#I'm still obsessed with the colour combo you ended up going for

[mx-myth]

Thinking about how everyone wears different colours in mlc and how they're all connected...

Li xiangyi wears red. Yes it means happiness and joy and luck (ignoring the wedding symbolism for now) but it is also the colour of blood. He wears this bright, bold colour and still ends up dying on that ship.

Di feisheng's main colours are, for the sake of simplicity, black and red. Red for lxy but it's always darker and more muted on him - there's more blood symbolism for him (based purely on his reputation in the jianghu) but also more wedding symbolism compared to lxy. Black, tragically enough, corresponds with the element of water - it was a pitch-black night when he fought lxy, on a black sea, on a black ship - and that even fits with the western idea of black being for death. But he also wears bolder colours - we've seen him in purple and blue, for example - and this parallels fang duobing's outfits. Inherently a lot of the characters obsessed with the past (jiao liqiao and shan gudao, to name some) wear bold colours while characters who have left it behind/who are looking towards the future wear lighter colours (more to be said about this) and I think this is dfs turning away from the last and towards that future.

Brilliant example of this is qiao wanmian. She wears lighter colours and she gets over lxy and but I think it's important that one of her most iconic outfits is pink. Yes we all know how she and dfs are foils - this is yet another element of that. Pink is white and red: white, for death, for lxy; red, for happiness and weddings, also for lxy. Learning to live with her grief was definitely a long and lengthy process but it also helps her become her own person - she lets go of lxy and eventually learns that she has her own power, that she's strong in her own right, that she doesn't have to rely on men. She leaves xiao zijin and becomes the new leader of the new sigu sect and, while it's likely last her time to become a legend in the jianghu, she's certainly an inspiring figure.

Opposite of this is jiao liqiao. She's firmly still chasing after the past - her desire for dfs to love her back, her one-sided love rivalry with lxy. Her red is wedding red for dfs but it's also a giant fuck you to lxy - look, I'm better than you, I've got his attention and you don't. It's still true to an extent in the present, since she believes it's still dfs' attention that li lianhua wants (it is not). A-mian lets go of lxy (with some help for llh) but jiao liqiao never lets go of dfs, even when he outright rejects her. She's chasing her ideal of dfs, not who he actually is.

(I'm not going to talk about shan gudao. Same colours as dfs but the evilness is boosted to 100. He wears black and red as the classic Evil Colour Combo.)

Then we have the con man himself, li lianhua. In this new life of his he wears lighter colours - some blue, some green, but an overwhelming amount of it is white. As the show progresses he loses the blue and green. Yes he's looking at the future now but it's in the manner as someone staring down the barrel of a gun. There's nothing to say here because llh has it all planned out. He's already started dressing for his own funeral.

Lastly, the one and only fang duobing. He wears lighter colours too (in fact, he and a-mian are the only two I'd truly describe as wearing pastels). It's fascinating to note that there was no distinction between blue and green (his main colours) in old China. The symbolism of it is while it's the colour representing east (hahahahaha) it's also the colour of spring. I will never stop with the fdb/spring symbolism - he brings new life, he brings a new beginning, life will always go on if there's spring. (Spring is also the season when peach trees bloom, and isn't that something.) An interesting note is that he never wears any of li xiangyi's signature red. He really does leave lxy behind because he accepts that he's gone, because he loves li lianhua.

[seaofreverie]

9 people I want to get to know better, thanks for the tag @carcarrot !!

last song: The Ghost Of Liberace, I was listening to the playlist I made of my top 10 fav Sparks songs last evening and thinking to myself "oh my freaking god these songs are so good, how on earth" (not a very surprising outcome of listening to one's favourite songs). And THEN I feel asleep actually so I don't remember actually listening to this one but I know it was the last one on the playlist

favorite color: I famously like to say that I love all colors (because I really do) but having to choose. Hmmm. Maybe some vivid shade of blue or this one kind of pale red or some shade of purple. I'm also a big fan of lots of different shades of pink in general. And also the combination of very soft and pastely yellow and pink, because I remember those were my favourite colors as a very small child and now, in big part for that reason, I like putting that colour combo in different things (like my arts)

