The Brits 2015

Hey guy’s!

So last night was the much anticipated Brit Awards 2015. I must say I absolutely loved this years Brits and thought Ant & Dec did the most amazing job presenting. They didn’t hold back when it came to the sarcastic comments on other artists, banter and interviews with the tipsy celebs . The whole ceremony was much more lighthearted and enjoyable as a result. While watching you just felt like everyone there were friends which was a great vibe.

The style was amazing at this years awards. My favorite’s were Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding and Taylor Swift.

All three ladies were rocking long , sophisticated gowns and looked unbelievable.

Rita Ora arriving at the Brit Awards 2015.

Rita Ora

Wearing a fabulous gold and silver plunge neck gown by Zuhair Murad. She combines elegance and sexy in one with this fabulous choice. Rita Ora is looking hotter than ever this year, days before she was sporting a risqué sheer Donna Karan dress that left little to the imagination. She’s definitely one to watch for 2015!

Ellie Goulding at the Brit Awards 2015.

Ellie Goulding

Wearing a gorgeous summery white Alberta Ferretii gown with a sheer plunge neck. Ellie looks classy, elegant and pretty in this gorgeous number. Although Louis Hamilton nervously suggested Ellie looked like she was going to a wedding, I certainly don’t think she looked that way. In fact I think that pale pastels and white should be celebrated this spring as the beginning of the new season emerges.

Taylor Swift arriving at the Brit Awards 2015. Wearing a beautiful Roberto Cavali gown.

Taylor Swift

Wearing a jaw-dropping black & red floor-length Roberto Cavali gown Taylor looked stunning as usual. She pulls this look off so well combined with her signature red lip! I adore this look so much , the trail  had a dragon design up along the back of it which sealed the look perfectly.

As for the men of the night they were looking equally as fab! Sam Smith was my personal favorite, he was wearing a gorgeous blue Casely-Hayford suit as he arrived and looked handsome as ever

Sam Smith arriving at the 2015 Brit Awards

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Sam Smith signing ‘Lay Me Down’ at the Brit Awards 2015.

Performances

Favorite’s Of The Night:

As performances go this years Brit Awards were phenomenal! From Ed Sheeran to Madonna , it was a top-notch night.

My personal favorite performance of the night had to have been between Sam Smith and Paloma Faith. I simply can’t put a number one winner to this one. Sam’s voice was seducing and captivating while Paloma’s was hypnotizing and had an almost eerie feel. Sam Smith performed his song ‘Lay Me down’ while Paloma Faith sang ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’.

Paloma Faith singing ‘Only Love Can Hurt Like This’ at the Brit Awards 2015.

Paloma Faith also touched heart strings by shedding tears at her win of ‘Best British Female’. She was so touched by the award after her hard work over the last 14 years. Its her first ever Brit Award, which completely baffles me as she is an amazing, unique artist with so much soul and depth. The emotional and heart warming acceptance speech confirmed for me once again why I love her so much.

Least Favorite Of The Night:

My least favorite had to have been Kanye West’s performance. For me I just didn’t get it. There was what I could only describe as a gang like group on the stage shouting, cursing and blasting fire into the air. Perhaps the performance may have been better if the audio did not cut out every time Kanye swore but personally I wasn’t feeling it at all.

Kanye West performing ‘All Day’ at the Brits 2015.

Madonna falling down the stage after a wardrobe malfunction.

Madonna’s performance was another one to watch! Everyone was anticipating her return to the Brits after more than two decades. In everyone’s mind Madonna could do no wrong with years of industry experience behind her. However we all cringed when a wardrobe malfunction occurred and she was pulled back of the steps on the stage to the ground. She landed on her back and hip with a thud as all of us watched on to see if she’d recover. Like the pro she is, she got up and carried on, ironic as the lyrics in the song stated just that! Her song ‘Living For Love’ could not have been more suitable to this stage accident as she received the love from the public on this unlucky moment. Twitter took out with love and best wishes as well as worries and concerns for the singers hip. Thankfully all seems to be well with the superstar as she posted on instagram later that night.

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Armani hooked me up! My beautiful cape was tied too tight! But nothing can stop me and love really lifted me up! Thanks for your good wishes! I’m fine! ❤️#livingforlove

Overall the Brits 2015 were a complete success, creating media attention, social networking frenzies and viewers tuning in all over the world to watch this fabulous event. One Direction sealed the night by winning best video of the year award and Simon Cowell was more than happy to collect it for the boys. I was at the edge of my seat for most of this years awards, with the best lineup of artists yet, all up for the same award. I can’t wait until next years Brits, I’m sure there’ll be even more to come!

