How Music Can Change You

Okay, so not a beauty related post, but I felt the need to write this post. I've been thinking about it for a few days now, and I can't let it go any longer!

Basically, this is just a blog post about my favourite artist, Leddra Chapman. I found her quite by accident in May this year, whilst watching clips of This Morning on YouTube, when I came across her performance on there from 2010, singing a beautiful song called "Story". Straight away her lyrics grabbed my attention, I'd been having a bit of a rough time with things in my life, and the song seemed to speak my feeling so perfectly. From watching that video I searched for more of her songs on YouTube and before long I had watched her music videos, tour videos and anything that I could find. Now, this may all seem quite stalker-ish behaviour, but there was just something about every song that I'd heard of hers that spoke to me, something that I'd never really experienced with music. I've always listened to music, but have never been one of those people who can't go a day without listening to any. I then found out that Leddra and Ed Sheeran had performed together, this was just before Ed had really broken through completely, a couple months before his album + came out. The chemistry between them in this video is incredible!

Needless to say I downloaded Leddra's album "Telling Tales" as soon as I could, and its been playing in my car since June, and it hasn't been replaced, except for when I added her new EP "A Trick or Two" to it in November.

I went to see Leddra live at The Bull and Gate in Kentish Town on the 22nd of November and it was one of the best nights of my life. She's an amazing performer, and her honesty in the lyrics are portrayed beautifully live, you can tell she actually means every word that she's singing. A rarity in todays X Factor charts, where everyone is singing other people's songs. Its good to know that there are still talented people out there who can play instruments, write their own songs and sing.

The day after the gig on the 22nd of November, Leddra graduated from the London College of Music, which just goes to prove that she has a talent, and one that will last for a very long time.

She deserves to be more widely known, I think anyone that listens to her, even if they don't like the folk/pop sound that she produces, they can appreciate the quality of her music.

Leddra's music means so much to me, as silly as it sounds, but I have now turned into someone who can't go a day without listening to music.

BM Beauty Swatches

So, this is the follow up blog to my BM Beauty/Clothes Show Live experience!
The fun bit, swatches!!

At the Show we were selling 2 introductory kits, the first of which was the Defined Eye Kit

This kit included 3 eyes shadows in the colours: 

Noir: A matte black shade

Marble Sparkle: A white with silver shimmer

Platinum Tiara: A silver, with a taupe undertone and shimmer

It also included a lipgloss in Nude, a blush in the colour Velvet Dawn and a translucent finishing powder, Dewy Pefection. 

The second introductory kit was called the Bright Eyes Kit

This again included 3 eye shadows in the colours:

Her Majesty: A pink with rose gold shimmer

Aquatic Galaxy: A metallic turquoise 

Wolf Howl: A metallic rich purple

It also included a lipgloss in the colour Cherry Bomb, bronzer in the colour Summer Warmth and a blush in Peachy Glow!

These kits were a Clothes Show special, at £5 each

There were also 3 brushes for sale, the foundation brush, concealer brush and eyeshadow brush

Retailing for 

Eyeshadow Brush £8

Foundation Brush £14

Concealer Brush £10

If you weren't lucky enough to see the BM Beauty stand at the Clothes Show you can get 20% off all orders until Christmas using the discount code CSL20 over at the BM Beauty website

Thanks for reading!
Fai x



*Disclaimer: I have not been paid to review these products and all opinions are my own 

BM Beauty @ The Clothes Show Live

From the 2nd - 7th of December the Clothes Show Live was held at the Birmingham NEC, and I had the amazing opportunity of working with BM Beauty, Kimberly Wyatt and Laura McComiskie's new make up brand. I travelled up on Sunday the 4th and worked at the show on Monday and Tuesday (5th and 6th of December)

I had an amazing time, working with a few of the girls from The Academy of Makeup, Glasgow to help promote and sell these great products.

BM Beauty is an all natural, animal cruelty free mineral makeup company. They have a range of products, from eyeshadows, mascaras and lip-glosses, right through to foundation, concealers and finishing powders. The foundations contain zinc oxide which is a natural anti inflammatory, great for problem skin, which was a point that Laura and Kimberly wanted to focus on as they have both in the past suffered from problem skin, a problem that many people share! The foundations come in a good range of colours, although more colours will be added to range as time goes on. They have a great texture, very soft, with buildable coverage without feeling heavy or cakey. They also contain a slight shimmer so you will never look like you've just stuck your face in a powder puff! It gives you a lovely, dewy finish!

All of the products are cruelty free, and the company has been given the stamp of approval by BUAV and PETA. Along with the cruelty free products, all of their brushes are made with synthetic hairs, that are made to replicate animal hair so you achieve the same finish with the brushes.

Another amazing factor with this brand is that all of the posters used at the Clothes Show were complete air brush free. It was incredible to see all the little bits that would usually be completely taken away, like the fly away bits of hair, and you could actually see her skin, and all the pores. It gives so much more credibility to the brand itself, as all the products used in the pictures were BM Beauty products so you could actually get a decent representation of the products and how they work on the skin!

I will be posting a separate blog with swatches, and talking more about how to use mineral makeup, because it isn't all about powder, powder, powder!!

Thanks for reading my lovelies! Hope to see you back soon

Fai x