My Natural Makeup Look

So this is something different eh? I do have a passion for makeup, and I do want to more of it..different everyday/glamour looks and even costume/theatrical looks, so I thought this would be a start, and show off a look I wear 90% of the time on a daily basis.

Arbonne primer £29.00

I was first introduced to Arbonne by my future sister in-law, she's a consultant. This company has some amazing products, so I decided to buy a primer, because I've never managed to find one that does the trick for me, and I am in love.

I use this first all over my face before I do any makeup, it makes a lovely barrier for my face when I apply makeup. This product is so silky smooth it makes my skin feel incredible and it is worth every penny.

Color trend perfect and hide concealer £3.00

I do use a fair few Avon products because I use to be a consultant, and there are a few products that I just can't not buy now. I use this after I applied the primer just to put over any spots I may have that day.

Estee Lauder double wear foundation £31.00

Next I apply foundation. It took me years to find my perfect foundation for my skin, a lot would wipe off within an hour, make me look orange or just didn't feel right on my skin. Until I found this. I use the shade 1W1 Bone because I'm extremely pale and it is perfect! And the way it sits on my skin is flawless.

Estee Lauder double wear concealer £22.50

So I apply this liquid concealer all under my eyes, I tend to suffer from really dark circles and this product covers it up beautiful. I apply it all under and then use a blending sponge to blend blend blend.

Rimmel stay matte pressed powder £2.99

I always like to put a little bit of powder on after I've applied my foundation and concealer just to fit everything is place, I hate looking cakey but I also hate looking shinny. So I only apply a quick brush over my face with this, and the shade goes really well with my foundation too. 

L'Oreal Paris glam bronze £10.29

I use the shade Blonde, I only like to put a touch of bronze on my cheekbones and both sides of my temples, it just really shapes your face and can sometimes make your face look skinnier if you do it right..it took me some practice. It also comes with a highlighter and I apply a little bit on my chin, down my nose, across my forehead (inline with my eyebrows) under my eyebrow and just under my eyes too, I believe this is called contouring but I'm very new to all this contouring.

L'Oreal Paris true match face blush £6.99

I then put a little bit of this on my cheeks, again not too much otherwise I look like a clown. I use the shade 105 Rose Pastel, its a lovely colour and it smells amazing! It really does, I think it smells like raspberries but I could be wrong. 

Avon perfect eyebrow kit £3.50

Avon glimmerstick brow definer £6.00

I use two products for my eyebrows. I start off my using the eyebrow kit, which is like an eyeshadow and I shade it all over my brow, shaping them as I'm going, if I do make any mistakes, or I've made it too thick..I just use my concealer stick to take any off. I then use the glimmerstick to add any bits (little hairs at the front) to make it look more natural, I use the shade blonde.

Estee Lauder pure color eyeliner £17.00

Next is eyes. I use this eyeliner to go under my waterline, this took some practice..I kept poking myself in the eye. This really makes your eyes pop if you do this, especially when you apply mascara, makes your eyes so much fuller.

L'Oreal Paris super slim eyeliner £6.99

I've only discovered this eyeliner the other day, and I'm in love! I use this to do the wing eyeliner look and this does it perfectly. It's because of its name..it is super slim! It makes it easy for me to make it look really professional and it really makes it easier for me to get right in the inner corner of my eyes. 

Avon superextend waterproof mascara £10.00

I won't lie..I have been testing a few waterproof mascaras out for my wedding. I know I will be a crying mess so I need a mascara that won't budge! This is one I'm testing at the moment and it is going really rather well..it doesn't move whatsoever! In fact it can be quite difficult to take off when you want to go to bed, but it does last ALL day and it makes my eyelashes super long!

Estee Lauder lipstick £22.00

Last but not least..my lips. I use this Estee Lauder lipstick in the shade Candy Shimmer 16. Unfortunately they're not selling it on their website anymore at the moment, but the shade is a lovely shimmery pink shade, so any lipstick like that will do.

So that's my natural everyday makeup look. I will be doing a lot more interesting makeup looks in the future!

Let me know if you go for this look or if you use any of the products!

S'laters!
Ellie
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Suicide Squad- Movie Review! No spoilers!

Let me start off by apologising for not writing anything for a while. I have been super busy with life itself, but I'm hoping I'll be back now writing more frequently. However, of course, I made time seeing Suicide Squad this evening, so here I am telling you my thoughts. Enjoy!

