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I’ve always been a massive fan of Charlotte Tilbury’s work, even before the brand. As a fellow working professional I’ve admired her skills for most of my 15-year career and once the brand materialised I was hooked!
The packaging exudes ‘Luxury’ and encompasses Charlotte in every way, you can see she has put every ounce of her knowledge and experience into producing the very best of the best!
When it comes to application, makeup is only as good as the skin it sits upon and Charlotte knows this all too well so naturally, she has produced one of the most incredible and dreamy moisturisers, focusing on active ingredients to plump & hydrate the skin ready for makeup application!
HerMagic Cream is a staple in many professional kits worldwide and also adored by avid lovers of the brand.
This award-winning luxury moisturiser contains a combination of 8 oils and actives:
- Hyaluronic Acid for intense hydration, drawing in moisture from the air and locking it in place.
- Vitamin C helps brighten and even the complexion, Vitamin E transforms dull and lacklustre skin.
- BioNymph Peptide Complex helps stimulate collagen, fight free radicals and reduce the appearance of wrinkles.
- Rosehip Oil, Camellia Oil, Aloe Vera, Frangipani Extract and Shea Butter have also added for moisture, glow, plumping and nourishment.
I use this luxurious moisturiser on ALL of my clients prior to any other makeup prep/products. Using my fingers, I work this over the entire face and allow it to sink in for a short while before makeup application. You can see how it really does plump the skin; pores are less defined, dry skin is softened and there’s a beautiful glow to the face, all of which makes for a great base!
Magic Cream is available in 3 sizes and comes with a bit of price tag;
30ml £49/$64 (ideal for travel)
50ml £70/$100
150ml £180/$255
Applying a liquid highlighter underneath foundation is the best way to achieve that glow-from-withinappearance to your skin. Charlotte recently launched her Hollywood Flawless Filter which does exactly that! It is a complexion booster, designed to give you a mega-watt glow whilst priming your skin ready for foundation/concealer. This liquid highlighter can be worn alone, underneath your foundation or mixed with your foundation for added dewiness. It contains a blend of ingredients to help achieve a soft-focus feel, creating smoother looking luminous skin that diminishes that appearance of fine lines and pores.
There are 7 shades available in the Hollywood Flawless Filter, ranging from Fair to Dark. The majority of the shades have a neutral undertone with a hint of either Peach, Beige, Golden or Warm. There is something for everyone!
I have two shades which I’ve swatched above for you;
- 1 Fair - Neutral beige complexion booster for very fair skin
- 4 Medium - Neutral golden yellow complexion booster for medium skin tones
One of the key ingredients within this formula is a Glossy Oil; a lightweight moisturising oil that reflects and adds light to your face where you need it.
It looks particularly great under studio lighting when used for editorial purposes, personally, I’m less of a fan of it for everyday use on my own skin because I’m oily. If, however, you have drier skin and the texture is very smooth you can achieve the most beautiful finish! This product used over a bare, well-moisturised face can give you that sought after glass-like skin!
If you do suffer from excessive oil, use this only on the high points of the face.
Going back to ‘texture’, if you have raised bumps or an uneven complexion, applying any product that has light reflecting particles willenhance that texture. So bear that in mind before going all-in.
Hollywood Flawless Filter 30ml - £30/$45
After applying your Magic Cream AND your Hollywood Flawless Filter you should be looking pretty radiant! BUT… sometimes you can find after applying your foundation you look a little flat. Now, I’m referring to the contours of your face rather than the glow, or lack of. Foundation and concealer tend to knock back the shadows as they even out your complexion, which is great when it comes to dark circles but not when it comes to your cheekbones! So we need to redefine these areas by adding back some colour, only this time where we want it.
You can use cool toned products to contour as these mimic shadows, however, we’re slowly but surely coming away from the heavy contouring we’ve known for the past 5 years and are embracing a fresh new approach! Cream sticks are a fantastic way to add a wash of colour to the skin without mattifying it or making it look heavy.
Charlotte Tilbury has created 4 colour-saturated pigments for an irresistible summer glow, known as Beach Sticks, aka blush sticks.
They are super easy to use as they come in a stick-form which can be applied directly from the bullet and simply blended in with your fingertips!
I have three of the four shades available:
- Moon Beach- a luminous, rose-gold iridescent peach shade, the ideal colour to give your skin that radiant ‘golden-goddess’ glow!
- Formentera - a sun-kissed berry colour, perfect for creating a healthy, glowing complexion that looks like you’ve spent the week on a beach.
- Ibiza - a burnished bronze shade, a great way to create dimension to the face by warming up the skin and sculpting the cheekbones.
Ceramidone is a key ingredient within the Beach Sticks which acts like a poly-filler to plump up & refill the skin. What makes this consistency unique are the high melting point waxes that hydrate the skin creating a dewy & supple finish, while light-diffusing spheres soft-focus imperfections & bring radiance to your face. This paired with the glowing, colour-saturated pigments makes for a beautiful all-in-one face stick!
