Cruelty free makeup.. the new highlighter palette

 I thought I'd quickly share with you the new highlighter palette that's become my current makeup addiction!
Recently I found out that Sleek are Cruelty free and so I decided to pay my local Superdrug a visit. I bought the Solstice highlighting palette and the Matte me liquid lipstick in "Birthday suit".

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I had read lots of positive reviews about the matte me lipsticks, with people requesting more nude and neutral shades in particular. I'm really impressed with "Birthday suit" and I've been using it as my new daily lip colour. The colour is really subtle but still pretty and the matte formula means that it lasts hours, even through lunch!

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Sleek have several highlighting palette's to choose from, I chose "Solstice" as I was loving the variety of the colours! There is one cream formula (that I have been using as a base) and three shimmery powders. I am so happy with the shades and the pigmentation is really impressive.

What's your favourite highlighter to use?

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How I overdraw my lips

I wasn't blessed with big lips so for several years I've been overdrawing my lip line when I apply my lipstick. Now I have to overdraw my lips pretty much whenever I leave the house, even if I don't have any other makeup on, I feel incomplete without them!

"Duh, it's totally obvious. Your lips went from Cameron Diaz to Jay-Z"

Just to clarify I'm not going for the natural look, but this technique can still be used on your natural lip line to create a fuller pout or to just slightly go over the lip line.

So as you can see my bottom lip is a lot larger than my top, this is scar tissue from when I had snakebites and they rejected. 

I use a lip liner that's a similar colour to my lips and I overdraw to the desired size, this sometimes takes a few attempts to get them looking right but practise makes perfect!

If you're trying this for the first time start by slightly going over the line of your natural lips and then build up to a size that you're happy with.

I'm happy with the size of my bottom lip so I just even out the edges with my lip liner and cover up my scars as much as I can.

The next step is using a brown, darker lip liner to shade over the natural lip line and to create dimension. I then blend it out with the first lip pencil.

I'll either leave my lips at this point or I'll add a lip gloss or a nude lipstick depending on my mood!

So that is how I overdraw my lips!

Please ignore my deviated septum and my general awkwardness ❤️

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Everyday makeup routine

Pretty much everyday I use a variation of this makeup routine (well the days I can be bothered wearing any makeup!)

I love experimenting and changing my look up. Right now I'm really in to heavy contouring and highlighting and overdrawing my lips to Pamela Anderson proportions, she is my spirit animal!

Foundation - Illamasqua Skinbase

Powder - Illamasqua pressed powder

Contour and highlight - Illamasqua sculpting powder duo

Eyebrows - Barry M pencil

Lips - Mehron "sweet" lip pencil

Eyeliner - Barry M

Mascara - Barry M Lash Vegas

The eye shadows are from a massive palette I bought from Ebay a while ago, it has every colour you could ever imagine! I used a blending brush to put the brown in my crease and then pressed a red colour on to my lid.

I'm going to do a few more detailed posts with different looks and a post about how I overdraw my lips and different ways to make them appear bigger, so keep checking back!

Also can you spot my handsome German Shepherd Sabbath in the second photo?! He's too cute I can't even deal.

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