Beauty and Fashion blog by Rebekah O'Leary

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

HiSmile Teeth Whitening Kit | Review + Before & After

Hi my Loves,

I hope you are well!
Something I get asked a lot is how I keep my teeth white; and I am always super flattered by this because I wouldn't consider myself to have the whitest teeth in the world. I am always on the hunt for what products will make my teeth as white as they can be (without damaging them or causing sensitivity). So when HiSmile contacted me to ask me if I would like to try one of their teeth whitening kits I said yes in a heartbeat!

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Wednesday, 7 December 2016

Christmas Gift Guide - The Makeup Addict

Hi my Loves,


Today is the first of my gift guides that I will have for you guys and I will be posting one every day until we've covered everything! Let me know below or on my social media what gift guides you would like to see. I started this series last year but a dislocated right shoulder blade had me in a sling and concoctions of ridiculously strong painkillers had me 100% out of action all of last Christmas.
That's why this year I want to be on this topic for you guys!
The only gift guide I got to cover last year was the Beauty Addict Gift Guide; and that was one of my most read posts ever - so I want to start off on the same note. This gift guide will be covering presents for the person who is a self proclaimed makeup junkie (i.e. ME) - you can even use this as inspo for your own wishlist <3



Kylie Cosmetics Kyshadow Palettes
Price - $42


I recommend either her limited edition Holiday Palette or else her Burgundy Palette, both of these are absolutely stunning and worth every penny. They are also an essential for any makeup lover!
The Holiday Palette


The Burgundy Palette



Zoeva 'Plaisir' Eye-shadow box-set
Price - €62 (you can buy each palette separate if you prefer)

Zoeva as a whole is an amazing brand filled with high quality & luxurious products ranging from brush sets (they are also amazing, check them out below!), to lip products, to eyeshadow palettes. I really want to stress on the quality of Zoeva products - they 100% compare to high, high end brands but the prices are way more reasonable. I adore this eye-shadow box set - firstly the whole box idea makes a beautiful gift and secondly you are literally getting a myriad of colours that will cover nearly everyone's taste. A true makeup lover would adore this set.



Plaisir Eye-shadow box-set - €62


Lime Crime Velve-tins
Price - €26

Lime Crime's liquid lipstick offering 'Velvetines' are probably one of the best liquid lipsticks on the market; they are in my top 5 favourite liquid lippy brands! They have created the most GORGEOUS little tins with 3 mini sized Velvetines for the Christmas season and they are just a must have. My favourites tins are the 'Red velve-tin' , the 'Champagne velve-tin' and the 'Pink velve-tin'. They are all beautiful and contain some of Lime Crime's most popular shades.

Red Velve-tin

Champagne Velve-tin


Pink Velve-tin
Mariah Carey X Mac Cosmetics Collection
Price - Will vary depending on product

This is the collection every beauty lover has been drooling about since sneak peaks dropped a few months back. This collection is being released on Thursday 8/12 here in Ireland and I can guarantee you now, the best pieces will sell out probably soon after that. If you can manage to get some of the coveted collection, you will be in the good books forever and ever. I'm not sure of prices yet but I will list my favourite items from the collection so you can focus in on those.

Extra Dimension Skin finish in 'My Mini'

It's Everything Eyeshadow Palette


I'm that Chic you Like Eyeshadow Palette

Mcizzle, I get so OOC, Dahhhlinggg, All I want, Bit of Bubble

ColourPop Lip/eye Bundles
Price - $15 -25
Although ColourPop is cult brand in America, it's only been readily available to us over in Europe and the UK the past few months, so it still pretty unique over here. Their products are amazing quality for an amazing price and coming up to Christmas they have brought out some bundles which would make amazing presents! I am a huge fan of their eyeshadows in particular so I'll Show you my faves and some great lip bundles too:
(P.S. You get $5 off your first ColourPop order when you sign up so that basically covers shipping)
All Nighter SuperShock shadow foursome - $18


Love Line SuperShock shadow foursome - $18

Peachy Keen Supershock Shadow foursome - $18
Baby Blues Lip set - $25

For Fox sake - $25

Kiss & Tell (ultra glossy lip set) - $30

Zoeva Makeup Artist Zoe Bag Vol.1 & 3
Price - €245
www.zoevacosmetics.com

Firstly I want to point out I know that this is not a cheap present by any means BUT if you are looking for one luxurious item be it for a sister, girlfriend or even yourself - this brush set is it. If you are a hardcore makeup lover or even a makeup artist, this kit will have everything you will need forever and Zoeva Brushes are some of the best quality brushes that I own. The look so classy and professional (they are 1000% professional quality) and they are just down right beautiful. Zoeva stock tonnes of other brush sets so if this is too expensive do not worry there are so many other options on their website, these are just my favourite and they would make an amazing present.

Vol 3 
Vol 1


Spectrum Collections Brushes
Price - €77 - €95 for full brush sets (you can buy individuals or smaller sets too)
www.spectrumcollections.com 


These brushes can only be described as brushes from heaven. They are beyond aesthetically pleasing and lets face it would look AMAZING displayed on anyone's dressing table! They are also fantastic quality and the selection that you get are brushes you will always be guaranteed to use. There is loads of sets that you can buy from Spectrum but I have two favourites that I'll leave below that I think everyone will love:

White Marbelous 12 piece set - €77 

The Bomb-shell set - €95


Anastasia Beverly Hills Glow Kits
Price - $40 -$45
www.anastasiabeverlyhills.com

2016 has been the year of the highlighter I think it's safe to say - and any true makeup lover either has or wants one of these Glow Kits in their collection. They are one of THE MOST talked about makeup products on the market, and rightly so because they are amazing. There are few different Glow Kits but there are two which I think are the best;

Sweets Glow Kit - $40


Ultimate Glow Kit - $45 (This is the newest one people are less likely to have.)
SOSU Highlighter Kit
Price - €29.95
www.cloud10beauty.com

So if the thoughts of ordering a Glow Kit online has you bit like 'Meh' and you want an easier solution, SoSu's new highlighter kit is a great alternative! It is a very similar concept and the highlighting selection in the palette is beautiful as is the quality. You are also supporting Irish brands which is something that I love to do.

