Hey there and Happy Halloween weekend! Today I have a look that was inspired by pumpkins! I love pumpkin carving and I'm going to be carving on this weekend and I'm super excited!!

As expected, this is an orange look, and I used my new Milani eyeshadow, which I love! I'm definitely going to buy some more at some point.

I hope you enjoy this and that you're feeling super spooky this weekend!

First of all I used Peach Smoothie from Makeup Geek as my transition colour because it's such a light shade.

Then I used Substitute For Love from the Zoeva Cocoa Blend palette just a little bit below this to add some depth.

To brighten the orange tones, I put LOL by NYX all through the crease.

On my lid I put Bella Mandarin all over and blended it up into the LOL shade.

With a thick pencil brush I used Faint from the Naked Basics palette.

On the outer corner, up along the tape so it creates a sharp line, I blended in Beans Are White.

I did a really long wing because as you shall see...

I put 4 round face glitters from PS from Primark. You can always do this with eyeliner to create little dots, but I had these so I decided I'd use them!

I then blended Faint along my lower lashline.

And there we are!

On my lips I used one of the new NYX Liquid Suede's in Alien, it's a gorgeous black, I love it! (we all know I love them anyway haha)

I hope you enjoyed this post, and that it's got you in the mood for Halloween! This is obviously a more wearable look, but I will be doing a few looks over the weekend, one of them being my look for my costume, so keep an eye out!

Thanks for reading

Layla x

Hello! Today I have a brighter look than normal, but somehow still smokey. I wanted to experiment with some opposite colours, so I picked orange and blue as I've already done a purple look and a long time ago I did a cranberry look. I'm quite enjoying bold looks, so I decided to pair this with a dark purple lip and slightly darker eyebrows than usual. I hope you enjoy!

Firstly I used Freshly Toasted from the Zoeva Cocoa Blends palette blended into my crease. It looks a bit meh here but I blended it up more afterwards.

Then I added a bit of Beans Are White to deepen my crease and because I find it easier to go in with a black shade when I've applied a slightly lighter dark shade before.

Then i blended both shades upwards, pretty much to my brow.

Then I applied MAC Orange across my lid. I DO NOT endorse MAC as they test on animals, but this is a shade I bought a while ago for a Cosplay before I started going cruelty free. If anyone has a dupe for this colour then it would be appreciated!

I blended out the orange shade with the L'Oreal Sculpt Blush in 102 Nude Beige, blending to two more orange shades along my crease. Then I applied Crave from the Urban Decay Basics Palette and gradually blended it with the orange shade. I had to keep applying both shades and blending until I got the look I wanted.

Then I applied my trusty eyeliner, of course.

Noe before I go into my lower lash line, I just wanna take a moment to talk about Lemon-aid from Benefit. It's amazing for my skin tone. Although it's an eyelid primer, which I do use it for, I also use it under my eyes before applying foundation and concealer.

It brightens my undereye and cancels out the nasty purple/red tone that I have going on (I feel like this photo doesn't do it justice but trust me, it works so well!) Thank you Polly (here is her blog) for introducing this to me!!

After I did my face makeup, I put some kohl just on my waterline. Then I used Kiko Infinity in 277 along my lower lashline. This took a little bit of building up but I eventually got it how I wanted.

Then I added my trusty mascara and lashes.

On my lips I used Makeup Revolution Salvation Liquid Lipstick in Velvet Vamp. (My lips look wonky but that's the natural shape and I'm not confident with overlining my lips with dark colours yet!)

And here is the fnished look! I hope you liked it, I really liked it as I thought it was different and vibrant, but still smokey enough for my liking.

Also my fringe is pushed back because it didn't dry right (even with a hair dryer) and I currently don't own any straighteners!

Thank you for reading and see you next time!

Layla x

Hello!

Today is St Patrick's Day and I thought I would share with you the look I created for the parade in Birmingham that I went to on Sunday. I wasn't entirely happy with how the glitter turned out, but I got a lot of compliments so maybe I'm just being picky?

Here is the look that I created :)

First of all, I took both Naked 2 from the Naked Basics Palette and Half Baked from the Naked Palette and ran these through my crease.

Then I took the darker green shade from the W7 Neon Nights Palette (you can use any green you like, obviously, this is just the only green I own). I ran this just under where I'd put the original two shades.

Then to lighten this up a bit, I took the more lime shade from the palette and blended it all over the original green shade, dragging it down slightly.

I took the Essence Long Lasting Eye Pencil in I have A Green and pretty much filled in my entire lid.

Don't worry if it looks messy because you're gonna blend it out like I did here.

Now for the fun bit! I used my Duo lash adhesive and some green glitter from Wilkinson's, probably not the best idea so I'm definitely not gonna recommend it! I put the glue on a flat brush and spread it across my eyelid, and then placed the glitter on top with the same brush.

As I said before, I wasn't 100% happy with how the glitter turned out, but this was my first time using loose glitter all over my lid. I just think I need more practice blending it. I did clean it up a bit more after taking this photo, but oh well. I tried!

Then I added my usual eyeliner and mascara. I ran a black eyeliner pencil along my waterline, and drew a faint green line just underneath with the I Have A Green pencil.

On my lips I used Collection Lasting Colour Lipstick in the shade Mango Crush. I was quite impressed with this, it managed to stay on even with me devouring a chicken bake from Gregg's!

And that is it!

I hope you all have a wonderful St. Patrick's Day, see you next time.

Layla x