Prom | Polyvore

Prom by meganboileauxblog

Missguided white dress
$49 - missguided.co.uk

Topshop black sandals
topshop.com

Moschino black belt
net-a-porter.com

2b stretch belt
2bstores.com

Maybelline eyeshadow
$8.21 - thehut.com

Maybelline eyeliner
amazon.ca

Urban Decay beauty product
$59 - beautybay.com

Opi nail polish
$19 - liberty.co.uk

Hey, I know prom is fast approaching for many people so I thought I would do an outfit post what I would wear. Now this may seem likely a slightly weird post considering I'm 18 now and my prom is over (it was in 2012) however I made this set on Polyvore and I figured it would be a fun idea! My prom was a world wind mess of indecisiveness, feeling too ashamed to wear heels, bad makeup application, dodgy hair, bad time management and bitten nails. Basically, it didn't go too well. My hair wasn't dry even though I'd been the hairdressers, my favourite foundation at the time had run out, my false eyelashes were a mess looking, my lipstick was cheap, a bad colour and drying and my outfit was a bit hit and miss. For those of you wondering this was my dress; I really loved it, it fit well, the colour was pretty however it just wasn't right for prom and how I wore it was pretty shocking. Anyway, I'm starting to babble but what I basically wanted to say was I wanted to make this post for any readers who need some inspiration for their prom in the summer. If it was my prom again, this is the outfit I would have potentially worn.

White dress // Missguided // £30.00 - Firstly, the dress.. I absolutely love this dress! At first, it doesn't look right for prom as it's quite simple but that's what I love about it. The colour is great for summer and will compliment a subtle tan quite nicely. The lace adds a bit of sexiness without being too slutty or revealing considering when I went to prom I was 16. I'm also a bit of a fan of long sleeves lately so I love the fact that this has them too. 

Black Sandals // Topshop // £55.00 -  I really love these shoes! I'm having a bit of a love-in with heels at the moment and chunky ones seem to be extremely popular at the minute and I can see why. They have quite a large platform which would make them quite comfy so there would be no taking off your shoes to dance all night - spending a while to look perfect then taking off your shoes, not a good look. I also think these would go lovely with the dress as the chunkiness would be a perfect contrast to the delicacy of the dress.

Black and Gold belt // Moschino & 2B // £180 & £6.05 - I included a belt I figured the statement black and gold would offset the pureness and girliness of the white dress nicely. They're also great for figure complimenting. The reason I chose two is pretty obvious; one is £180, the other £6.05 however I love them both. I don't know about you but I can't afford to pay £180 but I think the other one is just as pretty. A few years ago, Urban Outfitters did a black and gold statement cross belt which I also think would look great with this look.

Colour Tattoo in Immortal Charcoal // Maybelline // £4.99 -  If you read my blog regularly then you will know that I recently picked up this little beauty. I've worn it a couple of times now and I love it. I think this would be perfect makeup product to compliment the makeup look I have planned as it would create a lovely base to stop creasing and still look flawless when you're dancing at 1:00am.

Gel Eyeliner // Maybelline // £7.99 - Another product previously mentioned on my blog and another one I have definitely fallen for! As its prom, false lashes are a must however they look pretty stupid if you can see the bands so eyeliner is also a must. A thin line of this then some Eyelure 101's or 107's would look beautiful!

Vice 2 Palette // Urban Decay // £42.00 - The third product I have mentioned on my blog but I wouldn't go to prom without it! I would create a smokey look using rewind as a transitional colour, smokeout to darken up the outer corner, radar in the centre of the lid, then strike (or maybe half-baked from my Naked palette) on the inner third to compliment the gold of the belt, dope as a brow highlight and finally rewind to create the perfect strong brow. I would also add smokeout under my bottom lashes to really smoke it out. For inspiration, I would use this photo (the photo links to a brilliant gold smokey eye tutorials by one of my favourite YouTubers) however I would try to make the black darker and smokier. I would also use my GOSH pigment in the colour 'copper'. 

Nail Varnish in In The Spot // OPI // £12.00 - For my prom, I just had my natural, unpainted, bitten nails due to not having time to do anything to them (I had originally planned falsies with red glitter!). If I were to do it again with this outfit then I would wear this nail varnish as I just love the colour. With the eye makeup, the shoes and the belt I thought it would be nice to have something to compliment the girliness of the dress rather than contrast it. Its also not too in-your-face so it wouldn't detract from the outfit. Some may say its boring however personally, I think it's more classically pretty.

