Hey guys!
How are you all?
Recently I've seen lots of posts about reverse washing your hair, for those of you who don't know what that is it is simply putting conditioner on first and then using shampoo last.
The idea behind this is that by shampooing last you remove any residue left from the conditioner and thus help prevent the build up of product on your hair.
If you're like me the amount of types I've gotten out of the shower thinking I've rinsed all the product out of my hair only to start to dry it and discover I still have half a bottle of conditioner in my hair! Ahhhhhhh! This often happens to me on days where I'm running late or my brother has jumped in the shower so I can't run back and wash it out and up trying to hide the conditioned mess in a bun or pony tail! So naturally I was intrigued to find out if reverse washing really was worth all the hype as it would save me from not rinsing out my hair properly.
Last night I tried reverse washing for the first time, and I must admit I wasn't blown away. Firstly putting conditioner on first felt very unnatural and it was like my brain was screaming at me that I was doing life wrong! Once I'd wash the conditioner out my hair felt very soft and untangled as you would expect from using conditioner. Then came the shampoo and again no problems as it is just applied as you normally would however when I turned the water off my hair felt disgusting, it felt very clean as silly as that sounds and it was the compete polar opposite from the smooth conditioned hair I'd had a few minutes before. I felt like I had destroyed my hair, I even contemplated getting back in the shower and to condition my hair again though I decided to see this out. So up to this point I was not convinced that reverse washing was worth doing, however when I dried my hair (after applying heat protection spray) my hair suddenly jumped back to life and was smooth and light and very obviously not weighed down by product. I was now convinced I had just discovered a gem of a hair trick!
Minus the feeling of my wet hair the major down side to reverse washing for me was that my hair tangled really easily and I woke up this morning with really knotty hair that felt rather greasy and needed washing again. (This is unusual for me as I can usually go 2-3 days not washing my hair before it looks/needs a wash as I try not to wash my hair everyday)
In conclusion I was not blown away by reverse washing though may be something I just do every now and again!
Have any of you guys tried reverse washing? What did you think?
Until next time :)
Smile Beautiful :)
Lydia xx
Monday, 26 May 2014
Monday, 12 May 2014
Long overdue review!
Hey Guys!!
Sorry yet again for my absence my revision and lack of, has taken over my life at the moment though on the plus side it is just over a month until it's all over and I can finally relax for a while!
Anyway back to the post of this post... a couple of weeks ago I bought a couple of new brushes which I wrote about on my brushes post . I bought real techniques Stippling brush and Buffering brush (both from Superdrug)
I have been using these brushes everyday since I've gotten them and they were definitely worth the investment! I must admit I am still unsure as to how exactly I'm supposed to use the Stippling brush but I use it to help blend my make up in from my foundation, powder, concealer and blusher this blush will literally work well on anything and sometimes has been a life saver on days when my skin literally will not let my foundation sit nicely on it! You can watch a video on the Real Techniques website explaining how to use the brush and there are plenty of youtube videos to show you too, though like me you may just chose to use it your own way.
The Buffering brush has now become my foundation brush and the Buffing brush is my new powder brush, both these two brushes are very similar except that the Buffering brush is slightly bigger which makes it perfect for applying foundation.
My next make up applying tool that I want to get is a beauty blender, any one got any recommendations?
I've been looking at the real techniques one but there are also cheaper alternatives on eBay so any comments would be much appreciated!!
Thanks for reading guys, more post hopefully will come your way soon!!
Smile Beautiful :)
Lydia x
Sorry yet again for my absence my revision and lack of, has taken over my life at the moment though on the plus side it is just over a month until it's all over and I can finally relax for a while!
Anyway back to the post of this post... a couple of weeks ago I bought a couple of new brushes which I wrote about on my brushes post . I bought real techniques Stippling brush and Buffering brush (both from Superdrug)
I have been using these brushes everyday since I've gotten them and they were definitely worth the investment! I must admit I am still unsure as to how exactly I'm supposed to use the Stippling brush but I use it to help blend my make up in from my foundation, powder, concealer and blusher this blush will literally work well on anything and sometimes has been a life saver on days when my skin literally will not let my foundation sit nicely on it! You can watch a video on the Real Techniques website explaining how to use the brush and there are plenty of youtube videos to show you too, though like me you may just chose to use it your own way.
The Buffering brush has now become my foundation brush and the Buffing brush is my new powder brush, both these two brushes are very similar except that the Buffering brush is slightly bigger which makes it perfect for applying foundation.
My next make up applying tool that I want to get is a beauty blender, any one got any recommendations?
I've been looking at the real techniques one but there are also cheaper alternatives on eBay so any comments would be much appreciated!!
Thanks for reading guys, more post hopefully will come your way soon!!
Smile Beautiful :)
Lydia x
Friday, 2 May 2014
Everything Eyebrows
Hey Guys!
How have y'all been? Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've been crazy busy with revision :( as yes it is once again that dreaded time of year! And for me it's even more mega important I do well as these results will determine which university I get into AHHHH!
Anyway enough of that, as you are all probably well aware big eyebrows are all the trend! With gorgeous models and actresses such as the beautiful Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins all sporting a heavier brow! I envy anyone who can pull the look off without looking like they've got slugs over their eyes or that it's so ridiculously obvious that they've drawn them on and drawn them on too big! (internal scream). I have tried (and failed) several times to try and pull off the heavy brow look but ended up looking like I'd overdrawn my brows. So now I just settle with filling in my eye brows making their shape stand out a bit more.
