Eyes Eyes Eyes

Eyes

Eyes are a big thing to any look, the colour of the eyes down to the way you enhance them. I feel when I go out the best way to enhance your eyes is by giving it a simple smokey look. When I go out and about I keep to the simple brown smokey eye look ( when I bother actually doing my eye makeup LOL ) but when its something more glamerous like a party or just a night out then I normally try to mix up the colours and see what works best with what I am wearing.

Now I dont match my eye makeup to my colours too much for example if I am wearing a black dress I might decide for like a purple or deep marron smokey eye as I feel this adds just the right amount of colour.

This week I was playing around with a black smokey eye look , yes the classic look , but I decided to put my twist on it. This was pretty much just made up of taking away the extra black and acutally adding a hint of red to the crease making the colour pop even more. Sadly like a silly person I forgot to take picutres however I have literally put on some of the pictures I normally work from when I create any smokey look.

I love the use of colour and the way it looks so amazing but so simple at the same time

 This of course is my brown everyday look however minus the shimmer :)

 My classic black smokey eye to anyone guessing how mine might look

Finally one of my favourite the blue smokey eye. I really love this look as it reminds me of like Disney but also it looks so effortless.

Here are our top tips for creating a classy smoky eye;

1. Start with a good primer. If you are prone to oily eye lids, skip this step. A base is essential for a smoky eye, specially one that gradients from one colour to another, as although we love the blend, we dont want any blue shadow blotching on top of that pearly cream shade! If you don't have a primer, a handy substitute is any creme eyeshadow stick, or crayon eyeliner (don't go for black if you are planning on any other smokey eye aside from black though, it will only darken the shadows you apply on top). 
2. Less is more. We are big fans on applying more as we need, this really helps in having complete control with how you want your smoky eye to look. If you gradually add on the colour, softly and slowly blending it out, you will maintain accuracy with your application and it saves you from over concentrating a colour that you then have to wipe off and ruin your masterpiece.
3. Follow your natural eye shape. What I mean by this is for a natural look, try not to blend your shadow past the outside end of your eyebrow (e.g. point D on the diagram). This tends to lead to a clownish look, especially is you go for the brasher tones! 

Enjoy

Sassy Sundays

Hey guys

So on Sundays we are planning to allow our posts to diverge from our normal themes of make-up and fashion. I've just found the coolest article as I have been procrastinating- check out the revamped looks of some of the more recognisable faces from history- 

Thanks to the help of digital art, we can now see what the previous monarch Henry VIII would look like today. Sweet!

Horatio Nelson! I'm loving the meticulous addition of the metal hand.

Hipster Shakespeare- what I want to know is would he have gone Wayfarer or Clubmaster? Meh I would think Clubmaster. Either way he is rocking the messy pompadour.

Marie Antoinette looking ready for some bar hopping. 

Woah foxy Lizzy! I would have thought orange on orange would clash but hey I stand corrected.

What do you guys think? Are these realistic? All I know is that I want to see more of these historical figure makeovers. 

Soap and Glory

So yesterday, we decided to head into town and check out the Soap and Glory range.  We have heard alot about the lip-glosses and thought we should check them out for ourselves, so we did just this.

From the look of the counter, the colours were so bright and welcoming, really appealing to the eye, which is always a bonus.

The first thing we decided to check out was the lip-stick range. The colours that were on offer, ranged from nudes to bright pinks, all were really wearable, none were too rash.

The second bonus was the fact the lip-sticks were so creamy, compared to some of the higher end brands. They were durable, with the pictures below showing you the colours on offer, and how they look in the shop lighting.

Swatched in order (L-R)

Swatched in order (L-R)

We decided to do a day test on the range, they were long lasting, through the whole lunch period, but they did start to wear off after around 5 hours.

Our favourite colours were : Blush Pink and Perfect Day, as we felt that these were very bold but still subtle.

After looking at the lip range, we went on to look at the eye shadow collection (lid stuff) . We checked out two palettes. The initial reaction the palettes were that the colours seemed to compliment each other. When we started to swatch the colours, the colours seemed to be less pigmented to hat we initially thought they would be.

                                 

There is a nice variety of colours, each palette contains one highlight colour, one accent shade and two other shades that do really compliment each other.

However, we feel that the lack of pigmentation and the fact the shadows smudged very easily made us feel like they weren't really worth the reatil price of £10.

TheFashionFix19 

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OMBRE OR DIP DYE

Hi everyone ,

Every now and then we all get bored of things and I guess i have become very bored of my hair , I want to do something very different to it. Ever since I have been younger I have had very very long brown/black hair which goes down to my waist. My hair grows really fast so when I would get it cut in the next three weeks it would grow out. I guess in the last few years I have grown up quite a lot and my dress sense had caught up with that but my hair and like everything else doesnt to have caught up.

In the last few weeks I have been looking at like dip dying my hair or ombreing it ( if thats the word ). The thing I liked about this was the you CAN cut the colour out and you can change it round. Colour adds something different to your look.

Miri dyed bits of her hair I think about a month ago now and it looked BLOODY AMAZING , she had purple ( my fav colour) pink, and blue in it .

 

OMG ITS STARTING

Hey,

Welcome to our blog, I hope you enjoy reading.

Here's a little bit of information about why this blog was set up :

-  to document our journey into the world of fashion, sharing our experiences and likes with you.
-  to show you some fun things we get up to into our lives.
-  express our thoughts and hopefully give you a few tips along the way.

Thanks for reading and stay tuned for some new exciting material.

See you all in the next post

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