AFFORDABLE MAKEUP | MARCH LUST LIST

Hello everyone! I have mentioned this before in a different post, how i feel as if drugstore/affordable makeup brands are absolutely killing the product quality game at the moment and i actually prefer i a lot of those type of products over some high-end brands. Last month and this month so far has seen so many great new product launches, which have left me lusting after needing them in my collection. With that in mind for today's post i thought i would share with you my current affordable makeup lust list, consisting of a mixture of makeup and skincare products from either the drugstore or affordable brands...

1. maybelline total temptation palette | £11.99

Years ago now when Maybelline launched their "the nudes" eyeshadow palettes, i became obsessed with how amazing the quality was for drugstore. They recently released this new total temptation eyeshadow and highlight palette, which is filled with such a variety of different shades/tones and of course i am itching to get my hands on the warm toned shadows in the palette. 

2. morphe fairy dust lip liner pencil | £4.50

I love a bunch of different makeup products from Morphe and every single thing i have is amazing quality for the price point. They recently released a huge selection of lip liner pencils, which i particularly want to try this shade called fairy dust because i think it will be the perfect shade to pair with peachstock lipstick from MAC. 

3. superdrug vitamin e facial serum | £3.99

I have seen/heard quite a few people rave about how good using Vitamin E is for your skin, especially for helping with keeping the signs of ageing in check amongst other great skin benefits. That being said i researched and so many people recommended the Superdrug own brand version, which if it is good is a complete skincare bargain. 

4. makeup revolution créme highlight + contour kit in medium | £15

Recently Makeup Revolution have released a bunch of new amazing products, including the Fast Base foundation which i am living for and can't seem to put down. Another stick form product they have released are these creme highlight/contour kits, which come with a dual ended brush and it is giving me complete KKW dupe vibes. 

5. wet n wild photo focus foundation | $5.99

So this particular foundation has been on my lust list for a while now, as so many people have raved about it repeatedly but it is such a struggle to get a hold of in the UK (unless you want to pay over the extras on Amazon). If anyone knows a good site to get a hold of this from the UK, please tweet me because i really want to try it out. 

6. l'oréal glow mon amour champagne highlighting drops | £9.99

As well as Makeup Revolution, L'Oréal have also recently released a bunch of new products which are also very much about that glowing radiant skin and i am all about that look. Starting with these liquid highlighting drops, which i am really into using at the moment and this particular champagne shade looks simply stunning.

  

7. l'oréal back to bronze matte bronzing powder | £8.99

Another release from L'Oréal is this matte bronzing powder, which to me screams summer vibes (especially as it is infused with coconut). I love how this bronzer is matte rather than shimmery, for a natural sun kissed glow which looks like the perfect tone not too warm or too cool. They also have a new blush/s in the similar concept. 

8. makeup revolution nudes collection matte in the shade buff | £3

Yet another launch from Makeup Revolution, which is fitting in with this whole nude vibe that i am of course living for. The new nudes collection is full of both matte and gloss finish nude lip colours and i am particularly drawn to this shade called buff, also £3 for a lip product is a complete bargain.

9. bleach london illuminati illuminating liquid | £6

Another liquid highlighter that i have my eye on is this one from Bleach London, which i have never tried anything from the brand before but i have heard such good things. This illuminating liquid looks like such a simply stunning golden dewy shade, the only issue is that this product seems to be forever out of stock.

10. l'oréal smooth sugar glow mask | £9.99

So finally last on my current lust list is this new release in the line of face masks from L'Oréal, which i was obsessed with the glow clay mask from the original line of products. As i have more of the dry skin type, i need all the help i can get when it comes to getting radiant/glowing looking skin.

Catch up on my previous post HERE...

xo.

MAKEUP REVOLUTION FAST BASE FOUNDATION | FIRST IMPRESSION REVIEW

Hello everyone! Cast your minds back to early January when Makeup Revolution launched a concealer, that left everyone talking about it and duping it the drugstore alternative to the famous Tarte shape tape concealer. That being said last week the brand launched an all new product, this time a foundation which of course people were left shook (including me) after seeing a video that went viral. So of course i was going to be excited to give this launch a try asap and let you know exactly what my thoughts are...

So fun fact, i am the biggest fan of drugstore foundations (i tend to reach for them over any high end foundation) and i have so many favourites from the Maybelline fit me foundation to the Milani conceal and perfect foundation. As i mentioned above Makeup Revolution released an amazing concealer a couple of months ago, which i love and that made me even more excited to try the foundation although i did have my doubts. The thing that made me unsure about wanting to try this foundation is the fact that it is in stick form and for me personally, they don't usually work for me and they tend to be quite drying on my skin. That being said i watched a couple of the first impression videos of the foundation and i was left shook on how stunning it actually was, from the huge 18 shade range, it's £5 price point and stunning nude/rose gold packaging. 

