We've all made a beauty faux par (or a 1000) in our time, this post serves to offer some easy solutions to everyday make-up problems!
Lipstick on you teeth? Yikes!
Is there really anything worse than going into the bathroom, glancing into the mirror, and realising you've had lipstick on your teeth for god knows how long? NO. There isn't. Easy solution? After you've applied your lipstick, simply put your finger in your mouth and pull it out with a pop (just like when you were a kiddie) and all that excess lippy comes with it! :)
Ran out of eyeliner? Oh oh!
Running out of eyeliner is my WORST nightmare!! But sometimes it's unavoidable those lovely little tubs don't seem to show when they're running low on the good stuff! So what do you do when your stuck half ready with line less eyes? Easy, rub your eye brush across your mascara brush or pot, Bam, homemade eyeliner!
Lipstick keeps rubbing off? I hate that too!
Walking out the house with fresh beautiful lips is easy, walking back in the house with them in the same condition, not so much. You can remedy this easily by holding a piece of tissue lightly to your lips and whipping a bit of translucent powder on to the tissue.
Hate waiting for your nail varnish to dry? It's the worst.
Apply your nail varnish and simply put your nails in some ice cold water for a few seconds, it sets them in seconds and helps prevent chipping!
Have a bruise that's ruining your look? Those pesky little marks are even worse in summer!
Realising your clumsiness is on a show in the form of an odd coloured bruise could ruin the potential of some beautiful outfits, and east remedy is... mouthwash! Shocking I know, simply rub some mouthwash on your bruise, it looks less angry straight away!
Got some foundation on your shirt collar/neck? Don't worry you don't have to change that top!
This one sounds too good to be true I know but, if you get some make-up on your shirt collar all you have to do is apply some shaving foam then rub it off with a damp cloth! The shaving foam takes the make-up with it!
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Sunday, 6 April 2014
Saturday, 29 March 2014
Blog Of The day #3
I'm really excited to present today's Blog Of The Day. I'm so happy I discovered this blog, not only is there some amazing fashion and beauty posts on her blog, but she does what she can to help her followers and touches on a lot of lifestyle topics I plan on dabbling in myself.This blog belongs to a really caring person and I think she deserves some credit for that, she is amazing check her out here and when you fall in love with her blog, (which you will) follow her here :)
Beginners Guide To Make-Up Brushes!
I don't know about anyone else but I invested in expensive and beautiful make-up brushes just because I was like 'Make-Up brushes are essential, everyone uses make-up brushes' but then when they arrived I hadn't the foggiest clue which brush did what and I got quite stressed trying to figure it out! So in this Beginners guide I'm going to talk you through essential make-up brushes, where they're for and how to use them effectively! :)
To start you need to pick the right brushes for you and your products, there are two common materials you can choose between.
Natural / Real Hair (i.e. sable or pony fibers) - Best for dry products e.g eyeshadow, blush.
Synthetic / Fake Hair (usually made of acrylic or plastic.)- Best for cream or liquid products e.g foundation, concealer.
Now you know what types of brushes your going to need for each product time to find out what brushes themselves you actually need!
Flat Stiff Brush - This brush is used to pack colour onto your lid. It's flat so it spreads the shadow well, and stiff so it picks up the product well.
Stiff Dome Brush - This brush is fantastic for smoky eyes and for adding more colour to the crease of your eye lid, it also works well for feathering in darker eye shadow.
Soft Dome Brush - This brush is similar to the stiff dome brush but much softer allowing it to create a softer blended look. It can be used for applying colour below the brow, adding softer colour to the crease of your lid or placing powder below your eye lids to prevent creasing throughout the day or night.
Pencil Brush - The smaller tip on this brush allows for precision, it can be used to spread colour below the lower lash line, smudge shadow and smudge eyeliner (between you and me I think this ones my favourite eye brush).
Stippling Brush - It's essential that the bristles of a stippling brush are stiff to stop your foundation looking streaky. Using the brush gives your foundation a more airbrushed finish.
