She's the queen of the poses and everyone and their dog is obsessed with that make up of hers lately so I thought why not jump on the bandwagon. Of course the main part of her makeup is the lips, whether you think she's had surgery or not it's undeniable they look plumped up. With that in mind I lined my lips and went crazy with the lipstick. I know Kylie seems to favour the matte look but to get the plump look I went for more of a glossy tone. As for the rest of the face, of course the skin had to be flawless, after all she is part of the Kardashian clan, this meant everything from primer right through to a heavy setting powder and of course the contour and highlight that goes with any Kardashian of Jenner based look. From looking at pictures Kylie's eyebrows are quite squared at the front so I tried to emulate that, I also went for a subtle warm tones shimmer across the eyes with a very thin line of black eyeliner and lashings of mascara to get long fluttery lashes.

The Filming Face:

Some of you may already recognize this picture since it's currently the background of my Youtube channel. Yeah you heard right I finally took the plunge and filmed my first video. I wasn't planning on doing so at all. In fact what spurred me on most was the risk of wasting a great face of makeup! With that in mind why not milk this look even further by blogging about it too.

In my products to use in 2015 post (link here) I mentioned the Revlon lipstick in Wine Not that I was desperate to use up before it started getting too old. Well I'm ashamed to admit that today was the first day I used it since that post. As well as the lipstick as you can see it's an neutral base with pink shimmery cheeks and gold shimmery eyes and a nice winged liner. If you watch my video than you'll also know that the winged liner is from Topshop. As for what else I mentioned in my first video....

Well you'll just have to watch and see for yourself! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlkRu0Uxeeo

FOTD (feat. M.A.C Girl About Town):

I'm never usually brave enough to wear a brighter lip but when I do I love the way it looks. Girl About Town is a really perfect cross between pink and purple nice and bright too, so perfect for a warm toned took in Summer.

Skin: 

-Bourjois Healthy Mix Foundation - 51

Rimmel Stay Matte - Transparent

MaxFactor Facefinity Compact Foundation - Natural (as a light contour)

Accessorize Baked Blush - Bombshell

Bourjois Java Rice Powder - 51

Eyes:

Strike, Ambush & Smokeout - From Urban Decay Vice 2 (Smokeout used to create wing)

Collection Supersize Fat Lash Mascara - 1 Black 

Lips:

 M.A.C - Girl About Town

I hope you enjoyed this FOTD if you did and you'd like to see more looks then please let me know.

xxx

Disney Snow White FOTD:

Can you tell I'm a Disney fan? Haha. This is I think my fourth Dinsey look and I intend to do many more. If you've got some requests please let me know. This post is based on Snow White.

First things first is super pale skin (which wasn't too hard for me because I'm already a very pale person). I used a pale foundation and packed a pale powder over the top to give maximum coverage. The eyebrows were supposed to be very thin like the picture I was using but sadly I got a little carried away, but they're black so I got one thing right at least. In the pictures I looked at the eye makeup was very top heavy with white all over the lid then a black liner along the top and loads of lashes, whilst the lower eye was completely clean.

The rest of the face involved A LOT of blush and not just on the apples of the cheeks but all over along with some shimmery highlight along the nose and tops of cheeks to give off a nice youthful look. 

Last but not least it wouldn't be a Snow White themed look without a bright red lipstick. 

That's all for this post there really wasn't much too this look but if you liked it I'd love to know. 

I'll see you all again soon!

xxx

FOTD: Warm Natural Makeup

I think this is a really nice natural look for Summer. Since there's nothing skilled about this look I'm going to go old school EJEbeauty and just list the products I've used here:

Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation in Light Porcelain 

MUA Pressed Powder in shade 1

MaxFactor Facefinity Compact Foundation in 03

MUA Pressed Bronzer in shade 3

Sleek Cream Blusher in O.C

Topshop Glow Highlight in Polished

W7 Light Brown Eyeshadow (for the brows)

Sidecar and Sin from the Naked Palette

Collection Supersize Fat Lash Mascara in Black

Rimmel  Lasting Finish Lipstick in Nude Pink 206

That's all for this post if you like these old style make up looks that are more everyday then let me know in the comments and I'll be sure to do more of them. 

xxx

Warm Brown Smoky Eye (Using the Naked Palette):

I think the trick to any smoky eye look is to start small and with light colours then slowly but surely layer up and add depth. It will do you no good just slapping on loads of dark eyeshadow and hoping for the best. In this case I used al colours from the Naked palette because hopefully a good number of you will be able to follow along with it. 

