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AUGUST

Do you guys remember when I was all about mattes? Matte shadows, matte contour, matte base, matte lip (still loving those though) and matte everything, essentially?

Let’s all laugh together, shall we?

This year was the year I not only learnt how to strobe, but how to do it properly, and all the joys that come from having THE LIGHT OF APOLLO ON YO FACE.

Highlighters. All the highlighters. ALL OF THEM.

Liquid. Cream. Powder. Eyeshadow (hear me out) – you name it, if it gives the skin a glow, I’ve used it on my face. August saw me swapping my beloved Sheer Glow for the Nars Velvet Tint; a satin finish, medium-full coverage skin tint that made for the perfect base for all kinds of highlighting and glow. And it wasn’t something I restricted to a full-face kinda day – even study days saw me whipping out the Josie Maran Argan Oil Illuminiser, as the Argan oil base gave that bit more hydration and protection to my skin on long library days.

So here are my top fave highlighter/illuminators – for the time being, of course!

Josie Maran Enlightment Illunimiser – liquid crème with a rosy gold

NARS Illuminator in Copacobana, and Super Orgasm

NARS Dual Intensity Blush in Frenzy – used with a wet brush for a POP like you wouldn’t believe!

Hourglass Ambient Strobe Lighting Powder in Incandescent Strobe light – silvery pink that sits beautifully with a blush, and best used with a sponge

Too Faced Candlelight Glow – Rosy Glow

Stila Kitten Eye shadow Single – when used with an extremely light hand, this is the ULTIMATE glow-getter. I’m obsessed. And a multipurpose product that’s so so easy to travel with? SOLD!

Stay tuned to @beautybyasparrow on Instagram for swatches and daily looks with these bad, bedazzling boys!

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JULY

Melbourne might’ve been cooling down, but my make-up bag was heating up come July. Urban Decay need no introduction – if you’re here, you like beauty, and if you like beauty and sometimes even glance at Instagram you’ll already know the brain child of Wende Zomnir (former beauty queen/current surfer chick/all-round badass) and its reputation for high pigment, high impact products that last all night long.

I’ll never forget ordering my own Naked palette – at that point it was the most luxe, most expensive palette I’d bought for myself, ever, and the packaging reflected that too. Who makes the perfect neutrals palette and then covers it in velvet?!? (Urban Decay do). And that brush that comes with it isn’t your average, let’s-tack-on-a-double-sponge-applicator-for-the-lol’s deal, it’s a full on, multitasking, synthetic fibre double-ended brush, that works amazingly well for all of my shadows, not just Urban Decay.


That said, holy heck, Urban Decay knows how to pull together a good eye shadow palette. Never mind the Naked range, the Electric palette, and the individual shadows give insane colour payout. My favourites? The Moondust shadows. Oh. My. God. So, so, incredibly beautiful and iridescent – I myself use Cosmic, a slightly translucent, silver-based glitter, but my next fave has to be Space Cowboy (because it makes me sing ‘Maurice!’ in my head) as it’s a champagne, rosy based shimmer that makes it look like your eyes have been gilded with rose gold. And who doesn’t want that?!





The Vice lipsticks are also insane. Mainly because there’s one hundred of them. (ONE HUNDRED. 100. WHAT COMPANY BRINGS OUT 100 LIPSTICKS AT ONCE?) Ranging from cream, to sheer, to matte, to comfort matte, literally any and every colour you can think of (from the perfect red to royal blue and a true purple) is available, with a matching lip liner. So ONE HUNDRED LIP LINERS as well. Oh my God. No, I haven’t bought all one hundred (despite the temptation), but I’ve given quite a few as gifts as they come in at $28AUD – which, for the amount of pigment and the texture, is a really good price. Everyone I’ve gifted a Vice lippy to has loved it immediately, and it makes for the perfect Insta selfie. That and Ruby Rose is a pretty cool chick (she was in Mecca Myer literally FIVE MINUTES before me! Just missed her!).
So if you’re feeling like trying something a little edgier, and wanting a cruelty free, predominantly vegan brand to boot, give into your inner Vice and check out Urban Decay this summer. Did I mention almost all the products are waterproof? Festivals and pool parties, here I come – with purple and gold eyeliner, of course.



















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