Coppers and Bronze

The weather in London these last few days has been so beautiful and sunny, it's left me waiting rather impatiently for Summer (which is an absolute first for me as I'm way more of an Autumn/Winter girl) and hoping so bad that we all don't jinx it and get poured on in a few days.

I change my make-up up according to the season and when it's sunny I feel compelled to slap on the bronzer. Because I'm original like that. While I usually favour a gold colour on my eyelids, I thought today that I'd be a little more adventurous and play around with more coppery brown tones, and was surprisingly pleased with the result! So here's my copper bronze look that I'd actually wear during the day as well as at night.

SKIN: I'm not one to wear a heavy, full coverage foundation during the day at any time of the year, and especially when it's hot outside I enjoy wearing a light foundation (long time favourite is Chanel Vitalumiere) or a tinted moisturiser. For the last couple of months or so I have really, reeeally been enjoying the Laura Mercier Illuminating Tinted Moisturiser (review to come soon). It offers light but enough coverage and that dewy effect which I strive hard to achieve with my dry, dull skin. I used the tiniest amount of tinted moisturiser here and focused it mainly on my cheeks and chin. 

I'm one of those people who uses a highlighter every, single, time I wear make-up - I couldn't live without it. I favour liquid highlighters and my favourites are all from Benefit. Here I mixed Benefit's Moon Beam with the tinted moisturiser.

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EYES: Sleek Storm Palette Copper shade bottom left of the bottom row; MAC eyeliner Engraved; Covergirl LashBlast mascara

EYES: I usually go for golds and browns and black on my eyes and don't really experiment too much.  I decided for this look however, to use the coppery toned brown in the Sleek Storm Palette (couldn't live without this) to make the whole look more bronzy. Packed all over the lid and blended with some black and gold, I kinda achieved the smudgy, bronzey, sexy, roughed up make-up look I was after. Naturally, precision wasn't key to this look. A little bit of black eyeliner smudged around on the top lash line and underneath, lashings of mascara and it was all done!  

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FACE: Laura Mercier Tinted Moisturiser in Warm Radiance; Collection 2000 lasting perfection concealer; Benefit Moon Beam
CHEEKS: Collection 2000 Shimmer Shades

CHEEKS: Absolutely LOVING the Collection 2000 Shimmer Shades that I bought on an absolute whim. The shimmer is subtle, the colours are very pigmented and both the colour palettes are very flattering. I just swirled my brush and mixed the colours up and then dusted the pink shades over my cheeks. The bronzy one I applied with my Sigma 187 (I bought it 3 years ago so don't know what the new name is) and applied it all over my face for a very pretty glowy sunkissed look. I haven't reached for my Nars blushes/bronzers for 2 weeks now and that's saying something! These are definitely worth checking out!

LIPS: I went for a subtle browny, goldy nude and used MAC Spice lipliner all over the lid and then Victoria's Secret lipstick in the shade Guilt Free, followed by No7 Liplicious Moisturising Balm gloss in Caramel!

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TOP: H&M (current season)

What do you guys think? What kinda looks do you wear over summer? What are your favourite bronzers of the moment? I'm loving the Shimmer Shades and as always, Nars' Laguna! 

Love, Emma xo

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