New hair + Ice Queen FOTD

My hair was in desperate need of a colour, I liked the colour that I had before but I've had red in my hair for so long that I wanted to go more violet-y. & it still has some red in it so I like that :D
These pics were taken the day after so I made sure that I slept on my hair nicely haha. & to go with my new hair I wanted to do a more "special" look so yet again I tried a cut crease look (again haha) which I thought I had better try to name.

Products:
Nyx Cream Cheese JEP
88 Warm Palette
- Blue circle lid
- Orange crease
- Purple Crease/ Outer V
- Green eyeliner
Black Bean JEP as a base for the e/l

ELF Peachy keen

Nyx Summer Love [?]

& a bonus picture of our beautiful cat Mishka since I don't think I've posted one since she was a baby, when she was grey with black tips. She lost all her grey & turned orange/brown & black but is getting more greys again, hehe. This is how she likes to sleep =)


I was going to post a few looks into this one, but decided I liked too many pictures for that. bahaha
as always thanks for looking <3

Summer Fresh Makeup

Just some more pictures with the same FOTD from my foundation tutorial...
When I was doing it I had more of a Victoria's Secret look in mind as I had just watched Transformers 3 the night before (major girl crush on Rosie & her hair & make up!) but in the end I think I strayed from the inspiration- oh well, I still like it & I think I may do this in summer when its too hot 2 do anything else because its quick & easy- minus the winged eyeliner, I think I might skip that.

Products~~
Eyes: NYX JEP in cottage cheese over the lid
the lightest colour in the Sleek Storm palette all over
Lightly blended a bronze colour into the outer corner, going slightly onto the lid
Bronzer in the crease
Lancome artliner
The Makeup Store e/l in Crazy Lazy (blue)

Cheeks: Nyx glow cream blush
bronzer that you cannot see haha

Lips: Bys lipstick in Coral Kiss

Thanks for looking
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My Foundation Routine (Pic Heavy)

So although my foundation routine has changed plenty of times over the years I am quite pleased with how I do it now, but I hope that I continue to improve it :)
So I think the title explains it all, lets get to it ;). Product list/ pictures are at the end

 Apply your primer! Beware the naked skin. You will see that I have blemishes to cover up, you can't really see the extent of the scarring though.

 Before anything else you will have to use your colour correctors first (green skin is not a good look haha) I only apply the green concealer if I feel like I need it.

 I blend out the yellow concealer with the foundation end of the Essence of Beauty brush. I find this is fluffier than other foundation brushes so I like it for this job.

Then with the concealer end I apply my concealer. In the same order that I applied it in each spot (nose, chin, cheeks, forehead) I blend it out with the brush again. You want to mainly blend the edges. Only apply a little bit of concealer at a time, you can always build it up if you need to, this prevents it from turning cakey.

Just showing ya after its blended out. This concealer is not a perfect match with my foundation so I don't want to apply it after. Damn I can see some spots I should have blended more, oh well.

 Now, Its foundation time. I like to apply a few dots to each spot on the head. I use 2 different foundations, a main one & one I'm trying to get rid of ha ha. I have also applied a highlighter to my cheek bones.

 I like the use the E.L.F flat top powder brush to stipple my foundation in. I usually start from the middle  & out but here I started from the chin. Once it is blended into the skin you can apply more foundation where needed.

Once that is done I dot a lighter concealer underneath my eyes, & a different concealer which matches my foundation on any spots that you can still see.

Once I have blended that out I use the larger end of the eyeshadow Essence of Beauty brush to apply powder to any spots that I concealed to set them.

I then use a fan brush to apply the rest of the powder to my face, mainly concentrating it on the T-Zone, a teensy bit under the eyes, & barely any over the cheeks. If you are oilier you may want to actually press the powder into the skin with another means, but since I am dry I only want to lightly set the foundation. 

 Here's me with nothing else done,

And after all the finishing touches!!! *more pictures of this FOTD to come*
~~Products~~

 I love this base as it is also moisturizing at the same time. I took it on the plane as a moisturizer/ primer for when it was time to do my makeup haha. You can buy it online here

 The colour correctors I used.

 Inglot concealers I applied before the foundation. I used the one in the middle which is a tad too yellow for me.

 PR is my main foundation, I am trying to use up the Australis one, it is a tiny bit darker but find they blend nicely together.

 The one in the pot is by Studio Direct Cosmetics which I bought on ebay, Its a bit light so I like that for under my eyes, & the physicians formula one is a good match for my foundation.

