Showing posts with label foundation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label foundation. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 July 2012

DIY beauty series! #1 make your own eye primer!

Eye Primer

hey everyone! so I'm going to do a series on my blog which will last a week or two on DIY beauty and will be teaching you all how to make your own beauty product at home with common household (cheap!) items! i just recently began getting obsessed with making my own products but found it difficult finding "recipes"for them so i thought i would put them all in one place for you! i hope you enjoy the series as much as i have enjoyed researching and writing about it! and if you want to see the rest of the series please follow! now to begin.....


What you will need......


your favourite...
*liquid/cream foundation
*liquid/cream concealer
*body butter
*an empty tub/container to put your primer in.
*something to stir the mixture.

1. there is no exact measurements for this so its mainly just your own judgement.
     add an equal amount of your concealer,foundation and body butter to your container.

-make sure you have the same amount of each product


2.mix the three products together until you get a liquidy/pasty consistency

-add extra of each product if necessary to fill your container to where you want.





And that is it!! it is super easy and super effective i did some swatches for you showing first an eyeshadow with no primer, then the same eye shadow with a drugstore primer then finally the same eyeshadow with our homemade primer......
no primer   -    drugstore   -      homemade


as you can see our primer does the same job if not better than the drugstore primer the only thing i would say is the drugstore primer had more ware and lasted a bit longer than ours but for the price and the amount than we can make i would definitely say ours is perfect for everyday use!

hope you enjoyed!if you did leave a comment and follow also if you try it leave a comment telling me you like the results!!
                                                                              byee <3

Saturday, 7 July 2012

Helen E cosmetics review!

hey everyone! todays post is on the cosmetics line Helen E i recently discovered them in debenhams as they are opening a counter there i picked up a few items to try and ive been using them now for a month and thought id tried them enough to review them for you guys.Helen E is a high end cosmetics line and is the official line of miss world.Although they are high end i was very surprised at how reasonable the prices were i only got a few items but i am really impressed with the items i have tried an will definatly pick up some more very soon.

The first thing i picked up was the cream and concealer duo which is a concealer and foundation for every skin type which is good for girls just starting with make up and dont know their skin type and shade yet.they are very thin and liquidy so probably wouldnt be good for really oily skin but it blends really well and matches my skin tone well.Its 20g and priced at £16.50.I really love this productand a little goes a long way with it.


the foundation blends to match your skin tone
The next product i got is the lip crayon in the shade cheeky which is a pinky-red colour i thought i would try and be more adventurous in my lip colours this summer and thats why i picked this one up they are very creamy and have a matte finish this is the product i have used most from these and i really love it. the colour pay off is great and stays on for hours.its 2g and £8

i also picked up an eye shadow brush which was £8 at first i loved it because it is so soft (literally as soft as m.a.c brushes!!!) and the brush is really good but it is quite big for an eyeshadow brush so i dont use it for my lid i would sometimes use the end of it for my crease but i wouldnt really recomend it unless you have big eyes (lucky if you do!!)

the final thing i picked up was one of their shimmer eye powders in shade 2 which was only £5.00 the can be used wet or dry and are really shimmered! if you are concidering getting one of these eye powders i would recomend swatching them in the shop because the colours come out quite different than the colour in the pot for example the one i pick up looks like a very light cream colour that could be used in the tearduct area or as a highlight but actually blend to form a light goldy colour i swatched it in the shop though so i knew how it would turn out and love the colour the onlt thing i would say is they are a bit to shimmered for everyday make up for me but i love the colour for a night out!


hope you all enjoyed! follow if you did it would mean alot!!!


                                                                        byee <3

Thursday, 28 June 2012

guide to make-up brushes!

hey everyone! sorry i havent posted this week ive been so busy finishing off school but thats us finally off for summer so ive plenty of time now for blogging!! todays post is really a beginners guide to make-up brushes and the ones i think are essential for everyday make-up.hope you enjoy and find it useful and if you want to be updated on my posts please follow!

face brushes!

the first face brushes would use everyday is a foundation and a concealer brushes i would definatly recomend using a brush to apply and blend your foundation firstly because it gives a more professional even finish than using a sponge or your fingers and also because as long as you wash your brush regularly it means less germs get on your face as well because brushes have way less germs than fingers and used sponges!! usng a brush for your concealer also helps blend it better and look less cakey and the fine one also help concentrate on blemishes instead of blending concealer over the whole area and not fully covering the blemish!

fine concealer brush   concealer brush    foundation brush




The next brush i would use would be a powder brush which is just a big loose brush designed to set your foundation and concealor without smuging it i think powder is essential to set your makeup if you are going out for a lengh of time so your make up wont run even if you dont wear foundation powder also removes oily patches of skin giving a matte finish.apply the powder by dabbing it on of in circular motions to avoid smuging foundation etc.
next a blush brush. pretty obvious what this is for! i use it to apply blusher in circular motions to the apples of my cheeks.
the last face brush is an angled contour brush and i use this to contour my cheeks, jaw line, neck and temples they are good because they have are narrow to apply a line of bronzer to contour another brush which would be good for contouring would be a fan brush as they are also thin.
angled contour brush ...
fan brushes

eye brushes!

there are so many eye brushes out there but ive pick the top five that i think you could create any look from the first one is a lid brush which is a flat brush designed to spread colour all over the lid the next one is the angled crease brush with is angled to allow you to apply colour to your crease and more colour going to the outer part of your lid, the next brush is the highlight brush which is loose and quite large to apply highlight to your browbone,next is a thin brush for your tear duct area which is very dense to apply alot of colour and the last essential eye brush is a blending brush it is essential if you are using more than one colour on your eye if is large and loose so it wont smudge the colour and mix it all together but it will just blend the colours smoothly into each other giving a natural effect.heres all of the brushes i will label them below.......
tear duct bush   highlightbrush    crease brush     lid brush       blending brush

lip brushes

ok so usally when i apply more subtle lip colours i wouldnt use a brush but when you apply more bright vibrant colours like reds etc. i think they need to be perfect because any mistake will be very noticable! so these two brushes i use on the corners of my lips and cupids arrow

 

 

 lash and brow brushes!

ok and the last brushes i would call essential would be a brow comb and a lash brush the brow comb is just to help shape your brows and the lash brush i use to remove any clumps in my mascarra after i apply it so i guess it isnt essential but i think it is so so useful and use it everyday after i apply my mascarra!

so i hope you all enjoyed this post and it helped you! and another post is coming very soon now that im off for summer!!

oh and i wanted to ask you all for a favour ... at the minute im not really happy with the mascarra im using in was an inexpencive W7 mascarra and i used it anyway since it was ok but its been 3 months but i dont know what one to get so if you love your mascarra could you maybe leave a comment for me?? thanks <3        

                                                                      byee <3