Battle of the blushes - My favourites

 I have tried and tested a lot of blushes throughout my time of being obsessed with makeup and I thought it would be nice to share my favourites as this is the time of year I start using blush more and the weather is getting a little nicer! 

The Blushes in the picture above: 

Benefit Blush in Rockateur

Sleek Blush in Rose Gold

Max Factor Creme Puff Blush in Seductive Pink

I am not usually the biggest blush fan usually, I only really use bronzer most of the time but recently in the past year or so, I have found these three blushes which I am in love with, and have been since so I thought I'd share my favourites as I never thought I could suit blush but I have found the perfect ones for me!

The first I will tell you about is the Benefit Rockateur Blush which is the biggest one in the picture to the left and it's so complementary towards my skin tone, I had wanted to try a rose gold-y coloured blush for ages after seeing so many people talk about the Nars blush in 'orgasm' so I decided to try the Benefit rocketeur which I picked up in duty free before my last holiday, this past summer and it's been used so much since and I haven't even hit near the pan which makes me so happy!

It retails for £23.50 but it's probably my favourite blush ever on me which is a huge claim but I'm always reaching for it and I don't think many blushes can come close for the love I have for this one.

The next blush I have is the Sleek Blush in Rose Gold which is on the bottom of the photo I took. I really love this as a spring/summer blush it's a lot more summery than the others as it looks quite bright, I wouldn't say it's bright but it's a lot more of a flush on your cheeks and is very pigmented so a light hand is definitely needed with this product! I don't really use it in any other months apart from spring and summer as most of the time I don't want to look rosy because I have quite a lot of redness from blemishes on my skin and I don't want to bring out the redness after I've covered it up if you see what I mean. It's gorgeous and a perfect shade if you love your pinks. It also has lovely shimmers in it, they are noticeable but aren't over the top which I was worried about at first but this blush just adds a little bit of shimmer which creates a healthy glow. 

This blush is the cheapest one at £4.49 which is amazing for the pigmentation and quality of this blush! It can be bought from Superdrug or Boots if you are in the UK. 

The last which is obviously in the right corner of the photo is the Max Factor Creme Puff blush in Seductive Pink. It's a gorgeous in-between of a pink/mauve blush it is super natural on my skin tone and lasts for a long time throughout the day- like the other two blushes mentioned. I haven't tried any other products from Max factor apart from a foundation when I tried this and it's made me think that I definitely need to try more from them as this is a gorgeous colour and complements my skin so much, whether I have a tan or not I would use this! 

This one retails for £8.99 which I think is a fair price but if I didn't know how good it was I probably wouldn't have bought it but as I bought it in a 3 for 2 offer in Boots a while back I got it and I'm so glad I did!

I really want to try a few more high end blushes so what are your favourites? I'm tempted to try the Nars Blush in Love Joy and the Charlotte Tilbury blush in First Love, which I have linked below if you are intrigued to what they look like!

Other Blushes Mentioned:

Nars Blush in 'Love Joy'

Nars Blush in 'Orgasm'

Charlotte Tilbury Swish and Pop Blush in First Love

What's your favourite Drugstore or High End Blush?! I'd love to know. 

My Favourite Affordable Drugstore Contour Palettes

I have tried my fair share of contouring and bronzing kits, either the more expensive ones or the very affordable and perfect for when you're on a budget ones! And there are so many amazing contour kits/palettes everywhere at the moment so I thought this may be helpful for those who are on the hunt for a drugstore contour kit that would be perfect for them!

Left to Right:

 Revolution Ultra Contour Palette - browse it here

Seventeen Define and Conquer Contour kit - browse it here

Revolution Contour kit - browse it here

Sleek Face Contour kit-browse it here

I love the Revolution palette which is to the top left of these photos I've taken, it has such a great array of shades perfect for creating that chiseled cheekbone, I find the highlighters are super great considering I wasn't expecting much I am very impressed, I love the white coloured one for everyday wear! I usually use the second shade in from the bottom row, which is seriously my perfect contour shade, it's not too taupe coloured and is not orange at all and I find most bronzing colours can literally make me look stupid because my skin is naturally quite fair and orange contour shades do not suit me on bit!

