Jadeloves

Sunday, 31 May 2015

How I Clean My Make-up Brushes

Hello Everyone!

This is a post on how I clean my make-up brushes. If you have any questions, feel free to leave it in the comments below:).

To clean my brushes I use anti bacterial soap to prevent spreading spots and olive oil for the brushes that are harder and more stubborn to clean I use a drop of olive oil.

First I lay a towel on top of the toilet lid to put the wet brushes onto.

I then select a brush, this brush isn't particularly dirty so I just soaked it with Luke warm water and used one pump of soap, swirled it around my hand until the soap was lathered and the brush looked clean.

use 1 pump of antibacterial soap

selected brush

swirl in hand until soap has lathered

Soak brush in Luke warm water

Rinse soap off of the brush

After that I rinse the brush under the Luke warm water making sure that all the soap is gone by squeezing the bristles together to see if soap seeps out and re rinsing if there are bubbles still in the brush.

Then I place the wet brush onto a dry towel and leave it to dry overnight.

This next brush is the brush that I use for my foundation so it is a little bit trickier to remove all of the product from it, so I still use soap but I put a tiny bit of olive oil in my hand along with the soap to help break down the product but, if you do use oil on your make up brushes please make sure that you thoroughly rinse it off of the brush with soap because if any oil is left on it after a while the oil will travel down the brush and dissolve the glue. unfortunately I learnt this the hard way.

To clean the brush that I use for lipstick, I wet the brush and put some neat olive oil in my palm so that the lipstick thoroughly gets broken down and can be easily removed. I swirl the brush in my hand the same way I did with the others, then I wash out the oil with soap and water repeating if needed.

I also clean my eyebrow "grooming" brush because foundation and eyebrow pencil often gets in it. I clean this brush the same way I clean all of the others, with soap and Luke warm water.This also applies for my eye make-up brushes and any other brush I have.

I place all of the wet brushes onto a clean dry towel and move them to my room where I will then leave them to dry over night, making sure they are slightly tilted with bristles pointing to the floor so that the water doesn't run down to the glue and melt it.

So! this is how I clean my make-up brushes, I hope some of you found this useful. Feel free to leave any comments or suggestions for more blog posts.
Thanks for reading !! <3

Thursday, 19 February 2015

The Mask That Does Wonders For My Skin!

Porridge Face mask!!!

You will need:

1 sachet of porridge oats

2 table spoons of honey

Half a lemon

Milk (Use depending on how thick you want your mixture)

I have run out of honey so I'm going to use lemon.

Step one:

pour the milk and oats into a microwaveable bowl (this is when you would also add the honey). Mix these together.

Step two:

Cut a lemon in half and squeeze one half into the mixture and stir. Then place in the microwave for two minutes on full heat.
Step three:
when ready take out of the microwave mix again and leave to cool until its warm, you may need to ass more milk. Its important to apply the mask when its warm because the warmth will open your pores.

Step four:
When the mixture feels warm to the touch, apply all over your face and leave for around 15-20 minutes.

Step five:
When time is up wash the mask off of your face gently with warm water and pat dry.

BEFORE

AFTER

Benefits of these ingredients:

OATS and MILK:
The oats and milk in the mixture softens the skin and as an exfoliater to remove the dead skin cells as well as removing acne causing bacteria's and oils. They will also gently remove debris from your pores without clogging them and will leave your skin glowing!

HONEY:
Honey is an amazing Anti- Oxidant proven to help reduce impurities from the skin and it will also help battle mild acne and will restore skins texture due to its Anti-Microbial properties and will help repair the skin from sun and daily environmental damage to the skin.

Lemon:
Lemon juice is also amazing for the skin, they have Anti-Bacterial and Anti-Fungal properties to them which will help to heal acne and remove black heads. The juice of a lemon also helps lighten dark spots and blemishes, the juice will also help to reduce oil on the skin.

If you tried this mask let me know how it went in the comments!

Thanks for reading! <3

Sunday, 8 February 2015

Urban Decay NAKED palette Review

Hello Everyone!!

I've been wanting to do a review on this for a while but I wanted to make sure that I used it a lot to get a fair opinion on it!

I was always quite sceptical of the naked palettes because they are priced at around
£36.00 (it may have gone up now but that was how much it was when I bought it) but I was sure that you could find a high-street/drug-store dupe that was just as good, however after hearing so many people raving about how amazing it is I decided to buy it and it did not disappoint! I use this palette every day, I LOVE IT.

This palette contains 12 colours that you would easily be able to achieve multiple looks with. 10 of the colours are shimmery ans 2 of them are matte with the tiniest bit of glitter in them. The palette also comes with a make up brush however I do not use it.

All of the colours in the palette are extremely pigmented ( I will leave pictures of swatches below) even without primer, obviously they would be a bit brighter with primer but you could easily go without which I think is very hard to find especially in a high-street/drug-store brand of eye-shadow. The product also stays put for hours however is very easily removed with make up remover or wipes.

The colours in this palette are: browns, golds, pinks, purples and greys therefore many looks can be achieve from a glam golden goddess eye look to a dark smoky party look.

I will include some different pictures of me wearing the eye-shadows down below.

The colours that I use for my everyday make up are: Virgin (to highlight brow bone) Sin (to highlight the inside corners of my eyes) side car (eyelid) Half Baked (blended next to Side Car on eyelid)

Smog (blended next to Half Baked on eye lid) and Dark Horse (blended into crease).

All though this palette is not cheap it lasts an extremely long time! I've had mine for a year and I haven't even hit pan on any colours yet, this is amazing considering I use it every day, as well as this all of the colours look exactly the same on your eyes as they do in the palette so I think it's definitely worth the price! and I will be purchasing the other palettes too!

If you have any requests on what you would like me to blog about next then please lave a comment below :)

Thanks for reading :) <3

SWATCHES...

These are swatches without primer...