My Current Favorite Make Up Look

Morning guys, so today I thought I'd share with you my current favourite make up look, which is perfect for weekends and is pretty much fool proof. It is a great way to cheat flawless skin and requires very little effort in the eye department and is all natural looking. For this look it's all about a strong natural looking brow, bronze with a touch of shimmer and a matte nude lip.

These are the products I use to achieve this FOTD...

So obviously I started off with cleansing my face and then using my moisturizer and my beloved Clarins Beauty Flash Balm. After letting that soak in for a minute or so I then apply a mixture of two bases - a touch of the Clarins BB Cream & 2 pumps of the YSL Touche Eclat Foundation - with I find is the perfect face formula. I wont harp on too much about the YSL Foundation because you all know my feelings towards it but basically it is radiant skin in a bottle however for weekends I don't feel it delivers enough coverage - that's when the Clarins BB Cream swoops in. I know what you're thinking a BB Cream and Coverage? I thought the same, when I purchased BB Cream I thought it was essentially a tinted moisturizer but for some reason or another this BB Cream has excellent coverage (I'd say medium) and a little goes a long way. Anyway, mixed together these two products seem to give an almost flawless base. I always get compliments on my skin when I use this combo, I think this is also due to the fact that the two products combined have great staying power.

Next up is the Brows and I used Benefit Browzings in Medium & Benefit Gimme Brow in Medium/Dark. I only use the wax part of the Browzings Palette as it keeps your brows looking natural, tamed and defined.

I then move onto the eye area where I applied the Benefit 'Stay Don't Stray' Eyeshadow/Concealer Primer. Pretty much any Eyeshadow Primer will work though! Believe me, I was skeptical about Eyeshadow Primers at first but they are so worth the money and make such a difference. For the Eyeshadow I used Chopper from the Urbay Decay Naked 2 all over the socket which I am obsessed with at the minute, it just looks so beautiful on and really makes my eyes pop. All you need is a simple sweep of this across the lids and you're good to go. I then curled my Eyelashes with the Boots Eylash Curlers. This is a fairly new step that I have incorporated into  my routine but feel it makes such a difference - I then add the Benefit Roller Lash to create voluminous fluttery Eyelashes.

For Contour and Highlight, my product of choice is of course the Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Bronze  & Glow.

On the lips I used the Lip Cheat in Pillow Talk by Charlotte Tilbury all over the lips to create a longer lasting  effect and enhance my cupids bow. Last of all I add the MAC Velvet Teddy onto my lips. Now this was a product I wasn't too sure about at first as I felt as though it kind of washed me out but used in hand with all the products mentioned above I feel it creates a lovely bronzed, clean finish.

What is your favourite go-to look at the moment?

How To: Kylie Jenner Lips

Morning guys! Hope you're all well & had a fantastic weekend!

So it was only a matter of time before I would cave in and go on the hunt for a product that would give me Kyle Jenner-esque lips. I swear for the whole of 2014 everyone was baffled by the transformation of the size of Kylie's lips! Now I reckon she must have had some sort of surgery to make her lips change this much - perhaps some lip fillers? However I also think she has mastered the power of Lip Liner to create the look. Word on the street is she uses and mixture of Soar, Spice & Stripdown MAC Lip Liners and then goes over with the MAC Velvet Teddy Lipstick. It's no secret that Soar has been sold out since forever - we can only pray that it will soon be back in stock! Velvet Teddy has also been sold out since day. Well I say this but over Christmas I was obsessively checking the MAC website daily to see if there had been any movement and well it seems luck was with me one day as Velvet Teddy actually came back in stock so of course I had to go ahead and add it to my basket. Unfortunately it is now out of stock again at the time of writing this post - boo! I also managed to get my hands on the Stripdown Liner!

Once the tiny little MAC package arrived I wasted no time in unwrapping the parcel and testing out the products and you know what - I am in love with this combo! I would never normally have gone for these shades because well I used to think they were a bit of  a dated look and bold lips have always been my thing. However, this combo has got me converted. I just think it creates such a classic look, I thought it would be really unflattering but I couldn't be more wrong. It definitely accentuates the lips and gives them a good shape but you can work the Liner  to make your lips as full as you like. I tend to apply a light dusting of the Stripdown Liner all over my lips and map out my lips following my natural lip line, however I do have to do a bit of improvising when it comes to my cupids bow (it's virtually none existent!). I then put Velvet Teddy over the top for a sleek, classic finish.

Have you tried the 'Kylie Jenner' Lips yet?