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Pink Eyeshadow: How to wear it like a BOSS!

Pink eyeshadow can create a lot of weird illusions. Making you look as if you have conjunctivitis is one of them. Nobody wants to look like they have pinkeye.

The secret to avoiding this is to not put pink eyeshadow directly next to your lower waterline, which is the part of your eye that gets inflamed when you’re ill. I would say that in general, pink eyeshadow should go on the upper eyelid only. (but for you dare devils who want to wear is on the lower lash line... go for it!)

If you have pink eyeshadow and have absolutely no idea how to wear it, heres a simple look for you to follow...

This will look AMAZING on a night out, but daytime... not so much.

 If you would like to see how to create this look, keep on reading! 

Start off with a clean base, add an eyeshadow primer if you wish...
Using a pink eyeshadow and an angled makeup brush, map out your line. You want to follow the natural crease shape of the eye and wing out the sides...

Once you have created your guideline you can now start to build up the colour. Using the same angled brush, pull the colour from the line up towards your eyebrow, and blend. keep adding the colour until it as bold as you would like...



Once blended, its time to add your winged liner. For the liner i used a purple liquid eyeliner from MakeUpAcademy. But use whatever eyeliner you would prefer...

Once your eyeliner is nicely dry, add mascara. Now its time for the glitter!!
This glitter is from eBay, but use any silver holographic glitter you can get your hands on. Using a glitter adhesive (if you dont have glitter adhesive, a sticky lipgloss works just as well or eyelash glue for a more permanent application)
Dab the glitter to the inner corner of your eye and leave to set in place for about 30 seconds...

Last but not least, add some false lashes...



Voila!!

I hope you enjoyed this post! Go out and rock that pink eyeshadow!

XX

Updated: How To Contour

Hi guys!! Today as requested, here is a VERY easy contouring tutorial for you.
If you’ve never tried contouring before, it’s actually a lot easier than you might think. You don’t have to go to the extreme and paint your entire face different shades, you can make it as simple as you’d like. Here’s my beginners guide to contouring…
I like to keep it simple, 

First things first, start with a blank canvas...
I dont like to apply any primer/moisturiser on my face before hand because i have oily skin, but if you prefer to do so... go ahead!!

For your base, Apply your favourite foundation to the entire face. My current favourite is Loreal True Match foundation in Vanilla.



Using your bronzer of choice, (im currently using benefits Hoola bronzer) map out on the face where you would like to place your contour. The key points of the face are the cheekbones, temple, hairline, jawbone and the sides of the nose. 

Once applied, use a damp sponge/makeup brush to blend in these crazy lines. For this step i used my Real Techniques Sponge with a few sprays of Mac Fix+. This helps to create a flawless finish...

Now you're nicely blended its time to go back in with a concealer and sharped up these lines. With a concealer, draw a line between the cheekbone and the jawbone, down the centre of the nose, the chin and the forehead. And once again, BLEND!

Once blended, go back in with your bronzer to intensify the contour further...
Highlight the SHITTTTT out of those cheekbones and there you have it!

xx

Top 4: Favourite Instagram Accounts

Beauty bloggers never fail to inspire me to turn my beauty routine up on a daily basis. There seems to be an endless stream of incredibly makeup savvy girls adding (literal) sparkle to my Instagram feed every time i scroll. These ladies that I absolutely LOVE teach everything from the perfect contour products to the best date night lip colour. Some of these bloggers even have a small army of devoted followers hanging on to every glamorous hashtag and anxiously awaiting each tutorial. A.K.A, me. Naturally, whenever i stumble upon a new inspiring makeup guru, i obsess over every post concentrating on how she fashioned her eye brow arch that perfectly or how her bronzer has just the right summer glow. My love for these four incredible ladies just keeps on growing haha!

First of all, top of my list... the ever so lovely Desi Perkins:


Desi has a very popular instagram account that highlights various makeup looks and her everyday life. She creates celebrity inspired makeup tutorials, including my all time favourites of Jennifer Lopez and Kylie Jenner. LOVE HER!

Next, The incredibly talented An Knook:

An, from the Netherlands has SOOO much talent. Her flawless skin and beautiful eyes are enough to make anyone jealous. Her makeup looks are always so lovely and so precise. I need that precision in my life!

Next, a girl i have recently discovered and automatically loved... Georgia Cutts:



First of all, her ever changing hair colour was what inspired me to dye my hair silver/ ashy blonde. Although i dont pull it off as well as Georgia does :( Georgia is a makeup artist working at Mac Cosmetics from the UK, Currently at 158k followers, her instagram page is forever growing. I fully admire her. A beautiful girl.

Last but not least. Another new obsession of mine... Jamie Genevieve.


Okay so, lets just talk about her hair colour for a moment. wow. I know for sure what my next hair colour is going to be!! Jamie is also an incredibly talented makeup artist, whos highlight NEVER disappoints. Ive tried and failed to re create many of her looks before. I just dont know how she does it!!!

So there we have it guys, my four favourite instagram accounts. Give them all a follow!!

XX

How To: Silver/Lilac Hair

If like me you have spent literally FOREVERRRR trying to get your hair this colour, fear no more. I found a way!! To get your hair the same as mine (below) keep on reading!!

Now, everybody knows that bleaching hair can be a risky one. But after trying so many different hair dyes and never bleaching my hair, I had a "fuck it" moment and decided to go for it. My hair is naturally a dark/dirty blonde, which has been coloured with box dyes OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! so my only option to get it this light was to hit the bleach. Before bleaching my hair, It was an all over yellow toned blonde. My hairdresser bleached it for me, concentrating mainly on my roots, and brushing the bleach through to the ends of my hair. (The ends of my hair was a lot lighter, so no need to bleach all over) But if you are a dark hair colour, whack it on all over!

