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7 Days 7 Mascara’s L’Oréal Infallible Unlimited Mascara
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7 Days 7 Mascara’s L’Oréal Infallible Unlimited Mascara

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Ah I’ve made it to day 7, yes it’s taken two weeks but as the saying goes Rome wasn’t built in a day (or seven for that matter!).

Today’s mascara is a new kid on the block, L’Oréal’s new Infallible Unlimited Mascara has a unique bendable wand, making it easier to access you lashes. It also has what I call a ‘prickly’ brush, the good thing about these type of brushes is that you can get right to the root of the lashes, ensuring even the shortest of lashes gets a covering of mascara. The bendy wand is a really good idea, it means you can get right into all those hard to access areas and I find I don’t end up catching the side of my nose with it, as it’s a shorter wand you can be more precise.

The formula is creamy and not particularly clumpy, so it doesn’t give that spider leg look, it does separate the lashes beautifully, the brush has shorter bristles near the tip, so it’s good for catching all those tiny bottom lashes too.

I actually really like this mascara, it lengthens and volumises, it’s very easy to use and I think the bendy wand is really effective, not just another gimmick. I also like the packaging, a matte black teardrop shapes tube, it’s very edgy and has that urban cool aesthetic about it. It’s £10.99 at full price but L’Oréal is usually on offer in Boots or Superdrug.

Thanks for reading, Mo x

7 Days 7 Mascaras, Revlon Mega Multiplier Mascara
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7 Days 7 Mascaras, Revlon Mega Multiplier Mascara

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So I’ve made it to day 6, and yes I know I’ve missed a couple of days here and there! Today’s offering, is from the drugstore. Revlon Mega Multiplier is a volumising and lengthening mascara, it contains fibres to plump and extend lashes, and has a unique ‘Mega Lash Brush’ designed to apply the product from the lash line to the tips.

Firstly, I quite like the brush, it’s a sort of cone shape which makes it easy to grab every lash. The formula is fairly volumising but I didn’t find it lengthens all that much. This is another mascara which fits into that ‘daytime’ category, so if you just need your mascara to just enhance your lashes but not give you ‘boom’ lashes, then you’ll probably like this. I think there are two types of mascara people, the ones who want just a little bit of length, volume and colour to achieve a fairly natural look, and those (like me) who want the most impactful, Volumising and lengthening product available.

I often find mascara which contains fibres will really start to irritate my eyes by the end of the day but I’m happy to report that this one didn’t cause any irritation. As you can see from the photo below, it gave quite natural looking results, not that my blue liner is particularly natural looking!

To summarise, this isn’t really a mascara that ticks all the boxes for me. I do like the brush, and it didn’t irritate my eyes so those are positives, but it just didn’t have the impact that I like. Revlon Mega Multiplier Mascara costs £9.99 for 8.5ml.

Thanks for reading, Mo x

7 Days 7 Mascara’s, CYO The Thick Of It Mascara
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7 Days 7 Mascara’s, CYO The Thick Of It Mascara

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Day 3 of this series features a Mascara from a relatively new brand. CYO is stocked exclusively in Boots, I believe it stands for Create Your Own but don’t quote me on that. It’s an inexpensive brand, this mascara costs £6 although it’s usually on some sort of offer. They make a few different formula’s but I like a volumising Mascara which is why I chose this one.

For a drugstore brand I thought the packaging was quite impressive, it comes in a box, which is a bit of a rarity for an inexpensive product (I’m easily pleased). The tube is plain matte black and feels quite sturdy.

On to the actual product, the brush is a little larger than I prefer, I feel these big brushes are hard to get into the base of the lashes, although lots of people seem to like them. It is a traditional style of brush, not one of those with the hard spikes instead of bristles. Although it is a volumising Mascara, I wasn’t particularly blown away by how full and thick it made my lashes, and it took quite a few swipes over my lashes to make any real impact, in fact the effect was pretty mediocre. On the plus side, it contains Panthenol to condition the lashes and is available in five shades (I still love coloured mascara!).

To summarise, this is an ok Mascara, if you just want a bit of volume and colour then it’s fine, it’s what I call a daytime mascara, you know, good for popping to the shops when you’ve only got minimal makeup on. To be honest I prefer a bit more drama than this mascara provided, but as you can see from the photo above, it looks very black and does make my lashes look more substantial. And yes I know my concealer has creased!

If you haven’t already, check this brand out, the bronzers are great and they’re only £4!

