Brush Guards

Hola a todos!

Como va la Semana Santa? Espero que muy bien, y que si estáis de vacaciones os lo estáis pasando muy bien. Y a los que no tengáis vacaciones, también espero que estáis bien (yo me he quedado en mi ciudad, feliz de que haya mas hueco libre de lo normal!).

El otro día, leí en Twitter que mucha gente se iba a pasar unos días fueras para desconectar y relajarse un poco del trabajo, los estudios... Y este post me vino a la mente.
No se si os pasará, pero cuando me voy de viaje, una de mis "peores pesadillas" en cuanto a llevar maquillaje son las brochas. Generalmente tengo todas mis brochas guardadas en mi manta, pero cuando voy a algún lado a pasar unos días, no me suelo llevar toda la manta, porque es mucho peso. Suelo coger las brochas, meterlas en un neceser y a la maleta.
Pero lo malo de eso, es que al ir en el neceser y sin protección, pueden despelucharse, deformarse... Y hay veces que cuando el pelo de la brocha coge posición, es imposible que vuelvan a su estado original. Entonces me acordé, que los chicos de Burlesque Madrid (si pincháis en el nombre, os lleva directo a su página oficial de Facebook), en una de mis visitas tuvieron el detallazo de regalarme una cosa perfecta para este tipo de ocasión.

Lo que veis en la foto, son fundas para brochas. Son mallas, que se adaptan a la brocha y evita que cuando las guardes, se deformen. Tanto para ir de viaje, como si tienes brochas que no usas tanto y las tienes guardadas en algún neceser, viene genial.
Dicen que a la hora de secar las brochas, después de lavarlas para que vuelvan a su forma también viene muy bien (yo las dejo secar al aire, pero creo que para brochas grandes, tipo colorete, pueden ser muy buena opción)
Hay de varios tamaños, y lo bueno es que puedes recortarlas, así tienes de una malla dos posibles fundas o tres, dependiendo del tamaño de la brocha.

En el estuche vienen 15 fundas (de 3 tamaños), y en caso de que las recortéis, tendríais para 30 brochas mínimo. El precio son 3.50€.

Espero que os haya gustado el post, y nos vemos en el siguiente!
Lor.

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Hello everyone!

I hope you´re having a fantastic week, and getting ready for the weekend. In my country right now we are on the "Semana Santa" so that means holidays. Not for everyone, of course, but a lot of people take a little break and have some free days to relax.
I´m staying in my city, because I love when everybody leaves and there´s no one, is not so usual to see my city empty!

And reading over social media, all the people saying that they´re taking some days off, this post came to my mind.

Everytime I travel, one of my biggest nightmare is to pack the brushes. I usually have them in a brush case, but when I leave for a few days I don´t take all the brushes with me. So I  put them on a cosmetic bag and that was all. But there´s always a risk that the hairs of the brush tousle and then it´s impossible to get them back again.
On one of my last visits to Burlesque Madrid store, the guys gave me this brush guards to try them, and I have to tell you, this is a life saviour with brushes and travelling. Basically is a net, that keep the hair of the brush on place, and avoid any kind of deformity on the hair of the brush.
Also, they say is good to keep the shape of the brush when they´re drying after a wash.

The bag contains 3 different sizes of net, and you can cut them as you need or want (depending on the size of the brush). And the price is super cheap, just 3.50€.

Photos, above.
I hope you like the post, and see you on the next one very soon!
Lor.

Makeup travel bag

Hello everyone!

Well, sorry for the lack of post, I´ve been so busy! But today I´m back with a post that you may like it.

I don´t know if this happens to you, but every single time I have to fly, I hate packing my makeup. I can´t decide what to leave, what to take with me... And normally I pack way more makeup that I need. But, when I travel, I like to take with me on my purse a little bag with the basic stuff that allow me to do my makeup if I need to, and don´t look like a ghost in the middle of the airport.

The first thing you obviously need is a vanity case, but not so big. Mine is a little one that I found a long ago in Primark that have the perfect size for my purse and I can carry everything inside.

One of the things that I think you really need is makeup remover wipes (on travel size, of course!) and some moisturizer cream. I always like to clean my face with one wipe and apply my cream when the flight starts, and keep my skin hydrated for the whole flight.

I like to have too hand wipes to clean my hands after applying my cream. You don´t want to have your hands sticky all the time!

And then, I have my makeup. I do prefer to travel with compact makeup, because for the pressure of the flight, any crystal pot can explode and cause a big mess (that happened to me once, my Studio Fix explode inside my bag, and you can´t imagine how horrible is that!). Because there is usually a big change of temperature inside the plane, I also prefer to take a solid concealer and not liquid (also, one of my liquid concealers got bad on a flight, from that day on, always a solid concealer!). I carry my normal podwer for setting my foundation, a bronzer and a set from MAC that has highlighter and blush on the same box, with a mirror.

My pressed podwer from Collection 

This one is Terracotta Bronzer by Guerlain

Hocus Pocus set from the Holiday Collection of 2009 from MAC

Then I have my eyebrow palette (cause I do my eyebrows with eyeshadow), my mascara of the moment and my paint pot from mac that I can use as an eyeshadow. Also I have my lash curler.

My mascara, They´re Real by Benefit

This is my palette fro travelling.

The lash curler from MAC

And for brushes I have a very tiny travel set from Bobbi Brown, that has every brush that I need and I don´t have to carry the big ones.

Mini Brush set from Bobbi Brown, Holiday Collection from 2010

If I need to use any eyeshadow, I like to put on my eyebrow palette a neutral one (like Patina or Satine Taupe) a highlighter (Shroom is my all time favourite) and some black (Carbon is the one that I usually take). But if you can carry a big palette, I like to take with me my Naked 2 palette.

For lips, depending on the day, but I like to have a dark color and a gloss, so I can wear whatever I want in that moment (that usually is the darker color)

So that is what I carry on my bag when I travel, hope you like the post, and see you on the next one! And for those who are travelling soon, safe flight!
Lor.