Last Minute Halloween Cat Costume!

Hey everyone! So Halloween is just around the corner and for all you procrastinators, this post should come in handy, I'm going to show you all a ,more cute than scary, cat look for Halloween. Yes, I know it's "basic" :p but it's really simple and can be a quick go-to costume, if you left it all to the last minute.  Anyway let's go...

~Makeup~

Eyes:
1) Apply your usual face makeup; foundation, concealer, powder, etc.
2) Start off with primed eyelids and stick tape on to guide your eyeshadow into a more cat like and sharp look. Follow the angle of your lower lash line.

(Tip: stick and take off the tape on the back of your hand for a couple of times to make it less sticky when you peal it off.)

3) Now, pick out a matte taupe brown colour and use it as a wash all over your lid.

4) With a matte darker brown blend it into your crease making sure there is no harsh lines.
5) Using black eyeshadow or even an eyeliner pencil just add it into your crease to darken it up and to create a smokey effect.

6) Create a dramatic cat eye with black, liquid eyeliner using the tape as a guide to help you with the wing.
7) Elongate your inner corners of your eyes by lining and extending the tear duct area, giving a cat eye effect.
8) Line your water line with a black pencil eyeliner

9) Curl your eyelashes, but focusing on your outer lashes more.
10) Apply falsies, but for a more cat eye effect, just apply false lashes to your outer lashes only.
11) Finish off with mascara blending your natural lashes and falsies together.


Mouth and Nose:

1) Now to draw on the cat features, use black liquid eyeliner to colour in the tip of your nose and septum.
2) Following on from your septum, draw a line down to your cupids bow  and connect it to your upper lip.
3) Outline your upper lip with the black eyeliner and fill it in with black lipstick or the black eyeliner.
4) For the whiskers, again using your black eyeliner draw
three lines on each cheek and finish off a few dots on each side of the corners of your mouth.

5) You can either fill in your bottom lip with a matte brown lipstick, matching your eyeshadow or go for a more dramatic matte red lipstick.

That's all for the makeup look! Fairly simple and all you need is a few staple makeup pieces and nothing you wouldn't already have in your makeup collection! Remember to peel off your tape, to reveal your angular cat eye eyeliner and eyeshadow.

For your cat inspired outfit, it doesn't get much easier than this, just throw on an all black with outfit, whether that's a pair of black leggings and a long sleeved tee or a black dress that up to you! Personally, if your going for the red lipped makeup option a dress would look more prettier and "elegant" with it, but it's up to you. Oh and make sure to not leave out your cat ears, that's what brings the whole outfit together!

That's all for this post, hope you enjoyed and happy Halloween everyone! X

-Eliza

5 Quick and Easy Hairstyles

Hey everyone! So for those days when your in a rush or overslept, here's 5 quick hairstyles you can always do. Most of the pictures are self explanatory and easy to work out, but you can also read the instructions for guidance :) So if you need some hair inspiration, keep reading! Hope you enjoy :)

Half Up Braided Crown

1) Split your hair into a middle part
2) From one side pick up a small section of hair, not your front pieces but halfway on your head.
3) Braid loosely for a more effortless look
4) Repeat on the other side
5) Secure down one braid, wrapping the other one below it with a hair grip/bobby pin

( If you have more time you can loosely curl the ends of your hair to complete the look)

Twisted Pony Tail

1) On one side of you head start twisting a small section of your hair, just wrapping two pieces of hair around eachother.
2) Add a small piece of hair to intertwine into the twist from the hair above the twist.
3) Then a small piece of hair from below the twist.
4) Keep repeating this, you don't have to twist all the way down to ends of the piece of hair as it will get gathered in a pony tail.
5) Lastly gather all your hair, including the twist and tie it up with a cute pony tail holder.

This may seem tricky to understand at first in written form but I promise it's easier than it seems ;)

Inverted Half Up Half Down Pony Tail

1) Gather the front sections of your hair, from either side of your head.
2) Secure the two pieces around your head with a hair elastic
3) Loosen up the pony tail slightly and flip the pony tail into the loop.

Messy Side Braid

1) Flip most of your hair onto one side creating a deep part on one side
2) Start braiding down your hair loosely to create an effortless look.
3) Pull apart your braid, not completely so that your left with stray hair strands, just to thicken it up a little.
4) Finish off with hairspray on your roots.

Tucked In Twist

1) From the front side of your head start doing a simple twist to your hair
2) Repeat this step only on the other side of your hair
3) Pick up a layer of hair and secure one twist under it on, half way on your head
4) Repeat this step with your other twist, hiding it under the same layer of hair

Hope you found some inspiration in these hairstyles, some might be tricky to grasp at first, but I hope the pictures are a good visual representation of them to help you understand. Thank you for reading!
Comment and follow us please for more! X

-Eliza

Halloween Cupcake Recipe

Hey everyone! So Halloween is this month and I'm soo excited! So today I thought I'd tell you how to make some fun cupcakes that taste AMAZING!

Ingredients- (makes 10 cupcakes)

For the cupcakes:

•   50g Butter     
• 120g Caster Sugar
• 160g plain flour
•  2 teaspoons baking powder
• 160ml milk
• 1 egg
• Vanilla extract (depending how strong you want the vanilla to be)
• Black food colouring

For the icing:

·    100g icing sugar

·    50g butter

·    Dash of milk

·    Orange food colouring

Add the black food colouring to the milk until you get your desired colour and pre-heat your oven to gas mark 4. Cream the butter and sugar together. Then fold in the flour and baking powder and gradually add the milk. It seems like a lot at first but using more milk and less butter makes the cupcakes so soft and delicious! Add the egg and vanilla extract and continue beating the mixture thoroughly. Spoon the mixture into cupcake cases (preferably black because...well, Halloween!