The Seventeen one is perfect for holidays I think I think my shade as I have medium, is a bit too orangey for me but if applied super lightly I can just about get away with it, I am going to get so much wear out of this in summer as It's more orangey toned and will flatter my summer tan a lot better than it does now! But for the price it's super affordable, and ticks all the boxes, considering it comes with a highlighter which is great although it is no comparison to most of my high end highlighters but I can deal with that! This is amazing value.

Next Up is my Revolution Sculpting Contour kit, or at least I've told myself that's what it is called! It comes with a contour shade, a highlighter and a pretty pink/coral blush, it is so compact and the products are quite good for a cheaper drugstore brand, Makeup Revolution give brands like Seventeen, Miss Sporty a run for there money as the products are of similar prices and just work well. The bronzing shade isn't the best match for my skin tone but when I have fake tan on it's the perfect colour and for bronzing up my neck and face to match the rest of my body it works so well. The blush is a lovely sweet coral/pink colour which is really flattering on lots of skin tones. I have used the highlighter twice and also think it's good, so this palette is so affordable at only £3.50 yes it's unbelievable how much you can get for your money from Makeup revolution!

Lastly I am going to mention my Sleek Contour Kit mine is in fair, it is a lovely small little face duo perfect for adding colour into your skin with the bronzing shade and the gorgeous little highlighter shade, this is one of the best contour kits I've tried from Superdrug, which is a drugstore shop or those who may be unfamiliar with UK drugstore shops! the contour shade doesn't come out too dark for my skin and blend so easily compared to most of these other shades of bronzing/contour shades. It's a perfect little contour kit!

Here are all the Contour Kits/Palettes I have mentioned, and the contents of them all. 

What are your favourite contour/bronzing palettes?! 

Travel Friendly Palettes

I am a girl who loves a good makeup palette, whether it's eyeshadows or a bronzing/blush palette I love them all! So I thought I would share my favourite travel friendly palettes as I have so many palettes I thought this would be an interesting read for those who want to find easier to travel around with makeup, which can just be popped in your handbag and won't take up to much space!

I will leave links to all of these palettes below if you want to check them out!

So the palettes I have chosen to feature in this post are:

Tanya Burr Hollywood Palette - here

Urban Decay Naked 2 Basics Palette - here

Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 Palette - here

Mac quad (made myself) -  

Omega - here

Woodwinked - here

Palette (quad) -  here

Below is a photo I took of all the palettes in natural lighting so this is how they look, and they look as true to colour as I could possibly get them too. 

Tanya Burr Hollywood Palette - 

Buy here from www.superdrug.co.uk

This palette is perfect for travelling, I have only tried this palette out of all of Tanya's quad palettes, and the colours are absolutely stunning! I love the shade 'gold coin' it's so pretty and looks pretty on the lids but still remains quite natural compared to other shadows. I love this palette and a I went away for the weekend a few weeks ago and took this palette and it was so travel friendly and having a mirror makes it even more handy as you can do your eyeshadow just about anywhere! 

Urban Decay Naked 2 Basics Palette - 

Buy here from www.houseoffraser.co.uk

This palette is one perfect for everyday, in fact I use it everyday as I always use the middle shade for filling in my brows as you can see I do use it quite a lot haha! I also love using the second shade in just to cover veins on my eye lids when I just want it to look natural and barely look like I have any eye shadow on my lids, it's also a great palette for creating browny smokey eyes so it has so many uses and you can create a variety of eye looks using just this little palette!

Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 Palette -

Buy here at www.superdrug.co.uk

I never thought pink eyeshadow would look nice on me, I've always wanted to try it but had been too scared. So when I noticed this palette around four/five months ago I wanted to give it a go especially for the £4 price tag but I was definitely a bit skeptical because of how cheap it was, it sounded to good to be true! but It isn't! I am amazed at the quality and I am so looking forward to using this palette in the summer as I think these shades will look beautiful and I just think they look so summery. I think this is such a good palette size, it's a bit bigger than the first two palettes but it would be perfect for a date night or weekend away and they just look so pretty and girly that it looks like you've spent ages doing your makeup, they are such pigmented eyeshadows and I really recommend this gorgeous £4 palette!

