Everyday Make-up

Natural make-up is a style I particularly love to wear. I have recently had a break from contouring and swapped it for a touch of foundation, subtle strobing and lightly bronzing my cheeks. I have stepped away from the heavy eye make-up and lined lips and decided to try a more two tone nude look with much smaller and thinner winged eyeliner and just a lick of mascara rather than lashings of the stuff.

I have toned down my eyebrows by simply brushing and lining them rather than colouring them in and I personally think they look so much better this way.
Don't get me wrong, I still absolutely adore getting all my make-up out and having a good old contour session with false lashes and bright red lippy but I have really started to tone down my everyday make-up look and managed to save myself bags of time in the morning to enjoy an extra 20 minutes in bed with my coffee.

To achieve natural looking make-up I think it's really important to use a foundation that matches your skin colour exactly rather than choosing a shade darker to try and look more tanned which is a mistake I've made in the past and trust me it's not a good look.
Instead of contouring I lightly strobe my face by highlighting the areas of my face that the light naturally hits first, for example my cupids bow, bridge of my nose and lightly under my eyebrows etc, with first of all a very light concealer then with a shimmery highlighting powder. This is to give me a more natural glow rather than leaving my face looking flat with just foundation.

I lightly add a very light bronze to chisel my cheeks and frame my face and add the tiniest amount of matte peachy blush to the apples of my cheeks just to give me a little smidgen of colour.

My eyebrows are just brushed into shape then lined and slightly extended to neaten them up.

I use 2 shades of eye shadow only, a pale ivory for the lid to brighten my eyes up and a light brown shade for my crease to make my eyes look bigger and deeper. Then I add a thin line of my black liquid eyeliner and gently flick the wings before putting on just one coat of clump-free mascara.

Finally I add one coat of a nude or light pinky lipstick to finish of the look and voila my make-up is done! Easy! This takes me no longer than 10 minutes in the morning before I shove my hair up into a messy bun and carry on with my day. It's an effortlessly lovely look that is dead simple to achieve. You don't need any specific items for this look, just use what you have.

What is your everyday make-up? 

Have you tried strobing?

Love Hari Pixie

Epoch Mud Mask Review

On one of my previous blog posts reviewing the Nu Skin foundation I mentioned how my friend, Chloe, gave me a free sample pot of the natural mud mask that she sells. I have to say that this is by far my favourite face mask I have ever tried!

It has a clay like texture that applies very smoothly and evenly across the skin and I was also really impressed with how little of the product  I needed to use to spread all over my face. Chloe only gave me a small sample but I have managed to get 2 whole masks out of it so I can't even imagine how long a proper tub would last! Fantastic value for money.

It dried very quickly on my face and made the skin feel very tight which was really refreshing. It was amazing at how I could actually see tiny oily dots bursting through the dried mud mask showing me how the mask is actually drawing out all the dirt from my skin!

It really showed me the areas of my face that get clogged up and dirty easily meaning I'm focusing more of deep cleaning those areas with exfoliators.

I kept my mud mask on for about 10-15 minutes to make sure my skin had enough time to draw out all the dirt and muck from out of my pours.

You can see quite clearly along my nose, t-zone and a couple of spots around my mouth dots of oil where the mud mask has drawn impurities out of my skin

After washing off the mud mask with a flannel and hot water I could instantly feel a huge difference. My skin felt so silky and much smoother than it has before. It almost felt as though a a new layer of soft skin had been uncovered. My pours were visibly more unclogged and began tightening up again.

Epoch Mud Mask- £26

Knowing that the Epoch mud mask only uses natural ingredients means I can trust this product to be used on my skin over and over without worrying about any chemical damage. It's so good using natural ingredients to feed your skin with nutrients and vitamins!

Once a week to anybody! It is without a doubt one of the best products I have used to buff up my skin, especially with these hot summer days!

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Nu Skin Moisture Shade Liquid Finish Foundation

I struggle massively with finding a foundation that suits my skin and end up spending lots of money each month trying and testing different foundations until I come across 'the one'!  Well, I think I've found my prefect foundation!

A friend of mine, Chloe O'Connor, sells Nu Skin products which use natural ingredients ranging from whitening toothpaste to mud masks. I saw she'd advertised a liquid foundation on her Facebook page a little while back and figured I'd give it a go!

It costs £22 for a 30ml bottle which is slightly more expensive than my normal foundation but completely worth it! Chloe sent me a colour chart over so I could pick my shade and I ended up going for one of the lightest shades called Honey Beige.

I only needed to use two small pumps worth of the foundation
for it to cover my entire face. The foundation is a runny liquid in texture which is something I'm not used to, however sits on the face beautifully and because of the runny texture it means it's dead easy to apply and doesn't look caked.
I applied my foundation with a flat foundation brush then buffered it with a stippling brush like I normally would do, however Chloe kindly put in a little leaflet with some information about the foundation and how to apply it which I though was a really sweet and personal touch! Plus the décor of the leaflet is gorgeous so I may even need to steal this idea for my wedding invites ;)

As soon as I applied the foundation I could instantly see a huge difference. My skin looked even and all my blotches had gone leaving me with flawless skin, however I really liked the fact that I could still see my freckles along my nose. My skin seemed to just glow but looked totally natural! As if I had no foundation on at all, just naturally flawless skin.

I have been wearing my foundation all day and it feels as though I have nothing on my face at all. The foundation is so light on my skin, it feels as though it's able to breath.

 This photo shows me wearing the Nu Skin foundation and it's safe to say that no filter was needed! I feel as though I'm walking around airbrushed and it's so good to know that it uses natural ingredients meaning my skin loves it too.

Thank you again Chloe for introducing me to Nu Skin products! She also kindly gave me a sample pot of the Nu Skin Mud Mask, can't wait to try it.. look out for the blog post!
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