Summer Makeup: Neutral eyes, bright lips.

So if you're lucky enough to be coming into summer, who else can't wait for it!? It is slowly getting warmer  here woohoo. I know that I do not like to wear heavy makeup if it is hot 'coz it feels like it is sliding off your face, so I think something similar to this will be a staple for my summer makeup!

I pretty much copied this from one of my fave youtube guru's, ChloeMorello. I know I have mentioned her before but she does have great videos & tutorials and the fact that she's an aussie is a winner. Thanks to her I've been watching a lot more aussie youtubers! I know that she called hers a clubbing look but I think its wearable for day as well. (but it does kinda look more dramatic on her- lashes make a difference). What do you think?

~Products~
Face products in this post
Contour: Nude by Nature Eye Define loose powder
Blush: Sportsgirl brand

Eyes:
Urban Decay: Naked (crease), Buck (define crease, lower lash line). Foxy (lid)
Nyx Milk JEP (inner corner), set with white & pearly nude eyeshadows by Inglot
Prestige My Brow Duo in Illuminator for waterline
BYS Gel eyeliner set with Blackout from UD
Mascaras: Bourjois Volume Glamour Ultra Curl + Max Factor False Lash Effect

Lips: Nyx Dolly Pink L/L
Mixture of Inglot 148 (light purple) & MAC Viva Glam Nicki (doesn't look too bright b/coz I think the purple was too much for it)

Thanks so much for looking, everybody! If you've dropped by I'd love to hear from you :)
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A small update + recent makeovers & kitty pics!

So not much has changed lately, work is going good, I now have 2 more assignments to go woohoo, an assessment and then I shall be hopefully qualified as a beauty therapist :D
The main gist of this post is to show you some makeup I have done on friends recently.. not as much as I'd like though, coz I'm getting used to doing it on other people now yahoo! I also got to do a younger girls flower girl makeup which was nice because I had to keep it natural but let her beauty shine through :D

This is my friend Shenitta who came over from interstate at the start of september. She is also a beauty therapist!

 Going out for dinnner
I used the Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette, if my memory serves me well I used: Verve, Pistol, Busted, Tease & Bootycall. Ignore the eyeliner, I haven't quite got the knack of doing that on other yet. She has a similar eyeshape to me so it's quite easy to choose eyeshadow placement for her lol.

Party Eyes
She said she was sick of the same old purple that she did for going out, and she loved Maybelline's Color Tattoo in Tenacious Teal so I based the look off of that. I also used Makeupgeek's Mermaid, a dark blue from the Sleek Bad Girl Palette & MAC's Contrast. The eyeliner turned out good on one side, not so much on the other.
For both of these I let her apply the waterline & mascara so I don't completely stuff it up :P

Clubbing
I did this for my brothers girl when we went out (same night as my smokey gold look) and she just wanted a super smokey look with a lighter crease. I used the blacks in Sleek Bad Girl with a taupe from Inglot, Vanit eyeshadow stick in white with my Inglot white e/s.

Tafe
I did this on our work experience girl Teegan for my Tafe work, I had to do a day time look & a glamour look.
Day:

 28 neutral palette
Glamour:

 UD Naked 2: YDK, Blackout, Tease.

& I also did my mums makeup for Tafe :)
Day

 28 neutral palette
Evening:

UD Naked 1: Hustle, Naked, Buck, Creep

And now for the kitty pictures.... look away if you don't like cats.. (but who can resist these! ^.^)

 Chester hunting Mishka

 Mishka hiding behind the tank.. look at those piercing eyes!

 ..in a log! Dear god I love her to bits but she doesn't like being cuddled :(

 Brother & sister attack!!

 Chester came with me on my bed to watch some youtube videos...

...and proceeded to fall asleep on the keyboard!

