Flame Eye Makeup Tutorial

 Recently I went to a Harry Potter themed party and I went dressed as my interpretation of Fawkes the Phoenix in a winged orange dress with flame eye makeup. I couldn't find many ways to create a flame or fire eye makeup look so I just did my own thing!

Products used for eyes: BeautyUK eye shadow collection number 2, Urban Decay glide-on eye pencil in Eldorado, Barry M glitter liquid eyeliner number 7, Barry M Shocking Pink lengthening mascara, Bourjois Liner Feutre felt-tip liner, Bourjois Volume Glamour Max mascara.

Lips: Revlon Lip Butter in Tutti Frutti.

Step 1: Use a gold glitter liquid eyeliner to draw flame outlines on the outer corner of your eyes.

Step 2: Line the inner corner of your eyes with a gold eye pencil.

Step 3: Use a yellow eye shadow and apply it to the inner half of your eyelid, top and bottom.

Step 4: Use an orange eye shadow and apply to the outer half of your eyelid, top and bottom.

Step 5: Use your orange eye shadow to fill in the flame shape you created earlier and a pink eye shadow to fill in the tips of the flames. 

Step 6: Use a pink mascara on your bottom row of eyelashes. 

Step 7: Apply black liquid liner to your upper eyelid.

Step 8: Curl your eyelashes and apply your favourite black mascara.

Step 9: Wear your orange lipstick and PARTY!

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Minimal Style

Minimal Style by lauren290591 featuring victorian boots

 I've been drawn to a more minimal style of fashion recently, maybe because I'm moving on with my life and I feel that everything should be fresh and new. Who knows? In an attempt to become more sophisticated I'm thinking about a wardrobe update in a minimal direction. I love the idea of having so many combinations of things to wear and the way that this style always seems to look cool and edgy. 

What do you think about minimal style? If you have any ideas about how to achieve this kind of look then let please let me know!

Lauren Loves ♥: Sophistication and elegance.

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Tropical Toe Nail Art Tutorial

 In preparation for summer and potential holidays to sunny places I decided to try out some tropical toe nail art. It's easy to do if you're not a pro at nail art like me, here's what you'll need: coral nail polish, pink nail polish, sand coloured nail polish, blue nail polish, glitter nail polish, top coat nail polish, a sponge, and a black nail art pen or black nail polish and a cocktail stick.

1) Add a base coat and then paint your nail in the coral polish.

2) Put a small amount of the pink nail polish on a sponge and dab it across the top of your nail to create the sunset effect.

3) Use your sand coloured nail polish and sweep it across the bottom right corner of your nail.

4) Use your blue nail polish and sweep it across the bottom left corner of your nail.

5) Cover your nail in the glitter polish.

6) Use your black nail art pen and draw on a palm tree silhouette.

7) Finish your design with a clear topcoat.

 I used this design on my big toes and painted my other toe nails with the coral polish and glitter top coat. I hope you liked my nail art and let me know if you're going to try it out!


Lauren Loves ♥: Having sparkly toes.



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Feeling Flamingo

I Want To Be A Flamingo by lauren290591 featuring high heels

 It might seem a bit odd but I'm loving all things flamingo at the moment. I think a quirky flamingo print top would look cute with some pink jeans, which I've been meaning to buy practically forever. Over Summer I'll definitely be channeling my inner flamingo- are you feeling flamourous?

Lauren Loves ♥: Anything Pink!

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The Hunger Games: Fashion Inspiration

Girl On Fire by lauren290591 featuring high heels

District 4: Fishing Fashion. by lauren290591 featuring platform shoes

 I love the Hunger Games Trilogy. After a nightmare dealing with my copies of the books when I ordered them I finally managed to read them all a while ago and now I can't wait to see the film! I've created some HG related collages that are inspired by the books/ film; the first is about Katniss- The Girl on Fire, and the second one is inspired by District 4- The Fishing District. Hope you enjoyed them!

Lauren Loves ♥: Gale or Peeta?