I started with Sidecar all over the lid to the crease line and put on a good few layers until I was happy with the colour. Next I used Smog on the outer half blending very slightly farther out and higher up than before. I then did the same with Darkhorse but making sure I left enough room for each individual colour to be seen. As you go make sure to blend each colour into the next to make the colours look like they naturally graduate into each other. I also pulled Darkhorse down onto the lower lash line. Lastly I took a tiny bit of Creep on a really tiny eyeshadow brush and used it to add a little depth to the upper and lower lash line but very gently because I didn't want it to be noticable. When it comes to smoky eyes (and most eyeshadow looks for that matter) it really adds to the intensity of the look to repeat steps and keep going over things until you're happy with how it looks. To highlight I used Sin on the brow bone and in the inner corners of the eye.

As for the rest of the face I kept the warm theme going using a dewy light coverage foundation, bronzer, warm toned blushers and highlighting and a warm lipstick with a brown undertone.

I hope you enjoyed this post and it helped you out a little. I'd love to know in the comments if it did. I'm also thinking of doing more of a Classic smoky eye look so let me know if you'd like that.

xxx 

FOTD: Meg (Hercules) Inspired Makeup:

Hercules has to be one of my all time favourite films and considering I have crazy curly hair and my favourite colour is purple how could I not create a look inspired by Meg?

From the pictures I saw she had a completely flawless base with very angular features. So I really packed on the foundation, concealer and powdered an awful lot over the top to make sure the base was really flawless and high coverage. I also contoured a lot more than usual to really add definition to my face making it look so much more angular. I added a really little amount of a rose toned blush just on the apples of my cheeks because the picture I looked at had a little pink tone in it.

The eyes were my favourite park, there was no highlighting or crease work involved it was just block light toned purple up to the crease and stopping there in a block line. The eyeliner was kind of strange to draw because there was literally a dot at the outer corner of the eye and then a line all the way around the eye completely darkly lining it along with very long thin eyebrows, which I couldn't create too well because mine are so naturally thick.

For the lips she hardly had any definition to them they were very rounded but very dark purple. I filled in the top of my lip to make them look rounded but with a deep purple colour.

I hope you enjoyed this post and if you want any more Disney inspired post's then please let me know in the description.

xxx

FOTD: Pink and Brown Natural Valentines Look:

As you can see this is a very natural look, that I will probably be sporting this Valentine's day. I know it's not a lot of makeup but I personally think that on Valentine's day you wouldn't want to look too done up and over the top. 

I started off with a fresh natural looking base made up of a BB cream, light concealer, a very very light contour, a touch of blush and a little higlithing. The reason I was so light and gentle with all of is because, personally, I associate love and Valentine's with softness and smoothness which in terms of the face would mean no harsh lines or bright colours.

I wanted to go with a pink and brown eye because, again they're soft colours also I really like the way they blend together. So I started with a really light and shimmery pink, then went through the crease with another light shimmery colour, only this time it was a brown. I did a lot of blending to keep the look seamless then blended the same colours under the eyes and doing a little highlighting along the brow bone and in the inner corner of the eyes. The brows themselves are really gentle and natural too I just used a light brown powder and a clear gel to set them. I applied an extremely thin line of brown liner along the upper lash line and a brown mascara.

Last but not least a pretty nude lip, not much to say about that just nice and natural as with the rest of the look. 

That's the end of another post, I really hope you enjoyed this post and I'd love to see if any of you recreate the loo. If you do then please find me on twitter @EJEbeauty and tweet me a picture.

I'll see you all next time. 

xxx

A Rocky Horror Night Out:

A few weeks ago my best friend and I went to see the Rocky Horror Picture Show Live at the Curve Theatre in Leicester. I also spent the night round her house too so I thought I'd give you a quick run through of the day as well as the makeup look I created on the both of us. Unfortunately there are no pictures of Aine that show our makeup well because it was a long night out and by the time we took some pictures our faces had melted.

Aine and I ended up on a huge sugar high through the whole night and curled up on the sofa with our face masks on a tub of Ben and Jerry's and Moulin Rouge on before going to sleep.

