A peek into my daily makeup

Hello peoples! 

So I'm finally getting to grips with blogging, whoever knew it would be this time consuming and brain buzzing. With thanks to the blogging community i've managed to do a few things i had no idea about. Working a full time job and trying to blog is particulaly hard, working round everything else going on. Big resepct to all bloggers out!! 

Anyways...since i have a bit of spare time I thought I'd share my daily makeup rountine with you. 

I get up in the morning as close as possible to when i need to leave from work. I love sleep and I'm always tired so I need products that are not going to take long and i can just slap on so i can spend more time with my beloved bed!

I dont wear foundation on a daily basis, only really when I feel like I'm looking a bit worse for wear and I need to make a bit more of an effort. Being a beauty therapist i should try and make a bit more effort to look more glamourous, but I'd rather just sleep to be honest! 

Maybelline mega plush volum' express mascara

I love this maybelline mascara its super quick to apply and gives great volume after a few coats. I did a full reveiw Here

Rimmel stay blushed liquid cheek tint

Now this liquid cheek tint, im still trying to make my mind up about it. I got it in this months glossybox, and when I saw it i was thinking 'oo I've been wanting to try a liquid/cream blush' now I don't know if there's a nack to applying this. I put a very small bit on my fingers and kind of blend on to the apple of my cheeks. It either goes well or I look abit like I've been punched in both cheeks! Never a good look really! I like the colour and it isn't as runny as I thought it would be so I'm going to give it a longer trial, to see if I can get on with it a bit more.

Artdeco colour couture lipstick in 645

One of my favourites this one, along with all my dark reds/purple colours at the moment! So easy to glide on and stays on for ages so its easy to glam up my make up when i feeling lazy. It doesnt dry my lips out either which is always a plus.

Benefit boi-ing industrial strength concealer

The holy grail in my make up case closely followed by my aldi lacure concealer pen. This would be one product I couldn't leave the house without! It hides anything from spots to dark circles. As it says its industrial strength but without being cakey and drying. I find I have to be careful with concealers under the eyes as no one wants premature wrinkles from products that dry the delicate skin out. I do go through this quite fast so I wish they had an industrial size! 

MAC liquid last eyeliner in point black

Another kind of holy grail in my make up case. I came across this by accident about 4 years ago and have never stopped buying it. I was going on my first girls holiday and I hate not wearing mascara so I needed something to waterproof. But all the mascaras seemed to be more splash proof than actually waterproof. So i heard about a MAC mascara, but when i asked the assistant she said it would still be no good for me, as im like a child when there's a pool near! She suggested using the liquid last  eyeliner to line my eyes so i brought it. After lining my eyes i looked...well quite frankly very strange! So I cleaned my favourite mascara brush and dunked it in and used it as a mascara which worked perfectly! Since then I now use it on the wet part of my eye (just above the lower lash line, if that makes sense) which I know makes your eyes look smaller but I prefer it there as I think I look abit alien eyed without it there. Its the only eyeliner that literally stays put all day, although it is a bit of a bugger to get off if I line the tops of my lash line! 

Jelly pong pong 2-in-1 eyeliner and shadow

Does what it says on the tin this one. I tend to use this to just smudge very slightly under the lower lash line. Not too much though you dont want to look like a panda! 

On a day to day basis I also just use this on the top lash line on the outer corners and smudge slightly. Its quite a thick pencil so i like to keep this sharpened to have a more precise line. I dont really tend to wear eyeshadow so i havent really tried this as an eyeshadow yet. I'm guessing it will look quite dramatic though. 

Do you have a daily make up routine post? Drop the link in the comments so i can check them out! 

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Natalie

Xxx

A few more from Artdeco

Hello! Hope you enjoyed your Monday! Which I know is hard for many, no one really likes Mondays do they, but you know what that means, one day closer to the weekend, every cloud! 

So the lovely dee, our Artdeco rep came into show us some new goodies coming out soon, so,obviously I had to have a little purchase didn't I?

I'm always on the look out for new things for the old brows especially when bold brows are here to stay. I'm not so into the scouse brow look, I converted to a powder a while ago which I found looked a lot more natural than the pencil look. The only thing I wasn't so keen on with powder was unless I put moisturiser on my eyebrows before the powder didnt stick to my sparse bits or bald patches. 

I've seen a few eyebrow pens on the market, and always thought again they were going to give me the scouse brow look. Which I suppose if you layered it up and went for it then you could achieve it!  

After speaking to Dee about how to get that natural look, I decided to get this eyebrow colour pen.

It's so easy to use, just use strokes to give it that natural look. I'm not sure how long it will last though, I forgot to ask about that! The nibs  thin at the end so you can do your strokes as thin or as thick as you like as the harder you press the thicker the line. I beleive this is my new favourite thing in my makeup case! 

