Makeup Revolution Bold Eye Look // Let Your Eyes Do The Talking.

Helllooooaaaaa.

I hope everyone had a nice Valentine's weekend?! Mine of course involved pizza, cake and horror movies (as promised in my previous post). I did however get ghosted by my lad mate for no reason whatsoever, so that's made me feel amazing and I got given a pity gift from Lush on Sunday. Ha. 

Onwards and upwards and all that. :) 

Most people know that I like to experiment with my look and makeup,I never like to look the same. If I am out and about I like to stand out but not in a 'in your face' kind of way. 

I get a lot of compliments on my makeup and me being me don't take compliments very well. So I always get shy when someone compliments me. I don't watch tutorials and I am 100% not the best ever at makeup, but I just go with what I am feeling on that day. 

Practice makes perfect you know. 

Seeing as I am job searching (still) at the moment it's giving me a lot of free time to play with my makeup. 

This look at I am presenting to you today is one of my favourite bold eye looks which I tend to fashion in Spring/summer. 

It's all about the eyes for me because they are my stand out feature, so I like to make most of them. 

If you are like me and like a bold eye then follow these steps to creating the perfect stand out look. If you want to know what I have used on my face then check out my 'Smokey Eye & Nude Lip' post that I posted the other week.  

 

 For my eyes I will always put concealer and foundation on first, some people prefer to leave this step out but for me it works best to have a covered base. I will then apply my MUA nude shadow to use as a base to block out any redness.

The next step for this look, and I like to switch this process up, will be the eyeliner. Here I am using my trusty Rimmel 'Exaggerate' Liquid eyeliner and their 'Scandaleyes' Kohl pencil. I will just apply a chunkier cat eye along my top lid and then apply the Kohl pencil through my tight line and water line.

 

Next, apply a good coat of mascara. I am using Maybelline's 'Lash Sensational' and MAC's 'False Lashes'.

Now that this part has been completed it's time to move onto the eyeshadow. This is 100% the fun part!!!

For this look today I will be using the Makeup Revolution 'Mermaids vs Unicorns' eyeshadow pallet.

 I will be using this aqua green shade first of all, in the crease blending it outwards out of the socket. 

Next I will be moving onto this lighter blue shade, building the colour up from the crease but only ever so slightly. 

  

 Finally I will use the bright blue shade as the main vocal point which I will be blending in from the outer corners of my crease towards my brow. This is what finalises the look. 

 Because I have put eyeshadow on after my eyeliner I will then go over the liner and mascara to ensure that the shadow dust disappears. 

 On this look today I wanted to deepen the crease. So I decided to put a little liquid liner into the crease and blend to the outer corners of my eye with my shading brush. 

Now that the upper stage is basically done I move on to my lower eye with the Bourjois 'Intense Metalic' eye pencil in 'Bleu Clinquant 54'.

 Next you go back in with the bright blue shade in the Makeup Revolution pallet, across the lower lash line to make that blue pop and sparkle. 

After this step I will just touch up the liner and mascara again. 

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As if this isn't stand out enough I like to make my look really different. I used to wear dots above my eyebrow which people thought were tattoo'd on. Ha. That grabbed a lot of attention. 

Today, I am going to take the dot inspiration from my past and put one dot on my lower lash line, on each eye, just directly under where my pupil sits. 

 The dots add more glamour to the look I feel and it reminds me of a butterfly. Super pretty and feminine. 

 And that's the eyes done. I will then do my usual highlighter and blush to finish the look and add my favourite nude lip which I use MAC's 'Honeylove' matte lipstick and the Primark 'Nude' liner. 

There you have it. My finished bold eye look. 

I always reach for my Makeup Revolution pallets as they are super pigmented and the colour pay off is amazing. They have so many colours available and their pricing cannot be beaten, end of. 

This look is pretty simple to re-create and with LFW coming up (very quickly) this is a sure fire way to get noticed. This will be the eye look I will be sporting when I head down to London on Monday!!

Go on have a play!!

Love 

L 

X 

My Top Ten Tips On How To Survive Valentine's Day // Single Girl Problems.

Hello rock stars. :) 

Valentine's Day is literally days away. I literally dread this time of year. Not that I am bitter about it at all. Ha. 

This is my seventh Valentine's Day on my own. I am such a single little prawn these days it's a joke. 

You know, it's fine the first year or so, but come on is cupid having a joke up there or something?! I mean SEVEN YEARS!!! Just, wow. 

So if you are like me this year and single (again) and all you are seeing around you is loved up couples, "look at what my boyfriend/girlfriend got me" and PDA's then you have come to the right place. 

Here, we can all wallow for a second on being a big fat joke in the world of 'love', sitting on our own with our meals for one. It's quite sickening really. 

But that second is now over and we are going to frickin embrace being single for this day if it kills us!! 

Single girl problems are a reality when it comes to the dreaded 'V' day when you won't be getting any of the 'D' and your friends are. Ha. True story though. 

So what if you don't have a secret admirer or cards and flowers sent to you (even though you really do wish that would happen).Follow my top ten tips on how to survive Valentines Day as if it were a zombie apocalypse and you will come out the other end alive to fight another day. 

1. Avoid social media like the god damn plague. There is nothing worse than scrolling through your home pages and seeing all the statuses of lovey dovey shit. No way. It makes my eyes want to bleed profusely. Turn it all off, mute your notifications and pretend Facebook, Twitter and everything media related wasn't invented. That's what I am going to do and that way I won't want to gouge my eyes out. 

2. Run a bath and pop in a Lush bubble bar/bath bomb. No showers allowed. You my girl/boy need to relax and let the stench of bitterness soak away. There isn't anything more satisfying than floating in a hot bubble bath with candles flickering away. It's one of my favourite things to do. Just don't think of which hot man could be joining you at that point in time. *Covers eyes*. 

3. Pamper night. Get those face masks, nail polishes and body creams out and enjoy you 'me' time. I do this a hell of a lot as it is because I am always on my own, "yes get the violins out". You will feel so much better for it and your body will love you. Again, just don't imagine the hot guy!! 

4. Dig out those horror and gore movies. Yes, you heard me. Nobody got time for romance films on Valentine's Day when you're a single pringle. You will want blood shed, twisted plots and messed up story lines. This is a sure way to get you out of any depressive mood. Trust me it works. 

5. Make your cheat day Valentine's Day. It falls on a Sunday this year, order that fail safe takeaway, crack open those calorific cakes and indulge in so much chocolate that you want to be sick in your mouth. Lets face it, if you're going to throw up from anything it should be that and not everyone's 'date night' pics. Fact.

6. Put on the cheesiest, old school tunes you can find and dance around like no one is watching. The fact of the matter is... No one will actually be watching. It's a gift in disguise for most non-dancers.  

7. Invite your lady friends around. If you (by some miracle) have other friends that are single. Invite them round to join in with the merriment. Single girl problems all round. YAS. 

8. Get creative. Keeping your mind busy will pass the hours quicker than you can say "bore off St. Valentines". Get painting, whip out that adult colouring book (we all jumped on that crazy bandwagon) or get busy on a scrapbook. 

9. Exercise. Exercising releases endorphins, the body happy drug. Do not however go to the gym as it will most likely be empty and you don't want to be a public loser now do you. Think wisely. YouTube have some great intense training vids. 

10. Treat yourself to something. You've been looking at that dress/bag/shoes/makeup forever. Take the plunge and get it. An appreciation gift from me to me.  There you go, you have something to get excited about. Fool proof.   

I hope these little tips help you get through hell day and it's important to know that you're not on your own. You could be be. Ha. 

Love

L

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