Does Makeup Invalidate Wudu?

Does makeup break invalidate your Wudu?

It Depends.

We have discussed previously that makeup with Haram ingredients will invalidate your wudu. But apart from this, even makeup that is halal can get in the way of a proper wudu.

Wudu, or ablution, is the act of washing oneself according to Islamic procedure and is often completed prior to performing prayers, or touching the Qur'an.

In order for your wudu to be valid the water you use must reach your skin. If the makeup you are wearing is causing a barrier then your wudu is not complete.

Nail Polish is a well-known cosmetic product that invalidates the wudu, but there are many other types of cosmetics that may or may not be affecting the validity of your wudu.

It is always beneficial to educate yourself in this because generally there are three types of women you will meet. One who is completely oblivious to the fact that her makeup may be invalidating her wudu, the second who knows but doesn't care, and the third who blatantly tells any women that her prayer is not accepted because of her makeup.You don't want to be any of these women. You want to be the educated woman, who is completely comfortable in her makeup and knows very well if her makeup is halal or haram.

MASCARA
-whether waterproof or not you need to properly get rid of your mascara in order for your wudu to be valid.
-your eye lashes are part of the face, and thus each lash must be touched with water. Mascara generally forms a barrier.
-Advice: Wear mascara after Magrib prayer, and do Isha once you come home (if you can't hold your wudu). Or only wear mascara during your special time of the month.

LIPSTICK/LIPGLOSS
-If you can see your lipstick is creating a barrier between the skin and the water then  it's invalidating your wudu. How do you know if it's creating a barrier? If water forms little circular balls all over your lips, it means that the water can't get past the lip-product to your lips.
-Advice: wear a lipstain instead

FOUNDATION/CONCEALER
-Once again, you have to make the decision here. If you can tell the foundation is too heavy and is creating a barrier, it has to come off.

EYELINER
-Touch your eyeliner. Do you feel a heavy coat of eyeliner. Generally the long-lasting eyeliner, or the gel-liners appear to cause a barrier. The cheap eyeliners, or the one that easily smudge tend not to be a problem
-Advice: You can always put eyeliner on your top and bottom waterline. This won't invalidate your wudu.

EYESHADOW
-This is a personal decision. Some sisters feel the need to remove their eyeshadow, I personally don't.
I think any sort of powder product does not invalidate the wudu . The only "if" factor here is whether the primer causes a barrier.

The information above gives you a basic outline of what is going to invalidate your wudu and what is not. However, the general rule for any makeup product is your personal investigation of it. Everyone is using a different product on their face, so it's not fair to state that someones makeup is invalidating their wudu if you have no idea what that specific product is like.

If you're a makeup lover this may bum you out. How do you wear makeup then if you have to take it off?
1. Most parties are in the evening. Do your wudu right before you put on your makeup. Most of the time you'll get Asar and Zhur at home, and it's only Magrib you have to worry about.
2. Carry makeup removing wipes, and extra makeup so you can re-do your makeup after wudu.
3. Skip the mascara, and wear eyeliner on your water line.
4. Carry your lipstick shade with you
5. Go all-out when it's your time-of-the-month
6. Remember your wudu is only benefiting you, and that you should be honest with yourself.


MOST IMPORTANT!
Don't judge each other. If you see a woman who doesn't want to take off her makeup, then leave her alone.After you've said your part, your job is finish. Remember that these rules are not easy for everyone, and some sisters need more time to take the rule to heart. Your job is just to inform them, what they choose to do with that information is up to them.

Pink/Purple with shimmer liner

Sometimes I go through days when I just like to put on makeup simply because I love makeup. On these days I'll have heavy makeup on random hours in the night, and odd hours in the day. This makeup look was done on one of these days.

It's incorporate lots of pretty pink and purple tones, and also shows you how to make use of your loose glitter as a liner.

EYES
1. Place primer all over the eye lids and brow bone.
2. Place shimmery cream color all over lids, and on brow bone. I used Mary Kay Crystalline
3. Take a dark pink color and place on outer crease and blend from the outer part of the eye to the inner.
4. Add a dark purple color to the inner crease and blend in.
5. Use a small amount of dark black shadow on outer v. Concentrate on this area only.
6. Go in with a lighter pink to blend any harsh lines caused by the dark colors.
7. Take a light blue eyeshadow or liner and line your lower lash line from the outer lash line to the center. 
8. Take some loose silver glitter and mix it with Pari Transforming Eye Gel. This gel can turn any loose shadow or glitter into a liner. Now take a liner brush and line the glitter on the top lash line.
9. Line with a black liquid liner. I used Urban Decay 24/7 liquid liner.
10. Use Mascara if needed.

