Make-Up Made Easy: - 10 Simple Steps.

I think it's quite often assumed that if you're female you automatically know how to do flawless make-up. I for one can say that's far from true. It took me a lot of mistakes (unfortunately) to discover how to do my make-up just right. One of the things I think it's assumed we know, is the perfect order to put on my make-up, now I don't know about you but when I first started throwing on make-up, i just put on foundation, eye make-up and maybe some lipstick, haha but now I'm a bit more experienced I thought I would do a quick post about the best order to apply your make-up and the preparations you should make to your face beforehand. :)

Step 1: Moisturiser

Applying your make-up flawlessly means you need a great canvas to start your art on. Wash your face, than apply your moisturiser liberally. Sit back and relax for a few minuted while you let it soak in and make your skin feel soft and supple.

Step 2: Primer

Primer is a part of the beauty routine that is quite regularly forgotten which is a shame, it not only does it conceal flaws and pore visibility, it makes your concealer and foundation go on smoother and adds a serious amount of longevity to your make-up.

Step 3: Concealer

When choosing a concealer you should always go one shade lighter than your skin tone. Apply the concealer to any problem areas and blemishes, dab it on and then blend it with your finger tips.

Step 4: Foundation

Make sure to always buy a foundation the same shade as your skin tone. Apply it in small amounts on your chin, cheeks and forehead, then blend it to cover your face, I recommend using a foundation brush to give a more flawless finish. Make sure your coverage is even to ensure a natural look.

Step 5: Highlighter and Bronzer

Highlighter and bronzer are used to give more definition to your face and features and to make you look more sculpted. Your highlighter should always be one shade lighter than your skin tone, where as your bronzer should always be one shade darker. For a natural look apply bronzer along your jaw line, and blend highlighter around your cheek bones.

Step 6: Blush

Blush gives your face a glow. Smile to locate the apple of your cheek bones, apply the blusher starting from there and sweeping back to your hairline.

Step 7: Eyebrow Pencil

When choosing your eyebrow pencil you want to go a shade lighter than your hair colour. Nice eyes are essential to and make-up look, follow your natural brow line with the pencil to add definition.

Step 8: Shadow, Liner and Mascara

Choose 3 shades of eyeshadows, you apply the lightest shade under your eyebrow, the darkest shade above your lid, and the medium shade on your lid, then carefully slide eyeliner on your lash line to give definition. Use your mascara to coat and seperate each lash making them look thick and healthy.

Step 9: Lipstick, Liner and Gloss

Lipstick is the most flexible part of your look, you can change the shade based on your mood, outfit or even the time of day/year. Apply an even coat of lipstick BEFORE defining your lips with lip pencil, and coating with a gloss.

Step 10: To Make Your Day Look A Night Look

A few simple touch ups will turn a dazzling day look into a glamorous night look. Blush will highlight your cheekbones, add darker/thicker liner to make your look more dramatic and turn heads with some bright red lipstick. 
  

  
 

Ombré Lips.

Ombré is a new fashion trend at the moment. You can get pretty much anything ombré! Ombré hair, nails, clothes etc. My personal favourite is ombré lips. My oh my. What a dazzlingly beautiful look this amazing make-up technique creates!

I've had a lot of compliments about this technique and everyone asking me how I do it, so I'm going to do a quick written tutorial tonight and then tomorrow (hopefully tomorrow) I will be doing an actual video tutorial. When it's done I will post the link here :) ->

Why wear ombré lips? it creates a completely beautiful and dramatic look. I personally go for a quite gothic / 1950's / gothabilly look myself, so my ombré lips are quite vampiric, but don't let that put you off! Ok here's how it looks.. ->
(Ignore the akward smile, I'm not much of a smiler on photographs!)

I usually stick to black, red, purple or blue lipstick. The beauty of this technique is it works with all of those colours and many more!  All you need is

A lipstick (preferably matte)
A pencil liner (eye liner / lip liner / brow liner) in a darker shade of the same colour, or a different colour entirely! 

You start really simply, just line your lips with an eyeliner / brow pencil / lip pencil like you usually would. Now this colour is your darkest colour you'd like to use, I use black a lot of the time, but you could use any colour you wanted!

Then you go back over the lip liner making the line thicker, then use the liner to come in at the corners of your mouth, shading towards the centre with your pencil. How far in you come is, again, personal prefrence! The further in you come- the more dramatic, the further out - the more subtle! Both of these looks are equally stunning, don't fret there isn't one right way to rock this look.

Once you've come in as far as your comfortable doing you take your lipstick, matte works a lot better than a silky or gloss lipstick, but by all means experiment test them out. When you apply your lipstick you want to start in the centre where your pencil has outlined your lips, but not shaded them. You do it this way, so your middle section stays quite bright in comparison to your outer edges! Once those bits are developed how you like it, just run your lipstick carefully over the parts of your lips shaded by the pencil. Your lipstick works as the best blender you could use. Start at the edges and move inwards toward the centr, then..

 voilà an astonishing, elegant and dramatic make-up technique that will have everyone begging to know your make-up secrets!

I hope this was clear! I tried to make it as straight forward as possible but this is my first written tutorial! If you are confused but want to try this technique feel free to comment and I'll help as best I can, and like I say check in for the video where you can see do it first hand.