Cleaning your makeup brushes!

Hey everyone, sorry I haven't posted anything in a while. I thought today I would do a simple makeup brush cleaning post, as you can probably tell from the title. Cleaning your makeup brushes is quite important, as using dirty makeup brushes on your face will spread bacteria and lead to greasy skin and acne which I'm sure nobody wants. I clean my brushes about once every two weeks, as I don't use them too often, but if you do use your brushes everyday or just feel like they could do with being cleaned a little more often, then that is perfectly fine. This is just how I clean my brushes, I'm sure there are many other ways or tricks to making your brushes seem good as new again, and anyone is more than welcome to share there tips in the comments section below. I hope you enjoy reading!

1. When cleaning you're brushes, you will need three things. A bowl of clean water, a towel ready to put all wet brushes on afterwards and a cleaner of your choice. You can buy brush cleaners from certain shops, but I normally use a conditioner or a dove body wash (Yes, I know its meant for your body and not brushes). Today I'm using Aussie Miracle shine conditioner.

2. Make sure your hands a little damp, before adding a drop of your cleanser on to the tip of your first brush. 

3. Carefully, start to swirl your brushes on to the palm of your hand, adding a little more water if you feel you need too. At this point, all the foundation or concealer or whatever else you used this particular brush for, should be slowly coming out in to the palm of your hand and your brush should be looking a lot more like its original colour. 

4. You can carry on swirling like this until you feel like most of the rubbish in the brush is out, then gently dip the brush in to the bowl of water. You don't really want your brush soaking wet, so it would be best to wipe the brush carefully up the side of the bowl, therefore draining the majority of the water out. 

5. Repeat this process on the same brush, adding more of your cleanser if you feel its needed before swirling it on the towel and gently drying it a little. 

6. You can repeat these few steps with the rest of your brushes, it usually takes me about 10-15 minutes  but of course it depends on how many brushes you have to clean. 

That is all for this blog post, I hope you enjoyed it! I have put a few pictures below at what my brushes look like after using this cleaning method just incase anyone wanted to see finished results before trying this out for themselves. 

My favourite skin care products!

Hi Everyone, today I am going to be showing you some of my favourite skin care products! All the products below can be found in boots and other drugstores and are all reasonably priced. I hope you enjoy this!

The first product is a facial wash. This really helps clear your skin of any dirt or makeup. It keeps your skin soft and moisturised and helps with acne and spots on your face. When using this product it is best not to scrub your face as that will damage your skin but other than that I think this product is so good for your skin and I would highly recommend it to anyone currently having trouble with their skin.

The next product is a facial toner. This has helped me so much with greasy skin. I use it every morning and night along with Simples Moisturising facial wash and Simples replenishing rich moisturiser. I've been using this product for ages now and absolutely love it. It's great for when struggling with greasy skin and shows results quickly, one of my favourite skin care products!

The last product is Simples 'deep cleansing face mask'. I don't really use face masks that often, but I thought I'd give this one a try and, so far, it has exceded my expectations. This face mask throughly cleans your skin, helping to completley clear your skin which prevents acne and annoying spots.

I hope you've enjoyed this blog post, I am hoping to be able to write more often now that the summer holidays has started! Thats all for now, bye! xx

Scrapbooking ideas!

Hi everyone, sorry I haven't posted much recently! I wasn't quite sure what to write about this week, so I decided to go a bit off topic with the whole makeup thing and write about scrapbooking. Now I know not everyone is in to keeping books to write or draw or stick things in but for those who are (like myself) sometimes it can be difficult to choose what to actually create in you're book. I remember buying many pretty note books intending to fill them all with endless designs and patterns like I was going to magically become Picasso overnight, but the problem is, how to start? Many people decide that leaving the first page blank is by far the best option, and can give you more time to think about what you're actually going to create on it, but if you are not like this and prefer to fill each page, then I thought I give you all some suggestions.

1. The first thing you could do either on the first page or just any other random page in your book is buy a bunch of pretty or cute stickers and stick them at random, accompanying them with maybe a quote or your name or a few words on what you want to fill the rest of your book with.

2. The second thing you could write in your book is quotes. I absolutely love a ton of quotes from John Green's book, The fault in our stars which is absolutely incredible. You can take any type of statement or quote that you like though and document it, whether its from a book or famous scientist or actor.

3. If you're looking for something quite simple to do, then another thing which looks arty is going on to Tumblr or Pintrest and finding some pictures that you like or are interested by, printing them out and sticking them in to your book. I have done this myself and I think it looks very creative considering it's quite simple.

4. Right, so the last idea I thought that I would throw in is using the things around you. Like nature, for example, in this picture I collected a whole bunch of different leaves and simply stuck them down and there you have it! Another page succsesfully filled. If sticking leaves in your book doesn't appeal as fun or arty to you, then instead of leaves you could buy flowers and press them (you know, with one of them cool flower press things) and stick them in any shape or pattern you like. You could collect stamps or whatever you find of interest to stick in your book as well.  

