What's In My Bag | Everyday Essentials.

Well hello there!!! 

Welcome back to my blog. :) 

Finally my eyes are getting better. YAAYYYY!! Just in time too as I am off to a gig tonight to see Counterfeit play! If you don't know who they are then they are Jamie Campbell Bower's band. And if you don't know who he is (which you should because he is extremely talented and hot) he was in the Twilight saga, Sweeney Todd and Immortal Instruments.  

He is my new man addiction fo'sure. 

I am meeting him tonight and I am SO nervous about it and I don't know why?! Most likely because he is beautiful and I am barely going to be able to breathe let alone speak to him!! 

I am going on my own as I always do, I just hope people don't mosh around me because I don't want a broken face. Ha. 

I have put some 'stiletto' false nails on and I cannot for the life of me type with them!!! I wanted to bish bash bosh this post out so I can get organised for tonight but so far the 'backspace' is being used hella a lot. 

Screwin. 

Okay, so I LOVE bags and purses and if I buy a bag I will have to buy a new purse and visa versa. I am currently waiting for a bag in Accessorize to go into sale because there is nothing worse than buying something full price and then the next day "oh hello" it's gone into sale.  

Are you kidding me?! 

I love to see what people have in their bags, call me nosey... That's because I am. Ha. 

Lets not beat around the bush.

So, today for all of you beautiful people I am presenting you with the contents of my very own bag and what I carry around on a day to day basis. Essential central right here. 

My bag is a Primark one I bought a while ago and I have currently gone back to it because it's the most practical until I get a new one. 

1,2,3... GOOOOOOO. 

I ALWAYS carry my Real Techniques 'Expert Face' brush around with me. It's just handy to have as sometimes under my eyes needs touching up or around my nose because my hay fever ends up with me rubbing half of my makeup off.  

Again, I carry this around for the same reasons as I carry my brush. You can never be TOO prepared ya know. 

I wear a nude lip almost every time I wear makeup, these are totally my go to products as they are the perfect combination. 

Concealer, in case a spot needs covering or I am re-doing my lips, eyeliner & eyebrow for obvious reasons and my matte powder to make my lips extra matte. And I wonder why I have dry lips all the time. 

I will never learn. Ha. 

When you're out and about, touching things or eating it's good to keep hygienic and with my little hand gel I do just that. I do not want any extra germs thank you very muchly! I keep my Carmex with me to hydrate my lips when they are a little sore. Perfect travel sizes. 

I keep these in my bag for when I am having my Superman to Clark Kent moment. Ha. If I am wearing no makeup and want to hide the hideousness of my 'natural' face I will pop these bad boys on. I will also wear these if I want to switch my look up. 

"Mirror mirror on the way, who's the fairest of them all?" 

No one likes lipstick on their teeth, so this little flip mirror gets carried around everywhere. You never know when you will need it. 

You could end up on an island and need to make a fire using the sun and this mirror. Practical thinking. 

This power bank is a life saver, I am always running out of my phone battery as I am on it so much. So this is great in those emergencies. I got it from New Look and I LOVE the colour. It's super pretty for Spring. 

I cannot stand knotty hair and because mine is long it gets hella knotty. This is a god send. 

I will obviously have my purse with me, it rarely has cash in it because I never really carry it. I will spend it if it's there. Papa Hutt always tells me off for having no cash. That's how my plan works... I want to order pizza... Oh no I have no cash... "DAAADDDDD". :) 

I have my drivers license in there, some business cards and my bank cards. Not at all interesting. 

This is the most important item in my bag because it contains my life. Ha. All my blog notes, photo's and memories, contact to the outer world and of course my Spotify playlist. If I am out and about I always have my music on. Love it. 

I carry this little card wallet because it carries the majority of my business cards and other cards I rarely use. I always like to be prepared. 

I like to smell nice okay?!

As mentioned I am waiting for a bag I want to go into sale so I carry these around just in case that day finally happens. 

I don't know why these are in my bag, the Topshop card has like £1 on it and the wallet is from Christmas. Ha. 

We are at the dregs now. I HAVE to have tissue in my bag at all times because of my sneezing and the rest is just crap.

The little card I carry around with me because my nan gave it me!!! I always have a sharpener in case my lip pencils go blunt and yes you can see correctly, that is a needle and thread. Some of my trousers split because of my fat ass, so that has come in handy quite a few times. 

There you have it. The contents of my bag. 

This might of been quite boring for you so my apologies if so but  I love looking at other's bag contents. I find it interesting. 

