Everybody has their go-to everyday look, and mine barely ever changes. So lets go through the products I use to achieve my standard face!
So after the usual washing, cleansing and moisturising, all of which are done with not so special products, I start with the prep.
Primer
Benefit the POREfessional - £24.50
To be honest I only got a mini version free with a magazine, and a second mini one in the Benefit Christmas sample dealy. I love it though and when I run out I'll be getting a full size version. It completely smooths out my face, shrinks visible pores and also because of the colour of it I feel it makes my skin a more even tone. When you squeeze it out the tube its like skin coloured balm, but it goes on almost translucent.
Concealer
Benefit Boi-ing - £17.50
The circles under my eyes are quite dark so I needed quite a high coverage concealer. I have this in shades 01 and 02 as I am pretty pale. I mostly use the 02 for blemishes and spots on my face, and the lighter shade is generally for under my eyes and a bit of basic highlighting. Judging from how much I left in the pans right now, I tend to use 02 more. Both of them give good full coverage and they are quite pigmented so a little goes a long way.
Foundation
MAC Studio Sculpt - £25.00
This is my favourite foundation I've ever tried. I used to have a MAC Face and Body and I liked the tone of that but it was quite thin and watery. For MAC products my skin tone is NW20, meaning its cool toned so I don't really have yellow undertones and I found that most high street foundations never worked for my pale cool toned skin. I could never find anything that was a match, everything ended up too yellowy so I decided to go for MAC again. This foundation has medium coverage and has quite a nice dewy finish, my skin is quite dry so I don't really like matte foundations, and it is the PERFECT match for my skin tone, love it!
Powder
Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder - £3.99
Like I said before, I don't like a completely matte face so I only really use a bit of this to keep the shine away. The colour I'm using just now is peach glow which is maybe just a tad too light, but my powder in sandstorm has just disappeared, no idea what happened to it. I don't really see a huge difference in those shades though, so there's no obvious difference on my face. It's a cheap and cheerful powder, sets my makeup in place and stops me going shiny all day.
Bronzer
Benefit Hoola Bronzer - £23.50
There's a reason this is the UK's number one bronzer, it's fantastic. I use it mainly for a bit of contouring then I veeeeery lightly dust it over my nose forehead and chin for a bit of a glow. It's matte which means it's perfect for contouring, no little sparkly flecks in there, and it's such a natural colour. It's virtually impossible to look orange or too dark, unless you go completely mad applying it.
Eyeliner
MAC Liquidlast Eyeliner - £15.50
This is my holy grail eyeliner. Once it's on there, it will not budge, ever. If you're new to liquid eyeliner, I'm gonna be honest, it's a tricky one to use. It has quite a thick gel like consistency, but more runny, and if you apply it then go about your business, it'll transfer. Once you get the hang of it though it's an amazing eyeliner, I couldn't be without it. Can't believe I'm going to admit this, but every so often when I come in from work, I'll accidentally fall asleep without removing my eyeliner, and in the morning, still there good as new. Can be seen as a good thing I guess.
Mascara
Benefit They're Real - £19.50
As with most of the other Benefit products I use, I originally tried it as a mini version in the Christmas sample thing. Now I haven't been blessed with good eyelashes, they're not awful but there is hardly any length there. The thickness of them isn't bad but with stubby lashes it doesn't really make a difference whether they're thick or not I find. Enter Benefit. They lengthen my lashes considerably and give them a bit of bulk too, so even without my eyeliner I can just put mascara on and feel like I have flashy lashes.
Brows
Urban Decay Brow Box - £19.00
Before this little miracle in a box I used to draw my eyebrows on with a crappy cheap pencil. Why I didn't get this sooner I'll never know. Only in the past few years have I started filling my brows in. They need a constant upkeep as my dad has so generously given me his brows, so if I don't do them I look a bit cavewoman; mad, bushy, almost a monobrow. So I get them waxed and then fill them in with this bad boy. I have it in brown sugar which is the darkest of the two boxes Benefit have. Now I don't know how other people use this as I've seen people go powder first then wax to set, fair enough. But I trace over my brows with the wax then use the powder on top so it has a bit more to stick to. I mostly use the darker powder as it is pretty much a match for my natural eyebrows, but I do use the lighter one now and then if I'm going all out, and they still look pretty natural. I say natural, I mean not obviously fake. Everyone loves a bit of a dramatic brow.
So there we go, my everyday products. There are some things missing like blusher or eyeshadow or any lip product but for most days I miss all that out, save for some lip balm.
Although on some days I will add a bit of eyeshadow, which is usually anything from Urban Decay's Naked 2 palette, or I will slick on a bit of lipstick, and if I do use any kind of colour on my cheeks it's Benefit's Benetint, which incidentally also looks amazing on the lips.
Feel free to recommend, ask any questions, but if not, I hope you enjoyed my list :) x