Each Beach Stick is filled with 6.5g of product at a retail value of £30/$45each.
An exciting launch from Charlotte Tilbury is the return of her best-selling Pillow Talk eyeshadow palette, an extension to her ever-growing Luxury Palettes and an accompaniment to her existing (and very popular) Pillow Talk look!
This is your ‘everyday’ eyeshadow palette that will enable you to create subtle but stunning, romantic and feminine eye looks.
The quad consists of 4 shades; 2 matte finishes and 2 satin shimmers.
- Champagne Pink
- Matte Dusky Rose
- Soft Matte Brown
- Rose Gold Sparkle
These are universally-flattering shades designed to enhance all eye colours! The warmer tones will really bring out Blues & Greens, and will really complement Browns and Hazels.
This is a great colour palette for everyone but particularly ideal if you’re not super confident with pairing eyeshadows. It’s colour coded so that you can pair any of these 4 shades together and it’ll work as they’re subtle in tone. You can opt for a barely-there look, or, you can create a warm brown smoke layered with shimmer on the centre of the lid or inner corner of the eye for that something extra special. This would be a beautiful bridal palette, especially if you pulled the entire look together with the Pillow Talk blusher,lip liner&lipstick!
This eyeshadow palette retails at £39/$53, and the Pillow Talk Look which includes the entire 4 piece range is £107/$145.
Shonagh x
METALLIC BLUE FOR BROW EYES
Last week I created this vibrant Blue eyeshadow look with a pop of pink in the centre for a pretty wet-look highlight. I used a mix of pressed shadows and loose pigments - click here for the tutorial.
Complementary Colours
Notice how the Blue really enhances the Brown shade of my eyes? It makes them appear more vibrant and vivid.
Are you familiar with which colours enhance YOUR eye colour?
Check out the colour wheel below to see which shades work best with your iris.
For example, the complementary colour to Blue is Orange! So warm orangey/copper tones will enhance Blue eyes.
ForGreen eyes it’s similar, any eyeshadows that are Orangey/copper, reddish browns and purple/violet tones will bring out the Green.
Brown eyes can wear any colour but in particular, Blues make them appear more intense.
For those of you with the rarer Grey eyes, you have a few choices, you can either enhance the Blue within your Grey or the Green within your Grey.
OR, you can make the Grey appear lighter by wearing a charcoal eyeshadow and smoking out the lash line with Black!
Any questions on this just shout!
Shonagh x
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NATASHA DENONA TRANSFORMATTE FOUNDATION
If you’re on the hunt for the fully mattifying foundation that doesn’tlook and feel cakey or heavy on the skin then this one might just be for you!
WHO’S IT FOR?
It says on the website that this is suitable for sensitive skin. It also says it’s ideal for all skin types but to use the appropriate primer underneath suited to you.
On first appearances, what makes this foundation different is the texture and the formula, it’s much more fluid than a regular matte finish foundation. Even though it has a runnier consistency this doesn’t compromise the coverage, which is a medium to full coverage that minimises the appearance of pores and blemishes. However, I am an oily skin-type by nature and rarely have dry patches, at the moment I have a few due to a new skincare regime and this product enhance and clung to those areas. So I would personally avoid this if you have dry skin.
WHAT’S IN IT?
This is a silicone based foundation and is formulated without parabens. Natasha has made sure that the formula includes skin-loving botanical extracts that work to optimize hydration and minimise shine for photo-flawless skin.
Many makeup products, much like skincare, now include active ingredients aimed at shielding your skin from environmental damages as well as tackling anti-ageing. This foundation is armed with peptides and powerful antioxidants geared to towards doing just that!
PACKAGING
The packaging is synonymous with the entire ND range, clean and professional looking. The tube has a removable white plastic lid that reveals a small pump-action dispenser. I have found that you really do have to continually pump this on your first go, so be cautious as it catches you off guard and squirts out with projection! A major plus to this packaging is that the tube itself is a squeezy tube, so when you get to the end of your foundation you can remove the dispenser and squeeze out the remnants, unlike many glass bottled foundations where you waste what could be another few days of wear!
SHADES
There are a whopping 35 shades available in this range, from Fair to Deep and in a variety of undertones; neutral, warm, yellow and red.
WEAR
A little goes a long way and upon trying this I found it goes on best with a buffing brush rather than a sponge. Although it’s quite fluid it doesn’t slip around easily without buffing and it sets quite quickly, once it’s in place it doesn’t move! It doesn’t leave a streaky finish when using a brush so there’s no need to finish off with a sponge to achieve that airbrushed finished.
It stayed put all day long and covered blemished without the need for a concealer.
WHICH UNDERTONE ARE YOU?
A quick way to tell which undertone you are is to look at the veins on your wrist, the colour they appear will give a good indication as to which undertone you are:
- Blue = warm/pink undertone
- Green = cool/yellow undertone
- both Blue & Green = neutral undertone
SWATCHES
I received 11 of the 35 shades in my PR package and I have swatched them below for you:
PRICE
You get a good amount of product, each tube contains 0.94 FI Oz/ 28 mL.
