Cooking with foundation

Not literally, that wouldn’t taste very nice! I just read a post by Mizzworthy on mixing foundation colours together so I thought I’d write my own on the type I’ve mixing I’ve started doing.

Until very recently, I’ve always been a matte faced girl. Shimmer on eyes? yep. Glitter on nails? def. But not shimmery face. I have had a paranoia about being shiny faced for a long time.

Now I’ve convinced myself that my skin is actually very good, I’ve started to lower the coverage of foundation I’ve been using and have embraced the more dewy look. All well and good at home where I have an abundence of make up, but what to do at my boyfriend’s where I have one thick, matte foundation to use? Change it!

I used

Nivea natural beauty radience moisturiser and C200 Lasting perfection foundation.

You can kinda see the difference in the two here. The foundation is thick and matte, whereas the moisturiser is very light and has an iridescent quality(which is why I hate it as a moisturiser!)

I literally dipped my foundation brush in the moisturiser and squirted a little foundation on top of the brush. Not only did this leave my skin looking more fresh, it actually thinned out the foundation and made it far more easy to blend.

I’m wearing it in this photo.

You can also see the difference on my hand.

I also noticed that this had very similar qualities to Revlon Photoready, so I’m very pleased.

Are there any recipes you having for cooking with make up?

XOXO

NOTD

I had to crack open my BYS polishes straight away. I’m not normally a pink polish wearer, but I wanted to try something a little different.

BYS Tickle me pink is Barbie in a polish- the colour is INSANE.

I was impressed with the first coat of the polish, applied nice and thin but when it came to the second coat, it applied with some streaks. These do appear to have disappeared now though.

Of course, I couldn’t just leave my nails alone. I had to apply my glitter polish over the top. After seeing Leanne’s post on them, I know there was no way that I could wait.

As Leanne says, these are quite hard to work with. I only applied one coat to my nails, but you could layer up if you wanted more glitter. Just such a pretty mix of chunky and finer glitter.

I’ve come over all girly *flicks hair* What do you think?

XOXO