Bohemian Raspberry – My first tutorial

The lovely Kat from Click and Makeup asked me if I would want to guest post for her while she’s on holidays and perhaps do a ‘eye makeup tutorial’ blog post. What a terrifying prospect. I have never done a tutorial before. I was petrified at the thought but excited at the same time to embrace the challenge. I am using one of my favourite palette. With extreme nervousness, I would like to invite you to skip over to Click and Makeup blog to see my post. AaaAAaaaaa



 

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Statement lips and Beauty Blogging Blonde

When I saw Amanda from Beauty Blogging Blonde recreating a makeup look from the X Factor series 1 week ago, I jumped on the occasion and could not resist the temptation to ask to recreate a look from the series from last Saturday's show. The look which I fell in love was worn by X Factor contestant Rebecca Ferguson. I am not very keen on Rebecca to be honest, but her makeup is always flawless and this week it just blew me away.





How to achieve this look? Amanda recreated her look and posted a tutorial on her YouTube channel here. The video is also packed to the brim with tips & tricks and shows you what you could do to wear this lip on a night out, how to make it last etc..  Blondes will also love how she recreated her eyebrows and the shade of eyebrow is to die for. There is also never been a better time to discover her blog (Beauty Blogging Blonde) as she’s just launched a lovely blog giveaway, about 2 hours ago. Who knows, if you chat to her on twitter, @millmollmac she might do another X factor look next week? ;) *hint* *hint*

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Splash Proof Sealer: I'd be lost without you. Review, Tutorial & FOTD

Do you own something in your beauty collection which would leave you upset if you suddenly misplaced it? I do. A few months ago, my stomach literally churned when I thought I had lost my splash cosmetics sealer.


 


This was originally given to me by my very thoughtful and generous  friend Jo, makeup artist in Bristol. Jo knows how much I love using ‘full on’ loose glitter on my lids for going out / party makeup. One first try of this and I immediately understood why she was raving about it: This little sealer is simply the BEST base I have ever used to make loose glitter adhere to your lids. And when I saw  my ultimate YouTube makeup  guru petrilude was using it too, I was literally squealing with excitement. (If you click here, it will direct you to precisely the bit where he’s talking about it at 4 minutes 14 )










In my pre splash days, I would use regular eyelash glue to make loose glitter adhere to my lids, but the removal process was very tedious and I always felt it was harsh to the poor tender skin of my lids. When I use the splash proof sealer I apply a fine layer of  product on my lids, then dab the glitter with a sponge applicator (I love sponge applicators and not ashamed to say it) and the glitter stays on all day or all night and it does not budge one bit.

The applicator dispenses just the right amount of product, but sadly as I discovered with clear lipgloss, you are best to apply the product on the back of your hands first and then transfer it to your lids as you don’t want to the wand to get dirty with the colour you have on your lids, and then colour contaminate the whole tube.





When I turned myself into a little devil on new year’s eve, I used this sealer on my eyes and some random red cosmetic glitter I bought on eBay. I usually never take step by step pictures of my makeup, but for some reason this time I did and I thought I would share them. Please Excuse the deep/crazy smoothing of my magic camera.


First, and before applying any makeup, I applied my false eyelashes (very controversial but this is the way I like to do it)  and worked on my crease. I applied some twofaced shadow insurance on the whole surface of the eye, then applied brown eyeshadow, blended it with vanilla or blanc type from MAC, then applied some black. Looks Like there’s a lot of black huh? Well, wait till my fat droopy lid covers it aaaaaaaall up.





See, by magic, my lids have covered all the black! Man these are my no.2 favourite lashes in the whole world but more on them in another post. Look below how neat they look and that they barely need any eyeliner at all. I am in love.






Then, it looks like I’ve applied some red eyeshadow on top of the brown and some red shadow on the main lid too. I took the red from the 120 eyeshadow palette from eBay.





And then I applied the sealer on my lids, and voila:
Better pictures of this look on my red devil post and on youtube if you fancy it.
My eyebrows look a mess but that didn’t prevent me to pull that night :)





To remove the glitter, I stuck some regular sellotape on my eyelids to remove most of it, and then, I pressed a cotton pad wet with oily makeup remover, and pressed it to make it soft and easy to lift off.  The removal process was a doddle compared to when I would use eyelash glue when i had to scrape it off.


The splash sealer is very affordable (about £5 I believe) but it’s not very easy to find, which traumatised me a bit when I thought I had lost it. In the UK, It seems to be sold in ‘dancewear’ places, with theatrical-ish makeup. Here’s a list of stockists if you are interested.  In America, I believe you can find at ULTA, under its real original name of L.A Splash Cosmetics. Blimey, you’ve made till the end of this long post. Well done. I am finding it hard to be concise when I am really excited about a product.
Thank you for reading. Let know about some makeup items of yours, which would leave you in total disarray if you lost them. I’d love to hear xx

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Charlotte, the Sanguine Empress

This is going to be the quickest and most excited blog post I've ever written. I am not going to proof read this, so you'll have to contend with even more mistakes than usual. 'What, what, what, will you say?'

Oh my, I wanted to do a retweet of this but I can't cos I am too excited and there are too many words which are coming swirling in my head. Since the release of the Sleek Makeup Bohemian Palette, there is this one look created by Charlotte from Lipglossiping which I have been trying to recreate and failed miserably. Now Charlotte was kind enough to recreate this look and made a picture tutorial for it. She had to go and get nappies from Spar with this outrageously bright but utterly gorgeous look. Please click on the picture below to enlarge, and forgive my botched watermarking.

Just look at the flamboyance of this and how it flatters her green eyes. Ladies and gentlemen, it is great honour, that I introduce to the 'Sanguine Emperor'. Why this name? Well to understand, you'll need to go over to her blog and get acquainted with the shades names, cos yeah baby, she found names for all the shades and Sleek Makeup loved them so much that they're going to adopt them. (click here to see her post)

 Now if you can count to 10 in French you should be able to do this :P
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Day is made.
Thank you chica :)

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