Everyday makeup

Hi Everyone! This is a very different post for me, but one day when I was procrastinating I filmed and edited this. I am not a YouTuber so it is in no means professional by any stretch of the imagination. It was just hanging around in my computer, I thought I would upload it. Hope you enjoy- Products listed below x

• Nivea skin moisturiser
• Collection illuminating touch concealer
• Benefit boing concealer
• Collection pressed powder
• I <3 makeup brow kit
• Revolution cosmetics eyeshadow palette
• Collection felt tip liner
• Bourjois 1 second mascara in waterproof
• Benefit Hoola bronzer
• Benefit Rockateur blusher
• Benefit High beam liquid highlighter

THANK YOU <3

EYELINER 101

So quite a few of my friends have referred to me as the "Eyeliner Queen"  Not because I am so skilled at liquid eyeliner that I am worthy of a crown and a throne (but I do want one). But because I wear it consistently everyday, over this time I've picked up a few tips that make the dreaded part of your makeup routine a little bit easier. So, pick up your eyeliner, and lets get started.

The eyeliner I use everyday is the Collection Extreme 24 hour felt tip liner in black. It's super black, super easy to use and remove and super long lasting. Bish bash bosh, £2.99 ? Thank you very much.

So my first rule of On fleek eyeliner is to make the line smooth and continuous. If your wing is at 90 degrees to your lashline

, chances are your eyeliner is not so on fleek.

A tip from me when winging out your eyeliner is to line up the felt tip with your waterline/ outer corner and continue on the line of your lower lash line. With a felt tip liner this is so easy because you can literally line it up, then press down the eyeliner and voila! You have a quite weird looking line coming out the corner of your eye. Next, I draw a really thin line along my entire lashline, then going back over it and gradually thickening it as I get closer to the outer corner. I then smooth out the line carefully and there we have it. No I don't get it perfect every time, but with this simple routine, it leaves very little room for error.

*i did take photos of me doing my eyeliner for this blogpost, but they were a bit rubbish so I hope the slightly bad selfie will do.

thanks for reading! 

E x

Checking in

When in doubt.... Put a selfie? hahaha

Hello everybody!

Long time no speak, or write and read? Anyway. I thought I would check in, I have completed 15 out of my 25 exams and am currently on Half term break. Funny that- "Break" I have been revising solidly, or attempting to, all week. My last exam is on the 12th of June and I will be free until September. I have loads of plans for the summer and I am so excited. But I know that I will be keeping you guys up to date and maybe even documenting some of my trips? (*oooh* *aaaah*)

I'm also writing to let you know that for some weird reason I seem to have lost every single photo on my blog. I haven't been gone that long! This is so frustrating but I have been trying to resolve it by finding the images on my laptop, but I can't do this for every blog post so I am sorry but some foetus Ellie Loves' posts may be deleted. This, I can promise you, is for the best. Ahahaha. Thank you for sticking by my little blog. I will see you next month for a very exciting summer here on Ellie Loves.

Thanks for reading, you guys mean so much to me.
Ellie xx

Gettin' cheeky with Benefit

Hi guys!
As I mentioned in a recent blog post, Benefit have been taking over my makeup bag recently, particularly in the cheek department. So today I thought I would share with you my favourite cheek products from Benefit.

HOOLA
I can't believe it took me so long to try Hoola! It is the perfect shade, consistency and pigmentation for me. It is so easy to bronze or contour with, all depending on your application technique. At the moment I have a mini size that I got in a set at christmas, and even though I've more or less used it every day, there is no dip in the product. When I need to I will without a doubt be buying the full size, and I can guarantee that it is worth the price tag, because it will last you forever!

ROCKATEUR
I bought Rockateur last July as a birthday present to myself (allow it) And I've been using it religiously ever since, It is a beauty warm rose/ peach colour with golden shimmer and just looks #flawless on the cheeks. Big thumbs up from this girl.

HIGH BEAM
I got a mini High beam in my christmas set too. And I'm so glad I did! It is an absolutely beautiful liquid champagne pearlescent highlighter, a classic from Benefit. It is absolutely beautiful, blends like a dream, catches the light amazingly and you only use a small amount so will last ages! Definitely will be purchasing the full size when the time comes.

What is your favourite cheek product? As you can tell i'm all about the cheek products lately!

E x

An Update

Hiya guys,

As a few of you may know, I am taking my GCSEs at the moment, and my final exams are right around the corner. So I'm afraid to say you won't be hearing much from me in the blogging world over the next few months, These exams are really important so they really do need to take priority. After my exams are over, I have a really long summer (yaaasss) Although I do have lots of plans already, I am more than sure that I will be able to fit in some regular blogging (Get ready for prom with me anyone?). I'm sorry! Obviously I would rather be blogging that revising but I'm not sure what my teachers would say about that! ;) Thank you for understanding and for sticking with Ellieeloves! My readers mean the world to me and I can't believe how many there are of you now! See you in the summer! 

Ellie x

What's in my bag - geekandchicx

Todays post is a guest post written by the beautiful Chicca from geekandchicx.blogspot.it I hope you enjoy it and make sure to follow her if you do!

 Hey guys, It's Chicca! Some years ago I did a what's in my bag so today I decide to do an updated, more professional and with different things so let's start!

Earphones (1)  I can't go out without them, I always listen music when I'm alone on public transport. 

Wallet (2) I know it's so old and I should change it but anyway, it's always with me, I have cards, money... well all the stuff that you can find in a wallet lol.

Notebook (3) On it I write all my ideas, numbers and stuff. When I have ideas for blog posts I write them in it.

Phone (4) I haven't got too much to say about it but only that I did some weeks ago a What's on my Iphone and if you want you can check it here

Ipod (5) Like how I said before I always listen to music when I go out.

Sunglasses (6) Mine are from Ray-Ban and I bought them some years ago so I don't know if you can still find them in shops, but maybe you can on the internet.

Charger (7) I should buy a portable one but for now I use this, obviously I can't charge the phone when I'm on the street, but when I go to school or to my friends house I can :)

This is my new post! 

I hope you like it and remember to 

follow my blog on bloglovin or become a member 

Love you xxx

NAKED 1

Ok, this is not a drill. I finally took the plunge. After careful deliberation, various discussions with the lovely ladies at the Urban Decay counter and with my beauty loving friends, I went for it I bought the Urban Decay Naked 1 Palette! So I thought, why not share the photos of it, so we can all bask in its glory because that is basically what the beauty blogger community do on twitter everyday.

(top to bottom) VIRGIN is a very light beige with cool shimmer, SIN is a champagne shimmer, NAKED is a matte beige, SIDECAR is a light brown shimmer with silver glitter, BUCK is a medium matte brown.HALF BAKED is a warm dark gold, SMOG is a medium brown with gold shimmer, DARKHORSE is a dark brown with gold shimmer, TOASTED is a deep rosy pink with silver shimmer. HUSTLE is a deep purple-brown with shimmer, CREEP is a black with blue shimmer, GUNMETAL is a super cool blue black colour.

Without a doubt I will be posting more of this absolute beauty on this blog. All the shades are absolutely beautiful and of the highest quality I have ever tried, what more could you expect from Urban Decay? Do you have a Naked Palette? If you were to buy one, which one would you buy?
E x