Make Up Storage/Organisation

After going out the other night I was met with this mess (see picture above if you dare) and got some serious organisation going. I have this four drawer storage boxy majig from Asda for years and so I divided it into eyes,lips,face and nails and made some rather dodgy looking signs because I do love to label. 

                                                                                                                                                                                                  The eye drawer has to be my favourite because its the one I use the most and it happens to be the easiest to organise. I basically keep all my mini palettes stacked, eyeliners,pencils and eyeshadow sticks in a bundle and a few odd jars of glitter and shadow along with my lashes neatly at the bottom.

                                                                                                                                                                                                               The Face drawer is a little unorganised to be honest its quite hard to organise things that don't well.. organise. I just try to keep it neat with my foundations, primers and concealers at the back and powders and bronzers at the front. 

 Now the lip drawer quit instantly screams PINK which is a bit pointless as its not my colour at all and I rarely wear it. Most of the lipglosses and lipsticks I've been giving but I keep my two favourite ones at the front and they are my Deep Red Technic Colour Max and Spotlight Beige 620 Rimmel London Moisture Renew.

 

I keep my palettes stacked beside the boxy majig so there within grabbing distance when I'm doing up the face. 

And there you have it for my makeup storage/organisation.. its nothing fancy but my inner OCD me likes to keep things organised and I'm pretty sure most girls do.

Girl Power Ladies

Recently after spending hours doing my make up I'm not afraid to say I did look good.. gone was the 14 year old tomboyish look and helllloo was the me with a look that I feel comfortable with. Since leaving school as I've said before I have a new found confidence in myself that pushes me to dress the way I like (BoHo/rocker chic style) without first thinking the usual  'oh what will they think' 'I can't go out like this'. 'it's too much'.
The point behind this post is the reaction I got to a selfie I uploaded to Facebook when I had my make up and hair done. I do understand most people haven't seen me with make up before and obviously all the girls were being lovely but its the reaction from lads that has me wanting to make this post.
The look these days is all about perfect figures, glorious white teeth and even perfectly shaped eyebrows.. Yes society is starting to cop-on that not all girls are size 6 and healthy and more and more girls are embracing their natural beauty but there is still a overhanging certain look that girls have to achieve to look 'right'.
I am all for inner beauty and pushing all girls to feel confident in their own skin and be themselves.
So when I started getting messages from lads from school, or ones I haven't talked to in years suddenly showing an interest it made me think 'this is where were at now, girls have to dress up for lads to talk to them and get any sort of a reaction, this is the message they're getting out there, is it any wonder girls don't feel confident without perfect makeup.
I didn't appreciate the sudden 'interest' at all as it was false.. just like the eyelashes I was wearing. Me with makeup isn't the real me, there's a personality behind the number 620 lipstick and okay I can't brand all fellas with the same stick, there is guys out there who look for more than looks in a girl but this reaction has me feeling there is no hope in a future where girls will feel totally happy and confident in themselves. If anything this has made me want to not wear makeup ever again (although we all know I will, but for myself noone else) to prove to guys basically don't judge a book by its cover and don't think just because we look nice doesn't mean you can suddenly come back into our lives and talk to us like you've never left.
Okay I don't want to turn this into a rant and some kind of burning of our bras kind of movement but to any girl reading this I ask you to embrace your inner beauty, we all understand the joys of dealing with boys and their 'mixed messages' but for this one this picture perfectly sums up my feelings...

All dressed up... and nowhere to go

With College over all my old school friends are back home and we decided to head out to a UV Party one night. Now I rushed home from work and literally took two hours getting ready because I fancied getting really dolled up (my first time wearing a crop top, really not sure about it but YOLO right) and went all out. When I finished getting ready obvs it was time to upload a made up selfie to Facebook.. and heres where I learn't the event had been cancelled. After much debating about bothering to go out at all (it was a Thursday night nothing was on) we finally decided to just go for a drink and see what was happening (absolutely nothing literally 8 other people in the bar and never seen town so quiet). Anyway the main point of this post is to share my make up pictures because I am soooo happy at how it turned out. I'm not the most girliest of girls and makeup is something I wouldn't call a skill of mine but through a lot of practice (and much taking it off and redoing it) I managed to look somewhat different (my age for starters, no more being called 13). I learn't that orange tones bring out blue eyes so that was my main focal point and I kind of just went from there...... *insert way to many selfies