Photography: Editing

Many of you ask me on my instagram how I edit my photos, so I decided I would give you some tips on making your photos look brighter and more vibrant. I will go through what I do to edit each of my photos but you might have to change this to suit your own.


Brightness: I always turn the brightness up on all of my photos, usually  I find it makes my photos a lot clearer and more colourful. But be careful because there is a borderline between bright and too bright!


Shadows: This is the amount of darkness is in the picture you can turn this down to make the colours more defined and deep. I don't use this all the time because sometimes its nicer to have a lighter picture.


Saturation: I use this a lot because by turning this up it makes the colours brighter, more colourful and makes it stand out. Definitely use this if you have something like a tartan scarf to make the colours stand out.


Angle Editor: This is used to adjust the angle of your photo to your liking, I have only recently found this out but I think its a great tool to mess around with and find a new side of a photo.


I hope this helps you to understand more on how to edit your photos. To edit my photos I use an app called 'Aviary' which I have been using for ages now and nothing else I have tried has been as good.



Do you have any tips for editing?

Ella x

Makeup - Why do we use it?

The other day I was sitting in class and I overheard a boy in my class talking about girls wearing makeup and it made me think well actually why do we wear makeup?


1. Confidence - Many girls especially in our society nowadays feel like they aren't pretty enough or they just feel very self conscious about the way they look and makeup is a way of covering up and you feel better about how you look and gives us a little confidence boost.


2. Advertisement - This may sound really weird at first but what I mean is that in the adverts they have these beautiful/perfect looking models and you look at them and aspire to be that pretty, so you try to be, but what many people don't realise is that the models faces and body is edited to be made to look perfect.


3. Clearer complexion - People (including myself) wear makeup to hide under-eye circles or blemishes. This makes us feel better about ourselves.


4. For fun! - Makeup is generally something girls have that's different to boys so sometimes its nice to mix and match and playing around with makeup is really fun and if you go wrong you can just wash it off and start again!


Never feel like you have to wear makeup just because your friends do or someone says you should, be yourself because that's the best person you can ever be. But if you feel more confident with it on (like me) go for it because if that's how you gain confidence its worth it.



'Makeup should never be used to hide your yourself. It should be used to enhance your natural beauty'  -  Kira Carl

Ella x

Q&A

Hello Everyone! On my instagram I asked you guys to ask me some questions and today I will be answering them :


What animal would you love to marry?
Hmmm this is a hard one but probably a dolphin because they are my favourite animal and they are so intelligent!


Who is your favourite youtuber?
I don't think I could pick one because I like to watch a lot so a list of my favourite youtubers would be: Zoella, Thatcher Joe, Casper Lee, Pointless Blog, Joe Weller, Tyler Oakley, Superwoman, Connor Franta, StilaBabe09, Niomi Smart, Tanya Burr,  Jim Chapman, Sprinkleofglitter and Floral Princess. I recommend all of these to you.


If you had to be on a desert island what one beauty product would you take?
I would take my Rimmel London 9 in 1 BB cream.


What's the most relaxing place you can think of?
Definitely Paphos in Cyprus its such a lovely place!


Favourite time of day?
On a weekend around 3 o'clock because I am usually doing nothing around that time :)


Favourite piece of décor in your room?
My fake plant from Ikea (will be in my haul post soon) because it really brings some colour to my room.


If  you were only allowed to take one thing on a desert island what would you choose?
Water, you could probably find some source of food so water is definitely my number 1 priority.


Who is your favourite youtuber?

 

Ella x 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perfume review

Hello Everyone! I hope you all like my new blog theme guys (I did it all myself and I am pretty proud of it). Today I will be doing a perfume review, I hope you like it.


Daisy Eau So Fresh - Marc Jacobs
I have wanted this perfume for a long time as I have heard many people raving about it, and they were right. This scent it is so light and sweet. A massive big thumbs up to this one :)

Blissfull Mistful - Zoella Beauty
You could say I am slightly bias with this one because I am a big Zoella fan, but honestly this is such a nice body mist and its only £8.00!!! A brilliant price for such a good product.

London - River Island
I got two of these as a present (I didn't even know River Island did perfumes), and I am so glad I have these! They have such a sweet smell and it is reasonably similar to the Marc Jacobs Daisy, well done River Island.


What's your favourite perfume?

 

Ella x





How to clean your makeup brushes

Hello Everyone!! So for a while now I have been meaning to clean my makeup brushes (they have been practically shouting 'clean me!' at me for months) and now is the time. I have found out that every time you use your brushes to apply makeup you are picking up bacteria from your skin and it is left on your brush after you have finished and the next time you use the brush the same happens again but this time the bacteria that was on your brush is now on your skin (uuuugh) . Its a dreadful circle which will only cause you more trouble by gaining spots, this is why you should clean your brushes regularly:

 

 

 

 1. Dampen your brushes slightly by wetting a flannel with lukewarm water.

 

 

2. Using any cleaning product of your choice ( I used and highly recommend the Dove supreme fine silk beauty cream) pump a little bit onto the top of your brush.

 

 



 

 

3. Start to swirl the brush around on the palm of your hand, every now and again adding a little bit of water to lather up the product. (Makeup should start to come out onto your hand now)

4. Squeeze out excess product and watch it wash away down the plug hole. Do this about 3 times.

 

 

 

6. And Voila! You are finished, stop and admire your clean brushes.

 

 

 

 

You should repeat this process every 2-3 weeks so your brushes don't get to dirty. I hope this helps you in every possible way it can help. I will be doing a haul very soon so keep your eyes open for that. Have a lovely day!

 

 

Ella x