How to fix broken makeup

Another Pinterest Win! I saw this one a long time ago and tucked it away in my little pin bank for the right time. I finally had the opportunity to test it out when I unfortunately dropped my Mac Powder Compact. Gah! Do you know how many times I’ve broken a compact or eye shadow and just had to throw it away because I had no idea that it could be fixed? In comes Pinterest to save the day! This is a real win, and will definitely save me tons of money! No more replacing perfectly good make-up that’s all cracked up.
All you do is pour a few teaspoons of plain ol’ rubbing alcohol over the cracked make-up. (Isopropyl Alcohol can be found at at your local Pharmacist or Chemist. It might go by a different name if you’re not in America. Stir and break up the chunks until all the makeup is dissolved. Set out on a flat surface overnight. The alcohol dries up and you’re left with perfect and fresh makeup! Oh Pinterest, where were you with this little gem 15 years ago?!
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8 Stretches Your Tight Hips Are Begging For

Tight hips seem to be a common problem for almost everybody — from runners to cyclists, from deskbound bloggers to dancers. Give this area a little extra love with this sequence of eight hip-opening stretches to increase your flexibility, reduce discomfort, and prevent injury. Try the series in the order listed here, or pick your favorites to incorporate into your workout routine.
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HALF CROWN BRAID

This easy braided hairstyle gives you the best of both worlds. You can wear your hair out but also keep your hair back from your face. If you have a fringe or bangs your can leave them loose or pin them back with bobby pins.

STEP-BY-STEP

This easy braided hairstyle work in curly and straight hair. I wore this style in my wavy hair that you can see in myoutfit post.

You’ll need two small clear hair elastics and bobby pins to do the half crown braid in your hair.

1. Start by taking a 1-2 inch section of hair on one side of your hair above your ear. Split this section in three and make a braid (plait).
2. Angle the braid back around your head and secure the end of the braid with a small clear hair elastic.
3. Repeat on the other side, taking a section above your ear and making a braid (plait). Secure the end with a small clear elastic.
4. Bring the first braid across the back of your head and pin in place with bobby pins.
5. Cross the second braid over the first and tuck the end in behind the first braid. Secure in place with bobby pins.

   STYLING TIPS

   • Use small hair elastics as they are easier to hide in the finished hairstyle.
   • Stretch out your braids before pinning them in place. This emphasises the shape of the braid and makes your hair look thicker.
   • If you hair is long you can fold the braids in half before pinning them at the back of your head.
   Thank you for your lovely comments on my first outfit post and on facebook! I hope you try this hairstyle too. Let me know how you would wear it. source

Flowers Navy Blue One Shoulder Chiffon Padded Evening Dress

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21 Ways To Lose 10 Pounds In A Week

The best part is that these strategies not only enable you to lose ten pounds in a week’s time, but also help you to maintain a healthy weight in the long run.

21 Best Ways to Lose 10 Pounds in a Week:

Listed below are the best effective ways you should follow strictly in your everyday regime for a healthy weight.

Nutrition:

Nutrition is one of the most important parameters that should be kept in mind while following a weight loss regime. Having a balanced diet is important to ensure that you don’t feel nutrition deprived. If you want to lose ten pounds in a week, you need to take care of the following things in terms of nutrition.

1. Consume Fewer Calories Than You Burn:

Watching your calories is of prime importance when you are trying to lose weight. In fact, the secret to weight loss is to consume fewer calories than you burn. It should be kept in mind that one pound of fat is equivalent to 3500 calories. Thus, you need to burn 3500 calories more than you take in with food. But this does not mean that you go into starvation mode. All you need to do is shave off 500 calories in a day through dietary changes and exercise to avoid gaining 1 to 2 pounds each year. Instead of resorting to crash dieting, it is advisable to consume about 1200 to 1600 calories daily and keep a food journal to count your calorie consumption.

2. Burn 5000 Calories More Than You Take In

In order to lose 10 pounds in a week, you need to burn 5000 more calories than you take in per day. Agreed, that’s too much for an average person, but you have to push yourself to achieve this goal. Also, it should be kept in mind that an average person burns about 2000 calories while doing normal routine activities. This means that if you consume exactly 2000 calories through food every day, you will neither gain nor lose weight. To burn extra calories, you can make simple changes in your lifestyle like walking instead of driving, taking stairs instead of the lift and simply breathing.

3. Do Not Skip Breakfast:

Breakfast is, undoubtedly, one of the most important meals of the day and skipping it in an urge to cut calories is not at all a great option. In fact, several studies have shown that people who had breakfast regularly had comparatively lower BMIs than breakfast skippers. So, kick start your day a healthy and nutritious way by having a bowl of oatmeal or whole grain cereal topped with fruit or low fat dairy. You can also have scrambled eggs to fulfil your protein requirements, but avoid heavy and oily foods for breakfast.

4. Incorporate Lean Proteins In Your Diet:

Incorporating lean proteins in your meals and snacks will keep you from overeating by keeping you full for longer. You can try 98% lean beef, skinless chicken breast, eggs and certain fish like salmon. For vegetarians, soy products like edamame or tofu, low fat yogurt, peanut butter, nuts and beans are good sources of lean proteins. Besides, it is advisable to have frequent meals at an interval of 3 to 4 hours to maintain your blood sugar levels and avoid overindulgence.

