M.A.C Warm Neutral Palette Review

(From left to right: Hey/Warm Breeze/Gingersnap/Dark Brew/ Dance in the Dark/Brule/Vanilla Extract/Honey Lust/Amber Lights/Saddle/Lemon Tart/Creative Copper/Butterfudge/Divine Decadence/Unwind)

I'm writing this blog post of Friday the 13th and this is my 13th post... whshh; mind blown.

Hello everyone! Welcome back to my little corner of the internet!

So, I had been eyeing up a certain eyeshadow palette by M.A.C and I had tried out lots of different eyeshadows out in the M.A.C store so I knew a lot of them were very pigmented. When I got a M.A.C voucher for my birthday, I finally took the plunge and bought the 'Warm Neutral' palette.

So I thought I would help all of you lovely people out by reviewing this glorious palette and clarifying... is it really worth the buy?

But... before we get into the review, who noticed that I have actually stuck to one of my 17 Goals For 2017 and am actually posting on time *winkey face*.

This cost around £40 for me but I managed to get this on sale so usually this would cost £60 which is fairly expensive but as we all know, M.A.C doesn't come cheap! 

It comes with a mix of warm browns, warm creams and a lot of gold and orange-y brown. Overall, a beautiful range of warm shades. I think this palette is perfect for all seasons, you can go for a dark, autumnal look in Autumn, a warm golden look for the festive season, and a glory, bronze look for Summer and Spring!

This palette comes with 15 beautiful warm, neutral shades. 

Two of which are completely matte (Brule and Saddle)

Thirteen of which are shimmery, although some are more shimmery than others (Hey, Warm Breeze, Gingersnap, Dark Brew, Dance In The Dark, Vanilla Extract, Honey Lust, Amber Lights, Lemon Tart, Creative Copper, Butterfudge, Divine Decadence, Unwind).

My favourite from the palette would have to be Gingersnap, Dark Brew and although this is an odd mossy green shade I find it compliments my eyes so I would also say Unwind.

Overall, I found that the majority of shades were very pigmented and easy to apply and blend however a few shades weren't.

I would say all the lighter shades are incredibly pigmented and with a few quick swipes of these shades over the lid you're good to go however if you're going for more of a darker look, I found that this was a bit trickier. 

A few of the more darker shades were a lot harder to apply. They were fairly pigmented but the actual product doesn't move across the lid very easily, it tends to stick and isn't as... flexible — shall we say— as hoped but I'm sure with a good primer, this can be resolved.

Again the same goes for the matte shades. I tend to put the matte shades in the crease of my eye and then blend them out but these shades seem to stick and it becomes very hard to blend it out into a gorgeous smokey eye. But again this can be sorted with a good primer.

Overall, I think this is a pretty good palette. It isn't quite as wonderful as my Naked palette but it is definitely better than anything I have tried in the drugstore... although I have heard Revolution have great palettes.

To be quite honest, I am very happy with this palette and I know I will be getting a lot of use out of it!

I would definitely recommend this to anyone humming and harring over buying a palette.

Thank you very much for reading and I truly hope this was helpful! 

What is your favourite shade from the palette? What is your go-to, holy grail eyeshadow palette?

Until next Saturday...

Katy xoxo

17 Goals For 2017

2016 has been a pretty rough year me and I think it's been that way for everyone and I think most of us are pretty happy to see it go. To make sure I don't repeat a year like 2016 again, I have made 17 goals for 2017 and let's hope (she says with crossed fingers) that I can stick to them...

1. STICK TO A REGULAR BLOGGING SCHEDULE.
Ever since I've had my blog, I have never really stuck to an actual blogging schedule, I have just posted when I felt like posting. This year is going to be different, I am am going to upload a blog post every Saturday, and maybe a few other posts throughout the week if I feel like it. But there will always be at least one post up a week on Saturday.

2. CUT ALL NEGATIVITY OUT OF MY LIFE.
This is one of my main goals for this year. For me and many others, 2016 was a very negative year. I constantly felt like there was a big grey cloud hanging over my head. This year I am cutting all negativity and any people causing any negativity out of my life.