Thanks for reading, Mo x

7 Days 7 Mascaras, Collection Volumising Mascara
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7 Days 7 Mascaras, Collection Volumising Mascara

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I’ve decided do to a week of using a different mascara each day, i have a number of new mascara’s to try and I like the challenge of doing a blog post a day.

So to kick us off, is a drugstore mascara which a lot of people seem to be raving about, Collection Volumising Mascara. Collection is an inexpensive drugstore brand available from Boots and Superdrug, their best known product is the Lasting Perfection Concealer which everyone (including myself) loves.

The Mascara is packaged in a pretty standard plastic tube, with a black and turquoise design. I have the non-waterproof version but they make a waterproof formula too. The brush (which for many people is the the dealbreaker) is actually a good shape, and is not too big, the shape reminds me of the Too Faced Better than Sex Mascara brush, but that’s kind of where the similarities end.

This is a Volumising Mascara, and it does have quite a thick texture which makes it quite dry and it’s difficult to get a good coating on the lashes. I had to apply a good few strokes of the brush to get a really dense black coating on my lashes. Having said all that, it only costs £3.99 and it’s not the worst mascara out there, it’s just not the best either. I’ve done a before and after picture below, so you can see it’s effect, my natural, bare lashes are really fair and fine, so I generally like a very impactful mascara.

So this was my first instalment of 7 days 7 mascara’s, if you are loving a particular mascara, let me know in the comments so I can give it a whirl! Thanks for reading, Mo x

Battle of the Brow Tints
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Battle of the Brow Tints

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I thought I’d do a little comparison of the Maybelline Tattoo Brow Ling Lasting Tint and the Revolution Brow Tint, these are both the peel off products, which last about 3 days.

I’ve been using the Maybelline one for a while, the first time I tried it, I was so worried how it would turn out I only left it on for a couple of minutes! I’d heard mixed reviews about it, some people said it left their brows with a reddish tone to them, which I definitely didn’t want! However, I was drawn to trying it because my natural brow colour is very fair, and if I have no product on them, they look pretty invisible. The actual product does look quite dark and scary when you first apply it, it has a sticky treacle like texture. The brush in the tube applies the product fairly evenly, although I find it’s best to have a couple of cotton buds on hand, just so you can clean the edges and tidy up any mistakes. I generally leave it on for 20 minutes, so it’s completely dried, then you peel it off quite easily. I use the shade Light Brown, which is the fairest shade they do (there is also Medium Brown and Dark Brown). Now with this shade I haven’t found it leaves any red tones, it just gradually fades back to your original brow colour. It usually lasts about 3 days, and I find it’s much easier and quicker when you come to shape and fill your brows with pencils and pomades (or whatever you use), simply because there’s already a good base there, and I use a lot less pencil than I used to. I love this product and I’ve just bought my second tube! I think Maybelline could probably do with expanding the shade range though. £12.99 from Boots and Superdrug.

The Revolution Brow Tint works in the same way, and looks fairly similar, a dark sticky gel. I have the shade Taupe, as that’s the shade that I usually choose when I buy brow products. Application wise, it’s again a little brush which works fine. I found that this gel didn’t seem to dry down in the same way, I left it on for 20 minutes but when I came to peel it off it was really messy and although it felt dry to the touch it didn’t peel off neatly, I had this black sticky goo on my fingernails and in the end I had to wipe the last of it off with a damp cloth. The finished shade was nice, it was darker than the Maybelline one though, which I didn’t mind, but in some lights it had a really red undertone to it, not a golden auburn type of shade, it was a weird almost pinky red. This, combined with the it being more messy to remove has put me off it, even if it is a lot cheaper. The Revolution Brow Tint also only has 3 shades, Taupe, Medium Brown and Dark Brown, and is £5 from Superdrug.

Although the Maybelline Brow Tattoo is more expensive, personally I think it’s the better product. I’ve been using the Tint a couple of times a week and it makes doing my brows so much quicker, plus if I’m having a ‘no makeup’ day, at least I look like I have brows. I still remove my makeup in the same way, I use Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Cleansing Oil, and the Tint will still last three days, I’ve been asked before if it washes off easily, I haven’t found this to be an issue with either brand. The top part of the photo below just shows what the Brow Tint looks like when it’s first applied, the middle is when it’s first peeled off, and the bottom is when I’ve sculpted them with my NYX Professional Makeup Precision Brow Pencil, and obviously I have al my other makeup on, the power of makeup eh?! I usually just give my brows a quick wipe over with a damp cloth just to remove any last traces. Hope this helps if you fancy trying one of these type of brow tints.

