I was recently tagged by Hannah to complete the Beauty Tag. Now I’ve never been tagged in this kind of thing before, so I was a little excited to write this blogpost, (although it’s taken me a week and a half to actually do it!) If you haven’t read Hannah’s post or even been on her blog, then go and have a look as she is pretty cool and her blogposts are so so wonderful and very useful. (p.s. here’s the link) Enjoy the post and let me know what you think!


Hannah’s questions:

What is your favourite high street makeup brand?

To start, I have more than one, so I’m going to say like three or four. My favourite high street makeup brands are, Sleek, Rimmel London, and Soap and Glory. The Sleek concealer palette is very good and actually hides the black bags! Rimmel’s ‘Stay Matte’ powder is a godsend, and for £3.99 it makes it even better. Soap and Glory’s products are always of a good quality, and last on your face throughout the day.

What is your favourite high end makeup brand?

My favourite high end makeup brand, is probably going to be MAC or Estée Lauder. MAC do incredibly makeup, variety after variety and the quality is unbelievable! Estée Lauder do an amazing mascara, I got a free tester tube after buying too much online, and it is incredible. It gives such length to my lashes and gives so much volume and thickness.


One item of makeup you couldn’t live without?

One item I couldn’t live without is probably eyeliner, I have to either have it on my water line or on my eyelid. If I don’t I feel a little naked and very ugly. I would of said concealer but I could live with my black bags as that’s all I use my concealer for!


What’s your go to makeup look?

My go to make up look is probably the look I go for every day, a natural look and sometimes I will spice it up a little depending on my mood and time I have left before I leave for work. By natural I mean, concealer, powder, contour, bronzer, the occasional highlight, light eyeshadow colours, the occasional smokey eye, eyeliner, mascara and then just Velvet Teddy from MAC on my lips.


Do you have a skincare routine?

I wouldn’t really say I do, I struggle really badly with eczema all over my body, and some months I will get it on my face, round my mouth, under my eyes and on my cheeks, so putting on makeup makes it worse and looks horrible on my face because of the eczema. I wipe my makeup off every night either with makeup wipes or when I’m in the shower I use a makeup remover face wash. I only use the prescribed eczema cream on my face where the eczema is and that it. In the mornings to prime my face and to wake it up a little I use a No7 moisturiser, this is great and doesn’t bring my skin up like lots of others have before in the past! Makeup wipes and a soap is really all I use.


What’s the biggest makeup mistake you’ve made?

Probably when I was in high school and would wear pink or blue eyeshadow, thinking it was super cool. Looking back on pictures I never understood why I did it, but I did and I still cringe for the 14-year-old me, now!! I wouldn’t say I make mistakes now, as I know what I’m doing and will double check how I look before I leave the house!!


What’s the most underrated makeup item you own?

Probably the Collection Concealer. I don’t think Collection is a great brand, I find it too cheap and the products not so great, but their concealer is absolutely great and looks unreal on the face! It's a great highlighter too, for under the eyebrow and it works really well covering black bags!!


Bright or nude lip? Matte or gloss?

Nude & Matte for sure!! If I had a little more colour to my skin, I might wear a brighter colour than the colours I wear normally. But it’s definitely got to be a nude, burgundy kind of colour. If you had asked me 8 years ago, ‘Matte or gloss?’ I would of said gloss as that was my thing back then! But now, I find gloss way to sticky and it doesn’t stay on for a long time where, matte products stay on for quite a long time.


So that's it for today! I hope you enjoy this as much as I enjoyed answering these questions. I've never been tagged so this was quite weary, but now it's over it was a lot of fun! So thanks Hannah for tagging me!

Amy xx