Thanks for dropping by, i’d love to hear from you. Let me know your opinions and views on last nights show!

Clinique Superbalanced Foundation Review !

Hey guys !

So in this post I will be reviewing my latest foundation. I decided to wait a few months to review this product, until the bottle was completely finished and I could give you all the best review possible on it.

 

How Long It Lasts –

I bought this foundation on the 14th of December and it is now February 14th so it lasted me 3 months exactly. To be completely honest I would have expected it to last a little bit longer as most of my other foundations have lasted 4 months onwards. I did however use this foundation a hell of a lot so three months for most days wear isn’t too bad. 

As for lasting power on the skin, I found this foundation to be fabulous with the Clinique setting powder! Its a very light feeling foundation, so automatically I was a bit apprehensive as to whether it would be suitable for me as I’m so used to wearing heavier foundations. When using setting powder it lasts all day, however when you wear it alone it does not.

 

Price Range –

I bought this foundation for €21.00 on sale in Debenhams back in December, however the retail price in most stores including Brown Thomas is €32.00.

My Opinion –

I absolutely loved this foundation for an everyday makeup , I forgot I was wearing any foundation because of the light-weight feel. It left my skin in amazing condition and my skin was always soft and subtle.

This foundation does not contain an SPF so when I wore it in photographs the light did not reflect leaving me with a big white face, complete winner in my opinion.

I am used to wearing a heavier foundation and my go-to would be Makeup Forever’s HD foundation but I was shocked at how much I feel in love with this foundation. It gave me the confidence to ease into wearing a light almost skin like foundation. It left my skin feeling like a baby’s-toosh and it completely balanced out my skin. It gave my dehydrated areas moisture, evened out my complexion and didn’t leave my skin with excess oil on the T-Zone area.

Overall I am very impressed with this foundation, if you’re looking for a natural look, day makeup or a go-to foundation then Clinique Superbalanced is definitely worth a try. Pair it with Clinique’s loose powder and you have the start of a perfect base.

Dramatic Eyes ♥

Some of us lady’s love big smokey dramatic eyes for parties, nights out or fancy dress. Its not everyones cup of tea, and wouldnt be my regular choice of makeup but it definitely looks fab for some occasions. My models pulled these looks of amazingly and all look superb! 

On my first model I used cranberry and black eye-shadow on the upper and lower lid. I went in heavy with gel eyeliner and used heavy contouring and highlighting.

Her lips were also super defined, I took my inspiration from Kylie Jenner. Who doesn’t these days? My models choker and school uniform just emphasized the look, so rocker and grungey ! 

On my next model I used burnt orange and black colour’s along with a hint of brown. Again I used the same method on this model. Heavy contour, heavy smoke and big lips. 

For this model I took a before and after photo to show the dramatic change….

Finally I done a lighter smoky eye on my last model, only bringing dark brown to the top of the lid and not underneath. This is her gorgeous before and after. Extra heavy contour and highlight on this model.

Product Listings:

1. Foundation (all models) – Makeup Forever Hd Foundation
2. Contour and highlight Cream (all models) – Crown Brushes contouring palette available at http://www.crownbrush.ie
3. Contour Powder (all models) – Sleek makeup contour palette in medium available at http://www.sleekmakeup.com
4. Brow (all models) – Gosh cosmetics brow palette available in most local pharmacys suppling Gosh cosmetics or at http://www.goshcosmetics.com
5. Eyeshadows (all models) – Inglot cosmetics available at http://www.inglot.ie or in Blanchardstown shopping centre Dublin/ St Anne St dublin city centre.
6. Eyeliner (all models) – gell eyeliner by Fuschia available at http://www.fuschia.ie or in fuschia stores/ pharmacys supplying fuschia.
7. Mascara (all models) – Any , I used rimmel
8. All over face powder (all models)- Clinique face setting powder available in all stores selling clinique products.
9. Blush (all models) – Fuschia blush available at http://www.fuschia.ie or in any stores using fuschia products.
10. Lips (all models) – Inglot lip liner and lipstick found in all Inglot stores and online at http://www.inglot.ie.

Have any of you tried these looks? Id love to hear from you all. 

Intense Smokey Eyes ♥

Good Morning Ladies and Gents,

This post is on gorgeous smoked-out eyes. This look is extremely intense and over-the-top much like would be seen in ‘TOWIE’ or ‘Geordie Shore’. I know many girls out there,including myself are obsessed with this type of make-up at the moment and its seen everywhere on social media!

So for this look I began with the eyes first, I applied foundation to the eyes and underneath the eye area, I then applied powder so that when I applied the eye-shadow it wont move or slide.

