My Daily Routine & Must Have Products

First things first Skincare. I cant do anything else unless I've cleansed and Moisturised my skin I use

Origins Clean Energy Cleansing Oil. This is a lightweight cleansing oil for all skin types filled with Natural Organic Ingredients, doesn't clog up your pores and leaves your skin feeling nourished and fresh. 

To lock in that nourishment I lather my skin with Benefits Triple Performing Oil free Moisturizer and move onto my makeup.

My New favourite Foundation has to be Laura Mercier Silk creme foundation. It's a beautiful lightweight but good coverage matte foundation,leaves your skin looking flawless all day long. 

After working long hours I need a good full coverage concealer to hide those under eye circles and blemishes. I'm loving Amazing Cosmetics Concealer in Fair golden. It's yellow based so it literally covers every discolouration but doesn't feel too heavy or cakey.

As I'm as pale as a ghost I need to add some warmth to my skin so I love Benefits Hoola Bronzer as It's not to heavy or muddy on my skin and gives my face a natural lift and glow. My top tip with bronzer is to build it up slowly applying too much at once will just give you a muddyy/dirty appearance. 

Next I load on my favourite Blush Benefits Rockateur, 

It's a Rose gold blush with a lovely sheen to it but not glitter so it suits all skin tones and ages. 

The Balm Mary Lou Manizer is a beautiful gold highlighter, it's not too harsh or chunky and the pigmentation is out of this world, I highly recommend it. 

To make my eyes look more awake I love to apply a little bit of NYX Wonder pencil on my water line, It also doubles up as a concealer and Reverse Lip liner which is great for muting lips if you want to over draw them.

EOS lip balms are always in my makeup bag, I find them great for keeping my lips hydrated and they are full with antioxidants.

Urban Decay is one of my favourite cosmetic brands at the moment as they dont use any parabens/chemicals and are cruelty free! 

This All nighter setting spray is one of the best Ive tried and your makeup literally does not move for the day!!!! 

My favourite Lip combo has to be NYX Natural lipliner and The balm Ma bills be paid Nude Lipstick.... STUNNING!!! 

      

  Hope you enjoyed this post! 

        Love Always xXx

sun kissed tutorial

Hey Girls,

Today Ive decided to take a break from my back to basic's series to do a "sun kissed" look.

So lets get started :)

What I used:

• Coastal Scents Concealer palette
• NYX eye shadow base
• L'oreal True Match foundation in c2 and w3
• maybelline dream matte powder in golden sand
• sleek contour kit in light 884
• NYX trio i used taupe as my midtone and I used brown to fill in my brows
• NYX trio I used black to define my eyes
• Natural collection Lip Liner in Almond
• Brow highlighter from soap and glory
• NYC seperating mascara
• NYX orange soda lipstick
• Sleek lipgloss with vitamin e in a touch of pink (dupe for NARS turkish delight)

face brushes: 

Avon foundation brush

concealer brush

Avon powder brush

peggy sage fluffy brush for bronzer

Dunnes fluffy brush for highligher

eye brushes:

flat shadow brush

mac 224 (fluffy brush)

mac angled brush 266

1. after preping the skin....conceal check out my post on how to use and apply concealer click here (sorry about my hair it was very early haha)

 2. for blemishes: apply concealer onto the area and press your finger on it for a few seconds this will help the concealer stick to the blemish

3. for my foundation i mixed c2 and w3 on the back of my hand and applied it with a foundation brush starting at the center of the face and working outwards

for foundation tips: click here

4. powder the face using a fluffy brush I wanted a dewy look so I applied very little powder
For tips on face powder: click here

                                               
                                 5. I took a brown shadow and filled in my brows with a angled brush

Remember to apply shadow in the direction of hair growth

                               6. Then I took my contour kit and using the contour colour

                                                                 and a fluffy brush

I rolled my brush into the contour

taped of the excess powder

                      and holding the brush at the end of the handle ( for a lighter application)