CHEEKS
1. Use a light berry color on the cheeks. I used Revlon Blushing Berry.
2. Highlight cheeks. I used Nars Albatross

LIPS
1. Gosh lip liner in Wild Cherry all over the lips. (lightly)
2. Clear lip gloss (optional)

Gold/Olive Eye Makeup

Here is a look I created a month ago. It's a little arabesque with the double winged liner, but real Arabic makeup would generally be more dramatic than this: with heavy black liner on both top and bottom lash line.

You can always play this look up and make it look more Arab if you want, but if you like your makeup light than this look alone may be too much.

Enjoy!

To get the look:
EYES
1. Place an Antique Gold color all over the inner and middle lid. The gold I used is from L.A Colors Shimmering Loose Pigment in Sunshine.
2. Place a shimmery olive color all over the outer lid, and blend into the gold. The color I used was Sumptuous Olive from MAC.
3. Add a dark brown color to the outer v and blend into the outer crease and the olive shadow.
4. Use the same olive color on the outer crease and blend into the dark brown.
5. Use any matte light cream shadow as a highlight color.
6. Use black gel liner on the top lid and wing out.
7. Use same gel liner on the bottom lid. Begin at the outer corner and wing out. Fill in the water line. (To make your eye makeup more arabesque you want to make the liner heavier under the lower lashes)

CHEEKS
1. Contour with Hoola Bronzer
2. Add Nyx Terra Cotta to the apples of the cheeks

LIPS
1. NYX lip liner in chocolate
2. Shell Lipstick from Mary Kay.

NEWS!

So this past month has been extremely hectic for me, and for good reason.
First, I think it's finally okay to announce that I'm expecting my 2nd child and am currently 14 weeks pregnant. Apart from the nausea and back pain, me and my husband are pretty excited and welcome this baby with open arms. Yay!

Second, exams have kind of drained me this month. Especially with the pregnancy, and the two babes I got to take care of: the little baby babes, and the big daddy babes. But thankfully that rough patch is gone and now It's time to get excited for the third news:

I'm going to India in two days! Yay! Family vacation for three weeks right when the freezing rain and snow is hitting Toronto. Wonderful! Can't wait for the heat in India!

COSMETIC BRUSHES AND FAKE LASHES

If you wear makeup, even occasionally, you probably have at least one makeup brush inside your cosmetic bag. 

And if you love makeup, and do it frequently, maybe you even have a couple false lashes in your kit.

But are these products Halal?

HUMAN HAIR

Most makeup brushes are either synthetic or made of animal hair. It’s pretty rare to find yourself a makeup brush with human hair. The opposite can be said for false lashes however. Majority of the false lashes you’ll see in the market today are made of human hair. More than half of the false lashes you see in the beauty department of your local Wal-Mart is made of 100% human hair. 

It is forbidden for a woman or man to wear the hairs of another human being, or even enjoining them to one’s own:

    “Sayyiduna Abu Hurayra (Allah be pleased with him) narrates that the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “Allah has cursed the woman who joins (her or someone else’s) hair (with the hair of another man or a woman) and the woman who asks for her hair to be joined (with the hair of another person) and the one who tattoos (herself or someone else) and the one asks to get tattooed.” (Sahih al-Bukhari, no. 5589)

If you wear false lashes or are a makeup artist who does makeup on others, please take this information into account and verify whether your falsies are made of human hair. 

SYNTHETIC HAIR

You will find both makeup brushes and false lashes that are made of synthetic hair. Luckily synthetic hair is permissible to use! 

Majority of the Ardell false lashes are made of human hair, the only lashes that are made of synthetic hair from this brand are the individual lashes, not the strip lashes. 

ANIMAL HAIR

The hair, bones, claws, and horns are considered pure (i.e. tahir) in the hanafi fiqgh for all animals other than pig. 

This makes false lashes and brushes made of animal hair (with the exception of pig) permissible to use. 

Velour lashes, are an amazing brand of false lashes that use minx hair. Although they can are a bit pricey compared to synthetic lashes, they offer a more natural look than synthetic lashes can. 

REFERENCES

Here are some links to gain more information on the use of human and animal hair in your products.

1.      1.IS IT PERMISSIBLE TO USE BRUSHES FROM ANIMAL HAIR, OTHER THAN PIG?

2.WIGS AND FALSE HAIR.

