Simple, Easy, and Pretty | Back To School Makeup Tutorial

Hello my lovelies, I hope you're all well and Happy 1st of September! Which mean's that if you're at least under 20 years of age you will be going back to school, college, or university etc. I hope you've all had a lovely summer holiday, but the time has rolled around again where it's only a few days until the new year of education starts.

 Now I know going back to school isn't always the most enjoyable thing, trust me I know. But, what better way to start the school year with some new stationary and a new every day makeup routine. 

So today guys I am gonna be showing you how to get this really simple and easy look for school, work, every day, or if you just want to throw on some makeup to feel more put together. I actually used to wear this makeup look a lot during college and it took me back (feeling nostalgic over here). But it makes your skin look really natural and healthy which is exactly what you want for every day. 

Also everything in this makeup look you can go and buy from Boots or Superdrug

Now I don't know about you guys, but when I gotta wake up super early my tired eyes along with my under eye bags aren't exactly looking their finest, therefore I took my Simple Kind To Eyes Revitalising Eye Roll-On Gel and I just apply that under my eyes and on my lids slightly and then pat it into my skin using my finger. This stuff is so good, it's really cooling on your eyes, makes your eyes feel refresh, it makes them look brighter, more awake, and the deep colour of the bags is reduced, and puffiness is reduced. It's such a good product and I think it's less than £2.50 from Body Care (if you live in the UK) so if you're eyes are looking super tired in the morning, go and pick this up! 

I then used my Maybelline Dream BB Fresh cream in Light as my base. As you can see, just dotting that all over my face and blending it into my skin with my Real Techniques Beauty Blender. 

When I was in school I never used BB Cream or Foundation, I just used concealer, powder, and mascara. Which never used to be the greatest look if I'm honest, my face used to get really orange throughout the day which was not great. So I'd not suggest that to any of you guys. Always use a base of some kind, even if it's just a moisturiser or primer.

Then I'm going in with my concealer, I do this same step every single day whether I'm wearing a full face of makeup or not. In my opinion concealer fixes everything. So I'm taking my Collection Lasting Perfect Concealer in Fair. I absolutely swear by this concealer you guys, I've been using it since I was twelve/ thirteen and I'm now nineteen. If 6/7 years of using it on a day to day basis doesn't tell you how amazing it is, I don't know what will. 

But I'm just taking that under my eyes and onto my cheeks, down and around my nose, on my forehead, on my chin, and around my lips just to conceal any more redness and blemishes on my skin and of course to brighten my skin. We need all the brightening we can get on these early mornings. And I'm blending that in with the same sponge I used for my base. 

As I just give my foundation and concealer a few minutes to settle into my skin. At school I never wore lipstick and at college I wore it on occasions. I sometimes do at uni, but not if I don't have time to put it on in the morning. However I always like to wear either a lip balm or something moisturising on my lips. 

So I'm just taking a makeup wipe and shaping out my natural lips with a little over lining for my pout. This is a great way to achieve different lip shapes from day to day or to just start with a blank canvas on your lips before you do apply any lip products. Once I'm happy with their shape (the lip product is applied at the end) I will move onto setting my base with a powder. 

Taking another product I've used for absolutely years, Rimmel London's Stay Matte in Translucent and just powdered all over my face with my Makeup Revolution F104 brush. Then taking a makeup puff to bake all over my face and blending it out with the same brush. Baking the face is totally optional but I like to do it because it gives me more coverage and I much prefer a full coverage face. But by blending out the powder all over the face it doesn't look too heavy or cakey, just seamless. 

Once I'm happy, I then run my eyebrows through with a spoolie brush. Using another trusty favourite of mine, the Maybelline Brow Drama: Sculpting Brow Mascara in Dark Brown. I run that all the way through my brows just to give them some colour, a bit more volume, and a bit more shape whilst still looking like my natural brow. I just take the brow spoolie again to shape the tail of the brow in order to still get that arch. 

