Top 5 Summer Essentials

So when I go on holiday, like most other girls, minimal effort and bother is key when it comes to make-up! I want to spend as little time as I can primping to maximise sunbathing, shopping and sightseeing time!
I have formed an elite group of products which provide a summer look in mere moments...

• Rubenesque paintpot- M.A.C
  

Like any summer appropriate product, Rubenesque is versatile and super easy to apply. Thanks to the gorgeous shimmer, when applied to either eyelids or cheeks it provides dimension and depth.
Application takes just secconds also doesn't need as brush as your fingers are enough to warm up the product and smooth on evenly to lids or cheeks as a highlight. The golden tones also enhance blue eyes as well as any tan we get!

• Sugar lip scrub in bubblegum -Lush

Like many other people, my lips do not like being exposed to the sweltering heat or sun. (Living in England you can't really blame them!) You never want dry and flaky lips as a holiday souvenir and since discoving the Lush sugar lip scrubs thankfully I won't be bringing back memories of uncomfortable smackers!
This lip scrub not only softens and smooths irritable lips, but it is edible! Yes, that's right, you read correctly -you can eat it! Once the sugar grains infused with organic jojoba oil have worked their magic, you can lick the little sweeties off!


My holiday flavour of choice is bubblegum because it is fun, girly and a beautifully summery colour.

• Snob Lipstick (Satin)- M.A.C
  
  
  
  When applied after a Lush lip scrub, Snob is a fab easy to wear lipstick for your summer hols. With sufficiently moisturised your lips will be beautifully pigmented and not dry out.
  As a cool blue/mauve undertoned pink, this lipstick detracts from possible redness caused by heat instead of highlighting them like a warm pink would. The abscence of shimmer or glitter tones down the lipstick to a wearble pretty colour enabling you to use shimmery highlighters/eyeshadows/blush to your little heart's content.
  
  • Sugarbomb- Benefit
  
  
  
  
  Although this is a powder product, I usually have fresh and clean skin when I am on holiday. This is also a fairly light powder with good quality pigmentation which prevents a cakey look. Sugarbomb provides a pretty pop of colour and shimmer without overdoing it and making you look like a glitter bomb exploded onto your face.
  
  
  
  As sugarbomb is made up of four different colours, when applied with the correct brush you can create five different blush/highlight colours from one product!
  
  
  Either swirl a large blush brush in all four for a golden pink or a smaller brush in a individual colour.
  
  
  My favourite individual colour is the golden peach as it can work as a highilght on fairer skin or tone down redness in the skin.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Daisy- Marc Jacobs
    
    
  This is definitely my perfect holiday scent.It's a gorgeous fresh floral fragrance- perfect for a girly summer. You never want to have an overpowering scent, especially not in the summer! However we definitely don't want to smell too see salty fresh, Daisy is a wonderful balance of effortless and interesting.