Recently I have becoming so much more experimental with eye make up so I have decided to start a weekly post showing you which look has been my favourite of that week.  I will try to do a tutorial on how I achieved the look and which products I used, I am by no means professional but just thought Id show you how I do it.

 

Purple Passion

 

This week the reason I decided to use purples is because I have green eyes and I have always found purple really brings out the green in my eyes and makes them pop.

 

Step 1. Cover your eyelid in your favourite eyeshadow primer, I chose MUA's professional eye primer.

Step 2. Using an all over shadow brush, apply the forth shade on the bottom on the MUA Pretty Pastels Palette, all over your lid

Step 3. Using a thiner shadow brush, apply the first shade in the MUA Poptastic Palette, in the crease of your eye and blend well

Step 4. Highlight your browbone, I used Benefit's High Brow Glow under my eyebrow with a sweep of the first shade in the MUA Pretty Pastels Palette.

Step 5. Apply a thin line along your bottom lashes of Barry M Supersoft Crayon in No.5 and blend with a smudge brush.

Step 5. Create a medium thickness black line along your top lash line using your favourite liquid liner I used Rimmel's Exaggerate Liquid Eye Liner

Step 6. Use a white liner pencil along your waterline to give the illusion of wider eyes, I used Bourjous Noir & Blanc Eyeliner Pencil(just the blanc side)

Step 7. Coat your lashes in mascara, I used Loreal Volume Million Lashes and Yves Rocher Sexy Pulp.

Step 8. You should end up with a finished result as below

 

 

 Hope you enjoyed this post

 

Lots of love

 

Gem

 

xxx

On Sunday it was my boyfriend's cousin's little boy's Christening, wow what a mouthful. The perfect excuse to dress up.  Adam(the boyfriend) and myself were honoured to be asked to be Godparents, so knowing that I was going to be standing in front of the whole family I made an extra special effort to look nice and wear something different.

I love this dress so much, it was such a bargain at only £10 in a sale in my Outfit(the one with Topshop, Miss Selfridge, etc.) store but I cant remember which shop, I have worn it once before so wearing it for the Christening was a must.  My shoes were £6 from Matalan, they have some great cheap and cheerful pumps and boots in at the moment.  My bag was also from Matalan (I work right next door to matalan now..can you tell) it was only £3 and I do not have a satchel type bag so this filled the gap in my wardrobe for now.

 

On my face

Benefit Porefessional

Collection Lasting perfection Concealer

Clinique Stay Matte Oil Free Foundation

MUA pressed powder shade 2

MUA bronzed perfection to contour

MUA Blush shade 2

 

On my Eyes/Eyebrows

MUA Professional Eye Primer

MUA  Pretty Pastels palette

MUA Poptastic palette

Loreal Volume Million Lashes

Benefit High Brow Glow

Hd Brows Palette 'Vamp'

Benefit Speed Brow

 

On my Lips

Mac 'Angel'

Mac Plushglass 'Ample Pink'

 

I had been looking for a new mascara for a week or two and wanted to try one I had never gone for before, this one was all over magazines I read so it was an easy decison as soon as I seen it in my local Superdrug store, especially at the great price of £9.99.

I like a mascara that adds lots of volume as I do have naturally long lashes so length is never an issue. This mascara does exactly what is says on the tube, and adds lots of volume without having to use more than one coat.

The big brush is fantastic, it reaches every single lash from corner to corner with ease.  When it came to my bottom lashes I was worried the wand would be too large and end up all under my eyes but it was the opposite, it took very little effort to achieve the full volumised effect I was looking for.

In the daytime I only use mascara on my eyes, leaving eyeshadows and liners for a change if im going out, so I loved how this separated my lashes to give a wide awake, stand out look.

I do appologise for my un groomed eyebrows at the moment I am growing them so I can have a new shape and some HD brows.

 Prior to application

Have you tryed this mascara, what do you think?