As a teenager I used to wear the bare minimum of makeup, some foundation,
maybe some eyeliner and mascara if I was feeling particularly brave, but not a lot.
But as time goes on, I find myself more and more interested and fascinated by makeup.
And I think it came from being in the Addams Family, and having to put on a full face
of quite extravagant makeup every day, and I really enjoyed that part of my role. And now I've brought that into my everyday life,
so I thought I would show you how I do my makeup
everyday. It's certainly not a tutorial, because I am not that good at it.
But I really enjoy it, and so I thought I would share that with you all.
As you can see I've started with one of my firm favourites, which is Lush's
moisturizer called 'Skin Drink', and then I was very kindly sent some foundations by the Body Shop, and they have lasted me
so long. I can't recommend them enough
for that reason, and I just mix and match between these four different shades,
which I will write down in the description, so you know exactly what I'm using.
Then I use a light dusting of this Luxury Powder from Revolution in the colour 'banana',
I've never seen them do any other colours, though,
so that might be the only color they do. I'm not sure, but the colour I use is called 'banana'.
Now I'm one of these people who never gets anywhere near enough sleep,
so I put the powder on, then I use this concealer from Freedom,
which comes in this very nice little pot. I use that and then I put powder on again,
just to make the dark circles under my eyes a little less purple.
I have this very handy little Focus and Fix eyebrow shaping kit from Revolution. The colours are medium to dark.
But I always find myself using the darker colour, because I have very deceptively dark eyebrows even though I'm blonde.
And as always, this is as good as it's gonna get.
This is my N.Y.X. or NYX- I've always called it NYX, but apparently it's N.Y.X..
This is my Sweet Cheeks blush palette, although
I do use it for my eyeshadow as well.
And I honestly just run my brush over this entire palette and go to town on my cheeks.
Now this next product is very very old, as you can see the writing sort of faded of the front.
But it's from Collection, and it's called Bronze Glow Mosaic, and I just use that to contour as best
I can. I never used to use an eyeshadow base,
but now I do. I use one from N.Y.X., and I just put that on onto my eyes like a cream eyeshadow
before I put my actual eyeshadow on. This is a very very new purchase,
I found that Revolution are doing these 'I heart makeup chocolate palettes'.
They have a huge range of them, but my favourite was the Mint Chocolate palette.
I'm using a colour at the moment called 'Secret', and then on top of that
I use a colour called 'Awaken', which is a little bit darker. And with my very handy double ended Body Shop brush
The other end's a little bit chiseled, so I use that to do a thin dark linde with 'Awaken' underneath my eye.
And then I just use a fluffier eyeshadow brush to blend it all out.
Playing Wednesday in the Addams Family gave me a very long time to perfect the cat flick eyeliner. I use the N.Y.X.
Epic Ink Liner, which is essentially a felt-tip pen for your eyes. I will never use
anything else to do my eyeliner ever again, because it makes it so much easier.
And if any of you struggle with this and want to get better at it, I highly recommend a
felt-tip pen for your eyes.
I absolutely adore Barry M's mascara. This is a new one that I bought recently, called Feature Length, which I'm absolutely loving.
It's brilliant. I used to use one called 'That's how I roll',
but I think this one just takes the edge.
It's got a plastic brush instead of a bristly brush, which means it goes on really sleek and smooth.
And is never clumpy and I think it's great.
N.Y.X. have a range of lipsticks called 'N.Y.X. lingerie', this colour is called 'French Maid', and I picked it up
maybe three months ago, and I've fallen in love with it. You have to put a very thin layer on your lips
otherwise it does start to go a little bit clumpy, and you get that weird lipstick line on the inside of your mouth
quite early on in the day.
But as long as you've got a thin layer on, it still stays on for ages.
And it dries matte, which makes you forget that you're wearing lipstick, which I guess is why it's called 'Lipstick lingerie'. Very clever.
And that's pretty much all there is to it. I really really enjoy doing my makeup these days.
It makes me feel very artistic in a strange way, and really sets me up for the day ahead.
So I hope you guys enjoyed this video, and
maybe there'll be more in the future. Who knows?
Bye.
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