Makeup for Nightclubs in London: 5 Steps for Sultry Eyes

Eye makeup is hard … much harder than it looks! Men simply do not understand how difficult it is to walk the line between street-corner tramp, and sultry sex kitten in eye makeup. While the lighting and atmosphere in London nightclubs is forgiving of many makeup flaws, looking like a raccoon is something that stands out no matter what. Today we are looking at how to avoid frustration next time you're preparing for a hot night out at London's clubs -- do that sultry eye makeup once, and do it right!

Step 1: Buy good brushes and quality colours

It is so, so easy to miss the look you are going for if you don;t have good quality products. Dark eye makeup is definitely not for hiding in the shadows, and if you miss your line (or it wears away too quickly), you'll look more than a bit silly! Budget isn’t usually best.

Step 2: Prepare

Prepare to do you eye makeup by using an eyeshadow primer, usually a mousse textured one. This helps the colour stay put! Part of the preparation is also filling in your eyebrows, using a powder that matches your natural hair colour.

Step 3: Eyeliner

The colour around your eyes will move from darkest closest to your eye, to lightest furthest away. Use a black, navy or dark grey eyeliner around your upper and lower lids to start off the process.

Step 4: Contour brush and eyeshadow

Using a shade that isn't quite black, but certainly blends with the black eyeliner, brush your eyeshadow colour across your top lid using the flat edge of your eye shadow contour brush. You can also use a small amount of eye shadow under your eyelid -- but use the pointed edge of your contour brush to apply it.

Step 5: Lightest colour

Add another colour using either a small soft brush, or your contour brush with a lighter touch. Iridescent powder is usually used as the topmost colour. You can use it around both the top and bottom of your eyes … as long as you prepped the bottom in step 2! London nightclubs are sweaty and unkind to eye makeup, and that primer is essential to stay looking good.

London Nightclubs -- Are they Just What the Doctor Ordered? 4 Health Benefits of Dancing

As if you needed another excuse to hit the clubs this weekend … your doctor might very well order you to! Well, indirectly, of course. This is because if you go to nightclubs in London for the dancing opportunities (it's so much more fun dressed up, with a heap of other people, than in your knickers singing into a hairbrush!), you could be doing your health a real favor. We don't usually think of nightclubs as being equivalent to health clubs, but from your body's point of view, if you're out to dance, there is little difference! Here are the top four health benefits of dancing at London nightclubs.

1. Cardio workouts
   Vigorous exercise is enormously important to keeping your cardiovascular system in good working order. Gentle strolls around the block might burn a few calories, but there's nothing to keep those vital arteries and lungs in good condition like a workout that leaves you short of breath. Stop dancing if you start feeling dizzy, overheated, or truly exhausted. Otherwise, viva la dance!
2. Burning calories
   Being overweight for your height puts you at increased risk for a huge number of very common diseases, from type 2 diabetes, to a variety of cancers, to heart attack and stroke. Simply put, there is no diet in the world that can help you lose weight long term, if it doesn’t also make use of exercise. It is critical that you find a way you enjoy to burn off any calories that you don't need -- if that's dancing at aLondon nightclub, then do it!
3. Bone health
   When you put pressure and strain on your bones, tiny, tiny fractures occur, which your body then knits over to produce new and stronger bone. Sitting down all day actually weakens your bones, and non-weight bearing exercise like swimming might be good for cardio and calories, but has no bone health benefits. Get jiggy with it to save you hip fractures later in life.
4. Alleviating symptoms of depression, increasing sociability
   The power that exercise has to alleviate the symptoms of depression, and prevent people developing them, is not purely a placebo effect. The neurological and physical effects of exercise are enormous; the fact that you have chosen a sociable form of exercise like dancing at nightclubs in London, also panders to the human need for the company of our own species.

So, is dancing at London nightclubs just what the doctor ordered? If you wear sensible shoes, don't drink too much while you do it, and try not to go physically too far, definitely!