I come bearing budget beauty tips!!! My first Uitenhage experience event is done and dusted and as we look forward to the next one – which features as seen on TV crafting queen, Charlene Potgieter – I thought I’d share what we learn’t this month.

The first event was a beauty basics class with MUA(amongst other things) Ranique Roberts. She is a wealth of beauty and make-up info, like seriously! Ranique shared quite a bit of info with us and was so popular that we managed to convince her to come to Uitenhage again for a part two. But before that, let me share some of the budget beauty tips I happened to jot down during her talk. She spoke about so much but you know me and budget friendly.

Budget Beauty tips you need in your life

• You do not need a million brushes at once so don’t break the bank untill you know what you want and need: you can build up your set. The basics seem to be a flat concealer brush, a fluffy face powder brush, a firm-bristled angled brush for brows, a small eye shadow brush and a medium-width eye shadow brush
• Baby shampoo makes a good brush cleaner (it’s gentle and hypoallergenic win win)
• The net bags you buy fruit and vegetables in (orange bags) makes for a good brush scrubber. Just fold it up and rub your brushes over the surface.
• When you are starting out and still playing around, you don’t need to go high end, drugstore make-up like Essence is very affordable and the quality is quite good
• Avon has a priming and setting spray that works really well for only R50 (The price might change so get on that)
• Start with a good skincare routine because you use more product covering problem skin (remember when I tried the Ohso Heavenly skincare range, I’m testing Justine at the moment and will let you guys know
• Hair gel can work as brow gel (more reasons to try out my diy gel recipe)
• A lip liner pencil can double as a lip tint if you find your lipstick does not last long

Follow me on social media on Instagram and Facebook to find out about the next event and follow Ranique cause she rocks and so do her budget beauty tips