CODE Beautiful Blog / mascara

Off to a festival this summer? Where are you going? And, more importantly, what are you bringing? Packing your festival make up bag can be such a pain. We all know the dilemma – you want to look your most fabulous (who knows who you might meet in the crowd!) but you also gotta accept that can’t take your entire bedroom with you (sorry – we wish this was possible too). Well, when it comes to mascara, we’ve got you covered. Here’s 5 reasons why CODE VLM Mini is your festival lifesaver… 

We are currently in the height of summer and the hottest month of the year, August, and whether we are spending it on holiday, at a festival or just chilling at a garden party we want to look our best. It’s not too late to make sure you summer makeup is on point, here’s how to do it!

Doing our eye makeup is our favourite part of getting ready, it’s the area of our face that allows us to have the most fun and be the most creative. Here’s a list of eye makeup trends we are loving at the minute, but we want to hear from you too! What’s your favourite eye makeup trend?

This weekend just gone I was lucky enough to celebrate the beginning of summer with a trip to Parklife Festival, a two day multi genre music festival that takes place at Manchester’s Heaton Park.

Here’s some of my highlights…

Every girl needs a little black dress. I don’t know about you but my little black dress looks 100 times better when I wear it with Spanx. So much so that it doesn’t feel right without them! They smooth everything out and allow my dress, and my body, to look the best it can possibly look, and why wouldn’t I want my killer outfit to reach its full potential?

Well what if your mascara was like a little black dress. It might look amazing on its own but is it reaching its full potential? Or does it need a pair of Spanx? 

Festivals are my happy place! I love everything about them, the music, the food, the fact that your most likely going to finish the weekend with at least a couple of new friends. But I am one of those girls who panics if I don’t have my whole bedroom with me 24/7, so one thing I don’t love so much is travelling light! It’s really difficult to narrow down the items you want to take to a festival (at my first one my suitcase wouldn’t fit in the tent!) but with a few festivals under my belt I think I have mastered it. Here’s what’s going in my bag this festival season.

So far 2016 has definitely been a year of inspiration and innovation for both beauty and fitness. More than ever we are spurred on by Insta stars, Olympians and bloggers as social media allows us sneak peaks of BTS action and super accessible tips and tricks. With all this exposure to women world wide girl-bossing their way through tough workouts and hectic schedules, there's also the matter of the rest of us having internal meltdown's because that level of productivity and endless energy (all the while looking oh so fresh faced) just isn't quite as achievable as the press says it is. So, less of the unrealistic schedules and unattainable goals, here's my take on how to keep your confidence high and endorphins' buzzing in the most stylish way. 

There’s nothing worse than looking back at photographs and seeing horrible, damaged, bald lashes from years of falsies, bad mascara and useless makeup removers. You might think the damage is done and that you have to carry on applying false lashes every day, or caking your mascara on to cover it up. But fear not, CODE has some of the best beauty hacks to make your eyelashes look as fabulous as you deserve… 

Years of bad mascara and peeling false lashes off your lids at the end of the night can cause serious damage to your lashes. Our eyelashes can fall out, thin out, become brittle and generally just look a bit naff – all because of the chemicals and harsh formulas we’re applying to them every day. 

If you’re like me - how many times have you glued your eyes shut trying to apply false eyelashes? Had them fall off halfway through your night out? It’s an on-going struggle to try and have the perfect lashes. All I wanted was to discover the secret CODE to perfect lashes. But now? My search is over. I’ve finally found it. 

Flutter or pout? When it comes to make-up, we usually fall into two squads, strong eye vs. strong lip. From catwalk to selfie, it’s a smouldering eye or statement lip that gets the most attention - and whilst I love a perfect Kylie Jenner pout (I mean who doesn’t) for me it’s all about the strong eye.