Summer Party Glam

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

Quick, Easy & Affordable Makeup Tutorial

It's December! I can officially get very excited about Christmas without people telling me it's too early! Happy December to everyone who is excited as me.
Here i will be showing you how to create a glamorous makeup look using affordable products. Its SO easy to do. Lets get started!

First of all, you will need:

I start with a clean face and apply moisturizer before I begin.
My skin is very uneven at the moment and breaks out several times a month, so I like to apply a full coverage foundation before I start highlighting and contouring. This isn't necessary for everyone. I use my Beauty Blender to apply my Rimmel wake me up foundation to my entire face. To ensure a perfect application make sure you damped your beauty blender before using it. I apply the foundation right to the blender and it takes one pump of foundation or less to cover my face.

Next the contouring. I use a Contour Brush from Real Techniques with my sleek contour kit. This bronzer is the best I've found for contouring. It only has a very slight shimmer and it is not orange at all. This helps it create shadows on your face rather than sparkly or tanned spots. I've tried other brands that are less expensive and they are all orange or have a load of shimmer, which im not a huge fan of.

I use the bronzer to make an angled line right under my cheekbones all the way back to my ears. This is where the shadows naturally fall so I'm just enhancing them with the bronzer. I use the brush to blend the line so that it is still there, but looks natural. Blend down toward your jawline- not up toward your eye.

I then apply a little bronzer to my jawline and up around the edge of my face toward my forehead. It ends up making a capital 'E' around the edge of my face with the bottom line being my jawline, the middle line going along my cheekbone and the top line curving up on my forehead. The key is to really blend in the lines so that they don't look like lines, but so that there is still definition there. This takes some practice. I've had years of art and painting experience so blending is second nature to me, but if you aren't careful you could end up with just flat bronzer over half of your face. Be sure to keep that E shape! Next, do the other side of your face.

And now for the nose. I've never liked my nose, But contouring it really helps. I use a small brush and the same bronzer for this. Carefully I draw two lines down each side of my nose. This lines need to be straight and I then connect them at the bottom by angling both lines into a point.

Concealer... I apply it liberally under my eyes, down the center line of my nose, up between my eyebrows and part of my forehead, and onto my chin.  Then I use my finger and/or my beauty blender to start blending. I blend the concealer under my eye quite a ways down my cheeks. For my nose I'll blend the bronzer down the size of my nose better and make the concealer line blend in with it. The idea of contouring it is to make what would in in light appear brighter and what would be in the shadows appear darker. So you are shading and highlighting more defined cheekbones and a straighter and thinner nose.

After I blend it all in , I use a powder to set it all. And that is it. You are ready for blush, eyebrows and eye makeup. My favourite blush is "style" from Mac, I apply it with a big blush brush to the apples of my cheeks.  Sometimes if I am going out I'll also use a highlighter, for this look i used a baked highlighter from MakeupAcademy. I apply this everywhere i applied the concealer for an all over glow.

For the eyes:

As my transition shade i used a Kiko eyeshadow (No140) all over the lid, this adds a nice subtle shimmer to the lid. Using a angled shadow brush i marked out the double wing with another kiko eyeshadow in No116. To draw the top wing i followed the crease of my eye and continued the line up and out of the corner of my eye. The second wing was done as normal, leaving a gap between both of them. To intensify the lines i used a white eyeliner from MakeupAcademy (Avaliable at superdrug) and smudged the line to make it softer. Using the same angled brush i go over both wings with the eyeshadow to make the colours more intense and to soften the edges i use a clean fluffy brust to blend.
Along the bottom lash line i used the Kiko 116 shadow with Mac Fix+ and lined the lower lash line and waterline to bring all the colours together.

And, There you have it!

Chrissy Teigen Sun Kissed Glow

Not ready to accept the fact that its no longer summer? Me neither. All the more reason to make the most of that post-holiday tan and go for a bronze goddess makeup look. Here I will be showing you how to recreate a sun kissed bronzed makeup look, inspired by Chrissy Teigen. 

Follow the steps below to copy Chrissy's makeup...

(For this, as my model I used my friend Anna who is naturally very tanned. If you have very fair skin like me, a fake tan is probably going to help this look work better for you.)

Apply a liquid foundation. Once dry, apply a cream highlighter down your nose, on your cheeks and anywhere you want to bring light. Add a setting powder afterwards to keep everything in place.Take a large fluffy bronzing brush and sweep your bronzer across the forehead, along the cheekbones and over the chin. A bronzer with a hint of shimmer will be best.Apply a matte brown eye shadow over the entire lid. Then, apply a shimmery gold/cream eye shadow along the crease and lash line.Draw a very thin line of  bronze/brown shadow across the upper lash line to act as an eye liner. Do not flick out at the edges. Do the same along the lower lash line and layer the bronze shadow in the outer V to create a more intense colour.For the lashes, you can use false lashes or you can simply apply several coats of mascara.Apply a nude lipstick and a shimmery gloss and finish by using a brow pencil to fill in your eyebrows.

And, you're done!

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