currently watching: nothing >:[ I'm not much of a movies / tv shows person in general but I hope to change it at some point, my main problem at the moment though is that I just can't fit anything more in my current daily schedule because I've already been putting of things like reading and finally getting to all kinds of different things for months and months, and it's just ugggghhhh, there's never enough time for anything!!! But I just suck at time management at the moment so, one day hopefully. I want to say I will happily accept any recommendations but 1) I don't even know what I want to watch (because I never watch anything and don't know what I'd like lmao) 2) the problem described above

sweet/savory/spicy: savory maayyybbeee, but sweet is also important and something I crave quite often. So I think a balanced dose of both is what I need in my day to day life. I can mostly do without spicy though

currently playing: not a huge gamer (besides a couple of very specific game phases I had in the years past), but recently I've been playing a bunch of Super Mario type games because forgetting all my worries and booting up my Switch and leveling up my skills in platformers and racing games has been my favourite and almost foolproof, go-to way of relaxing this whole summer. Special shoutout to Mario Kart 8 for bringing our entire family together and letting me have one (1) video game thing I can safely say I have surpassed my borther in after just a couple hours of practice so it's like haha, I always lost in racing games and now I can win each time effortlessly >:]]], all thanks to having nothing better to do for several hours a day for many days. And yet more actively I want to say that I've been playing the Klonoa games (those two original platformers that got remastered) but I forgot about them and I'm pretty sure I actually haven't played them since January? Lmao (I forget about everything these days, but especially games. Fun fact: it took me almost 3 years to finish Undertale back in the day. Because I'd forget about it for several months at a time)

current obsession: Sparks unchangingly for this entire past year, and while the obsession never wanes it still has its slightly more and less intense periods, and these last couple of weeks have definitely been on the intense end of the scale. Nothing but Sparks on the brain this whole summer lol (and I welcome that fact with much happiness)

I think many people who I wanted to tag have already been tagged so uhhhh, open tags this time!! You can say you were tagged by me if you want to ^^

[nerdierholler]

I was tagged by @baejax-the-great to do a combo tag meme. Thank you :) Here go all of the things!

Share your wallpaper:

I rarely remember to swap out backgrounds so my gaming PC is currently a screenshot from AC Valhalla from at least a year ago.

The last song you listened to: Tori Amos - Precious Things was on when I got out of the car yesterday

Currently Reading: Nothing at the moment but last week I finished If We Were Villains and The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Haven't decided what to read next yet

Last Movie: Good question...honestly, no idea, it's been that long.

Craving: Fried rice

What are you wearing right now: Green shorts and my "Have You Thanked a Horseshoe Crab Today?" tshirt (I thanked one yesterday at work)

How tall are you: 5'2" on a good day but one of my sisters tells me that might be optimistic. Over 5' for sure though.

Piercings: Just one hole in each ear lobe. Very boring.

Tattoos: Nope

Glasses? Contacts?: Contacts, I'm blind as a bat and now the struggles with reading things up close have also started in the last 6 months. Yay being over 40.

Last drink: I grabbed some bottled coffee at the store earlier

Last show: I was watching old episodes of Kindred Spirits while sewing a few weeks ago. Other than that is been local news, sports or maybe an episode of MASH

Last thing you ate: Big Chewy Nerds Jellybeans. They're jellybeans coated in nerds. I'm an adult who makes good adult decisions.

Favourite colour: I gravitate towards blue things but also not too picky.

Current obsession: I just started a MELE run. Still on ME1, we'll see if I make it through all three games. Fun fact: I bought MELE right when it came out and because of my shoulder problem that started also immediately after, have yet to ever make it through even one of the games. I made a dude shep who doesn't look like a total potato, going for an mshenko run.

Unrelated Obsession: I've been on a reading kick. Most of it's nothing earth shattering but I've put more new words in front of my eyeballs since Christmas than I probably have in the last 5 years combined.

