Affordable Drugstore Valentines Day Makeup Look

Hi Guys!

With valentines day this weekend I thought it would only be approapiate to do a little valentines day look. I went for a natural look with a bold lip which I think would be perfect for the day time. If I wore this at night I would probably add lashes and smoke out my eye look more. All the makeup I wore is drugstore and is either from Superdrug or Boots!

Face

• Kiko Perfect Base Corrector Primer
• L'oreal Infallible 24H Foundation - 120 Vanilla
• Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer 
• NYC Bronzing Face Powder - Sunny
• I Heart Makeup Triple Baked Bronzer - Summer Of Love
• Essence Silky Touch Blush - 40 Natural Beauty
• Kiko Long-Lasting Wet and Dry Use Eyeshadow - 200 (Used as Highlight on tops of cheek bones)
• Rimmel Stay Matte Powder - 001 Transparent
• Sleek Brow Kit - Dark 818

Eyes

• MUA Elysium Palette (Dark mauve shade in the crease and smoked under the lower lash liner, Dark Purple and Black in the outer V, blended together with lightest mauve shade)
• Collection Extreme Felt Tip Liner
• Maybelline The Falsies Push Up Drama (Top Lashes)
• Maybelline Great Lash - Very Black (Bottom Lashes) 

Lips

• No. 7 Precision Lips Pencil - Fire
• L'oreal Collection Exclusive - Julianne's Pure Red

That's all the products I used for this look and I hope you enjoyed! What are you doing for valentines day? Let me know in the comments and what makeup you'll be wearing!

Beth xoxo

Cinderella Makeup Look

Hey Guys!
Following the release of the new Cinderella film and the MAC collection I thought I'd do a Cinderella makeup tutorial! I'll be explaining more the products I used other than the techniques so I hope you enjoy!

So starting with the face... I used Kiko Perfect Base Corrector for primer to make my foundation application easier to apply. I then used my ever trusting L'oreal True Match foundation in the shade Rose Beige all over the face. I moved onto the eyes and used my MAC Paint Pot in Soft Ochre. I then went over this with my MAC Paint Pot in Chrome Angel as this made the perfect silver glitter base I wanted. 

For shadows I used MAC Cork in my crease a Morphe Brushes shadow in the shade 29 on the lid. I then went over the lid with Kiko Colour Sphere - 34 which is incredibly glittery so be careful with this product! I then lined my top lash line with Soap and Glory - Supercat and lined my water line in a white eyeliner. I smoked out my lower lash line slightly with Cork. 

Moving back onto the face, I used my MAC Pro Longwear Concealer - NW20 under my eyes and slightly down my nose, on my chin and around my nose. I then went in with Benefit Hoola Bronzer for a light bronzed contour. I used MAC Desert Rose Blush and then blended these two out together. On top of this I used a light dusting of MAC Soft and Gentle Mineralize Skinfinish above my cheekbones as a highlight. 

 I then slightly filled in my brows with the Sleek Brow Kit in Dark and then finished of my face with MAC Studio Careblend Pressed Powder- Medium. Moving back onto the eyes, I used Benefit They're Real Mascara on my top lashes and used Maybelline Great Lash on my lower lashes. 

I lined my lips with MAC In Anticipation Lip Liner and went over this with MAC Royal Ball Lipstick from the recent Cinderella collection. I added a bit of Gerard Cosmetics Butter Cream Gloss in the centre of my lips and then set everything with my Kiko Face Makeup Fixer and the look was complete!

A really simple girly look which can be recreated with so many products. What look do you think I should do next? I want to start using more drugstore products so will do a complete drugstore tutorial soon. Hope you enjoyed! 

Beth xo

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Naked Basics Tutorial - Neutral Smokey Eye

Hi Guys!
One of the things I want to start posting more on my blog are tutorials however I find them very hard to take pictures of so maybe soon I will start video tutorials and venture into the world of YouTube!
I'm going to be doing a tutorial today just focusing on the eyes and using my Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. I only have the 1st palette but am dying to get my hands on the 2nd one, so let's get into the tutorial....

I started by doing the rest of my face makeup off camera and just leaving one eye bare - using the first eye as a guide. I'll be doing a tutorial soon of an everyday makeup look but for now it's all about the eyes! So I started by applying a layer of MAC Paintpot in Soft Ochre over my eyelid to help my shadows stay and apply better. (Side note: PLEASE ignore my eyebrows - I'm trying to grow them out!) 

Once I had applying my Paintpot I picked up the shade Naked 2 from the Naked Basics palette which is definitely my favourite shade! I used my Morphe Brushes blending brush in B81 which is new to my collection and I absolutely love it!

I used this shade in the crease and applied it from left to right all over my crease to use as my transition shade in-between colours. I kept going over this until there was no more product on the brush and still continued to blend with the same B81 brush. 

Next I picked up the shade Faint from the palette which is a darker milk chocolate brown. These shades are so pigmented so you only need a little bit of product on your brush. The brush I used for this step was the Morphe Brushes B80 which is the exact same brush as the B81, just thinner with less hairs. I used this shade to create an outer V on my crease and then went back in with the B81 brush and Naked 2 to blend everything out.

For the lid I took my MAC 239 brush and used the shade W.O.S for a lighter colour to make my eyes look brighter and more awake. I then again blended over the crease with my B81 to make everything start to come together. I then applied a thin layer of liquid liner and pencil liner in my water line and also applied mascara to my top and bottom lashes. To tie everything together I used my MAC pencil brush from the Kelly Osbourne collection to blend a bit of Faint underneath my lower lash line. 

And that's the end of the tutorial! It's very quick and honestly very easy, it took me less than 10 minutes to create this look! If I was going out at night or somewhere more formal with this look then I would have applied thicker liner and also false lashes but at the moment I quite like keeping it simple! 

Hope you enjoyed this post, i'll hopefully have some more tutorials up soon!

Speak soon,

Beth xo

1950s Makeup Look

One of the most recent looks we had to do on my course for Makeup for Film, TV and Theatre was a traditional simple 1950s look. We looked at notable famous figures from the 50s like Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and looked at their makeup.

They had a paler complexion, using only a sheer foundation, concealer on blemishes and dark patches, blush, elongated brows with a high arch, a neutral simple eye, powder for a matte finish, a red or darker pink lip, mascara and of course, liquid eyeliner. 

Here's what I came up with on Becky my model.......

The makeup seems very simple and matte however I'm only used to applying makeup to myself, which is why I'm taking this course as you can probably tell by the liquid eyeliner! I found this the hardest part to get the eyes matching and also getting it as close to the eye as possible was difficult when working on an eye shape I wasn't used to.

The eyebrows we obviously had to work with what we had but using a dark eyeshadow made it a lot easier to follow the shape. I also found it so hard not to contour or bronze my model as I'm so used to this and think it completes a look!

I honestly enjoyed this style of makeup as it was very simple for a starting look, next week is 1960s! What's your favourite era for makeup?

Speak soon,

Beth xo

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