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Beauty Review: Collection Illuminating Touch Foundation

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Holiday 2015: My Holiday Makeup Look | Beauty

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Heya,

So I thought I'd share with you my Holiday look that I wore most days- it's essentially a Bronzed look with a nude lip and bold Brows. I chose this look as it gives a natural summer glow, and is not too heavy for when the Sun is out- there's nothing worse the having thick makeup on in the heat!

So this is the look:

And here's how to achieve it:

Step 1, as always is to moisturise and prime you face- I use a matte foundation so the moisturising step is essential for me!

I then take my Collection Concealer (my holy grail product), and put this under my eyes in a triangle shape, and follow this by dotting out any blemishes/ spots using the applicator. Then it's time to blendy- blendy using a fluffy brush. I use the real techniques expert face brush. I find By applying my concealer first, I don't need as much foundation and I achieve a better base for my foundation.

Next I take my foundation- Loreal Infallible matte foundation in Vanilla- and dot this around my face, evenly, followed by blending it out with my Face Brush from the Nic's Picks Collection. I should now be left with a clear base.

Moving onto brows. I use an eyeshadow in a deep brown similar to my natural colour, from my W7 'in the nude' palette, a great dupe for the Naked Pallettes. I take an angled liner brush and dip in the colour, then following and defining my natural brow shape, enhancing the arch.

Once my brows are complete I move onto eyeshadow. As a base I start with the Maybelline Mono-colour in the shade 'lustrous beige'- a beautifully pigmented rose-gold with a hint of silver. I cover my whole lid with this up to my crease. In the crease I use a mid-dark shimmery bronze colour using my Real Techniques angled shadow brush. Holding it with the longest part of the brush in the crease so the colour is applied and blended at the same time.

Now it's time for eyeliner- the tricky bit! I alter between the loreal super liner (a pen) and a liquid liner, really it's up to what you find easiest! I look down into a mirror, meaning I can keep both my eyes open while applying. I try to keep the line along my lash line to a medium thickness, but most of the time this doesn't work, or it will on one eye and not the other, so I end up sorting the thinner one which turns out thicker... It's a never ending struggle! But, when it's eventually even I create the wing at the edge of my eye.

My favourite mascara right now is the Maybelline Lash Sensational (see my review here) which I use I my upper lashes only. I tend to apply 4-5 brush strokes on each eye.

For my bottom lashes, I leave them mascara free, however in my water line I apply a light/medium brown eyeliner, all the way along, to add a bit of subtle definition.

I don't spend the time contouring for this look. I just take a my Seventeen Bronze Shimmer rocks and apply this on a big fluffy brush as an all over bronze on my forehead, cheekbones, chin and nose. This creates a nice healthy glow!

Nearly finished...

Lastly, for my lips I take a nude-pink lip liner to define my lips, outlining them. Then take my Kate Moss Rimmel 101 Lipstick to fill them in, then blend the two colours together.

Hope you like this look, and will maybe try it youself? Let me know what you think!

Be sure to checkout my last two Holiday 2015 posts below:

Fashion

Lifestyle

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Review: Maybelline Lash-sensational Mascara

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My Make-up Storage and Organisation + How to make it!

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Spring Makeup Tutorial

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Heya,

So this week I thought as the Spring has started to make an appearance, I would take this opportunity and put together a Spring Makeup Tutorial. When I think of spring I think of flowers, light and refreshment, so I have chosen products that reflect this vision. I have gone for light, fairly neutral colours, and beaufitful highlights that will reflect the light creating that perfect light, refreshed look.

So I started with a fresh, clean face, as makeup applies best to this base.

THE BASE:

I first applied a moisturiser to the parts of the face that suffer from dryness, for me that is my forehead, T-zone and chin. I followed this by applying an eye cream under my eyes. I chose the Moisturiser and Eyecream from Benefits Skincare range as I feel that these work well under makeup and feel refreshing on the skin creating a good base to work from.

I then used Benefit Porefessional on and around my T-zone to remove the appearance of pores. I love Porefessional as it really works to remove the appearance pores to create the flawless finish you want from using makeup.

Following the primer, I used my Max Factor Colour Adapt Foundation in the colour '70 Natural'. I chose this foundation as it does not appear to thick on the skin and covers any imperfections on the face that you would expect from a good foundation, creating the start to a flawless base. I would say it does adapt to the colour of the skin completely, but it does slightly, enough to suit my skin tone. I apply this using the Real Techniques Face Brush from the 'Nic's Pics' collection, and buff the foundation into my skin until it is well blended.

To conceal any remaining blemishes and to get rid of the dark circles under my eyes, I used the Benefit 'Boi-ing' Concealer in the shade '02'. A cream concealer which I applied to my blemishes using my finger and blending using a Real Techniques Angled Foubdation Brush.

To finish the base makeup, I used the Seventeen 'Miracle Matte' Pressed powder all over my face, concentrating mostly on the parts of my face that can get oily across the day. The powder leaves a matte finish and secures the makeup in place to last the day. I use this in the shade, 'Silky Beige' and applied it using an Ecotools Powder Brush.

THE EYES:

Next I used the Max Factor Excess Shimmer cream eyeshadow all over my eyelids using my finger. I then blended this in a little using a real techniques shadow brush, to reduce the intensity so that is creates a soft shimmer.

In the crease of the eyelid I used a light matte eyeshadow by No7 and blended this in using an angled shadow brush by Real Techniques. This contours the eye and ensures that there is a natural definition between where the eye lid ends and the browbone begins.

Next, using the Benefit 'They're Real Push up Liner' created a simple winged liner following the natural shape of my eye and lash line, creating a flick in line with where my eyebrow ends. I then applied about three coats of the Benefit 'They're Real' Mascara onto my top lashes. I love this duo as they are both so effective and the results are visible.

BROWS:

For my brows I just brush through them using a brow comb, as my brows are already dark and defined. I do this to remove any loose makeup that may have stuck to them, but also to define the natural shape. However if you usually fill in your brows, do so using your fave brow kit in the way you usually would.

CHEEKS:

To contour I used the BodyShop Honey Bronzing Powder in 'Medium' and applied this in the shape of a '3' on my right side and a capital 'E' on my left side, starting from my temples and ending under my jaw line, ensuring that the Middle line of the shape goes through the hollows of my cheeks. To apply this I used the Real Techniques Duo Fiber Brush from 'Nic's Pics'.

On the apples if my cheeks I applied Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in the shade '10 Nude Mauve' using a Blush Brush by Real Techniques. I love this product as it creates a lovely sweep of colour but also acts as a highlight catching the natural light.

LIPS:

To try to keep the look as spring like as possible, I decided to pick and neutral colour for the lips. I used the Loreal Paris Insense Lipstick in '285 Pink Fever', first by outlining the lips using a lip brush for maximum definition and fullness and then filling in the rest of my lips.