My Every Day Make Up 'Look'

Soooo my every day make up look... (I'll attach links to all the products and a pricing list at the bottom of the post!) 

huuuuuuu I love make up...

Okay so first of all I kick off with hydrating my face. I use about 3 squirts of Mario Badescu Rose water. Make sure you keep your mouth closed because it really tastes of roses... strong. I learned the hard way. Don't be like Jade. 

I also use this as a setting spray when applying cream products and after to set everything.

Next Up I use the Estee Lauder Day Wear cream. This just moisturizes your face and makes your make up have such a natural glow. I dot this all over my face (only a little bit - less is more) and just rub in each section with my fingers. I wait for this to sink in before I move on.

Now it depends on what look I'm going for so I use either or. I brought the Benefit porefessional for no reason to be honest because I don't have visible pores but it really smooths out the skin making it even. I use this product when I want to go for my glow look. I usually concentrate this around my T-Zone and sides of my nose, bringing it out to my cheeks with the product residue I have left on my fingers. If I'm going for an all matte, long lasting make up look I will use Rimmel London Stay Matte Primer. If I'm honest, I really don't like this product especially if I go a long time without using it as it always gives me pimples. But it does keep the oil away and makes my make up last a long time!

 

After I've allowed time for either of these to sink in, I move straight onto foundation. I can not rate this foundation enough. I use the Estee Lauder Double Wear and even though it is a medium to full coverage foundation, it's so bendable and quite lightweight on your skin for a thicker foundation. Estee Lauder products always smell so good too! I have two colours which I use depending if I've fake tanned or not. The time of year affects my foundation colour too as stupid as that sounds. Like, I feel that the lighting is different - much harsher in January. I always feel like my foundation is too dark for me which I will have used all year round. The lightest colour I use is ECRU 1N2 and then my darker shade is Desert Beige 2N1. I always try to stay away from a pink undertoned foundation because my face is really pink naturally. I blend my foundation in with a Real Techniques buffing brush.

Then I move straight onto concealer as this foundation dries so quickly. I use the Estee Lauder Double Wear concealer. I place this in a filled triangle under my eyes down to the top of my cheek bone, down the middle of my nose, a tiny bit on my chin (as I don't want to make it look any bigger), around my mouth, and the bottom of my forehead. I pronounce it fo-rud. thhhh o rud. Pointing that out because it's just took me ages trying to figure out how to spell the bloody thing. 

Anyway, I blend all of that together with a Real Techniques Miracle Complex Sponge, pressing my foundation in too. My shade in the concealer is 2C Light Medium.

Now I just slightly bronze myself up around the area's that I'm going to contour. I use the Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess Bronzer in a blush all over face compact. It's such a creamy bendable product - especially for a powder!! As you can see - it's very loved!! -- Better pick up a new one!

left to right, top to bottom: Nude Rose 11, Rosewood 13, Pink Kiss 02, Bronze Goddess 01

I then move onto doing my contour. I use both the Anastasia Beverly Hills Cream and Powder Contour Kit. I just draw a line with the cream contour just on: my cheek bone, temples, around forehead, down the sides on my nose and around my jawline and chin (which I cut off a bit because I like my chin smaller). I use the shade 'Light Sculpt'. I then add my highlight shade. I take the colour Fair and Banana as a mix and draw a little X at the bottom of my forehead, down the centre of my nose, tiny bit under my eyes (not too fond of the hightlights in this pallet), around my mouth and a small circle in the centre of my chin. 

Left to right, top to bottom: Fair, Neutral, Banana, Java, Light Sculpt, Havana

I then set everything with two products. For all my highlighted areas, I use my Laura Mercier translucent setting power on a damp Real Techniques sponge (sprayed with the Mario Badescu Rose Water) and then the Anastasia Beverly Hills Powder Contour Kit over my contoured areas. With this kit, I use the shade 'Fawn' and lightly go over everything as I don't want it to be too intense.

 

Left to right, top to bottom: Vanilla, Banana, Sand, Java, Fawn, Havana

Then finally I move onto my eyebrows! phewww! For my eyebrows I use a combination of the Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade and Brow Wiz in the shade 'chocolate'. I use my Brow Wiz brush end to brush through my brows and have them ready in the direction I want my hairs to go. Using a Zoeva Rose Gold brow brush I lightly tap the DipBrow and carve out my natural shape and push the product towards the centre of my brow to fill them in. Any gaps and the front of my brow I go over with the brow wiz as I feel you have more control with how much product you put on. I also use the brow wiz to shape my top arch on each brow. I then just use my Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer to highlight and clean up around the entirety of the brow using a Real Techniques corrector brush from the Core Collection.

I shouldn't really but I do... 

To set my eyebrows in place because my eyebrows have a mind of their own.. (my dad calls me Dr. Spock from Star Trek -- just googled who he was now... lil bit offended.) I just use an ear bud and spray Joey Essex Hold Up Hair Spray onto the bud and run it through my brows. Problem solved.

Now I prime my eyelids using the LORAC 'Behind the Scenes' Eye Primer. Just want to point out that their eye shadow palettes are to die for...

After I've primed my eyelids for the stressful and exhausting day of being Jade Cook, I take EITHER...

