Let's Talk: Hair + Makeup!

So, y'all.

Today happens to be my birthday! 

And it goes totally perfect with this post because I LOVE hair and makeup. 

As a self-taught MUA, I truly enjoy makeup and the art form that it is. 

Hair is important as well, and I feel that makeup and hair compliment each other :)

So, I'll be sharing my favorite products and techniques for y'all today! 

Let's get to it!

Let's Talk: Hair + Makeup!

Hair

Favorite Products

1. Matrix Biolage ColorLast Shampoo

2. Matrix Biolage ColorLast Conditioner

3. It's A 10 Miracle Hair Mask

4. Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil Primer

5. Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser's Invisible Oil

6. Kenra Volume Finishing Spray

7. Kenra Shine Spray

8. Kenra Texturizing Taffy

Favorite Techniques

1. When you're washing your hair, make sure your hair is completely soaked through before applying any shampoo. This will ensure that all of the oils are loosened up. 

2. Shampoo mainly the roots of your hair, and give yourself a good scalp massage to encourage your hair follicles to grow. 

3. Condition only the ends of your hair, and just use whatever is leftover on your hands in your roots. Take a wide toothed comb in the shower and comb through your hair with the conditioner in it. This will prevent any major tangles when you get out of the shower. 

4. Once a week, use a deep conditioning mask in your hair and leave it in for 10 mins while you're in the shower. This will help the strength of your hair and keep the split ends at bay.

5. When you get out of the shower, just tie your hair up in a towel. Do not towel dry it {rubbing the hair in the towel}, and apply oil primer all over your hair. 

6. Apply 2 pumps of oil to the ends of your hair, and then brush through your hair with a comb. I prefer to let it air dry from here to not use a hair dryer. 

7. After you've completed your hair style, of course use hair spray, and shine spray if needed. But texturizing taffy {a very small amount} will take your hair do to the next level. Warm a pea size of it up in your fingers and 'scrunch' it throughout your hair.

Makeup

Favorite Products

1. Mario Badescu Rose Water Spray

2. BECCA Backlight Priming Filter 

3. BECCA Under Eye Brightening Corrector

4. L'oreal True Match Lumi Liquid Illuminator

5. Clinique Beyond Perfecting Foundation

6. NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer

7. Laura Mercier Translucent Setting Powder

8. Benefit Hoola Bronzer

9. BECCA Mineral Blush

10. Benefit Watts Up Cream Highlighter

11. BECCA Pressed Shimmering Skin Perfecter Highlighter

12. L'oreal Telescopic Mascara

13. Koko Lashes

14. Sephora Retractable Brow Pencil

15. Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Gel

16.  Anastasia Beverly Hills Liquid Lipstick

17. Buxom Lip Cream

Favorite Techniques

1. Prep your skin by spraying a fresh facial spray. 

2. Use a luminous primer all over your face as your base to give yourself a 'glow from within' look. 

3. With your ring finger, apply a bit of the under eye brightening cream. Blend it out with a very damp beauty blender.

4. Mix half of your liquid highlighter and half of your foundation together and apply several dots of it to your face. Blend it out with a very damp beauty blender. 

5. Apply a concealer under your eyes in an upside down triangle shape and blend it out with your beauty blender. 

6. Set your concealer with a translucent setting powder. 

7. Apply concealer in between your eyebrows, in the middle of your chin, down the bridge of your nose, and right above the cupids bow. Blend this out with a damp beauty blender. 

8. Apply your bronzer in the hollows of your cheeks {you can find this by sucking in your face like a fish. The big hollows are where you apply the bronzer. This is used to mimic where shadows would hit on your face}. Apply the bronzer using an angled brush or a stippling brush. Blend this out well. No harsh lines! Also apply some bronzer on your temples on your forehead, and down the sides of your nose. 

9. Apply a small amount of blush on the apples of your cheeks with a blush brush and blend it back into your hairline almost. 

10. Apply your cream highlighter with your ring finger to the tops of your cheek bones and above the arch of your eyebrows. Also apply this down the bridge of your nose, and on your cupids bow. Blend this out with your finger as much as you can, and then lightly blend it out with a very damp beauty blender. 

11. Apply your pressed highlighter on top of the cream highlighter to set it and add some extra glow. Make sure this is well blended or you can have 'zebra stripes'. I recommend blending it with a small eye blending brush, and then a bit with your ring finger. 

12. Apply a coat of mascara to your eyelashes to prep for falsies {or keep it simple and just curl your lashes and add a few more coats of mascara}.

13. Apply your falsies with glue. Wait 20 sec after applying your glue to the lash band and then apply it to your eye. The tackiness will help with the performance of your lashes throughout the day.

14. Enhance your eyebrows by drawing a faint line underneath your brow. Then with short hair like strokes, fill in your brows to your liking. Make sure to brush them out with a spooley after. I promise, this will make them look 10 times better! Don't be afraid of the spooley!

15. Coat your eyebrows with some brow gel. This will keep it in place all day and keep your eyebrows from fading.

16. Apply your favorite lipstick or gloss. Liquid lipstick stays on all day, even through eating and such. You can also slightly over line your lips with it if you want to, and you won't be able to see where you overlined it! 

17. Apply a gloss, but I personally do not like applying a gloss over a liquid lipstick. Sometimes a gloss can do it all on it's own!

18. Set your makeup with that first setting spray you used in the beginning! 

Easy peasy! I hope that helped y'all with some techniques and products! I only rave about the things I love, so I hope these products work for you too. 

Have a wonderful day! It's an amazing day today, thank you Jesus!