How to get glowing iridescent skin the easy way!

This technique is really very easy, but people tend to get the concept of this look wrong. I know that I personally need fairly good coverage, so buying a water-based foundation or mixing some illuminating crème with my regular foundation never worked.

The trick is the place highlighter in the right places. If you leave your face unpowdered it won’t look dewy; it will look oily. So here are the steps you need to follow to get that youthful glowing look.

First apply your foundation as you normally would. Leave it unpowdered for now as we will be adding more cream products.

Then apply your favourite highlighter onto your outer cheekbones (do NOT bring it further in than the pupil of your eye), on your cupids bow which is the dip in your upper lip, a very thin line on the bridge of your nose and on the inner tear-ducts of your eyes.

If you are wearing a dress or top that shows some cleavage, you can also add some onto your collar bones and a little bit on your breasts just before they meet the top of your dress/top. This will make your chest appear bigger and your shoulders skinnier!

I would suggest layering a lightly shimmered powder over the areas you have just highlighted to make it last all day. You want to make sure the shimmer in this is very fine, leaving a glowing effect rather than chunks of glitter on your face. Lastly, apply a loose powder to the rest of your face making sure to blend the shimmered powder so there are no harsh lines.

And that’s it! There’s no hidden secret or product, it’s all about knowing where to highlight and where to shadow. These are the professional, long-lasting tricks of the trade. Placement and layering is everything when it comes to make-up, so get highlighting those cheekbones missies!

Iridescent cheekbones and lustrous busts,

Aila Maritz xox

I'm not one of "them"...

I’ve been looking through some popular blogs lately to muster up some inspiration for my dwindling blog; mainly local girls who have become successful through the niche of fashion and makeup blogging. I have notices these girls are very witty, using metaphors, imagery and onomatopoeia to create a discerning vision to both intrigue and allure readers into following and sharing their ever growing oeuvre.

Well, I don’t do that. I am in my final year of studying English, so of course I could string together a few words to make myself appear apt and astute, but why? Who will that relate to? I’m a real person. I may not be the same as everyone else, and I may not be very interesting, but I’m real. I have no illusions of myself, I have no amazing contacts to set me aside, I’m not the cool girl who dresses indie, smokes cigarettes and drinks wine while cleverly enticing the elite crowd surrounding her nightly. I am but a variation of you. Right now I am sitting on my couch in my jammies with my hair tied in a messy bun thinking if I get more creative with my language people might like my blog more. I’m flat broke, insecure and the furthest thing from conventionally pretty you will find.

But who says it has to be a certain way? Maybe someday I will be able to string a few sentences together and make the perfect blog post. Maybe I will become more cut-throat and demand what I want from people and give no favours if I receive nothing in return.

For right now though, I will remain as I always have. I'm not a clone; I'm weird, random, quirky and slightly boring with many spelling mistakes due to my over-reliance on spell-check (which doesn’t always get the job done to perfection). I won’t overthink my blog to self-indulge in narcissistic success, or try to fit in with the cool blogging crowd that remains just out of my reach. This is my blog, an expression of me in all my randomnicity. I have no niche, no schedule, no weekly theme to draw my readers in. However, I am happy to say that some few people do still read my blog. Some commenting, some just leaving their footprint on my stats, meaning so much to me that someone bothered to pay attention to what little old unimaginative me has written next.

I’m not the perfect blogger and will probably never gain recognition for my "hard-core" blogging, but era sure, what can ya do?