I really want to try an eyebrow mascara but when I've gone to look at them some of them seem quite daunting and the thought of swiping a liquid through my brows is quite scary! Though I will try one, one day- any recommendations?
So for me to achieve a not so much perfect brow I use a couple of products/techniques. Firstly I fail at plucking my eyebrows, lots of my friends love plucking theirs everyday where as me I put it off for as long as humanly possible, purely because I'm a big baby and it makes me cry as I've got quite thick course hair (due to my Asian roots) plucking my eyebrows more often then not causes them to bleed, so I prefer to get my eyebrows threaded or waxed every so often as the hair stays away for a lot longer.
For my eyebrows I start by brushing them into shape, you could do this with an actual eyebrow/ eye
lash brush but instead of investing in one I just washed off the wand of a mascara that had run out and I use that.
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After brushing into shape I then use a eyebrow pencil and run it through the center of my eye brows in short strokes, the pencil I have has a little brush attached to the lid so I use this to buff and blend the pencil in a bit. I use Rimmel's Professional Eyebrow pencil in dark brown, not only is this quite cheap it is amazing and I have fallen in love with it. The pencil is soft and very blend-able and if you somehow go outside your eyebrow or smudge it it is very easy to wipe away without leaving any trace that it was ever there. The brush attached to it is good for blending in the colour too.
After the pencil I use brow shadow to soften my brow a bit. I use Beauty UK High Brow. It comes with three different colours and a wax. I don't use the wax as I attempted it a couple of times but it just made my eyebrows clump together, the colours in the palette are black, dark brown and blonde/light brown colour. For my eyebrows I use the dark brown colour and apply it using an angled brush, I apply it at least 30cm away from my mirror as I read on another blog that your eye brows are about perspective so you should apply shadow to them from a distance, so ever since I've practised that and I must say it makes a difference, though I still apply the pencil up close as it requires more precision. High Brow like Rimmel's pencil again is quite cheap and can be bought from most Superdrug stores and online, and although I only really use the dark brown colour I do occasionally use the blonde shade as it allows me to build up my brow without it being noticeable so I use this when I want to look like I'm wearing minimal make up. I have never used the black shade on my eyebrows however I recently purchased a new eye liner brush and I found that the black shadow is perfect as a powdered eye liner!
Please excuse the quality of the last picture, as this is a product I use everyday it has as you can see become covered in finger prints!
How do you do your eyebrows? Can anyone recommend a good eyebrow mascara I could try?
Until next time!
Smile Beautiful :)
Lydia x
How have y'all been? Sorry I haven't posted in a while I've been crazy busy with revision :( as yes it is once again that dreaded time of year! And for me it's even more mega important I do well as these results will determine which university I get into AHHHH!
Anyway enough of that, as you are all probably well aware big eyebrows are all the trend! With gorgeous models and actresses such as the beautiful Cara Delevingne and Lily Collins all sporting a heavier brow! I envy anyone who can pull the look off without looking like they've got slugs over their eyes or that it's so ridiculously obvious that they've drawn them on and drawn them on too big! (internal scream). I have tried (and failed) several times to try and pull off the heavy brow look but ended up looking like I'd overdrawn my brows. So now I just settle with filling in my eye brows making their shape stand out a bit more.
I really want to try an eyebrow mascara but when I've gone to look at them some of them seem quite daunting and the thought of swiping a liquid through my brows is quite scary! Though I will try one, one day- any recommendations?
So for me to achieve a not so much perfect brow I use a couple of products/techniques. Firstly I fail at plucking my eyebrows, lots of my friends love plucking theirs everyday where as me I put it off for as long as humanly possible, purely because I'm a big baby and it makes me cry as I've got quite thick course hair (due to my Asian roots) plucking my eyebrows more often then not causes them to bleed, so I prefer to get my eyebrows threaded or waxed every so often as the hair stays away for a lot longer.
For my eyebrows I start by brushing them into shape, you could do this with an actual eyebrow/ eye
lash brush but instead of investing in one I just washed off the wand of a mascara that had run out and I use that.
After the pencil I use brow shadow to soften my brow a bit. I use Beauty UK High Brow. It comes with three different colours and a wax. I don't use the wax as I attempted it a couple of times but it just made my eyebrows clump together, the colours in the palette are black, dark brown and blonde/light brown colour. For my eyebrows I use the dark brown colour and apply it using an angled brush, I apply it at least 30cm away from my mirror as I read on another blog that your eye brows are about perspective so you should apply shadow to them from a distance, so ever since I've practised that and I must say it makes a difference, though I still apply the pencil up close as it requires more precision. High Brow like Rimmel's pencil again is quite cheap and can be bought from most Superdrug stores and online, and although I only really use the dark brown colour I do occasionally use the blonde shade as it allows me to build up my brow without it being noticeable so I use this when I want to look like I'm wearing minimal make up. I have never used the black shade on my eyebrows however I recently purchased a new eye liner brush and I found that the black shadow is perfect as a powdered eye liner!
Please excuse the quality of the last picture, as this is a product I use everyday it has as you can see become covered in finger prints!
How do you do your eyebrows? Can anyone recommend a good eyebrow mascara I could try?
Until next time!
Smile Beautiful :)
Lydia x
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