Retro Matte Lipstick Collection // MAC // £15.00 each - I really love this photo! All of the lipsticks lined up so perfectly with such lovely colours is what I dream of. These lipsticks are from the Retro Matte Collection which are available on the MAC website. I think they would go lovely with the dark smokiness of the eye makeup as well as being the perfect pop of colour for the summer. I still have my MAC voucher so I may have to look into these in my local store as I think I may be in love.

Ombre wavy hair - This was originally how I wanted my hair for prom; long, wavy and ombred a gorgeous caramel-blonde colour. Instead I got my blondey-gingery ombre (that isn't very noticeable on the photo below) with wet hair that dried into my natural frizz ball, oh and it was short too! If I was to do prom again, I would definitely do my own hair. I may not be very good at it but at least I wouldn't be sat in a hairdressers for 3 hours. I would dye my hair the perfect ombre colour the night before then in the morning, add heated rollers to both my hair and my dyed hair extensions then once my makeup was done, I would take out the rollers, run my fingers through my hair, loosely curl any straight bits, add in some texturising spray and finally blow my hair on the cold setting to create that messy wavy look.

I hope you liked this post. I thought it was something a bit different and I really loved creating it. I haven't had Polyvore for too long but as you may be able to tell I'm obsessed; such a great website idea! I may not be going to prom this year but I would still definitely wear this outfit. Are you going to prom this year? If you are, I hope you have a fun time and your getting ready part is much more enjoyable and stress-free than mine was! I will finish with one of the only photos I don't hate from my prom, enjoy 16-year-old me!

(L-R) - Shaunna, Me, one of the teachers, Paige, Amy and Ashleigh :)

Megan xx

Monthly Favourites | February

Mac '217' Brush, Real Techniques 'Buffing Brush' and Blush Brush' 

 Urban Decay 'Naked' palette and 'Primer Potion' sample.

My favourite colours: half-baked, smog and darkhorse. 

(Left-Right) Half-baked, smog and darkhorse

GOSH pigment in 'sunstone', Natural Collection blusher in 'Pink Cloud' 

Urban Decay 'Vice 2' palette. 

EOS in 'pomegranate raspberry' 

Urban Decay 'Flushed' palette

'Swatches of Stash' from the 'Vice 2' palette 'sunstone' pigment

Swatches of 'Pink Cloud' and the highlight shade from the Urban Decay 'Flushed' palette

 L'Oreal Paris Studio Matt & Messy Salt Spray

H&M tartan skirt, American Apparel navy blue velvet scunchie

Ikea Skubb draw dividers in the Hemnes 8 drawers.

'Under Control' by Calvin Harris, Alesso and Hurts, 'White Noise' by Disclosure and Aluna George

Hey, so today I have decided to post my first ever favourites post! I know I didn't do a January one but it was just because there wasn't too many things I was really liking that month however February is a completely different story. I don't want to make this post any longer than asI have a lot to talk about so on with my February Favourites! :)

I will start with the brushes I've been loving this month.. I've loved my 'buffing brush' for a while now but this month I have really liked using it for the application of my 'Stay Matte' powder by Rimmel. I use it to buff the powder into my nose, my nose/inner cheek bit and my forehead. These areas get particularly oily so I find that this way of applying powder combats this quite well. When I first got my 'blush brush', I wasn't much of a fan as I found it to be too big but this month I have been really loving it. It applies blush perfectly and the size no longer bothers me as I am now using a less pigmented blush. If you've read my post on my first ever MAC products then you will already know all about my love their '217' brush. I've been using it non-stop this month as it is the perfect companion to another of my February Favourites!

Onto my 217's best friend! If you read my Valentine's Day post, then you'll know my lovely boyfriend bought me Urban Decay's infamous 'Naked' palette. I must say, I am so in love with this thing! The packaging is gorgeous, the eye shadows are so soft and pigmented plus the palette comes with a sample size of UD's 'Primer Potion'. My favourite combination so far has to be 'half-baked' on the inner third, 'smog' in the center and blended through the crease and 'darkhorse' on the outer corner to really smoke it all out a bit. I really do love this palette so expect a review shortly!

As you all probably know, I love my 'Vice 2' palette from UD and this month, I have been loving one shade in particular. The shade I am talking about is 'stash'. For a while, I was thinking about building a MAC palette and one of the shades I would include is 'sumptuous olive', well with 'stash' I can save my pennies! Correct me if I'm wrong but they seem like such lovely dupes of each other. I love this colour as it's a brown/bronze with quite a bit of green in it. I use this colour to add a bit of interest to my 'naked' combination. It also looks lovely with 'poison' from the 'Vice 2' palette which is a black with a hint of green.