My love for lipsticks defiantly meant I had to try this little beauty from their new collection. This is cherry blossom no.466 from their high performance range. It's a perfect colour for autumn, and will fit nicely with all my other lippies. I love the dark vampy colours so as soon as I saw it i had to have it, unfortunately like my other Artdeco lipsticks I can't show you the nice retail packaging because I'm a cheap skate and got the tester instead! Again like the other artdeco lipsticks I own its very moisturising and gives a lovely gloss finish without being too much. Unfortunately it not very lasting though so I used it with my Artdeco magic fix, which is my go too lipstick fixer, and it stays perfectly. It lasted me about half an hour without the fixer which is not great especially with a statement colour like this. With the fixer though it lasted me around 5hours!! It probably would of lasted me longer but I went to to sushi and got noodles all over my chops! 

get bronzed with artdeco

Hello all, at last I have semi decent pictures! Today I wanted to show you this great new limited edition set from Artdeco. We got them in the salon a couple of weeks ago but due to camera issues I haven't had a chance to show you them yet. 

I've never really been a bronzer kind of person and only used it for nights out for more contouring rather than looking bronzed. But this little set came in and I just loved the bronzer case more than anything. Everybody loves a bit of animal print right?!

The compact is such a great size, not too small, not too big so it still fits into my bag nicely and also doubles up as a mirror. Which pretty much goes from edge to edge so you can get a full view of your face, which I thinks important for an even look.

Because of its different shades within the compact it gives a beautiful natural look, and I pretty much apply all over now, and it doesn't give you that tell tell, orange look how much bronzer I've got on look either! Firmly in my makeup bag now.

Now onto the illuminating fluid. I've never really heard of illuminating fluid before...I know I know slap my wrists! But again I have fallen in love! This is possibly my favourite makeup item I'm using at the moment. It can be used for face and body, as its only a small bottle I've only used it on my face so far. With this product a little goes a long way so I could probably spare some for my legs.

When I first tried it i just applied a small amount with my fingers to my forehead, nose and cheeks and it instantly gave my skin a glowing dewy look. It defiantly illuminated my skin, I didn't realise how dull my skin was until I used this! 

So the next day I thought I'll mix it with a bit of my moisturiser, which worked out perfectly. It gave an all over glow with out being too much or feeling heavy. I don't tend to wear foundation any more so this is great to give my skin a pick me up.

Together these products make a great bronzer combo.

Has anyone used an illuminating fluid beforehand what did you think? 

Xxx

Lipstick at last!

So the reason my blogs called 'lipstick cult' is because of my obsession with lipsticks and so far I haven't even done a post about any! Lipstick are great when your feeling glum or just can't be bothered doing your make up, you can just slick a bit of lipstick on and voila, you look and feel better! It can dress up a casual outfit and add a bit of pop to any outfit. So I thought it was about time to show you about some of my favourite lip products.

My favourites by far are my Art Deco lipsticks. I love the creamy texture of them and always feel like they are packing moisture into my lips. They glide on so easily and you don't need to put a lot on to get good coverage, which means they last me even longer! I hate lipsticks that make your lips look dry and flakey, no one likes flakey lips! They are all testers that I have as I get them through the salon I work at, so unfortunately I can't show you the retail casing.

The most used are my dita von teese and 645. I'm always carrying them round with me. They're handy when I'm feeling like I look a bit bedraggled At work and Can just quickly slick some on to spruce my self up! I don't have to top them up really either so they are constantly in my bag! 

Closely in second are my topshop lipsticks, they have a great range of colour, which I need to stock up on! I do find I go through these a lot quicker than my other lipsticks as the lipstick it self is smaller. They are only high street products so I'm sure i can get over that, they are reasonably priced and rival the likes of mac as they are highly pigmented so there's no wishy washy colour. Everyone hates a great colour lipstick to find out you have to layer it on to get a good coverage! The good thing with these is if your wanting more of an intense colour you can build it up without it looking caked. Beguiled is up there with my favourites, I love the gothic glamour look and this delivers a lovely dark rich red. It doesn't dry my lips out, but I do find if I have slightly dry lips it does accentuate the dryness abit, but I just exfoliate and balm up and they look fine. 

I read about the apocalips lips products on another blog when they first came out and I had to try them. I don't think I'm far off the whole collection as I went a bit mental when I found out most places had sold out of them. To be honest I don't use these as much as I did when I first got them as I prefer my lipsticks. They are great though a fuse between a lipstick and a gloss was a great idea, I'm just not that much of a fan of gloss. The colour delivers perfectly, a high impact colour that doesn't need layers apon layers and a shiny finish is great if your looking for that little bit more out of your lipstick. I found they lasted ok, I did need to touch up a lot more than I would my lipsticks, but they're so easy and quick to apply as you don't need a lot, I don't mind. I pretty much used all the colours apart from 'galaxy' and 'nude eclipse'. Galaxy is just a bit to dark and vampy for me and nude eclipse made me look like a dead corpse according to my best friend! So that was never going to happen! 

Have you tried any of these products?

What's your favourite lip product? 

Xxx