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!

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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

Its Begining To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Beauty On A Budget

Hello everybody! Below are some of my favourite drugstore makeup products. With all of these products being £8 and under its impossible not to love them. Check out my next blog post where i will be showing you how to create a glamorous makeup look using all of these products!

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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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