Thanks for reading, Mo x

May Review, a month in makeup!
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May Review, a month in makeup!

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I know I’m really late with this blog post being as we’re over half way through June. There’s been a lot of new launches and I have a whole heap of products to get through, so let’s crack on!

BASE

First up, a new primer in the shape of NYX Professional Makeup’s Hydra Touch. I’m a bit of creature of habit as far as primers go, I find one I like then stick with it, and it’s rare for me to change. However, Hydra Touch has been a game changer, it doesn’t have that slippery silicone feel to it, in fact it absorbs quickly into the skin and hydrates without any residue. It contains a whole host of skin loving ingredients including extracts of liquorice, mushroom, rosemary and ginger ginseng root. I have combination skin and I use it everywhere except my nose (that grease slick doesn’t need hydrating!), and it gives a lovely base to apply your foundation. Did I mention it smells fabulous too? £11 for 30ml.

Two new loose powders this month, the Marc Jacobs Finish Line Perfecting Coconut Setting Powder and the Hourglass Veil Powder.

If you follow my insta you’ll know I adore Marc Jacobs, so when this came out with the new Coconut summer collection, I knew I had to have it. The packaging is white, smooth and sleek like the rest of the coconut collection, inside the pot it has a mesh powder dispenser, which works really well. I tend to apply loose powder with my damp beauty blender (weird I know), l lightly press the sponge in to the mesh and a good amount of powder is left on the sponge, I’m not sure how it works, but it does. The powder itself is very lightweight and good coverage for powder, it has a slightly heavier texture than some, and you don’t get a poof of powder when you open it for instance, like some of the very lightweight ones. I really like this powder it’s a lovely product, it contains Coconut Polysaccharides to condition and has a Coconut derived scent. £32 for 8g.

On to the Hourglass Veil Translucent Setting Powder. When I saw they were launching a loose powder, I wanted to try it as I really like the brand, I have two of the highlighter palettes but I do think it’s all a bit on the expensive side. The powder has a unique sifter to dispense the powder, the idea is that it gives you just the right amount, but I like to use a lot of powder and as I don’t use a brush to apply it the golden sifter is a bit annoying. The actual powder is lovely, it doesn’t contain Talc, it’s infused with diamond powder to give light refraction without flashback, and blurs pores and fine lines. This powder costs £36 for 10.5g so you get slightly more product than the Marc Jacobs one, again it’s a lovely powder but I’m not sure I would repurchase it, I still think the best loose powder is the Makeup Forever one.

BRONZER, CONTOUR AND HIGHLIGHTER

I a bit of a creature of habit when it comes to bronzer, I use a Michael Kors Bronzer, which has sadly been discontinued or the Makeup Forever Probronze Fusion, but I decided to try a new one. Urban Decays Beached Bronzer in the shade Bronzed was my product of choice, I love the packaging, the palm tree compact! The product itself applied smoothly and streak-free as it is very finely milled, and it does give a sunkissed glow although I only really use bronzer to warm up my contour and soften it a little. I’m really impressed with this bronzer, it’s a good shade if you want more of a bronze colour than a terracotta, if that makes sense. £23 for 9g.

This month I bought some mini size products from brands I haven’t tried before. Firstly, from Natasha Denona, a little Blush & Glow duo. I’m not really into blush but I think this is because I’ve never really found a shade I like (apart from The Balm’s Hot Mama, I actually panned that blusher!). This blush is a sort of coral-pink, it’s very pretty on and has a ever so slight shimmer to it. The Glow shade, is a fairly tame highlighter, it gives a subtle sheen but it’s probably not one for those looking for a hardcore light beam! This product is exclusive to Selfridges, £16.50.

I also bought a Kevyn Aucoin Contour Duo, again this is another mini size product. I love that Selfridges are stocking all these brands, finally making them more accessible! The contour shade in this duo was a bit on the grey side for my liking, I know contour is supposed to be cool toned, but this shade looked really strange on my skin tone. The powder applied well and blended nicely, it was just the wrong shade. The highlighter is the Candlelight Celestial Powder, which as with Natasha Denona highlighter, is going to give you a nice healthy glow but not set the world on fire. I got this from Selfridges website too, but I can’t find it on there anymore, I think it was from when they were trialling some different brands.

The Kat Von D 10th Anniversary Metal Crush Extreme Highlighter was really the only part of that collection which appealed to me. Obviously because I love highlighters and also because it’s very beautiful. Now this is a highlighter which will give you that beam of light! This one really isn’t for the faint hearted, it’s a full on ‘visible from space’ type of glow, it is quite a glittery formula, so if you prefer more of a sheen or a metallic finish this might not be for you. 4.8g for £25 from Debenhams.

