September Favourites 2014

Another month, another collection of favourite things for me to share with you all! This month is more weighted by beauty products than other things, mostly because this month I have been experimenting with different colours and textures daily. Also, this week was Freshers Week so I had a lot of free time to play around with makeup looks, plus there were a variety of events going on which required different kinds of looks from going out/party looks to wearable daytime looks to bolder colourful looks for work (makeup artists get away with a completely different sort of 'work make up' to regular folk). So without further ado, let's see what I have been loving for the month of September!

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10 Amazing Music Video Makeup Looks From the 90's

The 90's are officially back in fashion and I could not be happier (although I do want the 00's to come back as well. It might be too soon for that though). I have been celebrating this by listening to some classic TLC, Destiny's Child, Blink-182 and Steps among other heroes of that era and let me tell you, it's been a good few days of reminiscing. I may have been born in the second half of the decade and spent most of that time unable to walk and talk but I did still grow up listening to 90's music so to me it still is my childhood. 

Now, we've all seen the pictures of Kylie Jenner's grungy eye makeup and the brown lip which for me is synonymous with the 90's and I know I am not alone in obsessing over this trend. I looove that 90's lip and I have Kylie to thank for it's re-emergence into the beauty-sphere. In bringing this trend back, Kylie has definitely put herself out there as a figure to watch and I'm sure we're going to see much more trend-setting with her in the future. I absolutely love her style and her ever-changing hair!

Having sufficiently established how much I love 90's makeup and music, I thought it would be a fun idea to combine the two in cataloguing my favourite beauty looks from famous music videos of that decade. These are in no particular order because if I had to decide between them I think I'd explode from my indecision. It was hard enough to cut this list down to ten videos.

My Illamasqua Make Up Course Experience

Okay so I know I  previously said that I wouldn't talk about the Illamasqua make up course I attended because I wanted to avoid annoying the company by talking about it without their permission BUT I doubt showing my own work from the course will get me in trouble. There were various tasks to complete, each developing critical skills necessary in the make up industry. This included precision line work, blending, colour application, the perfect lip, skin sculpture and lash application. I wasn't able to get a picture of every single task we completed but the following pictures are from the few tasks I did manage to take a cheeky snap.

August Favourites 2014

This month I have been keeping track of the things I have loved using to make it super easy when September came around and I could do an August Favourites post.

I'd like to include a range of different items in this post which are beauty and lifestyle related, since that's the style of my blog. It wouldn't feel right to only take about beauty products because I have been excited by so much more than just cosmetics this month.

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