Why do you wear make up?

Hey lovely people! I'm sorry that I haven't posted in what feels like months but as you all know I've started sixth form and, although I haven't had that much work yet, my mind has been elsewhere so unfortunately this site I call my blog has taken a bit of a back seat. Anyway, today I thought I'd do the why I wear make up tag as it's a fairly simple post to write. So onto the questions!

1. When did you begin loving make up?
It's hard to say really. My mum isn't really the type to wear make up everyday. Of course she has a few bits and bobs but her and my sister only wear it on a special occasion. When I was younger I had a few bits of cheapy, children's sets and things like that but it wasn't til later that I really started loving it. I believe it was year 7 when I first started which, when I think about it, is really young and younger than I had thought! It was when the sexy curves mascara came out and I asked my mum for it. I got that and started wearing it on the odd occasion. I think I started getting bad skin in the end of year 7 so I used to take some powder that my mum had lying around and wear that. It wasn't til year 8 that I started wearing my eyeliner. I had some coloured eye liner but asked for some black eye liner for that christmas. I started wearing that and then somehow it snowballed into wearing foundation, mascara and eye liner everyday. I liked make up but I didn't really love it yet. When I was having a hard time a few years back, my sister showed me Youtube. She showed me a girl called Kiva (littlekiva123) and the famous Pixiwoo. She showed me some really cool make up looks they had done and I was hooked. I watched Youtube constantly that summer and the rest is history. So I guess my answer is my love for make up started when I found Youtube. My love for Youtube is a whole different post on it's own!!

2. How do you feel without make up?
I don't really know how to describe it. I guess weird. It's not like I feel utter rubbish without it but I just don't feel like me. Also, it depends where I am. I've gone to school a couple of times without foundation but I could never go without eye liner and mascara. Whereas I would never go to things outside of school without the full monty. I go to St. John's Ambulance and none of them have ever seen me without my full face of make up.

3. What do you like about make up?
I know it's cliche but I like how make up can give you a whole different identity. You can be anyone you want and you can look anyway you want. I also like how it can enhance your natural features like if you have the right colour to make your eyes stand out or the right shade to suit your complexion.

4. Three 'holy grail' items.
This is pretty easy for me actually haha.
Avon supershock gel eye liner in black,
Maybelline one by one volume express mascara in black,
And finally Rimmel stay matte pressed powder in 001 transparent. I would've put a foundation as number 3 but I haven't really found one I love so I tend to buy a different one every time I run out.

So why do YOU wear make up?

Holly

xx