My Makeup Bag

I feel like every blogger at some point shares all these crazy fun tips and ideas and whatnot. And I'm just not creative enough for those things. Like honestly guys, this was probably one of the hardest things I tried to do because I'm so unoriginal ahaha.... But now that it is Spring for most of you, and summer for me, I wanted to talk about my makeup bag and what I'll be using this summer to optimize my appearance while being broke ;)

I took a new approach and used my own photos with a new arrangement to make it easier. Labelling will be from Left to Right,

1. Smashbox Camera Ready BB Cream $50.00

2. Clinique Stay-Matte Pressed Powder $27.00

3. Too Faced Beach Bunny Bronzer $38.00

4. Clinique Blushing Blush Powder $25.00

5. MAC Cosmetics Eye Shadow $18.00

6. Too Faced Naked Eye Palette $44.00

7. Covergirl Last Blast, Drugstores, $10.00

8. Too Faced Lash Injection $28.00

9. Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer $24.00

10. Clinique Acne Solutions Clearing Concealer $19.00

11. GOSH Velvet Touch Eyeliner in Gold $7.99

12. La Senza Body Kiss in Berry Sassy 2 for $15.00

13. Body Shop Satsuma Body Mist $12.00

14. Marc Jacobs Daisy $78.00

15. Vera Wang Princess $75.00

16. Revlon Lipstick in a deep red, $6.99

17. Too Faced Lip of Luxury in Soft Beige $18.00

18. Revlon Lipstick in a berry pink, $6.99

Gold and Pink Eyeshadow Tutorial!

So I found this lovely tutorial here and thought it was SO pretty, but it was all in a foreign language and felt maybe it would be cool if someone did it in English. Which leads us to this post!

1) Start off with eyeshadow primer, so it stays in place all day! :) Next you're going to take a golden shade such as Glamour by GOSH. 

2) Cover the rest of the eyelid with a pinky-white shadow, such as Virgin by Urban Decay.

3) Blend in, from your outter corner of the eyelid, a dark pink. Start darker on the inside and lightly blend towards the centre. A good colour for this is All Lid Up by Hard Candy. The key for this step is lots and lots of blending!

4) Bend the crease with a darker brown shadow like Smog by Urban Decay. 

5) Use the same shadow as the previous step to line the bottom lashes.

6) Add a shimmery white such as Ice White Base by The Body Shop to the tear duct corner for an eye-opening effect.

7) Line the upper lash with a dark shadow and a thin edged brush. Any black is good for this.

8) You don't have to, but I always wear mascara so I finished with applying 3 to 4 coats on my top and bottom lashes! :)

Thanks for reading my blog, here's the finished look! :)

Swirly nail tutorial.

So, I know you're probably busy doing the really neat nail thing I showed you over on Simply Sunstar in my last post.  But here's another cute nail tip.  Multi-colour swirls!:)

You can take your one colour nails like this:

(Sorry about the chips lol, I did it last night but had no time to post)

So you can get your nails to look like THIS:

(This picture was taken before I could remove the out polish off my skin.)

BUT all you need is a plastic or reusable cup, cold tap water, moisturizer and whatever choice(s) of nail polish.  As well as q-tips, toothpicks and nail polish remover.

1: Fill the cup about half an inch from the top with cold water.

2: Drop a drop of nail polish into the water.  (Try to make it towards the center)

3: Once it spreads (you'll see what I mean) place a different colour in the center of that colour.  And so on..

4: Take the toothpick and swirl the colours around to make a neat pattern.

5: Cover your hands with moisturizer to make it easy to take off.  But DO NOT GET ANY ON YOUR NAIL or it won't stick.

6: Dip the top of your finger into the cup, and lift up under a part of the pattern you like on your nail.

7: Remove the excess on the skin with nail polish remover and a q tip for careful removal.

8: Clear coat:)

Have fun, and be creative:):)