How To: clean your brushes

Did y'all know that your actually supposed to CLEAN your make up brushes? Yep. I know, I was shocked too. But lets put it this way, make up brushes are like sports equipment. You need to keep them in good condition so they can do do their job properly and help you perform at your absolute best. This means, that once they get dirty or broken, you fix them.

There are two methoods for cleaning your brushes, the one used for actual BRUSHES, and the one used for powder puffs. In this post, I will teach you each methood. Let's start with actual brushes.

HOW TO: CLEAN YOUR MAKE UP BRUSHES

SUPPLIES NEEDED: 1 kitchen towel, 1 bottle of LIQUID DISH SOAP, WARM WATER

1. Squirt a small bit of liquid dish soap onto the bristles of the brush

2. Work the dish soap into the bristles by massaging it into them

3. Hold the brush under warm water, continue to massage the bristles

4. Add more liquid dish soap as needed, continue to massage bristles and hold under water

5. Set on towel and leave out to dry

HOW TO: CLEAN YOUR POWDER PUFFS

SUPPLIES NEEDED: 1 towel, 1 bottle of conditioner, warm water

1. Squirt a small bit of conditioner onto the powder puff or sponge

2. Rub it into the powder puff or sponge

3. Hold it under warm water, and continue to rub the conditioner into the puff

4. Apply more conditioner as needed, or until the powder puff returns to its origional color, free of residue from cream blush or liquid foundation.

NOTE: You don't have to clean your brushes on a weekly basis, just once and a while. Basically, if they look dirty, clean them!

Fiona Degrassi Make up How to

Okay right now I am totally obsessed with Degrassi, this cheap random canadian drama. And one of the characters, Fiona has fabulous make up. So here is a tentative outline on how to achieve her look.





1. Squirt a dime size amount of Bare Vitamins Primetime foundation primer into your palm. The purpose of primer is to help the make up stay on and last longer. Rub your hands together, and then rub your hands against your face like your applying face wash or moisturizer.





2. Squirt a small amount of maybeline mineral power liquid foundation in classic ivory onto a powder puff. Rub it into the puff with your finger, then rub the puff all over your, nose, cheecks, chin, and forehead. Repeat until you think you have enough coverage








3. Blend the makeup by rubbing your hands all over your face, in a downward motion. You can also use a special blending sponge.





4. Next apply Revlon cream blush in rosy glow to the apples of your cheeks. (smile! This helps you see them better) Do this by dipping your finger in the blush, and then smearing it in an upward motion from your cheek bones to next to your eye.

5. Blend using blending sponge.

6. Apply a thin layer of Maybeline Mineral Power Finish Viel translucent powder across your entire face. To apply, tap a small bit of powder into the lid. Dip your brush into the lid then tap off the excess, press roll and lift the brush across your entire face.

7. Apply a thin layer of powder foundation across your entire face using a foundation brush.

8. ApplyThe Body Shop powder blush in Rosy Glow to the apples of your cheeks using a laura Mercier Cheek colour blush brush. DON'T FORGET TO BLEND

9. Apply black eyeliner to the top and bottom lids. I used Tarte Empahseyes inner rim eye pencil in black.

10.Apply a white eyeshadow base up to your browbone. Fiona's eye shadow is a very light purple. So by using the white as a base, you will automatically lighten the purple you put on top. Tap the excess eye shadow into the lid.

11. Apply a light layer of purple eyshadow, on top of the white. Make sure you tap the excess into the lid before applying.

12. Apply mascara to the uper and lower lashes.

13. Using an ULTA contour lip liner in flesh, line your lips like your tracing a stencil. Then, color in your lips using the lines as guideline, like coloring a picture.

14.Apply a thin layer of light pink lipgloss. I used liplicious white hot summer crush.

c'est fin.