It’s quite a pricey foundation, it retails at £39.00/$45.00
Makeup can be very much like buying shoes - you get what you pay for!
There are definitely a few gems on the high street that dupe for expensive brands but they are few and far between, if you find you’re an oily girl that is on the hunt for the holy grail matte foundation then save up your pennies and give this a whirl.
WHERE TO BUY
UK & WORLDWIDE: http://bit.ly/2S6asd4
US: http://bit.ly/2S3WEQr
Shonagh xx
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HOLLYWOOD GLAM TUTORIAL - ACNE PRONE SKIN
The tutorial for this makeup look was highly requested after I uploaded the image on Instagram last month! It’s perfect for the festive season and is great for those of you that suffer with acne as the coverage is full without looking cakey.
All the products used have been listed & linked within the description bar of the video on my channel.
Enjoy!
Shonagh
EMILE CORDON - MIRACLE LIP BALMS
If you’ve followed my blog for a while now you may remember that I featured the exquisite brand, Emile Cordon, and 2 of their sumptuous lip balms last year! Well, I have my hands on 6 of their newest launches and I’m super excited to share them with you! (You can find my previous post ‘here’ for more info on Emile Cordon)
If like me you tend to opt for a balm over a lipstick then you’re going to fall in love with these splendid little pots, more so as 4 of the Miracle Lip Balms come as a 2-in-1! Read on…
Thebeauty of the original Cashmere-On Lip Pots went far beyond their appearance, it was the texture, the formula AND their unique scent. The Miracle Lip Balms are equally sublime, and the notable difference between the collections is the new Black & Gold packaging. Still so elegant and attractive in appearance, one that makes you want to carry the box around as it looks too expensive to throw away.
So, within this Miracle Lip Balm range, Emile Cordon has produced a new line known as the ‘Haute Couture’ collection. There are four shades in this line, all of which have an alluring scent of Rose Champagne & Strawberry Leaves, very delectable!
As I mentioned above, what makes these 4 balms unique is that not only can you add a wash of colour to your lips, you can also pop them on to your cheeks for a matching flush! The 2-in-1 lip and cheek tints contain Kukui Nut Oil, Almond Oil, Vitamin E, Squalane to nourish, soften and protect your pout.
The colour payoff varies dependent upon the shade you choose and all four are buildable so you can decide on the intensity.
When I want minimal products on my face I want it to look fresh, dewy and glowy, so I always choose creamy based products and this formula is extremely comfortable to wear, it adds a lovely youthful glow to the cheeks which makes it ideal for that ‘no-makeup makeup’ look! These 2-in-1 pots are a great addition to my makeup bag.
- Charlotte - This appears to be a vivid true Red shade within the pot but is much more subtle upon swatching - which pleases me. It is definitely buildable though and wouldn’t overwhelm the cheeks like you might expect.
- Madison Queen - Much more of an Umber Orange shade, this one is the deepest colour and gave the most colour payoff.
- Chic Chic Boom - Inside the pot, this ones appears to be an intense Coral shade but actually more-so resembles the natural lip colour when applied, which I could see many people really enjoying! This would be my favourite pairing for both the lips and cheeks.
- Powdered Rose- A gorgeous rose pink shade that adds a healthy flush to your lips. I’m not usually a fan of Pink with my complexion, I’m more for the peachy tones but I’ve found this is the one I use the most!
Back row left to right: Madison Queen, Rosé Imperial, Chic Chic Boom
Front row left to right: St. Barts Soleil, Powdered Rose, Charlotte
The last two balms I selected were based on their mouth-watering scents!
Notes:
- St Barts Soleil - Fresh Coconut, Pineapple, Vanilla Accord (this smells like a mix of the tropical Caribbean and a scrumptious cake! It’s my ultimate favourite balm and has no colour, just a high glossy shine)
- Rosé Imperial - Sparkling Rose Champagne, Fresh Tea Rose, Charming Vanilla (very reminiscent of the chilled pink bubbly so many love!)
Attached below are some swatches of the 6 balms on my arm, please note that this image doesn’t do them justice as they sit much more vividly on the lips than they do on the arm.
Left to right: Charlotte, Powdered Rose, St. Barts Soleil, Chic Chic Boom, Rosé Imperial, Madison Queen.
Each pot contains a generous 0.42 .oz/ 12g, and are relatively expensive BUT you most certainly get what you pay for! Emile Cordon doesn’t just produce a ‘lip balm’, it’s an experience. Each pot contains active ingredients to not only add a shine to your lips but to care for them, nourish them and keep them comfortably hydrated all day every day!
The Haute Couture collection retails at $65 each, and the remaining Miracle Lip Balms retails for $54 each. Emile Cordon has kindly given my followers a 10% discount code to use at the checkout: SHONAGH
Enjoy!
Shonagh x
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