makeup

If there’s one thing that you can guarantee about me is that I’m going to turn out makeup looks in summer. Yes, the festive season brings its sparkles but for summer I like to experiment with makeup. I think it’s because the sun peps up our skin a bit so we have a healthier natural glow– I don’t really have to worry about my base and can be more playful with the eyes and/or lips. For a summer day-to-day I’ll do a reddish pink hue wash over my eyes– I normally take the same product I’ve used on my cheeks and sweep over my lids too. But for this summer I’ve taken notes and bookmarked some of the best eye makeup looks I’ve seen on Instagram to make my summer makeup looks the most eye-catching to date. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimag...

While I really do love and appreciate makeup and all of its beauty, I really don’t appreciate what it does to my skin. Just one day of wearing a full-coverage base will likely leave my face dry, upset, and plagued with breakouts. You see, while most makeup is designed to make you look your best in the short term, the skin likes to breathe, and makeup doesn’t necessarily allow for that.  While a full-coverage finish was once all anyone wanted, as years have gone on, trends have moved towards a more approachable, fresh-faced look. And we’ve been championing it from the get-go because what’s not to love about natural-looking, glowy skin? The issue, however, is that the majority of us still itch for a little bit of coverage. And thus, we enter the vicious cycle of wanting to emb...

They say that the eyes are the windows to the soul, but they’re often the window to how much we’ve slept, too. If you have a bad night’s sleep, the eyes are usually the place that show it. Whether it’s puffy eyes, dehydration lines or dark circles, sometimes there’s just no escaping when you’ve not had enough shut-eye. And even with the best eye creams, sometimes the skin around our eyes can become inflamed with redness. However, while we were scrolling through our feeds, our thumbs paused at a post from Victoria Beckham, who reminded us of a quick yet super-effective makeup hack to instantly make you look wide awake. She was using her new Instant Brightening Waterline Pencil. “I distinctly remember the first time a makeup artist use...

To begin with, I tried filling in the stencil with a brown eye shadow (as I had seen on Instagram), and although I liked it, I didn’t think the result was dramatic enough for me to warrant using them all the time. So instead, I dug out a creamy eye shadow pencil (Laura Mercier Caviar Stick Eye Colour) in a bright colour—a shimmering brick red—and scribbled over the top. The result? Dreamy. In fact, I’m going to totally give up on trying to learn any sort of winged-liner technique at all. Even with my down-turning eyes, Quickie Stickies executed a totally perfect winged-liner look. And while I wouldn’t typically endorse a single-use product (they aren’t good for the environment), I feel comfortable knowing that each pack of Quickie Stickies is particul...

Photo: @lefevrediary Gone are the days of sticky lip glosses. With so many lip oils launching lately, glossy lips are back on the agenda. There are so many to choose from, whether it’s a tinted lip oil or a sheer, colourless one. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.

With the hydration of a lip balm and the shine of a gloss, these are the perfect hybrid for achieving a glossy look, without the stickiness or upkeep of a lipstick. Whether you want a tint of colour or a clear oil to add shine to your natural lip colour, so many great lip oils have been cropping up of late. Here are some of the best ones to try… You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.

“Bold colours in all forms is a big trend,” says makeup artist, Lan Nguyen-Grealis. “As colour cosmetics begin to grow again, fun in makeup is back on track. Whether in block or as a eyeliner detail the products are here to stay,” she says, predicting that  long lasting formulas in bright hues will be big news for summer.”  You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.

There are so many reasons to love the Met Gala and to be excited about this year’s event, in particular. (Specified dress codes such as “gilded glamour” and “white tie;” hosts such as Blake and Ryan; a return to the traditional first-Monday-of-May timing.) That said, what I find most intoxicating about the annual, star-studded gathering is that the hair and makeup play just as important of a part in a celebrity’s chosen ensemble as the fashion does—and really, the more ethereal and outlandish, the better. After a couple of years of cancellations and postponements, we’re excited to be back to some normalcy, and this year’s theme, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, has us champing at the bit. Click here for a deep dive into the theme’s meaning and other important-to-kno...

If you’re in the market for a new designer makeup bag, you’re in luck. We’ve spotted some very nice makeup bags on the vanity tables of celebrities such as Victoria Beckham and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as well as beauty influencers. Whether you’re looking for a chic designer makeup bag for your dressing table or a practical one with compartments to store your beauty stash, we’ve spied several options as we’ve been scrolling Instagram.  You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back t...

I know all trends are cyclical, but I never really thought about the day that I would see trends from my youth come back again in my 20s and 30s. The reemergence of the Y2K beauty trends we’re seeing now is an elevated version of the trends that we millennials wore in our pre-pubescent and teenage years. They have a new spin; the trends look cooler and more finessed blended with new trends; they are entirely more wearable. For example, thick, full brows with dewy, natural skin and Y2K frosty lids are a Euphoria vibe we can get in on. It’s about taking a Y2K detail and bringing it into now. The best part about Y2K beauty trends is the nuance they can easily give a look. Whether it’s through hair or makeup, they bring an element of fun to an overall look, perhaps because when ...

I don’t know a huge amount about makeup application. I know what makes a really great product, of course, but when it comes to tips and tricks for application, I’m just as wise as the next person. You would have thought that after many years in my job as a beauty editor, I would have absorbed an abundance of mastery from experts. But alas, there is truly only one makeup lesson that I have actually listened to, understood, and mastered—and it concerns skin prep. Whenever I quiz makeup artists on the secret to a natural looking, seamless, glowing base, they always tell me that the secret lies in thorough ‘skin prep’. And for years, this advice annoyed me. What is skin prep, after all? I already spend great lengths of time in the morning tending to my skin before I apply my makeup, ...

I love trying new beauty products. What a surprise, right? But after nearly a decade testing pretty much every new launch, I do sometimes get a bit disillusioned by newness. When you receive information about a “never before seen” product range every week, you truly wonder how much newness could possibly exist under the sun, but every now and again, I’m wowed by a delivery enough to rave about it to anyone who’ll listen. This year, there are already a few launches that have caught my eye across the beauty spectrum, from bodycare to makeup and hair care, and the price spectrum, too. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and ma...