Makeup Look Compilation

So this is just a compilation of random makeup looks that I have done from a year ago. I can't remember what I used exactly, but I can give you a rough idea of what was done. Hope you enjoy this fun post!:)

POISON IVY EYE MAKEUP
I don't celebrate Halloween, but I always find it extremely tempting to dress up in those costumes. I'm definitely too cheap to buy a Halloween Costume for one-time-use, but I decided I could at least do a makeup look for my "would-be" costume if I could dress up. I believe it was that year I had seen a photo of Kim Kardashian in a Poison Ivy costume, and immediately I thought of the eye look I would do on myself if I dressed up as Poison Ivy.

  

ELECTRIC EYE MAKEUP

I have no clue why I want to call this eye look electric. But for some reason the glitter just strikes me with the word 'electric'. So I guess this will be called the electric eye look until my brain comes up with something better. Here I added a red eye shadow to my outer crease, blue all over the lid, and blended the two colors together by adding a dark purple in the inner crease. I finished with lining my lash-line with silver glitter and black liner. 

PRETTY IN PINK
Here is very wearable look for those that don't like eye makeup that is too "loud". It's a very pretty pink look and can be worn by anyone! The method used here is to blend the pink eye shadows only on you outer and inner crease, adding darker pinks/purples to your inner crease for added depth. Keep the base of you eyelid simple with a light pastel pink color.

 

EDGEY IN COPPER 

Here I incorporated a copper-toned and metallic orange eye shadow in the outer crease. I also added definition with a dark coffee brown in the crease. The look is edgy, but versatile because you can go from a nude lip, to something more dark and vibrant without looking too over-the-top. 

PROFILE PHOTO

This is the same look that is on my profile photo. It's just a very light blue-grey, with a darker grey in the crease. I also added a beige eye shadow to the entire lid prior to adding the blue-grey eyes shadow. 

RANDOM COLOR, RANDOM DESIGN

Just a random design I decided to do for fun. I think the image shows exactly what colors were used, and the layout of them pretty well so I don't think I'll explain any details :). 

SILVER AND BLACK WITH A TIST

This is just a common eye color combination of silver on the entire lid, and black on the outer V. However I added some copper and gold to the upper crease to make the look more unique. 

SIMPLICITY IN GOLD 
South Asian clothing is usually accompanied with a bold, bright basic color, and some heavy gold or silver embroidery on top. This look is great for those who have a bright suit with gold embroidery, they can play up the lip with a loud color, and still get away with adding this eye color because of it's simplicity.

SILVER SMOKEY EYE
This is the incredibly common color combination of silver and black, joined together with the same shade, or varying brightness, and blended to avoid any harsh lines.

CUT-CREASE With Gold

This is a cut-crease look where instead of using a matte skin-toned eye shadow all over the lid. I chose to use gold all over the lid. I then added black to my crease, and blended the edges up with a soft rust color. 

 That's it for now!

Hope you enjoyed it :)

Ocean Eyes

FYI, I post pictures of the eye shadows used in my tutorials, not to tempt you to buy them, but to make it easier for you to find eye shadow duplicates that you may already have, or are easily available where you live. Please don't feel like you have to have all the same products to get the look. You can definitely buy these same colors elsewhere, maybe even for a better price :).

COASTAL SCENTS PALETTE- MATTE

EYES:

PARI BEAUTY COLOR CUBE- HAWAII

1) Prime lids with Mac Paint Pot in Painterly
2) Apply shade #3 all over lid
3) Apply shade #2 in outer and inner. Blending inwards
4) Apply shade #1 to outer lid, outer v and lightly to the inner lid.
5) Blend eye shadows to avoid harsh lines.
6) Reapply Shade #3 to keep center of lid lighter than the rest of the eye.
7) I used a silver-plum shimmery pigment on the outer crease, blending up to the brow bone. (This eyeshadow comes in a stack from Pari Beauty, the stack is called Hawaii, I don't know the name of the specific shadow used though)
8)Mac Black Track Fluidline
9)Revlon Grow Luscious Mascara 

FACE
1)Moisturized and primed face
2)Revlon Photo-ready Foundation in Medium
3)Contour with Hoola Bronzer
4)Add a light amount of peachy-pink toned blush

LIPS
1) L.A girl lip pencil in Mauve

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING FOR U.S COMPANIES THAT DON’T SHOP WORLDWIDE

 Have you ever watched a video on Youtube, a post on a blog, or a review from a makeup artist/”guru” about a product, only to be disappointed by the fact that those companies don’t ship products to your country?

Tons of popular cosmetic companies (and non-cosmetic companies) only ship around the United States. Some of these companies have amazing shipping deals for U.S. shipping addresses only, and some of them don’t ship to your country at all.

