New hair and Kardashian contouring

When I went to the hairdressers on Thursday I had 3 wishes:

1. Change my fringe up

2. Get it thinned

3. The most important- go lighter and blonder!

I took some steps to going lighter back in March and got some subtle blonde put through the end of my hair. This time I did a colour b4 to get rid of my red and dark dye and came out three shades lighter.  My hairdresser matched my roots to my new light brown and added a tonne more blonde to the rest.  Loads of layers and beginning of a side fringe later and it's looking a lot more like I want it to.  Khloe Kardashian is my current hairspiration but I'm taking it slowly as I'm not sure how blonde I want it yet.

Feeling very KK inspired, I did some heavy contour for a night out on Friday.  I much prefer a liquid contour to a powder- it looks far less stripey to me.

I use Collection lasting perfection concealer in the lightest and darkest shades (Fair and Dark, I think) and blend with a buffing brush.  Since using concealer is a heavy look, I find it looks best when skipping powder and foundation.  Blush and highlight are still key though.

Smudgy look

My precious cat was called Smudgy. That's a nice little fact for you. On to my face now. Just a casual night out to a friend's for drinks last night so I thought a smudgy, smokey eye would work nicely.




Out came Boots 17 wild Metallic eyes in Midnight.




Easy peasy to apply. Just with a finger and blended out at the edges with a dense blending brush (something like a mac217)




Leaves a very lived in, creased up glittery effect. Very similar to a recent post I've seen but I can't find the author :(
Instead of fussing about with liner, I threw on a pair of eBay lashes and let the lash band do the work.

Nicki Minaj Stupid Hoe look

I do love Ms Minaj. Her crazy fashion and make up looks are awesome so I decided to use one from her Stupid Hoe video to inspire my Friday night make up.

I used this picture



but decided to change to colours to compliment my outfit. How amazing are the pastel yellow lips though?

this is what I came up with













I drew a winged out shape using white pencil liner, filled it in with NYX Milk pencil and patted on a mint green shadow from an EBay 120 palette.









Face- Mac studio fix fluid, Rimmel Stay matte powder, Benefit Dallas Bronzer and Mac Pink Swoon blush

Eyes- UDPP, Gosh White Kohl, NYX jumbo pencil Milk, EBay 120 eyeshadow palette, Maybelline gel liner, Mac Splashproof mascara, Primark eyelashes.

Lips- Mac Costa Chic

Really, really love paste colours and just think this is perfect for Spring. I need to try the pink eyes/yellow lips though- any ideas on where I can get yellow lipstick?

Festive make up

Christmas day is for family but my Christmas eve is always for friends. I always make my most sparkly effort on our night and this year was no exception.

I hunted round YouTube for some green make up ideas and found this beauty from Pixiwoo. Sam and Nic's tutorials are always easy to follow and definitely my favourite.

Loved the darkness of the green and the simplicity of using one shadow. Even had a compliment from a boy about my eyes!

I wore my most festive dress with my new gold see through brogues and of course, my new winter coat.

1940's glamour

Is it me or does the holiday season bring out a want to be really done up, all the time? I waved my hair using my GHD's for the first time on Friday and felt the glamorous waves needed a make up look to go with them.
Firstly- hair



Created by bending the GHD's up and down, rather than curling.

Make up




I was wearing a black velvet dress and knew that red lips would work perfectly. Of course, I couldn't just wear normal lashes- its that festive thing again, so I found a pair of jewelled lashes by Eladora in my collection.




I extended the line into a cats eye and gently contoured my eyes with Buck from UD naked palette and Black tied by Mac. Rather a different look for me but the hair and make up went perfectly together- I loved it.

All fired up!

Another face of the day for you, this time from Thursday. No special occasion, just work but I've been wanting to do a red based look for a while.


Face
Revlon Photo ready foundation, NYC face powder, Mac blush in Peaches






Eyes
Urban decay primer potion
Sleek Sunset palette
Mac embark (eyebrows)
Collection 2000 fast stroke liner
Cover Girl lash blast length.

The more I blended this look, the most flame like it appeared. I really should make more use of this palette, the colours are really unusual and beautiful.

Location:All fired up!

Every day face

I start work at 8 most days so I normally only give myself 10-15 mins to do my hair and make up. This doesn't leave much time for experimenting with looks.
I went to lunch with my mum the other weekend and I spent a little longer on my everyday make up. Here's the make up I used.
Face- Bourjois healthy mix foundation, Rimmel stay matte powder, Nars orgasm blush.
Eyes- ud primer potion, Mac paint pot in soft ochre, mac eyeshadow in vanilla(highlight) wood winked(crease) embark(eyebrows), Collection 2000 fast stroke liquid liner, cover girl lash blast length
Lips- collection 2000 cream puff in Fairy cake.

Normally I just use the same face products and a slick of liquid liner but it was nice to do this "properly"

I also had my hair cut, can you tell? My lovely friend Kirsty cut off the really long side and just evened it out, leaving it in a long bob that I can grow out. Hurrah!

A new dress and a matching eye shadow look

A new dress arrived for me from Ebay. I missed out on these River Island dresses last year and have been scouring Ebay for a while. Mine was £9.50. I love the tackilicious print.

I wore it out on Friday and decided to do a matching eye look using my Hello Kitty Too Dolly palette as I’ve probably only used it once or twice.

