Summer Sunset Eyes

 Back again with another eye tutorial! I love this combination of orange and gold on the eyes especially for summer now that the weather is starting to pick up here in the UK.

This complete look is using only eyeshadows from the Morphe 35O palette. I love this palette so much and I've been using it so much recently it ended up in my May Favourites post. 

To start off, I applied concealer all over my eyelids from my lashline to underneath my brow and then set this with the eyeshadow marked number 1 in the picture above. Using this light cream shade allowed me to start off my eyeshadow with a blank canvas. 

Next I used a MAC 224 brush and the eyeshadow marked number 2 in the palette and started in the middle of my crease and used backwards and forwards motions to blend this transition shade, and when there was less product on the brush I blended this up just above my crease onto my brow bone. When doing a spotlight eye such as this one it is important not to blend your eyeshadow too far out on your outer corner as we are trying to keep this eye look rounded and not winged. 

Next up I used a MAC 217 brush and the shadow marked number 3 and blended this directly into the crease keeping it just below the transition shade. I then used the same brush to pack this shade onto the inner and outer corners of my eyes. This shadow is what really makes this eye look have that bright orange look.

Taking a Morphe M521 brush and the shadow marked number 4 I lightly blended this into the inner and outer corners of my lid, this was purely to give the look more dimension but I didn't use too much as I wanted the focus to be more on the orange. 

I then used the burnt gold eyeshadow marked number 5 in the palette and packed this onto the centre of the lid using a MAC 242 brush and blended the edges out with the MAC 217 we used earlier. 

Using a Morphe E19 brush I used the orange shade (number 3) and blended this on the lower lash line. Popped on a thin line of Morphe gel liner in Slate, some mascara and applied some Ardell demi wispie lashes. Demi wispie lashes are great for when you want your eyeshadow to show through your lashes but still want to have defined lashes. 

Hope you enjoyed this, let me know what your favourite eyeshadow looks are this summer! See you soon!

Rebecca x

May Favourites

It's almost the end of the month which means it's obviously a monthly favourites post. It feels like yesterday since my April favourites and time is flying which means it's closer to my holiday, so I'm not complaining!

My first favourite is the Clarins Hydraquench Cream, if you read my skincare routine post (click here if you haven't!) then you'll know how much I love this. I've tried many different moisturisers from more affordable brands to higher end brands too but this one is definitely my all time favourite. It smells beautiful, it sinks right into my skin and I wake up with the softest skin - it's basically an ice cold pint of water for my thirsty skin! This is my second batch of using this moisturiser and using it the second time now made me realise how much I liked it the first time.

Next up is the Morphe 35O palette. I've had this palette since around November last year so I've had it a long time and I do love it but I just kept forgetting to reach for it as I was using other brands such as Makeup Geek. However, towards the beginning of this month I thought to myself I'm going to do an eyeshadow look using only the 35O palette and now I can't stop! I find myself reaching for this everyday it has everything you need from a base shadow, transition colours, warm tones (even a few cool tones), shimmers and inner corner highlight colours - the possibilities are endless!

Last but not least in this months favourites is the Morphe M521 brush. If you follow me on instagram (rebeccacapel) you will have seen a recent splurge of spotlight/halo eyeshadow looks. I personally think that a halo/spotlight eyeshadow look is really flattering and something a little different from your average smokey eye. This brush works miracles for me for this particular type of eyeshadow look as the brush is pinched at the base so although it is a blending brush its flatter than, for example, a MAC 217 which means that it's perfect for packing on colour seemlessly on the inner and outer corners of the eye for that spotlight eyeshadow look. What's best is this brush was so cheap compared to other brands and there was no compromise on quality, I purchased mine on BeautyBay.com i'll leave a link just here.

That's all for my May favourites! Let me know what your favourites were in the comments or let me know how you feel about any of the products I have mentioned today in this post! See you soon!

Rebecca x

Morphe 35O Palette

If there's one thing that I love it's warm brown eyeshadows! There's just something that I love about a nice rich orange toned transition colour and deep chocolate browns paired together so when this palette was released back in autumn I had to have it (and Jaclyn Hill uses it and she is the queen of a warm toned eyeshadows). But let me just say this, it was not easy to get a hold of! It was sold out everywhere and everytime it came back in stock it sold out so quickly and I just wasn't fast enough to get one. So when my friend tagged me in an instagram post saying that it was back in stock on the Morphe website let me tell you I have NEVER ordered an item so fast in my entire life (makeup makes us crazy). BUT I GOT ONE! And it was so worth the 2 minute thumb workout.

Delivery was so fast considering I'd ordered it from America and it came within about a week or so and I was so giddy when it came, it felt like christmas in one delivery. The palette consists of 35 buttery eyeshadows, containing both matte and shimmery eyeshadows. There are cream colours, oranges, warm browns, medium browns, champagne colours and deep browns as well. If you love warm browns then you need this palette! The shadows are incredibly pigmented however there is a fair amount of fall out but who cares we all know that with pigment comes fall out. Whenever I know I'll be doing a warm brown eyeshadow look I just grab this palette and that's all I need! 

Let me know if you have this palette or any of the other Morphe palettes and what you think to them in the comments below! See you soon!

Rebecca x