EYES

A few new palettes this month, although they’re all on a similar theme I feel. If like me, you’re obsessed with warm tones, oranges, reds and yellows for summertime, then the Huda Beauty Coral Obsession’s Palette will be right up your street! This collection of nine eyeshadows is perfect for sunset eye looks! The eyeshadows are very pigmented, creamy and blend beautifully. There’s some stunning metallic pop shades as well,in fact it’s everything you’d expect from Huda! This is probably my star product of the month because I’ve used it so much, perfection in a palette! £25 from Cult Beauty.

I’m not really sure why I bought Urban Decay Naked Petite Heat Palette as I already have the full size version, although the Petite one has different shades in it. The palette is all matte, and the shades are all good quality, and probably if I hadn’t got her Huda palette, it would be my new favourite! As it doesn’t have any metallic ‘pop’ shades I always have to get another palette out to finish my looks, which is a minor gripe, but for me, a valid one. I guess what I’m saying is that it’s a decent palette but slightly underwhelming. £26 Urban Decay.

I had been waiting for the L’Oreal Cherry My Cheri palette to launch after seeing it so much on social media, again this is a very ‘me’ palette, full of warmth and a very pretty Coral! This palette has everything you need for a complete eye look, base, transition, crease, pop and smoke shades. It’s a good alrounder, with some gorgeous metallic shades! A more purse friendly palette, if you’re looking for a summer update. I think the drugstore has been producing some awesome products recently! £14.99 from Boots.

The Marc Jacobs Eye-conic Palette in the shade Fantascene, is stunning, and as I’ve already reviewed this in a previous post I won’t say too much more about it. I will say however, that all of the palettes I’ve mentioned above are pretty similar, and to be honest, you really don’t need all of them, if I had to pick one it would still be the Huda Coral Obsessions purely because it has all my favourite colours in it, but if you are just looking to update your makeup bag I’d go for the Cherry My Cheri Palette.

The Barry M Glitter Bomb is a liquid eyeshadow with a lot of glitter! I have two shades, Bling Bling which is pretty much just glitter, similar to the Stila Magnificent Metals Glitter and Glow, so you can apply it on top of your eyeshadow, I love this shade and I’ve used it a lot! The other shade I got is Girl Bye, which is a dark pink shimmer eyeshadow with silver glitter, it’s still pretty but I much prefer the gold. £4.99 from Superdrug, 5 shades.

LIPS

I’m going to start with a product which has blown me away, Maybelline Superstay Matte Ink Liquid Lipstick. This stuff stays put no matter what you do, it literally doesn’t move! I have three shades, Driver which is a proper nude, Seductress a much deeper, more punk toned nude and Poet which is a deeper more orange toned nude. If you want your lipstick to last all day then try these, they have a slightly tacky texture as they dry down but once they’re on, THEY ARE ON! £9.99 from Superdrug and Boots, but they’re usually on offer.

Thank for reading this very late blogpost, Mo x

Collection Illuminating Touch Foundation, A First Impressions
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Collection Illuminating Touch Foundation, A First Impressions

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I’ve been meaning to try this foundation for such a long time, I love the Lasting Perfection Concealer, it’s a fantastic concealer for a tiny price! The foundation is also very inexpensive, it retails at £5.99 but the brand is usually on an offer.

Collection have recently launched new shades, I bought the shade Warm Beige, which is one of the new ones. The shade range is tiny, there are only ten, including the new shades. The actual product itself is packaged in a frosted glass bottle and has a pump dispenser. I didn’t buy the matching primer (although I’ve heard it’s actually rather good), so I used my ELF Mineral Face Primer. The first thing you notice when applying it is that it has pretty good coverage, it’s more than medium but quite full. It’s also very dewy, now generally I’m more of a matte kind of girl, but I do own a couple of dewy finish foundations, I can honestly say this is the ‘dewiest’ foundation I have ever used! I powdered it as I would any foundation as I’m quite oily, also if you’re used to a matte finish an Illuminating foundation can be a bit scary, oiliness and dewiness equate to the same thing, shine, which I spend my life trying to avoid! I had also assumed that it would not last long on my skin, because I always find the dewy finish foundations break up easier on my oily T zone, but I think this foundation lasts pretty well. I had heard that it doesn’t have good longevity, but I didn’t find it to be an issue. It also has a very natural finish, it’s not heavy and it doesn’t oxidise.

