Ten Things That Are Under A Tenner!

Hello sweetie pops,

Today I'm going to do a fun blog including ten things I'd really really recommend that are under ten pounds each! :) Hope you enjoy this post! :) Let me know what your favourite items are that are under £10 :)

1. Rimmel 1000 Kisses Lip Liner £2.99

Lip liners are so important to help your lipstick stay on longer - they usually atleast quadruple how long my lipstick stays on! They also help enhance my lipstick colour :) You can even use lip liner as a lip stain, by using it with lip balm to just change the colour of your lips - and it'll stay for ages! The 1000 Kisses lip liners from Rimmel are an essential in my kit, for all these reasons! It just helps matters that they're super cheap and they come in great colours! :)

Buy it here;

http://www2.rimmellondon.com/au/products/lips/Lip+Liners-Pencils/1000+Kisses+Stay+On+Lip+Liner.aspx

2. Barry M lipsticks £4.49

I love these lipsticks so much! They're so so pigmented, they have the brighest fun colour range ever, and they stay on super long! I love their bright pink shades, as well as their nudey ones - Shade 101 in Marshmallow was one of my favourites when I had brown hair! It's very similar to MAC's 'Myth'. For the price they're cheap enough to buy to fiddle and play around with, rather than spending like £12.50 on a MAC lippie you're not sure about. They're also super moisturising, which is very important when buying lipstick, you need it to soften your lips up not dry them out!

Get them here;

http://www.barrym.com/lip-paint

3. Rimmel Soft Kohl Pencil Liner £2.99

I prefer gel liner on my upper eyelids to create a Marilyn Monroe-esque flick, but on the bottom I prefer a smudged line, and these pencils do that perfectly! I really love the Jade Green shade they offer, it really makes any colour eyes pop! Kohl liners sometimes smudge down your face ten minutes after and create panda eyes, but this one just doesn't smudge! It stays put and keeps super pigmented for a really long time :) Lovely! :)

Get one here;

http://www.boots.com/en/Rimmel-Soft-Khol-Kajal-Eye-Pencil_6950/

4. MAC Eyeshadow Pro Palette Refill Pan £9.50

I'm picky with my eyeshadows as I hate nothing more than creased eyelids after 5 minutes. It looks so so gross! (Use Urban Dacey Eyeshadow Primer Potion to prevent this!) These shadows are so soft, super pigmented, stay on a long long time, and MAC offers the most amazing colour range ever! Any colour you're after they'll have :) At the minute my favourite colours are Parfait Armour, Beautiful Iris, Sushi Flower, Vanilla, Plumage, Brule and Cranberry. These shades are perfect for a nice lilac lid that can be darkened with the deeper colours for night time.

Get them here :)

http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/spp.tmpl?CATEGORY_ID=CAT21850&PRODUCT_ID=PROD66212

5. Eylure False Eyelashes 'Double Lashes' Number 202 £7.10

I hate not wearing eyelashes, my eyes feel so naked and wide open hahaha As my eyelash addiction has developed, I've started to wear thicker longer lashes - I love them! :) These ones are very Katy Perry-esque. They are about £1.50 more than eylures regular false lashes, but I think these are so so worth it! They create volume and length, and make you feel wonderous :) Lovely! Stick them on with some DUO Eyelash Adhesive :)

Get big long lashes here;

http://www.boots.com/en/Eylure-Naturalites-Double-Lash-False-Eyelashes-202_1115653/

6. NYX Pigment £4.99

I've only just got into pigments, as I always imagined they'd be too messy and time consuming to use. They are messy, if you breathe to deeply by accident or twitch, then that's it, colour everywhere, but just keep a steady hand or keep it on a hard stable surface.. and they are time consuming. But not much! Obviously just dipping your brush into an eyeshadow is loads quicker than faffing about opening seperate colours and taking the seal lid off, butttt the effect is sooo worth it! The colour is so so pigmented, they go on like a dream, so soft, and stay on foreverrrr! They blend well, have a beautiful twinkle to them, they're just wonderful. For special nights (or days :) ) I take the extra time to make my eyes look super sparkly with these lovely pigments :) Also, use their goldy vanilla coloured pigment to highlight the tops of cheekbones and cupids bow - very Kim Kardashian-esque :)