Take for example Inglot Cosmetics**. Inglot is a cosmetic brand that has recently been gaining popularity for their eye shadows. Now Inglot is not easily available for every individual. And for those that would really like to buy their products but can’t due to accessibility issues, may have to resort to sources such as ebay.

There is another option however. You can choose to sign up for programs such as MyUS.com or USA2Me.com. These are companies who will give you a U.S. shipping address to use during your purchase. Your purchase then gets sent to MyUS or USA2Me, who then send the product directly to you.

Both these companies ship worldwide and have various delivery options from standard to immediate delivery.

This is a great option for consumers who have trouble finding vegan/halal products that are shipped worldwide. For example, if you are looking for a moisturizer from ORIGINS, and you know ORIGINS doesn’t ship to your country, you can always use this service to get these otherwise inaccessible products to you.

This is a great option for Vegan or Muslim makeup artists who want to stay true to their belief, and would like to use vegetable-based creams and cosmetics on their clients. These products are sometimes hard for everyone to get, but if you stick true to your belief, you’d be surprised as to how many people will respect and trust to do business with you.

**I have used Inglot Cosmetics as an example, but Inglot has yet to get back to me about the ingredients they use in their products**

ORIGINS COSMETIC LINE

 

Origins is a cosmetic brand whose philosophy is driven by the goal to use non-animal ingredients. Most of their products are even suited for vegans; however, some of their formulations do contain beeswax and honey.

For a Muslim, and vegetarian consumers Origins would be the perfect option. You can pick out any product from their cosmetic and skincare line without hesitation.

Now one of the drawbacks of most plant-based companies is that they tend to be pricey and people would like to know if they’re getting their money’s worth.

Although I can only review and rate their Stay Tuned Foundation for you, I cannot rate this company as a whole because I haven’t tried many of their other products.

Nonetheless, the company states that if you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase then they’ll happily exchange or refund your purchase.

What I can tell you is the Stay Tuned Foundation I’ve used by this company is amazing; this definitely encourages me to try out more of their products.

Unfortunately, the one drawback for this company is that is not widely accessible in person. The only store I personally know that carries Origin products is Sephora; however, they only carry Origins skincare products and don’t have any of their makeup products. Although Origins does have a website, the shipping is only accessible to individuals living in the States and Canada.

Nonetheless, there is still a method of receiving Origin products even if you don’t live in Canada and the United States, I'll talk about this subject in my next post!

SUMMARY: HALAL SKINCARE, COSMETICS AND BATH/BODY PRODUCTS

Smokey Eye

So last week I had a "skincare class". It's basically a class you do with a number of women (usually three or more), where you give them all facials and introduce them to Mary Kay products.

After the facials were done and the girls got to relax upstairs, my sister's friend Fatima asked me to do a look on her for fun. I wanted something a little dramatic so I opted for a smokey eye.

Enjoy!

And big thanks to beautiful Fatima for giving me her beautiful eyes to play with!

AVON

I remember as a little girl my mom bringing home a package every once in a while. This little package had lots of makeup goodies. Generally there would be a nail polish or two, a lipstick, an eye pencil, some talc powder, and my moms favorite perfum Haiku.

Avon was a great conveinence for my mother who had four kids basically back-to-back. It was a way for her to do her shopping without heading out with the four of us driving her insane. Now at 21, Avon is such a familiar brand to me. It’s a brand that I never once thought of questioning until recently: when I became employeed with Avon as a representative.

I qucikly went online and began reading the ingredients for all the cosmetic products: glycerin, lecithin, urea, zinc stearate, stearic acid and the list went on....

I thought, well there definitely is a plant/synthetic alternative for all of these ingredients, let me give them an email. And to my dissmay Avon generally uses animal derived ingredients because they are the most abundantly found. Moreover, Avon was the first lipstick I encountered that had the ingredient UREA! ARGH! I don’t want an animals pee near my lips!

But here I was, only a day into my new job, already regretting that I signed up for this thing. All my friends and family members were Muslim, so I had to let them know what products were permissible to use. There are a few products that were acceptable to use, but most of them were haram. I told each of my customers which ingredients were haram, and which were halal, and if they accidently chose a haram product I would notify them and remove it from their order. But I think most people became turned off by Avon.

I’m still employeed with Avon for my own personal discounts, but I would advise Muslim Consumers to absolutley avoid all the foundations, lip products, and mascaras. The rest of the makeup you can  either contact the company via phone/email, or look at their online shopping website for thier ingredient list.

Keep in mind that even if a product does not contain any haram ingredients, it is still processed in a factory that uses animal ingredients so cross-contamination can occur. If cross-contamination makes you an easy, it’s better you opt for a vegetable-based brand.