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My Current Every Day Look // Smoky Eyes // Nude Lip

Guess who's back, back again, Leya's back, tell your friends!

Yo yo yo. I am back with you guys today with a makeup look for you. 

You will have to excuse the state of my face prior to the makeup application as it was the time of the month (maybe TMI but it's cool) and I wasn't feeling great at all. 

Pale face extravaganza! Ha. 

I have decided to do a step by step on my makeup application and the finished look, which evidently (the title gives it away) is my current every day look. 

I love a smoky eye as it really gives off a sultry look. And nothing makes your eyes stand out more than by having a nude lip. I have mentioned some of the products I will be using previously as I tend to reach for them more. 

If you like the final look and would like to replicate it I will leave the product list at the end. 

Enjoy :) 

STEP 1: MOISTURISE.

Please ignore the fact that I look like a thumb ha ha, and a very pale one at that. I have always been naturally pale, I can't work out if that's a good thing or not though?! 

Anyway, I had run out of my primer, which has now be discontinued so I have resorted to using a moisturiser as my base. This actually works pretty darn well. I really like Simple skin care products because I have sensitive skin and their products in no way irritate me. 

This goes all over my face and neck!!! 

STEP 2: CONCEALER

As you can see, I have very light eyebrows, so it actually looks like I don't have any. The same goes for my lashes. I am a natural blonde baby!! 

Ha, it looks so weird!!! :D

I always put my concealer on before my foundation because I find it's a lot easy to disguise blemishes and circles. I tend to find dabbing it on works better for me as if you rub the product in I feel you lose the cover. It provides a nicer base, I have been doing this since... Gosh, high school I think. I have ALWAYS put concealer on my lips too since then. So NO Kylie Jenner you DID NOT invent this beauty hack I am afraid to say, a lot of us girls have been doing it for years!! :)

STEP 3: FOUNDATION

 I currently use a mixture of foundations just to warm it up a little. One has reflecting qualities and the other is pure matte. I find mixing the two creates a nicer finish and outcome. 

I blend and buff the foundation in with my Real Techniques 'Expert Face Brush'. It leaves me with a perfected base that can sometimes look slightly airbrushed and I love that. 

STEP 4: POWDER

To set my base in place I use a matte powder. As you can clearly see mine has been used to death, hit pan and has now frickin broken. Ha. 

Have no fear though I have re-purchased!! 

I use my Real Techniques 'Powder Brush' to lightly dust the powder over my face to ensure there are no shiny bits and everything consistently stays matte. 

STEP 5: BRONZER

 Yep, as being a pale face like I am, I will use a bit on powder bronzer and cream bronzer to give myself a subtle glow. 

You know, take the edge off so I do not blind y'all with my gleam. :D 

I will lightly contour where my cheekbones are with the powder and soften the edges into my face to create a shadow. I will then run some more down the sides of my nose, across my jawline, on my temples and forehead. This is to create flattering shadowing and natural tints. 

STEP 6: EYEBROWS

Eyebrows are what frame your face and give you character. As mentioned, mine are pretty light so they end up making me look like a walking egg. Ha. 

I therefore have to draw mine on which is a pain in the ass if truth be told... "I watch way too much Gavin & Stacey". 

I will brush the hairs into shape and place, I will then draw on with a pencil the bottom line as to where the brow will sit and then the top line to meet and make sure they are as even as they can be. (See pictures)

I will then fill in with the powder kit and angled brush. I am just using a Barry M one here. I do have new and better brushes but I cannot bring myself to use them yet as they are too pretty. Phaha. 

STEP 7: EYELINER

Okay so my eyes are next on the list and the most important part of the look. 

Eyeliner wise, I will first do a cat flick on my upper lid with a liquid liner and then I will then go around my waterline and tight line with a Kohl liner. Obviously, I will be using the blackest of black shade. You know it's me... it's to match my dark soul. Ha. Only joking. 

I tend to start the flicks off pretty short until I do the finishing touches where I will elongate them.

STEP 8: MASCARA

Yup, mascara is now needed to sort out my little blonde babies because lets face it, they look really odd against the black. I only put the mascara on the top lashes to start off with. 

This seems like a mighty fine process when it is broken down like this but it actually doesn't take hardly any time at all. Hence why I will wear this look every time that I am wearing makeup.

STEP 9: EYESHADOW

 Stop! Eyeshadow time!! 