Moving onto the actually application of the foundation, i applied a small amount to each area of my face (as a little product goes a long way) before blending out with my damp beauty blender and it blended out flawlessly, with a medium coverage (but can easily be built up to a full coverage without looking cake-y) and then setting in-place with powder after concealer. I wore the foundation for a total of 10 hours and i found as i have normal/dry skin, i obviously didn't have to touch up through-out the day but i definitely think if you were more on the oily side, you probably would have to do one or two touch-ups. The feeling of the foundation when it sits on the skin does feel really comfortable, which i didn't think it would do with it being a stick foundation but it is really hydrating on the skin. The finish of the foundation is a natural/slightly dewy finish. Over-all my thoughts on the foundation is that i am super impressed with everything about it, especially how great it would be for travelling as it is compact and wouldn't break or burst on-route. I think i will definitely be reaching for it quite often, just as it do the concealer and i am left once again giving two huge thumbs up to Makeup Revolution and their makeup product game for 2018 so far.

So the foundation shades are suppose to match up the concealer shades and in the concealer shades i have C2 and C6 (which is the shade i always use). When it comes to foundation obviously i want it to match my rest of me, which is why i picked up F8 for when i am tanned and F6 for either when i am not tanned or to do some cream contouring with. Talking of cream contouring, i really want to pick up the shade F12 to cream contour with. As for foundation F8 is the perfect shade for me and it was super easy to get the right shade for me, by using the shade description on the TAM Beauty website.

| find your shade of foundation |

F1 – For fair skin tones with neutral undertone | F2 – For fair skin tones with yellow undertone

F3 – For fair skin tones with pink undertone | F4 – For light skin tones with neutral undertone

F5 – For light skin tones with pink undertone | F6 – For light/medium skin tones with yellow undertone | F7 – For medium skin tones with peach undertone | F8 – For medium skin tones with yellow undertone | F9 – For medium skin tones with a peach undertone | F10- For medium skin tones with a golden undertone | F11 – For medium/dark skin tones with a beige undertone | F12 – For medium/dark skin tones with a neutral undertone | F13 – For dark skin tones with a warm undertone | F14 – for dark skin tones with a cool undertone | F15 – for dark skin tones with a neutral undertone | F16 – for dark skin tones with a warm undertone | F17 – for dark skin tones with a neutral undertone | F18 – for dark skin tones with a warm undertone

| shop the foundation |

makeup revolution fast base stick foundation (tambeauty)

makeup revolution fast base stick foundation (superdrug)

xo.

MAKEUP REVOLUTION CONCEAL + DEFINE CONCEALER | REVIEW

Hello everyone! For today's post i am back with my second first impression/review post of the month, first time around i shared my love for the brand new mua luxe light lustre liquid highlighters and this time i am bringing to you my thoughts on the new concealer launch by Makeup Revolution. Makeup Revolution is another affordable/drugstore brand that i have tried and loved so many different things from in the past, so of course i needed to put this one to the test.

So when it comes to concealers i am super selective on what concealers i like, as not every concealer works for me as i do struggle with creasing a little bit unless my under-eye area is super hydrated because i do have a dry to normal skin type. Like many i have my go-to concealers, which just like this concealer they both happen to be drugstore and they are the Maybelline Fit Me concealer in the shade 10 and the Bourjois Radiance Reveal concealer in the shade Light. I always apply my concealer no matter what one i am using the same way, with the applicator into a triangle shape under my eyes, down the bridge of my nose and chin before blending out with a dampened beauty blender. I just prefer to do it with a sponge, the same way i do my foundation, as it is quick, easy and has a flawless/evenly applied finish afterwards. 

Getting down to my actual thoughts on the new concealer by Makeup Revolution, if i was to put things about this concealer into a list of pro's and con's, it would definitely have more pro's than con's. This concealer is pretty much a drugstore first as this concealer is available in 18 (yes 18) different shades, ranging from fair to deep, with different undertones and retailing at just £4. The two shades i picked up were C2 and C6 as they are ones with the correct undertone for me. The shade C2 is the lighter shade of the two, which i will probably use when i am less tanned as it is a fair shade with a yellow undertone. The shade C6 is the shade i will opt for the most, as it is a light/medium shade also with a yellow undertone and is a very similar shade to the Maybelline Fit Me shade 10. The amount of product you get in the tube is slightly smaller than most concealers, as you get just over 3ML of product. Something i really like about this concealer is the doe-foot applicator, as it is slightly bigger than usual concealers and you also get a good amount of product in one go, rather than having to go back in more than once. Even though the texture of the concealer is fairly thick it doesn't look or feel heavy/cake-y on the skin and the coverage is definitely on the medium/high side. Something that is definitely going to make me want to reach for this concealer on a regular basis, is the fact it lasted all day long and looked freshly applied/brighter longer than some of my other concealers do. The only con about this concealer is it does dry down to a matte finish quite quickly, so what i have been doing is applying and blending in sections rather than applying it everywhere i would and then blending out. Over all i would rate this a 4 (maybe 4.5) out of 5!

shop the concealer:

| makeup revolution conceal + define C2 | tambeauty | superdrug |

| makeup revolution conceal + define C6 | tambeauty | superdrug |

xo.

