Festival Appropriate

I know that summer is very close to being over now, which means that festival season is coming to an end. Before we say goodbye to another summer season, here's a festival appropriate look for ya. Of course, if you love to wear colourful eyeshadows on the daily - I admire your courageousness. But using what I call 'bolder' eyeshadows isn't something I do often at all. I'd love to play around with more colour, but unsure on what palettes are best - if you know of any insane palettes full of rainbow colours, let me know. This is definitely a look I'd wear to a festival, or an event where throwing glitter and wearing funky outfits was a necessity.

Green is a colour that I rarely use, and if there is a shade in a palette, it's not one I gravitate towards at all. However, I think that the green shade, which is a Mally Evercolour Starlight Waterproof Liner in the shade 'Caribbean Sea' looks gorgeous blended out on my lower lash line. No better excuse than to throw colour all over your face (and eyes) than a festival.
I started with the shade 'Blazing', a true orange shade from the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk palette, and added a bit of 'Burgundy' from the Kylie Cosmetics Burgundy palette through the crease. To create the cut crease, I used the Bourjous Radiance Reveal concealer. I set the concealer on my eyelids with the shade 'Royal' from the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk palette - that gorgeous metallic, purple colour. These amazing lashes are from Red Cherry and are in the style #43.

Have you been to any festivals this summer? What makeup look did you go for?

Amber X

Feeling Inspired

Finally, I have time to play with makeup again! I have really missed creating makeup looks and just taking time to myself to mess around. Not going to lie, it was so hard taking these photos. The lighting was being the most temperamental and trying to work with small windows, is hard. The infamous cut crease has always been something that I have wanted to be able to do well - beauty guru's make them seem so easy?! This being my first attempt I was chuffed with the final look. 

I took inspiration from Chris Brown's Heartbreak on a Full Moon album cover. He has always been a favourite of mine and I love the album cover haha. The pink and purple tones looked so complimentary, and the shades in the Huda Beauty Desert Dusk palette were perfect to recreate it. 

First off, I blended the purple colour 'Amethyst' from the Huda Beauty palette into my crease, and then applied 'Burgundy' from the Kylie Jenner Burgundy palette just below 'Amethyst' until I was happy with how the blend was coming together. Next, I took the Real Techniques Detailer brush and the Bourjous Radiance Reveal concealer in the shade 01 to cut the crease. I set the concealer down with powder afterwards to ensure it wouldn't crease. The lid colour (how beautiful is it?!) is 'Twilight' from the same Huda Beauty palette. I then took a red shade from the Morphe 305M palette on a small winged liner brush and ran it along the cut crease line to intensify the colour gradient. My eyeliner is the Maybelline Master Precise Matte liner (my absolute fav), and my lashes of choice were (shock) #213 by Red Cherry. 

What is your go to makeup look?

Amber X

(Disclaimer: I am by no means a makeup artist haha! I just enjoy putting makeup on my face)