How I Wash My Make Up Brushes

Hey there lovelies!

How are you all doing this weekend?

I am starting work a bit later today, so I have a bit of spare time to squeeze in a quick post. I have not posted in awhile because things have been quiet busy.

Hmmm, I'm hungry. Haven't had breakfast yet. 

Anyways, today's post is just going to be a quick post on how I wash my make up brushes. I know most of us probably dread doing this, especially if you have a lot of brushes to wash. I know I don't do it as regularly as I should. 

There is my brush collection so far. 

I usually lay them out like that and wash them. 

To wash my brushes, I use e.l.f Cosmetics' Brush Shampoo. I put a little shampoo on the brush and squeeze and wash them. I also wiggle the brush in the palm of my hand to get more dirt out of the bristles. 

Then I rinse with water until I can see that all the product has been rinsed off and I see there is no colour. I squeeze out the excess water by pulling the bristles down very hard. If your brushes are good, hopefully your bristles won't be coming out at this point.

When they're all done, I lay them out on a cloth. And I make sure that the cloth is folded on one side so that the brushes are standing downwards, as if it's on a hill. This is to make sure that some of the water does not stay in the brush and travel down to the brush head and damage the brushes themselves. 

I leave them standing to dry till the next day.

It's quiet a simple process, but getting round to do it is the other issue!

It is important to wash your brushes regularly because of the dirtiness. But I do get lazy with this hehe. 

Anyways, hope you all enjoy the rest of your weekend, I will be working for the most part of it.

Lily :) x

Face of The Day

Hello there!

It's already the end of April....sheesh. Months are flying by. Hope you're all doing well.

Tonight's post is just going to be about my make up for the day today.

The products used were:

• MUA Face Primer
• Bourjois Gel Foundation
• MAC Mineralize Concealer
• NYX HD Studio Photogenic Finishing Powder
• Body Shop Blush - Shade: 01 Petal
• MUA Pro Base Eye Primer
• e.l.f Cosmetics 32 piece make up palette - colours: pink (for the lid) red (for the crease)
• BeautyUk Eye Shadow Collection Soho palette. Palette 2: Dark pink colour for outer corner.
• Yves Rocher Waterproof Eyeliner Pencil
• Maybelline the Rocket Volum' Express Mascara
• Yves Rocher Sexy Pulp Ultra Volume Mascara
• Barry M Limited Edition Lip Gloss 

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Went for a bit of a pink look today :) I always mostly concentrate on the eyes when I do my make up.

Lily :)

Eyes of the Day - Greens!

Hey there everyone!

Hope you are all having a good week so far. I have been in a good mood today at work, so it's overall been a good day! :)

For some reason, I was just very excited and smiley today! But I am usually like this anyways lol

Anywho, today at work we started our new promotion. Therefore, we all got new work shirts that we have to start wearing from today. Our new shirts are green! 

So, this morning I felt inspired and felt like doing a green eye look. I never really reach out for greens on my eyes, so it was exciting to do this. 

Even though I work in a food place and make up makes no difference at all in my performance, I still felt like doing a green look anyways because randomness is the way forward.

Here is the look:

(excuse my bushy eye brows, I have never had them done before)

The products used were:

• Makeup Academy Pro-Base Eye Primer
• BeautyUk eyeshadow collection-soho palette (number 2) Used the light green on the lid and the dark green on the outer corners  and on the crease.
• For highlighting the brow bone I used Bourjouis eyeshadow (shade 08..I think. Numbers and words have worn off)
• Yves Rocher Waterproof eye liner pencil
• Maybelline the Rocket Volum Express Mascara

I was so excited that my eyeshadow was matching with my shirt that I expressed my excitement to my manager and explained the reason behind the green eyeshadow look. Yeah, he thought I was going crazy... lol

Lily :) x

April 2013 Glossybox!

Hello there!

Very big apologies for the lack of blog posts lately. Just been busy with the usual work. And I have been trying to lay back on my spending. So, I couldn't buy some new make up and beauty stuff. But I did get paid this week! Pay day is so awesome, makes all your hard work worth it.

Todays post will be about April's edition of Glossybox! And it is yet another themed one! YAY! 

I love the themed boxes because the box is different and looks so cute! I tend to throw away the boxes that we get. But I do not throw away the themed ones because they are different! And it's also good for storage!

This month's box was designed and inspired by Pearl Lowe - a lover of all things vintage! The floral print was inspired by her love of the English countryside. Inside the leaflet, there is a brief interview with her. The design is very nice, when I saw the box, I just said "awww wow",  and it also fits in with the Spring time of year! :)

Anyways, on to the products!

