Halloween is over and it is time to embrace the colder weather. Oh, and it means we are allowed talk about Christmas properly too now, right?
My October Favourites are strictly beauty related this month. For whatever reason there has been nothing else really floating my boat over the past few weeks.
I talk about my hair care favourites, skin care and of course some makeup too.
As always the actual Youtube video can be found on my channel here. But, you can watch it above too by just clicking on my mush there, Whatever you prefer 🙂
You can find the L’Oréal Fibrology hair products in Boots in store or online here.
The Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish Hot Cloth Cleanser is also in Boots in store or online here. Liz Earle are great with special offers and gift sets so keep an eye out if you want to try it.
You can watch my first impressions video on the Urban Decay Afterglow Highlighter in Sin here if you want to see it up close and in action
I also have the Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in Nude Mauve up close in a post here if you want to see swatches.
The Kryolan Transluscent Powder is available on the Sunaura website here. You just have to scroll down to see it listed.
And that’s it for my October Favourites for 2016.
I was digging my somewhat simple makeup that day so I thought I would include a couple of pics 🙂
The shadows are from the Too Faced Christmas Macaron Palette that is in Debenhams at the moment. And, my lippie is the Rimmel The Only One Matte Lipstick in ‘Trendsetter’. I have swatches of the lippie here. I’m obsessed!
The day I filmed this video I was heading to the Irish Beauty Blog Awards where I was casually up for an award…no biggie like 🙂 Unfortunately I came home empty handed, but we had a good night regardless 🙂
I love handbags, but I am a lazy git and don’t always carry one. However, for a night out a bag is a completely necessary addition to my outfit. Us girls bring an arsenal of ‘just in case’ items in our handbags. We just make it a little smaller when we hit the town so we don’t have to lug around the big everyday bag. I think this makes what we bring that more important and it’s stuff we actually use and love 🙂
So tonight Matthew I bring you ‘What’s in My Handbag’ the night out edition. Just a bit of fun. I love having a nosey into other people’s handbags so I though it was fitting that I let you have a nose into mine. Click on the video about to watch me waffle up a storm and then I’ll have everything I talk about listed below and anything that I can link linked 🙂
So…what’s in my handbag?….
Too Faced Kabuki brush. I can’t find the exact one. This is a similar one from Too faced here.
Mac Studio Fix Powder, you can buy from Brown Thomas here
Catrice Prime & Fine Contour Palette can be found in Penneys nationwide and independent stockists. I have swatches of it here.
Benefit Porefessional License To Blot , You can pick it up from Debenhams online here and I have a full review here too.
You can buy the Rimmel Exaggerate Eyeliners in store or from Boots online here.
You can get the Exaggerate Lipliners like the eyeliners in store or from Boots online here. I also have swatches of it here if you’re interested 🙂
Rimmel The Only One Lipstick in Naughty Nude- I have swatches here and you can buy from Boots online here.
I bought the Chanel card holder from Brown Thomas. Very fancy purchase, but I do get alot of use out of it 🙂
And I think that’s it, if I missed anything out be sure to let me know.
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I did another Youtube video…it’s no mean feat I’ll tell you that much 🙂 My neighbours are currently building an extension, so the noise outside my window is pretty loud this week, so I thought get ready with me using affordable makeup video would be appropriate with some chill out music over top.
The majority of the products I used are easy to get hold of and in store now. A few of the products I had used for the first time and was really happy with how everything performed. I went out to a blogger event after filming and everything lasted reasonably well on my skin.
Here are all the products listed for you, just in case you’re curious 🙂
Products used: Barry M Flawless Original Primer L’Oreal Infallible 24 hr Matte Foundation Soap & Glory Brow Archery Pencil Sleek Brow Kit Essence Make Me Brow Gel Flormar Eye Perfection Primer in 04 H&M Cream Eeyshadow in Champers Makeup Revolution Fortune Favours The Brave Eyeshadow Palette Catrice Glam & Doll Waterproof Mascara Essence Forbidden Volume Top Coat Rimmel Exaggerate Waterproof Liner in Rich Brown Flormar Perfect Coverage Liquid Concealer Catrice Liquid Camouflage Concealer Catrice All Round Contouring Palette Soap & Glory Solar Powder Makeup Revolution Ultra Contour Palette L’Oreal Infallible Fixing Mist Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in Nude Mauve Catrice High Glow Mineral Highlighting Powder in Light Infusion Ben Nye Luxury Cameo powder Essence Velvet Stick in Plum Perfect
I have a review of the foundation here, the brow gel here, the palette here, both concealers here, the bronzer here, the fixing mist here, the cream contour palette here, mascara here, blush here and setting powder here, just in case too 🙂
Let me know what kind of beauty related videos you like to watch, I would love your feedback. I’m still pretty new to this Youtube thing, but I am really enjoying it 🙂
My first every video I did was a GRWM last month, so if you enjoyed this one here‘s the link for that too!
Thanks so much for taking the time out to watch, it honestly means the world to me.
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I already have makeup looks with all the Urban Decay Naked palettes here on Beautynook.You can check out Naked 1 look here, Naked 2 here, Naked 3 here and Naked Smoky here. I did a look with the Naked 2 the other day and put a couple of selfies up on my Facebook page and some of you seem to like it and asked me to film a tutorial, thank you by the way 🙂
So, I did it, well attempted to anyways 🙂 I am really new to this Youtube thing, but I gave it my best go and managed to recreate this really easy Urban Decay Naked 2 makeup look. I am not a makeup artist so I am going to call them makeup looks rather than tutorials, hope you don’t mind.
