[DIY] – Do It Yourself BB Cushion

 

 I’ve seen a few articles/videos floating around on the internet about DIYing your own BB cushion. Normally, I don’t DIY much makeup/skin care things, mostly because (if you haven’t noticed yet) I like to try new products, and I mean I REALLY like to try new products. But staring at my hoard of BB creams that I likely won’t ever use up, I thought maybe this would be a good way to make use of my BB creams. So that I can finally finish them and have reasons to get new stuff to try!! *evil laugh*

I went mainly by this video from Meejmuse

I know there are some people on amazon/ebay that sells new cushion and containers that are made just for this, but I didn’t really want to spend any money on that. My Missha BB cushion just dried out, and so I decided to clean it up and reuse the material to make my own BB cushion. Here’s what I used:

1. Skinfood Red Bean BB cream
2. Sofina’s Primavista Ange – Long Keep Base UV
3. Biore UV – Aqua Rich Watery Gel SPF50 PA++++
4. Estee Lauder Advanced Night Repair 
5. Naruko Calendula Soothing & Calming Toner

I just started adding stuff to the container and mixing it. The Skinfood BB cream was already a match to my skin tone, so I wasn’t too concern about the colour. The texture of BB cushion is more watery than BB creams, so I knew I had to water it down, so I added in some serum and toner to get to the more watery consistency. Then added the primer (“long keep base”) for a brightening effect and also longevity. The sunscreen was a bit of an after thought. The BB cream already had SPF, it just wasn’t strong enough. I honestly didn’t put in much thought into this, instead of colour I was more concerned with the consistency, so I added products that would help it get to the consistency I wanted.

So I ended up with this:

I did a swatch compare of the BB cream (further from wrist) and the BB cushion I made (closer to wrist).

You can see the colour of the cream on it’s own is definitely darker, and there is more coverage. The BB cushion didn’t seem to have much coverage, and the colour is on the lighter side.

I used this BB cushion on a test run today, it doesn’t cover much, but I can layer without feeling heaviness. It does even out skin tone, so if you are just looking to even out skin tone, and don’t have too much skin issues, this would be good. It could be the serum, but it felt pretty amazing on my skin 😀 I am loving this!

Maybe this will be the only way I can finish up all my BB creams.

That is all peeps! Until next time 🙂

 

[DIY] – Wedding Card

Weddings, weddings weddings! Today’s blog is a bit different from previously. Don’t know if any of you have noticed, but I enjoy doing crafty things, including making things from polymer clay, painting, drawing…etc. So a close friend of mine is getting married, originally I was only going to buy a card, but any decent looking card is at least $5, and it’s really just a piece of cardboard with some imprinted silver writing. I thought I could do better, so I went home, and made this…it took longer than I had expected, but I think it turned out really well!

The background frame was something I already had in mine, and then I did some googling of  wedding cards, and I really liked the idea of having the groom and bride on the front of the card, so I went with that. I regretted not seeing my friend’s wedding dress, so that I could customise the dress…all well.

Anyways, here’s the first version of the card. I thought the dress was a bit plain, but I really liked the suit. I also found that the dress was a bit too puffed out, and I could see the inside from under the skirt, not exactly nice.

I tried a couple of things with the dress. A deep pink flower, I felt that was too eye catching and made it a bit un-wedding like.

The final version of the dress. I also pulled in the bottom and tucked it in a bit more. I thought the bow was really classy and made it look so much better.

And the final version of the card.

I really enjoy doing these kinds of things, hope you guys liked it too 🙂