Bare Faced Tutorial as seen on the Catwalks SS13

New Blog Post - How to Look Super Gorgeous in 10 Minutes

Hi Ladies,

I know some of us find it hard in the mornings to take the time to pop our make up on, as you may have kiddies running around, your making there lunch and breakfast, or you have slept in ;).
The bare faced fresh look has been all over the catwalks recently, and I have become a huge fan of this look. I created this look on myself recently and it took me 10 minutes. (Not including skin preperation) All women love a perfect flawless skin so I have done some research and put together some products and tips for you all, so we all to can look like the catwalk beauty’s J
Please Cleanse, Tone, use Serum and Moisturise before any Make Up Application (In this order)

• Apply No7 Beautiful Skin BB Cream £12.95 (this cream comes in the 3 different skin types and 2 shades) to your cheeks, forehead, chin, and nose. Buff in with your foundation brush. This cream hydrates, hides redness and blemishes, and also includes a primer. You can mix this in with a highlighter or put on before your BB Cream, which will give your skin that extra glow, try Benefit High Beam Highlighter £18.50 or  No7 Skin Illuminator £11.00
• Conceal the areas you would like to disguise or would like a bit more coverage on, I conceal in the corners of my eyes, around my nose and on any blemishes I may have, try Benefit Boi-ing Concealer £16.50
• Apply a primer to your lid try MUA Eye Primer £2.50
• Groom Brows try MUA New Pro Brow Kit £3, and remember to seal in those stray hairs with the wax provided. This Brow Kit is a god send, J
• Apply a light shade of shadow to your lid, a light brown or nude colour, and a light highlighter shade to your brow bone. A good highlighter shade is MUA eye shadow in shade 1 (Pearl) £1
• Curl lashes and apply your chosen mascara to the top and bottom lashes
• Now time to contour and highlight your face, Using a contour palette try Sleek’s Palette £6.49, this has the contour powder and highlighter in one, (Result). To get a definite place to apply the contour powder suck in your cheeks or stick out your tongue, now apply the powder to the hollows of your cheeks moving in a upward motion towards your ear line, (remember to tap off the excess from the brush you don’t want to add to much on, it is easier to add more rather than wipe off), Now blend this in. I sometimes use my face powder brush to blend in. Now using the highlighter apply this to the tops of your cheeks above were you have just contoured (in a C shape up towards you’re your eye) and down the middle of your nose. I cannot believe the difference with contouring, my cheekbones really do stand out.
• Apply transculent powder just to the chin, around the nose and forehead, leave the rest of the skin to glow.
• Now apply a light shade of lipstick or lip-gloss. MUA do a great range of both products starting at just £1

There is a lot more to the contouring but for this type of daytime look the cheeks, nose and brow bone are absolutely fine. I will maybe do another blog on just the contouring were I can go further into detail for you. This does seem a lot to do in the space of 10 minutes when you’re reading it, but once you start and with a bit of practice it really does only take a short time. And the result super gorgeous skin, that everybody will be jealous of J.
I hope this has been informative, and any questions please do ask.
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Highlighting the Face & Body

Highlighting the Face and Body Techniques

Hi Make Up Lovers,

I have written below some great tips on highlighting the face and body, this helps contour and sculpt the face and really enhances your features. Highlighting products are used to reflect light, which in return adds definition and dimension to the face.

You have a whole range of highlighting textures to choose from these range from shimmer powders, liquids, gels and cream sticks. It can be quite confusing and daunting when you visit a make up counter as they have so many different names such as shimmers, iridescent, pearlized and illuminizers but don’t fret these all do the same thing. So you can now browse with confidence that you know they do the same job.

Ok so now I have explained a little about the textures and what highlighting adds to the face please find below some tips on were and how to apply these to your face and body.

This is a little trick I learnt at the Make Up School and I love this, by applying shimmer down the centre of the nose in a straight line creates the illusion of a smaller straighter nose – Genius don’t you think.J, for this you can use a eye shadow highlighter, or another product I have used before is the highlighter out of the Benefit 10 bronzer RRP 23.50 . But really any product that is a light shimmer will work for this.

This next one is a top favourite for me I do this every day and it looks gorgeous, so why not give it a go, Liquids or shimmer powders placed above the cheekbone really enhance your cheekbones and reflect light. So this needs to be placed right at the top of the cheekbone, apply this in a c shape so from the top of your cheekbone going just underneath the eye. A great product for this is MAC Cream Colour Base in Shell  RRP £14.50, I use this a lot on brides to be and you can apply this on top of powders and liquids. First apply your blusher or bronzer and the highlighter is always the last step. Again the Benefit 10 bronzer is amazing for this as the pallet is split into two half’s one a highlighter and the other a bronzer so great for highlighting and sculpting.  With this product you can kill two birds with one stone.

Highlighters can also be applied to the centre of the lips this creates the illusion of plumped fuller lips, I sometimes use an eye shadow highlighter for this it works perfectly. The one I use the most is the highlighter shade 1 out of the MUA Undressed palette, this palette is £4 so a great buy for all your highlighting shades plus darker tones.

Highlighters can also be applied to the body to create the illusion of longer more slender limbs; you can apply the highlighter down the centre of the shins, arms and collarbone. A great product for this is MAC Strobe cream RRP £12.50, this product is also great for highlighting the face, a great buy for my kit as it works in so many different ways.

I hope you give some of these tips a go they really do look amazing you will see the difference in your skin and dimension to your face immediately. I know some of the products are a little pricey but they are so worth the investment they last for so long and work on the skin like a dream.

Keep your eyes peeled for my next blog on Foundation Techniques this will also include more highlighting products, is there no end to what these products can do ;-), amazing.

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