Any pets: Mr. Bubbles (black) and Miss Skeeter (tabby)

Do you have a crush on anyone: I mean, I guess the hubs but I don't really think of him in those terms at this point.

Favourite fictional character: You can't made me choose. You could slap a large number of DA or ME characters here, maybe some Austen characters, LOTR ones, any of my OCs...

The last place you traveled: Just got back from a Caribbean cruise a couple of weeks ago.

Tagging @ejunkiet @evilbunnyking @agentnatesewell and @bronzeagelove but only if you want of course.

[nitrosodiumofficialuses]

Music Games Investigation

This time, I have broader genres. Any game that uses music or sound in an interesting way, for my purposes, is a "music game".

Friday Night Funkin - This is a game I was obsessed with back in 2021. It's a prototypical falling-arrows rhythm game, with the funky counterculture aesthetic of late 2000s Newgrounds. You know, Madness Combat, Pico's School, all of that. Mechanically, it's nothing special, but a few of the tracks really stand out, and the levels have interesting gimmicks - Week 3 has a rushing train to throw you off, and Week 7 takes place in an active warzone, with soldiers running about and tanks rumbling across the screen, further blocking your arrows. The fanbase is... difficult, it seems they can't go a week without ending up with a mod cancellation or some new drama. But, mechanically, it's fine. I'm no way near as good as I used to be at it, but sometimes I still open it up and play a round or so.

Metal Hellsinger - I've only seen a little of this game, but it looks really sick. You enter Hell with a cool sword, and then you kill demons to the beat of heavy metal, starring actual metal singers. I don't know what else to say; it's pretty distilled, no real bloat or feature creep. You can do combos and executions, and the longer you kill on beat for, the more your combo meter increases. Interestingly, unlike a lot of music games, the focus isn't on going at ludicrous speeds, it's about staying on beat, so the character is actually pretty slow.

Hi-Fi Rush - I've heard of this game, but I honestly knew nothing about it until today. All I know is it's a rhythm game and possibly a JRPG, and it stars a cat, and it's all really stylised and cel-shaded. After watching a few videos, I've found it's pretty cool! It's some sort of third-person action game, where everything in the world is tied to the beat - screens flash, trees bob, and enemies move according to the music's BPM. You also have to attack, using elaborate combos and moves to the game's alt-rock soundtrack. Everything in the environment just pops with colour; it's a very bright game, taking you from lava pools to gigantic robot factories. It seems like something I'd actually enjoy, to be honest.

Also, here's a quick look at dynamic soundtracks. The first one I'll look at is the hi-tech hack n' slash Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Apart from having some of the best music in the Metal Gear series, the music is sort of dynamic. In boss fights, it loops the bridge of the song until you get to a point where you can critically wound the boss, at which point, the chorus flares up, perfectly timed with you slicing a chunk off your current cybernetic foe. Once you've cut them down to low health, the lyrics kick in. It's so amazing. Doom 2016 had a similar system, where the music would fast-forward to a high-octane segment when you got into combat, and the beat would loop until you were at a point in combat where the beat would drop. The earliest dynamic soundtrack I know of is System Shock. Different parts of the soundtrack would be louder/quieter, higher/lower pitch based on your current health, SHODAN's grip on the floor you were on, whether you were in combat, and a bunch of other features. Thing is, nobody noticed it, and so they removed it for System Shock 2.

[nitrosodiumepicfps]

Music Games Investigation

This time, I have broader genres. Any game that uses music or sound in an interesting way, for my purposes, is a "music game".

Friday Night Funkin - This is a game I was obsessed with back in 2021. It's a prototypical falling-arrows rhythm game, with the funky counterculture aesthetic of late 2000s Newgrounds. You know, Madness Combat, Pico's School, all of that. Mechanically, it's nothing special, but a few of the tracks really stand out, and the levels have interesting gimmicks - Week 3 has a rushing train to throw you off, and Week 7 takes place in an active warzone, with soldiers running about and tanks rumbling across the screen, further blocking your arrows. The fanbase is... difficult, it seems they can't go a week without ending up with a mod cancellation or some new drama. But, mechanically, it's fine. I'm no way near as good as I used to be at it, but sometimes I still open it up and play a round or so.

