Birthday Blessings...

Hey Loves,

Over the last weekend I was blessed enough to celebrate my birthday! And of corse all glory goes to God for sustaining me to this point and allowing me to see yet another year. 

HE IS TRULY WONDERFUL!

So as the day was approaching I decided that I was not going to do anything and as I had had a birthday dinner for the last two birthdays prior. So that was something I certainly didn't want to do.

So anyway I arranged to have a birthday 'breakfast' with a couple of my old Uni friends and spent the evening at the Mali Music Gospel concert.

The breakfast ended up as lunch due to lateness (black people timings as usual) at a lovely restaurant in kings cross called the Gilbert Scott! THIS. RESTAURANT. WAS. THE. ISHHH! It was one with fancy decor, posh upscale clients and just all round beautiful. The food... *mouth waters* let's just say if I could eat there everyday I definitely would! The food was mouth watering and delicious. The restaurant is pricey but that's what you would expect. The customer service was spot on! All in all I enjoyed o!

Then after that I returned home and went to get changed for part 2 of my day. Met up with my boys and off to Kentish Town we went! 

Mali Music was AMAZING! 

It was a gospel concert that had everyone dancing and worshipping! 

I seriously could have asked for a better way to spent my birthday!

Thanks to all that sent messages, called me and just showed love in general!

Thank you!

Here are a few shots of the day and the day after (because you know the party never stops) lol

As usual stay beautiful and stay blessed

Colour Me Beautiful x

Riri Woo Stylingsss....

Hey Loves, 

How have you all been? How has life been treating y'all???

So basically I know that you all have been seeing the make-up world going crazy over the oh so gorgeous Rihanna collaboration with MAC Cosmetics. This was to create a range specific to Rihanna like the Nicki Minaj collaboration to create the Pink Friday lipstick and the Viva Glam Nicki and Viva Glam Nicki 2 one. 

There were pictures flying around of what may or may not be in the collection (see pic below)

And to say that even I was excited is an understatement to say the every least. I had to confer with the bestie and a few babes to see what they thought about the upcoming collection and see who was going to be involved with me lol. 

So our American counterparts were the first to be blessed with the lipstick and with it selling out within three hours I made up my mind that I would definitely buy mine the next day! It was as deep as me having to set reminders on my phone and waiting with my phone set on the page till 11am for it to be active.

So long story short?

GAL GOT HER RIRI-WOO THOUGHHHHHH!!!

So the packaging is your standard MAC which I must say I was a tad bit disappointed about because I would have liked to see it stand out from the rest and the pictures floating around made it seem so! None the less there is nothing we can do about that. The lipstick itself has Rihanna's signature embossed into it which gives it a unique touch. This lipstick has been described as a blue toned red! Which apparantly makes it darker than its over loved (my opinion) predecessor Ruby Woo! This is cool but from the picture (which I do understand is just for promotional purposes) made it seem like it would be a sort of deep berry or almost black kind of colour which is actually what I think of when I think of Rihanna but nether the less it is a pretty colour and I was happy to have it.

Now the problem that seems to be surrounding this lipstick is that it is VERY similar to Ruby-woo! I know that a lot of 'make-up gurus' and the public in general are very disappointed about this! I personally cannot comment as I do not own Ruby-woo so this is a new shade FOR ME! But to be honest from the swatches and pics I have seen going around they do look pretty similar.

So for that reason I would not suggest getting it when they stock up in June. But if like me you did not own ruby-woo you can get it.

I will be out and about this weekend so I will try to take a few pictures of me with it on and I may also play around with a few different lip liners to see what other shades/colours I can produce to give me the look that suits me!

What are your thoughts on Riri-Woo? Do you have it and are you pleased with your purchase? Leave your comments below and I'll chat to you in my next post!

Colour Me Beautiful x