My Urban Decay Naked Basics palette and use the colour 'Naked 2' throughout the crease and really high up to my brow as a base and colour build up. I sometimes leave the crease there if I don't want to go too intense, but lets be honest... how often do I say that? 

To intensify the crease even more, I place the colour 'Faint' from the same palette in the outer V and up throughout the crease. This defines the eye even more and cleans up the eye area. Then I just take and thick angled eye brush and run the colour 'Venus' underneath my brow just to highlight and clean up the edges. 

After I've finished all that, I take my most favourite eye shadow ever. This product is called 'All That Glitters' by MAC and I just use an 'All Over' shadow brush over the entirety of my lid, blending into my outer V without taking away it's intensity. 

Far right shadow is 'All That Glitters'.

If I want to do a more intense glam look for my eye, I take the Bobbi Brown 'Warm Glow' Eye Palette and use the colour 'beige' throughout the crease. To intensify the look again, I then take the darker brown which has a bit of shimmer to it called 'Velvet Bronze' and run that in the outer V and through the crease. For a shimmer effect I take a combination of two colours, first being 'Golden Pink' and place that on the lid. For a more bronze effect, I then take 'Bonfire' and tap that on the lid and take it into the inner corner. For both eye looks, I run the lightest crease brown under my eye to near enough the middle, and then connect it all together with my shimmer. 

Now this next step is purley how lazy/ tired I am that day by what I choose you use. 

If I'm feeling the usual over jolly loud Jade, I take my Rimmel London Glam Eyes Liquid Eyeliner. I always just do a really thin Kylie Jenner kind of eye... Really don't like thick rounded eyeliner. I really like this eyeliner because it's so black and not too dewy/shiny. Although if you suffer from runny eyes, avoid this product because any little bit of water that gets on this product... you're running. 

And then if I'm just being super lazy, I'll just use either of the darkest blackish colours from either palette and run that neatly along my upper lash line.

Okay... time to curl my lashes...

Now I use a combination of two products for my mascara. 

First of all, I use the Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye mascara. I just love this mascara. It's just so neat and black but just so delicate when you put it on. I never used to be one for buying expensive mascaras (I did used to use the Estee Lauder and Clinique ones but forget them) because I thought they do the same job... However, with this Bobbi Brown one, hardly any of it flakes off throughout the day, reducing the blackness which appears under my eyes. I always had this problem but ever since I have used this, it has stopped. To secure and prevent this even more, I then take my Estee Lauder 'Little Black Primer' (which is waterproof, might I add) and place this over the top. Even though this is a primer and meant to go underneath your mascara, I like using it over the top because it stops the Bobbi Brown one from flaking. 

Then I move onto highlighting. To highlight I use MAC's Soft and Gentle mineralize skin finish. I apply before blush so the product really melts and becomes one with the skin. To do this, I really enjoy blending with a large blending brush. I place the product on the top of my cheek bones, tip of my nose, top of my nose, underneath my brow bone dragging the remainder of the product down so it meets the cheek highlight, my cupids bow and whats left on my brush on my temples.

At this point, if I want fuller looking lips, I will take my Anastasia Beverly Hills Power contour kit and take the shade 'Fawn' and just run that underneath the bottom of my lip and round the edges of my top lip. 

After I've applied my highlighter I'll take my blusher. I use the colour Nude Rose 11 from my Estee Lauder Palette I spoke about early. Its such a pretty natural pink rose colour. I love it. Blends like a dream. I use circular motions, keeping it away from the apples of my cheeks to blend the contour together. 

Again... Well loved.

And to finish up my look I usually apply my MAC lipstick in the shade 'Blankey'. If you read my lipstick blog post, you'll know that this is my most favourite lipstick! Just so natural and perfect for the bronze brown eye look! 

Need to buy a new one! Brought this last year at the airport when I was going to Barcelona with the art girls!

And then, I just line my lips so they are crisp, using MAC 'Oh Honey' Lipliner.

Well there you have it! That's my every day make up look! Thanks for reading this long blog post! See you in the next one... Jade x

Price List: In Order Of Blog

Rose Water £10.00 

Day Wear £42.00

Porefessional £24.50

Rimmel London Stay Matte Primer £5.99

Real techniques Core collection £15

Estee Lauder Double Wear £30.00

Estee Lauder Double Wear Concealer £22.00

Real Techniques Mircel Complex Sponge £5.99

Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess £33.00

ABH cream contour kit: £39

ABH powder contour kit £39

Laura Mercier Powder £29

ABH Dip Brow £15

ABH Brow Wiz £15.50

Joey Essex Hold Up Spray £3.00

Lorac Eye Primer $21.00

Naked Basics £23.00

MAC 'All That Glitters' £13.00

Bobbi Brown Warm Glow Eye Palette £59.00 (I believe this was limited addition)

Rimmel London Glam Eyes Eye Liner £5.29

Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Mascara £23.00

Estee Lauder Little Black Primer £20.00

MAC Soft and Gentle Highlighter £24.00

Estee Lauder Nude Rose Blush $90.00 (discontinued price)

MAC 'Blankety' Lipstick £15.50

MAC 'Oh Honey' Lip Liner £12.50