It only seems like yesterday I saw the first trailer to this film, dancing around my living room with excitement, wishing August 5th 2016 would hurry the hell up (however I am 6 days late on watching this film, oops) I was also really happy to see that David Ayer was directing and writing this film, I love the film 'Training Day' and he also wrote 'Fury' another film I really like, he is super talented so I was very excited to see what he could bring to this film.
I really enjoyed this film, it was a lot of fun, so much stuff was going on in this film that I felt constantly entertained. It is also in areas very messy and all over the place, but in times it worked because a majority of the characters are like that anyway, but another part of it was the editing. I think Warner Bros. was meddling and messing with the editing, believing the film shouldn't be as long as it probably first was, especially in the second half of the film to the end, there were defiantly some serious editing going on there, and they also wanted to make it more of light hearted shorter version, which I didn't mind but I know a lot of other MASSIVE fans will have a problem with because they want to see more darkness. I guess we will all have to wait until the unrated version comes out on DVD/Blu- Ray...more money for Warner Bros.
Will Smith as Deadshot, I really liked this character. He is one of the very few that got any type of characterisation, you learn a lot about him and about his personal life. I also found him very funny and entertaining, it did have moments where I felt like it was just Will Smith, being badass Will Smith, but nevertheless I still really liked how he played this character. The same with Harley Quinn played by Margot Robbie, she was probably my favourite character. Margot did an amazing job with her, she showed off her unhinged insanity really well, and also a little bit of her humanity that she has left. She really brought Harley Quinn to life on our screens. The rest of the team, I felt like we could have known so much more about them, it almost felt like as long as they made sure Deadshot and Harley had most of the limelight, because lets face it they probably knew they were the two characters most of the audience wanted to see more of. So it was kind of like Harley and Deadshot were leading the Suicide Squad, which is fine, but there were a couple of characters I felt were maybe unnecessary to be there but had to be otherwise it wouldn't be the team without them.
I loved the brief appearances of Batman, he looked awesome, and he was pretty great. We now just need to see Ben Affleck as Batman in a great film!
Captain Boomerang, I really liked. Jai Courtney, bless him, a lot of people had so many doubts about him but I really liked him with his fun a likeable presence.
Jay Hernandez as Diablo, he looked amazing, and I loved the special effects with the tricks he could do with fire. We got to learn about his dark past, and I really liked the scenes that he was involved, just wish we saw more of him.
Killer Croc, I went to see this film with my dad and he said he loved him. I wanted to love him but again I didn't see enough of him in it, he barely spoke, but that maybe because that is just his character but I felt like I knew Katana more than him, we learnt about her past but not Killer Croc which was a shame.
Jared Leto as the Joker. I love him. I loved his portrayal of the Joker, how different he made him. Another thing that is annoying me, everyone is comparing him to Ledger and Nicolson's joker which is not right. Jared is making him totally different, it was almost a combination to the best of the both. His physical appearance looked incredible, it really worked with the way he was portraying him with his acting skills. You don't see the Joker an awful lot in this film, but I quite like that, a lot of you will disagree on that, but this film isn't about him, it isn't a full love story about him and Harley..they may make one in the future but for now its about the Suicide Squad, and the fact he was only in it for shorts period of time, making his main focus about Harley I really liked, because then of course you will see him from time to time. I almost believe that, that is what the trailers were telling you. You only ever saw snippets of the joker in the trailer anyway, so some of you may thought thats because they were saving you for him in the movie, but nope thats just genuinely because he's not in that much.
Now lets talk about the villain, and I'm not even talking about Amanda Waller, but man she was a massive bitch. I'm talking about Enchantress..meh. That's what I thought about her to be honest, no disrespect to Cara Delevingne, she didn't do anything wrong, this just goes back to the editing, when you really see her in the second half of the film, everything is just happening so fast that you need to take a minute what it is she is really trying to do and also to the point..why? Because she's an evil witch who wants to take over the world? It's just so cliche.

Overall I really, really enjoyed this film. There are some good jokes, some good scenes but the action sequences feel very pedestrian and there doesn't seem to be anything special about them, and nothing really happens, but I loved all the characters in this film, I love how they worked together with there each individual personalities and backgrounds. It's just the editing that needs some sorting out but I'll just wait for the deleted scenes and the unrated version when the DVD comes out.
I am going to give this film 7/10.
Let me know what you thought of this film, what your likes and dislikes are!

S'laters!

Ellie
xx