I then went in with a nude base eye-shadow. For this I used my fuschia palette, taking a matte cream colour. You can use absolutely and cheap shade for this step.

Next I applied a deep-purple shade to the eye,all-over the lid continuing to add more and more depth of colour until it was prominent and made the eyes pop. I then took my undereye brush and applied this same shade under the lash line.I took this colour lower than I usually would for the illusion of bigger eyes and to draw attention to the eye colour.

I blended this shade out -in the shape of the models eye.

Next I took a matte black shade and repeated the previous steps.For this shade I made sure to leave a halo of the purple shade above the black colour. I continued to apply the black shade adding depth of colour and blending the shade into the lash line. I then took my under eye pencil brush with some of the matte black shade and applied it to my lower lash line, this time the black matte shade was closest to my lashes and I also left a Halo of the purple shade to the bottom lash-line. Again this draws attention to the eye colour.

I applied gel eye-liner to the upper lash line and lower lash line.Using my under-eye pencil while this gel was still wet,I blended the gel out to seal the eyes. I then applied this gel eye-liner to the waterline in one quick swoop to prevent discomfort for the model.

Finally I added lashings of mascara to the bottom and top lashes and then I finished the look by applying Ardell Fake Eyelashes.

Above is the finished look 🙂 Hope you enjoyed, don’t forget to like,comment and follow. 

Nicholle-Marie x

Makeup of the day !

Today I had the privilege of doing some of my boyfriends relatives makeup and I was so super excited ! Any excuse to take out the makeup box!

I decided to do big dramatic eyes, emphasising this beautiful lady’s green eyes ! During this makeup look her eyes changed from a light almost translucent green colour to a deep emerald green .

Before :

After:

For this look I used two shades , all from my Inglot palette. I used a burnt orange shade and a cranberry shade that I’ve used in my previous posts ‘burnt orange eye’ and ‘cranberry and brown smoky eye ‘ . For more information on the colours view these posts 🙂

As a technique I used what I always do , my cut crease with transition techniques. I use the burnt orange as an all over lid shade an the cranberry as my cut crease/transition shade.

I applied gel eyeliner to the top lash line and water line and I used ardell ‘Demi wispies’ lashes for extra glamour and volume. I always use duo eyelash glue as it dries super fast and is perfect for this look.

When doing my base I used a heavy contour as my model has amaaazinnnggg bone structure! So obviously I couldn’t wait to emphasise this!

To create the big lip look I slightly exaggeratedly models natural lip line to create those gorgeous looking lips with out all the needles haha . I then applied lipstick and lipgloss in a pinky/purple shade.

And this is the finished look 🙂
Hope you enjoyed an don’t forget to get in touch ! X

Step-By-Step Bronze Smoky Eye

Hey hey hey .
This post is on a Bronze Smoky Cat eye I done recently. I decided to take step by step pictures to show you all how I did this look 🙂

First off I started with an eye primer . For this I used urban decays ‘Eden’ . I applied it all over the lid top and bottom . It’s a lovely primer (very thick) and compliments matte shades very we’ll . I used tape under my eyes to get a perfect cat eye shape. Making sure to get each side the same shape .

Next I took my Fuschia gel eyeliner in ‘chocolate’ . I applied a thin line of this liner above where my natural crease would be . Then I took my sigma eye pencil brush and blended it upwards and outwards towards the tape (this is great because you can make as much mess as you want and when you remove the tape you will have perfect clean cut eye shadow .

The next step was a transition colour fading outwards and upwards from the chocolate colour . For this I used Maybelline 24hr stay gel eyeshadow in bronze. I used the same sigma pencil brush and blended the colour upwards making sure not to loose the transition of the colour (big fat smudgy eyes ain’t too good 😛 )

Next I took my Fuschia palette and took a dark brown matte shade and applied it to the outer corners of my eyes , using the tape as a guideline makes this step so easy . I then blended this colour into the chocolate liner .

Next I took a sun kissed bronze shade for the middle part of my eyes and blended it into the dark shade in my outer corners . This look is all about spending the time to blend so window wipe that baby ouuuuut . 🙂

I then applied the same Fuschia eyeliner in ‘chocolate’ to my eyes following the tape I applied to the outer corners of my eyes to get a crisp line . If you feel like applying liner to your waterline do this step now , however I love my eyes to be as big so I skipped this step .

Finally go ahead and finish this look with eyelashes and your base routine . I used Ardell lashes here ‘beauties’ because I wanted very natural lashes .
This picture is after a night out of dancing and singing so be aware my camera wasn’t in the best of light.

 

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