Beauty Tip- Eyeshadows

Beauty Tip

 

Choosing the right eye shadow to compliment your eye colour will make a big impact on your overall makeup look; it can enhance your eye colour and create bright eyes. You also have to take into account your skin tone when picking out the right eyeshadow colour. Many people are tempted to choose the same colour eyeshadow as your eye colour. This is a big mistake as it tends to compete with your eye colour and drawing more attention to the eye shadow. Eye shadow is intended to frame your eyes so it is best to find an eyeshadow to compliment them.

Skin Tone Considerations

For those of you who have a delicate "English rose" complexion, dark colours can overpower your pale skin tone. For darker skin tones, avoid pale shades, as you can carry off much deeper and richer shades.

Hazel Eyes  Like me, you are lucky if you have hazel coloured eyes as they suit almost any coloured eye shadows. I usually go for netural, earthy colours and golds. Try to look at your eyes and pick out some of the main colours in them and subtly include these in your eyeshadows. I have alot of green in my eyes as well as brown so I put a brown eyeshadow all over my eyes and then line a green eyeshadow in the crease of my eyes. Try to experiment with different colours of eyeshadows and see which ones are best for the shades in your eyes.

 Brown Eyes

To subtly emphasise brown eyes, you have plently off choice in terms of colour choices, as brown eyes suit almost any colour of eye shadow. This gives you an opportunity to experiment with a wide range of different shades, from soft neutrals such as browns, beiges and creams to bright neons such as yellows, oranges and bright pinks, (depending on how brave you are with colour). Metallic shades such as golds and bronzes are a particularly good look, as they are eye-catching without being too dramatic.

Blue Eyes

With blue eyes you are restricted more with your colours, but that's not to say that your eye colour is any worse than other eye colours. Your eye colour tends to suit warm shades or brown, taupe, gold, plum and peach. Also silver eyeshadow works really well with blue eyes unlike with brown eyes. Wearing a blue eyeshadow tends to look over the top and does not flatter your makeup. Metallics can work on some people but not others so try to experiment with shimmery golds and bronze shades.

Green Eyes

Golden brown, peach, violet, taupe and rich purple shades will empasise your eyes and make them into a striking feature. Purple shades work well on green eyes as the 2 colours contrast on the colour wheel, look for plum and violet shades but don't go too over the top with them as less is more.

Grey Eyes

Grey eyes suit charcoal, brown and purple shades. Soft purple colours such as violet often work well with grey eyes.

Colour Wheel Rule

If all of the rules above where too complicated then this is the general rule to find the best eyeshadow shade for your eye colour. As with artists when they are picking out colours they use the colour wheel to choose the 2 opposite colours to compliment and contrast each other, the same general rule applys when choosing an eyeshadow colour. To find the best eyeshadow colour for your eyes, find your eye colour on the colour wheel (see below) then trace it to the colour directly opposite it on the colour wheel, this should find the best colour for your eyes. For example, if your eye colour is the 3rd shade under the green, trace it across, this leaves you with the purple. Then find the 3rd shade of it and match an eyeshadow with that colour.

Innovation of Baby Products

Baby products don't have to just be for babies, there are other handy ways that we can use them ourselves. The good thing about baby products are that they are cheaper than the products we use ourselves. For example Baby Wipes can also be used to take off makeup, in Boots their own branded baby wipes are £0.98 for 75 wipes or £1.85 for 150 wipes, whereas their own branded makeup removal wipes are £2.03 for 25 wipes. Here is a list of the baby products with other ways that we can use them ourselves:

Baby Wipes:

• Makeup Removal

Sudocrem:

• Spot Healer: Put a thin layer over a spot before you go to bed and then in the morning it should be visiably reduced.
• A Cooling Facemask: Spread a thickish layer over your whole face (avoiding your eyes and mouth) then leave it on for 5-10 minutes. Then wipe it off with a warm flannel, your skin should be soft, less red and your spots should reduce.

