I love Annalyn McCord's Make up!

Hey all ;)

Just wanted to drop a little post to show how much i love Annalyn McCord and her style!! especially her different make up looks.

what i love most about her make up, is the fact tht it is wearable and glamorous at the same time <3

 

Modern, Easy and sexy make up looks that I love!

Hey dolls,

You all probably know by now that I am a major fan of Make up, and i love trying out different make up looks, either natural or a really mokey eye!

Today, i got you a few make up ideas that I love so much, that will help you with your everyday make up look, as they are speedy, yet sexy and will look beautiful..

Let's start!

Stay Natural!

There is absolutely nothing better than being able to go out with not much make up!! I love natural make up looks, such as neutral brown shadows, and natural moisturized lips! and this sprin/summer, this will be extremely trendy! so try to go less with your make up! & remember, Less is more!

Make yourself Glow!

You might have realized that all Hollywood fashionistas are walking the red carpet with confidene, that may have been produced due to the glowy skin!!

Dewy skin is the thing for summer and spring, so make sure you use a highlighter to make your skin apear glowyer (lol).

Orange!

Orange lips are deffinetly trendy this spring/summer. Make sure you fetch yourself a bright color for your lips, and i strongly recommend orange/red color, as it is the real deal right now!

It is pretty hard to get the perfect shade that goes with your skin, hair and eye colors, but the key is to mix and match different colors in order to get what you're looking for! Be you're own professional make up artist :)

Natural Cheeks

& here i dont mean your natural cheeks (i.e non plastic surgery cheeks, lol). What i mean here is the choice of taking a natural blush color, instead of taking a really bold blush color. I would recommend NARS Orgasm blush, or go forthe Bobbi Brown Pot rouge for lips and cheeks! i would recommend the one in Pink Truffle.

Light Pink Lips

This is my all time favorite lip color, it is soo natural, but does have a touch of pink to it :). It is so close to a nude shade, but still not quite there.. I just love it, and really seems to go with alot of make up looks and eye shadows.. It is also th best friend of a smokey eye!

Smoky Eyeliner

Just a simple eye liner could create a whole make up look & is great for creating a simple smokey eye!! I would strongly recommend you find a suitable pencil liner that you are comfortable with, ( i personally prefere Dior when it comes to liners) and try out different smokey eyes with it, either by smudgng it or running a shadow over it :)

Warm Skin

Warm skin is absolutely a neccessity right now, skin is an important factor that effects your overall make up look! If you dont have good skin, your make up will probbly not look good. I suggest you take good care of your skin by eating healthly, drinking lots and lots of water, especially now in the summer, and work out!! I personally have alot of skin breakdowns, and find it extremely hard to stick to a healthy diet and all that. I also dont have much time to work out either, so that might result in my skin looking unperfect ;p But in the end, i try my best and clean it and rense it with water at least 5 times a day :)..

Having a warm skin means you need to use a bronzer, to make it look warmer. I have a pale skin that really irritates me in the morning (I do not have a problem with being pale, but my skin really looks pale + flaky, which is the reason why it irritated me). I end up using bronzer most of the time, and it really does its job. Try the smashbox bronzer, its perfect, and does not have shimmer to it, which makes it more natural.

Winged Liner

Living in the arabian gulf makes it norml for me to be in love with winged out liner, I just dont like going crazy with it when i have too much color in my eyes though! which is not a typical arabic thing ;p

Anyways, I am a huge fan of vintage make up, and loooovvve winged liners, either with red lips, or nude lips, or even pink!

What i love the most about the winged liner is that you dont have to concentrate alot on the other parts of your face if you have a winged liner on your eyes, because it will be the thing that grabs attention :)

Winged liner all the wayy! <3

 

Salsabil's Perfect Smokey Eye!

Hey dolls ;) ..

So Salsabil did this amazing brown smokey ye a few days ago, and I had to share it with you guys <3

You all know im in love with smokey eyes, especially neutral ones like brown ones :D ..

I love how perfect it is, ;) lol



KATE'S MAKEUP = A Total hit!



 I gotta say, i was pretty shocked to find out that Kate did her own make up <3 she is so blessed when it comes to make up, fashion and beauty :)

She actually chose her own hands other that a professional make up artist, and i envy her for that!!

Her make up was absolutely stunning on her wedding ..<3 ..

Kim Kardashian's Everyday Make Up looks.

