My creative tools as make-up artist:

Today I am honored to share my favorite creative tools with everyone, over at Promise Tangeman's blog. She is a great inspiration and I love the idea behind her creative toolbox post. Check out her blog and great work as graphic designer and artist. I made a personal list of little things that keep my creativity as make-up artist going. Thank you Promise for having me!

Professional tools: A good base

A good base makes great skin and gives you perfect make-up result. I often get asked about recommendations and my personal skin care routine. I always moisturize the models or brides skin well before makeup application. The better the skin underneath, the easier and more flawless the make-up on top. It's important to keep a good and simple skin care routine. A mild cleanser and gentle good quality moisturizer are the basics. As make up artist I get to test a lot of different products. My favorite moisturizer as base is MALIN + GOETZ vitamin e face moisturizer. It suits even the most sensitive skins and makes the best base underneath makeup. I am totally in love with their products, which are also free of parabens and animal testing. My daily routine is to cleanse with the grapefruit face cleanser, it removes make up including eye makeup and doesn't dry my skin. I like that the products are unisex so I can universally use them on photo shoots for men and women in my professional makeup kit. I follow with a small amount of the vitamin e moisturizer all over my face. And then...I start my makeup. More soon ; )

Please note: These are my personal recommendations! I receive samples to review and I only recommend products I genuinely like and use for myself.

Guestpost: Today I am wearing...

Today I am featured at the wonderful fashion blog over at Misslkey. Go check it out here. Currently we are busy preparing for our big move. I am so excited to be a Sydney based make up artist very soon. I will mainly work freelance and hopefully plenty of gorgeous bridal makeup. We got our tickets and I got butterflies in my belly.

5 affordable summer make up tips

Make Up by Liv Lundelius, Photography by Luru Wei

Just being back from our holiday to Croatia and finally having the good weather in London too, I wanted to share a few summer make up tips:

Like fashion, it's a good idea to adapt your cosmetics routine for the summer. What looks good in the midst of winter isn’t necessarily the look you should be going for on the beach! To help make up your summer look, I’ve compiled a list of 5 top summer cosmetics tips!

1) Vibrant Colours Just as the flowers bloom, you’ll probably be more inclined to wear a brighter top or a flowery dress. You should also add a touch of colour to your face, especially if you normally stick with neutral colours. Colourful eye shadow to match your outfit looks great, as does a blusher with a hint of pink or coral. 2) Waterproof Mascara Purely from a practical viewpoint, waterproof mascara is essential. Whether you’re hitting the beach, pool or even if you’re just going to be out and about in the heat, waterproof mascara is ideal for preventing unsightly running of mascara. 3) Replace Richness for Sheer Switching to sheer versions of your lip and eye makeup colours is highly recommended to give you that fresher, more subtle look for summer. Whilst rich, deep looks look great at other times of the year, they often look heavy and unflattering during the summer. 4) Tint Replace thick lip sticks with tinted lip balms this summer to keep your look fresh. The same applies for foundation, opting for tinted moisturisers will look fresher and won’t get clammy if the temperature rises. 5) Glow, Don’t Shine Contrary to what many adverts may tell you, shining isn’t a great look. Shining can look a little sweaty and even clammy in the summer, to prevent this make sure you glow instead by using oil-blotting papers followed by using pressed powders.

Have a browse over at Cosmetics 4 Less for cheap cosmetics this summer to keep you looking the freshest you can this summer.

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Summer Swim & Summer Clogs

I just came back from a wonderful week in Croatia. If you want to follow up on our trip check out our personal blog: Liv+Dave= Many of you were asking me after tweeting and posting the photo above, where I got the gorgeous swimsuit and cute clogs from. So I decided to share it here with you as well. The fabulous swimsuit is from our new sponsor For Luna, a fantastic online boutique for retro-swimwear. The super comfy and cute clogs are from the best online store for clogs, our new Sponsor Lotta from Stockholm, nice people that sell extra nice clogs.