Spring 2013 Make-Up Trends!

Hey Chickies! 

As it is March Spring should be sprung, alas as I am sitting here typing this post at my desk and gaze out of the window expecting to see flowers, sunshine and blue skies, but that is not the case for this Monday evening, because I am look out onto snow flurries or should I say blizzard along with grey skies unfortunately. The odd weather conditions could be partnered with the oddly wonderful make up trends this spring 2013. 

I was browsing the wonderful Harpers Bazar website and discovered a page on the Spring Make-Up trends for 2013, I must say they are surprising but ever so interesting! 

Lets start with Lips, when I think of Spring lips I think of pale pinks, lilacs, and pale nudes you know all the colours of mini eggs, to be honest I am not a huge fan of the pale lips as I am very self aware of my teeth and pale colours are notorious for making our pearl whites not so white, but this spring there seems to be a spanner in the works, in the form of the Red Lip. The Spring Red Lip hit the make up scene with a bang, Burberry taking the bullet, having their models sporting a gorgeous scarlett red, then from there all other shades of beautiful red started appearing all over the catwalks. Oscar del a renta and Missoni using the pretty playful red/pink side of the red lip, then on the other hand we have the powerful classic mad men red all the way up to what I like to call the twilight red (dark vampy red). Proof of the true powder of a simple red lip all year round. Get those pouts out girlies! 

Harpers Bazer

Another trend hitting the Catwalks this spring is the demure eyeliner flick. The trend properly came about last year and ever since then it has become a make up must do. The devilishly defined look, has always been acosiated with dark dramatic looks that have previously been for the make-up daring however with making its appearance in such shows as the Chanel Spring 2013 collection it has now become fabulously on trend, I have been sporting this look recently, a huge jump from my usual look, I must admit a feel very much on trend, and fiercely fabulous. As I have said before I have never been a huge fan of winged liner until the other day, literally. I was browsing at a MAC store near work when one of the sales people came up to me and asked have I ever worn winged liner, and I replied saying how hooded my eyes are and how I can never do it right for my eye shape, then she pulled out a MAC 266 brush and showed me how to do the perfect liner for my eye shape and ever since then I have been sporting this look.

Harpers Bazer 

What do you think of the Spring 2013 trends? Will you be sporting any of these surprising looks?

Until Next Time,

Jsss xx

Silp, Sliding all over the place!

Hey Chickies! 

I thought it was about time to address a very important issue, slip sliding make-up. It happens to the best of us, well it certainly happens to me, therefore I am a firm believer in Primers and coming round to idea of setting powders!

I have a savior for all you gorgeous people out there with the same pesky problem as me, that is PRIME, PRIME, PRIME.
I have a few tip top primers that I use in rotation with one another. Primer is something you add before your make-up to prep the face and give the make-up a little something, something to grab on to instead of just sinking into the skin, or sliding right off the face, whilst creating a base so the make up doesnt effect the natural oils in the skin.

The three primers that are my holy grail are Laura Mercier Oil Free Foundation Primer £28, Benefit POREfessional £22.50 and Clarins Beauty Flash Balm £29. I use the Laura Mercier Primer on an everyday basis, it is very light weight and easy wearing throughout the day and doesn't feel like another plastered on layer. I use the benefit POREfessional for day when I am feeling extra oily, the wonder primer (porefessional) mattifies my skin and keeps the make up from going patchy with all excess oil, whilst maintaining a smooth silky surface, I have heard of a good cheaper substitute in the form of the L'Oreal Lumi Magique Primer £9.99. Last but by no means least the Clarins Beauty Flash balm is for when I go out on a night out or for a special occasion as it is my favorite primer. The Beauty Flash Balm really does ensure the longevity of my make up throughout the day or night, it keeps my make up perfectly in tact, keeps my oil at bay and doesn't feel heavy at all, why do you not use this everyday I hear you ask? Well I do not want my skin to get used to me using this and in the process stop working for me, this means I only treat my self to a bit of beauty flash balm loving every so often.

I have been using primers for long time but only recently have I found the perfect way to apply a primer, and that is to smooth it on my face using my hands, being very careful not to rub the product in, that way it creates a kind of film that the make-up can cling to, keeping my make up from slip sliding all over the place, as an added bonus primers improve the lasting power of my make-up, in all areas as you can get primers for almost any part of the face, including eyelashes (talking of eye lashes primers I would highly recommend the Dior Show Lash Enhancing Serum).

A little side note -to have that extra protection against slip sliding by adding a setting powder or translucent powder over the top of the make-up to set the foundation, I regularly do this as well.

This is how I feel when I wear primer :D



Until next time,
Jess xx 

The never ending wishlist..

Hello Chickies! 

Over the past few weeks blogging not often enough, my beauty needs have been ever so slightly neglected therefore my lust for more and more products just kept on growing to keep my inner beauty junkie satisfied.

The time has come to share my new beauty crush and the reason why my mac wishlist is so long! The list was helped along by a beauty YouTube guru that I have a recently discovered called Jaclyn Hill her YouTube channel is JaclynHill1, she has quickly become one of my favorite YouTubers to watch, I blame her for all my beauty splurges at the moment, but I also thank her for introducing me to new and exciting beauty looks that I just couldn't wait to try. My wish list for MAC eye shadows is nearly as long as my arm, I am hoping to get Soft Brown, Red brick, Texture, Brown Script, Shroom and sooo so many more under Jaclyns recommendations.

Click here to go straight over to her channel!

I have found myself lusting after all the red/orange eye shadows or purple eye shadows and other colours that I would never dream of trying usually. I am such a neutral lover, it is all about the golds, browns, and nudes, however recently I am loving the oranges, purples and even reds. I don't know whether I have had a spurge of inspiration from watching YouTube or I am just bored of being stuck in the neutral rut!

I have been loving a certain mac colour, accompanied with two Illamasqua shades that I just had to mention because I have been wearing this certain eye combination everyday for the past month. Those special shadows are Rule from Mac along with Vernau and Wolf from Illamasqua, they are all Matte shades and create the most defined eye, I have been rocking this eye combination everyday because I love it so much, also I get compliments every time I wear them, who doesn't love getting the odd compliment.

This is what I do..

To prep my eye lid I use a base, such as Benefit cream shadow in RSVP, then I go in with Illamasqua Vernau on a fluffy blending brush applying that lightly in the crease, next I take MAC Rule on a different blending brush and apply that on top of the Vernau to build the colour creating those extra dimensions, finally I take Illamasquas Wolf and apply that to outer V and 3/4 into the crease to give it that extra va va voom and smokey look. I also take wolf under the eye along the bottom lash line with a small pencil brush blending it in with rule. If I am feeling really brave, I will put Urban decay eye shadow in Baked as a gold/orange base just after the cream shadows to va va voom it even more.

I also am a great a believer in making your eye colour pop. Orange is the opposite colour to blue on the colour wheel therefore making blues stand out BONUS!

A Slightly toned down work version of my fave eye look of the moment! 

What eye looks are you rocking at the moment? 

Until Next Time,

Jess xx