Metal Hellsinger - I've only seen a little of this game, but it looks really sick. You enter Hell with a cool sword, and then you kill demons to the beat of heavy metal, starring actual metal singers. I don't know what else to say; it's pretty distilled, no real bloat or feature creep. You can do combos and executions, and the longer you kill on beat for, the more your combo meter increases. Interestingly, unlike a lot of music games, the focus isn't on going at ludicrous speeds, it's about staying on beat, so the character is actually pretty slow.

Hi-Fi Rush - I've heard of this game, but I honestly knew nothing about it until today. All I know is it's a rhythm game and possibly a JRPG, and it stars a cat, and it's all really stylised and cel-shaded. After watching a few videos, I've found it's pretty cool! It's some sort of third-person action game, where everything in the world is tied to the beat - screens flash, trees bob, and enemies move according to the music's BPM. You also have to attack, using elaborate combos and moves to the game's alt-rock soundtrack. Everything in the environment just pops with colour; it's a very bright game, taking you from lava pools to gigantic robot factories. It seems like something I'd actually enjoy, to be honest.

Also, here's a quick look at dynamic soundtracks. The first one I'll look at is the hi-tech hack n' slash Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Apart from having some of the best music in the Metal Gear series, the music is sort of dynamic. In boss fights, it loops the bridge of the song until you get to a point where you can critically wound the boss, at which point, the chorus flares up, perfectly timed with you slicing a chunk off your current cybernetic foe. Once you've cut them down to low health, the lyrics kick in. It's so amazing. Doom 2016 had a similar system, where the music would fast-forward to a high-octane segment when you got into combat, and the beat would loop until you were at a point in combat where the beat would drop. The earliest dynamic soundtrack I know of is System Shock. Different parts of the soundtrack would be louder/quieter, higher/lower pitch based on your current health, SHODAN's grip on the floor you were on, whether you were in combat, and a bunch of other features. Thing is, nobody noticed it, and so they removed it for System Shock 2.

[lostmykeysie]

get to know me

thanks for tagging me @theonlywolfpants, @signifiquint, and @wolfstarhaven, i am obsessed with you all

favourite colour: green!!!!!!!!! i love all greens, but forest green just... gets me going baby

currently reading: fic wise i am reading @theonlywolfpants' Pages of You and am finally about to crack open @de-sire-blog's Berlin Angel. book wise i was recently asked by a friend what my favourite thomas hardy novel was and i couldn't decide, so i'm trying to reread them all before i next see him (in april, i can definitely do the top three i reckon) so i can give him an actual proper answer. i'm reading Tess currently, and Far from the Madding Crowd is up next!

last song: moving by supergrass. great song, great harmony in the chorus, VERY relatable lyrics lol

there's a low, low feeling around me and a stone cold feeling inside and i just can't stop messing my mind up or wasting my time

last series: i don't really watch much and i honestly couldn't tell you the last thing i did, so instead, i will tell you that i have watched teen wolf about six times from start to end lol. because i have taste, clearly. i just love the characters!!!! also criminal minds. loved that show. ooh i know, last series i attempted to watch was loki, but gave up after episode two

sweet/savoury/spicy: i am a savoury food person that also has an obsession with chocolate which people often misconstrue as me being a sweet person. i also adore spicy food, but not heat just for the sake of it. i'm mixed race (white and black african - i feel like i'm filling out a form when i write that lol), and one of my best friends is caribbean, and the other african, and we all love food and cooking and so do our families, so it's not unusual for a scotch bonnet or two to make an appearance at the dinner table. i'm a sucker for a sweet and spicy combo. but to be clear i am NOT a fan of chilli tequila. what the fuck is that about??? it's been three years and i'm still not over it

currently working on: i've been out for two weeks because i fell over and couldn't get back up (picture that old lady in the meme that's me) mental health wise but now i'm BACK BABY and i'm working on my sweet sweet child The Horcrux Hunt (a new chapter is coming today!!!!) and everything else is being left whilst i finish the last six chapters which is insane to think about

aaaaaand i know i'm a few days late for this post so a lot of peeps have done one, but if you haven't already and you wanna wanna, @limetimo and @sheofthebookandsong xoxoxoxoxoxoxox