Make up used

Face- Bourjois Healthy skin foundation and concealer, Rimmel Stay Matte powder, Nars Orgasm blush
Eye- Urban Decay Primer potion, NYX jumbo pencil in Milk, MAC Too Dolly quad, Gosh Kohl in White, C2000 Fast stroke liner, Mac Kohl power pencil in Feline, Maybelline Colossal mascara, Mac Embark eyeshadow.

How to

1. Prime your eye and add a white base every where you’ll be applying a bright shadow. This helps show the true colour
2. Highlight your inner corner using Yogurt.
3. Apply Too Dolly all over your lid, blending at the edges and applying more in the centre of your eye.
4. Blend Romping all along your crease and above crease, winging out towards the end of your brow. Blend down slightly into the Too Dolly, mixing the colours as you blend.
5. Apply a little Stately Black into the very outer crease (the end of the wing you have created) and blend.
6. Draw a line of white kohl along your upper lashline.
7. Draw over this with black liquid liner, drawing two wings. One straight from your upper lashes, and one from your lower lashes.
8. Fill the space you’ve created with your two liner wings with white kohl.
9. Line lower lash line with black kohl and add mascara.

True blue

This is a really old FOTD that I found on my camera (my hair is so short!) but I re-did it last week so I thought I’d post it.

This is identical to my green hornet look, but using blue instead of green. I also used a blue mascara from Collection 2000 instead of black. Click the link to find out more on how the look was created.

Bright lips and big eyes

Recently I found myself going out for an afternoon of drinks and an evening of dancing. I didn’t have much time between events to re-do my make up so I decided to try out some bright lip looks.

The day look had to be ok for work as I was going out from there.

I can’t do bare eyes. I look piggy. So for day I put on a pair of the old style Kimberly Girls Aloud lashes and some liquid liner. As my maxi was orange and blue, I went with a coral orange for my bright lip- Costa chic by MAC.

Rushing home, I took off the lashes and replaced them with Eyelure double lashes which are far more dramatic. My outfit was all black so I brightened it up with Petals and Peacocks by MAC (LE from Liberty of London)

I was ready again in 20 mins!

Green Hornet

Face- Revlon colourstay
Eyes- MAC Blackground Paint pot, Green eyeshadow from Sleek Safari palette, MAC Fluidline in blacktrack

I did this look for a night out to a few pubs. It worked so beautifully. I’ve never really found that Black ground worked for me, but after watching the Lisa Eldridge Cheryl Cole look, I followed her advice and applied with a 217 and it smudged perfectly. I gave it a flash of green by patting some eyeshadow from the Sleek Safari palette, on top of the black.

If you’ve not seen the video, you can watch it here

Christmas party looks-part 2

I had a work do last weekend and I went all out on the matching aspect-nails-dress-eyes. It’s Christmas so I felt I could indulge my love for co-ordination!

On Sunday I showed you my nails, here’s the dress and make up.

H&M about 3 years ago.

Dazzle dusts and pigments are my party look friends.

On my eyes- C2000 eye dusts in Magical and Angel. The blue from the Sleek sparkle palette, C2000 loose glitter wand in Gossip and 2True silver glitter eye liner.

I do love going a bit mad with glitter at Christmas. Do you like to match your outfits or is clashing best?

Festive green

I made a lil more effort for work today- I wanted to make sure my new hair went well with eyeshadow’d eyes so I created a quick, festive day time look.

I used UDPP as a base, and the shadows were from 2 Sleek palettes- Storm and Sparkle. I used Gold ribbon to brighten my inner corner, swept an antique gold colour from Storm over the lid, and blended Mistletoe into the crease. My brow was highlighted with the lightest gold from Storm. Quick smudge of UD 24/7 liner in Zero on the corner of my upper lid and in my lash line and it was good to go!

Christmas party looks- part 1

I have quite a few parties to go to this Christmas which has given me a good excuse to be creative and come up with lots of different party looks.

This look was done out of Sunday boredom and I wanted to come up with something a little different to the normal golds and silvers.  Plus, I hadn’t even swatched my new Sleek Sparkle palette so I was dying for a play.

I’ve seen a lot of beautiful purple party dresses so I thought I’d do a purple/pink look to match them.

I used the new Sparkle palette by Sleek

and picked out the silver, the pink and the 2 dark purples.

I also added some sliver glitter liner to the top lash line, and black to my waterline.

I really like the Sparkle palette, but there’s a real lack of lid colours.  This was the only look I could do, using just the palette. I’m definitely going to use the others as crease colours though.

Look out for more Christmas party looks throughout December

FOTD

I wore Dark Deed for the first time!

Foundation- Revlon colourstay and photo ready
Blush- Bite of an apple by MAC
Eyeliner- C2000 Fast stroke
Lips-Dark Deed by MAC

I wore it with my hair slicked back into a high pony, and my version of the naked eye. I love how high fashion it looks. Def one for the brave though

Natural, glowing FOTD

I met my future sister in law’s other bridesmaid on Saturday and couldn’t be bothered with full on make up (plus I didn’t want to scare them off with my crazy, bright shadow)

I wanted to look glowing, and I rather liked the effect.

Face
No7 Tinted moisturiser, NYC Loose powder, No7 sundrenched bronzer. Blush- mix of Pink swoon and Sunbasque by MAC

Eyes
Just my normal swoosh of gel liner but I used brown mascara for the first time ever. Really liked the effect, much softer and more natural than black, even though I am very dark.

Lips

NYX Round Lipstick in Iris- a soft, sheer peach with a gold sheen.

Oh and I’ve had my hair done again, if you haven’t noticed. Gone very dark this time, a shade up from black, and had the ends levelled off, into more of a bob so it grows more evenly.

What do you think?