Baby Oil:

• Massaging Oil
• Mostriser: Once you've got out of the shower rub this onto your legs and it locks in the mosture from the water leaving your legs all smooth and shiny
• Cuticle Oil: Rub this into your cuticles and then use an orange stick to push down your cuticles
• Hair Care: Before you go to bed rub this into the ends of your hair then in the morning wash it out- your split ends should start to repair themselves
• Tanning Oil: Before you go outside to sit in the sun, put this all over the areas you want to tan and go and sit outside- don't sit out in the sun for too long though as you could burn and if its really hot outside use suncream instead*.

Baby Shampoo:

• Baby shampoo is alot softer than normal shampoo and is perfect for washing makeup brushes. You need to wash your brushes often to make sure you get rid of all the dirt and old skin cells that are on your brushes.

*This should not be used instead of suncream, instead use it when the sun is out but it is not hot enough to tan normally as this makes it easier to tan. If you feel as if you are starting to burn then go back into the shade and put suncream on, or stay in the shade.

Beauty Tip- Tired, Baggy Eyes

Beauty Tip

If like me you struggle with baggy and puffy eyes due to a lack of sleep or struggle to get up in the cold winter mornings (who doesn't?) then i'm sure you've been looking out for and buying products to help.

Well all you need is 2 damp tea bags that have been placed in the fridge for a few minutes. Then lie down on your back and tilt your head up. After that place the tea bags over your eyes. Balance the tea bags on your eyes for at least 10 minutes and then take them off. *This works because teabags contain an ingredient called tannin which will help relieve tired and puffy eyes.*

 

*This extract has been taken from google

 

Beauty Tip- Fake a French Manicure

Beauty Tip

For a quick fake French manicure look, that is easy to do then read on. First massage cuticle oil into your nails as this will make them shine and will also give them the needed nutrients. Then rub a white nail or eye pencil under the tips of your nails to create the perfect French manicure finish. It only takes one minute to do and will leave your hands looking lovely!

Beauty Tip- Old Mascaras

Beauty Tip

Don't you hate it when you open your favourite old mascara to find it has gone all dry. You then go and throw it away when there is atleast half a bottle of mascara left. Well now you don't  Close the mascara tightly and put it into a ccup of hot water for 30 seconds. The heat will melt the remaining mascara and you can carry on using it. I am always doing this as before I would always have to go out and buy new mascaras when I had plently of half full mascaras (what a waste). This is a good quick tip that is good for if your fed up or don't have the money to keep replacing your old mascaras.   

D.I.Y. hair masks

During this cold winter my hair has been getting dry and not even conditioner is helping it so I decided to invest in a hair mask. Looking in the shops I noticed that many of them were more expensive than I was willing to pay, although I did find a good one in the Boots own Brand. It's called Boots ingredients Coconut and Almond Intensive hair mask and is £2.03 for 350ml.

If you don't want to spend the money or don't have the time to go out and buy a hair mask then how does it sound if I say that you probably have a hair mask in your kitchen at the moment? All you need is an egg, a banana, one teaspoon of honey, a teaspoon of milk, and five teaspoons of olive oil to make a D.I.Y homemade hair mask. This hair mask is simple to make and you only need to leave it in your hair for 25 minutes which leaves you with glossy, conditioned hair that will fight through winter and will help it to grow longer. Below are 3 different homemade hair masks (just in case you don't have the ingredients for one of them!)


3 Recipes for homemade hair masks:

-Gather an egg, banana, one teaspoon of honey, a teaspoon of milk, and five teaspoons of olive oil. If you have no olive oil, you can replace it with any other oil you have. Mix the ingredients up together, and then massage the mask into your scalp and hair. Leave the mask on your hair for 25 minutes before you shampoo and condition.

-For a conditioning mask that helps restore your hairs natural oil, combine equal parts honey to olive oil, and then massage into the hair and scalp. You will need to leave the mask on for about 25 minutes before shampooing and conditioning as usual.

- Blend an egg yolk, two tablespoons of olive oil, and 8 medium sized strawberries together.  Then apply it to your entire head of hair, and let it soak in for 15 minutes before continuing your normal shampoo and conditioning routine.

Starting Out

So i'm just setting up a beauty blog and I will blog whenever I can. I will review beauty products and if you send me a product or beauty question I will review it or answer it. Each week I will put up beauty tips so if you email me them then I shall put them up as soon as possible.

My email address is: bethtayler@googlemail.com