That is all for my blog post today, I hope that it has given you a few ideas of your own. Thank you if you've read this far, hope you enjoyed! xx

June Favourites!

Hey Everyone! Today I am going to show you all the makeup products that I have been using and loving recently. They are all drugstore products (except one) or whatever you want to call them, so they will be available to buy from boots and super drug at reasonable prices if you wish to try them out! I hope you enjoy! xx

So the first two products I want to talk about are foundations! The one on the left is from Lush and in the shade 'Light Pink', the one of the right is Maybelline's 'Fit me!' Liquid foundation in the shade '120, Classic Ivory'. Now normally, I would use only one brand of foundation on my face, but my skin is quiet pale and most of the palest shades in foundations don't actually cover that much on you're face. Well, my face. So I decided to go for one shade up from the palest colour and it did cover up A LOT more on my face, but I ended up looking a lot darker then I hoped for. I decided that instead of wasting more money on a new foundation, I might as well just mix it with another colour. Lush's colour supplement was my first foundation and so as I the colour was near enough perfect to my skin tone I gave them a little mix and voila! The perfect foundation for my skin and maybe anyone who is just as pale as me! These two mixed together provide lasting coverage without looking or feeling caked in makeup and I would recommend both products to use separately or together to any girl looking to try out a new foundation.

The next product that I have been loving is Seventeen's Stay Time concealer and I have it in the shade Extra Fair. This concealer is perfect for covering up small flaws that can sometimes still be visible under foundation or other makeup. It lasts all day which is good because I hate having to re apply makeup throughout the day. This concealer blends quite well with the rest of my make up and conceals spots and redness without sticking out or highlighting them. Overall one of my favourite concealers that I've used!

                                         

The next products that I'd thought I'd show you is Great Lash Maybelline mascara and No7's new Lash Impact mascara. Lash Impact mascara is by far the best mascara I've ever bought. It is non-clumpy and extends you're lash length clearly and neatly. If that makes sense. Great Lash took me a while to get used to as the brush is about half the size of any other mascara brush I've used before. After using it for a while I discovered that having a smaller brush is actually a lot more helpful as it gives a more detailed look on you're lashes. The smaller brush catches each lash individually and gives you're eyes a much finer and smoother look. I love these mascaras so much and recommend that when you are in need of a new mascara, buy one of these as they are absolutely amazing.

                                               

So the last product that I've been using and loving recently is No7 High shine lip crayon, in the shade 'Delicate pink'. I understand that the picture would have looked better if the top was still pointy, but at least now you can see I have been using this product a lot. The colour is pretty and long lasting with, as it says on the container, a high shine to it. It always gives my lips a moisturised soft feel which is lovely, as well as looking pretty. Lips crayons are perfect to carry around and there are so many pretty colours to choose from, can't wait to try some of their other lip products!

So that is my recent favourites. I hope you enjoyed reading and would now be interested in trying some of these products out yourself! Thank you all for reading! xx 

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Hello everyone and welcome to my blog! This blog is going to be dedicated to things like make up, hair, fashion and any other things that I feel like blogging about or that is requested. I thought I'd start with a 25 things about me so that you can get to know me a bit more, Hope you all enjoy! xx

1. My name is Lauren!

2. I was inspired by Zoella to start this blog as one day I would love to start youtube videos and so on.

3. I love singing and maybe would one day like a career in music!

4. I'm quite a shy and quiet person but probably a lot louder once you get to know me!

5. Summer is so close ahh

6. I live in England.

7. I really want to move to somewhere by the sea, like Brighton or Devon!

8. The fault in our stars is incredible and I can't wait until the movie comes out in the cinemas near me!

9. I am wayyy too jealous of everyone in America already crying at tfios. 

10. I'm not that interesting. Just putting that out there.

11. I literally had to google step by step how to put this altogether (As in my blog so far) so sorry if it looks a bit rough right now!

12. I spend half my life on my phone.

13. My favourite food is probably lasagna which is weird because I used to hate it!

14. I took near enough ALL DAY trying to transport the photo to the right place before asking my dad and managing to do it in about two minutes omg

15. My hair is blonde. Just in case you were wondering.

16. I love candles but can't light them very often as my sister is scared that I will set fire to something else accidentally! 

17. I over think. A lot. About everything.

18. One day I want to travel the world. 

19. I want to read The perks of being a wallflower, It's kind of a funny story and Eleanor and Park (Sorry pointless fact)

20. If I'm comfortable around you then you will probably find me a complete weirdo. But weird is better than boring, right? 

21. I really want to meet Zoe Sugg, Tanya Burr, Sprinkle of Glitter (Louise) and so many other youtubers. 

22. I have one brother and one sister.

23. My favourite drugstore makeup product thing is probably the lash impact No7 mascara as it is INCREDIBLE and really recommend any girl reading this to try it out immediately! 

24. For my GCSES I'm taking Music, Media, Catering, Spanish, Geography and then of course english, maths and science!

25. My birthday is 6th of February!

Hope you all enjoyed this!