Now it's time for blusher. I am skipping out on contour/bronzer just because it's slightly less natural than blush and I know I'd get carried away as I love a strong contour (if you couldn't already tell from previous tutorials). I never wore blush in school but I did during college and it was actually the one I'm applying on my cheeks today. 

So I'm taking Rimmel London's 004 Pink Rose; applying this with my Makeup Revolution F103 to the apples of my cheeks and up to the hair line. This is just a really lovely natural pink blush that gives you a nice healthy glow and makes you look super well rested even if you're not. As you can see it has a natural glowing undertone. 

Now onto highlighter! Again, I didn't wear highlighter in school but I did in college. The one on my face I used throughout the whole two years of college and I still use it to this day, it is of course none other than the MUA Undress Your Skin Shimmer Highlighter in the shade Pink Shimmer. I really need to get some more of this as I'm running out even though this highlighter has lasted me nearly three years. 

So I'm just applying this onto my chin, down my nose, on the tip of my nose, on the highest points of my cheeks, on my temples, and on my forehead using my Makeup Revolution F105 brush. 

Now again this step is optional as I know some people don't like glowy cheeks but I do  I have always put highlighter on the apples of my cheeks over my blusher because it gives such a healthy appearance to my skin and I love the way it looks. It really seeps into my cheeks about an hour or so after application and it gives my skin that beautiful radiance and glow. I swear by doing it because I have so many wonderful compliments about how healthy my skin looks, so if you guys want a more healthy appearance to your skin dedicate it to where you place your highlighter. 

Then I just added my mascara also and it is the Makeup Revolution Amazing Volume in Black. I actually really like this mascara. It does a good job of lengthening your lashes and separating them but not making them look too dramatic which is perfect for school. 

The formula of this mascara is quite wet which means it's best to just wipe some of the product off on the top of the bottle as it applies better. You also have to allow it a little time to set other wise it will come off slightly. But you don't have to sit with your eye balls looking down for half an hour it's more like a minute or two. It has that kind of fragranted smell rather than a strong mascara smell.  Most of the time cheap mascara's don't really do anything for my lashes but this one actually does and I'm so impressed with it.

Onto our final step, now I don't know about you guys but when I'm rushing to eat breakfast, do my makeup at the same time, and gotta get down to the bus stop or train station in time to get to school/ college, or if I've gotta walk to my 9:00am lecture on a Monday morning. I ain't got the time to be fully lining my lips and getting my lipstick on right and cleaning up the edges. I just ain't got the time. So the solution is a lip balm with some kind of colour in and that box is ticked by... 

Maybelline Baby Lips! 

I absolutely love Maybelline's Baby Lips; they're super cheap, good quality, wearable colours, they sit comfortable on your lips, smell good, they're not sticky, you know what the list could go on and on. But I think we've established they're a staple in my makeup collection. 

Plus they have so many different collection's within the product: the originals, the electro range, the pop art range, the valentine range, and the dr rescue range. So they have a massive range to choose from and I would love to one day own them all. But today I am taking one of my absolute favourites and is a go to when I want a glossy and natural lip colour that matches my actual lips. It's from the original collection and is called Cherry Me. I just took it all over my natural lips (sorry for one side being slightly more over lined than the other, I fixed it after I took the photos, so apologies for that my loves)  and it just makes them look glossy, healthy, and plump whilst still looking super natural. 

The final step overall is hair, so as you guys saw in the previous pictures, my hair was plaited from the night before and I slept in it, in order to make it wavy. Again, I don't always have the time in the morning to do a full on hair style so something quick and easy like this is perfect. 

Unfortunately some bits of hair came loose over night, like the front strands which means they're slightly straighter. 

But by just doing something simple like this with your hair makes it look like you made a big effort when really you haven't. 

I could always do a post on some quick and easy hairstyles for school, work, or if you're running late for an event etc. If you guys would like to see that just let me know! 

But this is the finished look you guys. Just as an added extra here are the prices of all of the products I used today to see how inexpensive it is to create this look. 