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How to/Aquamarine & brown eyes

Step by Step :

1. Start applying the make a creamy orange shade on the mobile eyelid. You can change this shadow for a good primer / fixer, ok?
2. Following apply a shimmering orange shade on top....
3. Smudge on the concave outer corner and an opaque brown shade.
4. Esfume the same shadow close to the lower eyelashes, the brush down in inverted C connecting the upper part and the lower part of the eye.
5. Outline the entire eye and waterline with black pencil.
6. Now cover the entire pencil with opaque black shade and in March the outer corner leaving a black "in" brown.
7. With a cuddly esfume brush that black inside when he meets with the orange becomes a beautiful golden-green. Also esfumó black for him to "mix" with brown outside and concave corner.
8. Close to the lower lashes apply a turquoise shade and pulled it out for making a "Egyptian outlined" soft.
9. I conclude with pearl luster in the inner corner and false eyelashes.
Used Products :
yellow brushShadow Fierce & Tangy MaybellineOrange shade with golden glow of the 96 color palette of JasmyneO13 of Maria Margarida brushTrio Pause shadows to Feminices of TractaPencil Black Touch of NatureBrush 166 MAC.Brush 217 MAC.Sigma E20 brush.Shadow Poolside Makeup GeekBrush E47 SigmaGlitter Dance of Bless Cosmetics.Eyelashes 014 Eyelashes Beauty of Klass Vough.

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Pretty hair red lips

Once again, we’re delighted to share a basic makeup tutorial from Los Angeles based makeup artist, Amy Clarke. She has created this lovely tutorial along with one of our favorite photographers, Bryce Covey, to detail and demonstrate how to perfect the art of contouring and highlighting using makeup.

Take these tips from Amy to add to your ever-growing arsenal of makeup techniques. We know how difficult it is to get straight information when you’re looking through hundreds of turorials on how to perfect a makeup skill (to use bronzer or not to use bronzer?!) but as always, Amy has made it easier than ever for you to learn how to use your natural bone structure and just a few key pieces of makeup to contour and highlight your best features. Use this basic makeup tip to kick your daily beauty routine up a notch!
Contour & Highlight:1.+ 2.  Apply one layer of foundation or tinted moisturizer all over face. I used Tarte’s BB Cream in “Medium Light”. Using a foundation brush and a cream concealer (2 to 3 times lighter than your skin tone), apply concealer (the highlight) to the under eyes, down the sides of the nose, and brushed back and upward toward the hairline.
3. Using the same concealer, highlight the center of the forehead and down the bridge of the nose, upper lip, center of the chin and on your brow bone. Lastly, apply the concealer to the jawline, just under your cheekbones.
4. Once you’ve finished with all the highlighting, it’s time to apply the contour. Pick a cool-toned cream concealer or foundation thats 2 to 3 shades darker than your skin tone. Taking a smaller, stiff brush or foundation brush, apply the contour cream to the hallows of your cheeks, just below your cheekbone, all the way to your hairline.
5.+ 6. +7. Apply the same color to your forehead near your hairline, temples, jawline, the sides of your neck and to the sides of your nose.
8. Using a wet Beauty Blender or Duo Fiber Blending Brush, blend all the contour and highlighter together until there is no more distinction between the two colors.
9. Lastly, Apply a light dusting of blush, and set all the highlight with a loose powder using a small natural bristled brush. I used Tarte’s 12 Hour Amazonian Clay Blush in “Tipsy” and Make Up For Ever’s Super Matte Loose Powder in “Translucent Natural”.
Pro Tip: You can use cream or powders to contour or highlight, creams are easier to blend and tend to look more natural. Avoid using bronzer to contour. You are creating a “shadow” so think of a color that’s similar to an actual shadow, which tends to be a cooler tone.  Use Bronzer to warm up your skin and make it look sun-kissed!
Favorite Products: Make Up For Ever’s Foundation Brush “30N” & Senna Cosmetic Face Sculpting Cream “1.

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ELF whipped highlighters

I've been using Benefit's High Beam for a few years and it's something in my makeup bag that varies from using it every single day to months without wear.

Then I saw this pin on Pinterest... 

which took me to her blog post about the e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip and I decided that for a $1 I could pick it up on my next Target run. I mean, I love her makeup in the pic, I love any makeup that highlights, and if the product sucked and I threw it out after one use, I'm only out a buck.

Here's the Benefit High Beam side by side with the e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip in Lilac Petal

I couldn't believe that the e.l.f. Facial Whip gave more color than the Benefit High Beam! In fact, I washed it off and did it again to be sure I had the products right and sure enough the e.l.f. gave more color.

Ok, here are the products stats:

Benefit High Beam

-Size: 0.45 oz

-Price: $26.00

-Deemed it's a "supermodel in a bottle"

-Made for all skin tones

e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip

-Size: 0.34 oz

-Price: $1.00

-Deemed to "brighten and soothe skin with no greasy after-feel"

-Multipurpose- made to be worn anywhere on face/body

Here are my reviews of how the two compare:

-The Benefit High Beam blends easier and is more sheer while the  e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip I find to be thicker and harder to blend. T

-The BHB blends well both before and after my face powder, where as the ESFW blends best before my powder (I just powder around where I've highlighted or work harder in my blending if used afterwards).

-I like the look of both highlighters, they're so similar in outcome I can barely tell the difference when wearing them.

-The ESFW lasts longer  and gives more color than BHB (it's less pink than ESFW), but you can apply less product if you want a more sheer look.

-Both look great alone or mixed with foundation/lotion and don't ruin your base by putting them on even though they're liquid.

-A little goes a long way for both products

Overall:

Save yourself $25 and buy the e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip. Although it's not quite as blendable, I think it's a better product altogether. I don't have anything against the Benefit High Beam and still like the product, there's just no point in buying it when there's another product that is equal in comparison. Plus, the e.l.f. Shimmering Facial Whip comes in several colors that I think makes it superior for people of different skin tones and types.

Do you use a highlighter? Have you tried these two products? What are your thoughts on how they compare?

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