Annette Akye

This is one review i'm super excited to share with you all. Meet the Evita Joseph Deep Brush Cleanser. I can't stress enough the importance of washing your makeup brushes. I was having a chat with a friend the other day and through the conversation I learnt that she's had her makeup brushes for two years yet had never washed them. For personal use your brushes should at least  be washed weekly. Personally i like to always use clean brushes so i spot clean them after each use. For my professional kit, no two ways, brushes are cleaned after each use! Brushes can serve as a breeding site for bacteria or a means to transfer and contaminate your face and makeup items that constantly touch your face. This can lead to persistent acne that never seems to go away.

Evita Joseph Deep Brush Cleanser

Happy New Year Beauties,

Maybelline Brow Drama Mascara

Hello beauties,
Today's post is going to be on the five(5) must have eye brushes in every makeup kit whether personal or professional. Now that i can confidently point you to where you can get quality brushes here in Ghana i thought this would be good esp for those just getting their makeup game together and not sure what is needed. So lets jump right into it!

Makeup by Beautique Gh

Hello Beauties,
I hope you are all getting ready for the holiday season. Christmas is in the air and you know what that means? The harmattan is in full swing now. So much dust and dryness everywhere affecting skin, lips and hair. This year i'm yet to suffer any bouts of dry, chapped and cracked lips because i have taken measures to ensure my lips are always moisturized. This is the inspiration behind this post; to share with you one of my trusty arsenals against the dreadful harmattan.

Hello beauties,
I'm excited to bring you this review of the Vera Mona Color Switch Solo. Now you may be wondering what the excitement is all about. I'm pretty sure most of you understand how difficult it is to come by certain products that are more on the professional side in Ghana. Well i get excited when i can finally lay my hands on professional products here in Ghana. Get it?

Vera Mona Color Switch Solo

Hello lovelies,
Welcome back to the blog. Today i'm bringing a post on perfume which is my first ever post on perfume. Well that's because i don't experiment much and usually stick to one scent. Over the weekend, Ghandour cosmetics, long time distributors of skin and hair care products in Africa, launched their first perfume at the newly opened 5 star Kempinski Hotel Gold coast City in Accra.

Scent of Africa Perfume Launch

Hello beauties,
I hope this post finds us well. Today i'm bringing you yet another makeup tool review. This one i think will make the pros very happy. Every makeup artist i know always dreads the daunting task of washing their brushes. Gosh! Worse is when you have a million and one brushes! When i began to hear of this brush egg that is supposed to make washing of brushes easier i only rolled my eyes. I thought this is just another scam trying to make us part with our hard earned cash!

Brush Egg

Hello beauties,
I trust everyone is doing great. Can't believe the year is almost drawing to a close. Soon it will be christmas and then the new year! How fast the days are running! Anyhoo, today's post is going to be on a couple of items i purchased and decided to share. I usually get a lot of questions on where to purchase certain pro items esp from beginner MUAs. So i'm going to share what i got and then tell you where to get them.

Hello beauties,
I hope the new month has been treating us good so far? Can't believe the year is almost at its end! Anyways, I'm back with yet another review and this time it's on a couple of lippies that i own from Maybelline. I love lipsticks as it does have an effect on your entire makeup look. You can take your makeup a notch higher or lower depending on what lipstick is used. If you are getting into the lipstick game it can be a little bit overwhelming especially if you aren't sure what would suit you. So i thought to share a little from my collection.

Maybelline Colorsensational Lipcolor

Evita Joseph Genesis Eye Brush Collection

Hello Beauties,
I hope everyone is doing well. I haven't bought makeup for personal use in a while as what i have been buying are mostly for my kit. I needed a few items and decided to order from EJbeautystore. I will share them with you below.

Maybelline Makeup Haul

Hello Beauties,
I'm back again with yet another beauty product review. So sometime back i did a mini review on the MUA Undressed palette which is an exact dupe for the famous Urban Decay Naked palette. Click here to read the post. Unfortunately this product has been tagged "sold out due to high demand" on the MUA store and also on superdrug. Yes it's that good.



Thankfully MUA recently came out with a second palette called Undress Me Too. Haha! You guessed right. It's another great dupe for the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette, spot on really. Honestly, i'm not one for spending 36 quid on just one product so i was very happy when MUA duped this palette. Click here to see a comparison review between the MUA Undress Me Too palette versus the Urban Decay Naked 2 palette.



So here is what i like about this palette:

• It's super affordable, gosh you can't go wrong with 4 quid, can you?
• It has a mixture of matte and shimmery shades which is a plus as i do not have to reach for another palette to blend with shimmery shades
• Mostly natural, neutral or nude colours which is a must have for makeup artists for wedding makeup
• The eye shadows are quite pigmented but as usual a base or primer will increase the pigmentation and longevity
• No to little fallout so no looking like a disco ball aferwards
• White packaging makes it easily distinguishable from other black palettes in my kit

This palette can be found in store at Superdrug or online on the www.muastore.co.uk. If you are in Ghana i have 2 of these palettes for sale. Leave me a message here if you are interested in picking up one.

Until next time,
Keep on being fab,

xoxo,
Annette

Hello Lovelies,
So i get asked a lot about makeup for beginners. I recently purchased some items to try out and upon receiving them i thought a few will be great for beginners. So here are two products and my views on them

1. BH Cosmetics 120 Colour Eyeshadow Palette 2nd Edition
Now i got this palette for my personal kit for when i want to play and experiment with colours. I think getting a palette like this with a variety of colours is fun and economical meaning you dont have to splurge a lot of cash to buy different palettes to get all these colours. This palette has a mixture of shimmer, satin and matte shades so you cannot go wrong with it. The shades are fairly pigmented and the palette cost $16.00

Hello Beauties,
So this is yet another rave about a product i'm currently loving, a brush this time around. My all time favourite brush for foundation application is the ELF Studio Powder Brush. I dunno why i haven't blogged about it already, oh well. ELF has done it again with another fantastic brush. The ELF Studio Flawless Concealor Brush. WOW! I'm in love with this brush.

ELF Flawless Concealor Brush

Hello Beauties,
Today i'm here to rave about another product i'm loving currently. There are certain days when you cannot be bothered with lipstick and just want a slight touch of colour to your lips. You want to have that sexy, yet subtle pout that says ''kiss me'' "kiss me", then go in for a lip gloss. Now, the issues with most lip glosses I find are that they are not pigmented enough, too sticky, non moisturizing and gives the ghastly white line on the lips. Argh! I have found, in my opinion, the perfect lip gloss, ELF Studio Glossy Gloss from the ELF Studio line.

ELF Glossy Gloss