Beauty Preps for the Holidays...

It's all getting windy outside and since the past weekend the winter season officially started!

We have to take good care of our skin especially when the season changes, as it can effect our skin. Sadly I had a little bit of a break out on the skin under my eyes,  it lasted for over a week but than I used a DIY- turmeric mask and it magically disappeared ( Thank god hehe).

So yesterday I started some beauty preparations for the holidays. I put some nice nail polish and applied the magical mask.

"prepare your skin for that sparkling glow on the holidays"

Not only is this mask good for skin break outs, but it has a positive effect on normal skin as well. It feeds the skin the important vitamins, heals and even leaves the skin with a healthy glow.

As Christmas and new years are around the corner now, this would be a perfect time to share this incredible home made or DIY mask. Start as soon as possible to prepare your skin for that sparkling glow on the holidays.

I call this particular mask the Magical Yellow Mask.

The ingredients ( the the benefits of the products) for this mask are:

- Turmeric:  Famous for it's healing for lots of things, it's not only used on the skin but also within the body it has it's magical healing effect. For on the skin it has a anti bacterial working, it helps relieve swelling, prevent wrinkles,  it's anti-inflammatory, and it gives the skin a healthy glow.

- Milk: One of the best ways to hydrate the skin as it is used in lots of creams and ext 

- Gram flour: Reduces the oiliness of the skin and very good to get rid of pimples

- Almond oil: Great for hydration, skin healing, good for dry skin and makes the skin very soft

I have been using this turmeric mask for a long time now and this actually works very well. It also keeps the pimples, acne and dark circles away. And the greatest thing about it is that it's all natural as it's home made!

All you need is the following: 1 little bowl, 1tsp, 2tsp Gram Flour, 1tsp Turmeric, 1.5 tsp Almond Oil, a little milk. Mix this all together till you get the paste like on picture no.7. 

Add this on the face, and be aware it doesn't come in your eyes as its a spice. Leave this on your face for 20 minutes. Afterwards remove it with your fingers making circled movements as you are massaging your face, and wash it off. Your skin will feel healthier and softer.

The other cool thing is that you can put the leftovers in the refrigerator and you can use it again. I personally use the mask once a week. But sometimes you don't get the time in this hectic period so I make sure to use it at least 2 times a month to see the effect of the mask at it's best. The other thing is your make-up looks so flawless when you apply this mask in prior, you will look at yourself in the mirror and start singing FLAWLESS by Beyonce!! Yeah that good!!! ( Yes of course I need to talk about make-up and Beyonce duuuh haha).

Below you can find the nail polish creation I did as part of the preparations as well. I love to mix up nail polish once in a while, by just painting one or two of the nails in another color.

Be sure to try this magical mask and tell me what your beauty preparations for the holidays are? 

Hope you ladies have a sparkling Christmas and a Happy new Year!

xoxo

I love to mix up 2 nail polishes and these colors were perfect for the holidays!

The left nail polish by OPI has a number 018 and the right one is called 'Golden Waves'

All I want for X-mas.. are colors!

Well well it is already December right? The year almost flew by! Is it me or 'the older you get, the faster the time goes'. I remember when I was young I would wait for my birthday and beside that I would wait for the Christmas time to come around but back than it took so long!

' I still wait for Christmas'

So what didn't change in this lady in the present time is...uuhm I still wait for Christmas, I love the decorations, the lights that are so beautiful when it gets dark so fast, and of course I like the colors that we can use in our make-up to create that perfect look for this festive season.

So I decided to take 4 different palettes and create 4 different looks for you. So the basic things I use before applying any eyeshadow is a eyeshadow base. 

You might have bought a nice eyeshadow palette or just a single eyeshadow once ( or many more times in your life hihi) that you loved right? And when you got home you happily tried it on your eyelid, looked in the mirror and than got the shock of your life... 'Why isn't the color so bright as it appears in the packaging? Did I get conned? Is it my skin color? Why does this always happen to me?' 

WELL WELL stop being dramatic lovely's I have the solution for you. You are missing out on the eyeshadow base. It's so important to first apply some eyeshadow base and than go ahead and create your eye looks. Other things that are just as good as a eyeshadow base are colored  Jumbo sticks. For instance if you have blue eyeshadow, a blue jumbo stick will do the extra magic as it will intensify the color of your eyeshadow. So for the below looks I used either a NYX Jumbo stick or the High Definition Eyeshadow base also by NYX ( of course you can use any brand you want by the way, I am just obsessed with this brand as you might have noticed).

So for the below looks I used 4 different eyeshadow palettes and the same NYC eyeliner . For each look I sticked by 1 palette.

Look 1: NYX Soho Glam Collection Palette I have had this for years. I bought it on one of my trips to Dubai as they didn't sell the brand in the Netherlands back than. If you search the Internet you might find one. Affordable, long lasting and amazing texture.

Look 2: Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy Palette ( this one is out of stock but you might find some on Amazon, it's worth the try as it belongs to my daily make-up essentials )

Look 3: W7 In the Night Palette This actually is a very affordable and highly pigmented palette. Most of the time they make a excellent dupe for the Urban Decay Naked palettes but it seems like they launched the dupe before the original even came out LOL! A 'Must have' and 'A must gift' for Christmas for the ladies.

Look 4: E.L.F. 144 eyeshadow Palette It seems that this one is also out of stock but if you click on the link you will find a similar palette only with 100 colors instead of 144, with pretty much the same shades!

So I hope you liked the looks and try to re-create them for the Christmas and New Years Eve or even for a daily look without going all glittery. 

If you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to comment below, I will gladly answer all your questions. 

Hope you have a beautiful day my lovely's!

Till next time.

xoxo