Tuesday, 23 July 2013

Prime Time! No7 Colour Calming Primer

No7 Colour Calming Primer is a green coloured primer, designed to correct red complexions (opposites in the colour wheel) allowing your true colour to show through. At £10.50 for a 40ml bottle, this seems to be a perfectly reasonable price compared to most primers; also considering it’s from No7, known to carry a heftier price tag for the high street!
Application
The product has a nice thick creamy consistency so the application isn’t very ‘messy’ thank lord! I felt though that I had to put a lot of product on to fully even out my skin tone which left me with a slightly (and unsightly) green tinge! Minus value for money points! I also therefore, wouldn’t recommend this product to people who like to wear easy/minimal make up as it takes some covering up!
The primer left my skin feeling soft and had a slight sheen to it, Shame it was a green sheen!


Mid-day review
So this picture was taken around half 1, about 6 hours after I had applied my make up. I had noticed that the product had unfortunately started to shift around my T zone and chin which was very disappointing. There was still no sign of redness appearing (just a few scars and blemishes had begun to show) which is after all; what the primer is meant to conquer!



End of the Day
This picture was taken around 6 o’clock (10 and a half hours after application) there was redness appearing around my nose and my forehead and chin where looking… dewy (bit gross, sorry! truth hurts!) though the imperfections I have on my cheeks where still holding out which is fairly impressive!

Scores! (out of 10)


Packaging: 5
Value for Money: 6
Lasting Power: 7
Usability: 6

24 out of 40!
Creepy morning and evening photo! (will work on it)
Hard to tell on the picture, but I think you can just see the difference in the chin; this is the same side of my face flipped I will also point out!

Have you used this product? What are your Primer Views!?

Monday, 22 July 2013

Prime Time

Sooo! After feeling I have deserted my blog over the past few days, I have decided to get my priorities in order, and this week I am embarking on a mini blogging series ‘Prime Time’.

As exciting as that sounds, all I am promising is a blog post a day about a different primer I have used
I have chosen this week, as I will be testing 5 primers, and I am working 5 days this week, each of which is the same amount of hours so I will be able to get a better review out of them!

Stay tuned each until Sunday 28th when I will be making a Special Announcement!


*Warning: Extremely Unphotogenic. (Just putting it out there…)

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Digital Life Drawing





These are a series of digital illustrations I have completed during life drawing classes I took park in during my art foundation year!


These 3 images had to be completed within 15 minutes (as he then changed position) an be draw in a style of an artist, for whom I chose Jason Thielke, a brilliant modern artist with a unique style!

Hope you Like!


Wednesday, 17 July 2013

Leibster Award

The Lovely Hannah Hepton has nominated me to take part in the Leibster Award! If you haven’t heard of it; a person nominates you for the award, you then give 11 facts, answer 11 questions the nominator has asked, make your own 11 questions and tag 11 people to answer them!
The award is especially for upcoming bloggers, so as a rule they must have under 200 followers!

Check out Hannahs Blog here J

11 Facts About Me!

1)      My Full name is Hannah Rebecca Bascombe, I am 20 years old from the Wirral

2)
      I am a Uclan Fashion Design Student and will be starting my second year in September

3)
      I am a Pescetarian! I have been for about 7 weeks, (blog post soon with more info!)

4)
      In my opinion, I am always right! People often avoid me for advice because they know it’s not what they want to hear. Then all turns out if people listened to me more, the world would be a better place!

5)
      In extension of 4, I am not a very comforting person. So for a heads up, do not come crying to me!

6)
      My future ambition is to be part of a family business me and my cousins are going to start up (not telling you anymore incase you steal our WONDERFUL idea)

7)
      May be too obsessed with Karl Pilkington. Pretty sure Ricky Gervais has made his millions offa me as I own all the DVDs, podcasts books etc its more of a joke than Karl is.

8)
      Another ambition of mine is to go to all of the fashion capitols (preferably when the weeks are on) and I plan to start this venture once I have finished my degree. If I have any pennies left L

9)
      I LOVE festivals! This is the first time in 3 years I will not be attending any and I am devastated! I have been to V, Leeds and worked at BT London Live for the Olympics which had concerts on each evening (mini/not really festival)

10)   I am not really into films. I don’t know what it is, I think they are just getting too long and I get bored. Like Les Mis, As much as I appreciate how good the set was blardy blar but there is NO need for it to be 2 and a half hours long. NO need. Cut out some of the singing and instrumentals and then boom. May have held my attention longer.
11)
   I hate flat things on walls. This may sound odd, what I mean is I personally hate having like photos blue-tacked onto my walls or having posters etc. they have to be sticking out! So I have like a photo cork board then some poster like images on canvas so they stick out! Then I have photographs on a chandelier. Don’t know what it is, just can’t be doing!

Hannahs Questions

What’s your favourite smelling beauty product? 
Errr, possibly the Body Shop Define & No Frizz Brazil Nut Hair Cream? Has a sort of nutty cocoa buttery smell to it! Great seen as due to a scalp condition I have I used DISGUSTING smelling hair products so this covers it up nicely J

Describe yourself in three words.
Girl Next Door

Lipstick or lip gloss and name your favourite.
Lipstick, I think I am really too fussy with lip-glosses as I often think they feel too sticky/fade quick. Although in all honesty, I tend to use anything but lipsticks or glosses!! As in I am using a lot of ‘lip creams’ ‘lip crayons’ and my go to lip product at the moment is Rimmel Apocalips! I own them in shades Big Bang, Celestial, Apocaliptic and Luna! With the 2 for £10 offer on at the moment I hope to buy them all!!!!

