SPLURGE VRS. STEAL

TGIF, beauties!! 

One of my all time favourite things to do in life is to buy makeup. Unfortunately this habit isn't necessarily budget friendly at all times! Over the years I've started to pay a lot more attention to drugstore products that I have tried and fell in love with over re-purchasing the more expensive products from my beloved Sephora or Mac. Just because products don't cost you an arm and a leg and come out of a fancy department store does NOT mean they can't do exactly what you want them to! 

Today I'm going to share with you guys a few products that I absolutely can't walk away from no matter what they cost - and a few equally as beautiful pocket friendly alternatives! 

STEAL - LIP PRODUCTS

NYX Cosmetics lip products - Butter Gloss & Soft Matte Lip Creams

Price: $6.00 - $10.00

Maybelline Colour Sensational Lipstick

Price: $7.00 - $10.00

SPLURGE - LIP PRODUCTS

Mac Cosmetics Lipsticks 

Price: $16.00 - $23.00

Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick

Price: $20.00 - $26.00

STEAL - FALSIES

Ardell Lashes - My favourite styles are Demi Wispies, 118's, 110's & 118

Price: $5.00 - $10.00

Kiss Products

Price: $5.00 - $15.00

House Of Lashes

Price: $7.00 - $12.00

SPLURGE - FALSIES

Velour Lashes

Price: $30.00 - $40.00

Mac Lashes

$17.00 - $20.00

STEAL - HIGHLIGHTERS

Hard Candy Baked Bronzer in Tiki

Price: $8.98

Colourpop Cosmetics 

Price: $8.00

SPLURGE - HIGHLIGHTERS

Mac Mineralized Skinfinish

Price: $37.00

The Balm Mary- Lou Manizer 

Price: $25.00 

That's it for now my loves as I have to run! But I will return with more Splurge and Save deals in the future! Hope everyone has a safe & super fun weekend planned ahead of them!

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xx,

S.

Talkin' Highlighters

Today we're talking about that beautiful summer glow. Highlighters can be so universal and there are so many beautiful colours out there to play with to enhance your features and make them pop. I love a bright highlight paired with any look. Particularly in these hot summer months when the makeup looks get minimal, you can never go wrong with having glowing radiant skin any day of the week!

Wearing here: MAC "Soft and Gentle" 

Some of my holy grail's... ♡ 

Top 3 Highlighters {as of right now}

1. NARS "Albatross"

2. MAC "Soft and Gentle"

3. HARD CANDY "Tiki"

Where to apply:

I always apply my highlighters along the tops of my cheekbones and towards the temple, down the centre of the nose, and on the top op the cupid's bow. Applying this on your cupid's bow will make your lips look bigger and down your nose will help elongate! Most highlighters work really beautiful as an inner corner highlight as well as highlighting underneath the brow bone to make your eyes pop

Brushes I use...

Morphe Fan Brush M497 or Sigma F35 Tapered Highlighter for the tops of the cheeks

Realtechniques Setting Brush for the bridge of my nose and cupids bow

These babes will light up your life! All my boo's together!

Glowing Skin Tips: To give your skin an all over "glowing from within" prep your skin with a radiance primer and then mix your favourite illuminzer into your foundation! My current obsession is combining my L'Oreal True Match foundation with a few dabs of Benefit High Beam and then applying to the skin just like you would regularly! 

Currently Craving...

The Balm "Mary Lou-Manizer"

Becca "Opal"

Laura Geller "Gilded Honey"

ColourPop "Lunch Money"

Happy Highlighting!

"It's okay to be a glow stick.

Sometimes we need to break before we shine."

'til next time,

S.