Are You Applying Your Makeup In The Right Order?

A while ago I did a post on Are You Washing Your Hair Right? which I found really interesting to search about the right way and learn... oh so how wrong I was doing it! After doing the post it got me thinking... is there a right way to put on makeup?? So I got my laptop and got ma Google up and searched and today I am going to be telling you what I have found! Although this time I have been doing more things right than wrong!

This is something you don't have to structure your routine to as everyone is different and not everyone wears blush or fills in their eyebrows etc. But Its a good working order to follow if you want too!

First is obviously moisturiser or primer. Now one thing I didn't know that you shouldn't use both as the moisturiser will get in the way of the primer and stop it from its main function which is to make your foundation last longer. So yeah I've been doing that wrong... Tut tut Emma ;) As well as priming face you should prime your eyes and lips too. Oh and don't forget sunscreen, even in the winter as some UV rays can pass though clouds ya know! So get a moisturiser or primer which has a good SPF in it.

Next should be foundation, which I usually leave till last because of shadow fallout and so on, until I found out this... if fallout dose occur its harder to get off plain skin than with skin with foundation, so make a canvas and do corrections as a finishing touch at the end! If you are going to be concealing a blemish then you should use concealer after foundation, as if you don't the concealers work will be trampled, you could say, by the foundation. 

Powder and Bronzer is next so you can set your foundation and concealer. Dusting a powder over your face will also make it easier to remove the fallout. Also doing the powder now will help it settle in while you do the rest. Next would be bronzer, you want to make sure you do this way before blush as if you applied it on top of the blush it would look a bit cray cray! This is because your trying yo mimic and define the contours of your face. 

Doing your eyebrows can be quite helpful as they frame your face and when your are doing your eyes it could come as a helpful guide. First you should line the outline of your eyebrows so you can make them even then fill in from the outer corner to the middle, making sure the inner parts are lighter than the outer. I find that this looks most flattering on yo faces!

When I was doing my research a lot of different sites and people said either Lips or Eyes should go next and they both had valid reasons so imma put them together! I would go for eyes first but If you are set on a certain lip colour your going to wear then put that on first, this is so you can match the lip colour to your eyes so you match and not looking all jumbled!

If your starting with eyes you would go - Shadow, liner and then mascara. Pretty much what most people do right!? But you can always go back and layer up and touch up, with highlighting or making the eye-liner more stronger.

Then if your starting with lips - Liner, lipstick then lip gloss or just gloss or just lipstick! Always apply a balm when your first start your makeup so near this point when you do yours lips they are not chapped and nice to put yo lippy on!

Last but not least (well apart from if yo using setting spray) will be the blush. I do actually leave this till last and because of this reason... the ties your lips and eyes together and it really makes your face glow and complete the whole look! Also I found out about different ways you can apply blush.. would you want me to do a post on that???

So now that you are all pros on how to apply your makeup, leave me comments if you guys have any other makeup tricks or tips you wanna share! So until next time have an awesome amazing day...

Emma 

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Are You Washing Your Hair Right?

So are you?? One way to tell is if you get those days when you think your hair is clean because you have just washed it. But then later in the day your hair feels kinda gross and greasy? This mainly because you either washed your hair too fast and didn't wash all the product out, or just in your normal washes as well! Not washing your hair properly can create impurities in your hair and causes blemishes along your hairline.

          

Every time I go to the hair dressers and they wash my hair, I'm always left thinking why can't I wash my hair like that! My hair is left feeling soft and silky for days. So I got searching and found some pretty interesting results which I wanted to share with you guys! I'll be telling you today some ways in how, what and when you should wash your hair. 

First and most important is that you shouldn’t wash your hair everyday. My hair gets greasy after a day because it gets really oily, really fast. And yes I do wash my hair everyday, because I ain't going out with no greasy hair! But you can train your hair not to get oily as quick. Your hair produces natural oils and every time you wash your hair your washing them out so your head produces more. So what you can do is just grin and bare washing it every other day or three days so your hair can control its natural oil flow. If you are worried about your roots looking greasy, as I know that's something I'll be worried about, just spray your roots with dry shampoo or water and then restyle with your blow-dryer! 

Some stylists have said that "How often you wash your hair depends on your texture," and that "Finer hair needs to be washed daily or every other day; thicker or coarser hair can get washed every second day or even twice or once a week." So I learnt that if you are much like me and have fine hair, use a  volumizing conditioner in place of your shampoo every other wash as this will stop stripping your hair of its natural oils.

When actually putting on the shampoo we should only use a penny sized amount.... I shouldn't but I go way past that a put way too much on! Your whole head doesn't actually need to be lathered in shampoo for it to get clean! Fun fact - if you use sulfate-free shampoo it wont lather up much at all! All you need to do is massage the shampoo into your roots and use water to help spread it down to the rest of your hair. The only reason why you should be applying shampoo to the lower part of your hair is if you have product in it from that day. I only apply Conditioner to my ends so they can get moisture and help with split ends. 

Most of us don't know that we are washing our hair with water that's way too hot, this is not good! What happens is the hot water opens up the hair follicles and makes your hair strands prone to become dry and they well be weak and break easily. What you should do is shampoo and condition your hair under lukewarm water, but not boiling hot! Then when you are finished washing change to cold water, however daunting that may seem as it dose give you a shocker when to put cold water on your head! You should do this as it closes the hair follicle and gives it shine!

This ones for you gals and guys who have dyed hair! Coloured hair can absorb and release water much more easily than hair that's not. So what happens is that when the water leaves, so does some of the colour! Which is not what you what, right? So hold off on rinsing for those few extra minutes, as you don't want to over rinse your hair so the colour comes out. Also, like the last point, stick to lukewarm or cooler water because the hotter water makes your hair lose colour faster!

If you do research into this you will find loads and loads of different results on how you should was your hair, but these were the 4 that I thought were the most important and I hope you gals and guys learnt from this post and you will be hair washing experts! So until next time have a awesome amazing day...

Emma
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