Tutorial: Purple Smokey Eye with MAC 'Hug Me'

                Hello beauties, Hope you all had a lovely weekend?
I am back with another eye makeup tutorial using purple and dark brown eye shadows to create a smokey eye suitable for a day look as well as an evening look. As I wore this during the day,I decided to keep the rest of my face very simple by using Sleek's 'Sahara' blush and MAC's 'Hug Me' lipstick but you can wear any lipstick you are comfortable with (pink lips will compliment this look perfectly for an evening look).  
                                                    products used:

Face

Primer: Milk of Magnesia (MoM)

Foundation: Medium Coverage Foundation, Bronze 600 (Mary Kay)

Concealer: Select Cover-UP, NC45 (MAC)

Powder: Mineral Powder Foundation, Bronze 2 (MaryKay)

Blush: Sahara (Sleek Makeup)

Contour: Face Contour Kit (Sleek Makeup)

Eyes

Primer: primer potion (urban decay)
eyeshadow base: jumbo eye pencil, dark brown 602 (NYX) 
transition colour: clove (FrontCover Reborn palette) 
lid colours: dark purple '325' & dark brown '329' (Inglot)
brow bone highlight: biscuit (Frontcover Reborn Palette)
inner corner highlight: clematis & biscuit (Front Cover Reborn palette) 

Upper lash Line: Glam eyes liquid liner (Rimmel)

Lower Lash Line: Supershock gel liner in Black (Avon)

Lashes: One by One Volume Express (Maybelline)
Brows: Eyebrow Pencil, black brown (Rimmel); Brow kit (NYX) 

Lips

Lip Pencil: soft brown(NYX) & Chestnut(MAC)
Lipstick: Hug me(MAC)
Lip gloss: no name from Superdrug

Step by Step eye-makeup Tutorial:

1. apply an eye shadow primer all over your eye space including the brow bone.
2. apply a dark brown eyeshadow base to the mobile lid and blend upwards towards the crease using your finger or a flat shading brush.
3. use any brown eyeshadow closest to your skin tone as a transition colour and apply this in the space between your brow bone and your crease.
4. press a deep purple eye shadow onto the dark brown base just in the middle of your lid and then a dark brown eye shadow on the outer corner.
5. blend these two colours together using a fluffy blending brush to remove any harsh lines
6. apply your highlight colour on your brow bone and the inner corners of your eyes
7. line your upper and lower lash line using a black liquid liner or pencil and finally apply some mascara to your lashes(completely forgot this myself lol)and you are DONE. 

hope you like this look as much as I loved it....

♥
Beny

NOTW: Mint Green

Hey beauties, 

Mint Green by Barry M is my chosen nail polish of the week. I've been wearing it for the past two weeks and I absolutely love it. It gives an opaque finish with two coats and lasts for a few days without any topcoat. 

what are your thoughts on Barry M nail polishes? do you own Mint Green?

♥

Beny

Wet n Wild Color Icon "Vanity" Palette + Swatches

Hey Lovelies, hope you all had a great weekend? A few weeks ago, the Wet n Wild color Icon Vanity Palette was included in a post I did as part of my "new additions" so I thought to start this week off by sharing with you beauties swatches of the colours from the palette. 

There really is nothing bad I can say about this palette. As you can see, the shades are really pigmented (I mean really), not chalky, blends out easily with the right brush, lasts as long as you want it to  and doesn't crease when used with a good eye shadow primer (I use Urban Decay or Too Faced). 

For us folks that live in the UK, you can purchase this from ebay as it is not sold here at all (well not that I know of) but am hearing it has been discontinued in the US so I guess this is the right time to buy before all the ebay sellers run out of stock lol. It is really affordable and great value for money; I purchased mine for less than £8 including p&p. 

PS: there are three other palettes available (greed, Pride and Lust)

do you own any of the Wet n Wild palettes? If so, what are your thoughts on them?  

if you don't, would you be making a purchase?

♥

Beny

Eau La La Liners by Sleek MakeUp

During my work break yesterday, I came across Sleek Makeup's newest release the "Eau La La Liners" whilst browsing the web. The Eau La La Liners are a set of 20 highly pigmented, water-proof and smudge proof multipurpose pencils. They are enriched with a soft creamy formulation and contains a unique water-proof formulation making them perfect for use on the eyes, lips and brows. 

 These babies consists of 18 matte shades and 2 metallic shades; they will retail for £3.99 each and are available at your local Superdrug now. 


Will you be screaming oohhh la la for the Eau La La Liners?

♥

Beny

image courtesy of http://makeupatoz.com/?p=566

REVIEW: AVON IDEAL FLAWLESS INVISIBLE COVERAGE FOUNDATION

Hey Beauties!!! 

How is everyone doing this week? Hope you had a great Easter weekend and didn't munch on too many Easter eggs? 

The Ideal Flawless Invisible Coverage Foundation is the newest foundation released by Avon. It comes in 15 different shades, contains SPF 15 and is said to be a full-coverage foundation that creates a virtually undetectable veil of natural-looking flawless  perfection.

I wasn't quite sure about this foundation but decided to get one after receiving an email from Avon with a free delivery code. lol 

Sidebar: Am I the only one who hates paying for delivery. Please tell me am not alone. ha!!

So my shade is Sable. Although their are 15 different shades available, only 3 shades are suitable for deeper/darker skin tones which is very disappointing. 

Having said that, Sable is my perfect match. It blends into my skin seamlessly and magically disappears and definitely gives that natural looking flawless perfection. 

I've been using this foundation daily since February and the first time I used it, I didn't like it at all but it has grown on me. It is definitely not a full coverage foundation, it gives me a light coverage which is build-able to medium coverage and since I like a lot more coverage I tend to build it up a lot.