See all the shades and get them here;

http://www.love-makeup.co.uk/cosmetics-pigment-shades-p-4365.html

7. Stars Makeup Haven Eyeshadow Single £4

I tried these shadows out on a whim, as they're cheap compared to the likes of MACs palette pans, so I thought why not! And boy am I glad I did, they're super pigmented, feel soft and creamy, blend really well, last forever, and there's so many colours to choose from! I'd really recommend them! And cos they're so cheap it doesn't make you feel too bad if you don't absolutely love the colour! But every one I've had so far I've loved :)

See all the shades and pick your favourites here;

http://www.love-makeup.co.uk/stars-makeup-haven-m-24.html

8. Yaby Cosmetics Eyeshadow Pan £2 in any finish (either matte, satin, frost, pearl) £1.99

These eyeshadows are insanely amazing! They're my favourites over MAC and the Star Makeup Haven ones - they're so cheap but the size of the pans is tiny! Less than a penny size, in face the size they are in this picture is an exact representation of their size - so small! But, they last forever! So size hasn't been a problem so far. The colour feels super creamy on the brush, you need the tiniest amount to get the hugest pop of colour ever, and the colour range yaby offers is amazing, as well as offering different finishes. My personal favourite finish are the pearl ones :) I also love how amazingly cheap they are!

See all the colours on offer and get yours here;

http://www.love-makeup.co.uk/yaby-cosmetics-m-53.html

9. Ponds Cold Cream Cleanser £4.07

I bought this when there was loads of media hype about it when Kylie Minouge recommended it, as well as a few other celebs and lots of magazines :) And I must say, it is as good as everyone says it is, if not better! You rub it on and it feels so cool and refreshing, as well as super moisturising. Then I use cotton pads that are moistened with water or MACs Fix+ to take off the cream, and it gets every last bit of makeup off! Better than any wipes I've ever used, better than any makeup remover! Just amazing. It leaves skin feeling soft, firm and nicely plump and really looked after. And for just over £4 I reckon that's pretty amazing!

Get yours here;

http://www.boots.com/en/Ponds-Cold-Cream-Cleanser-50ml_1120639/

10. Z Palette (Small) £8.99

I really really love these palettes, they're such an ingenious idea! You just pop in any eyeshadow, blusher, powder - anything that has a magnetic back will stick to the Z Palettes magnetic base! So that means you can reduce the size of your makeup bag by thousands! For example, the eyeshadow pans I've mentioned previously on this post, - they'll all stick and stay in one of these palettes! You can fit nine MAC sized eyeshadows in, so that means once you've got your collection going you can organise each palette into smokey eyes, bronzey golds, lilacs, blues - organise them any way you fancy! Plus they have a see through lid, so it means you don't have to faff about opening each palette to see what's where (like you have to do with the MAC palettes). You can also, if you're careful, remove the pans from the makeup you already have - almost all of them are stuck in their packaging with a magnetic strip - so carefully removed the pan, and you can reduce space by sticking them in your Z Palette! These palettes are definitely a makeup artists essential, but would be such a helpful and fun addition to any persons makeup set! My personal favourites are the pink and leopard ones :)

Get one here;

http://www.love-makeup.co.uk/small-customizable-palette-four-designs-p-4492.html

xoxoxox

Avatar Costume Makeup

Hello lovelies!

So last night I did my first costume makeup look - as AVATAR! :)

This look needed a lot of preparation; I had to make my own prosthetics from scratch!

To do this I shaped some modelling clay into ears, and into a nose/forehead shape (I measured Dans head and nose - and then shaped the clay so it'd fit over his conk! :) ) As long as you keep the clay and your hands damp with cold water this bits pretty easy, and super fun! I made it easier to make the shapes by drawing outlines on paper first, which meant I could just pop them over the clay and cut the clay to get the right shape :) Make sure the nose part is super thick and wide - just like an Avatar! I left my clay for about two days to dry on a clingfilmed up tray..

