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Sunday 9 January 2011

How to make fatter / rounder faces seem a little slimmer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-OVjzw748k&feature=feedu

So I did a video yesterday aimed at giving some tips on how to make a round or plumper face appear a little slimmer, a little more defined: the main points are to define the eyebrows to balance your face - making your face appear narrower, whereas sparse eyebrows make your face seem wider. Secondly to use bronzer around the face and bring down in > shaped motions to create the illusion of cheekbones

Obviously this isn't going to make your face look like Naomi Campbell's BUT it does give some definition and just makes you look a little more angular!  

Monday 3 January 2011

The best product to combat dry skin

So I have like mega dry skin, if it was left it would get really flaky, especially down my nose and inbetween my eyebrows: all through high school this bugged me, and I have tried lots of different products to try and help relieve the dryness - about 18 months / 2 years ago I came across the best product! 

Neal's Yard Wild Rose Beauty Balm: http://www.nealsyardremedies.com/Wild-Rose-Beauty-Balm

The main trouble with this is the price £35 is A LOT for a skin cream I think. On Ebay you can usually find one for £25 bringing it down a little but still quite pricey - however it completely blitzes dry skin and leaves your skin feeling really nice: it's multi use and I sometimes use it as a primer.

Talking of which, I love Smashbox Photo-Finish Primer: http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/view.2/app.detail/params.item.225690 and have used this for about 18 months or so, however it is costly and only lasts me about 4 months (using it everyday) so I was looking at other primers...

BARE ESCENTUALS PRIME TIME - FOUNDATION PRIMER was what I found! http://www.lookfantastic.com/beauty/bare-escentuals/foundations/bare-escentuals-prime-time-foundation-primer-30ml.html   

This is £14.50 so a little more affordable and is like a serum which hydrates your skin - so far I'm really liking it and it seems to do just as good a job as Smashbox: which means a lot me saying that as I LOVE Smashbox! 

 

So if you have dry skin those are my 2 current must haves <3 hope this helped someone :) 

Sunday 2 January 2011

Nearly party time over till Feb!




This was the final look I went for on NY eve - discovered a fantastic highlighter but am considering getting a nightime foundation with no SPF apparently the SPF reflects when with a camera flash - which would be why often on nights out I look like a ghost in pics!?

Happy New Year!!





Here are some more of my NY party style looks - one more look to come and then going to focus back on work looks and everyday make up! (Though I admit there isn't tooo much difference for me haha) Hope everyone had a fab NY and lets hope 2011 is incredible!! :)