[vouxie-studio]

Hey, Jay. Hope you're doing well. So I'm obsessed with Fleur, as one is. And I was wondering how all the LIs feel about marriage (really any marriage like ceremony--like handfasting, for example). As I can't really guess for some of the other LIs since everytime I try to do a different route, Fleur pulls me back in (what can I say? I love the classy/dead inside combo, it's powerful), I only have a guess for her. (This ask is long, so part 1)

This got pretty long so the answer is under the cut!

You'd be sort of right for Fleur. Her longer lifespan, gender inequality, and also the fact that gay marriage has been illegal for longer than it's been legal to her plays a big role in why she hasn't ever cared much for getting married. However, she does think of the act itself as something that should be grand, so if she were to get married to MC then she'd like a fancy private wedding -same thing goes for a proposal- and move them in with her immediately if they aren't already living together. In terms of personality after marriage, she's still the same old Fleur but now she calls MC her spouse and insists they do 'married people things' like arguing over the colour of the curtains

As for the other LIs:

Sohl doesn't think much of marriage in general. He doesn't really see the point or the value in solidifying a relationship that's already strong enough where the people involved would agree to get married. To him, marriage is just a certificate, the bond that people share would have been strong and deep without needing a piece of paper to bolster it. That being said, if he were to get married he'd treat it as a very minor thing. He'd either like a small and private ceremony or no ceremony at all, and doesn't change much personality-wise after tying the knot

Atlas loves the idea of finding the perfect person/people and getting married and settling down as a family. He's quite a family-oriented person and so he's always known that he was going to get married at some point and have a couple of kids, or pets if that's what his partner/s prefers. He'd like a small and simple wedding with only his closest friends and family, and he somehow becomes even sweeter and more romantic after becoming a husband

Inna hasn't thought about marriage much. She's not opposed to the idea as long as the person/people she's with are cool with it and she's certain that she loves them. Similarly to Sohl, marriage is just a certificate to her and doesn't prove anything other than the fact that she is legally wed, but she's way more open to the idea of getting hitched. She'd have something of a big wedding, mostly because she has a lot of friends and they all need to be invited, and she'd want it to be on the funner and slightly crazy side. She doesn't change much after becoming a married person, but she does more frequently take her spouse/s on little dates

Milo likes the idea of getting married someday. They're still fairly young at this point in the story and they like the thought of knowing or dating someone for years before finally tying the knot. They're not in any rush to make it happen, however if it does and they're with someone/s that that they love then they're happy to let it happen. They'd like a wedding with all their family -including Fleur and her sisters- and friends involved which could end up becoming quite big. Afterwards they try to be noticeably more diplomatic, something they already were before but to a higher extent, and take on more chores because they think that they need to be more responsible after getting married

I hope that answered your question(s?)! I couldn't answer all the questions you asked, like the how would they like to be proposed to thing, because I just didn't want this post to be too long (I think it ended up being way too long anyway), so I hope you don't mind that being missing for the other LIs. Also, don't worry about the rambling, I too have ADHD so I know what it's like to have a whirlwind of a thought process bhdfvf

Thank you very much for the asks though, I hope you have a great day!

[afoxysunny]

Pixel as Spectra

My mind first connected him with the Peacock Miraculous because of their shared colour scheme and ended up loving the combo more and more the longer i thought about it

Pixel lived in Lazytown for as long as he can remember. Being probably the most introverted person in the friendgroup and not as excitable he still tends to feel a little removed from them though. Still he always tries his best to help out with his more or less successful inventions, giving him a bridge to connect with the others by combining the comfort he feels in the digital world and his wish to be there for his friends even when he doesn't fully understand them.