So to summarise, I actually think this is a decent foundation, don’t be put off by the fact that it’s very inexpensive (I found it as cheap as £3.99 in Boots), but even at £5.99 it’s still a good price, for 30ml of product. It’s also a good way of trying out an Illuminating foundation, if you fancy a more glowy look for the summer.

Available from Boots and Superdrug.

Thanks for reading, Mo x

April Review, A Month in Makeup
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April Review, A Month in Makeup

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So we have entered the month of May when all the new summer makeup seems to launch, and obviously, as you can’t buy everything, you have to work out what is actually useful to you versus the frivolous Festival makeup that you will never use! Unless you are actually going to a festival, in which case, buy all the holographic glitter stuff you want!

BASE

Only a couple of base products this month. First up, YSL All Hours Foundation. I bought this on the recommendation of other Instagrammers, and I’m so pleased I did! This foundation is beautiful, it gives excellent coverage but still looks natural on the skin, has a matte finish and great longevity. I have the shade Warm Beige which is a good match for me. I love the refreshing scent this has too. This foundation is available in 22 shades, £35 for 25ml.

Collection Illuminating Touch Foundation is a product I have been meaning to try for ages. I really love the Lasting Perfection Concealer so I was intrigued by the foundation. They have recently launched some new shades, although the shade range is still pretty small. I have the shade Warm Beige 3, which is one of the new ones, and it’s a good match. Although Collection is an inexpensive drugstore brand, this foundation comes in a glass bottle with a pump, so it actually feels more expensive than it is. The coverage is more than medium but not quite full, and obviously as it’s an illuminating foundation it’s has a pretty dewy finish, but as I always set my foundation with powder that tends to disappear anyway. I had heard that it doesn’t last very long on the skin, but I was quite impressed with how long it lasted, it stayed on all day with only a minimal touch up, which I don’t think is too bad. It felt very light weight on the skin and didn’t break up on my oily nose. Well worth trying if you fancy a dewy foundation for the summer. It is only available in 10 shades, but then it’s only £5.99 for 30ml, and it’s usually in some sort of offer/promotion in Boots or Superdrug.

The new Revolution Pro brand launched in my local Superdrug this month, so I thought I try out some of their new products. The Full Cover Camouflage Concealer I had my eye on because concealer is one of my favourite products. This is a waterproof formula much like NYX Professional Makeup’s Gotcha Covered, it does give excellent coverage, but for me it’s a little too heavy for the undereye area, it’s one of those formulas that has a kind of sticky gel like texture, and looks very shiny and ‘wet’ when applied so you have to use a lot of powder to set it, but then you have a lot of product heaped on to a very delicate and thin area of skin. I know many people love this type of concealer but it’s not for me. To be fair, it does say it’s for covering blemishes, scars, birthmarks and even tattoos. It’s available in 18 shades, you can’t knock Revolution when it comes to being inclusive. £5 from Superdrug and Tam Beauty website.

HIGHLIGHT & CONTOUR

This month I discovered a liquid highlighter which has blown me away! The L’Oreal Glow Mon Amour Highlighting Drops in the shade 01 Sparkling Love is simply stunning, it’s most beautiful gleaming champagne shade, it’s not glittery it just gives an awesome sheen! I really cannot emphasise enough how gorgeous this product is. I apply it with a damp beauty blender and it doesn’t move or break apart my foundation, which is the issue I usually have with liquid highlighter. You can mix it with your foundation for a glowy look, or even mix it with body lotion. It’s available in 2 shades, £9.99 from Boots and Superdrug.

Another L’Oréal product I have been loving is the La Vie En Glow Highlighter Palette, this is a gorgeous little palette consisting of five shades, I like to layer it on top of the Highlighting Drops for a more dimensional glow. Again this product is available in two shade options, I have the Cool Glow version. £12.99 from Boots and Superdrug.

Lastly from L’Oréal, Bonjour Sunshine is a ‘Tanned Skin Embellisher’, which I guess is a liquid bronzer. It’s nice shade of bronzer, and it works well layered with your foundation or even mixed with it! I have used it to contour and it works well. I believe this is only available in one shade at the moment. £8.99 from Boots and Superdrug, L’Oréal is usually on a 3 for 2 offer!