                       I applied the contour under my cheekbones the brush should barely touch the skin

I also brought the powder up to my temples and forehead for that sun kissed glow

                                                            7. curled my lashes

                             8. And applied a black shadow to the base of my lashes to define my eyes

                         9. Taking a fluffy brush and my midtone colour i sweeped it across my crease

10. Then I took my highlight colour and applied it to my cheekbones, the center of my forehead, down the bridge of my nose and my chin

                                          11. I also used my highlight colour on my lids and applied 3 coats of mascara

                                     

                                                12. lined my lips with a lip liner pencil

                                                        13. And applied my lipstick and lipgloss

 14. Then I went back to my highlighter and applied it with a shadow brush to my cupids bow to give the illusion of fuller lips

15. and for my last step I took my brow highlighter

and applied it onto my brow bone

and blended it out and

Ta-da im all done :)

 I love this look it looks so fresh and dewy! 

Here's the finished look :)

Hope this was helpful

love

saz xxx

Selena Gomez "Love you like a love song" makeup tutorial

Hey girls,

Ok so I totally fell in love with Selena's make up in her latest video and I just had to re-create it

I adore this look and hope you do to :)

Here's my version......

What I used:

Primark set of 5 lashes i used the 3rd one down

(These are amazing!!!!)

Rimmel's  140 kiss me and NYX 620 paris

So lets get started!!!!

First of all you need to prep the skin: cleanse, tone, moisturise and prime
preping the skin is really important because it will keep your skin looking healthy, help your foundation glid on more smoothly and it will make it look better on the skin.

                                              eyes

Step 1:

Taking a black pencil liner

 Line your top lids in short feather like strokes (dont do the flick just yet)

You can use a cotton bud to hold your lid in place, this is better than dragging your skin which can cause pre mature aging.

your lid should look like this

Step 2:

 Take a angled brush like this or a very flat brush

And dip it into black shadow  (NYX trio)

Apply this over the liner this will set it and cover any area's you missed

Step 3:

Take a liquid liner or gel liner

Im using L'oreal super liner in carbon gloss

this is my favourite liner, it has a thick flexible brush which i find amazing and it makes applying liner so much easier

Apply your liquid or gel liner over the pencil liner

Step 4.

Now take a cotton bud to guide you and hold it against your BOTTOM LID this is where your flick should be

make a dot where you want your flick to end it is usually just above your crease

and draw a line down to the end of the top lid

now go back to the top of the line and draw a line in towards the liner

(look straight into a mirror your flick should start just outside the coloured part of your eye)

and colour the gap in

and theres your flick!!

Step 5.

Selena's liner looks really matte so apply black shadow on top of your liquid or gel liner this will help set the liner and give it a matte finish

If you make any mistakes dont worry just leave the liner dry and it will flake off with a cotton bud

the finished look!

Now apply some false lashes and your all done.

lips

In selena's video she appears to be wearing a bright pink lipstick with a tint or coral

 so for my lips i mixed two lipsticks together NYX 620 Paris and Rimmel london 140 kiss me

and applied a clear lipgloss on top for some extra sparkle.

Face

So my face I applied a liquid foundation (L'oreal's true match foundation in w3) with a flat foundation brush and set it will compact powder (maybelline dream matte powder in golden sand)

I applied natural collection's bronzer on my forehead,temples and jawline to give me that sun kissed look that selena has in her video and i kept my blush subtle. I used pink cloud by natural collection and i filled in my brows with some brown eye shadow.

FOR MY FOUNDATION TIPS....CLICK HERE!!!!!!!!!

And this is the finished look :)

PIN UP GIRL!!

       You can also use this eye makeup for a pin up girl look just add some red lippy and your good to go :)

To remove take a cotton pad and soak it in eye makeup remover hold it against your eyes for 60seconds and wipe out.doing this will remove soften the liner and will remove most of it

a oil based remover or baby oil will make it easier.

My friend sinead also known as the makeupchair from you tube also did a fab makeup tutorial on this look check out her amazing video here!!!!!!

hope this was helpful

love saz

xxx

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