• Girly Lunch Date Get Ready With Me // Face of the Day •

A simple bronzed, smokey eye, and a very light base; 
a day-time look for a girly lunch date in Cambridge.

I met up with my friend from university and we went for some lunch-time sushi (I was getting ready for sushi in my last 'Get ready with me post'.... I really like sushi). I went for a bronzed eye, simple base and pale pink lip. Lately I've been getting more sleep so I'm enjoying skipping on the concealer as I still haven't found the perfect one that doesn't crease under my eyes or oxidise - if you have any suggestions, please let me know in the comments! I've also been embracing the paleness and the freckles and have been opting for a lighter base - I feel like I can get away with this in summer, even if I am the colour of a sheet. I've therefore been lightly bronzing up and you can see in the photos that the bronzer is so subtle and almost un-noticeable. The night before, I plaited my hair after washing, and I really love the soft curls/waves this gives my hair the day after. I hate faffing with my hair, much preferring to spend more time on my make up, so this style is effortlessly perfect for me!

I started off by dotting the foundation onto my moisturised skin and buffing it in with a buffing brush. I then went straight onto lightly contouring, using a light hand with a contour brush and my favourite bronzer, very gently sweeping the colour onto my cheekbones and around my hairline. I moved straight onto brows (one of my favourite parts) and filled them in with my brow pencil. I have a few gaps and a scar on my right eyebrow so I mostly used the pencil there. Using a cream eyeshadow, I blended it onto my eyelid, crease and underneath the eye. Then I tight lined my upper eye using black gel liner as this is my favourite way to tight line. I grabbed my eyelash curlers, gave them a few squeezes, and applied my mascara (just look at the difference this makes! Amazing). Highlighter was next up, so I used a silvery-pearly shade and dusted this on with a really soft brush onto the highest points of my cheeks. Lastly, I used an almost nude-pink lipstick and pushed this onto my lips to complete the look.

I used:

L'Oreal Eau de Teint Foundation in 'Warm Ivory' // review here

Real Techniques Buffing Brush

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

Real Techniques Contour Brush

Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in 'Black Brown'

Maybelline Colour Tattoo in 'On and On Bronze' // review here

Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Liner

Benefit They're Real Mascara // review here

MAC Mineral Skinfinish in 'Lightscapade'

Urban Decay Lipstick in 'Native'

I hope you liked this post! I'm planning a dramatic Face of the Day

for my next 'Get ready with me' style post. I'm thinking

lots of lashes and a bold lip! What do you think

of this sort of format? I'd really appreciate

some feedback! :)

Daniela xo

• Summer Date Night Get Ready With Me // Face of the Day •

A quick, simple look, perfect for an evening of
 sushi eating and green tea drinking.

I went on an impromptu date night the other night and had a bit of time to do my make up. I went for a little winged liner and pink lips, and tried out a few bits that I've picked up recently; the L'Oreal Eau de Teint which is amazing (I reviewed it here) and the L'Oreal L'Extraordinaire Liquid Lipstick in 201 'Rose Symphony' which survived an evening of talking, drinking and eating, and did not smudge once! Cue the naked face -

I always start with my base and I dotted the foundation onto my skin, then blended it in using a buffing brush. I bronzed my face up, skipping the contour, by placing it on my cheekbones, around my hairline and over the bridge of my nose. Then I highlighted using a cream highlighter and my ring finger, blending it on top of my cheekbones, the tip bridge and tip of my nose, and cupids bow. A girl's gotta have her brows! So I filled them in lightly using a dark eyebrow pencil - I always start by filling in the gaps then shaping the front of them. I went for a champagne cream eyeshadow as a base to lighten up the eyes and give a little sheen, then use a champagne colour on top to intensify it. I also popped this into the inner corners of my eyes to brighten them up, too. To further brighten up my eyes, concealing under my eyes was next, using a liquid and medium/full coverage concealer. I then used a realllllly thin eyeliner to create a teeny tiny wing on my eyes and applied one layer of mascara (with a funky wand) after curling my eyelashes with an eyelash curler. Lip scrub was then used to scrub away any dead skin and create a smooth canvas for my lipstick, which was a really pigmented pink liquid lipstick.

I used:

L'Oreal Eau de Teint Foundation in 'Warm Ivory' // review here

Real Techniques Buffing Brush

Benefit Hoola Bronzer

Real Techniques Contour Brush

Benefit Watts Up Highlighter

Rimmel Eyebrow Pencil in 'Black Brown'

Benefit Cream Eyeshadow in 'Bikini-tini'

Urban Decay Eyeshadow in 'Sin'

Ecotools Eyeshadow Brush

Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer in 51 'Eclat Clair'

Real Techniques Expert Face Brush

Maybelline Eye Studio Gel Liner

L'Oreal Superliner

Accessorize Paradise Eye Mascara

LUSH Lip Scrub in 'Bubblegum'

L'Oreal L'Extraordinaire Liquid Lipstick in 201 'Rose Symphony'

Have you picked up any of these products lately?

What do you think of the format of this post?

It's quite new to me, I would so love some feedback :)

Daniela xo