Sadly not long after these pics were taken, Chester came inside one  night with an injured eye & bleeding nose & mouth.. we took him to the vets in the morning and found out he had head trauma and didn't know if he was going to keep his left eye. Luckily everything was all good but now it doesn't look like he can see out of his eye :( & he is finally back to his old self. No idea what happened to him but we don't think he was hit by a car.... but now he's cheeky again :D

Thank you for looking!
If anyone has tips for eyeliner & mascara when doing someone else's makeup let me know!
:)
xx

My Updated Foundation Routine. Pic Heavy Step by Step

This is something which I think I will keep changing as I try new products & brushes but it's always nice to have an established base routine. Last year I posted this and while most of the products & techniques are the same but I like the results better.(wow I didn't realize how many things are *actually* the same! Most of the things used today are from my Project Empty.)
Please note: I had my eyebrows tinted the day before although one of them looks filled in :S I also pretty much always do my eye makeup first but because I was doing a neutral eye today I decided to do foundation first so you can see the effect properly.

 

(not my pic.. forgot to take my own.)

1. Start with your primer. I use Face of Australia Face Base. It makes everything go on so smoothly!

Eek naked! Yuck! So much more redness than usual.

2.As I have pigmentation rather than dark circles under my eyes, I use mainly a lilac concealer with a touch of yellow mixed in. I apply & blend with my ring finger. Also blend onto the eyelids (as mentioned I normally do my eyes first so I don't need to do this.)

3. I don't normally go this extreme, but since I had so much redness this day I applied the green concealer from the same palette to any discoloration.

4. Blend out with the Sigma f82. Don't I look lovely & pale! You may not want to do this if you only plan on wearing concealer on top haha.

5. Using your skin-toned concealer & brush, apply to any blemishes. If you have light blemishes you can skip this step. However if you have really bad scarring or cystic acne I'd recommend to do this now, it's also good for if your concealer doesn't exactly match your skintone. Use a heavier concealer in stick or cream form for better coverage, save liquids for after foundation.

The concealer is so light on first glance it blends into everything else, sort of. Don't forget around your nose!

6. Blend really well into the skin with the Sigma f82 brush or any flat top brush. To blend mainly push the concealer into the skin to avoid rubbing it away. My trick is to do as many layers as you need - remember that foundation counts as one-but be careful to use little product each time & blend well to avoid cakey-ness. Chucking one big pile of coverup will just turn cakey once powder is applied.

 7. If you like a matte finish/ have oily skin, skip this step. I pour some liquid illuminator into my fingers & pat all over the skin, not rubbing to avoid moving the concealer.

8. Once that's been patted into the skin, dot your foundation onto each area of your face to ensure you don't use too much. You can always add more if needed.

Haha I've just gone back to using what I used in last years routine! :P However that is only until these finally run out. I mix 2 different colours to match my skin tone.

 9. To buff my foundation in I still use my E.L.F Flat Top Powder brush. Don't forget to blend into the jaw & hair line. If needed add a tiny bit more of foundation to the areas that need it only. Also blend onto the eyes even if you're doing eyeshadow to fix colouration as a base for your primer. I tend to get it on my lips anyway but it also acts as a base for your lipsticks. (You don't want much otherwise the L/S will blend in with it & tone down!)

Yay I have colour again!

10. For under eye concealer I like something a little bit lighter, or you can match it to your skin tone. I use Nyx Concealer Wand in Light. Apply in a triangle shape under your eyes straight from the tube. Then I blend with a foundation brush from Essence of Beauty taking it out past my eye for a triangle highlighting effect to "pull" my eyes up & out.

11. Only if needed add a little bit of a light reflecting concealer, I applied mine right in the hollow part only & blended with the same foundation brush.

There's an obvious change between no-makeup to now, so I wanted to compare my under eyes to colour correction/ foundation only to under eye concealer. I hope you can notice a difference!

12. Using the same concealer wand but mixed light & medium together, I apply to any blemishes that may be showing still. Blend with f82 brush again, but also go all over the face to ensure foundation is pushed in.

13. Especially if I use cream blushes/ highlighters/bronzers, I will do my powder at the very last step to avoid applying cream over powder. I also save it because I may need to use concealer around the brows or lips again. So here I have applied my other face stuff (I may be doing a tut when I get my newly ordered brushes, yay!) I also apply lip balm to prepare my lips.

14. Lets pretend my eyes are done. It's time to apply powder, I still like the Palladio Rice Powder in Translucent to lightly set everything. I lightly dust with the E.L.F complexion brush all over but use the fan brush for lighter application under the eyes & around the nose & lips.

