Making Your Own Bedroom

If your home’s décor is still the same as the day you moved in, you may be keen to make your house truly you own. By adding colour and style you’ll be able to finally personalise your pad. And no where is this more important than in your bedroom. A space that should feel like it’s yours. So how do you make your bedroom your own?

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If you’re like me, you’ll probably want to create your own dressing area. Most of us don’t have the space for a separate dressing room, but that doesn’t mean you can’t use part of the bedroom for this instead. You might need to reconfigure your existing bedroom furniture first. And you’ll need to create it in a corner or area where there’s plenty of light, so you can see to apply your make-up and so on. Your dressing area could feature a dressing table, clothes and shoe racks, and perhaps an occasional chair or full-length mirror too. Try to tie it all together with a colour scheme or style.

Why not get yourself a designer bed for elegant nights in? If a new bed isn’t within your budget, you can restyle your existing bed to give it that designer look. Making a bed look stylish isn’t as difficult as you might think. If you have a detachable headboard, you could upgrade this for something more on trend. The rest is down to how you dress the bed. Layering up the covers is the secret to making it look the part. And plenty of extra pillows and cushions.

Going dark and moody with your décor can add a grown-up and sophisticated vibe to your bedroom. There’s a growing trend towards painting bedrooms in matt black, dark blues and dark greens. If you like a colour but think the bedroom will be too dark, try painting a single accent wall instead.

The only downside to painting dark colours is getting a decent finish with your paint. Brush and roller marks can show up, so you might prefer to hire a decorator. If you don’t fancy getting your hands dirty (and who does), have a look to see what the painter and decorators day rates are like in your area. 

And lastly, no bedroom will feel personal without something on the walls. Bare walls don’t feel very homely or stylish. Choose a set of pictures that reflects your tastes and hang them together in a grid formation for extra impact.

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Typology Tinted Serums - Is it Skincare or is it Makeup?

I am really picky with foundations, I’m not someone who get on the bandwagon to demand brands have 3829483 different shades, I’m not an expert in knowing what shades should and shouldn’t be available and being honest, I fear it is highly unlikely I will ever find that perfect match for my own skin tone - I’m very very fair skinned and there are foundations I can wear and I make work, but there has never been one that I can apply and it’s 100% perfect. 

Typology launched their Tinted Serums last year along with a whole host of other fragrances and skincare which I shared on this blog, and I really wanted to get to know them before sharing my thoughts on this blog. In doing so I’ve avoided all other reviews of them, good or bad. Described as being 99% naturally-derived, these tinted serums are enriched with vitamin C, squalane and aloe vera to give the skin nourishment and coverage in one simple step. At this stage this sounds just like any moisturiser I am willing to apply to my face, so I’m excited by them.

The shades, of which there are 6, have been formulated using the Fitzpatrick Scale. This scale takes into consideration things such as sun exposure and skin tone to ensure a perfect match. The 6 shades have different undertones:

• TYPE 1: Fair with cool undertones. This is for fair skin with freckles that doesn't tan and becomes red in the sun.
• TYPE 2: Light. Recommended for light skin with pink or yellow undertones that tans gradually and is prone to sunburns.
• TYPE 3: Medium. This shade is for medium-toned skin with warm or olive undertones, which tans easily but sometimes burns.
• TYPE 4: Tan. For dark skin with predominantly bronze undertones that occasionally sunburns.
• TYPE 5: Medium dark. This is for light brown skin that rarely gets sunburned and easily tans in the sun.
• TYPE 6: Dark. The shade for dark brown skin with naturally cold undertones that rarely sunburns.

When using, the tinted serum may appear too light or too dark immediately upon application. The advice is to wait for it to dry fully to ensure that the shade matches your skin tone. The Tinted serum is packaged in a glass bottle and it comes with a dropper for application, which you can either use if applying with your finger tips or your blending sponge. You only need to apply 3 to 4 drops of tinted serum to the skin. Based on the descriptions above, I fit into Type 1 and Type 2, so was sent both to try.

The finish? I love just how incredibly light it feels and if you use serums, then the application is very similar once on the skin. Once on the skin, it lasts pretty much all day and when it comes to removing, it comes off as easily as it is applied. 

With products from Typology, every ingredient has a reason for being in a formula. These Tinted Serums are formulated with vitamin C, squalane and aloe vera, so they tinted work to instantly even out the complexion and restore moisture and nutrition to the skin, all without being oily or greasy when applied.

From the swatches i've shown below, i've used natural light with no flash and then with the flash - taken typically on a very cold and grey day, but you can see the shades, all without being edited. Type 1 is really fair and Type 2 does have more of a colour to it, but as you begin to blend, it looks amazing.  Whilst working from home and not seeing much sunlight, I have used more of Type 1, it suits my skintone much better, but as soon as those Spring rays of sun arrive, it will be then I switch to Type 2, but for now I can also mix them together! 

As you might have guessed, this tinted serum is designed to look like skin, it doesn’t give a dewy finish but nor is it entirely matte either - it is somewhere in the middle. It also doesn't feel drying on the skin, it so far hasn't stuck to dry areas around my nose and I have mixed it with my moisturising cream and it works amazingly well too.

Priced just under £25 here, I have become such a huge fan of these tinted serums, I ordered a back up just prior to Christmas so I didn’t run out. I might still be working from home, but this is just beautiful and it makes those days of wanting to give your skin a little something - this is it!

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