benefit, Z Palette, NYX and a few others.

All profits from this mini blog sale will go in my 'Aaaarrrrggghh moving house is expensive' fund because as many of you will know...moving house is, you guessed it, RIDICULOUSLY expensive!

I'll just sorting through everything that's left (after my work mates have had a thorough rummage through the box of goodies) so it should go live by the later on today or tomorrow.  Until then....

Bye Bye

xXx

Can cheap false nails be good? - the Boots Clear Nails Kit

Christmas is coming and the party season is looming upon us.  That means new clothes, new shoes and that all important trip to the local nail technician.  Well, seeing that I'm on one hell of a scrimp and save mission at the moment, all of this is going to be done very cheaply indeed!!  My party dress was bought in the sale, my good ole Vivienne Westwood heels have been bought out of retirement, but what about that professional manicure?  Well that's where these come in... 

Yep, that's right...a bumper pack of 200 false nails all for the princely sum of £8.50 from my local Boots store.  Pretty cheap huh?  But are they any good?

In the box you get 200 nails which come in 10 different sizes.  I'd say that my natural nails are fairly large and I sometimes find that a lot of false nails kits are a little bit on the small size for me.  These fit pretty well though and I'd think that most people would probably find the size range OK.  

You also get a small bottle of glue.  Now how can I explain how I feel about this glue without resorting to profanity.  I've used false nails kits since I was 16...some of them being bargain basement 99p kits off my local market.  Of all the many brands I've tried this kit, hands down, has the worst glue I have ever used...EVER!!  Is it too weak?  Does it not stick?  Nope, it sticks just fine actually...if you can get it out of the damn bottle.  The bottle is so stiff that you need the mammoth strength of a sideshow giant to get the teeniest tiniest drop of glue out of it.  I thought at first that I was being a complete weed, but even my other half (who has considerably bigger muscles than I) also struggled to get the glue out of the bottle.  It's just not flexible enough to squeeze anything out, and if you're using this glue without the assistance of a big strong boy then you'll find applying them a bit of a struggle.

So the nails are good and the glue is very very bad...but what do they look like once you get them on?  Here they are in all there in all their bare, unpainted glory!!

They're not half bad actually!  They might not look as good as salon applied nails, but for the money I'm pretty impressed.  The size range is good, you get enough nails for lots of applications, they're easy to apply and don't need cutting or shaping, and they last really well if you look after them them.  The only thing that lets this kit down is the glue, but you can buy a separate bottle of glue for a few pounds and the total price of your kit will still only be around the £10 mark.  

So what will you be doing for the party season?  Do you prefer to splash out and go to a nail technician when you want false nails or are you a do it yourself kinda girl?

xXx

Keepon Blogging!

I've been a rather bad blogger recently.  It's the same old same old really.  I've been ill, had family things going on, been busy at work, been rather poor and haven't really been buying anything etc etc  Anyway...I'm still alive and as my head still isn't fully into blogging I though I'd share with you something rather random instead.  Ladies and gentleman, say hello to Keepon. 

Image from firebox

He's small, he's yellow and he's one hell of a mover! :) There's just something about watching a fuzzy little robot dancing (to an amazing song I might add) that always makes me happy when I'm feeling a bit blah.



These little guys will be available in the shops soon so 'keepon' your eye our for them! ;)  You can enjoy a whole world of  Keepon cuteness over at mykeepon.com

xXx

Do you go 'nude'? - NYX Pumpkin Pie

It's been a while since I've showcased one of my many NYX lipsticks, so as it's almost Halloween I thought it only right and proper to bring out 'Pumpkin Pie'.

Originally you were going to get some rather more exciting product shots with props and everything.  I had a very cute little mini pumpkin and can of pumpkin pie mix...but then I got hungry and ate them both, so instead here are some propless pictures showing the lipstick in all its bare glory! :)

Pumpkin Pie is a peachy nude shade that has a very creamy consistency but gives quite a sheer finish.  

Most people go crazy for nude lipsticks but generally speaking they aren't usually my cup of tea.  It's not that I don't like them, it's just that I've always preferred darker lipsticks as many nude shades don't really show up on my lips all that well.  This one doesn't do to badly though and does give my lips a subtle hint of colour.  This is definitely one to live in my handbag as a good everyday backup colour. 

I don't think I'm truly converted to a 'nude lover' (ooh err missus!) yet, but I might need to buy a few more lipsticks to help me make a decision! ;)  So how about you?  Are you a true 'nudie' or do you feel more at home with a shocking pink or pillar box red? 

xXx