Thursday, May 14, 2015

Natural makeup look

I hate when girls put so much make up on they look unnatural (a.k.a. Cake face) and unflattering. Today I'm going to explain to you how to achieve a natural makeup look, that compliments your best features. Also I'm going to show you what products are the best to use on this look.

Products:
- Maybelline dream fresh BB cream (Combines skincare + makeup in 1 simple step. This BB cream is an 8-in-1 Skin Perfector: Blurs imperfections, brightens, evens skin tone, smoothes, hydrates, enhances, protects with SPF 30, 0% oils and heavy ingredients.) 
- Maybelline fit me concealer ( No oils, no waxes, no nonsense, natural coverage that leaves skin the way it was meant to be…fresh, breathing, natural, exclusive translucent base and lightweight pigments allow skin's natural highs and lows to show through, non-comedogenic, dermatologist-tested, ophthalmologist-tested, fragrance-free) 
- Maybelline dream wonder powder (This powder is smooth-whipped with 60% less talc, so there’s no chalky dust to cling to flaws. Wonder powder glides on smoothly for smooth-buffed perfection.)
- Cover girl clump crusher mascara ( Get 200% more volume and zero clumps. This mascara has an innovative double-sided brush with lash-loading and clump-combing zones to crush clumps.)
- NYC black or brown pencil eyeliner (depending on your skin color you are going to want to get a different color eyeliner, if you are very fare/pale get a brown or charcoal gray eyeliner, if you are tan or have very dark skin get a jet black eyeliner.) 
- Rimmel London white pencil eyeliner (putting this on will make you look 100% more vibrant and awake, especially for this late nights out!) 
- E.L.F. Blush (depending if you like more a matte look or a Dewey look (or of you just have a personal preference) you are going to get either the essential all over color stick or the studio blush palette to give you a pigmented glow.)
- Urban Decay naked 3 eyeshadow palette (rose-hued neutrals, from pale, shimmery pink to deep black matte with rosy red micro-glitter. This palette gives you a little shimmer to you natural look!) 

Brushes: 
- Use a beauty blender to blend in your bb cream and concealer. Beauty blenders use less foundation and concealer because it absorbs and spreads on the face easier and efficiently, giving you better results than using a foundation brush. 
- An eyeshadow brush with help you get a perfect shimmery eyeshadow look
- Powder brushes are big and fluffy to help you apply press powder smoothly and easily. 
- An angled blush brush helps glide on a perfect amount of blush on the apples of your cheeks! 

Apply these products correctly to get a glowing natural look, that will make you look flawless! 

Two of my favorite youtubers, Lauren Curtis and Courtney Lundquist have great tutorials to a perfect natural makeup look.
- Lauren Curtis video: https://youtu.be/8CP-TSqZ40g
- Courtney Lundquist video: https://youtu.be/HJzCfar3RXk

Thursday, May 7, 2015

 If there is one thing I really dislike, it's dry chapped lips. Today I am going to show you how to make a DIY lip scrub!

First you will need these ingredients
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tbsp olive oil (optional)
- 1 tbsp vaseline ( coconut oil is also a good alternative but I recommend to use Vaseline more because it's thicker, it keeps the lip scrub more in tact and does not falls apart as easily)
- 1 very small container
* may use up to 2 weeks!

 Once you have all the ingredients you are going to want to mix them together in a small bowl, then taking the lip scrub you just made and putting it into a small container to keep moist and so you can take it on the go! You want to apply a dime size amount all over you're mouth, rub your lips together until some of the sugar starts to dissolve to get all the dead skin off. Once the sugar starts to dissolve go ahead and rinse the lip scrub with warm water, leaving your lips soft and smooth!
 Apply Chapstick right after rinsing off the lip scrub to keep it smooth and silky throughout the whole day! (I recommend using Burt's bees, Nivea, or Vaseline)