3. BECOME MORE ACTIVE ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA.
This goal links to my first goal. Again, ever since I've had my blog I haven't really posted that much on my Instagram or Twitter  so this year you can look forward to a hell of a lot of photos and tweets ;) 

4. RIDE MY BIKE MORE.
One of my favourite things to do is to ride my bike but for some odd reason I never seem to go out for a cycle that much. So this year I will be doing many cycle rides up and down the beach... and of course stop off for a hot chocolate along the way.

5. GROW OUT MY HAIR.
I absolutely LOVE the look of long, wavy hair and I've always wanted to have hair like the girls on tumblr but every time I start growing out, I always get bored and end up cutting it off into a messy lob. Which does look nice but I really want to try out having long hair. I'm already about halfway to where I want to be.

6. KEEP MY ROOM TIDY.
Okay, so my room always seems to get quite messy, I literally don't even know how it happens, but, it does. 2017 is the year I am going to  get everything all neat and organised again and that includes trying to keep my room tidy. Please remind me of this one, I have a feeling I'm going to forget this one!

7. FASHION.
Recently I have really been getting into my fashion, however it is veerrryy different to what everyone wears at my school so as you can imagine, on mufti days, I stick out like a sore thumb. Although I love my fashion and I feel like I can conquer the world when I'm wearing something I like, sometimes I can feel a little self-conscious as my outfits are marmite (you either love it or hate it). However, feeling self-conscious is no more!

8. GET OUT THE HOUSE MORE.
Throughout 2016, I didn't really go out that much with my friends or on my own. This year I am going to arrange things with the people that make me happy or if I need a bit of me-time, just go sit in a coffee shop and read my book... or write a blog post.

9. SPEND MORE TIME WITH MY FAMILY.
Linking to my last goal, I haven't really spend enough time with my family this year, just little things like going out for a meal, or sitting in the same room together, I've let work stress me out too much and so I've missed out on making great memories. This leads me onto my next point.

10. DON'T LET WORK TAKE OVER.
2016 has been one of the hardest years, work-wise and it's safe to say that I have struggled. I got too stressed out and let it take over my life. When I get stressed I don't think straight meaning I can't get much work done. This year I am going to take breaks as I didn't last year. I'm going to take time out for me.

11. SPEND MORE TIME WITH MY DOG.
I know this sounds bad. It sounds like I completely neglected him last year which I didn't. I do spend lots of time with my dog but not as much as I used to and I want things to go back to the way they were. We used to play for hours and I used to go on every walk but because I got so stressed I used to just skip the walks which I'm not going to do this year.

12. WORK-OUT.
I've always been awful at working out. I do P.E at school... only because I have to, I windsurf throughout spring and summer and I sometimes do yoga but I'm not very good at regularly working out. Now, I'm going to work out at least every weekend... I suspect that this won't last very long haha.

13. SKIN-CARE ROUTINE.
My skin-care routine has always been... okay, but never amazing. I'm going to look after my skin a bit more this year, so if you have any good skincare products that you are dying to share then just comment below because I'm on a hunt.

14. IMPROVE MY POSTURE.
As I am very tall for my age, I'm constantly looking down to talk to people, and bending over to do my work, my posture is getting pretty bad. I am going to make an effort to stand up straight with my shoulders back and chin tall.

15. BUILD UP MY CONFIDENCE.
2016 wasn't the best year for me and my confidence kind of hit rock bottom and I do know that, that comes with being a teenager. I'm going to work on myself and become of proud of who I am and stop caring about what other people think.

16. MAKE NEW FRIENDS.
With it being a new year I think it's fairly fitting to meet new people and make new friends (maybe I'll even make some blogging buddies, haha). I'm not sure where I'm going to meet new people but who knows, maybe I'll meet a nice person while drinking hot chocolate in a cute coffee shop and then start talking about our favourite PLL episodes (yes, I did just drop in a mention about PLL, because as you all know, I am obsessed with PLL).

17. BE POSITIVE.
2016 has been very negative and grey. I have felt down pretty much the whole year. This year, I am going to think positively about everything and try to remember that,
for every negative, there are at least three positives.

So there we have it! All my 17 goals for 2017. Well done if you made it through the whole post because it was very long! 
If you made it this far then comment what your main goal is for 2017 below. And do you think anything should stay in 2016? *cough the dab cough*.

See you next Saturday!
xoxo