I love doing this part the most as this is where I can experiment. I have currently been applying my shadow with a Barry M brush, which lets be honest isn't the best. I will be moving on to my Real Techniques and Nanshy brushes soon!! I really want the Rose Gold Zoeva brush set, but I will get them once I have found a job. 

As you can see from the pictures, I apply the lighter shade in the crease of my eye socket and blend outwards to my brow line. I will then go in with the 2nd darker shade and just add that to the socket to add some more depth and blend that out slightly. And then the same with the darker brown but only in the outer corners. 

I will then dab on some of the Kiko 'Copper' shadow to add some more dimension and to deepen the crease. 




STEP 10: FINAL STEP FOR EYES 

I love this photo!! So much so I have made it into a business card!!! :) 

The final step to my eyes is adding to the lower lash line. I will go in with the Rimmel 'Copper Bling' Exaggerate eyeliner along my lower eye and smudge along to my tear duct area. In the outer corner, I will bring in my black Kohl and blend into the copper eyeliner to show some gradient tones. 

In the inner corner I will finish up with the Rimmel Magnifeyes in 006 - Bronze Magnate. 

And last but not least the mascara will be applied to the lower lashes and I will go over my top lid eyeliner and elongate the flick.  


 FINISHED EYE LOOK. 

STEP 11: HIGHLIGHT AND BLUSH

To complete my face I will add some Makeup Revolution highlighter on the apples of my cheeks, down the centre of my forehead and slightly on my chin and cupids bow.

I will blend out with my Real Techniques 'Powder Brush' and do the following steps with my blusher. The blush will be applied to my cheeks and tip of nose only with the Real Techniques 'Blush Brush'. Then blend. 

Done!! 


STEP 12: LIPS

At this stage, I will wipe off any excess foundation off my lips and then with my Real Techniques 'Expert Face Brush' I will just dab it across my lips to create that concealer/foundation base for my lipstick again. 

My lips are pretty rough at the moment. I have a habit of picking my lips if I am nervous so they aren't in the best of states. 

Sorry guys. 

I will then apply my Rimmel matte powder in 'Sandstorm' across my lips to ensure that when I apply my liner and lipstick it stays matte. 

I am currently loving the Primark 'nude' liner in their range as it matches perfectly with MAC's 'Honeylove' matte lipstick. I will line my lips and fill the lip in with the liner to create the perfect base and then go over with 'Honeylove'. 

To finish the lips off I go back over the lip with my finger containing the matte powder again. 

And there you have it, my every day, smoky eye and nude lip look. 

I absolutely love this look, it's understated but draws the eye in. With the eyes being warm toned it makes blue eyes pop. 

 This has been quite a mammoth post, so I apologise if it has taken you an age to get through it. You know me. I love to talk. 

Hopefully this has given you some inspiration for your own every day look. 

As promised product's I have used are listed below. 

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PRODUCTS USED IN THIS LOOK.


 Moisturiser: Simple 'Replenishing' Rich Moisturiser.

Concealer: Collection 'Lasting Perfection' Concealer in 'Fair'.

Foundation: Maybelline 'Super Stay 24hr' in '10 Ivory' & L'Oreal Lumi Magique in 'Rose Beige'.

Setting Powder: Rimmel 'Stay Matte' powder in '004 Sandstorm'.

Bronzer: Collection 'Bronze Glow Mosaic' Powder in '2.Radiant' and Makeup Revolution 'The One' blush stick in 'Matte Malibu'.

Eyebrows: MUA eyebrow pencil in 'Brunette' & Makeup Revolution 'Focus & Fix' eyebrow kit in 'Medium Dark'. 

Eyeliner: Rimmel 'Exaggerate' liquid eyeliner in '001 Black'.
Rimmel 'Scandaleyes' Kohl pencil in '001 Black'.
Rimmel 'Exaggerate Smoke N' Shine' Liner in '002 Copper Bling'.

Mascara: Maybelline 'Lash Sensational' in 'Black' and MAC 'False Lashes' in 'Extreme Black'.

Eyeshadow: Makeup Revolution 'Redemption Pallette Essential' in 'Mattes 2'.
Kiko 'Colour Sphere' in '05'.

Highlighter: Makeup Revolution 'Vivid Baked Highlighter' in ' Peach Lights'. 

Blusher: Makeup Revolution blush in ' Wow' & 'Now'.

Lip Liner: Primarks P.S. Love range in 'Nude'. 

Lipstick: MAC matte lipstick in 'Honeylove'.