BUDGET BEAUTY WEEK: TWO MUST TRY LIP LINERS FOR £2 & UNDER

Hello everyone! So this week on my blog i thought why not throw things back and revive/revamp a classic theme week, in the form of a "budget beauty" series. Just recently i have been loving a bunch of more affordable beauty products, which is kind of what inspired me to write this series again. With that being said to kick things off, i wanted to share with you two budget lip liners that i am obsessing over recently.

ps insta girl kissproof lip liner in the shade nude selfie - £1.50

So last month i actually did a "testing primark beauty" post which you can catch up on here, if you haven't done so already and in that post i mentioned how i hadn't really tried too much out from their beauty range until then. Since then i have actually picked up a few more items to try and this insta girl lip liner is one of them. I have tried, tested and loved the original lip liners already, so of course i was intrigued to see if this one was any different. Once i tried the insta girl lip liner in the shade nude selfie out, i did spot an instant difference in the formula compared to the original liners and that difference is that the insta girl range of liners are so much more creamy in consistency (but not so creamy that it isn't easy to apply) and a lot less drying on the lips. I also love how this particular shade is different to any other nude lip liner i have, as it is more on the cool-toned side of nude yet it is still great to pair with pretty much any nude applied on top. After trying this lip liner i feel like i need to pick up some more products from the insta girl range. (rating 4/5)

freedom #proartist pro lip liner in the shade nude - £2

If you are a huge fan of mac cosmetics lip liners or you want to give them a try but don't want to spend £13+ on a pencil, then you need need need to try these pro lip liners out from freedom because they are almost an identical dupe for the mac ones. Just like the primark lip liner this one is also creamy, easy to apply (in fact this lip liner glides on effortlessly) and is super pigmented unlike a lot of affordable lip liners which tend to be quite "scratchy" to apply. Another plus side to this particular freedom lip liner is that you get so much more product than you usually would in a lip liner, i have sharpened mine so many times and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, unlike my mac "oh honey" lip liner which is a laughable tiny stump now. Another great thing about these lip liners is that they come in five different shades ranging from the nude to a deep vampy shade, that you can either pick up on the tam beauty website or superdrug in-store or online. (rating 5/5)

Stay tuned for an all new instalment of "budget beauty week" tomorrow...

xo.

FREEDOM #PROARTIST PRO HD CUSTOM EYESHADOW PALETTE

Hello everyone! So when it comes down to eyeshadows i love a good palette, whether that be a quad or even a twelve or more shadow palette. To take things that bit further there is only one thing i love more and that is custom creating your own eyeshadow palette, which i have blogged about a couple of times in the past in a makeup obsession custom palette and custom creating my own perfect neutrals palette. With that in mind when one of my new favourite affordable brands Freedom, launched their #proartist refillable magnetic palettes i just had to make one of my own and once again the brand has shocked me at the quality of their products.

I have actually already tried eyeshadows from Freedom before, as i have the pro32 innocent palette and i was really impressed by them because of the buttery soft yet easy to blend texture. Putting that aside i had never tried any of the #proartist eyeshadows, blushes or contour/bronzing products except for the concealer. So when they launched these packs of five pan shadows for £5 (£1 a shadow) called the hd eye foils (they also stock the shadows loose for £2 each), i just had to make a palette up of my own. 

The palette i created is made up of three of the five pack shadows, with both matte and shimmer/foil shades costing a total of £15 and the empty magnetic palette was £5. This makes the total of the palette £20 for both the palette and fifteen shadows, how much of a bargain is that? Especially taking into consideration that Makeup Geek shadows are almost £5 each and MAC shadows are £10 each, the concept is completely identically for a lot less. Just like the other eyeshadows i had already tried, these #proartist shadows are also as pigmented, easy to blend, if not even better than some other shadows from MAC. Like i mentioned above this palette is made up of the freedom #proartist pro hd empty magnetic palette and the three #proartist pro hd eye foil five pack shadows, which are the hd burnt, hd matte bare and hd bare packs.

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