Hey All,
This time I'm back with a new few makeup purchases made this month. Not going to bore you with a long-winded introduction, so let's get right into it!
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From left to right, NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation, Maybelline New York Baby Skin Instant Fatigue Blur, Maybelline New York Lash Sensational Lash Multiplying Mascara and Maybelline New York Colour Drama Intense Velvet Lip Pencil.
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| Intense Velvet Lip Pencil in Berry Much - £4.99 |
Maybelline is definitely one of my favourite drugstore makeup brands (except for their increasingly long names for all their products haha). I have no idea why I decided to go with this shade - as it isn't the type I usually go for - but I'm glad I did. It's a mauv-y, pink-y, berry shade, that applies matte and opaque, as you can see from the swatch above (I only swiped it once!). After wearing it out one day I love it even more, the colour doesn't leak to the outside of your lips, it has a decent amount of staying power and doesn't taste weird, which is always a factor for me when trying new lip products - as I'm a lip biter haha! A good buy overall :)
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| NARS All Day Luminous Weightless Foundation in Medium/Dark 5 or New Orleans - £32.00 |
Oh NARS, to say "I'm disappointed" would sadly be an understatement. I don't own anything from NARS but have wanted to for the longest time, and so, when they released this new foundation, that was supposed to be
luminous (not dewy) and was supposed to last ALL DAY (16 hours), I jumped at the chance to purchase it. I have Oily/Combination skin, which means for me that I get very oily in my t-zone, and I get dry around my mouth and the outer rim of my face. Within a few hours of me applying the foundation to well moisturized, primed skin, in one of my oilier areas - between my brows - the foundation had started to split and move. The same thing happened around my mouth - a dry area - and settled into my 'laugh lines' (that I didn't even know I had! I'm eighteen!!). So needless to say, it definitely hadn't lasted all day and went past luminous and went straight to shiny
(it didn't even last four hours).
I much prefer my DRUGSTORE Lo'real True Match Foundation - it lasts all day and says put!
I'll be returning this. Sorry, NARS.
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| A swatch of the NARS A.D.L. Foundation in New Orleans. A bit too light and red for me. My actual shade is probably Dark 1/Trinidad'. |
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| Maybelline New York Baby Skin Instant Fatigue Blur in Cool Rose - £4.99 |
On a lighter note, we're back to Maybelline with another
decent product. I liked the primer version of this product, which is a lot like the Benefit Porefessional Primer, because of it's similar silicone type texture and so, makes the skin feel the same way. This product isn't a primer, but it can be applied under makeup, and is supposed to even out the texture of the skin and as the name suggests, "blur" imperfections. Well, having used it for just that on a makeup-less day, I must say I'm impressed. It isn't the best thing out there for the job, but it blurred and smoothed everything out at a standard that matches the price. Would I buy it again? No - because I hardly ever use it under makeup, and on makeup-less days, the only things I remember to put on my face are moisturizer and lip balm.
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| Maybelline New York Lash Sensational Lash Multiplying Mascara - £7.99 |
Haven't really got too much to say about this one. I love the wand, but it picks up waaay too much product, so I have to wipe off the whole brush before bringing it anywhere near my eye. However, it's definitely a volumizing, and some what lengthening mascara, with a lot going on with each stroke, which means it'll last a while - and I probably won't finish it before I have to change up my mascara. I have a lot of lashes, but they're short, so I always go for lengthening mascara's over volumizing ones. If you have fewer lashes, I'd definitely go for a product like this, I'm honestly sure you'll love it. But for me? Maybe not..
Thanks so much for reading the review! And for coming back to read my blog whenever I post something - if you do! I'd love to hear about anything you may have heard about or have been into recently? It wasn't the best month for me when it came to makeup, but hopefully I'll get lucky when purchasing products next month!
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Christina x
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