Leather and Lashes

Sunday, 4 December 2016

Are you Baking your makeup?

You're already familiar with contouring and are wrapping your head around strobing, but now "baking' or cooking" your makeup is making itself a part of the mix, cropping up on youtube tutorials everywhere.

The term, which as been used in the drag community for years, refers setting translucent powder sit on your face for five to 10 minutes, which allows the heat from your face to set your base foundation and concealer, and then dusting it off your face, leaving you with a creaseless flawless finish.

Here's how you too can pull off poreless, picture perfect skin and brighten your eye area while you're at it:
1. Hydrate your eye area. Apply instant uplift around your eye area to hydrate your skin and plump it up, minimizing the appearance of any fine lines or crease. Try http://www.leatherandlashes.com 's hydrating moisturizer.

2. Apply a thick concealer under your eyes.
While concealer usually contains oils and has a tendency to crease, it won't if it's set right. Apply it upward from the apples of your cheeks toward your temples all the way underneath your eye. Then, blend it in with a damp makeup sponge. Try Moodstruck Mineral Concealer and the Blending Buds.

3. Coat on more concealer. At this point, you might be thinking. This is a shit ton of makeup. and yes. it is. S you can skip this step and still get great results, but for lasting power, a sheer second coat can lock in the first formula. After you apply the second layer of smooth out all the creases before setting your concealer in the next step. Try Skin Perfecting Concealer.

4. Dust on translucent powder. Us a fluffy eye shadow brush to apply translucent powder over the entire patch of concealer to set the base makeup.

5. Now. "bake" or "cook" your makeup. Use a beauty blender or a wedge and dampen it with a setting spray, like Rosewater Toning Spritz Then, dip the wedge into the translucent powder you use in step 4 to pack the loose powder generously over the are where you applied the concealer. eave the powder on for five to 10 minutes.

6. Dust it off. Using the same fluffy deluxe eye shadow brush from step 4 and a pressed powder, like Touch Mineral Foundation., swirl the fluffy eye shadow brush over the formula and dust away the powder as you add more coverage to blend any harsh edges.

Now your baking baby!

Friday, 2 December 2016

Younique are always a brand I get most excited for when there is news of a palette release. I love Younique eye shadows and the Addiction palettes are pretty much a staple in my makeup collection as they offer a great range of colours for the nude lover as well as wearing really well and blending like a dream. When I actually got palette 4 & 5, I was completely blown away by the fact that there was these bright, vivacious colors . I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the palette, but knowing that Younique had designed it, I anticipated quite a lot of vibrant and adventurous colours which wouldn’t have been up my street. However, instead I was met with a gorgeous array of nudes, golds and taupes and that was just palette 4. Palette 5 are nothing but hot to say the least a variety of mattes and shimmers with pinks, purples with two slightly more colourful options and I instantly fell in love.

https://www.youniqueproducts.com/leatherandlashes/products/view/US-21003-00#.WEIVUPkrLIU

Does it get any more festive than a bright red lip? I think not, in fact i’ve been rocking a red lip most of November and December! I actually love wearing one all year round but they just feel extra special at Christmas. Today I’m sharing my top 3 red lipsticks, which was actually so hard to narrow down. Three of these are matte shades, I find a matte red is just so much more wearable, yet can help create such a bold look which is perfect for parties and special occasions. Matte shades are also a bit more long lasting, and with something as bold as a red lip, you want these to last well and with limited smudging.

These 3 shades (Sizziling, Stoic, Stubborn) are the ones that I always reach for when I want to create a bright look that compliments a more neutral eye and that can be worn either day or night! What is your favourite go-to red lip shade?

#rocktheredlip #Topfavorite #leatherandlashes