FOTD: Christmas Party Time!

 It's nearly Christmas and that means I get to go to parties and parties mean I get to wear a lot of make up and that makes me excited.

I discovered this one spot in front of the mirror in the hallway of my house where the lighting is super flattering and makes my skin look glowy and flawless. And I am never moving again.

Lipstick hero. Eyebrow hero. Earrings hero. 

This party face is brought to you by MAC, and my makeupspiration, Liz Taylor. It's pretty simple, but classic and festive.

I'm wearing MAC Paint Pot in Bare Study, a kind of nudey glimmery gold cream, on my eyes. I'm not super keen on creams but this is a nice one, that goes on smoothly and doesn't really crease. No 7 black liquid liner in a very slightly thicker than everyday line - I just started using this, and it's a very decent liquid liner. Star of the show is MAC Russian Red lipstick. True story: I was torn between Russian Red and Ruby Woo at the MAC store in Times Square, and when I flung myself at the sales guy for advice, he looked at me and said "Russian Red will make you look like Liz Taylor!". SOLD. I can pretend he doesn't say that to all the girls.

My earrings make me excited. They're from the 50s, and I got them at the vintage fair, and they have a matching necklace and unf sparkles. Fact: I need more occasions to wear inappropriately sparkly costume jewellery. Liz would never stand for this. 

Make Your Own: Brown Sugar Body Scrub

There's a Pinterest-y trend, for making your own body scrubs at home going around, and since I just finished my huge tub of Soap & Glory's The Breakfast Scrub, which I love (and is that not the best pun you've ever heard?), I decided to give it a shot. It's super easy, you guys. This is a really cute way to spend half an hour and you'll end up with a gorgeous-smelling scrub which leaves your skin silky smooth, and it's also all natural in case you get hungry in the shower. And! Even better, you likely have all the ingredients already sitting in your cupboards.

The basic recipe for this is (roughly) 2 parts sugar + 1 part oil. After that, you can get creative with the kind of sugar and oil and flavourings you want to use.