TED BAKER - THE GIRL WITH THE BEAUTIFUL FACE ♡

Hello my beauty lovers,

I really love this time of year as it is starting to feel really christmassy and its also nearly my birthday! Yaaaayyy!! I hope you're all getting into the christmassy spirit too. 

So I was lucky enough to stumble on this lovely set by Ted Baker called the Ted Baker London The Girl With The Beautiful Face Make Up Kit. This set is incredibly beautiful - from the packaging to the products inside - you will adore it. With most sets I never tend to use all the products, I mostly like a few and then the others always go to waste, however with this kit all of the products are colours and shades that I would definitely wear which is amazing and shows how great this kit is.

So it comes in a box which has a lid to open the top half and then a drawer to open the bottom half,  which makes a lovely looking storage box for some of my make up and it looks very pretty on my dressing table too.

The set includes -

• 2 x nail varnish
• 2 x eye crayons
• Lipstick
• Lip crayon
• Eyeliner pen
• Mascara
• Bronzing compact
• 2 x illuminating liquids
• Eyelash curlers
• Kabuki brush (which is actually more like a bronzer brush rather than a kabuki brush)

The two nail polishes are both gorgeous colours one is a bright coral colour and the other is a metallic silver. What I love about both of these shades is that they work all year round - they'll look perfect over the christmas season but they'll look just as nice in summer too. They are both really easy to apply and I applied two coats in both of the colours. As always with metallic nail polish you need to smooth out the polish or else it will clump so with the silver nail polish apply a little amount first and then build up the colour with more coats rather than applying loads on the first coat. The coral lasted slightly longer on my nails than the silver it started chipping after the fourth day without a top coat so if you apply a top coat they will last longer. The silver started to chip after the third day without a top coat too so apply a top coat to get longer wear.

I absolutely love the colours of the eye crayons! One is a dark gunmetal grey and the other is a soft golden colour. They are super easy to apply and I love how easy they are to blend. I definitely prefer the grey colour as it is really pigmented and I would personally prefer if the gold was slightly more pigmented. They are both colours I would use on a day to day basis so I'm really excited to play around with these colours to create some fun looks!

There are two lip products in the set - one is a lipstick and the other is a lip crayon. The lipstick is a bright red colour which I think is simply gorgeous and is the perfect red shade for me. The lip crayon is just as beautiful and comes in a red berry colour which is perfect for this season as this lip colour seems to be everywhere. Both the lipstick and crayon last quite a while as I didn't need to reapply them even after I had eaten so they are really long wearing. They are also both really pigmented so you don't need to build up the colour unless you want a more intense look. I will definitely be wearing both of these colours over the Christmas holiday season.

The eyeliner pen is surprisingly really good. It has a felt tip end which makes it really easy to use and apply so if you're not to good at applying eyeliner than this brush is a great one to practice with as it gives you a really easy application in a few strokes. I really like the colour of the eyeliner as its a really dark black colour as I love the blackest eyeliners you can get and this seems to be quite close. It dries to a shiny finish but I found when I applied over eyeshadow it tended to dry to more of a matte finish. I much preferred using this eyeliner alone rather than over eyeshadow as it tended to clump when I applied it over shadow which is the only negative thing about it.

I am a bit of a mascara snob and I only really ever use Lancome mascaras as they are my all time favourites!! However I did surprisingly really like the mascara that comes in this set. I loved the brush as it is a thin brush head with loads of the plastic bristles which gives your lashes a great lift when applying mascara so that adds extra volume to your lashes. This mascara did add volume and length to my lashes and didn't clump at all which I loved but I won't be changing mascara anytime soon!! This is a great back up though and is perfect for the lower lashes.

The bronzing compact is probably my least favourite product in the whole set as its not pigmented enough for me. Its more like a highlighter than a bronzer but its too dark to be a highlighter and too light to be a bronzer so its just stuck in the middle. I think if you have a fair complexion than it definitely would work better for you as it is really lovely to apply and it feels really light and soft on the skin but its just the colour that doesn't work for me personally. 

The kabuki brush which is more like a bronzer brush rather than a kabuki brush is actually a really good brush as long as you don't think of it as a kabuki haha. I used it to apply the bronzer and it glided over my skin leaving a really nice flawless finish. The only thing I didn't like about this brush is that some of the bristles were falling out when I was using it.

The two illuminating liquids are really gorgeous. They have a strikingly similar resemblance to the benefit highbeam and sunbeam highlighters. The silvery pink one is called pearly pink and the golden one is called golden glow. I prefer powder or cream highlighters rather than liquid ones but these seemed to work really well, they blended into my foundation easily and they blended just as well when I applied them before foundation. They can be worn with or without make up as they look really pretty mixed into a daily face moisturiser to give your skin an extra glow. I prefer the pearly pink one as it seems to be more pigmented then golden glow one and I LOVE highlighters so the more pigmented the better.

Last are the gorgeous rose gold eyelash curlers which look stunning on my dressing table! I always stick to my Shu Uemura eyelash curlers so I am quite resistant to try any other curlers as they are INCREDIBLE but the ted baker curlers in this set were really good as an alternative. They curled my eyelashes really well and didn't pull any of my eyelashes out which is always a good thing! I think I would use these curlers as my handbag curlers so I've always got a back up on me.

I really love this make up set and I think it is such good value for money considering all the products you get inside it.

You can buy it from boots here for £40 but I actually got it for £20 on promotion which makes it even more of a bargain so definitely look out for it in any of the promotions as I think it is definitely worth a buy or it would even make an amazing christmas gift for a loved one.

Have any of you guys tried this make up kit? Let me know if you have or if you want to get your hands on it in the comments below.