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LEARN HOW TO CONTOUR LIKE A PRO!

Welcome to the first of our ‘BIY’ Blush It Yourself series!

We are super excited to launch our new series of ‘how to’ videos for our Blush Babes! Here you will learn some quick and easy tricks of the trade to effortlessly transform yourself on a daily basis. What’s even better, we run through each of the products and brushes used to create these looks that can then be purchased in store or online at HERE for your convenience.

Once reserved for makeup artists and those who were well acquainted with professional tricks of the trade, contouring has been around for years. It was utilised as a means to highlight and disguise certain facial features. The power of a good contour is truly remarkable as it can change and alter the physicality of an individual.

With the advent of social media, video bloggers and reality film stars – contouring has become as common as eyeliner and lipgloss. It seems every girl and guy have become experts in highlighting and disguising certain features. We even have specific tools to help us achieve an effortless finish.

When done correctly, contouring can have a transformative effect. The trick is to create a seamless look, one which does not seem obvious to the eye. What we want is to deflect and pronounce certain features.

Here we have our resident Blush Bar MUA, Lisa Mitrov showing us how it’s done. You will note there are no sharp, heavy lines and she has done a fabulous job of accentuating her lovely cheekbones.

But without further ado, please sit back and enjoy the show!


-Your makeup brushes will LOVE you forever!-

Ever wondered why your makeup wasn’t going on smoothly or the colours seemed a bit ‘off’ compared to what they did a little while ago? Are your brushes getting pricklier on application compared to their once smooth application?

OR

Heaven forbid you now have a huge pimple where none had dared to tread or spread for years?

A likely reason behind these beauty woes is the question we all hate (and are embarrassed) to answer –

When was the last time you washed your makeup brushes???

Weeks? Months? Never? Argh!!!!!

We all underestimate the amount of bacteria that can accumulate on our brushes. After so many uses they become caked with product, residue, oil and dead skin cells! (yuck)! that we then put back onto our faces (yuck!!!)

We suggest on average that brushes should be washed at least every fortnight (after every day of use for the makeup artists out there)

So what’s the quickest, best, most amazing way to wash your brushes i hear you say?

You can use unscented bar soap, shampoo and conditioner or dish detergent and lukewarm water (makeup artists can also add an anti-bacterial cleaning solution)

Avoid wetting the brush handle and bristle barrel as this can cause the bristles to loosen and fall out

The Sigma brush cleaning gloves and mats are a quicker way to get right down into the core of the bristles for those of us that are time poor but still want to love our brushes

Sigma express cleaning glove SpaExpress_In Use_Sigma_Homepage Slide

 

 

Sigma cleaning matSpa Mat Sink

Sigma 2 x cleaning brush

SSG2X-003 2x Sigma Spa® Brush Cleaning Glove - Pink Face

Be gentle as you don’t want to change the shape of your brushes –

Rinse thoroughly to ensure all product residue has been removed and either lie flat on a towel overnight to dry or invest in the Sigma dry n shape which guarantees to dry even the most dense brushes in 4-6 hours tops

Sigma dry n shape

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Viola! Clean brushes! Your brushes will love you, your skin will love you and your brushes will last a whole lot longer with the love that you are now giving them!

Happy cleaning blush babes!

 

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(the sigma cleaning range is available at Blush Bar now)

Express glove RRP $36

2 x Cleaning glove RRP $56

Cleaning mat RRP $46

Dry n Shape RRP $46