never fully dressed without a SMILE!

recreate my look - natural day wear 

I have been wearing this look on a daily basis for the last few weeks, it's quite natural and really quick for the dark and early mornings that greet me Monday-Friday.  I've listed below all of the items I use to create this look, mostly all are drugstore/high street brands and really quite inexpensive.

• Rimmel Match Perfection foundation (in 103 true ivory) 
• Use a Real Techniques expert face brush, to apply your foundation for a flawless look!   
• Touch up any dark areas/imperfections with Maybelline Dream Lumi Touch highlighting concealer, I also put a spot of this on my eyelids to neutralise my lids and create a flawless tone, I don't use eye shadow day to day.
• Powder all of your face with Maybelline Fit Me face powder (in 125) for maximum foundation staying power!
• Apply Sephora Creme (gel) Eyeliner (in smoky, actually black, but any gel eye liner will suffice) across your lids with a small flick at the sides.  I also Use a little bit of the Avon Glimmer Stick (in blackest black) in the corners for extra coverage
• Next up coat the lashes in Rimmel Scandaleyes Mascara. 
• Using MAC Cream Colour Base (in pearl frost) to highlight your cheek bones, nose and cupids bow.
• Blush your cheeks with SLEEK Blush BY 3 palette (in sugar 364)
• Finish off by puckering up and lathering those lips in MAC lipstick (in Up the Amp)

VIOLA!

*Please note that the shades above are a match for my skin, and you should change these to suit your own tones*

LOVE FOR THESE LIPS!

Lipstick: MAC in "Up the Amp"

Like Annie said, your never fully dressed without a smile! True fact, smiling is contagious and infectious, so SMILE!.

As I already mention in a previous post MAC was never a go to brand for me until recently. Whilst in LA I took some time to visit the MAC counter in Bloomingdale's , I was instantly drawn to a lipstick on the stand in a colour that I would never normally consider wearing, a neutral girl at heart, I was looking for something more subtle, however when I spotted the gorgeous purpley pink colour, I instantly wanted to put it on my lips.  Without thinking and before I knew it, I asked the guy behind the counter to get me one, within minutes I was the proud new owner of "Up the Amp". I set off with my little black MAC bag feeling rather pleased with myself.

I looked at the pretty lip colour for days and it wasn't until I returned back to Scotland that it touched my lips, it was however instant love.  Its soft and creamy texture is just divine, when on the lips it almost feels like a lip balm, it is so moisturising and it's staying power is unreal.  On Wednesday I had it on to work, I applied it first thing in the morning around 8am, and I only touched it up after lunch, about 1pm, even then it was still showing a lot of colour.  I am now totally addicted to MAC lipstick.  I have several now stocking up on my Christmas list, and with a wee trip to London planned for February i'm saving my pennies for a mass MAC stock up.

If there are any other must have colours you know of, please leave me a comment below letting me know which ones and I will check them out for sure!

Much love 

.x KP .X

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Just for fun - Pin me up sweetie!

Hola my little pretties, and to all my lovely new followers, thank you for joining up! Yesterday was my first day back to work after 4 weeks off (wedding & honeymoon) and it wasn't so bad, I survived. It was also pay day #hooray!  So with a few bucks in my pocket I was finally able to book my pro makeup course.  I am so excited about this, and the course starts on my birthday, what a wicked way to spend turning 27.  The course doesn't start until January, but that's ok, just means more time to build up my kit.  All in all yesterday was a GOOD day! 

On Saturday I picked up the new foundation from Rimmel - Match Perfection, so last night I tried it out and it's quite amazing I have to say.  I will try this out for a few more weeks to test out staying power, and i'll report back but so far it's pretty flawless.  The classic pin up look is one of my faves, so I gave it a bash, I even pinned in some victory rolls, but they didn't last as my hair is so soft at the moment and super long, but anyway here's a modern take on the classic pin up look ......

I Love it!  If I could get away with wearing this to work everyday I would!  What do you think?

If you want to recreate your own classic pin up look, here's my ingredients:-

* Rimmel Match Perfection (my colour 103 true ivory)

* Sephora smoky cream liner in "must have" (black)

* Sephora blush in no.10 romantic rose

* MAC cream colour base in Pearl 

* MAC eye shadow in Brule

 MUA lipstick in shade 8

* Collection 2000 lasting perfection powder in 1 fair

* NARS velvet matte lip pencil in "damned"

* Benefit IT stick

* Benefit "they're real" mascara

* False lashes ( I used a pair from Accessorize that I had in my kit) 

OH...and not forgetting a brown pencil for my brows (khol pencil, cant remember the make)

So, go try this out, and if you do re create this look, please leave a link to your post in the comments so I can come take a peek at all you beauties :)  and if you have any question on how I created this look feel free to e-mail me at kirstypiriemakeup@gmail.com or tweet me @missksmudger

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Much Love KP .x.