Advert on Meghan Silva's Blog!

So on Friday afternoon I was very excited to find out I was chosen as the winner of Meghan Silva's giveaway to win 1 month of free advertising on her blog!! I am so excited to have won this as of course, I have only just started my blog so it is really exciting to be gaining some new readers. So this is really just a short and sweet post to say thank you to Meghan for the giveaway and the advert on your blog!  

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Spring OOTD!

So I thought I might try and wear something a bit more spring-like even though the weather here in England is still not great! In this picture I am wearing a floral dress/top from Forever 21 that I love!! Its a nice cotton material and really light so it's great in the spring/summer, I think it cost about £15. It's one of those tops that you aren't quite sure whether it's a top or a dress - Last summer when I bought it, I used it as a dress but now I wear it as a top because it still fits my body but it's a little bit short to wear as a dress! I added this brown belt from Primark that was only £1 to pull the dress in at my waist a little bit which I like and then paired it with these light wash jeggings, again from primark which were £7! I like doing posts like this so please let me know if you like them too!

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it's time for a giveaway!

So on Sunday I hit 100 subscribers on my YouTube channel! To celebrate this I decided to do a little giveaway just to say thanks a bunch for subscribing and watching my videos. So I am giving away as the prize the MUA Undress me too palette (pictures are below). To enter, all you need to do is go to my YouTube channel and subscribe, then comment on the video above with a request/way to improve my channel! You can live anywhere in the world but you must have your parents permission to receive the package if you are under 18. Hope you enter the giveaway!

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Urban Decay Mariposa Palette

I enter lots of competitions on youtube, other blogs and on other websites too and a few weeks ago I got a message on youtube from TheBlushedBeauty saying I had won her giveaway for the Urban Decay Mariposa palette! I recieved the palette last week and have been having a play around with some of the colours. I had never tried any of the Urban Decay eyeshadows before, as urban decay is only stocked in House Of Fraser in the UK and there isn't one near me so obviously I was quite excited to recieve this palette and share my thoughts with you.

The first thing I loved about this palette is that it's in a tin which means it is really easy to travel with, it's not going to get scuffed in your bag and nothing is going to come out if one of the eyeshadows shatters. Plus the tin has a gorgeous butterfly design embossed on the top!! Also the tin doesn't show fingerprints really which is great because when you are working with makeup, most of the time there are grubby fingerprints on your palettes which isn't a good thing! There are 10 eyeshadows in the palette and it's a really nice mix of colours with some neutral shades and some more colourful ones! The really colourful ones will probably not be used a lot really, but that is only Haight and Rockstar, the other shades are all really nice. The pigmentation is really good and the texture of the eyeshadows is quite good too. It comes with a small travel size brush which is actually a really nice brush; Normally I just throw away the applicators that come with palettes but this one is actually really good quality. My favourite shade from this palette is mushroom which is a really pretty greyish brown, perfect for the crease!

This palette retails for £28 on Beautybay which to be honest I do think is quite expensive, although I do like this palette, the eyeshadows are quite small in comparison to other palettes I have like the Stila 'In the Light' palette which is £25 for 10 eyeshadows which are bigger than these ones and an eyeliner. If I hadn't won it, I probably wouldn't have bought it for myself but I will use the eyeshadows and I really do like the colours and quality of the product.

What do you think of this palette?

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Little Introduction to Me!

Hi. I'm Katy and this is my blog. You've probably figured that out from both the title of the blog, the post and the picture above but I thought I'd tell you anyway. I have a youtube channel called MakeupByKatyGx where I do beauty videos and stuff like that and I thought doing a blog might be fun too! So, yeah, I'm just going to be chatting about beauty, fashion and life as a teenage girl so if that sounds like something you might like to read then feel free to stick around for a bit!

If you want to know a bit about me, I thought I might enlighten you...

-I'm 14 and I live in North West England
-I'm in year 10 at school and am taking my GCSE's next year!
-I love drama and singing and hope to go to drama school some day

I'm not very good at introductions like this, so if you have anything you want to know about me then feel free to ask me in the comments :)

I hope you stick around for a little while and enjoy reading my blog

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