& Here I am with my eyes & lips done (more on this to come in another post)

Thanks so much for looking, even if you are happy with your routine I hope you can take some tips & tricks off of mine :) Everybody has different skin so this may not work for you & visa versa but I am happy with this for the minute. :D

JooMoo Face Wash Review

 JooMoo is a "Revolutionary new skincare company" that is targeted for young teenagers (ages 14-24) with skin problems, namely acne, oily-ness & allergies, which was created after trying to create a solution after developing a skin allergy that seemed untreatable. They wanted to develop an effective natural face wash & discovered that the skin needs to be cleaned & restored back to it's natural environment in order to prevent & cure most skin diseases. JooMoo was launched in June 2012 in the UK.

 
The Product
Packaging: This is in a nice squeeze-y tube that makes it easy to control how much product you need. The design on the packaging itself is colourful & creative & appealing to teenagers. It claims on the front: 100% Truly Natural. Prevent spotty, sore & inflamed skin. And Exclusively for young, sensitive skin.
Product: A foaming gel that would require oil-flow in the skin as it feels like it helps take away some of the oily-ness to balance the skin. It smells strongly of cinnamon as it has a lot of cinnamon-related properties in the ingredients. It is a nice, refreshing smell that lingers on the skin afterwards, and you can even smell it through the bottle!

Ingredients:  The main ingredients are Aqua, Saccharum Officinarum (unrefined sugar) Extract, Sea Salt (good for reducing oil-flow) Honey (anti-inflammation properties), Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Orange- Vit. C that is good for pigmentation )..... and at the end are a few different ones involving cinnamomum (cinnamon, hence the fragrance). It also has one with Cassia which is a Chinese cinnamon that is known to help flush out redness by creating a false heat. As this is all natural with no preservatives you can expect it to slightly change colour which is normal. However it does have a best before date on it but it should be fine to use after.

 My Thoughts
 I have to agree with the philosophy of JooMoo that skincare products need to restore the natural environment of the skin in order to cure the problems . My skin still gets the occasional pimple
& I have a bit of redness so I thought this product would be good for me, however as I have no oil-flow it made my skin feel tight & extremely dry, so I couldn't use it over a long enough period to test it out properly. However I will pass it on to someone that I think it would benefit. I have found this review here with different opinions & more information if you wish to check it out (N/A)
Check out their website here. The price of this face wash is aprox. AU$7.40 (bargain! for 100ml).

Sorry for all the words but thanks for reading if you did. I cannot recommend this product based on my experiences with having dry skin but if you are interested please read the other review I posted above to see if it would suit you.

*Disclaimer: This product was sent to me by the company with intention to review. This has not affected my review in any way, all thoughts & opinions are 100% my own. Information derived from what was sent to me and also some from my training for my course :D*

Gold & Black Smoky Eyes

 This is just a smokey eye that I wore out clubbing a few weeks ago, with a bright pink lip to spice things up ;)

I look super pale here, I actually do have some pigment in my skin lol

~Products~

Face: Australis Paprazzi Perfect foundation

Inglot Blush 51

All About Glo Bronzer

Eyes:  Vani-t Eye Crayon {Gold, inner eye- middle of lid}

Essence Ballerina Backstage Mousse {black base- outer lid}

Sugarpill Goldilux {inner eye}

Noir from Sleek Bad Girl {outer half}

Inglot DS 460 {crease}

Inglot M 373 {Matte white, highlight}

Napoleon Perdis Set Liquid Eyeliner

Napoleon Perdis Silver Glitter Eyeliner {above winged on eyeliner only}

Sugarpill Goldilux {set glitter e/l)

BYS Falsies

Lips: Mac Viva Glam Nicki

 

Can't believe my hair is this long when it's straight! Maybe I should wear it sleeker more often :P Ooh and my hair almost blends into the background!!

 Dress from Dotti, It's just a peplum-style dress with a see through mesh tank (lol I suck at describing these things..).... I never thought I would like the peplum style but it hides the bloating so well!

And with my brothers girl, the main reason we went out ^.^ I also did her eyes but that's another post.

Thanks for looking! How do you like to do your makeup for clubbing?