My final highlighter of the month was the Bourjois Le Petit Strober, I don’t have anything from Bourjois as it’s a brand which doesn’t really grab me but as this was new I thought I’d try it. It is quite small in size (it’s in one the pots which their blushers, Eyeshadows and indeed most of their powder products seem to come in), and has a tiny brush inside. This is accurately called a ‘Strober’ as it gives a very muted sheen and not a full on highlight. For me, it’s a bit of a ‘meh’ product, it’s alright but it’s not setting the world on fire! £6.99 only available in one shade presently.

EYES

Not much action in the eye department this month. I did buy one incredibly beautiful palette though, which again, was another drugstore find. The Revolution Pro Supreme Eyeshadow Palette in the shade Intoxicate is perfect for summer, it has all those gorgeous fiery sunset shades, plus some fabulous shimmer pop shades! These shadows are stunning, the quality is excellent, they blend beautifully, the pigmentation is spot on and I’m obsessed with this palette. Oh and the other amazing thing… the price, these palettes are just £6!! I highly recommend trying this palette. Available from Superdrug and the Tam Beauty website.

I also bought a couple of Revolution Pro’s brow products. First up is the Brow Cushion, yes you read it right, CUSHION! I have the shade Taupe, which is my usual go to shade for any brow product. It is literally a little cushion compact, you dip your brush in as you would with a pomade, however unlike a pomade, the colour is quite thin and watery so you really have to build it. I didn’t find it was particularly good for shaping the brow, it doesn’t have enough pigment to get a decent edge. It’s ok for filling in but for me, there are better products. I also found the shade to be a little warmer than I like my brows to be! Available in 8 shades, £5 each.

The other brow product was the Microblading Effect Precision Eyebrow Pencil, also in the shade Taupe. To look at it’s very similar to the Anastasia Beverly Hills Brow Wiz, the actual product is also quite similar but it’s not quite a dupe, I found the Revolution Pencil a little bit harder, so you have to work it a bit more. I also had the same issue with the shade as I did with the cushion, the Taupe has a little too much warmth, it’s more like a dark blonde, whereas anyone who uses the Taupe shade in the ABH Brow Wiz or the NYX Professional Makeup’s Micro Brow will tell you, Taupe is a cool tone, it has absolutely no warmth. I do think it’s a good back up product though, partly because it costs just £4, but having said that, I use an Elf Pencil as a reserve product, which is a better shade and a pound cheaper! Available in 8 shades.

I found Too Faced’s Size Queen Mascara in TK Maxx, I’d never tried it before but it was a bargain! Now I’d assumed that the name referred to how big it was gonna make your lashes, but no, it in fact refers to the size of the brush, because it is huge! It’s so vast that it’s quite difficult to use, which is annoying because the actual mascara is pretty nice. Anyway, I think it was about £5.99, so I won’t lose sleep over it! My plan is to use it with a more regular sized spoolie!

One last eye product, YSL Vinyl Couture Mascara in the shade I’m The Trouble, I absolutely love colourful mascaras and this electric blue was is fabulous, I love it with a sunset eye, so beautiful!! £26 and available in 9 shades, I want the pink one next!!!

LIPS

Some lovely new lip products this month. Firstly, I have been loving the Maybelline Superstay Matte Ink in the shade Driver, this is the most perfect nude shade ever! This formula does not budge at all, it’s indestructible! The only thing I do find is it can exaggerate the texture of your lips, so you need to exfoliate first. I plan to get the shade Seductress next. I believe there are nineteen shades of this lipstick, £9.99 each but usually on an offer.

This Giorgio Armani Lip Magnet in the shade Front Row, was a bit of an impulse purchase! Firstly the shade is a little out of my comfort zone, it’s quite a deep mauve, and secondly I don’t have much from the brand apart from foundation. However, the colour is actually very flattering and compliments a lot if summer makeup looks, plus the formula is out of this world! This is the most comfortable matte liquid lipstick I have ever worn, it’s so lightweight if literally feels like you have nothing on, but it still has great longevity, I wore it all day without retouching! The downside is that they are expensive, £30 and I think it is available in nineteen shades.

So new lip products I heart Revolution, this has also recently landed in my local Superdrug, and it’s mainly unicorn and mermaid type makeup. The Metallic Unicorn Lipstick in the shade Whimsical is a super pretty rose gold, it dries down and so lasts really well. I have also used it as a lip topper over matte liquid lipstick. Available in 4 shades, excellent value, £3 each.

Also from the same brand is this Unique Unicorn Lipstick in the shade Magical Delight, a metallic violet. This is a nice summer shade, obviously as it’s a bullet Lipstick it doesn’t last quite as long on the lips as it’s liquid counterparts, but the formula feels nice. Available in 5 shades, £4 each.

