The Sunshine State

I can't get enough of highlighters! There my favourite thing in the beauty world right now and have been for quite some time.  I love me some shimmer and glow!! So with that ramble over...I wanted to do a post on all of my highlighters. First of all highlighters come in all different textures and formulas, from liquids to powders to creams. Cream's One of my favourite highlighters is actully a cream, you might think a cream highlighter sounds like a lot of "faf" and buffing into the skin, I have to agree with you to a degree but they just look so lovely on the skin. My only cream highlighter is the Jemma Kidd Dewy Glow, All over radiance creme in 01 Iced Gold. Here it is on the skin....   Liquid's Now liquids can also be a bit of a 'faf' to apply as they can get messy but with the right one, they can look 'amaz-balls!' My all time favourite liquid highlighters are by Becca, they are the Shimmering Skin Perfectors...I curre...

So, if you have read my blog before you will know that I absolutely love the Becca Shimmering Skin Perfectors in liquid form. They are to die for!  I really wanted to invest in the powders also, I choose two colours, Moonstone and Rose Gold. These two colours are at opposite ends of the spectrum so hopefully you get a good idea of the colours. Moonstone is a silvery white gold highlight, this looks beautiful when it catches the light, I take these on my Sigma F35 tapered highlighter brush and apply to the high points of my face, eg. tops of cheekbones, nose, cupids bow, forehead.  Rose Gold is a much warmer highlight, from it's name you guessed it it's a pinky gold colour, again this is beautiful and would look great on warmer skin tones. 

Now I know this has been quite a cult product in the Beauty world and been around an age. But still, I thought I would do a blog post about it becuase quite frankly, it's beautiful. The Shimmer Brick comes in a lot of different colours from corals to bronzes. They give you the most gorgeous highlight on your skin, and can make you look more 'bronzed'.  I really like that the product has several diffent colours in the pan and when your swirl your brush between the five different shades, it makes the most lovely multi-tonal colour.

This is gorgeous!  This palette comes with a highlighter and a bronzer, but they compliment each other so well, and personally I think it's hard to go over the top with this product becuase the colours are brilliantly made to not look muddy or too orange, and with the highlighter not to white and power like. The highlighter leaves a subtle glow that looks lovely in daylight, and its not too harsh. You can build this up for more of a dramatic look for the evening and ti would still look natural. The colour is a golden apricot pink colour with shimmer running through out it. the bronzer doesn't look massivly different from the highlighter in the pan but when swatched it leaves a beautiful warm bronzed glow to the skin, nothing too orange or muddy like I said before, just a lovely 'I've just been away' glow.  This is great product if you new to highlighting and contouring and I don't think you could go wrong with this palette!

Hello.  Today I'm talking about the Becca shimmering skin perfectors. Now originally I was going to purchase a full size one of these but then saw that Becca had brought out a Spotlight mini trio pack in the colours Champagne Gold, Opal and Pearl...so three colours to try out? Yes please! These mini's come in tubes with a doe foot applicater which makes it a lot easier to apply the product if you are new to highlighters.  I absolutely love the texture, pigmentation and shimmer etc of these products. They just give you the most natural highlight and glow. I loved Opal so much that I bought the full size one, but the mini's are just so handy to pack and great to travel with instead of the full size ones. I would highly recommend this product, and if your thinking of buying a full size one, try the mini's first because they will last an age on their own!  Opal is a peachy colour, towards the more warm end of the spectrum Champagne Gold, is as stated a ...

Now the Hourglass ambient lighting collection has been hugely popular with celebritys to make-up artists, to people like you and me. The give you just such a lovely glow about you, and are a dream to work with. I think the best way to go if you haven't bought a single one of these is to get the three in one palette which is awesome because you get three shades to test out at quite a reasonable price. I love using this palette and it is now a firm favourite in my everyday make-up routine. The packaging is sleek, coming in a dark brown imitation metal case and is easy to travel with.   BELOW ARE PICTURES TAKEN OF THE PALLETT     AND SWATCHED ON THE SKIN   IN DIRECT SUNLIGHT  INDOORS