 I love this loose powder! Although its for oily skin it doesn't dry me out.

Brushes: L-R Essence of Beauty Conealer & Foundation brush (cut off the end of it in the pic oops) E.L.F flat top powder brush, Random fan brush, Essence of Beauty Eyeshadow brush (as mentioned I use the top or Blending end)

Thank you for looking, I hope it is useful to someone!

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A few different FOTD's + Nails

Hey guys, just a compilation of looks again.... nothing too exciting but since I took the pics I may as well post lol. Please excuse the oh so creative names of the looks. Its too hard to name them!!!
~Tropical Blues~

Just a bright blue look using colours from the 120 palette. Not a look I liked with my eyes closed but oh wells.

Of course I used Nyx JEP in Milk to get them brighter. I also used a purple for the eyeliner. I can't quite remember what I used on the cheeks (maybe ELF peachy keen) but on the lips is Nyx Summer love. 

~Purple & Pink~

 I used a BYS metallic palette for this, cheeks is uh I cant remember to be honest ha ha sorry, and lips is NYX fig.

An attempt at a waterfall braid.. IDK if you can see it here properly but it didn't turn out too bad.

 Another look using the same palette :] Cheeks are NYX pinky, lips are NYX Chloe dabbed on.

.:Nails:.

I wonder if you can guess what this is inspired from, hehe. I think that this is I think the first form of nail art I have actually done- I followed this tutorial one by Kayla Shevon. I only did Hello Kitty on my thumb on my left hand only because when I was doing the dots on my right hand I was shaking more than usual, haha. Of course it doesn't look anywhere near as good as hers but I think the dots turned out nicely! It was just something a bit more fun :) & I used a dotting tool that I got from ebay.

 

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White with colourful spots- looking back on it now I could have made it colourful splatters, but it doesn't matter because I didn't really care if it was messy or not, to be honest. These pics were before clean up- I think. Usually I just wait until I have a shower & the messy edges disappear haha.

Thank you for looking :)

How to curl your hair with little to no heat

I wasn't thinking of taking pics & making this into a tutorial when I started doing it so the pictures aren't that informative but its ok & simple to follow. This is using bendy hair rollers. If you do not need to use heat & you have enough rollers you can go to bed with them in your hair & when you take it out in the morning you will have beautiful curls.
What you need:

 Bendy Rollers, some hair clips, bobby pins, sectioning comb.

Products I used in my hair: PPS the ends (cuticle sealer applied after I washed my hair) Heat protector (obviously only if you use heat) Herbal Essences Tousle me Softly spray gel, Moroccan Oil for afterwards.If your hair does not hold curl very well you may want to use a curling cream.



After you have washed your hair, section your hair off. Grab a section of hair within that section (size depends on how you want your curls to turn out) & roll in a bendy roller, starting at the ends & rolling up to your head, folding the ends of the roller to hold the hair.

Please excuse my no makeup face.

 I had to leave a section on the top of my head as I ran out of the rollers. If you managed to roll up all of your hair you may sleep on them. Usually when I do this at night I make the sections a bit bigger so I can use up all of my hair (but to be honest I haven't done this in a while, & it is a lot harder to do with longer hair because its harder to get them to stay in.)

View from the side, if you can see anything lol

 I went off to do some things to let my hair dry a bit on its own, but what I did now was mist my with the heat protector & used my hair dryer to blast the curls. Be careful that you don't cause any of the rollers to fall out. Use the cool setting to set the curls. Then when you feel that its dry enough you can take the rollers out by letting them fall out so the curl keeps its shape. Then coil the curls in your fingers & pin back to the head with bobby pins while you start on the rest of the hair.

Roll up the rest of your hair, I pinned my fringe (or bangs, whatever you want to call them) out of the way because you will need to change the direction & I didn't want to get it mix in with other pieces of hair. (make sense? haha)

& then you pin your fringe but roll it up in the direction you want it to curl in.

Blast dry with your hair dryer again & take out the rollers when they're dry.

Finished look- I brushed out the curls with my fingers, sprayed in the spray gel & scrunched, & added a tiny amount of Moroccan Oil to tame the frizzies.

& then later I was watching tutorials on youtube & came across Lilithedarkmoon. She has some amazing tutorials on braids & different hair styles so I decided to copy one.

Here is the video- but seriously you need to check out all of them!

I hope this is useful to somebody, it seems a lot more complicated because I simply ran out of curlers but it is a great one to do after you have washed your hair at night to sleep in. There are quite a few different techniques to getting curls with no heat.
Thank you for looking!