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Spring Style

Spring Style by lauren290591 featuring cross body handbags

 Spring has sprung and the warmer weather is making me feel like my clothes need to be brighter! I'm loving the map print and shades such as lime green and peachy corals at the moment. Hope this gives you a little bit of inspiration.

Lauren Loves ♥: Sunshine.

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Candy Inspired Nails

 This nail design is really easy to accomplish. Just pick a bright candy colour and add white stripes! In case you need ideas for colours (or don't know what sweets look like...) here are some sweets:

                        

I used Missguided's orange/ coral polish in the shade Misstaken and Avon's Mosaic Effects Top Coat Nail Enamel in White. 

 Simply paint your nails in your chosen candy shade and once they're dry paint a white crackle polish over the top! 

Lauren Loves ♥: Easy nail designs

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Zooey Deschanel inspired nails + makeup

 

 Zooey Deschanel is a style icon and always a little on the quirky side. I'm enjoying her series New Girl at the moment and unless you've been hiding under a rock I'm sure you will have heard about the Golden Globe Awards. Zooey had the cutest tuxedo design on her nails for the awards:

 I was inspired by the tuxedo nails and the red carpet glamour and had to paint my nails: 

 I thought you might like a Zooey inspired eye make up tutorial too so here it is:

 Step 1: Use a black liquid eye liner to create a rounded eye shape

 Step 2: Soften harsh edges with a black kohl eye liner, cover the lid with a natural eye shadow and add a highlighter to the inner corner of your eye.

 Step 3: Curl your eyelashes and add black mascara.

 Step 4: Zooey's eyes are always quite bold so apply lots of mascara or add false lashes like Zooey!

 If you want to go for the complete Zooey Deschanel look you can curl your hair/ add a pretty bow, and wear blusher with a bright lip in pink or red. Don't forget to use a quirky design on your nails too!

Lauren Loves ♥: The friendship between Zooey and Joseph Gordon-Levitt!

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Festive treats (for me!)

 Although I did decorate the gingerbread house (with some help from my boyfriend) I must confess that this festive treat was not all for me!

 As there are so many discounts around right now I thought I'd make the most of them and buy myself some things for Christmas.

 First up are these pretty statement stone rings, I've been wanting some for a while and with the temptation of a discount code I just had to buy them from Lily Melrose's jewellery shop www.jwlry.bigcartel.com:

 Reduced from £35 to around £15 I managed to buy this t-shirt from The Orphan's Arms on ASOS:

 I went a little t-shirt crazy, being a massive Harry Potter fan and seeing Gem wearing the Deathly Hallows logo tee on www.gemsmaquillage.com I had to buy my own from Orange Circle. My wardrobe was lacking in navy items and I thought the colour went well with the cosmic print of the logo so I ended up getting the same t-shirt:

 The Topshop sale starts on Christmas Eve and I'm sure there'll be lots of bargains so you can treat yourself after all the hard work getting everything ready for Christmas.


Lauren Loves ♥: Saving money over Christmas.



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Wizard of Oz Nail Art

 Need something to brighten your day? I did. With deadlines looming and the need to procrastinate increasing I thought why not jazz up my nails. I've just purchased a Wah & Models Own nail art tool so I'm not an expert at using it (or even just painting my nails) but I wanted to use it and the Wizard of Oz inspired my nail art, hopefully it will inspire you too!

 Left hand from left to right: Glinda the Good Witch, Emerald City, (Somewhere over the) Rainbow, Yellow Brick Road, Dorothy's Ruby Slippers.

Right hand from left to right: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers, Tin Man, Dorothy's dress, 'Oh My' lyrics (Lions and Tigers and Bears- Oh my!), and a Witch's hat (as worn by the Wicked Witch of the West).

 Let me know if you're thinking about doing some Wizard of Oz inspired nail art!


Lauren Loves ♥: The moment Dorothy opens the door and it's no longer black and white.



