Soph Lou's: makeup

HOUSE OF GLAM DOLLS EXOTICA DOLL FREEDOM MAKEUP PALETTE

Thursday, November 19, 2015

I don't wear a lot of eye shadow but when this new House Of Glam Dolls Exotica Doll Palette arrived the other day I was gob smacked at how amazing it is. Its by FREEDOM makeup which is I'm pretty sure Makeup Revolutions sister company and you all know how much I LOVE Makeup Rev as a brand! This palette includes 4 brow powder shades, 10 eye shadows, 3 powder highlighters, 4 lipstick shades, a blush and a bronzer! How incredible is that for a compact palette. It also features a HUGE mirror inside which I love as that makes makeup on the go so much easier.

There are 4 House Of Glam Dolls palettes in the range and each one has a different look which you can recreate from the palette with easy little instructions inside the packaging. This is a fantastic addition to a palette I think as I haven't ever seen a full set of instructions come with a palette before. I will be sure to recreate the look very soon, perhaps I will film this on my youtube channel!

As you all know I love it when palettes come with names on the shadows and products inside as it makes tutorials and blog posts so much easier when describing which shades Ive used for makeup looks. The names are great and super representative of the shades.

The powders inside are so pigmented its unreal! I cannot wait to use then for so many different looks as you could create some amazing eye shadow looks with this palette. From smokey eyes to subtle shimmery classic looks, its so versatile and I cannot wait to show you it in action on my YouTube channel soon!

The only thing I don't think is so great about this palette is the lipstick shades, they are super sheer from my swatches as I'm yet to use them on my lips yet but they seam more like lip glosses than lipsticks so I'm not sure. They looked like awesome shades so that's a little disappointing if they are sheer as Id have loved them to be as pigmented as the eye shadows.

I love how shimmery and buttery the highlight shades are and they are perfect for all skin tones. The brow powders are also perfect for Blonde's to super dark brunettes! The brighter more exotic eye shadows aren't something I would wear everyday but I can see how you can get really creative with these shades. There is a beautiful pigmented gold shade which would make the prettiest Christmas eye look! This palette really is getting my creative side so excited as I just know I can create so many looks with this palette. Its definitely made me more enthusiastic about wearing eye shadows and I look forward to experimenting with this palette!

This palette is available now on the Freedom makeup website here and is £8. Which is an incredible price for how much product you get and how many of your everyday face products like brow, eyeshadow, blush and bronzer, highlight and even lipsticks are all in this one palette.

Have you tried anything from this new brand FREEDOM? Let me know in the comments so that I can check them out.

beauty

SUGAR SKULL GLAM HALLOWEEN PICTORIAL

Sunday, November 01, 2015

As Halloween weekend comes to an end for another year, I wanted to share with you a quick and easy half face glam sugar skull makeup tutorial. I actually made this last year but ran out of time to upload it. I'll keep the steps as brief as possible as this post is super pic heavy and Halloween will be over before you've finished reading the post! I hope you enjoy this pictorial and I also hope you've had a fantastic Halloween!

STEP 1 - Apply white cream makeup to one side of your face and set with white face powder.

Step 2 - Using a large fluffy powder brush, start contouring your cheek bones, jaw and temples of the face. I used Beauty UK posh palette no4 Galaxy for this.

Step 3 - take a pencil brush and some black eye-shadow and outline your cheekbone down to your jaw bone.

Step 4 - Then using a small fluffy shadow brush, blend out the same line to add dimension and a 3D effect to the cheekbone.

Step 5 - Apply a Plum eyeshadow all over and around the eyelid to create a deep purple smokey eye.

Step 6 - Using a black eye shadow, create a large black circle around the purple smokey eye and in the whole socket of the eye.

Step 7 - Then using a black eye liner, liquid or pencil, create a scallop shape border around the black eye socket.

Step 8 - Using a small detailer brush, fill the scallop border in with a purple eyeshadow.

Step 9 - Create a half love heart shape on half of your nose as shown above and fill in with black eyeshdow.

Step 10 - With the black eye liner create a swirly line from the corner of your mouth and up towards your temple. Add swirls off of this line for a more feminine pretty look.

Step 11 - Start by drawing a wide V shape on the one half of your forehead and then draw a centre line in the V. Then between these 3 lines draw curved lines to create a spider web effect. Also connect the web and nose with a straight black line and draw a smaller half heart on your chin.

Step 12 - Use the same plum shadow you used for your smokey eye and add shadows to the spider web lines and swirly lines around your face.

Step 13 - Apply a black lipstick or eye-shadow to the outer corner of your lips on the skull side then apply a plum lipstick to the centre of half of your lips to create an ombre plum lip.

Step 14 - Add lines to top and bottom lips using a black eyeliner also add to the outer part of the mouth to create a stitched mouth effect.

Step 15 - Apply your favourite foundation on the clean side of your face and create a dark plum smokey eye.

Step 16 - Conceal any blemishes and under eye darkness with your favourite concealer, to create a flawless complexion.

Step 17 - Apply blush, highlight, brows and bronzer then finish the look with the same plum lipstick on the other half of your lips.

Step 18 - style your hair in loose waves, add a faux flower hair clip then Pose!

I really enjoyed making this pictorial and hope you like my Glam Sugar Skull Halloween makeup!

You can check out my other Halloween makeup tutorials on my YouTube here and be sure to like and subscribe please!

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Saturday, October 31, 2015

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MAKEUP REVOLUTION UNICORNS UNITE LIPSTICK COLLECTION

Saturday, October 24, 2015

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

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Autumn Makeup Routine | Classic Red Lip

Thursday, October 15, 2015

I haven't posted a makeup routine post in ages and with it now being my favourite season Autumn, I always love switching up my makeup products. As some of you may know if you watch my YouTube channel, I got a new foundation for my Birthday, the L'Oreal infallible 24 stay foundation and I'm obsessed with it! It's the nicest full coverage yet still radiant and glowing foundation I've tried from the drugstore in years!! You can watch my What I Got For My Birthday Video here.

It's got such a nice consistency to it and the coverage is amazing for a drugstore affordable foundation! The shade is 125 natural rose and its perfect, it matches my skin tone really well! I can warm it up with a bronzer for when I have a little bit of fake tan on and it just looks flawless! I've had so many compliments on my makeup since I switched to this everyday foundation and i highly recommend it!

For my birthday I also purchased the Makeup Revolution Baked Highlighter in the shade peach lights and its incredible! I only use it on the top of my cheek bones and under my brow and its such a pretty shade. Not too pink, yellow or white which is in my opinion hard to find in a drugstore Highlighter. And I've even heard its a dupe for one of the benefit highlighters.

Another products I got for my birthday and love is the Ultra Brow Arch & Shape from Makeup Revolution. The shade is medium and its the best colour match to my eyebrows I've found as its not too red toned it top ashy. And its not too dark as I don't really like strong brows on myself.

And lastly Beauty UK are back with a bang with their brand new Lips Matter Velvet Matte Lip creams. I'm wearing the shade Bond,Mrs Bond* and its a stunning deep red shade which looks timeless and classic! These matte lip creams stay on for hours and I just love how to feel on my lips, they are so comfortable to wear!

I hope you are all having a great week and I look forward to creating more autumnal makeup looks this fall!

*This post contains some products sent for consideration of review.