Highlighter kit - €29.95


Lilumia 2 Brush Cleaner
Price - $149

If there is one thing that any makeup lover hates, it's cleaning their brushes. I struggle to think of anything I hate more! So what better than a device that does it FOR YOU?! 
After tonnes of research and reading reviews etc. I can tell you the Lilumia 2 comes out on top. The Lilumia is a machine that will clean 6 (thick brushes) - 12 (thinner brushes) at once without you have to do any scrubbing or drying. It is basically like a dishwasher for your brushes.
There are a few different finish you can get for the machine e.g. black, gold, pink, chrome.
My personal favourite is the chrome finish!

Lilumia 2 Tokyo (Chrome finish) - $149


With Love from,

Rebekah x

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Tuesday, 13 October 2015

Kylie Jenner Inspired makeup look ♡

Hello my loves,

Today's post is going to be a quick tutorial on a look that I posted to my Instagram & Facebook page yesterday. I saw this picture of Kylie Jenner on both her Instagram page and her makeup artist who created this look 'Styled by Hrush' Instagram page (Check her out she's amazing!!!), 
AND I FELL IN LOVE!!!!


( Credit +StyledbyHrush )


In this look, the brown colour she was wearing on her lips was a shade from her yet-to-be-released lip collection called 'Kylie Lip-kit' that I'm obviously DYING to get my hands on. This look is another perfect autumn look. The dark lips, shimmery eyes and contoured cheeks are to die for.

 *I'd love to know if you guys like these kind of posts also? Do you like celebrity inspired makeup looks? I'm contemplating maybe doing video tutorials to accompany some posts, let me know if this is something you'd like to see <3

So, for my interpretation of her look I used items similar to ones she would of used and by brands I know that she loves, so you can substitute anything I use for a cheaper alternative of course:





 So let's get right into it.
 For this look you will neeeeeed:

|FACE|

-Barry M flawless brightening primer (Best drugstore primer!)
- Nars All day luminous weightless foundation (basically a good coverage foundation that is not too thick and drying)
- Nars Radiant Creamy concealer (A Kylie fave. Actually a lot of celebrities swear by this)
- Anastasia Beverly Hills Cream contour kit (I use the fair kit - you can use whatever you like for cream contour, I personally do recommend investing it this though, it's the b.o.m.b)
-  Anastasia Beverly Hills powder contour kit (I use light-medium)
- Rimmel Sun Shimmer bronzer

|EYES|

- A credit card or something with a straight edge (bare with me here!)
- Too Faced chocolate bar palette
- L'Oreal superstar liquid eyeliner
- Barry M gold pencil liner
- Too faced better than Sex mascara
- Lilly Lashes in 'Miami' (These are Kylie's faves)

|LIPS|

- Mac 'Spice' lip liner (This is one of her said go-to lip liners)
- Jeffree Star cosmetics liquid lipstick in 'Dominatrix'

1. Apply your primer all over your face, buff the foundation of your choice into your skin and using the concealer, conceal any dark circles you have under your eyes.
2. Contour & highlight your face. I have an entire post on tips of how to highlight & contour so you can check that out here. Basically, I will take a yellow shade of cream contour and highlight the places of my face where the light naturally hits & places that I want to draw attention to. (underneath my eyes, down the bridge of my nose, to the centre of my forehead and under where I will contour under my cheekbones). Then I will take a medium brown contour cream and 'contour' all the contours of my face.(Under my cheekbones, around my hairline, down the sides of my nose, around my jawline) Blend all this product in with a beauty blender for the best result.
3. To set your creams in place you need to use a corresponding powder shade over where you have both highlighted and contoured. This is why I use the Anastasia Beverly Hills contour powders because it has all the shades I will need, but you can use your own light powder and contour powder/bronzer to dust over your creams and you will get the exact same effect.
4. To get the super bronzed cheeks that Kylie has in her look, I just took my big Sun shimmer bronzer and added some extra bronze to the apples of my cheeks as a blush.
5. Fill in your brows as you like.
6. For the eyes I stuck to using colours out of one palette which was my 'Chocolate Bar Palette' by Too Faced. 


* The colours I used were: Salted caramel, Semi sweet, White chocolate & Creme Brulee*

6. This is where your credit card comes in to play. Line up the card on the outer corner of your eyes going diagonally towards your brow, this will help you to create that cat-eyed, almond shape eye look. Hold this card in place while you apply your eyeshadows. White chocolate is placed under your eyebrows on the brow bone, Salted caramel goes in the crease/ socket of your eye, creme brulee goes all over the lid of your eye and semi sweet goes on the outer v/outer third of your socket to add depth.
Semi sweet and Salted caramel are also used on your lower lash line.
7. Apply liquid liner to your upper lash & apply your gold pencil to your waterline.
8. Apply your false lashes and then apply a little of your favourite mascara to bind the lashes to your false ones.
9. For your lips, line them first and then slowly apply your liquid lipstick. If you don't have a lipstick this shade, pick up a creamy brown kohl eye pencil and this will work a treat too!

So there you have it my loves, that's it, how to do your own Kylie Jenner inspired makeup.
 I know that I used a lot of expensive items, so if you want to know a cheaper alternative of something I used, don't be afraid to ask!

I hope you all have a lovely week & enjoyed this post!

With Love From,

Rebekah x ♡




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