But before that came the mad rush to get dressed and made up before hopping on the bus to the theatre. So the makeup look I created was something quick, gothic and easy that I made up on the spot.

We went for a very pale foundation and an unbelievable amount of contouring to look gaunt and gothic. Next came eyes we filled in a subtle eyebrows and then went for huge flicks of smudgy eyeliner with lots of dark purple eyeshadow pulled up from the eye line. Next was a dark berry lip and the look was complete.

When we got to the venue we realised that we had no worries about being overdressed. To give you a random example of some of the outfits we saw, there was plenty of men in drag and the man sat next to me was wearing nothing but a golden thong and a blonde wig!! The performance was amazing, there was a fair amount of deviating from the script it was almost like being in a mixture of a play and a live stand up gig!

I'm sorry this wasn't much of a beauty related post but I wanted to share the look with you and I thought I'd give you a little information on the day too. I hope you enjoyed this post and if you'd like to see any more little lifestyle type posts then please let me know in the comments, along with any other requests you might have.

xxx

Belle (Disney) Inspired FOTD:

I'm told that I look like the human incarnation of Belle so often! Haha I take it as a huge compliment because she has to be my all time favourite princess from the Disney classics, and I do see it to an extent but not to a huge degree. Nonetheless, I couldn't resist giving this look a go. I mean what girl doesn't want to be a Disney princess for a day!

Face:

•  A mixuture of Bourjois Healthy Mix in 51 and Rimmel Match Perfection in 010
• MUA Pressed Powder in Shade 1
• MUA Bronzer in Shade 3
• MUA Blusher in Shade 1
• Topshop Glow in Polished

Eyes:

• MUA Intense Colour Eyeliner in Rich Brown ( I rounded off my eyebrows a little more than usual as Belle's eyebrows were much rounder and thinner than mine)
• 17 Ultimate Definition Lash & Brow Mascara in Clear
• Half Baked and Buck from the Naked Pallet
• A shimmery white from a ColourWorks Pallet
• Rimmel Glam' Eyes Mascara in Black

Lips:

• Models Own Lipgloss in Madame Rose

I hope you liked this Disney themed post, I really enjoyed putting the makeup together probably because I have a lifelong obsession with the old Disney classics. If there are any more Disney princess posts you'd like to see please let me know in the comments.

xxx





FOTD: Autumnul Purple Smog:

Since starting this blog I've been getting so much more confident with my make up. This time a few months ago I wouldn't have even dreamt of wearing a look like this out of the house!



Face:

• Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation in Light Porcelain
• MaxFactor Facefinity Compact Foundation in 03 Natural
• MUA bronzer in Shade 3
• Topshop Glow in Polished

Eyes:

• Wet n' Wild Beauty Benefit's Triple Fusion Eyeshadow (names have rubbed off :( )
• Smog from the Naked Pallet
• Clarins Wonder Perfect Mascara

Lips:

• Revlon Matte Lipstick in Wine Not (the name of this lipstick makes me laugh every time!)

Well that's all for today's face it's not actually that much makeup but the dark shade of the colours make it look like a lot more.

xxx

Are you getting braver with makeup lately? What are your autumn makeup musthaves? Let me know in the comments.

Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) Inspired FOTD:

If you follow me on instagram then you'll already know that today I styled my hair with two French plaits to keep its curly craziness out of the way. My Nana told me this morning that it made me look like Dorothy, which got me thinking about her makeup. And, well, this happened...

Face:

• Rimmel Match Perfection in 010 Light Porcelain
• MaxFactor Whipped Crème in 50 Natural (used as a contour in the cheekbones)
• MUA blusher in Shade 1

Eyes:

• MUA Intense Colour Eyeliner in Rich Brown (used as an eyebrow pencil)
• 17 Ultimate Definition Lash and Brow Mascara in Clear (to set them in place)
• Naked (all over the lid) and Buck (through the crease) from the Naked Pallet
• Technic Kohl Pencil in Black
• Clarins Wonder Perfect Mascara (and lots of it!)

Lips:

• The Body Shop Born Lippy Strawberry Lipbalm
• Collection Volume Sensation Lipstick in 8 Cherry Pop

I think this could also be used as a wearable red lip look for those of you who are wanting to branch out into more vibrant makeup. I'll probably be recreating this look come Christmas time too.

xxx