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Hey Hey Hey

It's the middle of December, which means we are well and truly into the party season! 

Sometimes it can be super hard picking a makeup look that is 1. affordable, 2. easy and 3. looks glamorous. 

Here are some of my favourite looks, done by myself to inspire you!

I am not naming any products, but if you wish to know any then please just comment below, I will be glad to help!

What makeup are you wearing to your big Xmas event?

lots and lots of love

Buffalicious

Hello beautiful people

"My makeup's too buffalicious for you babe"

Recently I posted about one of my new favourite eye shadow palettes, the W7 In The Buff: Lightly Toasted Palette*.

Naturally I decided to crack on and immediately do a simple eye look using the palette & Makeup Revolution's Focus & Fix Eye Primer*.

To start off I blended the shade Lady Luck from my crease upwards as my transition shade using a fluffy brush.

On the lid I used the shade Magic, pressed on with a wet flat brush. 

Next I deepened the crease using Up In Smoke softly, slowly building the colour up to get desired look.

For my brow highlight I used Teddy Bear lightly and built up the colour slowly.

To finish off the look I smudged a black khol eyeliner underneath and on my lower lash line, blending out a lot using Up In Smoke.

What do you think of this look?

lots of love

*products were sent for reviewing purposes

look and opinions however, are all my own

Smokey Eye Tutorial - Urban Decay Naked Basics

Hello beautiful people;

TGIF right?

To celebrate the weekend I'm doing my first full tutorial ready for those of you partying this weekend!

All eye shadows used are from the Urban Decay Naked Basics Palette £22, if you don't own this already then why?! So to get this look carry on reading !!

Lets get started, below is everything you're going to need for this look. If you don't have the exact items don't stress, just use what you have or buy whats in your budget!

Urban Decay Naked Basics/MAC 242 brush/MAC 210 brush/MAC 212 brush/MAC Painterly Paint Pot/MAC False Lashes Mascara/NYC Liquid Eyeliner/MAC Smolder Eyeliner/MAC 217 brush x2/Urban Decay Blending brush/MAC Studio Fix concealer in NC10

Step 1. Prime lids with Painterly (nude primer) Paint Pot

Step 2. Blend Naked 2 (matte light brown) eye shadow along the crease

Step 3. Pat Foxy eye shadow on the lid, softly blending into Naked 2

Step 4. Blend Faint (matte dark brown) into the crease but not right to the top

Step 5. Start to softly add and blend Crave (matte black) into the outer V and crease to deepen. Again don't go all of the way up

Step 6. Add Venus (pearl highlight) to the brow bone and inner corner

Step 7. Line your tight line (upper lash line) and lower lash line with Smolder eye liner, taking it a little lower than the lash line

Step 8. Using the Urban Decay blending brush slowly and softly blend this out making sure you don't take it too far down.

Step 9. (not shown) Using a 217 take Faint eye shadow and soften the black liner

Step 10. Add your favourite black liner. I used NYC's Liquid Liner with the 210 brush

Finish the look off by adding lashes, mascara and cleaning up any mess around the winged liner using the 212 brush and studio fix concealer.

I really hope this was easy enough to follow.

If you do recreate this look please tag me on twitter @effstar

lots of love, effstarbeauty xoxo

sunset smoke - inspired by ffimua

Hello Beautiful people;

Now, 12 months ago I was VERY afraid of using colour on my eyes apart from black, brown and all the standard neutral shades. HOWEVER, I met a wonderful Mac mua (Anna Williams) from the Sheffield counter whom has over the past year helped me fill my stunning mac eyeshadow palettes with lots of different, and occasionally scary (red brick i'm talking about you pal!) shades.

The look shown is incorporating some of my favourites to create a sunset blend as seen first time round done by the awesome urbanette ffi_mua (instagram). This smokey eye certainly packs a punch as well as being a fab all rounder for any skin tone/hair colour. 

I especially liked this look due to the warm tones used in and above the crease.

To achieve the sharp edge to this look use sellotape, make sure you don't put it over lashes though !

All of the products used on my eyes are listed below, as well as the prices.

Eyeshadow Primer: MAC Painterly £15

Eyeshadows: MAC red brick, fig1, swiss chocolate, rule and carbon £12.50 each

Urban Decay crave and venus from Naked Basics Palette £22

Estee Lauder last colour from Graphic Color Quad ltd editon 

Base for black: MAC fluidline in Blacktrack £15

Mascara: MAC False Lashes £18

Lashes: MAC 34's £10

Liner: MAC smolder £14

To go with the look I decided on a heavy brow that still looking very natural, you can get this look using both shadows and gel liners.

The products I used are as followed:

Gel Liner: MAC fluidline in dipdown £15

Eyeshadow: Urban Decay naked2 from Naked Basics £22

I'd love to know what you guys all think of the finished product so please don't hesitate to comment below! Any questions about this look will also be answered.

Thank you for reading!

Take Care.

lots of love, effstarbeauty x