My cousin Gabbie recently went to New York and I asked to bring me back this EOS and she very kindly agreed. Since she gave it to me, I have fallen in love with it. After I bought 'Baby Lips' and hated them, I was on the hunt for the perfect lip balm as my lips tend to become very dry and I think I have found it. EOS' are hyped up on instagram so much and I can see why. The packaging is cute, the smell lovely and most importantly, they work. My only negative is that they're not available in the UK and if you can find them they are ridiculously priced. In America, they're $2.99 however I saw them in Beauty Bizarre priced at £9.99, the mind boggles. If you would like to check out Gabbie's blog, you can find it here.

When I really want to brighten up an eye look, this month I have been reaching for this GOSH pigment in the shade 'sunstone'. I forgot I had this pigment (along with another called 'copper' which I love!) and after re-discovering them whilst writing my 'drugstore favourites' post, I have been using it so much. These loose shadows are super pigmented and the formula is so soft and creamy. The only downside to these I have found is that they go EVERYWHERE as they're a loose powder. They also may have been discontinued as I just can't seen to find them on the Superdrug website! I hope this isn't true as I would like to pick up a couple more. 

As I said earlier, I have been loving my 'blush brush' this month and I have been pairing it with this Natural Collection blusher in the shade 'pink cloud'. As you can see on my swatch, this isn't too pigmented which I love as I tend to be a pretty heavy handed blush person! I saw on instagram that this is the perfect dupe for MAC's 'stay pretty' so if you're after that, definatley try 'pink cloud' as the price difference is astonishing at £15.50! Natural Collection is available at Boots :)

Another cheek product I have been loving this month is the highlight shade in UD's 'Flushed' palette. When I first used this, it scared me as I wasn't too good at applying it. I have since figured out how to use it and I know love it! I apply this product to the tops of my cheekbones using a RTs 'contour brush'. I have a review planned for this but as this is more of a summer product I will save it till then!

In terms of hair, I'm a pretty boring person as I just normally straighten my mid-length hair and that its. I've always wanted more textured hair but I just can't seem to make it work. When in Tesco, Joe was buying his usual hair stuff and I noticed they were two for £4.00 so I decided to get this for the bargain price of 50p! I pair this with my beautiful navy velvet scrunchie from AA and I really do love it. I spray this salt spray onto the ends of my hair then tie up half of it using the scrunchie! This is perfect as it keeps my hair off my face whilst still loving relatively stylish. Barbara Palvin also looks fabulous on the advert!

In terms of clothes, there is really one stand out item I have been reaching for lately. I've wanted this H&M skirt for a while now however when it first came out, I was pregnant then when I wasn't it was sold out! Eventually, I got my hands on and I have been wearing it non-stop! I normally wear this with a white and navy long-sleeved t-shirt from Topman (which I also have in green), my RI belt and my gold chain I got in Primark. I just love this outfit as its casual so I can wear it to college whilst still looking stylish. The blue running through the skirt also matches my scrunchie perfectly. My only downside to this skirt is that it's slightly too short but it's not too much of a problem as I would never wear it without tights. This skirt was a bargain at only £14.99.

This month, I got the 'Skubb' draw organizers from Ikea and I really love the way my makeup now looks! I don't have a massive amount of makeup but I was finding that I was forgetting about things with them being shoved in a makeup bag. Now, I can see everything and am getting a lot more wear out of many of my long-lost loves! I have six sections: face, single eye shadows/small sets, lips, mascaras/eyeliners, nails and tools. Its still not my ideal way of storing things but until I get a dressing table, this is how it will have to be!

My final favourites in this extremely long post are these two songs! 'Under Control' is on in the gym all of the time and it's now permantly stuck in my head. Its such a great song and one that definaley puts you in a good mood. The second is 'White Noise', I always seem to put this on when I'm on my laptop (I'd have it on right now if Charlie wasn't asleep next to me!) as its just a really great song. I quite like Disclosure at the moment and this song just seems to chill me out. They teamed up with Lorde at the Brits which I quite liked however Aluna George is terrible live! If you're wondering what I'm on about, you can watch their performance here.

So, we've come to the end of my February Favourites! I always say to myself 'Megan, make your posts shorted!' but then I get carrried away and this happens, oops! I will just once again apologize for the terrible quality in some of the photos (I'm looking at you Naked swatches!) as I am currently just using my iPhone until I can afford a decent camera. Anyway, I hoped you enjoyed reading all about my February Favourites :)

Megan xx