If you like this video, it would make my day if you went over to my youtube channel and subscribed. I am going to try my best to be consistent with it.
Coloured Eye Liner doesn’t have to be scary and it doesn’t necessarily have to be used just in the traditional sense. This is a look I do alot when I want to do something fun, but don’t want to faff about too much. It’s simple and packs a punch 🙂
Here’s the mug with some foundation and brows done.
To begin with I took a taupe shadow and added some definition into the crease, you know the drill by now if you’ve read my blog before 🙂
I want to keep the lid colour pretty simple but still look ‘done’ if that makes sense? Satin Taupe from Mac is a brilliant colour for this.
I packed this all over the lid.
To blend it out and deepen up the crease I used a warm brown on a tapered brush in the crease.
Then to just conceal any redness and lighten up the brow bone, I added a light shimmery shadow.
I did a thin line of brown liner to the top lashes.
And added some concealer and added some mascara.
Not necessary but for a little definition, I used a couple of my beloved Penneys individual lashes on both eyes.
I added a little wash of Satin Taupe under my eye and some mascara.
I used Makeup Geek’s Shimma Shimma in my inner corner.
Then onto the fun part, the liner 🙂
I chose one of my all time favourites but anything you have that’s pigmented will work. You could even put a light liner on and then add some shadow of your choice over top.
This is Inglot’s Matte Amc Gel liner in 87, I’ll put a link to it here
Mine has certainly seen better days but a drop of Duraline (review here) brings it back to life.
I use a pencil to apply gel liner to my waterline. I find a brush too ticklish and uncomfortable, so dipping a liner pencil into the gel works for me, even if it’s not the same colour. You can always wipe it off after you use it 🙂
And the eyes are done! An easy coloured eye liner look 🙂
This is one of my favourite looks to do and as you can see it’s so simple. I always get compliments too which is nice.
Here’s the finished look.
Will you give coloured liner a go? Let me know. (that rhymes ha)
I am not a blush monogamist by any stretch of the imagination. I flutter from one to the other depending on my mood and of course what colour or finish I want on that day. Lately I’ve noticed my hand has been reaching for the same 5 blushes in my makeup drawer though. 5 is still probably alot in a normal case scenario I know, but for a makeup fiend this is a pretty respectable number 🙂 So I thought I would share them with you today as they are actually quite varied (as blushers go anyway).
First up is one of the first Mac products I ever had in my collection. Don’t worry I’ve gone throught a few of them since then, but you can still see this is well loved.
This is Mac’s Sheertone blush in ‘Pink Swoon’. At one point this was the only blush I had in my possession.
I like the Sheertone blushes because you can build them up to your own preference. I think Pink Swoon is the perfect matte pink cheek tone. It suits my skin tone well and I can wear it day or night. Pink Swoon is available for €24 from Brown Thomas here.
My second choice is another Mac Sheertone blush, but in the shimmer formula.
This is ‘Springsheen’ which I think is a bit of a Mac cult classic. You can buy this from Brown Thomas for €24 here.
It’s light peachy shade with a gold sparkle running through it. Probably more suited to the warmer months, but I love Springhsheen if you gone to town on your eye makeup or your lippie and just want a subtle pop of colour to your cheeks. It’s a good staple to have in your collection.
The third choice I have been grabbing for of late is a blush I actually spoke about in My Everyday Makeup Routine here.
This is the Catrice Illuminating Blush in 030 ‘Kiss Me Ken’.
This is a more mauvey toned blush I think, with just a little sparkle running through it.
I tend to grab for this when I’m going for a mauve toned lip, which I have been loving at the minute. I think the similar tone of colour on the cheeks and lips go well together.3
Number 4 is the priciest of the bunch. It’s £32 from Spacenk here.
This is the Hourglass Ambient Lighting Blush in ‘Diffused Heat’.
It looks pretty scary in the pan, right? But as you can see when it swatched on my arm, it’s a lovely peachy pink shade. You have a swirl of intense colour, but then you are kind of diluting it by mixing it with the lighting powder running through it. This is such a pretty shade and the formulation of these blushes are really lovely and so blendable too. I use this blush alot when I’m going for more of a fresh face approach to my makeup, if that makes sense? :p
I left this blush until last, because it’s really the one I reach for the most.
This is the Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in 15 ‘Seductive Pink’.
The beauty community went nuts when Max Factor first released these blushes, as they are such a lovely and affordable alternative to the Hourglass offerings that I talked about a minute ago. I think Seductive Pink is a blush everyone should have in their collection if I’m being honest. It’s just a great all rounder, and ticks all the boxes for me. It’s pink, but has a rosey tone to it aswell, it’s not completely matte, but it doesn’t interfere with your makeup at all, it will work on so many skin tones, it works with all types of makeup looks and the formula of Creme Puff blushes is so lovely as well. They’re soft, pigmented and easy to blend. Can you tell I love it? 🙂 You can pick it up from Boots here
Do you have a favourite blush or blushes that you reach for constantly? Do you even rate blush?
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