DIY lipstick palette

Hey everyone i hope you all had a great Christmas or a great holiday if you don't celebrate Christmas! In todays post i will be showing you how to make a lipstick palette, being a make up artist i have a lot of lipsticks and have to carry them around in my kit all the time so its easier for me to make a palette! if you have a lot of lipsticks or if you are also a MUA or if you just want to be more organized with your lipsticks keep reading!

What you need
- lipsticks
- a palette ( i used a pill box from a shop called muji)
- table spoon
- candle
- matches
- knife
- paper
- pen
- tape

1. pick the lipsticks that you want to put in your palette. I picked 12 to fit into my palette.

2. light your candle.
3. if you want to use all of the lipstick just put it all on the spoon. I only used half so i could keep the bullet for myself.
4. using the knife cut of your lipstick then place on spoon.

5. place the spoon over the candle but dont let the spoon touch the flame! Just hover the spoon over it!

6. wait until it melts fully like you can see in the last picture, then pour it into one of the slots in the palette.

7. clean the leftover lipstick off the spoon and repeat.

8. keep repeating these steps until you fill your palette to suit you! :)

if you are interested in the lipsticks i melted the list is in the previous picture! :) 

9. write down all the lipstick names or numbers and place on the back of the palette so you know the colour!

i hope you enjoyed this post and found it helpful! By making a lipstick palette you save alot of space and have a much more organized kit or make up collection! Thank you for reading <3

Robyn 

xxxxx

Avant garde make up

Avant garde make up is dramatic, artistic and very different! Avant garde is used alot for runway, magazines and hair shows! You can show your individual style, techniques and show off your creative skills! I love avant garde make up i think its so interesting! Here are some of the avant garde make up looks iv done this week. 

I hope you like these looks iv created! They are defonatly not wearable but they are beautiful and creative! 

Robyn xxx

DIY Flower Crown

Hey guys, during the summer i went to a music festival and i made myself and my best friend a flower crown and i got alot of compliments on it so im going to show you how i made them :) i hope you find this helpful for the summer or any other event you might want it for :)

things you need
- wire ( i got mine in a garden centre)
- fake flowers
- duck tape
- a very strong scissors to cut the wire

steps

1. get a piece of wire and put it around your head to get the comfortable size and wrap the ends together.

2. wrap another piece of wire around the wire to make it sturdy.

3. once you think its sturdy enough you start the fun bit! 

4. cut your flowers of the stems and then tape them to the wire. 

5. keep building up the flowers in a nice pattern. 

6. slowly but surely it will start to come together nicely!

7. add in some leaves if you like, to break up the flowers.

this is a pretty straight forward tutorial it is defiantly time consuming but its worth it in the end! You can wear them to many different events, festivals, parties or just an every day accessory! I hope you enjoyed this and found it inspiring and helpful and i hope you try make a flower crown and if you do please tweet me a picture i would love to see! here are some pictures of how i wore my flower crown!

thanks for reading and i will do more tutorials on my blog :) hope your having a great weekend!

Robyn xxxx

Happy December

Happy December everyone, this is my favorite month because i love winter, its my birthday month, christmas and new years! Im going to do some tutorials for christmas parties, new years eve or what ever you may celebrate :) i decorated my make up station with a tree and i love it :) its realy girly and festive! Adding a tree, fairy lights, christmas bobbles, glitter and sparkles or anything festive will add a little bit of christmas spirit to your room! 

Thanks for reading 

Robyn xxx

1960's inspired make up

Lesley Lawson, mostly known as 'Twiggy' is an icon. Twiggy modeled threw out the 60's and became one of the greatest icons. I love her look it is so different and funky.



in College we recreated this iconic make up trend and i absolutely love it i think i will defiantly take a few tips for my own make up!

my take on this make up look

how to create this eye make up look
- prime eyes with eye primer - urban decay eye shadow primer potion
- apply any matte white eye shadow all over lid
- then do a cut crease effect with any black gel eye liner and create a winged look
- blend out the gel eye liner in the socket with a black eye shadow
- line eyes normally
- put on eye lashes - optional
- the underneath of eyes is very clean with just eye lashes
- you can either apply individual lashes on the bottom
- i drew on the bottom eye lashes for a darker affect


i hope some of you will try out this look weather its for a night out or Halloween i think its really exciting and fun.

Hope your having a good November
Robyn xxxx

Commercial beauty makeup

This make up look i did was inspired by a picture of Khloe Kardashian and Nicole guerriero 

I love this make up on khloe and i also loved nicoles take on it! I think its really young and fresh and could be worn at any age and in any season of the year! 

My take on it

Hope you liked this look :) 

Robyn xxx

Prabal Gurung spring summer 2014

Prabal Gurung fashion week spring summer 2014 inspired make up

The make up for this desingner was a statment lip, flawless skin and very minimal eyes. This look will be all in this spring and summer! 

My take on this look

Robyn xxx

Hey everyone, i know im a bit late but this year for Halloween i was a candy skull or a sugar skull. I love halloween! i think its the one day... or (week in my case ) haha that you can dress up and be who ever or what ever you want!
what i used for my look

1. white snazaroo face paint
2. 3 colour snazaroo paint kit
3. a face paint kit from the 2 euro shop
4. spooky white contact lenses
5. nail art glitter from "new look"
6. translucent powder
7. any pink blush
8. any purple eye-shadow
9. liquid eye liner
10. mascara
11. pink lip liner
12. face primer



STEPS

before i started my make up i put in my contact lenses.... freaky

1. i primed my face for a longer lasting affect
2. applied the dampened white face paint on with a foundation brush then set with translucent powder
3. started contouring my face with the pink blush and purple eye shawdow

4. i drew a circle around my eye with the pink lip liner then filled in with purple face paint
5. then i drew pettles around the purple socket in the pink lip liner and filed in with pink paint

6. i then drew a line from the outside of my lip to the middle of my cheek for a creepy smile affect
7. then i put on pink lipstick
8. drew on some freaky teeth for a skull like affect

9.  i found the nose quite difficult... i drew a tear drop shape with a v shape on top... if that makes any sense
10. then i lined my eyes with eye liner to make my freaky white eyes pop
11. and finnished it off by putting a glitter cross of my fore head using eye lash glue and glitter

and voila the finnished look with my flower made by my self i will do a DIY during the week :)

Halloween

I hope everyone had a great Halloween! I sure did! i did a few looks on Halloween on friends but 3 of them all wanted the same thing! but i have to do what they want i guess :) we were not all at the same party if your wondering haha! i did a slit throat and bloody cuts and scars look which was quite gory and gruesome which personally i LOVEE! i will do a tutorial soon on how i created these looks, robyn xxx

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robyn xxx

fashion and photographic make up

hey everyone, I have not posted in a while so im back and iv a load of photos and things to share with ye :) In the college i go too "LA creative academy" we have just finished the hair module and natural, bridal and basic make up module now we are really getting into the fun stuff! last week we did some black and white photography make up which i really enjoyed! We learnt a few tips like contouring must be very strong so the shades can be picked up, you can you any colour and they will all look different grey tone! so some people went all out with the colours! i kept my look very high fashion! I hope you like my pictures, Robyn xxx

Hair styling

In the one year module in "la creative academy" we do a 2 week module of hair styling. At the start i wasnt too excited about it but now im very happy we got to do it as now i know i few new tips and tricks not only for myself but to do friends hair and then work up to doing it on potential clients! We learnt how to put hair in rollers and set hair, curley blow drys, applying wigs, and many up styles! 

 

Photo shoot bridal and male make up.