Base Routine: High Street and Budget Brands

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Incase you were wondering how I do my base/skin makeup (I know you probably weren't), here's a step by step of how I paint my face:

1. Moisturiser

Not going to bother explaining how to moisturise...

2. Foundation

Usually, I pump the foundation onto the back of my hand (using around 1-and-a-half pumps). Using my fingers, I blob this around my face then using an angled face brush, I buff the foundation into my skin using circular motions.

3. Concealer

Using one of the concealers shown, I conceal under my eyes, the creases of my nose, the high-points of my chin, my nose and the middle of my forehead.

Note: Use a light concealer to also act as a highlighter.

4. Contour/Bronzer

Next, I press the bristles of my bronzing brush, like a pencil, to create a thinner and more precise tip. I then use the bronzer to contour my cheekbones, my nose, under my lower-lip, my upper forehead (near the hairline), and my jawline.

5. Blusher

Using the same brush - so the colours blend more easily - I apply blusher in circular motions on the apples of my cheeks, on my cheekbones and up towards the temples. 

6. Concealer

Using a stick concealer, I then highlight my face. I apply this under the bronzer on my cheekbones - for a more defined line - down the middle of my nose and up to the middle of my forehead - in the shape of a tree - under my eyes in triangles, and on the high point of my chin.

7. Blend

To blend the products together I use a sponge.

8. Highlighter

After blending, I apply highlighter down the middle of my nose, to my lower-middle forehead, above the blusher applied to my cheekbones, and on my chin.

9. Powder - all over to blend

To tone the shimmer of the highlighter slightly, to blend further, and to set my makeup in place I apply powder all over.

10. Highlighter 

When everything else is done, I usually apply the shimmer highlighter to my cupid's bow ready to apply lipstick.

Products used:

Moisturiser: 

No7 Protect & Perfect Day Cream

Foundation: 

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation (103 True Ivory)

W7 Face Blender Brush

Concealer: 

Natural Collection Cover-up Cream (Fair)

Bronzer: 

MUA Bronzed Perfection

Blusher: 

Natural Collection Blushed Cheeks (Sweet Cheeks)

Stick Concealer: 

MUA Hide and Conceal Cover-up Stick (Light)

Boots Soft Cosmetic Sponge Wedges

Highlighter: 

MUA Undress Your Skin Shimmer Highlighter (Iridescent Gold)

MUA F11 Brush

Powder: 

Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder (001 Transparent)

Ciao

x

Short Hair Tutorial

Ite geezers.

A while ago I had a request for a tutorial explaining how I style my hair...

This style is pretty much the only thing I ever go for as I'm not a fan of my mop being straight. So, here's my everyday/every-night/every-time-in-existence hair styling routine:

1. Not a step, but this is what my hair looks like wet.

 2. Instead of drying my hair straight away, I clip it up out of the way then do my makeup first. There's no particular reason for this, I just don't like dealing with wet-through hair.

3. There is no trick or technique to how I dry my hair.

All I do is run my fingers through it to give it some volume - I don't brush it at all - whilst I blast it full pelt. 

 4. When it is pretty much dry, I clip all my hair up again so I can deal with the under-cut parts of my hair.

Using Nicky Clarke Classic Short Style Straighteners, I curl the undercut hair and then just the ends of the longer sections until I reach my fringe.

By the way, I'm currently in the process of growing the under-cut situation out, which is why I have a random shorter section under my longer side.

Also, ignore the photo of me spraying my hair with heat protecting stuff, you should probably do this but I never do; this is purely for show and I wont tell you what make etc. it is because it's irrelevant.

 5. Next I take a small section of my fringe and straighten it, but curl the very end under. I then do this to the rest of the sections of my fringe/the hair that falls forward.

 6. After the long side is sorted out, I straighten the shorter side and back of my hair so none of it is sticking up and going awol.

7. You can leave it here if you wish, but I like to mess my hair up a bit after. I do this by taking a small amount of styling paste (L'Oréal something or other) and basically scrunch it into my hair and flatten any fly-aways. Obviously any styling paste/wax/putty - what a gross word - will do the same thing. 

Top two photos are the back of my hair before the paste, and the bottom two are after. Not much difference but who cares.

DONE.

This usually takes me less than ten minutes.

Yet my makeup can take me 2 hours...

If anyone else has other requests for posts then hit me up!

xxx