It comes in a clear glass bottle, a pump and you get 30ml of product for £12. 
I will definitely recommend this foundation; I think it is the perfect foundation for the spring/summer season as it is very lightweight and will let your skin shine through no matter how much product you use. 


To visit the Avon website, click here.... 
To see how the "Ideal Flawless" looks on me click here...


I know I've been M.I.A for a while but I'm back and I hope you lovelies didn't miss me too much.

♥

Beny

NAM: Isn't She Gorgeous?

this was love at first sight....

NB: NAM = not about makeup

♥

Beny

Sleek Makeup Blush by 3 Pumpkin Review and Swatches

Hey lovelies,

I am sure you've all heard of the Blush by 3 palette's from Sleek makeup released exclusively to Superdrug. Well if you haven't, let me quickly bring you up to speed. 

Sleek makeup released 5 blush palette's (Lace, Pumpkin, Flame, Pink Spirit and Sugar) with each palette containing 3 different blush available only at Superdrug stores until April 11. Each palette retails for £10 and is now available to be purchased online at sleekmakeup.com

I got the Pumpkin palette which has a trio of gorgeous reddish-coral, pink and orange shades called Lantern, Squash and P Pie which are all great for spring and summer. 

Lantern has a slight shimmer while Squash and P Pie are both matte. These blush are very pigmented and requires a very light hand when applying (depends on the look you are going for really). 

The Pumpkin was the only palette I wanted from the 5 palette's because of the orange shade as I missed out on Aruba (a previous limited edition blush) when it came out.  These are very pigmented and am sure will look great on any skin colour ...I absolutely love it.

 Do you own any Blush by 3 palette? If so what are your thoughts on them? 

♥

Beny

My 5 Fab Red Lipsticks under £5

Hi beauties

As the post title suggests, I will be sharing with you my top 5 red lipsticks under £5. If you peep through my lipstick collection, most of the colours you'll see will be red. I love red lipsticks; they are an all year round perfect colour suitable for every occasion and I love wearing it. 

Here are my top 5 "purse-friendly" red lippies:

1. Sleek Makeup True Colour Lipstick "Stiletto" - a bright matte lipstick, retails for £4.00 and can be found at Superdrugs or Sleek website.
2. Rimmel London Moisture Renew Lipstick "Rose Passion" - as the name suggests, this keeps your lips moisturised. retails for £6.29 at Boots but can be purchased from ebay for £3.00 including p&p.
3. MakeUp Academy (MUA) Lipstick "shade 13" - retails for £1.00 and can be found at Superdrug only. 
4. Maybelline Moisture Extreme Lipstick "Rouge Passion/Passion Red" - I purchased mine during a sale at Wilkinsons about 2 years ago. Can't seem to find it in Boots or Superdrug but you'll definitely find it on ebay. normally retails for £5.29  but can be found for as little as £1.59 here.  
5. Rimmel London Moisture Renew Lipstick "Diva Red" - same as rose passion (see above).

Pros - these lippies are extremely affordable and perfect for us divas on a budget,they all have a good colour payoff especially stiletto and MUAs shade 13 and they all apply smoothly without tugging the lips. Oh the Rimmel ones smell nice as well.

Cons - apart from stiletto, the others don't stay on as long as I would like so I have to keep reapplying but I really don't mind. 

Top L-R: rose passion (Rimmel), shade 13 (MUA), diva red (RImmel)
Bottom L-R: passion red (Maybelline & Stiletto (Sleek.

Have you tried any of these lipsticks? If not, what other affordable red lipstick do you own?

♥

Beny

Happy Mothers Day!!!!

Happy Mothers Day to my mummy and all the other fab mum's out there. Thank you for; being there for us, the advice, the screaming and most importantly the endless love you show us.

This is for you Mum

I LOVE YOU MUMMY.....

♥

Beny

Beauty Basics: Foundation Application

Hey beauties. Hope we are all having a good week so far? 


This post is on a new series called "Beauty Basics" and I hope to have a few episodes (posts) on this series to cover all your basic beauty needs.
First on the series is Foundation application and I will show you how to achieve an everyday flawless look. 


What you need:

1. a face primer
2. your foundation of choice
3. a concealer or two
4. setting powder
5. foundation brush
6. a mirror

Before we get into the pictorial, let's have a mini chat about foundation brushes. The best tool for applying your foundation are your hands but when you don't want to get those manicured fingers dirty then brushes are the next best thing. The three different brushes that I use for foundation application are:

from L-R: No7 dome-shaped foundation brush, Sigma large duo fibre brush (F50) and Elf face powder brush.  






step 1:Cleanse, moisturise and apply your face primer. 

step 2: dot your foundation all over your face.

step 3: blend, blend, blend and then blend some more using your chosen foundation brush (I used No7 foundation brush today).

step 4: cover any blemish using your concealer and set your foundation using your face powder.

step 5: finally apply your blush, contour, mascara, lip colour and you are DONE.

What I used:

Primer: Milk of Magnesia and MAC's Fix+

Foundation: Avon Ideal Flawless Invisible Coverage Foundation "Sable"

Concealer: Fashion Fair Concealer Trio and MAC Select Cover up "NC45"

Face Powder: Mary Kay Mineral Powder Foundation 

Eyes: Maybelline One by One Volume Express mascara

Lips: MAC "chestnut" lip pencil & Sleek "coral reef" lipstick

PS: hope u didn't laugh at my head gear in the first four pics. hahahaha

PPS: always blend your foundation and powder into your hair line and down your chin and neck to avoid looking like boo-boo the fool.

PPPS: and please use a mirror when doing your makeup unless you want to look like boo-boo the fool....

Hope this has helped someone? If you'll like for me to include anything in the "Beauty Basics" series then let me know. 

♥

Beny