10 Beauty Hacks You Should Know

Beauty hacks 

that you wish you knew sooner

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The tips I am going to share with you are thoroughly tried and tested. They are so handy, cheap and you'll be kicking yourself that you have never tried them before. I'm sure there are so many beauty hacks out there but here are 10 I love.

• Blow dry your hair upside down for added volume.

• Make your eye make-up the first thing you do. You will save having to touch up your foundation because of eye shadow fall down and those oh so pesky mistakes we all make. 

• If you do make any mistakes, Cotton bud sticks/ Q-tips are an actual god send. Use them to wipe away any damage you may have done.

• After applying your lipstick, put your finger in your mouth and pull out. This will save any lipstick transferring onto your teeth.

• Personally I ALWAYS use shampoo (baby shampoo is usually the best but any will work) to clean my make-up brushes. It leaves them so clean, soft and smelling amazing.

• If you don't have a hair doughnut to hand, simply cut off the end of a sock and roll it down into the doughnut shape and you're ready to go.

• Ran out of shaving cream? Use conditioner.

• Now we all know spots are the bane of any girls life. Pop them and then put a bit of toothpaste on them.

• I always use a slightly damp eye shadow brush, as I find it gives a much better colour pay off.              
• Want longer, false looking lashes? Use a cotton bud stick/Q-tip to apply baby powder to your eye lashes between each coat of mascara. It really does work. 

Let me know if you try any of these and if they work for you too!

Do you have any tips?

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The Naked Eye

I have always been a such a boring person when it came to make-up, my face consisted of foundation, eye liner and mascara. Blush, lipstick, and eyebrows never even entered my little brain, let alone eye shadow. It's really only in the last year I have started obsessing over all the different products and how they can transform my plain Jane face. My boyfriend bought me the Naked 3 pallet earlier this year and well...that was it really, It's been my holy grail every since.

In this divine autumn season I have been LOVING this look on my eyes. 1) Because It's simple 2) It's effective and 3) It takes no time what so ever. 

So my first tip would be to always start with your eye make-up, leave your foundation and concealer till after. This is so you can easily wipe away the fall down of the eye shadow, without ruining your flawless foundation. You can also use an eye primer to keep the shadow looking perfect all day, I recommend Urban Decay Primer Potion or Benefit Stay Don't Stray. 

After I applied my primer all over my eye lip, I moved on to filling in my eyebrows. I'm pretty lucky when it comes to my brows, they're dark and quite thick, so I didn't need to do much. I used Benefits Deep Charcoal eye shadow then brushed it through with an eyebrow brush. 

I then used the colour Liar from the Naked 3 Pallet and sweeped it over my lid using the flat side of the brush and then blended it out with the fluffy side. I also took Liar underneath my eye to add a bit of depth. After this I took the colour Trick and patted this over the top of Liar, I did this quite a few times as I wanted it very pigmented. 

Moving onto the eye liner, I used L'oreal Gel Intenza Eye liner in 01 Pure Black. It comes with an eye liner brush, which is so precise and helps to give great pay off. I took this close to my lash line and created a little wing at the end. I then put it on my waterline for a darker effect. 

Now for the Mascara, I adore this product, It's Benefit They're Real. I usually wiggle the brush around while moving it up my lashes, it helps to maximise and create volume. I then went on to put around 2 more coats to my lashes and applied it to the bottom, you don't have to do this step, not everyone is into the bottom lash mascara look.

You can then go onto doing the rest of your make-up!

My recommendations on the rest...

-Mac Match Master-

-Benefit dandelion blush-
-Any dark berry lipstick-

I hope you enjoy re-creating this look and you can find quite a lot of dupes for the products I've used. Find what's best for you.

Battle of the foundations.

'Beauty is power,and make-up is something that really enhances that; its a woman's secret'

These products are my all time favourite high end foundations, they are my go to quick fix but which one rocks my world a little more...

Benefit Oxygen Wow

£26.50
The colour I wear is: 'Believe in me' Ivory

After being drawn in by the creative and extravagant displays of the benefit counter, I purchased my first item from them over a year ago. I have gone through 4 of their Oxygen Wow Foundations since then and without fault it has given me the perfect medium coverage without it feeling heavy on my skin and blends in amazingly well. I usually use just one pump with a big fluffy brush and this covers my whole face with ease. The end result leaves me feeling fresh and illuminated, as it seems to brighten my face without making it too oily. This is a perfect everyday foundation, and although it doesn't claim to have long lasting qualities, it really does.

MAC Matchmaster SPF15

£28.00

The colour is wear is: 1.5

Now what girl hasn't always dreamed about owning something from the MAC range, and like the benefit foundation this was my first purchase from the counter. This product is usually my 'going out' or 'covering up' foundation, as it has an excellent buildable coverage and hides away those pesky spots or blemishes. I wasn't all that convinced with the technology properties its supposed to have, I looked at the colour, then the make-up advisor and thought 'This can't be right', but it really does adapt to the undertones of my skin, providing me with the perfect colour foundation. Madness! I use 1-2 small pumps and apply using a clean flat foundation brush, this way I avoid wastage and it allows me to build on the coverage.

There's so many great qualities in these products that I love, but if I were to be stranded on a desert island...I think I would take the Benefit Oxygen WOW foundation, purely because of the lightweight, easiness of it.

What's your 'Go to' foundation?

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