Sunsense

Daily Face SPF (10g)

Full Price: 75g for £18.50

This is a sunscreen cream for the face and neck with a tint. Helps to protect against sunburn. sun damage and premature aging from sun exposure. The weather is not hot enough yet to use this product, but it will come in handy for the, hopefully, hot summer time coming up! :)

Yves Rocher France

So Elixir Purple Yves Rocher Eau de Parfum (5ml)

Full Size: 50ml for £44

This is the second frangrance by Yves Rocher that I have tried out. These days I have started to get more familiar with this brand and they always seem to have good deals on their site! This fragrance has a very floral scent to it. I usually go for sweet smelling scents, so I would not go reaching for this one. But it is quiet a fresh smelling, flowery scent. 

Nip + Fab

Dry Skin Fix Body Butter in Coconut Latte (50ml)

Full Size: 200ml for £9.95

I am starting to accumulate a never ending supply of body butters and lotions. All because I get so lazy when it comes to things like that! lol.

  

Essie

Shade: Nice is Nice

Nail Lacquer (13.5ml)

Full Size: 13.5ml for £7.99 (I received a full sized sample)

Now this is the product that I got most excited about when I saw it. I have been wanting to try out an Essie nail polish for a long time now. Now I finally own one, AND, to make it better, I got it in one of my favourite colours. As lilac is part of the purple family. So this was really nice to get! Perfect, definitely like it already. 

Last but not least...

Model Co

Cheek + Lip Tint in Rosy Red

I don't really like the idea of putting this kind of thing on the cheeks, so I would probably use this more on my lips than my cheeks. Never heard of this brand. The packaging looks a bit cheap because of the bright silver and plastic looking material. However, we should never judge a book by it's cover! And will see how this is! I just tried it now and the texture is very liquidy! Soaks in quickly into the lips.

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There we go. This month's box of goodies. I think I got a good handful of things :)

Hope you enjoyed reading. What did you get in your box? Or any other beauty boxes that you are subscribed to...

Lily :) x

Flower Nail Art

Hey everyone!

How you all doing? Hope you all had a great Easter!

The year is already feeling like it's going so fast, we are already in April! Even though this weather is not really looking like April's weather. 

Looking outside now it looks like its sleeting. I thought we were in Spring but its sooooo cold still! I am hoping this means it will be a super nice Summer ahead of us.

Anyways, this is just a short post on some flower nail art that I have attempted to do. This was my first time attempting to make flowers on my nails using some nail tools.

It was really fun to try this out! I am mostly proud of my thumb nail one :) 

I used the dotting tool for the middle of the flower and one of the nail art brushes for the petals and leaves. The black stem was easy to do as the black nail polish came with stripy brush. So it was easy to apply the stroke.

This look really fits in with the Spring thing with the pastel blue base colour and, ofcourse, the flowers.

The products I used were:

• Collection 2000 - Button Moon (blue pastel background)
• Collection 2000 - Candy Floss (pink flower petals)
• Barry M - Lilac Foil (thumb nail purple petals)
• The black, green and the yellow colours were all from the Rio Professional Nail Art Kit

I would love to try out some more interesting patterns and designs. It's really fun. You really put on your concentration face when doing these kind of things! 

Lily :) x

Smokey Eye look in Make Up Class

So, I recently I have done 2 make up courses and got Diploma's for them. A Make up course and a Bridal Make up course.
I have really enjoyed doing them and I am hoping to soon do another make up course to gain an NVQ qualification and hopefully go onto a career as a make up artist in a shop or salon or maybe even my own little business. 

The classes were really exciting and fun. Especially the practical bits where I got to work with the make up on people. I have learnt that it is harder doing make up on others rather than myself. But practice is key!

On the Bridal make up course I had to bring a model. So, I brought my sister in law and I had to do 3 looks on her. 

One of the looks I did was a smokey eye look. I was mostly proud of this look and the teacher commented a lot on it. Was definitely a proud moment. Below is a photo of my sister in law with the smokey eye look I did for her in the class.

A simple smokey look. Started of with putting some black eyeliner on the lid and smoking it out. Then adding the lovely green colour on top and more blending. Blending is key! And the highlight on the brow bone. Nude lips, and you are ready to go ;)

I am really excited about this possible career change. This year I really want to get out of my current food job and into another fun job that I enjoy. Just got to keep at it and keep working hard to reach my goals.

Have a great week everyone :) 

Lily :) x

Nails of the Day - Polka Dots!

Why hello there!

It is so rare that I get to do my nails because of work. But today is my off day so I decided to do my nails last night and try out a polka dot look! 

It's a really simple and easy nail art look to do. I used Barry M's Peach Melba and NYX Cosmetics, Matte White nail polish for this look. I used a dotting tool for the dots, but even a tooth pick would help you create the dots if you don't have the tool. 

It's my first time doing a polka dot look like this. I think the polka dots create a cute and fun look to your nails :)

Lily :) x