My Travel Makeup Essentials!

As promised from my last post -My Travel Skincare Essentials- , this is my travel makeup essentials. As you may know I went on holiday recently and I am simply showing all the products that I took along with me! I didn't take too much makeup with me as I wanted to go for the ultimate no makeup - makeup look on a daily basis and I also took my staple products that I love and I know will work well for me!

To begin with, for my base I took the Body Shop All-In-One BB Cream. This product gives me a flawless very light covergae base and I love it, it looks so good on the skin and mine is nearly running out and I will definitely be repurchasing it!

For concealer I took my trusty old Maybelline Fit Me Concealer, this is just my ride or die concealer, I absolutely love it, it is a staple for me wherever I go!

I decided to take my Sleek Luminous Pressed Powder as I just wanted to take something that won't make me look flat and matte and will add more glow to my skin instead. I do really like this powder and it definitely prolongs the makeup while adding a tiny glow.

I also took with me my holy grail bronzer, The Body Shop Honey Bronzer. You all know how much I love this bronzer! I have many other bronzers but I always go back to this because it is simply amazing, from the colour to the pigmentation. I love it.

For the brows I just took the Maybelline Brow Drama in Dark Brown just to tame the Brow and add a little bit of colour to them too! I don't really do much to my brows but I always like to set them because they tend to go wild throughout the day!

I only took a pencil liner with me, the Soap&Glory Smoulder Kohl Eyeliner for the water line as it just gives subtle definition without being too much, like I said I wanted to go super natural!

 I had to take my new favourite mascara at the moment (full blog post coming soon) the Maybelline Lash Sensational Mascara. This mascara is all sorts of awesome, it gives legnth, volume and it makes it look like you have lots of lashes which is a huge plus! 

I had to also take 2 different lip options depending on what colour I was feeling that day. I took the NYX Xtreme Lip Cream in Skin Tone as my peachy nude shade and the Mac Lipstick in Peach Blossom as a more pinky nude shade! These are two of my favourite nudes and I love them!

So that concludes all my essentials for traveling! Make sure you check out my last post for my skincare essentials too! 

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My Travel Skincare Essentials!

So I just posted on my Instagram (beautily14) a picture of my skincare travel essentials and in this post I'm going to go in depth about all the products I have taken with me on holiday and I'm going to show you the minimal makeup I have brought with me in my next post! I will also do a post soon all about my holiday so look out for that, and that is also the reason for the lack of posts (sorry). I just brought with me my staple skincare bits that I use on a daily basis (except one thing, which I will mention later).

To start off with, the cleanser that I took away with me was the Soap & Glory Drama Clean 5 in 1 Micellar Cleansing Water. I have recently been trying this cleanser out and I do really like it as far as micellar waters go. It breaks down your makeup in an instant and it also takes off eye makeup well as well so I have been loving that! I did also take some cheeky wipes with me as well, the Garnier Micellar Cleansing Wipes because I knew I was bound to have some lazy nights when you just can't be bothered to take your makeup off the proper way but these wipes are Micellar wipes so I'm convincing myself they are good. As for SPF, because it is summer we need to protect, I am using the Garnier Ambre Solaire Face SPF 30. This is just a bog standard SPF but it is important! For my day time moisturiser I took with me the YesTo Carrots Rich Day Cream. I only bought this the other week and I am just trying it out of this holiday, so I don't know what to make of it just yet although what I can say is that it is very moisturising like it claims. My night time moisturiser has been the same for ages and its the Forever Aloe Moisturising Lotion. This is a thick moisturiser that really sinks into the skin for a deep moisture layer.

So these are my skincare travel essentials that I wouldn't go anywhere without! Watch out for my next post to see my makeup essentials!

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Artist Of Makeup Highlight & Contour Sticks!

I have wanted to try out these contour sticks for ages now, ever since Artist Of Makeup first launched because at that time they were very unique and I believe AOM were the first brand to create the 'Cream Contour Stick'. Now, many brands have come out with their own but I still waited to try the Artist Of Makeup ones because I have not seen a bad review on them yet.

I can now say that these contour sticks did not disappoint at all. They are creamy and smooth and blend like a dream, a little definitely goes a very long way with this product because it is very creamy although now you'd think it doesn't set and it moves around the face but no. It sets very nicely and you can layer on a powder contour on top to intensify it and prolong the longevity of it too. You can apply them under your foundation for a much softer contoured look or over your foundation for more definition.

These are the swatches for the contour sticks, if these look a little light for your complexion, Zukreat (founder of the brand) also created a 'medium' highlight stick along with a 'dark' contour stick for darker skin tones. I find the shades of these sticks would work very well for light - medium skintones because although the highlight may look very light or the contour may look very dark, I asure you, when you start blending them into the skin, they look amazing.

I think you can tell by now that I am head over heals in love with these contour sticks and I would recommend them to all! You won't be disappointed so give them a go!

Do you like contouring? 

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The Sponge

If you didn't know already, I love my Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge. I use it nearly every single day to apply my concealer because I find that nothing gives me a better finish including brushes and fingers. You can use it with any liquid/cream products (even some powder).

The beauty blender is very hyped between many bloggers and vloggers but I've never found the need to cave out and buy it because I love my RT one and its less than half the price.

If you haven't tried out this sponge yet, then I definitely recommend giving it ago because I just wouldn't apply my concealer with anything else. I sometimes do apply my foundation with it as well but it tends to give it a little less coverage so I do prefer to use brushes with foundation. I do although recommend that you change up your sponge every so often because old sponges get stained a lot easier and I have found from purchasing a new one that the bounciness wears away with it as well. You can see the different in the picture from an old to a new sponge (the old one is freshly washed as well) and there is a huge difference so make sure you do buy a new one when you find your old one getting a bit worse for wear!

Do you like using a sponge?

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