Tracey from bitenomore.blogspot.co.uk shows us some lovely summer nails!

The lovely guys at MUA asked me to do a post on Water Marbling using MUA Polish.

Of course I said yes  as the polish is now in a new designed bottle, it water marbles so much better, spreading well in the water, better than some more expensive brand polish!

 

So I was sent some polish and a fur effect to do this post.

                         

 

 

 

 Bright Coral, Natural Days, Fever Red, Top Coat, Strawberry Crush and Fluffy Puff.

 

 

These were the colours I chose to use.

 

I had a beautiful water marble design in mind with these wicked colours, and an accented nail on the ring fingers using the Fluffy Puff Fur Effect.

 

The first thing I did was paint my ring fingers with with two coats of Fever Red, and all the others with two coats of Natural Days.

 

 

Then using bottled water at room temperature, filled a paper drinking cup, to an inch from the top.

 

I have tried glass bowls, but not deep enough and too big. Plastic drinking cups are a big no no, as when I tried the nail polish burnt a hole in the cup and the water went everywhere!

 

 

The brush must be fully loaded with polish to drip into the water. Hold close to the water, but not touching, and don't let it drip from to high up, as it will just sink to the bottom, and not spread. Drip the polish in colour by colour, till your happy with the rings (bullseye) of colours.

 

 

 

 

I use a cuticle stick (orange stick), but a needle or cocktail stick will work too, as long as it has a point on the end. Very carefully and lightly draw the polish from the outside, into the middle.

 

Do this from all angles, to create a flower in the middle of the ring of polish.

 

 

Fingers already taped with masking tape, to save on the clean up after, line your nail up, and dunk it into the water. Keeping it under, clean the remaining polish on the surface, I use a cotton bud. Then slowly lift your finger out. 

 

 

 

 

Then just continue the same method for the rest of your fingers 

 

 

For the accent nail, I was going to do a pink Fluffy Puff flower, but wasn't too keen when I tried it out on a nail stick. It looked to plain against the rest of the nails. So I decided to do fluffy Polka Dots. 

 

 

 

 

 

The finished design rocks 

 

Hope you all like this, and try it yourself.

 

Tracey x x

 

http://bitenomore.blogspot.co.uk/

 

 

The products used in this post are:

£1 Nail Polish - Natural Days

£1 Nail Polish - Fever Red

£1 Nail Polish - Top Coat

Fur Effect Nails - Fluffy Puff

 

All of the products used in this post can be found on our website

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

 

MUA xx

 

2 Tone Lips!

Here at MUA Towers we're loving the look of 2 tone lips!

We thought we would show you how to do it and suggest some shades that we've been using to create the 2 tone look!  Here we've used 2 shades of pink, but you can use any colours you like!

Step 1: Line your lips using our Intense Colour Lip Liner - we've used 'Pink Me Up' here.

Step 2: Using the L1 Lip Brush take the darker shade that you are using - here we've picked Shade 3 - and take it over the liner and blend half way down to the centre of your lips.  Make sure that you don't apply too much lipstick as this will make it harder to keep the centre of your lips clear from lipstick.

 

 

Step 3: Add the lighter shade to the centre of your lips and blend outwards to meet the darker shade - we have used the lipstick from our Lip Boom in 'Cheeky' here!

 

Why not try out this look using our Shade 13 Lipstick and the lipstick from our Lip Boom in OMG with the Red Drama Lip Liner??

 

 

Send us pics of the 2 tone lip looks you create using your MUA lipsticks!!

 

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The products that we have used in this blog post are:

L1 Lip Brush

Intense Colour Lip Liner - Pink Me Up

Lipstick - Shade 3

Lip Boom - Cheeky

Intense Colour Lip Liner - Red Drama

Lipstick - Shade 13

Lip Boom - OMG

 

MUA xx

 

All of the products used in this blog can be found on our website

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

 

 

Kim from Kimpantsmakeup shows us the NEW Eyeshadow Trios

Hi MUA fans!
 

I'm Kim from the 'Kimpants Makeup' blog, I've been writing my own blog for a few months now. I post my makeup looks regularly and I'd say 99% of the time there's at least one MUA product involved.
 

I always tweet MUA when I use their products and they always reply or retweet, but I never expected any more to come of it...
 