Plain eyes and a red lip, or statement eyes and a nude lip?
Statement Eyes and a Nude Lip – I get told that my eyes are my best feature, may as well go on that trail!

What beauty product do you feel like everyone has tried, and you should have, but you haven’t? (A bit like me and the MAC scenario!)
Kate Moss for Rimmel lipsticks! Everyone raves about them and I do really want to try one! I just have similar colours of them so don’t have to urge to buy them!

Can you remember the first makeup you bought, and what was it?
Ooooh I have no idea! I have a feeling though it was a lipgloss from natural collection when I was possibly in year 7 or 8? Those were the days!

Where is the nicest place in the world that you have ever been?
I really don’t know about the ‘nicest’ place in the world as have not travelled very much! The places I remember really enjoying was when we went on a family holiday to Newquay years ago and stayed in a caravan site called travella, Love that holiday! (I really hate Cornwall now and the new go-to place for us is The Gower!) My favourite ‘view’ or place to sit and be is certainly not nice! Near where I am from, there is a bench at a park which is on the top of a hill, and you sit there get to see a town called Birkenhead and the docks and across to Liverpool! No idea why I like it so much!

Would you ever consider starting a YouTube channel?
Personally? I think it would make certain elements of blogging easier such as tutorials and I think they can improve reviews etc. however I think I lack the confidence and sort of on-screen personality which makes YouTube channels so interesting!

What was your favourite subject in school?
hmmm, I am really torn between textiles and psychology! Erm Erm Erm ooh I don’t know it’s too hard!

What are your favourite blog posts to write?
I really enjoy the illustration blogs, primarily because you really don’t need to write much as it’s mainly visuals which is what I’d say I am more interested in? Even though I am a blogger and I read other peoples, I tend to look at the pictures then decide if it’s worth reading? Hahaa makes me sound like a terribly blogger but what will be will be!

Do you have any pets? (crossing my fingers for some pictures of cute puppies here everyone, hint hint)
DOGGIE! Yes our household is blessed with a border terrier called Dylan. He is coming up to 4 and a half and looks like a little grumpy old man! Que Visuals…




My 11 Questions:

1)      Signature Make Up look?

2)      What’s one of the scariest things you’ve ever done?

3)      Favourite High Street Store?

4)      If you could visit any country in the world, where would you go?

5)      Go Out or Stay In?

6)      If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet?

7)      Beauty Product you would recommend most and why?

8)      What are some of your major goals in life?

9)      What’s your favourite fashion designer?

10)   What’s one thing on your ‘bucket list’?

11)   Why did the chicken cross the road?

Who am I Tagging!?
I am very aware that some of you may have been tagged before, in which case, I apologise! I won’t be offended if you don’t do another one but I would love a link to the original! J

Monday, 15 July 2013

CC Cream

After using a BB ream for the past year I decided on switching bandwagons so purchased Max Factors CC Cream after hearing rave reviews about it all over the internet!


 I opted for shade natural after swatching on my wrist, although I hindsight I regret this and wish I had gone for the light shade (fair) as the colour developed overtime and became too dark; should point out this is easily fixable as I have seen a lot of reviews for this and other bb/cc creams saying similar things, I just add a small amount of moisturiser to it to thin it out slightly, works wonders! So if you are thinking about buying this product, I’d suggest swatching the different colours then leave it for 15 minutes or so, before deciding on a shade!

Packaging

There is nothing particularly striking about this packaging, very classic like other max factor products! Just a 30ml slick black ‘upside down’ tube with gold lettering! Its’ small size worried me because for £9.99 I felt I wouldn’t be getting much for my money!

Product

Although the container is small you only need a tiny amount with some added moisturiser then apply evenly onto your skin. 
The results, for me, really even out my skin tone, gives light to medium coverage which is perfect for everyday!  Brilliant product 100x better than the L’orealnude Magique BB cream I used, Great for day to day and blends really well with other products!


amount I use on my whole face! I then add a bit of moisturiser

Before and After, impressed with the scar coverage!

A clearer after shot, as the previous was a bit blurred!

Pros

Nice consistency (my last bb cream was a liquidy mess!)
Takes to the skin really well
Has a ‘mature’ perfumey smell (which I weirdly find really nice and comforting)
Coverage just what I need on a day to day basis
Little goes a long way
Leaves a light glow


Cons

Lack of colour choices, not sure if it would suit all skin tones
Deception of colour

Friday, 12 July 2013

Illustration: Unit 3

Moodboards:

This was an introductory brief to moodboards, however it did not co-inside with what tutors had taught me about moodboards, so I have just done a quick example of how my moodboards have developed.

I only ever use a maximum of 5 images, as they tend to be placed in a bold format so an overdose of images can look unappealing and messy.
When designing a moodboard, I often use pinterest to browse for images, I suppose they then become 'personal' moodboards, I then select a couple of images to form these 'professional' boards.

Click here to see some of my pinterest boards!

Can you guess the theme to this board?


Thursday, 11 July 2013

WearMeOutx Wardrobe Update!



After weeks of research and prep I am finally in a position to share what I have been up to on the dress making front!


Fabric:

My Grandad used to work at Liverpool Docks drawing up technical designs and blueprints of boats in ink onto a woven linen like canvas which had been treated with some gluey substance to stiffen. (thank god for technology so I don't have to do that) He had kept a number of these which he has now passed onto me to make some use out of them!

After numerous attempts of trial and error experiements I have found how to remove the gluey substance so that it leaves the print on the fabric!

Design:

Using this fabric, I have designed (doodled) a couple of tops and shirts to create; the reason I can only really make tops is because the length is fairly short and I have to keep it this way so the writing and drawing is the right way up! ec-cet-a-rwar