• Maybelline's Dream Fresh BB Cream (pink bottle) = £6.99
• Collection's Lasting Perfection Concealer = £4.19
• Rimmel London's Stay Matte = £2.99 (if purchased at Body Care - £3.99 at Superdrug and Boots) 
• Maybelline's Brow Drama: Sculpting Brow Gel = £4.99 
• Rimmel London's 004 Pink Rose Blush = £3.99 (packaging and name is slightly different to mine, but the actual blush colour is still called Pink Rose) 
• MUA's Undress Your Skin Shimmer Highlighter in Pink Shimmer = £3.00 
• Makeup Revolution's Amazing Volume Mascara = £2.00 
• Maybelline's Baby Lips in Cherry Me = £2.99

Total = £31.41

Some of you might be thinking that isn't that cheap but trust me, compared to the majority of the high end makeup, it definitely is. It's an affordable price for near enough a full face of makeup. 

 I hope you guys like it and it's given you an idea on some quick makeup for school, college, uni, work etc. 

I've got a few posts planned for this month of September guys so fingers crossed they all work out. Also now that it's officially September, it's officially Autumn and Autumn/Winter are my favourite seasons and I'm super excited! So expect some gorgeous autumnal makeup tutorials soon! 

Thank you for reading guys.

I will talk to you all again soon! 

Love, 

Katie 

Bold, Bright, and Beautiful Pink Festival Inspired Makeup Tutorial feat. Silver Multi-Coloured Glitter

Hey my lovelies, I hope you're all well and are enjoying your summer! So today I have this beautiful, bold, bright and gorgeous glowing skin pink makeup tutorial for you! So many YouTuber's and Blogger's have been doing makeup looks for festival's recently and it made me really want to do my own one, KatieJ style. So we're using my favourite colour, pink! I feel like bright pink isn't used enough in makeup looks and what better time to use it than the summer. 

So if you guys wanna know how to get this look above, then please keep on reading. 

Firstly I am placing some tape along my lash line to get a nice sharp straight line. Then I am taking Makeup Revolution's Eye's Like Angels palette with the shade Pink! and their Colour Chaos palette with the shade Pink Obsession. I'm using a flat shader brush to pack this colour on the outer part of my lid. 

I took the same two pink shades mixed together on the same flat shader brush and just packed this on the inner part of my lid and leaving the middle as blank as I can. 

Then taking my Urban Decay Naked 3 brush and using the slightly more fluffier end; I am taking Gleam from the Colour Chaos pallet and again just packing on that colour to the middle of my lid. 

After doing all of that I realised I wanted it to be more bold and blended. So I took Beyond Real, again from the Colour Chaos pallet which is like a bright light pink neon shade; I took this on my Makeup Revolution E103 which is just a nice fluffy brush and blended it out.

I then went back in with Gleam as I needed some more silver glow. I packed this on with the brush I used before and took it to the top of the middle of the lid over that pink which created a really pretty halo eye. 

Then I just removed the tape and took a makeup wipe to remove fall out on my cheeks and to sharpen up that outer line as the wings were slightly uneven. 

I then just went ahead and did my daily makeup as always: 

• Neutrogena Visibly Clear Pink Grapefruit Oil-Free Moisturiser to prime my face
• Maybelline Dream BB Fresh in Light as my base
• Then taking my go to concealer as always, the Lasting Perfection concealer in Fair from Collection under my eyes drawn in a triangle and taken down my cheeks, along my nose, on my forehead, around the sides of my nose, on my cupids bow, around my lips, and on my chin. Then of course on any blemish areas that I want to cover. Using my beauty blender from Real Techniques for both my base and my concealer. 
• Then using another holy grail of mine, the Rimmel London Stay Matte powder in Translucent. Powdering all over my face with my Makeup Revolution F104 powder brush as well as baking my face with a makeup puff. 
• Then moving onto my eyebrows, and as always I'm using my Maybelline Satin Brown in the shade Dark Brown and then taking the Maybelline Brow Drama brow gel also in Dark Brown to just set them in place. 

• Now moving onto the newest love of my life which is Makeup Revolution's Ultra Sculpt and Contour Kit in the shade Fair C01. And as you can see just taking the contour to sculpt out my cheek bones on an angled brush and buffing it out in circular motions and contouring my nose also and buffing it out as that's how I like to do my contour. As well as taking it around my hair line and blending it into my hair line to give my skin a nice warm appearance.  

