When Bobbi B met Claire

On Saturday one of my best friends asked me to do her makeup for a wedding she was attending. Claire usually wears Estee Lauder Double Wear but on Saturday I gave her pretty little face a splash of something new to wear.  I used the latest Bobbi Brown long wear even finish foundation.  I can definitely say after wearing it for the last several weeks myself, its definitely my favorite at the minute (a full review to come soon)

My beautiful friend Claire after having her makeup done (forgot to take before pics)

 

Having your makeup done in daylight is a total must, as you can see these pictures were taken in a full stream of day light and it really shows the true effects of how your face will look when you step outside.  Claire's look was fairly natural with a slightly purpley/gold smokey eye and pink lips.  Clair doesn't have noticeable eyelids when here eyes are open so I took the colour on the lids up a little higher so that you could still see a hint of colour when her eyes were open.

Ingredients for Claire's look:

I also added a little bit of lipgloss and some Sephora setting powder to her face after her face was finished and then sprayed a little Urban Decay "All Nighter" on her face to keep her makeup in place for longer.  Claire said her makeup stayed on all day and night and she only needed to touch up her lips #excellent.

I am still a newbie to professional makeup application so any tips or tricks are always welcome!

Until next time beauties, Much Love

.x. KP .x.

Get lippy

Happy Friday lovelies!

Today I wanted to share with you my tip on storing lip sticks within your kit, this is a great idea especially if you have lots of lip sticks that your currently lugging around.  My kit is growing by the day, and its quite heavy, carrying tones of lipsticks obviously isn't helping the cause, so I was looking into other ways of storing lip sticks and loads of other makeup artists were "potting there lippies".  

So let me introduce you to the invention of "POTTING".....

Ingredients:

1x WH SMITH childrens painting set - £3.99 (bargain)

1x Screwdriver (any small thin poking type tool will work too)

The paint brush that comes with the paints (do not throw away)

When I was looking for storage containers to pot my lippies into, I considered using pill boxes (which can be found in the pound store), however they were quite bulky and had Mon-Sun subscribed on the boxes which wasn't very glamorous.  So on an outing to WH Smith one lunch time I spotted the above children's painting set, the container looked and felt quite sturdy, and at £3.99 I couldn't really complain even if it didn't work.  Child's paint set in hand, off I went to experiment, and it worked!  And it's bloody fantastic.

It really is very simple.  Open the paint pack and remove the paints inside, underneath you will see 18 blank squares. Select the lippies you want to de-pot and get to work ......

You can choose to do this as soon as you get a new lippy, or you can wait until you are down to the very last part of the lippy and scrape out what's left.  I personally like to do it as soon as I get my lippy, that way I am not carrying loads of loose lippies, and it's great to see all the colors that I have in one place, saves me raking around looking for a specific color.

So break off the top part of the lippy, drop it into a square, then using the other end of the paint brush (included with the paints) begin to mush down the lippy, and spread it around the square, once you have done this and its all pretty soft, use your screwdriver to get in and scrape out what's left inside the lipstick pot and repeat until all mushed.  It is amazing how much product is in the bottom of these lipstick pots and to think I used to bin them (the horror).  Once all lippy is picked out of the pot and mushed into the square, again use the end of the paint brush to smooth it all out (it doesn't have to be perfect, mine still has little lumpy bits, that's completely fine).  The black squares are very deceiving and you will come to find that 1 full lipstick fits comfortably into 1 square - amazing!

Continue to fill up your squares with colors until they are all complete and VIOLA!  Your very own lip pallet.

Once you are finished, close up the lid and pack away.  The lippies will harden up again, just like they were in their original packing.  Get yourself a good lip brush for applying them and your good to go!

This is by far the best pallet that I have found for storing my lippies, I still have a few more pallets to do, im quite geeky and like my stuff colour co-ordinated hence why this one isnt quite complete.

I hope you found this helpful, if you have any other tips for storing lippy that I need to know about, leave me a comment or get in touch.

Much Love 

.x. KP .x.

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

And if you'r really nosey (like me) you can hop on over to my Facebook page and like, like, like www.facebook.com/kirstypirieMUA

Much Love KP .x.

Spread the crem....

We all know that Sudocrem is best used on the little bum cheeks of babies, but it's also THEE best spot cream ever!  I suffer quite badly from spot breakouts around my mouth, it's so annoying and it seems to break out every few months.  I have been on the hunt for something to stop the break outs and have tried every spot cream on the market, whilst some of them worked ok, they never really cleared up the spots quick enough.

After hearing such amazing things about Sudocrem, I decided to invest in a tub and give it a try.  What'dya know its the bomb!

I apply it to all my spots and to the areas that have been marked each night, and in the morning I kid you not the spots are dried up, and the marked areas are visibly reduced.  Its really incredible.  Over the last few weeks I have been cleansing, toning and moisturising my skin daily, but since using the Sudocrem in the evenings my skin has been 100% clearer!

