I thought I might benefit you all with my top makeup tips… Enjoy!
MAKEUP
- Eyelash curlers – now if you don’t own on of these, you really should. You won’t be able to live without it!
- Instead of blusher I make my own cheek tint (It looks so natural!). Here is the recipe:
What you need:
45g raw beetroot grated
3 table spoons vegetable glycerine (You can buy this from Boots)
Double Boiler
Sieve
Container
How to make it:
Put the beetroot and glycerine in the top of a double boiler. Heat gently for 15 mins, let it cool down then strain it through a sieve (so you get all the grated beetroot out) then put in a container.
Please note: This cheek tint does go brown after about 2 or so months, this always eventually happens. Put lemon juice in the cheek tint to preserve it for longer.
Did I add that you can also use it as a lip tint too? It’s also edible so don’t worry about swallowing it 
- When I make mistakes with my makeup I always have liquid makeup remover and cotton buds to clean the mistakes up – brilliant for liquid eyeliner!
- For making flicks with your eyeliner – use a credit card.
- To make yourself look more awake apply a light eyeshadow on the inner corner of your eyes.
- To make an eyeshadow appear much darker use the applicator wet.
BEAUTY REGIME
- Deep condition your hair once a week – this keeps your hair soft and in good condition. I use Aussie 3 minute miracle reconstructor, it smells unbeliveable!
- Instead of shaving your legs with shaving cream or soap, try shaving your legs with moisturizer – it makes your legs unbelievably soft and smooth (it gives you a way closer shave).
- Moisturise daily, I use Palmers Coca Butter. Smells so good!
- Apply castor oil on your eyelashes every night to make your eyelashes grow (doesn’t work for everybody, but if it doesn’t make your eyelashes grow it certainly makes them more healthy!)
- Crest white strips, these are currently not available in the UK but I always buy these off ebay for about £20. I can guarantee these will make your teeth white, you can visibly see they are whiter within 4 days.
- Drink loads of water, It makes your skin so much clearer!
- Exfoliate before you fake tan, this ensures a more even fake tan (olive oil + sea salt = brilliant cheap exfoliant). I use famous dave’s fake tan £20. Pricey I know, but it’s a huge bottle. It lasts months! I only use 2 pea size squirts for each leg. This fake tan is fantastic, looks so natural!
- When fake tanning moisturize knees, elbows, and ankles before. This keeps them from going to dark.
- St. Ives Apricot Scrub – This is my savior! It helps me get next to no spots. I exfoliate 2 times a week with this.
- For spots: TCP (antiseptic stuff, you can buy it from boots) is brilliant for drying out spots!
- Another brilliant thing for spots is tea tree oil.
- Soak nails in olive oil once a week to make your nails stronger.
I hope these tips help you all!
Much Love,
Joelle xox
Guest Blogger Post 3 – My Jewellery
Believe it or not, my jewellery site didn’t come about intentionally. It all started when my close friend was round my house, we started discussing how we would love to make cute rings with sharpeners on (and cute little things like that!). I soon forgot about the conversation entirely.
A few months later, the same friend e-mails me saying how she found this cute little charm supplier site (It’s a secret before you ask!). I thought, “hey, why not make a bit of money selling jewellery to my friends?” So for the next few months I would monthly go round my friends with a little catalogue asking if they wanted to buy any jewellery. I would buy in the stock they wanted, and if I had any spare… I would try sell it, but soon I had too much spare stock. So I had a look around and discovered bigcartel. I started selling my spare jewellery on bigcartel and… wait for it, Joelleabelle was born.
My absolute favourite part about making my jewellery is designing it, I just love it! I love browsing all the charm sites I can find looking for vintage and unusual charms. My designs are simply what I would wear (jewellery wise), there’s simply not much more too it.
Maintaining a jewellery site, at 15, whilst in the middle of your GSCE’s is a huge amount of effort. I started making jewellery back in January (this year), before all my workload and exams really started to build up. It is very hard to balance school work, jewellery and my social life. This means I don’t have pretty much any time to spend promoting my jewellery, promoting is the one bit I hate about my jewellery. In order to get orders, you need to have lots of people visiting your site – the internet it huge. Your very unlikely to get noticed without doing anything. You have to spend hours a day promoting your jewellery for possibly even years for it to pay off! Unless you get some PR done and get your jewellery featured in magazines, which is unbelievably pricey.
I hope this blog post gave you some insight to how my jewellery site came about and some of the in’s and out’s of my jewellery
Much Love,
Joelle xox
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