Beauty Blog Reviews

Where has the last month gone! Wherever it went, it took the summer with it & we have survived the back to school stampede & are well & truly into Autumn. Which is great - I can cover up my legs again, & put the fake tan away till next year.
 Thanks to the wonders of Twitter I've had a number of very lovely beauty bloggers review some Rock Face Minerals products on their blogs.
Starting with May of MayLovesMakeup who reviewed Brown Eyed Girl & Mourne Heather eyeshadow, along with Clear Lipbalm and then rustled up a beautiful peacock eyeshadow effect using Lammas Fair and Mourne Heather.
Next is Gemma of TheBeautifulNews who reviewed Brown Eyed Girl & Ballyholme Bay eyeshadow along with Pixie Kisses blush.  
Jane aka Modesty Brown also reviewed Pixie Kisses as well as Sherry Darlin and Toffee Apple blush.
Rachelle of BehindtheShoes reviewed the Rock Face Minerals clear lipbalm.
& last but very definitely not least the lovely Kellie aka BigFashionista reviewed the hot new shade for AW10 Monaghan Mauve.

If you are a beauty blogger and you would like to review some Rock Face Minerals products on your blog, get in touch on the Contact Us page of the Rock Face Minerals website.

March Competition

As promised on the Rock Face Minerals Facebook page, it's time for another competition. The previous competition had a geographical theme, being the name of the mountains in the current RFM logo (the lovely Mourne Mountains was the answer btw). However, one of my friends berated me that the subject was geographical in nature, since she only did celebrity gossip this days. So just for her (and you know who you are!) the question for this month's question is.....
"Which member of Girls Aloud recently announced her separation from her husband, a few days after appearing at the BRIT awards?"
(I thought it best not to make any mention of affairs, text messages, dodgy pants or lip-synching...)
Anyway, once again the prize will be a Rock Face Minerals eyeshadow of the winner's choice, and to enter, just click on the Contact Us page on the website, and email me your answer.
The closing date is 31 March and the winner will be drawn at random on 1 April.
Good Luck!

Competition Time on Facebook

A quick note to point you in the direction of the Rock Face Minerals Facebook page (if you haven't been already).
I've just set up a wee competition to drum up some more fans - apparently once it has 100 fans then you get a dedicated page (or something equally technical). Anyway, every little counts in the Dark Art that is Seach Engine Optimisation, so to get us on our way, once we have reached 50 fans, I'll get cherub #1 to randomly pick a fan to receive a Rock Face Mineral eyeshadow of their choice.
So, don't forget to tell all your Facebook friends - & good luck!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-Face-Minerals-Mineral-Makeup/95495916631

is it August already?

when I set myself the target of blogging on a weekly basis, I obviously meant monthly. I blame the summer holidays & two little boys who will not go to bed before 9pm. Anyway, I'm taking a couple of child free days next week to give my website a bit of TLC, & upload some more products which I have been promising for ages. Hopefully, by this time next week - let's say early September - I'll have a wider range of brushes, matte blusher, & the spice foundation shades available on the website (rather than just sitting in my spare room).
So... this blog is meant to be musing on mineral makeup & motherhood, & I haven't written much about mineral makeup. I do have great plans in my head of photos of swatches (I have learnt the lingo) & looks, but I'm not great at putting them into action.
But let's make a start, with my tried & trusted daily workwear, eyshadow combo. I can even do it without a mirror, which is just as well, as I am usually trying to wrestle my brushes, powders & mirror from #2 son. There's nothing like a well chewed blusher brush for even application.

Anyway, my combo is

• ballyholme bay as base shade across the eyelid
• chocolate toffee as mid shade on outer 2/3 of eyelid
• ruby murray as dark shade on outer eyelid
• bog meadows as eyeliner

Watch this space, I'll post a pic of swatches & made up face (if I'm having a good face day. But please don't hold your breath).

& hooray! I have a follower! thank you Alyson!

Well... here goes!!!!

Time to stop procrastinating, & start blogging. I've been putting it off for months now, but have finally realised I will always be too busy, & the ironing will always need done. So time to make a start. I am setting myself a target of blogging once a week, cause there's a chance I could achieve that target, and it gives me a whole week to think about something interesting to write. I don't know how proper bloggers do it.
Anyway, this is me, & I shall hopefully be blogging about pure mineral makeup, particularly Rock Face Minerals, since that's what my fledging little business is called http://www.rockfaceminerals.co.uk. Rock Face Minerals doesn't contain any of the nasty stuff that some people's skin can react to - so no petroleum based products, talc, bismuth oxychloride, perfume or parabens. Just mica & minerals.
That seems like enough to be going on with; except to say that I'm very excited to be featured in the June edition of ni4kids magazine http://www.ni4kids.com, with a picture of me & the kids. It only took a whole weekend to try and get a decent picture, and of the 50 or so taken, this was the only one where Ross was smiling & everyone was looking at the camera.