From Revolution Pro I bought one of the Pro Supreme Matte Lip Pigments in the shade Illusion, this is a gorgeous burnt orange nude. Love the packaging of these too, it feels much more expensive than it is! Available in a whopping 30 shades! £4 each Superdrug.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my month in makeup, roll on May, and Marc Jacobs, and NudiePatootie, and L’Oréal Cherry Mon Cheri, and probably a hundred other new launches!

Thanks for reading, Mo x

New L’Oreal Highlighters, a first impressions
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New L’Oreal Highlighters, a first impressions

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I’ve been really impressed with a lot of new drugstore launches recently, both L’Oreal and Maybelline have brought out some fab new products for a very reasonable price tag.

I was very interested to see what the new liquid and powder highlighters from L’Oreal were like, as I bought their holographic glow kit a while ago and was very pleasantly surprised by how good it was! So when I saw they were launching two new Glow kits plus liquid highlighter I was excited.

I got the La Vie En Glow Palette in the Cool shade, the palette contains four shades ranging from a pearly white to pale bronze. I like to use multiple shades layered to give a more dimensional glow, my favourite shades for the cheekbones are Oh My Gold first, with just a touch of Moonlight on the high points of the cheekbones. Pink Pearl is nice down the centre of the nose, it’s a more subtle shade than the first two. The last shade Bronze Glaze, is slightly deeper so for me, this would be more of a background highlighter, used before the brighter shades.

These are beautiful highlighters, I love that they are not glittery and give a proper sheenand glow to the skin. You would never know that they’re not from a premium beauty brand!

I also got the Glow Mon Amour Highlighting Drops in the shade Sparkling Love. I have a bit of a love/hate relationship with liquid and cream highlighters, mostly because I always use full coverage foundation so it’s pointless applying a liquid highlighter product first as it just disappears under the foundation, and if I apply them on top they either make the foundation go all patchy and fragmented or the disappear once I apply powder to set everything. I applied the drops with a damp beauty blender, on top of my foundation and powder, and they worked perfectly! It’s odd because if I do this method with my Marc Jacobs Dew You Highlighter, it always moves my foundation. I just lightly tapped the beauty blender on to my cheekbones and it left the most fabulous glow! I really can’t get over how good these products are, they are fantastic and whether you’re a highlighter obsessive like me or just someone looking for a great glow, you need them!

I like to layer these products with the drops first then the powders for optimum glow!

The La Vie En Glow Palette is available in 2 shades, and costs £12.99, the Glow Mon Amour Highlighting Drops also comes in 2 shades and costs £9.99. I bought mine from Superdrug.

Thanks for reading, Mo x

March Review, a Month in Makeup
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March Review, a Month in Makeup

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By now I’m normally in full spring mode, but this snowy March weather has me unable to embrace any thoughts of springtime makeup! Usually I’m in getting ready for summer with my favourite coral hues, but I just haven’t seen enough sunshine, I find my mood is very impacted by the weather. So on to my makeup of the month, a fair bit of drugstore again this month, I think a lot of more affordable brands are really upping their game and bringing out some really exciting products!

BASE

No new Primers or Foundations this month (I know, I’m shocked too!), but there was some excitement in the concealer department when EX1 launched their new Delete Fluide Concealer. It’s everything you’d expect from this celebrity endorsed brand, gives excellent coverage, doesn’t cake, long lasting, doesn’t emphasise fine lines and feels comfortable. In fact my only bug bear with it is the pump, I much prefer a wand, but I love the product so it won’t stop me using it!

HIGHLIGHTER & CONTOUR

Lots of new glow this month, first up, a highlighter I have been trying to lay my hands on for some time. Doll Beauty is primarily a lash brand but has become famous for their stunning highlighters, there are just two shades presently, but finding them in stock anywhere is something of a challenge! They have been opening small counters in branches of Topshop, as well as selling on Beautybay and of course their own website. However the highlighters are almost always out of stock, I managed to get one purely by luck, they tend to announce on their instastories when they have the Doll Light Highlighters back on the website, so I had quickly gone into their site and was fortunate enough to get the shade Like a Diamond. I can confirm it lives up to the hype, it’s a super shiny, pale champagne/ivory glow, it’s not glittery it’s more of a sheen and it’s beautiful! The amazing thing is, it costs just £15 and it’s a decent size 12g. Perfect for those (like myself) who want a highlighter that’s visible from Mars!