Heeey there ;)

I'm kinda blogging alot lately, but i bet you guys are loving it .. hehe LOL!

anyways,

You all know that i look up to Kim Kardashian in terms of fashion and beauty, and one of the things that I love most about her is her everyday make up looks.. She varies her everyday looks from a super tense smokey eye, to a neutral brown, to almost nothing.. So I wanted to show you a few of my favorite Kim K everyday make up looks :) hoping that u will benefit from them, so you can use them for your everyday looks, either in school or at work .. or just normal going out!

(Click to enlarge to look closely at the make up look and colors used)

Look Number One



Look Number Two

As you see here, Kim used the liner to make the look more dramatic.

Look Number Three

Here she went light ont he liner, but intense with the browns!!

Look Number Four

While in NYC, Kim decided to go really heavy on her make up.. which really suits the atmosphere around her <3 loved this look so much!

Look Number Five

Kim seems to stick to browns, blacks and greys when it comes to her everyday make up.. She also once said that her all tim favorite make up look is a smokey eye! which makes sense, because smokey eyes are like a make up legend ;p

Look Number Six

Again we see a typical brown smokey eye, which is one of my favorites <3

I think i will stick to this kinda everyday look in the future when i start working :)

Look Number Seven

This is the look thateverybody should go for once in a while, which is simply bare skin!! Nothing at all..

I personally believe that every girl should be comfortable in her own skin, ans should be ok with going bare without any make up!

Look Number Eight

We also see Kim K out with as little make up as possible, like the pic above!

New goodies :D

Hey :D...

So i promised you that I will show you a few of the new things i got recently, and here i am!! TADAAA!

anyways, let me start telling you about a few exciting cosmetics that I got :)..

The first thing that I really had to buy was a new concealer, and i was convinced to go for the Clarins one, which is amazing!! and does its job perfectly, either for under eyes or redness..

Another thing that i also got form Clarins is a foundation primer/correcter. What I like about it is that its light and can be worn alone without the foundation, It is also colourless which makes it look as natural as possible.

After buying them two things, the shop gave me two facial/skin treatement washes, which im loving and will probably end up buying!! Oh, and before i forget, I also got two new lipsticks also from Clarins, that i find myself wearing all the time :)

The most exciting thing of all is the Clarins bag that I got!! It looks like a beach bag! so im saving it for the summer ;) still didnt wear it yet! I got two of this bag, one for me and one for my sister Salsabil :D ...

I love it because you can fit in plenty of things in it for summer trips and all that!!

I do have a few other things that I wanna show you, but this is enough for the time being ..

Love you, !!

Balsam xoxo

Get A Perfcet Smokey Eye!

Hey Girliez ..

You're probably wonderin' how to get that perfect smokey eye in the picture above, well today i'm going to show you how to do it, well not show you, but tell you! .. I will make sure that it's easy, and very followable (is that even a word?) , anyway .. lemme tell you about the products you need, or what kinda shadows would fit perfectly for a smokey eye!! ..

I personaly love to use the YSL 5 colour smokey eye pallete, which looks exactly like this :

As you can see from the picture, it come with a small eye angled brush, and a normal eye shadow brush, with two ends, one which is pointed, and one that is rounded. These three types of brushes are pretty much enough to create a good smokey eye, you may need a blender brush to kinda get all the coloures evened out and great!..

Usualy, a smokey eye has a dark colour base of either really really black, or really dark brown. Carbon by mac would be a great start of a smokey eye, which i believe is equivelant to the black section on the YSL smokey eye pallet above. Carbon may be a bit darker.

Ok, lets get in to the how to ..!!

Before starting doing you eyeshadow, you need to make sure that your foundation is perfectly done, along with concealing any dark circles under your eyes, or any red spots on your skin. You may use a liquid foundation or a face primer as a base to prevent your powder foundation from creasing, which will save your look for much more time! ..

The Eyes!

1) Make Sure that you have applied a primer before staring, to prevent creasing, and make sure that your primer has been applied all the way to the brow bone. FY ... Eye primer by benefit is really good for this. It looks just like this :

Don't forget to even out your eye afterwards, to make sure that all of your eye has the same colour (all the way from the lid to the crease). In order to do this you can use a concealer, or any cream shadow which is very close to your skin tone. I personaly use Mac studio finish concealer :

This concealer works for everything. I'm not sure about under eye area though, coz it does not seem to last long enough, but for other purposes such as concealing red areas, or evening out your lid, it's great! ..

2) You need to grab a large fluffy eye brush such as this one :

You can use the mac 213, as it looks good enough for the job, and it is able to add the colour in wide areas, and you need that for a smokey eye. You will have to add black/dark brown (whatever you choose, usually the darkest shade of colour) into this brush and you much slowly add it into the entire of your eye lid and up to the crease, don't go any further, because you will need to blend the other colours there.

