Makeup DIY: Melt your lipsticks & Create your own lip palette!

Heyy guys! 
So I've contemplated doing this for quite awhile, but I was put off for a couple of reasons. 
1. I didn't want to destroy my lipsticks. 
2. There's some lipsticks I use frequently on myself and I didn't wanna melt the whole lot of them. 
3. I couldn't find a good empty lip palette to put them into! 

However, I finally caved in and did it due to the fact that carrying around multiple lipstick tubes to photoshoots and stuff is a bit of a pain >.<

There's a small list of stuff you will need to do this:
1. A lit candle!
2. A knife to cut your lipsticks
3. A spoon
4. An empty palette for your lipsticks
5. Cotton buds (for any messy bits you need to mix)
And of course 6. YOUR LIPSTICKS :D

The empty palette I have is by a company who specialize in makeup tools and various empty palettes called Japonesque. I purchased my palette online at guru makeup emporium !
Here is the link to the palette I purchased http://www.gurumakeupemporium.com/epages/BT4080.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/BT4080/Products/573

I'm gonna go through all the steps I took with you!
Step 1. Lay your palette on a flat surface as the melted lipsticks will take a few minutes to dry in the palette and you want them to dry nicely in shape :)
Step 2. Take your chosen lipstick and cut it in half (I found half a lipstick was plenty to fill the individual slots)
and then place the cut off lipstick on your spoon.
Step 3. Hold the spoon over your lit candle and wait for it to melt completely, so there is no lumps!
Don't hold the spoon too close to the flame or the lipstick will boil and you'll get air bubbles (I found MAC lipsticks are more prone to it!)
Step 4. Once your colour is completely melted, your into one of the compartments and clean up any spillage!
And once it's dry, YOUR DONE!

Repeat this process for however many lipsticks you are doing and enjoy your new lipstick palette!
Would definitely recommend the Japonesque palettes btw, they really are fantastic!
Hope this was helpful!
Talk to you guys soon!

Byee guys,
ShaunaaShikarri is out 
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Product Test & Review - GOSH BB Cream

Heyy guys!
So this week, I was in Doc Morris pharmacy and I came across the GOSH makeup display.
For awhile now, I've been contemplating buying the GOSH BB cream. I have sampled afew different ones, including the Nivea and Garnier BB creams and I kept noticing one very bad thing -
THE LIGHTEST SHADE IS RIDICULOUSLY DARK! No joke I tested these on my hand and the lightest colour was ORANGE! How does that even make sense?!
So, morale of that little story is I kinda gave up on BB creams because of this.
But the GOSH BB cream lightest shade seemed to ACTUALLY be light! So I caved in and bought it.
It costs 13.99euro, which is around the same price as GOSH foundations which I thought was kinda silly.. but oh well.
This is what the BB cream looked like on my hand :

So, as I said I purchased the lightest shade which is called Sand. It matches my skin tone quiet well and it really does disappear into my skin.

I took some pictures of my face BEFORE I applied the cream and AFTER so you can see the exact difference. No editing was done on these photos!

BEFORE:

AFTER:




















Okay, I'm someone who is used to a good bit more coverage than this but I will say it does tone down my redness a little and it does feel nice to have such lightweight product on, specially when its been so warm in Dublin! However, I am someone who is prone to dark circles and as you can see, is doesn't cover that kind of thing very well.. I have been wearing this the last few days, BUT I always wear a concealer with it as I need something under my eyes or I look like a zombie xD

I don't think this product would work very well for someone with acne prone skin or blemish prone skin. You would need to have quite clear skin to begin with to have this product do anything for you.

Pros for this product: Lightweight, good shade match, quite moisturizing, has an SPF of 15, helps tone down redness.

Cons for this product: Does not cover dark circles or blemishes, the tube is quite small for 14euro, will have to be paired with a concealer.

So since this blog is Beauty Lust, I'm gonna rate this product on a scale of:
HOW MUCH WOULD I LUST AFTER THIS PRODUCT?
3/5

Hope this review was helpful and I will talk to you guys soon!