Because for most of this design i went with "he'd think this is cool so let's do this" i didn't have a ton of references this time around

With almost all of these designs I'd tweak them a little bit if only i knew what bothered me and how to do better but, man, am I thrilled with how Pixel turned out! I love him exactly as i drew him!

Design Notes:

Colours - so many of them. The only thing that I was initially not 100% sold on was the sheer amount of colours in this design but damn it really grew on me. The peacock Kwami Duusu and Pixel (puppet design) share two main colours, Dark blue and white so those were a must. But then i also had Duusu's pink that had to stay and Pixel also has light blue and orange. I feated it would be too much but peacocks are damn coloirful and beautiful so it worked out after all

Orange + green hair - and of cause i had to add another colour: green. I knew i really wanted to keep his dark skin from the tv show but god i love the green hair he has in Glanni Glæpur í Latabæ so much! I couldn't help myself. I also kept that cool crown like part his visor has on the puppet design as it, together with the mask shape resemble the natural peacock's face pattern very well

Cape/Top thing - i just googled "men cape fashion" or something like that and didn't expect too much but when i saw that pic i knew exactly that this and only this had to be included. I'm kinda obsessed with it and i want one! So Pixel gets to live this dream for me. Being an extreme introvert a cape like this to quote unquote hide and protect part of himself behind suits him so well in my opinion

The fan - the weapon for this Miraculous is a fan and Pixel is a video game nerd so naturally he's very excited about this super aesthetic weapon. As far as i remember he's left handed in the show (i think i remember him using the mouse of his computer with his left hand?) but i already put the cape and Miraculous Brooch on hif left so the fan gets fixed to his arm. Like this it doesn't really matter that his right hand isn't as proficient as the other would be and he can be dramatic and open the fan like a bird spreading his wings if he feels like it

Miraculous Brooch - the Peacock Miraculous grants the power of Emotion, symbolizing this, i put the brooch directly on his heart. Not only to be easily protected with his cape but also to show where his powers come from

Feathers - in the show Miraculous Ladybug the peacock is one of the corrupted ones and the white feathers turn dark purple when charged to use. With Pixel they gain orange strands in them to look just a little bit like they are glowing and also sunshine

Reasoning:

Duusu, while also corrupted in canon like Nooroo, seems not as bothered by that. Firstly because he appears a little dense and playful in the few times we see him but also because the user isn't doing evil because she lost her way. No, Mayura is still using the Peacock's power as intended to help another miraculous holder.

But more than that this is about Pixel. I don't remember where exactly but i read on multiple occasions that he has a form of autism. While I'm not the most knowledgeable person at this topic and I'd love someone to enlighten me more about it i did understand that this manifests strongly in each depiction of him with being very introverted and only able to understand and properly communicate with others via help from what he's most comfortable with. This is precisely why i believe the power given to him by Duusu, to sense others emotions, would be an incredibly valuable help for him. While simultaneously not getting crushed by the constant stream of feelings around him like someone as emphatically sensitive as Sportacus who must struggle a lot with getting that same power from Nooroo. Furthermore the power to give form to someone's strongest emotion matches perfectly with his usual role of building gadgets to help other!

Story:

I already slipped into this very heavily in the reasoning section so sorry if i repeat myself bit I'll try my best not to

First up, I'm absolute Trash for Pixel x Jives so that means, spoiler alert, most of what i have thought up for either of them is related to their journey from best friends to boyfriends

But i think a "lovestory" where that's the only defining feature of both characters sucks so I'll go into detail with characters a little more here

The Peacock Miraculous is meant to be used pretty defensively as him losing his strength would also mean the Amok, the powerful creatures he creates out of people's emotions, would disappear with him transforming back. Also he'd need to stay back for a good overview of the situation to make a better judgment, i definitely think he's the perfect fit for this role but besides that he wouldn't enjoy just that. If video games taught him anything then that standing back and watching others fight is not what a hero should do. His set of powers and given weapon may not lend themselves as easily to physical combat as the others but that doesn't mean he won't try. And fail. Obviously he'd beat himself up over this a lot and end up training way more on his own than the others.