Until now of course! I was contacted on Twitter by Xavia who works for the company. She asked me to email her as she had a question for me. I didn't want to get my hopes up - it could have been anything - but of course, I did secretly have my fingers crossed for something exciting and rightly so, because she wanted to ask me to write this guest blog post for them!

 

They sent me these:

 

 

The new Mrged Eyeshadow Tios and their Lipgloss Trios as well!
 

The first thing that stood out when I opened them was how pretty the eyeshadows are - they look like little planets. Planets full of joy and glitter! The colours are gorgeous too, as are the colours of the lipglosses. I couldn't wait to try them out and they definitely have lived up to my expectations.

 

I also just want to point out that even though they did send me these, if I hadn't liked them, instead of doing a big, old, fake post, I would have emailed them back to see if I could swap the products for something else - I wouldn't have wanted to use rubbish makeup as much as you probably don't want me to recommend it to you!

 

 

 

So anyways... In the video below, I'm going to show you how to create this day to evening makeup look using the trios (and a clever tip for adding some extra drama to the shadows too!).
 

 

Most of the colours in the trios compliment each other well, so you could easily vary this look to suit what colours you're wearing or what colours you prefer, as long as you have your lights/mediums/darks in the same places.  For added intensity I'd also recommend adding a matte black shadow in the crease, but I wanted to show a look you could create just using the trios.  MUA do a great matte black which I use religiously. (Shade 20)

 

As you can see from the picture as well, there are plenty of shades of lipglosses to choose from, from pretty pale pinks and nudes for day time, to brights and darks for evening. I actually wore the dark colour that I used in the evening look all day today - it lasted really well and didn't dry my lips out in the slightest. Good stuff, yes?
 

So, I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and picked up some tips on how you could use these trios. This is just a small fraction of my MUA eyeshadow collection, so if you want to see more looks using their shadows, you can find plenty in my blog!

 

Thank you so much to MUA for giving me the opportunity to write this guest post! 
 

Love

 

Kimpants

x

 

http://kimpantsmakeup.blogspot.co.uk

 

You can find all of the products used in this blog post on our website

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

 

MUA xx

The Great Gatsby!!

Here at MUA Towers we're all very excited about the new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan and we're loving the 1920's inspired make up!!

 

 

 

Re-create this look using our Liquid Eyeliner in Black and our Power Pout in Crazy in Love.

 

We love the soft smokey eyes from the 1920's - why not try out this look using the Eyeshadow Trio in Smoke Screen and the lipstick from the Lip Boom in Vibe??

 

 

 

Here's our 1920's inspired look! 

 

 

We'd love to see pics of the looks you create inspired by the 1920's!!

 

MUA xx

 

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www.twitter.com/MUACosmetics

 

The products we have used in this post are:

Trio Eyeshadow - Smoke Screen

Lip Boom - Vibe

Intense Colour Lip Liner - Pink Me Up

Every Lash Mascara - Black

Mosaic Blusher - English Rose

 

You can buy all of the products used in this post on our website

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

60's Inspired Eyes!

 

Here at MUA Towers we're absolutely loving the 60's trend this season!!

 

What better way to channel the 60's than with a statement 60's eye look??

 

For this look we used the Dusk Til Dawn Palette, but why not try a colourful twist on this eye look?

Step 1: Using the E1 Eyeshadow Brush apply the pearlescent white shade (4th along on the top row) all across your lid and just above your crease line, and blend into your highlighter on your brow bone.

 

Step 2: Using the 3 in 1 eXtreme Contour Eye Pen in 'Black' draw a curved line just above your socket line, following the natural shape of your eye and moving a little further away from your socket line on the outer corner of your eye.

 

Step 3: Blend the top half of the line you have just drawn, you want to keep the bottom edge sharp!  We blended our line using our E2 Eyeshadow Contour Brush and blended another shade from our Dusk Til Dawn Palette into the line - for this we used the Gunmetal Grey (2nd on the top row).

 

Step 4: Add winged Liquid Eyeliner in 'Black', and take the lightest shade just underneath your bottom lash line using the E1 Eyeshadow Brush.

 

 

Step 5: We also took the darker shade just along our socket line to really make our eyes pop!

 

Step 6: Add our Eyelashes in 'Vixen', lots of Every Lash Mascara in 'Black' and finish off with the Lipstick from our Lip Boom in 'Vibe'!