So ladies (and gents) this is it, the miracle cure!  If you need a quick fix fast, get down to your local chemist,  drug store or supermarket and pick up a Sudocrem.

Much love Pretties .x Kirsty .x

M.A.C me up!

Afternoon lovelies,

It's another dreich day (that means horrible in Scottish haha), it's been rainy and cold all week, I have to say I am definitely missing the sunny days of LA.  

Whilst I was in LA I visited one of there many MAC stores and picked up a few goodies.  Up until recently I  had only ever purchased one item from MAC, that being there long wear foundation, and I only got it because I was passing through Heathrow and needed a foundation.  Admittedly MAC has never been a brand that I have been attracted to, I dont know why, maybe just because of my lack of knowledge regarding there products, however that may about to change!

As I previously mentioned I built up quite a bit of my kit whilst away, and I picked up this face & body foundation from MAC as I had heard great things about it and that it was a fave amongst the MUA's.  I have tried it out on my skin, and I have a lot of red undertones, so for me this isn't a great foundation.  Its very sheer, so would be suitable for someone with already flawless smooth skin, or for someone who doesn't wear all that much makeup.  It did appear fairly blendable  it is slightly runnier than I am used to but I used my real techniques stippling brush to apply it and it went on well.  This is in shade NW2.  I don't think I will buy any more of this unless my course tutor recommends it, but i'll keep this one in my kit just incase.

I am in LOVE with this MAC lipstick, "up the amp" its a pinky, purpley toned lipstick, a colour that I would never normally wear.  The MAC lipsticks are very long wearing, it kept its colour on my lips for so long.  I will definitely be purchasing a few more of these.

These colour swatches dont really do these products justice, but they are just so yummy! I picked up a few more MAC products also, some eye-shadow, matte bronzer and a highlighter which I will review shortly.

Last night I was playing with a free sample of Smashbox BB cream, it was actually really nice, very lightweight and recommended for daily wear to work or a casual occasion.  I was also playing with my NAKED pallet, from Urban Decay, hence the two different coloured eyes, above are the results!  I added a bit of MAC cream pot in pearl to hi-light some key areas (forehead, nose, under eye, upper lip and chin) and although this was taken at night I was quite pleased with the results.

Until next time beauties...... x.Kirsty.x

Sephora-say-what?

Whilst on honeymoon I found the most fab shop, Sephora.  Many of the US readers will be well aware of Sephora, but for us here in the UK this isnt a store we have.  Well let me tell you its super awesome, think adult makeup candy store, HEAVEN.

The store stocks pretty much every brand you can think of, except MAC as they have many of there own shops (on every corner) but its just dreamy.  I swear I spent most of my honeymoon in that shop, and spent WAY too much dollars, but on the up side I've pretty much given my makeup kit a flipping awesome start.  I have to say I was absolutely gutted to learn that they did not ship to the UK *sad face* BUT after a little digging around I found out that you can in fact order items from their French website and it can be shipped to the UK *happy face*.  The site is in French which is a bit of a bummer, however using google translate it doesn't seem too much of an issue, and there search facility recognises product names when typed in English, so I am one happy bunny!

After returning from honeymoon yesterday with our cases not in tow, I was without my  many new purchases, thankfully the cases turned up today and we have been reunited .  I see tomorrow consisting off painting faces.  Signing off to catch up on Gossip Girl and Vampire Diaries.

Catch Y'all soon 

x.Kirsty.x 

Welcome in lovely bubblies!

Welcome aboard lovelies, this is my little space on the www.  Here I am going to share all things, pretty, pearly, pink & peach (basically anything and everything I heart!).  You'll also find a host of yummy posts on all things makeup.

I recently got married (28 sept 2012 to be exact) and found it uber difficult to find a makeup artist that didn't want to make me look like a monster, for real!  I've always had a big makeup collection and enjoyed getting my glam on for a night out or special event, and I love playing with products.  After my ordeal of terrible makeup trials in the run up to the wedding, I decided to do my own makeup on the day.  From that experience I have now decided to look into makeup school, it's something I really enjoy and would love to get involved with, I would love to make other brides feel beautiful on there own day without feeling like a total monster.  I swear every artist gave me black looking eyes, what is that?! 

Anyway, I hope you will join me in my new venture, and visit often.   Please leave your comments and say hi when you visit and i'll be sure to return the favour!

I'll be back soon with some fab haul & review posts, but to kick things off, I'll share with you all a few pics of our special day .....

The last pic is one of my fave non professional ones, me with my two grandmas, aren't they super cute!

Well signing off, im a little jet lagged after our epic 10 hour flight (returning from honeymoon)

.x. Kirsty .x.