So we are blessed with the sun again today and it feels good. So I thought it would be a good opportunity to take some snaps of this little chap. He is no stranger to the camera, in fact he loves it. These were the best of the bunch and I thought I would share.
I love the one of him on the bench, it's like a child on holiday licking their lips when they eat ice cream.
So last night, I tidied out my entire makeup collection, there was so much stuff that I had not used for ages or stuff that I generally bought and never liked, so I got a huge bag and tossed away anything I didn't want. I like to keep my professional makeup and my 'own' makeup separate, I do sometimes throw things into my kit etc, but most of the time I only use what I buy for myself. So I thought why not a post showing you how I store my makeup and maybe it will give you guys some tips.
I was cleaning my brushes and noticed I have not mentioned this brush before, the Sigma F80 kabuki brush. One of my favourites for a full, yet natural coverage. The brush itself is well densed and can be a little hard to work with when it's brand spanking new however once it's used once or twice it loosens up and blends foundation like a dream.
You can apply foundation two ways with this foundation, you can stipple it on giving yourself a flawless finish or you can buff the foundation in also giving a flawless finish but with a little less coverage if you were to stipple it on. The bristles of the brush are really soft but hard enough to keep its shape after many washes.
That's one thing I hate about about this brush, yep you guessed washing this brush is a nightmare. You can literally spend 10-15 minutes trying to clean this thing. I have found letting it soak in olive oil for a minute or two helps loosen the foundation and makes cleaning a little easier, but it's still pretty annoying. Another thing I don't like about this brush and this might just be me or the foundation I use. I find if I use this brush continuously for a few days the foundation builds up on it in such a way that when you apply a new face of makeup the foundation on the brush has oxidised and causes your new lot of foundation to look a little off in colour. So spot cleaning may be needed or deep cleaning would probably be your best bet.
Either way I do love this brush, I relay on it when my skin is looking a little worse for wear. It gives me a full coverage look whatever the foundation I use. It also gives the skin a natural airbrushed look without looking to overdone. I give it my seal of approval.
Have you tried this brush?
You can buy this brush from www.cloud10beauty.com
I have had this primer for quite some time now and I wanted to share my thoughts on it. I have dry eye lids that does need a eye primer for colours to last and not crease, so I relay on a good eye primer. Prior to using this primer I actually used Urban Decay Primer Potion, which at the time thought was the best thing ever, yet, I found it to be drying on my lids and clinging to the dry parts of my lid leaving it look like a slime sticky trail like a snail would leave, (so not a pretty description) but that's all I can think of.
So I was really happy when I received this primer as a Christmas present. I was excited to try it out. Upon squeezing from the tube you notice it's a little thinner than urban decay primer potion. Which I didn't know would be a good thing or a bad thing. So I applied it onto my lids and was pleasantly surprised it was actually really good, I didn't get the slime effect and it wasn't too drying either.
Now onto weather or not it's a good primer and does it hold eyeshadow as good as the Urban Decay one. Well in one word yes, it does. It's practically the same effect as the urban decay. The only difference I can see it the fact it's thinner, a little less silicone feeling and a little easier to work with.
I think if you are debating between the two, here is my advice if you have dry lids use the too faced one it will blend easier, if you have no problemos at all with the skin on your eye lid go for whatever one your heart desires, I think they are equally just as good as each other.
So there you go. Have your tried this primer? Do you prefer it over the Urban Decay Primer Potion?
Hey everyone, so the sun was shining this morning and so after work, I decided to go to Foto wide life park. I have not been here since I was in school and then I never got to see it all, due to the fact we had to do biology experiments. So we took advantage of the hot weather and off to cork we went.
I won't go into too much detail however I couldn't help but notice that Foto has a lot of monkeys lol. A bit too many. The place was packed with children ooh and aaaring at the animals, and me and my brother both young adults looked like big children going around taking pictures. In the spirit of being a child we had an ice cream as you do on such fine days and then did a spot of shopping in Mahon Point, which to my surprise I don't buy a thing......go me.
It was so nice to be able to go out today in the hot weather, I would go as far to say , I caught the sun on my face. So I now have a face like a baboons arse. Nice one.
Have you been to Foto?
After searching online for a good drugstore concealer I came across good reviews on the Soap & Glory Kick Ass concealer, so I thought why not give it a whirl. I went into boots and was delighted to find it on offer for €10.00 instead of its usual price of €14.99. I picked up the shade light.
The kit comes with two concealers one for under eyes which is a salmon colour and a concealer for blemishes and redness or whatever you need to cover. It also comes with a powder and puff to set the concealer in place.
Upon first using it I found it pretty amazing, it glided on lovely and covered up my mere dark areas underneath my eyes. I then applied it a few weeks later when my eyes were looking worse for wear, due to lack of sleeping and stress and it didn't cover very well at all. I found it didn't do anything for my eyes.
I used it then on my mum as she suffers from dark circles and it did a good job of covering them so I am really unsure about what I think about it. Maybe I have something going on with the skin under my eyes or it does not suit my skin. I have oily skin so maybe it doesn't suit oily skin I really don't know.
I do think it has some pros thou, I do love the fact it has a powder, I actually use the powder to set my blemishes after I've applied concealer, which is great. The concealer for blemishes is a little drying but it works well on blemishes that are not dry or are maybe under the skin. It is quite thick and creamy so it covers well.
So there you go a very mixed review on this concealer, I've had it for 2 months now and I've held off doing a review as I wanted to test it out for a good while. Yet I'm still on the fence. I wouldn't rush out and buy it yet.
Have you tried this concealer?
So here we are 100 videos later and I thought why not give into requests and do the famous tag Draw My Life. I apologise in advance for the terrible drawing, lol. I mean seriously it's pretty bad. However I hope you enjoy the video. Here's to 100 more videos on YouTube. You can check out my channel here