Byee guys,
ShaunaaShikarii is out! 
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OOTD - I Wanna Be Sedated! AND EOTD! Summer in ShaunaaShikarii land!

So guys this is my first OOTD post! Woopwoop! 

Today is an extremely hot day in Dublin city and before I go off to work, I found sometime to chill in my back garden with some of my family, including my mother who is kind enough to take my pictures for me XD

Clothes are from:
Romanes Tank Top - Primark, 10euro
Slashed Leggings - Miss Selfridges, so old I cannot remember price!
Heart Shaped Sunglasses - Primark, 3euro
Hello Kitty Vans - Vans Flagship store Kensington London, around 40pounds
Gold Spike Necklace - Newlook, was a gift so don't know the price!



Jewelry is from:
Turquoise Ring - Primark, 3euro
All bracelets on same hand as ring are one set - Primark, 3.50euro 

Other hand!
Black Skull and Gold cross bracelet - Newlook, Sale 3euro
Gold Cross Holy Bracelet - Newlook, 2.99euro
Rest came as one set - Newlook, were a gift so don't know price!

I hope you all like my outfit and clothes! As you can tell, I'm not exactly a 'summery' person! I'm also not, as my sister would call it 'fashion forward'. I tend not to go with whats in fashion and just pick stuff I like and feel good in, whether its in fashion or not! Hence why I end up going outside like this! :D 

So, to contrast with this super dark outfit, I decided to go with one of my favourite bright colours on the eyes!

Products Used:
Face;
Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation - Ivory
MAC Studio Finish Concealer - NC15
Laura Mercier Translucent Powder
Sleek Contour Kit - Light
Eyes;

Sugarpill Eyeshadow - 2AM , Poison Plum & Tako
Collection Gel Liner - Black
MAC Pencil - Smoulder
NYC Big Bold Mascara
Lips:

Sleek Pout Paint - Minx
Benefit California Kissin' Lipgloss.

TA-DA!! So that's my whole look today!!!! I hope you all like it :)
Hope your all having a good day and if your in Dublin, hope your enjoying this shockingly good weather!
I'll talk to you guys soon!

Byee guys,
ShaunaaShikarii is out! 
x

EOTD! & A Nice Little Introduction! :)

Heyy guys!
So this is gonna be my first post on this new blog and I decided instead of doing just one long boring introduction post that I'd just do an EOTD (which stands for Eye of the Day incase some of you aren't familiar with it )

So, the last while I've been wearing a lot of neutral colours and very subtle looks
and today I wanted to get away from that a bit! I also wanted to test out a new bright turquoise eyeshadow I bought from Inglot at IMATS! So this is the look I created :)

Products Used:
Eyes:
Lime Crime Eyeshadow Helper Primer
Inglot Eyeshadow 338 (Turquoise)
Sugarpill Tako (White)
Inglot Eyeshadow 349 (Lid Colour)
Inglot Eyeshadow 391 (Black, to darken up crease)
MAC Pencil Smoulder
Collection Gel Liner Black
NYC Skyrise Mascara

Brows:
MAC Fix+ (Spray onto your angled brow brush)
Inglot Eyeshadow 329

For the lips on this look, I just went for a nude sparkly lip gloss by Smashbox, which for some reason has no name or number on the tube that I can find. Sorrryy :(
And also the contour shade I'm wearing is the Sleek Contour kit in Light with Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation in Ivory :)


So, guys that is my first EOTD and blog post. I guess I should put a little intro here! 
For those of you who don't know me already, HELLO! I'm ShaunaaShikarri and I'm a 20year old MUA and Beauty Youtuber! I've created this blog to post up all the things that I can't post on youtube, such as individual product reviews, EOTDS, possibly outfits of the day if I'm going somewhere special and all little things like that! Currently on my youtube I put up a new video every week and once I get this blog fully up and running, I hope to post atleast 4 times a week if not more! So that's really all there is to say guys! All the links to my other social networks including my youtube are on my blog just go up the top and click the page link!

Hope you enjoy this first post and I'll talk to you guys soon!
Byee guys,
ShaunaaShikarii is out! 
x