You see, after Lucky Bug and Pitch Serval have a good long talk with the Guardians of the Miracle Box they get the job to pick up their friends and help them choose a Miraculous for each if and when they trust them enough to fight alongside them. After that they train as a group to master their new powers but Pixel also trains on his own as directly fighting isn't really something he's meant to do with his powers so it's not included in their training sessions. The only one who joins him, finding out kinda on accident is his best friend Jives, who gladly helps him of cause

Name:

I knew from the start off that i want to give him a name relating to colour and computer. Thankfully my sis is a lot wiser with both those topics and gave me a few options. One of them was Spectrum and, god, it just clicked with that one! Not only did i always headcanon him as bisexual, one spectrum he's on but also there is the autism spectrum and just colours in generl, three specrta for him so the name was the most obvious and best fitting i could pick

Thank you so much for your attention! I hope this was relatively understandable, my rambles can get a bit hard to follow and i was very excited to share this one so let me know if i ended up confusing you more than explaining anything. Thanks again

[belladoesmakeup]

Hey guys,

We all know I love shopping around for a makeup bargain and on Instagram and Tiktok I kept seeing videos of people showing what bargains they found in TK MAXX. I honestly haven't been into their stores since early last year because I just didn't need to go there. But I saw the videos and decided it was a sign to pop in. Well it was by far the best shop I have ever done in that store and I honestly couldn't believe what I was leaving the store holding. What blew my mind the most is when I got home I looked up the products and in most stores they were still full price so I genuinely have no idea how they ended up in TK MAXX. So today we are chatting about my new Huda Beauty palettes which all together cost me £48.00 !!!!!!!!!! ( it should of been £100+ easily).

Let's start with the first palette I spotted which lowkey made me do a little scream in the store, Desert Dusk Eyeshadow Palette normal price £56.00 TKMAXX price £29.99. Insane right!! This palette has the most beautiful dreamy colour story that I could genuinely use for so many looks whether its a subtle nude all the way to a deep glamorous vibe. In this palette you get 8 Highly Pigmented Mattes, 6 Pressed Pearl Shades, 3 Duo-Chrome Toppers and 1 Pure Glitter Shade. It's a insane range of formulas you get and I'm so happy I finally get to play with this palette. Huda Beauty palettes are something I am obsessed with because they have beautiful formulas, pigmentations and colour stories and since they are luxury beauty price wise they aren't I would get full price but finding it this affordable blew my mind so I'm so happy I finally own it.

Next up we have the Topaz Obsessions Palette, normal price £25.00 TKMAXX price £7.99. This one shocked me the most because I have added it to my Boots basket full price so many times and didn't get it for some reason and now I finally have it!!!! Also £7.99 is just insane and it was the cheapest palette I spotted that day. This palette colour story wise is my dream combo of colours because I always gravitate towards warm tones and pigmentation of the shimmers in this palette is mind blowing. For obvious reasons I'm happy I waited to get it since I paid £7.99 but if I had bought it earlier and paid full price I'd still be happy. You get 4 vibrant chrome shimmer shades and 5 creamy matte shades which blend like a total dream.

The last palette I picked up was something I have seen on the Huda Beauty website loads of times but wasn't sure if I'd like it so I never picked it up but given the price I couldn't leave it. Lastly we have the Neon Obsessions Pink Palette , normal price £26.00 TKMAXX price £9.99, again such a bargain. This vibrant neon pink palette offers 5 buttery matte shades in bold pink and purple hues, 3 creamy metallic shades and a striking shimmer shade for maximum effect! This pastel neon palette it perfect for people who love a colourful eye look which is something I've really started enjoying and playing around with more. The metallic shades are by far my favourite to wear and really transform any makeup look with one pat of colour.

These 3 palettes couldn't be more different to one another and indviudally they can create the most beautiful makeup looks so moral of the story if you live by a TKMAXX store GO NOW!!!!! For some reason which I honestly don't know they ranges of products at the moment is amazing. They do have a website but I find the best products are in stores not really their site.

Lots of love

Bella x x