Gem and Jo's Perfect Summer Clutch

Spring/Summer is wedding season and with that comes bridal showers, engagement parties and the ever-exciting Hen party! With all these parties we need a statement clutch to go with all those summer dresses and chic shirt dresses, not to mention something classy for the big wedding day! We have found the perfect bag for an absolute steal that will get you through the myriad of social settings bound to surround you this season!

Say hello to New Look's statement Pearl Scallop Clutch:

This beautiful bag costs just €24.99, which is such an amazing price for a bag that is of such quality! The bead work is gorgeous and the colour, a light creamy white with silver detail, will go with just about anything in your Spring/Summer wardrobe. Each level of beading is a slightly different hue, meaning you can pair this with just about any pastel, pale colour. 

The soft scallop pattern creates an illusion of a more expensive bag and will leave you feeling classy and chic, no matter the outfit. We're pretty sure you could wear this with a tracksuit and you'd look as classy as Beyoncé. Fact. 

We do recommend going to a New Look store to pick this one up, you have to really make sure the beading isn't falling off and there's no damage and ordering online won't give you that opportunity. If you want to have a closer look you can find this clutch here on ASOS. 

Do you have the perfect summer clutch? 

Until next time,

Gem and Jo Review Rimmel's Fix and Perfect Pro Primer

Well looky here! We have returned... our exams have left and summer has arrived! We are free elves!! 

We are super excited to tell you guys our thoughts on this product, we are seriously in love with Rimmel London's Fix and Perfect Pro Primer! And to make things better, we picked it up while it was on sale in Boots! 

When it's applied, this primer first feels creamy but then as it's worked into the skin it becomes slightly serum-ish (that is most definitely not a real word...ah well.). It's a thick consistency but you can see immediate results! The packaging claims that it's a 5-in-1 product, saying it smoothes, resurfaces, brightens, mattifies and protects. And we are here to tell you that it does exactly what it says on the tin! 

Honestly, this is one products that does all it claims to do, and it most definitely resurfaces which is a tough one to perfect! When it's applied before your foundation, you can see such a difference in your skin! And don't even get us started on the amazing mattifying powers of this primer! As you probably know from our other makeup posts, we are super oily-faced people and no matter what we use we need to powder during the day or we risk looking like oil slicks. However, when we used this primer we didn't need to powder at all! That's a first in our books! It prolonged our foundation wear by hours! 

We've been reading online reviews of this primer too, so we could tell what you guys would think about it too and boy were we surprised! We have yet to find a bad review, everyone we looked at said they loved the products and that they would most definitely be re-purchasing. And we feel the exact same, this is one super-duper product! 

We're giving this one a 10/10!

We bought ours from Boots for the sale price of €6.35 (The usual price is €8.85). You can find it on Boots here or on Rimmel London's website here. 

What's your favourite primer right now? Have you tried this one?

Until next time,

Gem and Jo's Little Apology

Good day lads and ladies. Today we are super sorry people. Sorry because we have neglected you. BUT! 

We have very good reasons so please don't chuck rotten fruit at us...

If you follow our youtube channel: Gemandjo Taketheworld then you'll know that we are currently in university. Alas, everything must come to an end and now we have found ourselves in the last few days of our undergraduate degree and with a ton of work surrounding us from all sides. 

So with that in mind, we hope you guys understand that we need to take a little time to finish our last few assignments and exams before we jump back on the blogging bandwagon. 

So, as we always say, until next time, 

(hopefully next time we will be exam free and degree holders...fingers crossed and somebody go tell nana to light a candle for us! ) 

Gem and Jo's April Favourites

It's that time again when we tell all you lovely folk what we've been loving for the past month. So sit back, relax and enjoy. 

Don't forget to thumbs up and subscribe! We would be ever so grateful. 

Until next time, 

Gem, Jo and The Bedtime Tag

Who doesn't love a good tag video? We certainly love them, and we love filming them! It's like getting a little hug from youtubers...
We saw Fleur De Force do the Bedtime Tag and we thought "Why haven't we done this one!?" and so we did it!

Don't forget to check out Fleur's video too! The link is in the video description! 

Gracias for watching wonderous people! 

 Until next time,

Gem and Jo React to American Horror story; Season 1 Episode 1

We have never seen an episode of american horror story! We're kind of big scaredy cats but in order to entertain you lovely people we decided to watch the first episode of the program because we heard that it is the scariest and we are suckers for punishment. This is our reaction: (We advise you to watch with headphones on, there is screaming. Soz.)

Have you ever watched American Horror Story?

Until next time,

Gem, Jo and The Versatile Blogger Award.

Well hello there! Today we're posting something a little different to our usual! It's a tag post known as The Versatile Blogger Award, and we were so excited to be nominated by Libby from Chibby Beauty, who is just the sweetest for thinking of us!

If you're not sure what the Versatile Blogger Award is, it's a pass-it-on kind of thing, where bloggers who were nominated, choose 15 other bloggers that they believe are worthy of the award and then they pass it on too. And in the post you tell your readers 7 things about yourself. Simple! 

For the awesome bloggers we nominate, here are the rules! 

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you for this award and leave a link to their blog.

2. Tell your readers 7 things about yourself.

3. Link to 15 bloggers that you have recently discovered or read regularly.

4. Let them know you nominated them for the Versatile Blogger Award

7 Things about Gem: 

1. I love crime tv shows, I watch nearly every single one of them. 

2. I have a prescription for glasses for driving but I hardly ever wear them when I drive. Oops. 

3. I've broken my ankle playing Badminton. And football. And when I was swimming. 

4. Related to number 3, I'm the biggest clutz to ever walk the earth. 

5. I won an award in Home Economics in Secondary school a week after burning the school kitchen down. 

6. In about 3 weeks I'll have finished a degree and I still feel about 9 years old.
7. I have the weirdest best friend. She also happens to own half this blog. Awkward. 

7 Things about Jo:
1. I've gotten my hands stuck in both an ice machine and a vending maching. Yes I am that clumsy. 
2. I own over 50 pairs of sunglasses, all the same shape but in different colours, which is kinda weird since I now have to wear prescription sunglasses. 
3. There's a running joke in college that I am fantastic at parkour, when the reality is that I can't even do a handstand!
4. I am just about to finish my degree but I still have no idea what I want to do with my life. 
5. I love dogs and every time I see one I revert back into my five year old self
6. I am a tea-aholic. It doesn't matter what kind of tea it is, I will drink it, and I will drink it by the bucketful. 
7. My best friend thinks I'm the weirdest but she decided to be friends with me so that doesn't say much about her sanity!


Bloggers we nominate:
Now, we know you're supposed to nominate 15 bloggers but we have been so slammed with college work lately that we haven't even had a chance to sit down and do some good ole fashion blog binge reading. But, here are a couple of the blogs that we've been loving when we have a minute to breathe: 

Perfectfixations.blogspot.co.uk
Themixandmatchblog.com
missgeorgiee.blogspot.co.uk

madolynblackburn.blogspot.ie
evies365.blogspot.co.uk 

Thanks again to Libby for nominating us. If you haven't go check her blog by clicking here

Until next time,