My New Avon Things finally arrived!

So, i ordered four manicures (one not pictured) and a natural browns eye shadow pallet from Avon, and finally, they arrived!

i am already loving it, and i already used the eyeshadow pallet twice for nights out! <3..

the manicure colours are also amazing, the purple and pink have a shimmer which looks great for parties! and special occasions, the red is just a classic bold red that i really needed recently.

What's good about Avon, their products are really not pricy and %100 affordable, and they are such a good quality too.

How To Apply Bronzer! (The Perfect Way)



It's time for some bronzing!!!

Well i know bronzer is most used in the summer, but i honeslty love bronzing up all the time. I have a kind of tanned bu pale skin, that needs bronzing from time to time. So when it's cold and theres alot of breez and cold air, my skin gets so pale and dry, so bronzing becomes an essential.

Today, i will go with you step by step, on how to apply bronzer.

Well firsf of all, you guys should know that when it comes to applying bronzer, you need to find bronzer that has no shimmer whatsoever, so you should be looking for matte bronzer, such as:



Mac bronzing Powder



Smashbox Bronzer

Well, alot of girls out there apply bronzer in a wrong way, where they end up looking burnts, of way too orange!

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So, how should you apply bronzer?

 1) Get the perfect Brush

Mac 150

2) Know where to apply your bronzer.

Bronzer should be applied on the top of your eye brows, which makes your forehead looks kind of smaller, and the bronz colour would look more natural, because that is where the sun normally hits.

The bronzer should also be applied underneath the cheek apples.

If you look at the way Kim kardashian aplies her bronzer, she does it underneeth her cheek apples to enhance her cheek bones and make her face seem and look thinner.

The correct technique to do the bronzer is to apply it starting from next to the ears and going back to under the apples of the cheeks :)

To end the bronzing process:

2) choose apropriate blush to finish off the bronzed up look.

You should blend in the bronzer with a blush to finish off the look. Because if you apply the blush alone, it will look too fake, and if you apply the bronzer alone, it would probably look too orange!!

If you understand arabic, you should watch this video of joelle explaining this whole process:

All About Cocealer!

Hey :] x

How are you all doing? ..

Well, My sister pointed out to me that I never do any posts related to beauty anymore! which is kind of right, because i've been blogging alot about dresses, shoes, and all types of clothing. I completely forgot about beauty, and I apologize for that :).

It is commonly known that every girl nowadays tries her very best to reach a level where her skin is perfect looking! .. There are alot of ways and skin care routines that get you to a perfect skin, but you will at some stage need a concealer to help you with that!! 

So, here i am, today , I decided to post something about Concealers. I am pretty sure that there are plenty of girls out there that Love concealers but hate dealing with it due to the fact that it is really hard to get right!! But not anymore! Today , I will hopefully tell you the main points about using concealers. ..

1) Go One Shade Lighter.

The job of a concealer is to lighten up any dark spots that you have, so it would be wise to go one shade lighter with your concealer, to enlighten your under eye area and cheek bones.






2) Dab It, Don't Rub It!





One of the mistakes that i used to do, is rubbing the concealer under my eye, or on any unwanted dark spot. If you rub it, the concealer tends to go into other places that you don't necessarily need converage on, however, if you dab it, the concealer goes perfectly in place and tends to stay there for longer time + provide better coverage <3







3) MAC Studio Finish Concealer.





I love this concealer <3 I have been using it for about one year, and it's great for covering dark spots (not under eye area). This concealer creates lines and it creases if you apply it under the eye area for a long time. I think that this concealer is best for red spots or any dark unwanted areas, other than the dark circles under the eye.





4) Make Up Forever Lift Concealer.







To be honest, I never tried this concealer but i heared alot about it from professional make up artists that I love & follow. Everybody i know says it's a very good concealer and i am willing to try it this year :] .. It is perfect for under eye area!.. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian use it.

5) Concealer is not only for under eyes!



Concealer is not only made for under eye circles! Here, in Oman, and other places, girls tend to think that concealer is only made for under eye circles! which is a big mistake. Stars in Hollywood use concealer to brighten up their cheek bone area, and to also contour the nose and make it look better, without any plastic surgeries!. I love light looking undereye area & cheeks, they look really pretty with bronzer & blush! ..

Be careful when using concealer, you should make the rest of your face well colored, so your eyes don't look too make uped :p haha if you get what i mean :) ..x


Ashley Tisdale & Kim Kardashian use concealer to brighten their cheek bones and nose: