Festive makeup

It's Festive season, so time to stock up on some easy makeup ideas. 

For the 12 days of Xmas I'll do a different party look each day.

  

- Office to party, this takes less than 30 mins to achieve and the main products are high street buys from Superdrug/boots and 1 luxury item from http://goo.gl/VEPNXl

  

Bourjois little pot matron glacé 25 - only £6.99 http://goo.gl/zyW564

Harlotte temptress £23  http://goo.gl/SKlCb6

Max factor excess shimmer 25 bronze -£8.99 http://goo.gl/U4zTto

My little box

There are loads of these beauty surprise boxes going about. I decided to try "My Little Box" which is based in Paris. Basically you pay £11 per month plus p&p, so it works out for me £13 per month. The products inside are said to be worth £65.  So each month a little box of beauty and fashion surprises arrive for you. It contains 2 full sized beauty products one of which is from their own beauty brand "My Little Beauty Brand", a travel sized product and some fashion and lifestyle accessories. 

I had my first box about 2 weeks ago. It was the DVF box. 

Although I did like my first box, I'm not sure on their own beauty range. I'm going to do about 4 boxes and then decide if its a keeper. 

This is an extreme hold spray, -just what I need living with Ireland's climate. Extreme hold for both controlled volume or radically structured styles it works both ways! An ultra-sensorial formula which basically means it guarantees great shine and provides a powerful anti-humidity shield. I basically just applied this hairspray in a halo onto dry hair for best results. 

 

The "Eau Micellaire" cleanser is from  "My Little Beauty", it's a face and eye cleanser which is very gentle in the skin. I thought this was just OK as my skin felt a little tight after I used it, so basically I wouldn't buy it again. It's made with Aloe Vera

L'Occitane vanilla hand cream in a mini size which wont last very long! Being a makeup artist my hands are constantly being washed therefore they feel a little like an old pair of cowboys boots at times and are even more dry now in winter, so this will be great to keep in my bag and use on the go. Plus cant beat the gorgeous smell.

Made to nourish and protect your skin. Rich in 10% shea butter, this hand care, with its light melting texture, helps sooth and hydrate hands. 

Now onto my favourite item, my DVF scarf.  This is a specially designed scarf for my little box and subscribers either receive it in a green, black or red which is the one i got. The scarf is made from a silk imitation 100% polyester. In the envelope there is lots of little illustrations by the awesome illustrator Kanako showing you different ways to wear your DVF. You can view more of these really cool illustrations here 

http://www.mariebastille.com/Kanako/html/kanako07.html  

Love, love, love this scarf 

I will review to other boxes in the next few weeks so you's can decide yourself if you want to give it a go. Check out their webpage below.

http://www.foreveramber.co.uk/2014/10/little-box-diane-von-furstenberg.html

The Era of the eyebrow

It is the Era of the eyebrow, but does your brow shape flatter your face. Like think of it this way, you'd go to an experience hair stylist and that experienced hair stylist doesn't knock out one hair style to suit everyone. Well. The same goes for the brows, use an experienced beauty therapist and she will groom your brows to suit your face shape. Therefore this will flatter your good features and soften your not so good features.

OVAL

The perfect face shape

-Face gracefully tapers towards chin

 -wider forehead

-prominent cheekbones

-an ideal face shape

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: is to maintain this overall face shape

SOLUTION: is to work with a soft angled eyebrow. This is best to maintain the oval shape

LONG

-face gracefully tapers down towards chin area

-elongated feature from forehead to chin

-some have a more prominent chin

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: to make your face shape appear shorter 

SOLUTION: is a flat eyebrow shape. its horizontal view would change the viewers perception and change how they see the elongated face, making it appear shorter. 

ROUND

-face width and length almost the same 

-widest at the cheek area

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: to make the rounded head appear longer

SOLUTION: a high arch is need with the brows. Its up and down lines would draw the viewers eye up and down and lengthens it. It then creates a more vertical line. Avoid rounded brows, obviously  

SQUARE

-the forehead ,cheekbones and jawline are almost the same width 

-square and bony jawline is the prominent feature

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: To soften and balance the strong jaw features

SOLUTION: Depending on the kind of jawline start with the curved eyebrow shape then add more and more angle to it to create some sort of balance. The stronger and more bony jawline is the more angled brow shape. A defined shape peak at the top will make it appear longer.

HEART

-face strong and tapered towards chin

-chin tends to be pointy 

-forehead is usually a prominent feature of the face 

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: to soften and balance the strong pointed chin area and also the prominent forehead

SOLUTION: forehead will usually be the widest on area on the face. Depending how prominent the forehead, start with a low arch and round brows then add more volume to it as will add more length to the forehead and well as balancing out the chin area. 

DIAMOND 

-face highly angular and somewhat bony

-widest at temples 

-not as common compared to other face shapes 

Eyebrow solutions 

GOAL: to soften the whole face and make the widest portion less wide

SOLUTION: a curved eyebrow shape. Its curves will soften the angled face and reduce the widest area which is the temples. 

Victoria's Secret

Last week the annual strut of the Victoria's Secret Glamozions took place. 

I know they are selling underwear but who really cares about their million pound bra & knicker combos, all we care about is how do they manage to look like super humans compared to the likes of us mere mortals. 

Jesus! They even made super cute Ariana Grande looked like someone you'd find in the fast food section in castle court.

The clan of Victoria Secrets Angels done their annual strut this year in London's Earl Court. They flew from the USA in a pink private jet including Karlie Kloss, Candice Swanepoel, Lily Donaldson, Lily Aldridge and Adriana Lima

Each of this years designs were made by Mouawad jewellers using 16k rubies, diamonds & sapphires, all of which where strung together with 18 carrot gold. The ornate ensembles took the designers more than 1380 hours to make. The girls have to be super strong to carry the heavy wings down the runway. 

 Radiant, glowing skin took centre stage with the angels trademark flushed cheeks. Eyes where kept to a minimum with a little highlighter in the middle, with pouting highlighted pink natural lips and lashings of mascara, the perfect goddess look. 

The usual bed head sexy tousled waves that screams I woke up like this. There's nothing sexier than looking like its minimum effort to look this good. Love this look 

As usual the angels where bronzed goddesses, head to toe perfectly bronzed highlighted bodies.

 

 Check out my blog later today for all the products and techniques to achieve this look.