For the icing, cream together the butter and icing sugar. Then add the food colouring until you get the colour how you want it.

For extra decoration, add some black sprinkles and whatever other Halloween-y decorations you can think of and you’re done! ;)

~Alissa x

Contouring and Highlighting

Contouring has become a massive thing in the makeup world over the last few years and there are hundreds of tutorials about it all over the internet. Having watched probably more than 3 days worth of footage all about contouring and highlighting, I had still never managed to get it right and it doesn’t help that I’m majorly lacking in the cheekbone department :/ But from every video I’ve watched about it and every blog post I’ve read, I’ve managed to pick up some tips and tricks, put them all together and (for me) come up with the best way of contouring and highlighting my face. (Grab some snacks because I'm guessing that it'll be a long one)

Before reading this, it'd probably be a good idea to find out what contouring and highlighting is if your not sure :)

Contouring

I used to think that contouring was just impossible unless you were already blessed with perfect, Angelina Jolie like cheekbones because having tried quite a few contouring products before, they always made me look like an orange mess and never came out right no matter what. I couldn’t see what I was doing wrong; I would follow every video on YouTube exactly how they said and I got VERY frustrated when it didn’t look good. So I figured that I was using the wrong shade for my face. Looking at people who naturally had sculpted cheekbones, I noticed that the ‘contour’ wasn’t really like the brown coloured shades that I’d been using, but more a cool grey tone. Thinking I would have to splurge out for another contouring kit, I decided to leave it be as I hardly EVER do contour. So I was more than glad when I came across the Delicious Eyeshadow by Makeup Revolution from Kaushal Beauty’s channel, and it’s only £1! Using that made me get the hang of this whole contouring business and I feel like it’s a great shade for most people (if not you could always add a more bronzed powder on top). I’m guessing that the Hoola Bronzer is a great colour if your skin is more pale because it’s a cool brown shade, so isn’t too harsh on your face.

Sick Day Essentials

Hey everyone! Colder seasons are here and I feel like almost everyone is becoming sick, or is it just me? But if we're trying to be optimistic here, at least it's an excuse to be lazy and lounge around (me every other day...) Anyways to make these days less hellish here are some tips and tricks for comforting day snuggled in bed! :)

~ Food ~

1. Hot Drink
Sick day mornings can be the worst, especially if you wake up with a sore throat so make sure you have something to warm you up, I would obviously recommend hot chocolate because, well...CHOCOLATE! Herbal tea or even just a homemade mixture of heated lemon juice and honey with ginger, it does wonders for treating a sore throat and coughing.

2. Oatmeal 

Another comforting food would be oatmeal or porridge, which I actually really love on just a normal day and it is really quick to make so you don't have to stand around for it for too long, especially if you use the instant oatmeal brands.

3. Chicken Noodle Soup
We all know Chicken Noodle Soup is a classic for treating colds and it tastes amazing too. The ginger really helps! Unfortunately I'm not talented enough to make my own recipe so here is the link to the best one I've tried yet :p
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1869/chicken-noodle-soup

And for those of us who don't want to put in that much effort into making Chicken Noodle Soup, which is understandable, a good alternative would be Pot Noodles Chicken and Mushroom which is so simple to make. You just fill it with boiling water to the marked line, leave it to stand and you're done!

~ Makeup and Outfit~
What's even worse than being sick is, going OUT while you're sick. Here are is an easy makeup look and outfit that's easy and laid back, but still put together so you DON'T look like you're dying inside..

Makeup

September Favourites

Hey everyone! So this month I've tried out a lot of new products so today I thought I would talk to you about some of my favs!

1) Sleek Original Eyeshadow Palette 

The eyeshadows is this palette are VERY pigmented. They are all shimmery except the matte black and although I prefer my eyeshadows to be matte, these are always great for a special occasion!

2) Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer

This stuff is honestly the best concealer I have EVER used. It covers up amazingly as well as brightening under your eyes. The consistency isn't too thick which is something that puts me off about many concealers and it feels very lightweight. 

3) Makeup Revolution One Blush Stick

This is supposed to be a stick blusher, however the shade I have is Matte Malibu so it can easily be pulled off as a contour shade. You can get either a matte or a sheer look by applying it with a wet brush and the finish is amazing. Although I've personally never tried it myself, a lot of reviews say it's a great dupe for the Nars Matte Multiple but 6x less the price!

Moving away from the makeup and onto the skincare side of things. These products are incredible and always make your skin super soft after your shower!

DIY Halloween Decor

Hey everyone! So to put us all in the festive, Halloween spirit (no pun intended ;) I decided to share some easy Halloween room decor ideas you can make without having to put in too much effort and its just a nice way to spice up your room a bit this Autumn. I included some inspiration pics with each DIY, so you can extract some ideas from there too. Anyway let's get started!

1) Glow In The Dark Mason Jar

You will need:
Glow sticks
Glitter
Mason jar
Knife
Googly eyes

This DIY is so simple to make and it looks so pretty in the dark, definitely one of my faves! You can use it to light up the room while you have a Halloween movie marathon or even just as a cute bed side table decoration.

1.Cut open the end of your glow stick be careful not to touch it and empty it out into the mason jar, add in your glitter
2. Close the lid TIGHTLY and then shake vigorously to spread it all over the jar
3. Glue on a pair of googly eyes onto the front of the jar and you're done!

2) Glowing Mummy Mason Jar
You will need:

Mason jar
Sheer ribbon/fabric
Googly Eyes
Tea light

Also using mason jars, this DIY can be a nice touch to your room and I think it looks so cute and festive for this time of year. To make it a bit more 'Autumn' you can use orange or maroon coloured sheer ribbon instead to wrap around the jar.