Next, using a cheap paintbrush a applied a thin coat of liquid latex all over the clay casts. This stuff smells super strange! It takes about 15 minutes to be half dry (it goes from white liquid to clear liquid, so you'll know when it's dry), and I applied 4 layers, to make sure there wouldn't be any naughty holes in my prosthetics! You can see below the latex goes yellowy when it's thick enough to be taken from the clay cast.

For the next step I had to be extra careful, as if something goes wrong when peeling the latex back from the clay, it'll end up in a big sticky modge! :( To avoid this I liberally sweeped the top of the latex in Mehrons colorset powder. If you're doing this yourself, don't worry about getting that exact powder - any powder will do, loose powder, face powder, even pigments! You just need some small particles to attach themselves to the sticky latex, to make a barrier to prevent it from sticking to itself. As I peeled back the latex I sweeped the powder immediately onto the other side of the prosthetic too, don't forget this step!

Next up, you need to paint/decorate/embellish your prosthetics! For the avatar look I went for blue greasepaint, the blue in Kryolans Supracolour palette. It's important to note that the latex will only absorb/be decorated with cream makeup - eyeshadows and loose glitters or powders just won't stick! So to decorate prosthetics I used the blue face paint style makeup, and added some black bits, some pale blue bits and white bits too. I also used NYX glitter eyeliner sticks to add some fun little dots and lines. For the ears I also added a bit of pink face paint in too, and some veiny silvery and green glittery lines with the NYX pencils.

Next prepare the face for the prosthetics! I did this by applying the base blue colour all over Dans face - this meant there wouldn't be any awkward bits that weren't blue peeking out from under the prosthetics. Now to attach the prosthetics to Dans face! I used spirit gum, but for a quick photoshoot eyelash glue and kirby grips may work just as well. Pop the spirit gum either directly to the skin, or onto the prosthetic (you don't need hardly any!) and wait about 30 seconds till it becomes tacky, then stick your prosthetics on! (note - we don't need to stick the Avatar ears on with this - I'll explain how we work those later!). This is the most fiddly part - as the nose is such a terror to stick down perfectly! But be patient, and peel it off and start again if necessary, it'll work!

Now for the facepainting! I used this image as a general guide, but I didn't follow it completely at all - I made Dan into his own personal Avatar!

To get a glittery iridescent blue on some parts of the face I used NYX pigments in different shades of blue - they're brilliant! I can't recommend them enough, and they're really cheap! :)

For some darker lines I used the black shadow from Urban Decays Book of Shadows Volume 3, and blended. I used the white sparkly shade next to it ('Uzi') for highlighting and little white dots, and then the two blue shades on the bottom left for creating different lines and streaks. Again I also used the NYX glitter pencils for some more lines! :)

Next we popped Dans wig on and styled it a little - then for the ears! These need to be placed just above where Dans ears normally are, so to secure them I attached a pipecleaner to the back of them, which helped them hold their shape, and used masking tape to hold the pipecleaner in place. I then used kirby grips to attach the ears into the wig!

And voila - my lovely boyfriend as an Avatar!

Here's Dan before (looking a little surprised! haha :) )

And after!! :)

I LOVE these pictures! One day when we have children I know they'll laugh so much seeing their Pops dressed up as an Avatar!

Be creative and make yourself into an Avatar too!

Don't forget to send me the pics,

Emily xoxoxo

Love-Makeup Order

Hello sweeties,

I had a nice visit from the postman this morning with my order from love-makeup.. aah I couldn't believe how much I'd ordered, it was so exciting unveiling it all! :)

I think cos I ordered so much they popped me in a very NYX brow pencil and the OCC mixing palette, so thank's love-makeup! :)

It felt like Christmas looking at it all! My favourite things that I've looked at are the Sugarpill loose eyeshadow, it's in an amazing colour, the NYX pigments - every single one of them is BEAUTIFUL, the OCC lip tars, and the Lime Crime lipsticks. I'm SO excited to try all this stuff out! If there's anything you can see in particular below that you'd like me to tell you more about, and what I think, let me know!

Loves,

Emily xoxo