SO, I’m not about to film this for my youtube channel, mainly because I can in NO WAY compete with the hundreds of amazing tutorials on there of how to do it. I do get ALOT of questions and compliments about my makeup though, so I thought the best thing to do would be kind of like a pictorial showing how to get this easy cut crease eyeshadow look for beginners.

The best thing about this is that you can apply this method to any colours as long as you follow the 4 basic steps. I also think it is really easy for beginners as it’s just 4 steps and nothing too advanced.

To do this look you will need:

• 2 matt shades of shadow from a similar colour palette one darker than the other. I am going to use pink and orange
• 1 shimmer eyeshadow, I like to use a light one so I’m using light pink
• Eyeshadow primer or concealer for the base and to cut the crease. I’m using the PLousie base in shade Rumour 01.

So, on Father’s day I shared the above post about my Mum. To understand why I am so annoyed, we need to back peddle a bit ….

I have never met my sperm donor, I’m not calling him my Dad again ever because he is far from it. I’ve always known his name and a little bit about where he was from as my Mum has always been honest about that. So my whole life there has always been this intrigue about him and what he was like. I had tried to look for him in the past but when James proposed to me in 2011, I really wanted to find him before we got married. Trust me when I say I wish I hadn’t bothered.

So my wedding came and went in 2013 and I hadn’t found him. A few months after we were married, I found his Mum by posting on a local Facebook group and someone came forward with information. I had TO PAY to send her a Facebook message. Anyway long story short, I arranged to meet with his mum, her partner and my sperm donor. They showed up and he didn’t and ignored their attempts to contact him beforehand apparently.

After this, I decided to send him a letter, pouring my heart out and basically telling him I wasn’t after money, I just wanted a relationship with my Dad, was that too much to want? too much to ask for? I also said in this letter that if I didn’t hear from him I would never contact him again. GREAT FOR HIM, because he never replied to me.

Since moving into our house in September last year, nothing has really had it’s place. I feel like we have just been moving stuff around constantly trying to get a feel for where it goes best. Since we have decorated Maisies room, our room and redone the bathroom floor, I feel like I have been wanting to get alot more organised. The kitchen is a long way down on our to do list, so for now I decided to spend some time sorting out my cleaning cupboard.

You know what it’s like right? The cleaning cupboard is the dumping ground for anything, whether you have used it once or you use it everyday, so the first step was to sort through what we still used and get rid of the things that we have had for years and don’t need. Some of it went in the bin (except the spray bottles which I emptied and stashed at the back to use again) and some of it, like the weed killer etc got moved to the garage. We kept stuff like that under the sink before as we had no where else to store it.

I’ve been getting more and more into my skincare lately. The more I research, the more I’m finding out what suits my skin and how to deal with the concerns that I have. My skin is so oily. I have spent most of my 20’s just using oil free products which weren’t giving me any hydration so often my skin would be so dry and flakey. After researching I found a few things that have really worked for me so I wanted to recommend three products to add to your oily skin routine now!

Double Cleanse

I know what you are thinking, Oil cleanser on oily skin. That’s exactly what I thought too. Until I looked into it a little deeper, but we will get to that in a minute….first came across double cleansing as part of the Korean 10 step skincare routine. Although I don’t really know much about anything else in this routine (like what even is an ampoule?) I remember thinking about it at the time and wondering if this would help me.

A double cleanse basically involves an oil cleanser first, to remove makeup, dirt and sebum from the skin. Once you have done this, you then use a water based cleanser to give your face even more of a deep clean. As someone who wears makeup everyday and has oily skin I thought this would really help me make sure my skin was as clean as it could be.

So back to that thing about using oil on oily skin… after doing some research, I actually came across this on the Simple website, which basically says that cleansing oil clings to excess oil on the skin helping lift it with ease. It also is super hydrating which I’m told in the long run is a good thing for oily skin.

Honestly, since I started doing this, my favourite part of my day is removing my makeup and getting my skin clean.

If you want to add one to your oily skincare routine, here are some of my recommendations:

A Hyaluronic Acid serum

Hyaluronic Acid is a super hydrator!