Mall adventure

Today I went to the mall with my bestest friend in the whole wide world, lets call her Jlang. We went to the big fancy mall like half an hour away from our houses. It had a taco bell in it, both of us thought this was a genius idea. However, we thought whoever made people wear seat belts on the carosuel was a moron. Seriously, the fun of a carousal is being perched on a bumpy plastic horse with nothing but a sweaty metal bar to cling too!!!!
This mall also had a build a bear. Jlang and I had to take advantage this, because build a bear is awesome. So we went into build a bear, and picked the cheapest bear we could find. (I wanted to get a cute black one with peace signs all over it but nooooo). We almost picked out a really cute, fluffy dog, but then we decided that since the place was named build a bear, then we should BUILD A BEAR. So in the end we picked a really cute fuzzy white bear with black eyes. Then we took it over to the stuffing station where a lady put it onto this metal bar that was connected to a giant tub 'o stuffing. And then once our bear was stuffed, we groomed it and named it Valentino.
It has been decided that Valentino will travel back and forth between us, like the traveling pants, or divorced parents. He is going to Chicago with me next week, and to Jlang's job with her cause the girl who she babysits will love him.
We also went to dElIa's. Which excited me because usually I always have to order stuff out of their catalouge. But then we saw that there was a shirt there that said "The Future Mrs. Beiber" in gross pink bubble letters with a cheap looking diamond ring cartoon. It made us want to vomit. We also covered up a Justin Beiber shirt with a Beatles one. Yup, we're slowly curing the world of Beiber Fever, one Tshirt at a time.

And then, we went to Sephora.

IT WAS EPIC. I'm not kidding you. The thing I love about make up stores is how shiny and clean they are. In Sephora every surface looked slightly translucent. It boasted tiny little chunks of store devoted to all my favorite cosmetic brands, laura mercier, Tarte, Smash Box...oh how the list goes on. The color scheme of that store was awesome too, everything was black, white or red. I don't think one of the shop assistants liked me though, she kept giving me wierd looks. The bald gay man who helped me find an eyeshadow brush was very plesant though. JLang had to drag me out of there. The nail polish was brilliant, the eyeshadow was electric, it was a cosmetic junkie's woodstock.

le sigh

I just wrote this huge long post about my Chicago adventure and felt fantastical about it, but blogger spazzed. So now I'm starting over...and just rambling.
I'm listening to Katy Perry right now. I remember when she first came out with "I Kissed a Girl" and I thought she was SO BAD ASS and awesome 'cause she wrote a song about lesbianism in a positive fun way. I was the only person in my family who liked her. My mom always used to change the station when she came on. But now she told me a few days ago that she loves California Gurls. See mom? I so told you so! My friends hated her too, come to think of it. Little twelve year old me was so ahead of the pack.

And a lot of people have been asking me how I do my eye make up. So I'm going to write it down here, like an instruction manual for your eyes!

1. put a light layer of eye primer on both eyes. Any brand works, and if you don't have eye primer that's okay! The purpose of eye primer is to help the make up stay on longer.

2. using one of those little cotton eye shadow applicators (I got a twelve pack at ULTA for $1.00)
Apply a light layer of silver eyeshadow on the ball of your eye. (it's the little bit of soft skin below your brow bone.) Cover that and nothing else, unless you want to go up to or above the brow.
3. Using a bright blue eyeshadow (similar to sky blue or turquoise) apply a small amount to highlight your brow bone. Start at your tear duct, and sweep the eyeshadow across the eye until it reaches the end of your lash line. This should be resting directly above the silver eyeshadow. If you think it's too bright, lessen the shine by blending it with more silver eyeshadow.

Next take a TARTE Emphaseyes inner rim eye pencil in black, and line inside of your waterline (the little pink part on the lower inside part of your eye). Do this twice, and only on the lower halves of your eyes.

Then, take TARTE lights, camera lashes mascara, and apply mascara to both your upper and lower lashes. Instead of a quick sweep of the mascara wand, apply your mascara in sections.