Another highly sought after but difficult to find product is the L’Oréal Crushed Foil Metallic Highlighter, this again comes in two shades, and as far as I can tell is only stocked in Superdrug, I first got the shade Gilded Gold, which is stunning but very Gold. I also recently managed to get the shade Rose Quartz too, which is more up my street as it’s a gorgeous rose gold shade. I absolutely love this highlighter, you’d never know it was from the drugstore!

I have been a big fan of MUA Cosmetics Highlighters for a long time, they cost just £3 each and give fantastic glow. They launched three new shades Silver Wonder, Hollywood Rose and Twinkling Violet. Silver Wonder is a warm silver, so you don’t end up looking like the tin man, it has an almost pale taupe tone to it so it’s actually very wearable.

Hollywood Rose is a beautiful colour, it’s a pinky peach with a gold shimmer to it. Perfect for a summer highlight if you love corals and pinks, and perfect on sun kissed skin.

Twinkling Violet is my favourite, I think the key to using these kind of shades is to use it as an accent highlighter, so just on the very highest points of the cheekbones on top of a gold or champagne shimmer. I think these kind of highlighters are more wearable in the summer, not just for festivals but because people are so much more experimental with colour in the summer months.

These are available from the MUA Cosmetics website and also Superdrug.

NYX Professional Makeup launched their new Cream Contour and Highlight Pro Palette this month, the powder version has been a blogger fave for a long time so it’s nice to see the cream version has hit our shores. The palette consists of four contour shades, and four highlight shades-a shimmer, two colour correcting shades (peach and banana) and a concealer shade. These are all very soft, smooth and blendable, sometimes cream palettes are too stuff in their texture and difficult to apply and blend out, this consistency of the shades in this palette are super creamy, they blend like a dream! Available from Boots and the NYX Professional Makeup website, £18.

When the Mac x Nico Panda Collection popped up on my insta feed, I was smitten! In particular with the Colour Me Nico Gleamer Face Powder, the stunning packaging of this compact is a must for anyone who collects makeup. I am a big fan of MAC limited edition highlighters and I try to ‘invest’ in them as much as I can, so for me this little panda compact is for more collection than to actually use. Don’t judge me, people collect all sorts of weird and wonderful things, mine just happens to be highlighters!

EYES

I’ve been waiting for this palette to launch in the UK for what feels like ages! The NYX Professional Makeup I Love You So Mochi Palettes have finally touched down and they are incredible! I decided on the warm toned Sleek and Chic shade, it’s full of the most amazing glittery, shimmery shades! The coral shade in the centre is sensational, it’s bright and very pigmented as are all of the shades. The muted gold in the top right corner is almost pure sparkle, it’s beautiful, I find this and some of the other intensely sparkly shades apply better using your finger than a brush, you get a more dense sweep this way. The only matte shade in the palette is the pale cream in the top left corner, which I’ve been using as an all over base shade. There are two variations of this palette Sleek & Chic, and Electric Pastels, £18 each.

Another NYX Professional Makeup product launched this month was the Strictly Vinyl Eyeliners, these liquid liners are great creating a more colourful wing, if you are fond of the Vivid Brights Liquid Liners you’ll love these. I have the shade Hazy, which is a kind of russet colour. These are very easy to apply and have a shiny ‘vinyl’ finish. Available in 5 shades, £6 each.

LIPS

More NYX Professional Makeup products in the lip department! Firstly a simply stunning Duo Chromatic Shimmer Lip Gloss in the shade Crushin’ It! These glosses are fabulous and perfect for summer! They’re very comfortable to wear, not sticky or gloopy (don’t think that’s an actual word but you know what I mean!).

They also launched a new type of glossy lip product, Strictly Vinyl, I have the shade Baby Doll. These are very shiny non-shimmery shades, they give a very intense sweep of colour, I found it worked best if I did my whole lip in one of the suede matte lip liners first, so I used Soft Spoken Liner with the Vinyl on top. Available in 8 shades, £6 each.

SETTING SPRAYS

I’m never sure whether setting sprays should be with ‘base’ products or if they should be at the end because they’re the last thing you use, but anyway, I bought the new Too Faced Festival Refresh Mystical Effects Setting & Refreshing Spray. This stuff is so pretty, it has a sheer holographic shimmer to it, it is quite subtle so don’t worry, you won’t end up looking like you’ve fallen in a pit of highlighter! £22 Cult Beauty.

So concludes this month in Makeup, I think that’s probably the shortest monthly review I’ve ever done!

Thanks for reading, Mo x