Easy autumn makeup tutorial: Dark Smokey-Eye Makeup

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I love autumn; I love the layering of textures and colour. With that in mind, I thought today I would share an easy autumn makeup look.

Autumn makeup look

Skin preparation

Prepare your face for makeup application as normal, here I have applied my Elizabeth Arden serum, Nivea moisturiser, and Rimmel Lasting Perfection Primer.

Bare faced before makeup

Step two: Base

Apply foundation. It’s the weekend (despite my jumper saying otherwise) so I don’t need heavy coverage so I’m using Too Faced’s Foundation Powder.

Applying foundation

Applying Too Faced foundation

Step 3: Eyes

Since purchasing the Rimmel Scandal Eyes crayons, I have loved creating looks with them and for this autumn makeup I am using Bad Girl Bronze which I am applying to the centre of the eyelid and blending out.

Rimmel scandal eyes crayon

Applying rimmel scandal eye crayon

From the Urban Decay original Naked palette, take ‘Dark Horse’ and apply into the crease of the eyelid, as much or as little as you like. Then blend as before.

Urban Decay original Naked palette

Blending makeup look

I also like to apply a little bit of Dark Horse underneath my lower lash line. Then take ‘Half Baked’ and pack onto the center of the eyelid.

Urban decay half baked

Urban Decay half baked

You could now curl your lashes if you want to before applying mascara; I am currently using Maybelline’s Lash Sensational.

Maybelline Lash sensational

And you’re done!

Finished makeup look

Finished Makeup look

Let me know if you have created this or a similar look 🙂

Until next time x

My Makeup Collection: Lips

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Hey Sweeties,

It’s time to show you all another area of my makeup collection, having already shown you my; foundations, blushers & eyes bringing us now onto, lips. Here goes…

lips Makeup collection

The collection! Note: the glosses in the top left compartment aren’t usually kept there, I’m not that messy 😉

I touched upon my makeup storage a while back now (here) so it’s probably time I did an update post soon, but for the purposes of this post, my collection of lip products are for the most part stored on top of my dressing table in organisers from TK MAXX and Muji.

All the glosses seen in the left on the top organiser are normally kept within my dressing table as I find I hardly use these ones, but they’re still useful to keep on hand for when I do. Essentially my core collection consists of lip liners, lipsticks and a couple of glosses as I will talk you through below.  View Full Post

Rimmel, Collection, Maybelline, Batiste & L’Oreal Beauty Haul

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Hey Sweeties,

So someone has been a bit spendy lately and I wish I could say it was just on beauty bits.. (cough, fashion haul coming soon, cough!), so I thought I would show you my latest purchases; some of which are repurchases as well as some completely new ones.

Boots beauty haul

L-R: L’Oreal True Match foundation in C2, Rose Vanilla; Collection Lasting Perfection concealer in shade 2, cool medium; Rimmel Lasting Finish primer; Rimmel London Lasting Finish by Kate lipstick, shade 45; Maybelline Lash Sensational mascara; Baptiste dry shampoo in Oriental; and finally (right at the top) Revlon highlighting palette in 020, Rose Glow.  View Full Post

My Makeup Collection: Eyes

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Hey Sweeties,

Continuing with my posts taking you through my makeup collection having already shown you my foundations (here) & blushers (here), today I thought I would take you through eyes, specifically palettes, individual pans and crayons.

eye Makeup collection

eye makeup collection

Ofra in shade, Bliss: The problem with eye palettes and individual pans is that unless the brand, colour etc. is really good, the pans can get lost in the drawer and that is kind of what has happened here with Ofra. I got this sometime early last year I think in a Love me Beauty Box (here), and although I liked it at the time, it eventually got forgotten about until I dug everything out to photograph for this post. However, while I am loving bronze and gold tones, I should try and re-incorporate this pan back into the mix.  View Full Post

2015 Favourites…So Far!

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Hey Sweeties,

We’re now quite alarmingly half way through the year so similar to last year, I am doing a post that collects up my favourites from the past few months. So with that in mind, here are my 2015 favourites so far…

2015 favourites

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