Contour Brush - This brush does exactly what it says on the tin. It's used to apply darker make-up on to the parts of your face you wish to contour, to learn how to do that easily check out my Contouring Made Easy post here.
Angled Blush Brush - This brush needs to be soft to ensure it doesn't pick up to much colour. Its used to apply blush to the cheek bones, and is angled to make the blush blend better.
Highlighter Brush - This brush isn't necessarily essential but I highly recommend it! It can be used to highlight areas of your face, such as above your cheek bones, it doesn't pick up a lot of colour and stops your face looking to shimmery!
I hope this has been useful to you guys, if you fancy it check out my 10 Simple Steps to Flawless Make-Up here,
To start you need to pick the right brushes for you and your products, there are two common materials you can choose between.
Natural / Real Hair (i.e. sable or pony fibers) - Best for dry products e.g eyeshadow, blush.
Synthetic / Fake Hair (usually made of acrylic or plastic.)- Best for cream or liquid products e.g foundation, concealer.
Now you know what types of brushes your going to need for each product time to find out what brushes themselves you actually need!
EYE MAKE-UP
Flat Stiff Brush - This brush is used to pack colour onto your lid. It's flat so it spreads the shadow well, and stiff so it picks up the product well.Stiff Dome Brush - This brush is fantastic for smoky eyes and for adding more colour to the crease of your eye lid, it also works well for feathering in darker eye shadow.Soft Dome Brush - This brush is similar to the stiff dome brush but much softer allowing it to create a softer blended look. It can be used for applying colour below the brow, adding softer colour to the crease of your lid or placing powder below your eye lids to prevent creasing throughout the day or night.Pencil Brush - The smaller tip on this brush allows for precision, it can be used to spread colour below the lower lash line, smudge shadow and smudge eyeliner (between you and me I think this ones my favourite eye brush).
FACE
Stippling Brush - It's essential that the bristles of a stippling brush are stiff to stop your foundation looking streaky. Using the brush gives your foundation a more airbrushed finish. Contour Brush - This brush does exactly what it says on the tin. It's used to apply darker make-up on to the parts of your face you wish to contour, to learn how to do that easily check out my Contouring Made Easy post here.Highlighter Brush - This brush isn't necessarily essential but I highly recommend it! It can be used to highlight areas of your face, such as above your cheek bones, it doesn't pick up a lot of colour and stops your face looking to shimmery!I hope this has been useful to you guys, if you fancy it check out my 10 Simple Steps to Flawless Make-Up here,
Friday, 28 March 2014
Blog Of The Day #2
For todays Blog Of The Day I have chosen the amazing..
Oddsandsodz.blogspot.co.uk
I have chosen this blog because it was one of the first ones I came across and fell in love. Not only does this beautiful lady have gorgeous hair she has lots of wonderful fashion tips and an extremely helpful post called '50 Blog Post Ideas'.
Follow her here
www.bloglovin.com/blog/11259001
You won't be disappointex!
Illamasqua Black Matte Nail Varnish Review
Matte has come steaming back into fashion incredibly quickly! Much to my pleasure. I love everything matte. It's just a wonderful look.
Today I'm reviewing a matte black nail varnish by Illmasqua called 'scorn'.
I love this nail varnish. It's wonderful, definately worth the expensive price tag.
The coverage is absolutely fantastic, the brush covers the nail flawlessly. It's hard wearing and chip resistant, these pictures were taken 2 days after I had originally painted my nails! I use 2 coats although you could easily get away with one. This product comes highly recommended by me.
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Blog Of The Day #1
As from today I'm going to start picking a blog of the day out of my followers. O'm quite excited about this! When I fall in love with a blog I always want to tell everyone and this gives me an oppurtunity too!! So my first blog of the day reccomendation is...
Tinygreycat.blogspot.co.uk !!!
What a blog! So lovely and exciting. It would be impossible to get bored reading this gorgeous lady's opinions and musings.
My favourite post? I love love love Mugshot Mondays!!
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
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.
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.
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