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Halloween Bat Eye Makeup

 My amazing friend Sophie and I went for lunch in Birmingham and then to see Batman Live which was awesome. There was even bat-shaped confetti!

  Going to see Batman Live inspired me to create a bat eye makeup look:

 Start with the upper eyelid and using a liquid eyeliner draw the bat head in the center, create the bat wing shapes either side. For a Batman logo fill in the rest of your eyelid with a yellow or gold eye liner/ eye shadow. You can just have the bat on your upper eyelid or have a complete bat outline by adding the lower outline too. Design a full bat outline on both of your eyes for a great alternative to wearing a mask, especially if you are going to a costume party as Catwoman or Batgirl. Add this bat eye makeup to make any Halloween costume extra spooky!



Lauren Loves  ♥: Na-Na Na-Na Na-Na-Na-Na Batman!



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Cute Bow Nail Tutorial

 These nails are really easy to do, even if you make a mess (like I did) you can always clean your nails up later so don't worry if you're a nail art beginner!

 I used: Gold nail polish, Black nail polish, a Top Coat or Clear nail polish, and a cocktail stick.

1) Paint your nails Gold or any pale/ shimmer shade of polish.

2) Using the cocktail stick in your Black nail polish, add a small line in the center of your nail for the bow's center knot.

3) Leave a small gap and draw a line that's parallel either side of your center line.

4) Draw diagonal lines from the ends of these two lines to create your bow shape.

5) Fill in the outline of your bow shape with your Black or dark polish.

6) When your bow shape is dry, use the other end of your cocktail stick in the Gold nail polish and add the detail creases in the bow by drawing two short lines originating from the center of the bow.

7) To make your design last longer add a top coat of clear nail polish.

 You can use nail polish remover to tidy up your nails if things get messy or wait for the polish to dry and come off the surrounding skin naturally. You could also try pale coloured bows on a darker polish!


Lauren Loves ♥: Cute bows.



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Cosmic Galaxy Nail Tutorial

Cosmic Galaxy Nails

 To achieve this space nail design I used: black nail polish, white nail polish, gold nail polish, peach nail polish, blue nail polish, magenta nail polish, sparkly nail polish, a piece of a sponge, tweezers, and a cocktail stick.

 Step 1: Paint your nails black.

 Step 2: Holding the piece of sponge with your tweezers put a small amount of white nail polish onto a corner of the sponge. Shape the main body of the galaxy by dabbing the sponge on your nails; try to create a curved line. Don’t use too much nail polish as it will take longer to dry and this design requires several layers of polish on your nails.

 Step 3: After a couple of minutes, lightly dab a gold nail polish over the shape of the galaxy on your nails.

 Step 4: Choose a side or corner that your galaxy shape has and dab a peach nail polish over the gold nail polish. Don’t dab the peach nail polish further than a third of the way along your galaxy shape.

 Step 5: Use a different corner of your sponge and dab a blue nail polish along the sides of your galaxy to refine the shape if it has become messy and to blend it into the black background.

 Step 6: Using another corner of your sponge dap a small amount of magenta nail polish in the same corner that you put the peach nail polish to create a faded line of magenta to peach to gold along the shape of your galaxy. You can also use the magenta to furthermore blend the blue nail polish into the black if your magenta nail polish is dark enough.

 Step 7: Dip your cocktail stick into a white nail polish and stipple (dot) it sparingly across the black sections that remain on your nails so it looks like stars.

 Step 8: Wait a few minutes for your design to dry then paint one or two coats over your nails using a sparkly nail polish to add more stars.

 I had most of the nail polishes in sets that were gifts so I don’t know where they came from but some of the other colours I used were: Extravagance by O.P.I Nail Lacquer (magenta), 198 Azure by Rimmel London (blue) and 105 Starry Silver Glitter by NYC (sparkly).

 You can create this cosmic galaxy design on your nails using whatever nail polish colours you have. Swap the black for a dark blue, the gold for yellow or the white for silver… go crazy!

Lauren Loves ♥: Glitter and sparkles.  

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