Hello!

Today I thought I would share a quick post with you all about a fantastic brush cleaner that I have found. Forget spending £10+ on brush cleaners that are basically glorified water, and instead spend a mere £3.73 on some carbolic soap. Carbolic soap is a mild disinfectant and works brilliantly at getting the built up makeup out of your brushes.

Firstly, here is my (very) dirty beauty blender (not a real one, you can pick them up for £1.50 in Primark and they're actually great).

The carbolic soap is a (not so) lovely pink shade, and smells incredibly medical. Which is what your brushes and hands will smell like once you're done.

Run the soap under warm water, and take your brush/sponge and rub the soap onto them. Keep doing this until the lather of the soap turns from the dirty colour of the built up product to a white.

I found warm water best for breaking down the product.

And that's literally it. Leave your brushes to dry, or if you're like me, hairdryer them.

Here is my newly cleaned sponge, as good as new. And not only have you gotten rid of the colour build up but you've also disinfected your brushes/sponges as well.

Hope this helps, you should definitely give it a try!

See you next time,

Layla x

Hey hey hey!

Today I have a light smokey eye look that I'm actually a little bit in love with. I hope you enjoy!

After priming my eye and putting the tape in place, I ran Break Me Up from the Makeup Revolution Death By Chocolate palette along my crease.

To deepen this, I added Devour Me from the same palette, keeping it a little lower than the first shade.

Then I put Kiko Cream Crush eyeshadow in 04 all across my lid. I the blended it out with a little of the Devour Me shade. It's important to work relatively quickly with this cream as it does dry pretty quick.

On my outer corner, I put Bistre from the Makeup Revolution Beyond Flawless palette, making sure the colour was deeper along the line of the tape.

After adding eyeliner, I took the cream eyeshadow on a pencil brush and ran it along my lower lashline, and followed with the Devour Me shade as well, just lightly sweeping it across.

Add mascara and lashes if you do so please and there you are :)

I like this look because I enjoy a smokey eye, but a dark one is not always wearable in the day, and it's always fun to mix colours up.

I hope you enjoyed, and have a lovely day!

Layla x

Hello!

Today I have this look that I came up with yesterday, so I decided that I would recreate it and share it. I used sellotape with this to create a sharp line, something that I've never tried before, but I don't think that this second attempt is too bad! I hope you enjoy :)

For my transition shade,I used Substitute For Love from the Zoeva Cocoa Blends Palette (this entire look is using this) and ran it through my crease, bringing it up slightly as it reaches the tape.

Next I deepened this with Freshly Toasted to make the colours look a bit warmer.

Then I applied Beans Are White to the outer corner, focusing on making the colour deeper along the tape line. Make sure that the colour blends softly into the center of the eye.

I then put Pure Ganache across the rest of my lid, blending it with Beans Are White.

While the tape was still on, I did my eyeliner so I could follow the line better.

After applying my face makeup, I ran a mix of Substiture For Love and Beans Are White along my lower lash line.

Then a applied mascara and my Ardell Demi Wispies and there ya are! (Excuse my wonky eyebrows, I FINALLY got them done and the woman messed them up. Yay)

On my lips, I used my new favourite lip crayon from Primark. It's their PS Velvet Matte Lipstick Crayon but it doesn't have a name I don't think, just the number 11? I seriously think this beats Birthday Suit by Sleek as my go to lip colour.

Thank you for reading,

Layla x

Hello!

So just before Christmas, Kiko Milano opened a store in my local shopping center and I could not have been more excited. I had spent a long time on the web before almost drooling over some of the items and, of course, I did a little shopping and treated myself to an early Christmas present. But I recently decided to go in again and pick a few things up as I was really impressed with the items I got before, so I thought I would share what I got and my initial opinions.

First of all I picked up this Infinity eyeshadow in the number 277.

I bought 2 of these before and I was impressed with not only the pigmentation, but also the amount of glitter in the shadows! I really like this colour too, as I'm starting to experiment more with eyeshadow and I've wanted a blue for a while.

Then I got a Cream Crush Eyeshadow in the number 04. I thought this would be a great base shade. I have used it already (I have a look using this coming up soon) and it reminds me of the Maybelline 24 Hour Colour Tattoo eyeshadows in how it applies quite thickly and dries quick. 

The next item is one that I have wanted for a while, and I just decided to get it because it's so pretty! It's the Water Eyeshadow in the number 213.

These you can use wet or dry, but I think this is such a pretty shade! I've heard that some of these in the more golden/silver shades can be great highlighters, so I'm going to have to give that a go soon. The pigmentation is great when dry, but the colour shows up a lot deeper when applied wet.

And can we appreciate how pretty the eyeshadow design is??

Next I got a lipstick, (a "small" obsession of mine), in the Unlimited Stylo in number 014. 

This is quite a pale lipstick, but very much unlike what I already own ad I usually go for darker shades. But it's always good to have a range. This also has tiny flecks of glitter in which I noticed when I swatched the colour, but it doesn't show up so much when wearing it. The formula is quite creamy and it seemed to turn more matte the longer I wore it, which is a bonus as I love matte shades.

And finally, the next two items were an impulse buy at the till. Aren't I a sucker? But I instantly fell in love with the shade and design of these, and they are part of the Best Friends Forever collection.

These are the Endless Love Lipstick and Lipliner in Soft Marsala 05. I never but matching lipliners and lipsticks so I felt rather organised doing so with these. But the design of the lipstick is what drew me to it the most...

How adorable is this?? Both the lipstick and liner apply smoothly and I can't wait to try them out.

If you have a Kiko near you, I definitely suggest you check them out as their products are amazing. If not, here is their website, especially as they have a sale on right now!

Thanks for reading,

Layla x