Love Hearts

 Me and my Love Heart

It's great when your a kid and your given 50p and told you can buy sweets with it, you get that sudden rush of power and importance and no matter what you buy they taste great simply because YOU brought them. As you get older money becomes something that hopefully we have but 50p may be loose change in our bag instead of the highlight of our day.

To be realistic in todays economy 50p really doesn't get you much, but it's more the excitement then the haul - except on halloween because then its all about how much you get-, what i do like though is when something small brings back a memory and makes you feel small and young again. You know what i mean a bit of n-sync comes on the radio and before you know it you have the image of you and a hairbrush and a couple of your gal pals throwing some serious dance moves in your bedroom or a bit of spice girls giving you back your swagger for a minute or two, strike a pose and ..... girl power!!

My moment came when choosing the favours for my wedding and finding that some places did little packs of love hearts with phrases such 'mr and mrs' and 'forever' carved into the sweet. I got more excited over the fact they were love hearts then all of the other favours and even though i didn't choose them for my 'perfect day' i started longing for some love hearts.
Example of wedding favours http://shop.lovehearts.com/love-hearts/wedding-favour-boxes

To get to the fashion point of this piece more and more people are cottoning on to the notion that sweets can be the basis for many types of art, jewellry and make up designs.

Sweet Lily Sparkles works with Polymer Clay and has a huge range of flumps, chocolate magic stars and jelly baby based ideas that are turned into the cutest bits of jewellry. I mean who wouldn't want a pair of Jammie Dodger earrings!!


I was lucky enough to get my Love hearts fix with this bracelet and i have had so many people commenting on it and asking where i got it, that i'm afraid i may have started a trend. Sweet Lily Sparkles if your orders start pouring in from the midlands - you're welcome :)
You can have so much fun with Instagram!
To find out more about Sweet Lily Sparkles and her range please look at her website http://www.sweetlilysparkles.co.uk/ourshop/prod_1851648-Loveheart-beaded-Bracelet-as-seen-on-Hollyoaks-Hollie-Jay-Bowes.html and if that wasn't incentive enough, there is a sale on as we speak and this bracelet is £5.60 - yes you heard right only £5.60.

 This Sugar Lips necklace is another example of the love hearts that Sweet Lily Sparkles has on offer at the moment for £6.

Anybody knows that to wear a piece of jewellery you need the right look to go with it. Well now i have my love heart bracelet what's next you ask? Well look below and all will be revealed.

The Make Up Academy (MUA) recently launched a Love Hearts Collection made up of nail varnishes and Lip balms that are all named as if they were love hearts.
http://www.muastore.co.uk/index.php/love-hearts
£2 KISS ME is 1 of 5 shades available and even though it is only stocked at a few Superdrug stores they can be brought directly from the MUA websitehttp://www.muastore.co.uk/index.php/love-heart-lip-balms

 £2 U ROK nail varnish is 1 of  6 shades available

 
I have used 5 of the 6 colours above as i wanted the brightest ones to show off in this rare pout of heat Britain is having at the moment. Apart from my son trying to eat them they have gone down well with people commenting how colourful and fun they look. However, if i was at work i culd tone it down to one or two shades, then again if i was going out i could add some marbling or nail wraps... maybe even some liner as art, but i will do another piece on that soon enough.

My Keep Cool picture was very simple to do as a couple of friends have liked it. It was done with MAC embrace me lip liner and dazzleglass gloss over the top. It's nice as the liner is bright and under a gloss brings out a pink/coral tone depending on the shade.
http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/166/1765/Products/Lips/Lipglass/Dazzleglass/index.tmpl
follow the link to dazzle glass index :)
In my case both were brought from the display in my local MAC as they've both just come out. So experiment with these of the MUA glosses which maybe in a balm tin, but they spread like gloss so apply a little and add what you need as you go.

pictures taken from

http://www.welovecushions.co.uk/result.asp showing that these sweets create memories so great you can buy them on cushions just as a reminder.

http://shop.lovehearts.com/love-hearts/personalised-gifts There is a website called lovehearts.com that has a whole page dedicated to just love heart sweets and what you can do with them.
Also available are Cuppachino sets (£14.99) Address books £5.99
and many others so check out their site if these tickle your fancy.

This blog has been so fun that i will follow it up soon with some similar pics using MUA and MAC products amongst others in my collection to have a play around with. I may have also just fallen head over heels with Violent Lip lip transfers or lip tattoos and have brought the leopard print to mess around with.

Please leave comments or pics of what you have done as would love to see them.

FrostinatorFashion xx