Pale skin : makeup routine

Good auld Irish skin.... I have probably skin the exact colour of a sheet of paper.. A ghost.. A corpse.. Whatever I've heard it all! Haha! 

I have no undertones to my skin.. Maybe sometimes a tinge of red if I'm sick or having a reaction to some product.. Yep.. It's also super sensitive!! 

I also have a lot of freckles.. Not the cute ones some people get.. Across their nose.. Mine are like little brown smudges making my skin look dirty! Ugh! 

I have bad dark circles under my eyes too.. Not sure why.. Nothing seems to help even a good nights sleep! I think it might have to do with my sinus problems! Apparently that can cause dark circles from bad circulation in the eyes area.. anyway here is my most basic make up routine.. To cover up my imperfections.. I havnt done any eye make up here.. 

These are the areas I apply my concealor...

The concealer I use is the palest I've ever found and I think it would only suit very pale people as you can see.. It's hard to see even on the palest girl in the world! :P (apologies for the crap lighting!!)

These are all the products I used.. 

Primer : baby skin by maybeline

 It's lovely and light on the skin.. And does fill in those pores... Which can be very visible with pale skin! (Great news right!) 

Foundation : 25 hour lasting finish by Rimmel.

This is not too light and not too heavy. It's the lightest shade it comes in. It does stay put for most of the day but definetely wouldnt last 25 hours haha! But what foundation does. I've gone off my usual MAC foundation lately and I'm not sure why.. I just keep going back to this every morning! It wouldnt be good for going out at night though unless you applied it kinda heavy! :) 

Contouring : Rimmel bronzer.

Cant remember the accurate name for this cause I lost the cover.. Which I always do! Its also nearly gone! Oops! I love it! Its great for pale skin cause it isnt too pigmented leaving you looking like a drag queen!..

I just apply this to my cheek bones, temples, along my hairline, down the sides of my nose and down my neck to blend my foundation with my natural skin colour! Ye all know the way anyway! :P 

Eyebrows : A pencil by Eylure.

The name had faded off this.. and I got it over a year ago! Its alright for light shading! Again I wouldnt use that on a night out! But it's perfect for daytime! :) 

Real Techniques brushes! Both foundation brushes! 

The result...

Basically this is just evening out uneven skin tone that very pale people always seem to have issues with.

There's no eye makeup done here.. Not even mascara! (feel sooo naked in the eyeball area ahaha!)

MommaKatie xo.

The White House Teeth Whitening: REVIEW

Price : 195euro

Treatment time : 1 hour

Worth it? : No way!
Rate it : 0/10

So I started looking online for a place in Cork to get my teeth whitened a few months ago! My teeth arnt that bad really! Just a bit yellow from all the tea and coffee (many many many cups of coffee since Rían was born) and I felt they needed to be whitened a bit!! I quickly stumbled upon The White House.. They promise a 4-10 shades whiter difference! I was pretty excited getting it done! :)

So. Firstly. There online website is so confusing when picking a time! I selected 04:30 thinking that was 16:30 but later recieved an email stating my appointment was for 04:30am... So I said I better get onto them.. On a Dublin number I was told my appointment was for 12:30pm... I mean.. They need to get their shit together! I couldn't make that earlier appointment but got one for a later time!

When I arrived the place kind of looked like a pop up shop.. Like there was no homely feel about the place.. Looked like it could shut down any day.. Anyway.. This still didn't put me off.. I toddled on in to the treatment room! There was just a chair.. A sink and a counter... The specialist applied the "whitening gel" to my teeth and put the blue light infront of my teeth for 3 sessions of 15 minutes! I didn't feel a thing! Although I was fit to cry haven't to listen to the re-run of coronation street in the background!! :(

Anyway after all that good (ya right!) stuff the girl didn't even check to see how many shades it supposably lightened... Well.. I got the shock of my life when I looked in the mirror! My teeth were all shades of yellow and white!! I was in shock! The girl then said that this would calm down over the next hour! And she was right! It did.. But not before scaring the life out of me, my mom, dad and baby Rían!!!

After all that the results were terrible! My teeth are exactly the same colour as before! If maybe one shade lighter! I feel sick that I spent 195euro on this shockingly bad treatment! I have 2 more top up appointments free with that! Which I doubt I will go to! (I'm traumatised!) it was all valued at something like 350euro approx.. I would never ever ever value it originally at that price! I basically wasted a half of a day going in to get it done! And now my teeth are feeling more sensitive too! I'm really angry about it all! I wouldn't recommend it! I have very good healthy teeth so they have no excuse really... I think I'll be sending in a complaint.. To try get my money back!!!

Before & after..

As you can see there is no difference! They actually look WORSE that before! I'm gutted! :( 

Please leave a comment if you know of somewhere else in Cork that could sort this out for me! :) 

MommaKatie xo.

Vtech little friendies 2-in-1 baby gym REVIEW

The picture on the box. 

I bought this baby gym for Rian last week because I feel he needed more time on the ground and this would help keep him entertained too to give me a break! ha! He LOVES it! It comes with 4 detachable toys, a giant cow teddy, a baby mirror (he loves looking at himself! Vain baba!) and a giant light up sun that plays 24 different melodies! This can be detached also and tied to a cot or carseat for entertainment on the go! :) It says it teaches shapes and animals too! But Rian is too young to tell if it has any effect on his learning haha! 

I paid 31.99euro for this in Argos! I think it was on offer down from 70euro! Love a baby bargain! :) It is well worth that!  

The only thing I would say against this, is that you have to keep pressing the buttons on the sun to make it play 20 seconds worth of a song.. Which means you cant leave the room and have it play on! :/

Rian has a LOT of vtech stuff! And they are all great for keeping him entertained.. Mostly because they all make a racket and light up! Definetely not good to have about on a hungover Sunday morning let me tell you! :) 

Rian playing with his gym (big baba!)  :)

MommaKatie xo.