As I got ready this morning, I thought that I'd do my first ever makeup routine post, but be warned, it's not much! I'll have much more products soon.
(My night cream is also Nivea)
Nivea Daily Essentials Oil Free Moisturising Day Cream - £2.99
♡ Next, I prime my face. I've only ever used two primers, one of them was a L'oreal primer but I remember seeing this one on the TV and I thought I'd give it a try, and I haven't used any other primer ever since! I love it! All you need is a teeny bit (a bit smaller than the sample on my hand) and it will cover your whole face with just a pea size. It's such good value for money. It's aim is to blur the appearance of shine, fine lines, wrinkles and pores within 5 seconds, and it does exactly that! You can literally put on your foundation straight after applying this, no waiting around!
I can't really describe the texture of it other than it's sort of...paste like? It's a really strange texture, but it feels incredible soft on the skin and I sometimes just wear this without any other face makeup! It really smoothes the face and reduces any shine, and I noticed most of my pores immediately fade as soon as I put it on.
Garnier 5 Second Perfect Blue Primer - £12.99
♡ After moisturizing and priming I apply my tinted moisturiser. I've been using this for about 2 years now, before that I used to use Max Factor Miracle Touch foundation in a shade that, looking bad, it didn't even suit me! And it really started to dry my skin out so my Grandma took me to Debenhams one day and had my skin tested out at the Clinique station and then they choose which foundation/tinted moisturiser is the best for your skin! And I got this one and I've been using it ever since!
I have quite fair skin, I'd say from a scale of 1 to 5, 1 being the most pale, and 5 being dark skinned, I'd say I was about a 2 or maybe pushing at a 3. This shade is shade 2 and it's perfect for my skin, it's literally just the same colour really and blends in so well. It gives a lovely glow and you can't even tell I'm wearing makeup. It's also very light yet provides the best coverage, only a tiny bit will go such a long way. I love Clinique because I think they do provide a lot of products for lighter skin tones.
I apply it with my Clinique foundation brush. Ignore the price, it's worth the splurge! It's lasted me 2 years, with regular cleaning, and it's still just as soft as the day I bought it! Although it needs cleaning again soon (probably today). A little definitely goes a long way with this brush.
Clinique Moisture Surge Tinted Moisturiser Shade 2 - £22.00
♡ In the past I've been through so many concealers and then I saw Kim Kardashian tweet about this concealer and I thought I may as well give that a try (not to mention I'm a huge Kim fan!). I ordered it from America I think and it took quite a while to get here, but it was worth it!
You can buy these palettes in loads of different colours, this one is the European colour (palette 1). It comes with 5 different shades of pigmented creamy concealer, the first 3 are aimed to hide pores and blemishes, then the second one to the end (the one most used) is aimed to hide dark circles, it's really, really good! Now the end one, the green one is to apply before your foundation to cover redness and I suffer from a lot of redness so this was actually a god send! It's so amazing at hiding every single blemish and imperfection on your face and definitely worth the price.
Make Up Forever Camouflage Creme Palette European 1 - $39 (£24.95)
♡ Before I start, I'd just like to point out that this Soap & Glory powder did come with concealer too, but I don't use the concealer and it actually broke so I just use the powder. This is basically powder to put over your concealer which helps to hold the concealer in place, and it's really really good! I never have to re apply my concealer during the day because of this and I don't know where I'd be without it.Soap & Glory™ Kick Ass Concealer™ Camouflage Kit - £10.00
♡ Next comes the eyes. I don't really wear eyeshadow that much, although I am looking at some eyeshadow pallets and I'm planning on wearing it much more because it just looks so nice and brightens the eye.
First, I apply the eyeshadow primer; because I don't wear eyeshadow that much, I just bought this Soap & Glory one and I've stuck with it really, it does the job pretty much and you can wear this primer just by itself without any eyeshadow if you like. I am planning on buying a Smashbox one that I've read about, however. The eyeshadow I use it basically just a white/cream colour which helps to brighten my eye, you can't really tell I've got it on and that's the reason I bought it really, I just wanted a eyeshadow to brighten my eyes.
It's About Prime - £8.00
No7 Perfect Stay Eyeshadow shade Matte Colico - £7.00
♡ This mascara is only temporary mascara that I had to quickly buy out of what was left of my student loan because my other one ran out, and because I only had a bit of money left, I had to settle for the mini version of the Chanel mascara that I use. I love this mascara because it really does make your eyelashes bold and black and beautiful, and I'm all about the big eyelashes. Usually, with my regular sized mascara I'd only use the Chanel one for special occasions and I'd use a Rimmel London mascara for the day time, but since this was only cheap, I just use it whenever.
Chanel Le Volume De Chanel Mascara #10 Noir Black - £15.00
♡ I always add my powder before my blusher just to even out my skin before adding the final touch. I've found the Revlon Color Stay collection to be really good and well priced, I love all of the powders in the collection and this one has been my saviour all summer. As you can see I'm running low on it because I literally use it all of the time. On my no makeup days, I put on my primer, then just put this on top and I'm good to go. Actually, recently, I've been just wearing this powder and nothing else, it gives such good coverage. It keeps me shine free for hours without looking cakey and I hardly ever have
to touch up throughout the day
Revlon ColorStay Pressed Powder - £10.99
♡ This is a new blusher I've been using, usually I use a much brighter pink by Clinique, but I really love this colour and it gives such a nice subtle pink that I just use this all of the time now! It's sort of a rose colour and just gives that slight pink glow on the cheeks that's not too out there.
L'oreal Paris Le Blush True Match Blusher shade 125 Rose Nude/Nude Pink - £3.98
♡ Last but not least I do my eyebrows! I admit, I never used to even colour my eyebrows until a few months ago and I love it! This is the first eyebrow pencil I've ever bought and used and it seems to do the job perfectly! It has shades like blonde, brunette ect... I got the blonde shade as I have bright blonde hair, and this colour is literally the same shade as my natural eyebrows, it's perfect. It's sort of a ash colour (not very good on the picture, sorry). The consistency was not too soft and not too hard, the brush on the lid is fab and the wax is great for keeping eyebrow hairs in place.
L'oreal Paris Brow Artiste Eyebrow Pencil Blonde - £4.99
Total cost of daily routine - £146.39
(note; I use different makeup for my going out routine, which I'll do a post about one day)
xo
Lovely post! Love the products you are using!! Will definitely have a go at the Makeup Forever palette!!
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