MOTD: Casual, Minimal Look

A little make-up of the day blog post from me on casual, yet minimal look, if you aren’t in the mood for the whole deal but still want to do a little bit.

I generally go for the minimal make-up look for every day, but as my parents were visiting and we were planning to head into town I thought I should do a little bit more. It is a little more without it feeling like a lot, and the look still only took five minutes in total.

First, I started with my base for which I used Missha’s Perfect Cover B.B. Cream in number 21. The colour is a perfect match for my skin now, and I really do love this BB cream. It blends easily, and doesn’t feel or look like you are wearing anything, but simply that your skin does look that good. Koreans know a thing or two about BB creams. Then I put some eye shadow primer from INK by Dennis Knudsen on just in case the eye shadow wanted to mess with me.

Of eye shadow, I picked Sable (frost) from my MAC palette, which is the one with a few dens in as I have dropped it previously, and put it all over my lid and blended it in. I applied my MaxFactor 2000 Calorie Waterproof Volume in Rich Black to mark my lashes. On the cheeks I lightly applied a mix of Sleek’s Guipure and Chantilly to give them a little colour instead of letting the cold do that job. Finally, I dabbed a bit of MAC’s Cremesheen Glass lipgloss in Star Quality on my lips, which can be play up or down to whatever you are in the mood fod.

What make-up is your favourite at the moment? And what look do you like for autumn?

Until next time,

Mia ♥ 

DIY: The 'What Does The Fox Say?' Make-Up Travel Bag

big edition and small edition

Some months ago, I came to realize I was in need of a separate travel make-up bag as I was searching through my toilet bag at my parents’ house, looking for my lipstick. Many girls have probably been in that situation, which is just bothersome.

Online shops didn’t offer any I found interesting or special, so I decided I could make it myself and began googling DIY make-up bags, which led to this Danish one: http://stjernefroe.blogspot.dk/2012/09/diy-makeuppung.html. While I know not everybody understands Danish, the tutorial is illustrated with so many pictures that the actually text isn’t needed. I didn’t read the text myself as I need to see it visually to understand the steps, however I can translate if somebody requests it.

The make-up bag has the right measurements in my opinion as my brushes can easily fit into it, which is why I adore it so much and why I wanted to share this DIY. Also I can easily spot this in my bag/suitcase due to the fabric selection.

What you need:

·         Two fabrics, unless you wanna make this completely mono (26x15 cm if you want to make the big one on my picture).

·         1 zipper (25 cm).

·         Thread.

·         A sewing machine.

Then there is simply to follow the steps in the link – again, if you want a translation (and Google fails at that), let me know and I will piece one together.

What is the last DIY you have made?

Until next time,

Mia ♥ 

Beauty: Makeup Brushes Cleaning

I am honestly not good at cleaning my makeup brushes; I simply don’t do it as regularly as I definitely should and, yeah, my brushes probably aren’t liking that. I suppose my failure at cleaning my brushes is because I have never quite gotten the right mixture together and think it is too expensive to buy something already made in shops. Students don’t have a lot of money, so one (or at least I) tends to look for an easy home made remedy. I have tested and tested, and none has been great… but that simply needed to stop.

My brushes were in need for a good cleaning, thus my quest for a good home made remedy started on YouTube. YouTube has endless and endless of options and ideas, though many mention buying something in shops (e.g. MAC) which is simply a no-go for me. However, I came across Michelle Phan’s video who mentioned using extra virgin oil and antibacterial dishwashing soap – both things I have in my apartment – and mixed together it was supposed to be good for your brushes.

  

As the picture illustrates it looked rather weird mixing them together, but I was up for trying it out. I only own eight brushes – good brushes are so expensive, yikes! – so, the cleaning in total only took 10 minutes by following Michelle’s video.

After the cleaning my brushes, they came to stand ‘head’ down in a random cup so the water can run down and away from the brushes. That is important. If you do it with ‘head’ up, then the water can ruin your brush and the glue holding your brush together.

Ugh, it looks disgusting, but shows my brushes were definitely in need of a good cleaning.

How you do clean your brushes? Do you have any good tips?

Until next time,

Mia ♥