Hey there!

Today I am going to share with you my top five favourite highlighters. I LOVE highlighting, and I will happily go out of my house looking like an orb and not care. All of these highlighters are drugstore, because hey, the way I get through highlighters, I'm not gonna pay £40 for it to last me a month haha! I will provide links to each one in case you are interested!

I hope you enjoy :)

First off is my number one, MUA Undress Your Skin Highlighter in Iridescent Gold. This is the highlighter that I use in my everyday kind of looks. It's only £3 and is very good for the price point! I literally glow when I wear this, and it's actually last me quite a long time (I was being sarcastic when I said highlighters only last me a month, in case you didn't pick that up). MUA in general, like Makeup Revolution, are an amazing affordable brand who actually produce good quality makeup.

You can grab this from Superdrug here.

My second favourite is Hemisphere from the Sleek Solstice Highlighting Palette. At first, I thought that lilac wouldn't make a great shade on me, but I love it! If I'm going for a super pale look, I will use this, or if I want a bit more of an unusual look too. This whole palette in general is well worth picking up, but Hemisphere is my favourite of all of them.

You can get this from Boots here.

Thirdly is Feeling Younger from Lush. I only have a sample of this, as I wanted to try it, and because you don't need that much at a time, the sample has lasted me aaaaages. This is a lovely cream highlight that stays on all day. It has slight pearl/peachy kind of glow? I'm not good at describing things when I can't quite make it out. But I have also tried this in with my foundation and it gave me a nice subtle glow. I have also read that you can use it to conceal under your eyes, so I'm definitely going to give that a go!

Pick it up from Lush here.

At number four, we have Stole The Show by Kygo. Just kidding, it's from Colourpop. This feels so nice when you swatch it, it's incredibly creamy and just glides on so well. It is a gold, but also has small flecks of pink in there too, which you can see when you turn it in the sunlight. It lasts all day, and if I'm feeling a bit of an extra glow, I will put this on first, and then the MUA highlighter on top. Perfect.

Get it from Colourpop here.

Finally, my number 5 isn't technically a highlighter, it's an eye shadow. And it costs something daft like £1.99. But it works so well as a highlighter!! It's called Candy Floss, and it's from Natural Collection in Boots. It's a lovely pink shade, which obviously is more pigmented when swatched. But on my highlighting brush, it is so subtle when applied to the cheeks etc, and it is stunning. And I'm all for multi purpose makeup, because it does make an awesome eyeshadow too!

Find it from Boots here.

I hope you found this post useful and that maybe it has given you some ideas for highlighters that you would like to try.

See you next time!

Layla x

Hello! Today I have a look that was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest (I'll leave the link here). I fell in love with the look, and I wanted to give it a try for myself. The difference with my look is that I didn't use an orange tone as my transition because I wanted this to be a pure purple look.

First of all, I used Break Me Up from the Makeup Revolution Death By Chocolate palette in my crease and brought it quite high up. I just ordered the Vice palette in this range, so keep your eyes out for a post on that, and I'm super excited because the packaging is black!!!

Then I took Kiko Infinity Clics in 246 and smudged this along my crease too, slightly lower than the first colour.

Then I used Devour me from the palette and just blended all of the colours together, making sure everything mixed really well.

I took Passionate Purple which is a loose pigment from ELF, and I packed this all over my eyelid.

I kep packing and blending out with more of the shade Devour me until I got where I wanted to.

Then I took Urban Decay Moondust in Solstice on a wet brush and I packed this on top, taking my time to make sure every part of my lid was covered. I absolutely love the diversity of this eyeshadow, it changes when it's ontop of different colours, but is also beautiful in its own right, I definitely recommend it!

Then I put eyeliner in my waterline, and took more of that ELF pigment and ran it along my lower lash line.

Then I added mascara and falsies and I was done!

On my lips I used Makeup Revolution Velvet Black Heart.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and I'll see you next time! 

Layla x

Makeup: Polly Ellis (Instagram)

Layla x

Hello!

Today I am bringing you a post inspired by the 60s/70s. I am completely obsessed with this era, my wardrobe is even begining to show it haha. But the makeup was stunning from the time, and I wanted to give it a go myself. This is literally the second time I have ever done a cut crease, so please give me some slack as I am still learning!

I hope you enjoy!

First of all, I used NYX Jumbo Eye Pencil in Milk all over my lid and set with a white powder

I took Naked 2 from the Naked Basics palette in my crease.

Then I took Faint from the same palette to deepen it up a bit.

On a small angled brush, I took Crave from the same palette and started carving out my crease. Because I'm still learning, I followed my actual crease line, instead of making a new one.

Then I blended it out.

And then I kept adding and blending until I was happy. I also took the colour Faint again to fade it out a bit.

Then I added ze eyeliner.

After I'd put the rest of my face on (normal routine, check it out here), I put the NYX Jumbo Pencil onto my waterline.

Then I sketched out a black line underneath this with the Essence kohl pencil in Black.

Once I was happy with that, I went over it with my Collection Felt Liner.

Then I drew little "fake lashes" on my lower lash line under that black line.

Once I added lashes on the top, and mascara on the bottom, it looked kinda cool.

But when I decided to go out, I took those fake lash dots off, I don't know, I don't have the confidence quite yet to go out with it, but I think the look is just as nice without.

On my lips, I used Kiko 14 and over the top, a L'Oreal shade in Silencio.

I hope you liked this look! I'm super into the whole 60s/70s thing right now, so I might do a few more looks inspired by that era!

Thanks for reading,

Layla x