• Then taking the blush from the same pallet on my Makeup Revolution F103 stippling brush to just stipple the colour onto the apples of my cheeks and up to the hair line. 

•  And finally taking my other angled brush, this one is also from Makeup Revolution and it's their F105 brush. Just taking the highlight shade from the pallet and placing it on the high points of my face (GOD LOOK AT THAT GLOW), my cheeks, my forehead, down the bridge and on the tip of my nose, on my cupids bow, and on my chin.

• The last thing I do is bake my face with my Stay Matte powder under my cheek contour and bake my nose contour and blend it out so it isn't too harsh. I love my contour game to be strong. 

I'm then  going back to my eyes and highlighting my inner corner and slightly onto the lower lashline with Lilac Shimmer from the Eye's Like Angel's pallet which is the most beautiful pinky shimmer eyeshadow I have ever seen and I packed this on using my finger. 

Working on the lower lashline a little, taking another pink shade from the same pallet called Pink Frosted and running that along the lashline with my Urban Decay Naked Smoky brush using the denser and shorter end. Then just taking the left over of the pink that's on my blending brush, gently blending to give it a slight smoky effect.

Now as this is a festival inspired look I decided to go in with a pink shimmer dust pigment from 2 True in the shade No4 and I've had this pot for absolutely years. I'm going over that highlight I just placed on my cheeks and my temples to make my face even more glowy and considering it's an eyeshadow it doubles up pretty well as a gorgeous pink highlight. I decided I wanted this look to be very glowly and have a healthy looking skin vibe. 

Taking some silver glitter eyeliner from Primark and just placing it all over that silver eyeshadow so the glitter has something to stick to. So I firstly placed it with my finger and then gently moved the glitter chunks around slightly with a brush. Now if you guys are recreating this you could totally stop after the silver eyeshadow as I did really like it without the glitter, but as this was a festival inspired looked I wanted something to give it the edge, and what's better than glitter?! 

And this glitter is one also from Primark as it came in a Christmas set last year.

So my original idea was to place some eye rocks where I've placed my highlighter on my temples but unfortunately they just didn't want to stick. So I decided to use the glitter I'd used on my eyes to go on my temples as well. 

So just doing the same thing again, placing some glitter eyeliner in a kind of circle and placing the glitter on top using a mix of a brush and my fingers. I created a sort of dropping down effect as I stopped just before the bright glow of highlighter on my cheeks. I really liked the effect it had. I felt like a festival fairy. 

Moving onto the final stage, the lips. So firstly I apply some of Maybelline's Baby Lips in Peach Kiss. Regardless of what makeup look I am doing, I do this every day when I wear makeup to prime my lips for lipstick. It smells amazing, the formula is amazing, and it makes my lips super soft. 

Taking my Primark lip liner in Bright Pink and obviously just lining my lips and slightly over lining so they are nice and full. 

I then applied my Collection lipstick in Sweet Tart which is just a pretty bright pink shade all over my lips, it's a great colour for summer time. 

As this whole look has been super glowy and gorgeous the lips were no exception. I decided to take that 2 True eyeshadow dust again and apply it to the middle of lip and as you can see, the outcome is gorgeous. 

The lips were definitely one of my favourite parts of this makeup look.

Then just applying some mascara, I used Makeup Revolution's Amazing Volume and considering it's only £2 it's actually really good!

And finished! I just took my plaits out and pinned them back as I've really been loving my hair out of my face recently. 

I just had to take lots of photo's of it for you guys because I absolutely love it. I just love the pinks and silvers together and the glowing skin for summer time (even though I do it all the time) and overall I'm very happy with how it turned out. 

Thank you guys for reading and I hope you liked this look! 

If you guys have any suggestion's for other posts you'd like to see, either comment down below or contact me on Twitter and Instagram (both are linked in the header of my blog) 

I will talk to you all again soon! 

Love, 

Katie