Yeah, I've never done this before.

Here are some of the things I loved using last month!

Benefit's Cresent Row Limited Edition set: This cute little thing was given to me by G for Christmas. It has four purse-friendly sized perfumes & they all smell amazing. I love Benefit cosmetics & now I love their perfumes too.

Collection 2000 Concealer: I bought this on eBay & I did a post about it in a haul. I said before I didn't like it but now I absolutely love it. It's soooo highly pigmented & it hides my dark under-eye circles like nothing else. Go buy it. Here's a link.

Benefit's The PORE-fessional: My mum bought this for me during her overseas travels & oh my goodness I'm glad she did. This primer is amazing & its so silky. It eliminates fine lines & it stops make up settling into them too. 

Too Faced A Few of my Favourite Things Palette: This palette has everything from an array of highly pigmented eye shadows, to bronzer, to blush, to instruction cards showing you how to create daytimes & night time looks. I got this in a set for my birthday & it came with mascara & a lip balm/tint from Mecca Maxima. Love it.

L'Oreal Nutri-lift Gold foundation: Ok, this foundation is literally everything. In my personal opinion its better than Mac's studio fix which is a huge claim. I get compliments all the time when I wear this because it makes my skin look so fresh & natural. I bought it from Priceline :)

Nivea In-Shower Body Lotion Skin Conditioner: I looooooooooooooooooooove this amazing thing! Oh my goodness it is the BEST shower invention EVER! Its pretty much a moisturiser that you use in the shower AFTER you wash your body. I specifically use this on my legs after I shave & it got the 'my husband noticed how smooth my legs were' test. I got mine from Priceline.

Those were some of the things I loved from last month. What did you love?

-C.

(｡•‿•) Get Ready With Me: Everyday Make Up Routine.

In this post I show you how I do my every day make-up. I've tried so many different types of brands & so far the ones featured are my favourites to use every day.

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I start off with a clean face, fresh out of the shower.

I moisturise using my favourite Milk & co Ultra Light Moisturiser & prime my face using Benefit's The Pore-fessional.

Once that settles into my skin, I move onto foundation & concealer. I'm loving Nutri Lift Gold by L'Oreal & I've finally warmed up to my Collection 2000 concealer. Both are in the lightest shades.

I blend that into my face using a blending sponge for a flawless finish.

I apply my concealer like two upside-down triangles under my eyes, down to my cheeks to highlight that entire area. This concealer is awesome for covering up everything.

Once everything is all blended, my face looks like this:

I use two products to set my base. They are the Maybelline Super Stay 24hr Powder & Covergirl Tru Blend both in the lightest shades possible.

I buff the Maybelline powder along the perimeter of my face using a flat top kabuki brush...

...aaaand I highlight the Maybelline powder using my Real Techniques contour brush.

Next I contour, blush & highlight my face using Benefit's Hoola bronzer, Benefit's Hervana blush & The Balm's May-Lou Manizer highlight.

I contour along my cheek bones.

I use blush on the apples of my cheeks & highlight the high points of my face.

Using 'Bunny Hop' by Benefit, I prime my eyelids as a base for the colours in the Lorac Pro palette.

I just use two colours which give me that natural looking eye. 

Next using Rimmel's Scandal Eyes waterproof Kohl in Nude & my favourite Sephora eyeliner, I line my water line & give myself a perfect wing.

Next I use Jordana's Best Lash mascara & Benefit's They're Real mascara, I accentuate my eyelashes.

One eye with & one eye without mascara.

For my eye brows, I've been filling them in using the darkest brown shadow in my Inglot freedom palette & an angled brush. I set it with my favourite brow setting gel from Essence.

I love my brows!

The final step is lips & lately I've been using this nude lip gloss from Napoleon Perdis.

...and that's it! 

I absolutely swear by this routine as it gives me a flawless looking face & it takes only about 15 minutes to put it all together.

-C.

✎ ⚛ ☮ Make-Up Haul! ☮ ⚛ ✎

Heeeeey, so I've been shopping.

I have a good husband who fuels my love of spending money on make-up by sending me on my way with his debit card. Thank you Gideon.

1. Jordana Best Lash Extreme Mascara:

I made a blog post about this AMAZING mascara aaaand the link to purchase a set of 3 here

2. Lorac Pro Palette: Ok, this is my go-to eyeshadow palette. It has a whole row of matte and a whole row of shimmery shades to make ANY look possible. I bought it from Tarazz but they don't stock it anymore :(

3. Make Up Blender Sponges: packet of 4 for approx. $5 eBay ink here

4. Hard Candy Glamoflauge Concealer: This concealer is the most pigmented thing i've ever bought. Designed to cover up tattoos, this concealer give you 100% coverage using a little pea sized application. eBay link here

5. Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer: I've heard that this concealer is great but I wasn't too happy with it. The coverage is medium and the black ink on the label rubbed off after a day. Lame.

6. Rimmel Stay Matte Foundation: I actually bought this from Priceline today and I'm thinking of reviewing it. It's really lovely and lightweight. Definitely worth a try.

So that's my make-up haul for the month of September and the start of October. I've been incorporating most of these in my daily make-up routine and i've been loving the change.

What have you bought lately & what have you loved?

Bye.