Chloe Luckin : eylure

Friday, 14 February 2014

Valentine's day!

A lot of you are absolutely crazy about Valentine's Day, and some are stuck with an idea on their makeup.
     I thought I'd take this opportunity to make my own tutorial for this special day. I decided to use some new products that I haven't used before, so I was quite scared because I didn't know how it would turn out. Also, with tutorials, I don't try them out beforehand, so whatever's in the video, is literally my first take on doing this make-up look.
     I wanted to keep the theme colours (reds and pinks), but thought that I wanted a quite strong eye colour and lip colour, but not make it go too crazy! this is why I decided to just sticks with pinks. I did a beautiful multi tonal pink eye, with the drama of the flicked eyeliner and false lashes, but then kept the colour for the lips to a cute, baby pink. This way, you're attracted to both the eyes and the lips, but one doesn't take over the other.
     I was a bit worried about using my bright pink Dainty Doll eye shadow, as it was fluorescent pink and knew that if you put a light, neutral shade over the top, it would make a beautiful coloured pink for the eyes. (plus the lighter shade had shimmer, so made it look beautiful).

Check out my video on this makeup look, and make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel here.

Chloe :)

Tuesday, 7 January 2014

Eylure Individual Eyelashes...

Chloe Luckin 04:02 0 Comments

As most of you know, I wear eyelashes almost everyday, and I'll try any that you recommend to me.
I'm in love with Eylure lashes, they're my favourite, and I was super excited when someone recommended using Eylure Individucal Eyelashes. I've always wanted individual lashes doing, because I'm sick of sometimes having part of my eyelash unstuck throughout the day, but didn't want to pay over £100 to have them done. Also, I'm going to America next month, and don't want to have to bother applying false lashes everyday!
I picked these up in Savers for only £1.99, as opposed to Boots which are £5.99. They only had the brown coloured ones, but as my lashes are brown anyway, I thought I'd try them out!

What do they say?

'Longer, fuller, natural looking lashes'

'Semi Permanent'

'Quick and easy to apply'

'Up to 4 weeks wear'

How do you do them?

The instructions included in the package say that you must clean your lashes with an oil free cleanser before you start. You must also use tweezers to apply. They also say that you must put the glue on tin foil (apparently it's easier to see the glue and it's less messy).

Firstly, I took off all make-up with my 'Simple Make-up remover', which is oil free, and cleaned my lashes twice using this. I then used my 'Proactiv Toner' to make sure everything was off and to cleanse my lashes.

I then started applying each individual eyelash (with my tweezers), starting from the inside, to the outside. I did try the whole glue on the tin foil thing, but it just didn't work out and was much easier for me to hold the stick of the glue, and rub the eyelash onto it. Then you don't waste any glue at all.

I used the medium lashes for the outside and for the last 3/4 of the eye. I then used the short for the inside of the eye and mixed them with the medium sized towards the middle of the eye so it blended in a lot better.

I still had a good 7 or 8 left over, so did not use all of them. The only thing is, a few of them would not pull out of the packaging and I ended up breaking 1 or 2 because of this.

Results!

I really love these eyelashes. They look super natural but also give me a lot of length. As you can see from the before and after photos, there is a great difference between them. Plus, the brown ones are pretty dark, not extremely light which I was thinking. But I'm super happy with my results. a negative they I do have, is that on one of my eyelashes, there were purple strands on it which I thought was pretty bad. But the colour goes away with some mascara on those little lashes.

BEFORE & AFTER