Oh hello February, you little beaut of a month. Aren’t you just cracking? But it’s not just romance that I’m thinking about; the seasonally apt makeup for the month has to be one of my favourite selections of the year. Red lips, rosy cheeks, shimmery peepers and bold just about anything; there’s the one and only occasion to get makeup planning for: Valentine’s Day – just one day provides more than enough justification that a beauty bag shakeup is required. So here’s what I’ll be shifting to the top of my makeup pile for the next 28 days.
For this month’s Beauty Bag I thought I’d take a thematic colour approach. The blues are back. It’s a revolution that started on my fingertips and now I’m ready for it to creep up, blend out and brush on to my eyes. Wintry? Check. On trend? Check. Easy peasy to pull off? Not so much. So if you’re looking blue in the company of royal, navy and azure-like shades I’ve got the deats on some good starting points…
Since starting ‘The Beauty Bag’ feature I’ve covered months worth of beauty-based ground from lovely lippies to complexion perker-uppers and pretty much everything in between, so this time round I’ve decided to do something a little different and instead have tried, tested and tossed out the bad and left in the good of my August favourites. Forget the rest, here’s what’s worth a swatch, pump or flick through when you spot ’em:
It’s August. It’s humid. We’re melting. And I have to say that this month’s beauty bag was a bit of a head scratcher – makeup has taken a real back seat for me recently and the less is more approach (or just nothing) is my current mantra. However there are a few products that I’ll be adding into my cosmetics cycle for the final bout of rain, and they all concern a melt-free base. One that stays put even on the wettest climate of all.
“It’s getting hot in here, so get some colour on” – I’m sure that’s how that Nelly song went right? I kid, I kid. I still know all the words to that tune (yes, tune), 15 years post its release – yep even all the rappy bits too. But in the spirit of April’s Beauty Bag lets just go with the revised hook cause in India we’re starting to experience summer and having exhausted all bronzey, highlighted, glowy options in my makeup arsenal I’m vowing to add a splash of shading from the other end of the spectrum this month; pinks, oranges, blues, greens. You might want to be sitting down for this one…
This is the beauty bag that I’ve wanted to put together since the first month of this feature. A bronzed, glowing, beach babe edit to get you beauty beefed up for the impending heat – if it ever decides to play nice. But just in case it does, or if you’re heading off to sunnier shores over the next few weeks – me? jealous? never – then here’s some red hot weather ready products that I’ll be adding into my makeup mix for the month of October…
With the sun finally deciding to make an appearance, I’m ridding my beauty bag of all nonseasonal choices and dusting off my sunshine accompanied sheeny skin saviours. I’ve got complexion, cheeks, eyes and nails covered with just four glow-giving options being courted into September’s Beauty Bag…
