Engagement Party Makeup

So on the 9th of November 2013, my best friend got down on one knee and proposed to me. Here we are 4 months later and we finally had our engagement dinner, We chose to keep it small with only close family and the bridal party, but it was a wonderful night full of laughs and love and WAYYY to many photos.

I thought since I put in a little extra time to do my makeup that I would put some photos up with what the finished look was and what products I used.

For my base I used RCMA cream foundation in Ivory in the high points of my face and Gena Beige in the other sections of my face to give it a slight   contour and dimension. this foundation is 50% pigment so you only need a little bit to go a long way, aswell as having no SPF and being oil free, so no greasy looking photos and definatly no flashback.

For contour I used NYX blush in taupe, for blush I used Tarte's amazonian clay blush in exposed and for highlight I used Josie morans liquid gold highlighter.

For my eyes I used Mac's paint pot in rich ground, along with three Smashbox eyeshadows, bliss in the inner corner, dusk in the crease and cabernet all over the lid. I used Mac's paint pot in blacktrack for my eyeliner and revlon lash potion mascara.

I had a fantastic night and the makeup look lasted all through the night and the burgundy eyes really made my green eyes stand out.

Thankyou XO Jess

Healthier lifestyle choices: How i lost close to half my body weight

When i was growing up i was proberly always an average sized child, never really thin but never really large either, just average. Then puberty hit and it was like BAM instant weight gain..... okay proberly not that instant, but my weight definatly increased throughout my high school years, slowly creeping up on me, as weight so sneakily does to those of us who don't make good food choices, until I was in my first year of uni and ultimately very unhappy with myself.

I didn't make the decision to eat well and make good lifestyle changes until maybe my second year of university, although i understood the concept, i never fully understood why i couldn't eat what ever i wanted and just work out like all the skinny girls i knew, but for me that was never going to work and it took my until the ripe age of 19 to figure that out.

So in 2012 I (and my boyfriend) made the conscious decision to eat better and exercise regularly, which sounds easy but isn't so easy in practise, it is very difficult to give up foods you've grown up eating regularly and not knowing any better, but slowly but surely by swapping foods out for healthier versions we were able to make the changes we needed to slowly start loosing weight.

It was never easy, but anything worth getting never is. I am nowhere near where i want to be, but i am a lot closer to where i should be and it makes me happy.

If anyone would like some food substitution ideas for weight loss please leave me a message, and i hope that this helps everyone to see that if I, a completely sedentary obese teenager who couldn't run for 1 minute, can do it (i can now run 40mins without a second thought) then SO CAN ANYONE!

Before and during weightloss: fitting into jeans that have never fit before. Proud fit moment

Have a little faith in yourself, you are capable of the worlds treasures.
xxx

All natural changes

Im like every other girl when it comes to skincare and makeup, I'll buy into the hype of a product, purchase it, and then can be often disappointed for one reason or another. So lately my skin has been acting up, and I have been breaking out like crazy, and so i started looking for a solution and I think I've found one.

All natural skincare and cosmetics are hard to come by and they are definatly not cheap either, but I think that with the help of a lot of research and a fantastic youtuber, i have found the solution to my need for natural skincare and cosmetics. 

Firstly after watching Kassie or CloudyApples youtube videos on natural skin remedies and skin care I started doing my own research into the oil cleanse, now I have dry to combination skin and I get breakouts on my chin mostly, and this has been working amazingly for me. Now all you oily skin girls are thinking I'm crazy, but I've read a lot of reviews of oily or combo skin girls and they have all loved it too.

For the cleanse you will need 100% organic, hexane free, cold pressed castor oil and organic cold pressed olive oil or avocado oil. You will need to have a sink full of hot water and soak a face cloth in it, apply a mixture of castor oil and your other oil to your face and massage in for a few minutes, then apply the hot cloth to your face and leave on until the cloth cools and finally use the hot cloth to remove any excess oil on your face. I will leave a link at the end of this post to Kassie's video on how to do it if you need a more visual representation.

I have been doing this oil cleanse 1-2 times a day for a week and my skin looks noticeably glowier, feels smoother and cleaner. As for my breakouts, they have almost disappeared. This cleansing routine in combination with a gentle face cleanser ( I use the Michael Todd honey and oat cleanser) and some tea tree oil, have made my skins overall texture look and feel better while battling those last few pesky spots.

As for natural cosmetics I have been looking into concealers and foundations mostly and i have ordered Dr Hauschka's concealer stick after reading some great reviews and i have been eyeing up the ere perez oat milk foundation also. Both Dr Hauschka(www.adorebeauty.com.au) and ere perez( http://www.ereperez.com/)  have all natural products and are readily available in Australia for a not overly expensive price. 

I have been incredibly impressed with the natural changes i have made to my skincare routine and i look forward to experimenting more. If anyone has a good recommendation for any good all natural makeup products please let me know and i speak to you soon.

Have an awesome day

Jess

Kassies youtube:http://www.youtube.com/user/CloudyApples

Kassies Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTQhXmL5FqU

Kassies Blog: http://www.cloudyapples.ca