Once bleached a blue/purple toner was put on my hair immediately after rinsing off the bleach, this was then left on for about 20minutes to half an hour. If you have thin hair, at this stage your hair WILL go blue, but after a few washes this will disappear. You now have the perfect white blonde base to start adding the lilac. For this i use three different products, all avaliable at Boots.

Bleach London silver shampoo - £5
Lee Stafford bleach blondes shampoo - £6.99
Lee Stafford bleach blondes hot shots - £7.49

- Every time i wash my hair i use the 'Bleach London silver shampoo' to maintain the grey. 
- The Lee Stafford purple shampoo adds a pinky/purple tone to the hair, so i use this once a week, after shampooing with the silver shampoo and leave it to soak on my hair for 10-15minutes.
- Finally, once a week i also like to use the Lee Stafford Hot Shots, these are best used after shampooing your hair. It says on the box to leave for 2 minutes, but i leave it up to half an hour to get a full effect. (BEWARE: This is a self heating hair treatment and you will have a cold tingling sensation for the duration)
- Use a load of conditioner every time you wash your hair also, keep that hair hydrated.

There you have it, its pretty easy once you get used to the crazy hair washing routine.
If you have any other questions, dont hesitate to leave a comment!

XX

Party Season - All Purple Everything!

I’ve created a festive, glittery purple eye, for the party season, absolutely perfect for the christmas and new year period! It’s a wearable evening look (if you are as daring as i am)

Basic black and brown eyeliners are fine, but sometimes we crave a little more colour. The hint of purple works on all eye colours, especially brown and hazel, and is the perfect liner colour for blondes!

For the liner, i used a liquid lipstick, from MakeUpAcademy in 'Kooky' and a liner brush to get a precise flick. 
The glitter on the lower lash line is just a cheap loose glitter that i got from ebay! (check my previous post for details)
And as always, the inner corner... Vanilla pigment from Mac!! 
This look is SOOOO incredible easy to do and looks like it took so much time and effort. 

I hope you enjoyed this post!
XX

Winter Lipstick Favourites

Transition your beauty look into winter with moody purples and reds, punchy, party-ready brights and rich, warm nudes.  Winter is the perfect opportunity to experiment with different lipsticks you'd never normally wear, especially the reds. I thought I'd give you a quick run down of my go to lipsticks so hopefully it will give you some ideas!!

Here we go...

'Captive' by Mac.

'Russian Red" by Mac

"Hang Up" by Mac

"Double Shot" by Mac

"Chili" by Mac

Chanel No109

xx

Loose Glitters Are My New Fav Thing!

Hello everybody, 

Sorry its been such a long time since i last did a post. My hours at work on the lead up to christmas have taken over my entire life. Finally, i have got some time to sit and concentrate on keeping you guys entertained! So here we go...
Loose Glitters & Pigments:
Loose glitters are ultimately my new obsession! If you LOVE glittery makeup looks and dont mind getting glitter EVERYYWHEREEE, these will be perfect for you! At just 99p each (BARGAIN) from ebay i couldnt resist these beauties.
Im going to be trying out a few different looks with these to wear over christmas and new year. New year's eve is all about making a statement! Glitter is the perfect way to add "bling" to your look, but getting that bling just where you want it can be tricky. 

There are many different ways to wear and apply glitters. My favourite way is to use them as a slight accent of colour, and really pretty when used on the inner corner of the eye. To keep the glitters in place, use either a cream eyeshadow base or a glitter adhesive!
Below is a link to the gel adhesive that i use, i think its great!

 https://www.stargazer-products.com/glitter-fix-gel.html
XX

Bold Black & Copper Cut Crease

Popularized by super fabulous drag queens, a cut crease is a sharply-defined, exaggerated eye crease shape, mostly commonly done with eyeliner and blended out. Although it looks complicated, and definitely takes a little practice, when broken down, this cut crease tutorial makes it quite simple and can make a small eye actually look larger.

To create this look, you'll need the following products:

Pale, shimmery vanilla eye shadow.
Black cream or gel eyeliner
Black eye shadow

brown and orange matte eye shadows
Black liquid eyeliner
Black Mascara
Copper loose glitter

Set of false lashes

Also, the following tools will make the process much easier for you:

Flat shader brush for applying lid colour

Fluffy shadow brush

Synthetic, angled liner brush

Small crease brush

Pencil brush

Lets get started:

Begin with primed eyelids and pat the shimmery vanilla shade all over the lid with your flat shader brush.

1. Take your angled liner brush and draw a thin line of gel or cream liner just above your natural crease, winging it out at the end slightly.
2. Immediately smudge and blend the line upwards with a dense smudge brush dipped in black shadow.
3. Follow with a brown shadow on a small crease brush, blending upwards toward the brow.
4. Using your orange eyeshadow apply a small amount to the crease to blend the black toward the brow bone and add the same colour to the inner corner of your eye.
5. Reinforce your original crease line by going back over with the gel or cream liner.
6. Create a dramatic winged cat eye line with liquid liner.
7. Apply a black shade to the lower lash line and follow with mascara.
8. Coat your top and bottom lashes with mascara.
9. Using a glitter adhesive, apply your glitter to the inner corner of your eye for that pop of colour.
10. Apply a set of false lashes if desired.
    
    I hope you enjoyed this post! xx