Drugstore Foundations

If you are anything like me you will go through a lot of foundations,  so Its always nice to find a foundation you love at an affordable price. Today I wanted to talk about some drugstore brands as I have tried so many high price and low price foundations and I like to think I have found some amazing ones for a much easier price. 

Maybelline

When asked what my favorite foundation is, it is usually the Maybelline 'fit me matte + poreless'
foundation. The low cost of this foundation is only a bonus as I love it for many more reasons. 

This is the foundation I will use on the majority of my clients and myself as the coverage is amazing. Personally, I think this foundation is medium coverage, but it is very buildable and easy to achieve full coverage. It is a matte foundation but not drying on the skin at all, and because of it being a matte foundation it provides such a flawless finish to the skin. They have a brilliant shade range, especially for a cheaper brand. My favorite shades are 125 120 220 250.

Another foundation that I love from Maybelline is their 'Superstay 24 full coverage foundation'. Again I would say this foundation is more of a medium coverage but is still very buildable. This foundation gives off a much more luminous finish to the skin and lasts brilliantly throughout the day. This isn't a foundation I would use a lot so I'm less familiar with their shade range but I love the shade 30sand on myself. 

NYX

NYX is such an amazing brand for so many products but one of my favorites from them is their 'Bare with me' tinted skin veil. This foundation is very low coverage, almost like a tinted moisturiser. I love this for creating a more natural finish on the skin, or for someone who doesn't like too much coverage. I started using this on myself last summer as I get even more freckly than usual and don't like to cover them up too much, I found this perfect for that as it just gives us the smallest amount of coverage and leaves the skin lovely and luminous. I love the shades 'natural soft beige' and 'golden caramel' from this range.

There are so many foundations available from drugstore brands and these are truly the best Iv came across.

Chelsea xx

Time at home

As you all should know, we can't leave the house other than for essential reasons. This means coming up with lots of ways to keep us busy during this time. I don't usually have much free time with spending my week studying at university and my weekends working all day, so I am trying to appreciate this time to do some things from home I haven't had time to do before. I am using this blogpost just to share what I have been doing and some things going through my head, maybe someone can relate.
One of the main things I wanted to use this time to do was create more makeup looks on myself. I love being able to sit down and just play with makeup, or doing my favorite glam on myself. This may seem a little extra for sitting in the house, but not only does it pass the time and create content for my page, I feel much better about myself. It can be hard to remember a glam version of you when spending all day in joggers and no makeup on, so I find it nice just to take 2 or 3 days out of the week gettings some glam on.
I have also been creating some quick tutorials for my Instagram page, this is very scary for me as I am a perfectionist and I love putting my skills down, but I have been enjoying It so much. Using iMovie on my Macbook, I have taught myself how to edit and each one I do I add in something new, for example, background music or a voiceover. Creating a voiceover for the first time was terrifying, It wasn't perfect but I am so proud of it and got really good feedback from it which is always encouraging. I don't usually have time to do these so I am appreciating the time at the moment to learn the confidence to create this style of content.
Something that I have invested my time and money into a lot lately is skincare, I love learning what my skin needs and nourishing it with good products. This is something that keeps me feeling much better during this time, by looking after my skin more I am seeing better results and therefore feeling much better. Another benefit to this is that there is usually a little package arriving in the post every so often which keeps a bit of excitement in life! I usually purchase my skincare products from Kiehl's or LookFantastic. LookFantastic is an online brand that provides all things hair and beauty which is brilliant to feel inspired by lots of skincare and haircare or makeup products.
In the first few weeks, I was feeling so energetic and doing a workout every day, sometimes twice a day. This motivation is quickly running out and I am struggling to keep active, which is so annoying because I love working out but Its finding that willpower to do it. Everyone in the country, including us are baking a lotttt to pass the time, which I think is impacting my fitness motivation! When I do a workout I usually try to watch some Instagram lives or videos, It feels more like a 'PT' session and keeps me going better. I have also done yoga for the first time in my life since being in quarantine. I couldn't believe how much focus and strength it takes, and how good it feels to do.

Due to the fact I don't live with my boyfriend, I haven't seen him in 5 weeks which is very hard. I notice a lot of people still seeing their boyfriend/girlfriend and their friends but I just don't believe its worth it. I am also missing my sister a lot as she lives in Manchester, I haven't seen her in a while and I would have been over to visit her around this time. I'm missing my two other sisters and my lovely little nephew, my grandparents, my friends, and everyone from work. Thankfully with facetime, we can all still keep in contact and kind of see each other, but we are all going through the same thing which makes it easier. As much as I am missing all of these people, I am feeling so thankful that I can spend much more time with my parents.

All of this is something that none of us has ever gone through before, and somedays fly and you have brilliant days, but other days can be hard, hard to find any motivation, but just do what you can to try to enjoy yourself.

Stay safe x