 

Why not send us photos of your 60's eye looks??

 

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www.twitter.com/MUAcosmetics

 

MUA xx

 

 

The products that we used in this look are:

Dusk til Dawn Eyeshadow Palette

3 in 1 eXtreme Contour Eye Pen - Black

Liquid Eyeliner - Black

Every Lash Mascara - Black

Lip Boom - Vibe

Eyelashes - Vixen

E1 Eyeshadow Brush

E2 Eyeshadow Contour Brush

 

 

You can get all of the products used in this look on our website

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

Katie from Beauty and the Baker Blog shows us her thrifty nail art using our £1 Polish!

 

 

Hi Everyone! I hope you're all well. I'm Katie and I'm so excited to be guest blogging for MUA. I write a blog called Beauty and The Baker, be sure to check it out.

beautyandthebakerblog.blogspot.co.uk

My love affair with MUA products only began a few months ago but believe me, my love for MUA gets stronger and stronger!

I'm a bit of a bad beauty blogger in the sense that I can't seem to beat my horrible nail biting habit. Awful I know! I'm desperate to grow my nails beautiful and long. The only time I ever seem to have success in growing my nails is when I have them painted all of the time. I'm always switching colours but sometimes I just want a slightly more exciting nail. That's where nail art comes in. I've only recently began to dabble in nail art and haven't yet purchased any nail art tools. I also like to be a bit thrifty so the nail art you will see in this post has been done using just a hair grip! So even if you don't have nail art tools either hopefully you will have an old hair grip lying around that you can make use of. To use the hair grip as a dotting tool simply straighten the grip out. It doesn't need to be perfectly straight, you just need to make sure there is plenty of room between both ends.

 

 

 

To create this floral nail look choose 3 nail polish shades. I've went with Bold Blue, Bright Coral and All Nude from MUA's new £1 nail polish shade range.

 

I first painted my nails with a base colour. Then once you've chosen the colour you want to use for the petals, using one end of your hair grip as a dotting tool place 3 joined dots on the nail. Then using the final shade and the other side of the hair grip place one dot in the centre of the 3 joined dots. It really is as easy as that. Complete the look by painting MUA's clear nail polish over the top. This is a perfect spring/summer look and so easy to use. If you've ever wanted to dabble in nail art but thought it looked to hard you should definitely try this one!

 

I'm really loving the new nail polish shade range from MUA. There are 18 shades available and now I have 10...only 8 more to get! I also wanted to share with you my top 5 favourite shades from the new range.

 

Bold Blue - This is such a bright, vibrant colour. I've been lusting over blue polishes for a while and this one is perfect!
Bright Coral - Coral is the must have shade of spring/summer and suits everyone!
Natural Days- Such a pretty pastel pink. A must have in every girls nail polish collection.
Lush Lilac - This is exactly as it's name describes...Lush!
Pistachio Ice Cream - Possibly my favourite of them all, this polish looks just as good as it sounds!

These nail polishes are an absolute steal at just £1 each. I will definitely be getting around to trying every shade available! They are available to buy from Superdrug stores or from MUA's online store.

Have you tried any of the new polishes yet? Which shade is your favourite?

Thanks for reading.

 

Katie xxx

 

 

 

You can get our NEW £1 Nail Polish shades on our website

 

www.muastore.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MUA xx

Pro-Base Complexion Kit!

Concealer, Foundation, Highlighter... in our Pro-Base Complexion kits you get it all!!

 

 

Included in the kit is:

Foundation

Concealer

Highlighter

Sponge Applicator

Brush Applicator

 

These kits are compact, so really easy to fit in your handbag, and the case means you've got everything you need in one place!!

 

Step 1: Apply your foundation using the sponge applicator.  The main reason we apply our foundation first is that you can then see what needs concealing!

 

Step 2: Concealer!  Apply your concealer around your nose, the outer corners of your mouth, the inner and outer corners of your eyes and over any blemishes!

 

Step 3: Highlight! Use the brush applicator to apply the highlighter on the tops of your cheek bones, your brow bones, the centre of your chin and forehead and down the centre of your nose.  There is a diagram below to help you know where to put it :)

 

 

You can get the Pro-Base Complexion Kit on our website

www.muastores.co.uk

and in select Superdrug stores.

 

MUA xx