The Beauty Lab.

Hi everyone! 
I thought that it may be useful for some of you to know my favourite tips and tricks about makeup! Or maybe its not helpful? I DONT KNOW! Haha, let me know in the comments! 

I use these five tricks every day to help me just that little bit extra when applying my makeup or fixing mistakes etc. So keep reading!....

☆ When you apply mascara and accidentally touch your face or eye with the mascara wand... LEAVE IT THERE! At least for a little while.... until the mascara dries! Once it has dried on the face, it becomes stiff and sort of flaky (gross!). Then get a cotton tip and just dab and swipe at the mascara lightly.. it'll magically disappear! 

☆ When applying foundation with a brush or beauty blender, be sure to start from the outside of the cheeks and work your way DOWN! If you were to blend the product in all different directions in all different areas of the face, the tools would eventually drag product around and cake extra product on, which makes pores more visible!

☆ Same thing goes with concealer, when applying, be sure to swipe the product DOWN with the brush or beauty blender, as you want to hide pores, and not accentuate them! Swiping down will allow the product to go over the pores. 

☆ Adding concealer under and above the brows after brushing through the hair with a spoolie or brow brush will make them appear more sharp and in-shape! It also cleans up any seen or unseen imperfections/mistakes from product. It also helps to use a lighter concealer than your skin, and apply the product with a straight-edge or angled brush to ensure precision is perfect for those brows!

And lastly....

☆ BLEND BLEND BLEND!! Blend everything that you use on your face! Eyeshadow, foundation, contour, everything! Believe me, it makes the world of difference, and you can definitely tell when someone has blended for a long time. Two important places you should blend is crease shadows, especially transition shades! Soft colours look a lot better than sharp edges with all different colours scattered everywhere. Also, you can tell when someone hasn't blended their foundation into their hair line, their ears and down their neck. Be sure to go through your hair line with your foundation brush, onto your ears, and all the way down your neck from your face! 

These tricks are simple, but when following them on a day-to-day basis it makes a big difference to how your makeup looks and how you apply your makeup!! :)

xoxo

Hello everyone!

I have recently perfected how to 'bake my face'. This term is used to refer to setting cream products and to intensely highlight specific areas of the face, and to hopefully prevent creasing. I thought I would do a simple blogpost sharing this with you all!

Firstly, I apply my base- which includes my foundation with a stippling brush and under eye concealer, which is the Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer in Ivory, with a flat brush to get in the little corners and right under the lash line. I then dampen my Real Techniques sponge (you should hold the sponge under water for approx 30 seconds and then continually squeeze the sponge until there is no excess water left, however the sponge should grow to be big and squishy!) and dab it under my eye repeatedly to get rid of excess product and to set it down nicely. I then take this same sponge and dip it in my Rimmel True Match translucent loose powder and apply a nice thick layer of powder under my eyes in an upside-down triangle shape.

Whilst this is setting my cream product under my eye or 'baking', I go ahead and do my eyebrows, set my face and apply mascara etc. I then get a big fluffy brush and swipe away the translucent powder in a sideways motion. After this is done, you should see a smooth base where you applied the concealer and powder. It should look bright and correctly set! Are we done? NOT YET!

If you want to be as close to crease-free as possible throughout the entire day, then follow through with a yellow powder. I use the one from the Australis AC ON TOUR contour kit! I dip a dome-shaped dense brush in the powder and VERY LIGHTLY dab the area (not swiping as this will disturb the products or potentially get rid of some of the product) around the eye in an upside down triangle shape. After doing this, your under eye area should look even better! Correctly set and very bright. This also helps you to look more awake on days where you're not feeling up to leaving the house, when you're tired and have to go to work or school or university, or you're sick and have to run errands but you want to look well presented!

It seems like a lot of steps just to prevent creasing, however it really doesn't take much time, especially once you get used to it. Let me know if this routine works for you, or your own personal baking routine :) i'd love to see some of yours!!

xoxo