Would You Rather? Beauty Edition

Because I don’t do enough tags on my blog I thought I’d do a beauty would you rather! I love any kind of would you rather, I think they’re so funny.

1.) Would you rather lose all of your mascaras, eyeliners, lipsticks, and lipglosses or lose all of your palettes and eyeshadows?

I’d definitely want to keep my eyeshadow palettes, the majority of my high end stuff is eyeshadows.

2.) Would you rather chop off all your hair or never be able to cut it again?

It sounds ridiculous but my head is so huge I’d look so awful with no hair whatsoever! I’d rather never cut it again than have nothing.

3.) Would you rather have a coral cheek or a pink cheek?

Probably a coral, I don’t often wear blusj because my cheeks are very naturally red.

4.) If you had $1000 to spend, would you rather buy clothes or makeup?

This one is hard because if I had $1000 I’d spend some on makeup and some on clothe sbut if I had to choose I’d probably say clothes.

5.) Would you rather apply lipstick as eyeliner, or eyeliner as lipstick?

Probably eyeliner as lipstick, black lips are in fashion now! If I could pull it off is a different matter…

6.) Would you rather only shop at MAC or Sephora?

I’ve never shopped at Sephora because I’ve never been to America so I would say MAC.

7.) Would you rather only use one eyeshadow color or one lip color for the rest of your life?

I usually use the same lipstick so i’d just stick with that. And if I had to choose a lipstick to wear forever it would be Whirl by MAC.
8.) Would you rather wear winter clothes in summer or summer clothes in winter?

Luckily we don’t get much of a summer in UK so I could wear winter clothes all year!

9.) Would you rather have dark nails or bright nails all year round?

Bright nails, I’m not cool and vampy enough to have dark nails!

10.) Would you rather give up your favorite lip product or your favorite eye product?

This one is so tricky but I couldn’t bare to give up my Naked palette so it would have to be lip.

11.) Would you rather only be able to wear your hair in a ponytail or a messy bun?

I’ve never been able to perfect the messy bun and I live in pony tails so this one is easy. I’d stick with a ponytail.

12.) Would your rather never be able to paint your nails again or never use lipgloss?

I don’t like lipgloss that much because of how sticky it is so I’d happily give that up.

13.) Would you rather shave your eyebrows and have none at all or sharpie them in everyday?

My eyebrows are an integral part of my face so I think I’d have to Sharpie them in everyday! Could I use a brown Sharpie or would it have to be black?

14.) Would you rather live without makeup or nail polish?

I don’t paint my nails that often because I’m not very good at doing them and I love makeup so I’d live without nail polish.

I tag everybody reading to do this, I look forward to seeing them!

With all my love, from Lucy

Summery Copper Makeup Look

I always associate copper eyeshadow with autumn and winter, the whole copper eyes and berry lips thing, but I was just mucking about with my makeup and trying new looks and I came up with this and I thought it was perfect for summer.

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This MUA palette is my go-to in summer for a few reasons, it is the only eyeshadow palette I own that has bright shades in and I think summer is the perfect time for experimenting with colour and because some of the eyeshadows aren’t very pigmented it gives a lovely sheen of colour because what they lack in colour they make up for in shimmer! I’m not even kidding, the simmer shadows in here are SO shimmery!

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I used this lovely, rich copper shade all over the lid with a slightly lighter pinkier toned shade in the first half of my eye to brighten it up. Then in the crease, I just used this simple matte camel colour.

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In the photo, they colours look more gold and less copper than in real life but it still looks very pretty!

The same as pretty much all the makeup looks I do, this is something that could be worn anywhere. Does anyone else have days you just feel like doing your makeup nicely?!

 

With all my love, from Lucy

 

My Top Photography Tips

Recently a lovely lady from Aura Frames emailed me and asked me to share my best photography tips, especially when using your phone camera, with you all. An Aura Frame is a digital picture frame which shows photos from your camera roll and is controlled by an app.

I don’t class myself as a pro photographer and I never use a proper camera but we live in an age where most smartphone cameras are as good at proper cameras so that is fine! Here are my top tips:

1. When taking selfies- something I do quite frequently- always use natural lighting. I find artificial lighting can make your face a slightly different shade so all my selfies are taken in front of a window!

2. Try and find a focus point in all photos, especially landscapes.

3. Utilize the panorama feature if you have one. It allows you to take 360 degree photos of landscapes all in one, instead of having to take multiple photos of the same place.

4. If you are ever taking a photo of somebody make sure there is something nice in the background. I really like the photo of my brother and I that my dad took a few years ago because of the lovely lake in the background!

5. Get your angles right! I’m taking media studies fro GCSE and I’ve learnt all about camera angles. I took he photo of the castle/cathedral (I can’t remember) in Belgium from a low angle which makes it look a  lot bigger than it actually is!

Let me know your best photography tips. You can order an Aura Frame here.

With all my love, from Lucy