Mac Quad - 

Buy the Quad Palette here

Buy the Eye shadows here

Lastly out of all my favourite travel friendly palettes is my Mac quad, I only have two eye shadows called 'Omega' and 'Woodwinked' but you can fill up these palettes yourself and pick the exact shades which you want which I think is amazing! I love using Omega for my eyebrows too sometimes to just add a bit more colour and fill them in. I think Woodwinked is such a stunning golden coloured eyeshadow which has the most gorgeous shimmer but isn't too over the top, it's perfect to pair with a pink or red lip and this palette is so small you could definitely take it most places as it'll probably fit in a clutch bag or a purse so is definitely very travel friendly!

What is your favourite palette(s) to take on your travels?

A Mini Feel Unique Haul

I adore buying makeup, but as you can see by this little haul I did have some self control this time, but not much! as I still managed to picked up a makeup product! So I hope you enjoy this little post!

The products I purchased:

The Balm Mary Lou Manizer Highlighter - here

Cocoa Brown Tough Stuff - here

The Feel Unique Website - www.feelunique.com

So firstly I picked up the infamous and very much talked about Mary Lou Manizer highlighter which I tested out straight away as I just could not resist, it's so beautiful, snd a super shimmery highlighter and it looks gorgeous on the eyes and above the cheekbone area and basically it's just so pretty if I could apply it everywhere to my face I probably would... as it makes me feel like a glowing goddess!

It looks very gold/champagne colour in the pan which you can see in the photo I took of it below, but when it's applied its like a mixture of cream/gold so it's the perfect in between so it doesn't look crazy, it doesn't look coloured to me when applied, just a gorgeous glow, but it is very glowy and makes wherever you apply it to, on your skin look shiny and youthful, and it is literally amazing for above contour and makes chubby faced me, actually look like I have some cheekbones woo! It's clear to say, I'm in love!

This next item is something I have really been in need of, as I have recently got more into fake tan and making my not so tanned skin a bit darker, I really wanted to invest in a good body scrub one that would really make my fake tan apply better and one that would be amazing for removing excess tan which may have gone not so nice. I had tried the Cocoa Brown tan in Dark, and I love it and for such good value it's amazing and the colour is so gorgeous. I love being in the sun but I don't like the risks it apposes to my skin, especially since my face burns like a peach I have started taking much better care of my skin especially when being in the sun, so I decided I would rather fake tan as that is a lot better than damaging my skin in the long term. 

I love being tanned, I don't mind being pale but I find foundation is so much easier to match me when I'm tanned, maybe I'm just super fussy but I find foundations never match me correctly, either they are too pink toned or make me look ghostly white, and then the next shade up is usually too orangey on my skin! You can never win. When my body has it's natural colour I usually mix foundations to get a better and more precise colour match. But I love fake tanning and even though it's a lengthy process it makes me feel better about myself and personally I love my makeup more when I have a tan!

What's on your Feel Unique Wishlist?! 

Brows For Every Budget

I love having full eyebrow! I just love the appearance of them especially on my face shape, I have tried and tested plenty of eye brow kits and eye shadow shades to fill in my eyebrows and I thought I would share with you my favourite for achieving natural and full eyebrows from a low to higher budget! 

Now I adore each of these palettes and think the products are amazing quality so they would all be amazing, I have naturally dark-ish blonde hair! So I usually have the use quite light shades for my brows as I think this suits me best I will be taking you though the shades I also use in particular in each of the palettes! So Enjoy!

Seventeen Brow Kit - here at www.boots.com

I really enjoy using this palette on days where I want something quick and simple, this little palette is so useful as it has a mini brush and an eyebrow pencil so this is really handy for travelling and on the go! (although all of these are really!) It comes with a wax on the left hand side and the brow powder in the middle it is quite a mid toned brown colour but I can get away with it with my hair colour, although it's super easy for my eyebrows to look too much for me as I am heavy handed so I need a light hand when applying this, but don't get me wrong, it's a lovely colour when applied. It also comes with the white shade on the right which is perfect for highlighting the brow bone if you do so wish! I think this is so great and affordable at only £5.99!

Mac Quad - Omega and Woodwinked - here at www.selfridges.com

The next brow powder I use is this eye shadow from Mac which is called 'Omega' now I first discovered this after watching many YouTube videos where beauty guru's would use this shade if they had blonde to light brow hair and it looked amazing, so I had to try it myself and it just creates a really natural eyebrow colour and is so easy to create the appearance of thicker or fuller brows as this eyeshadow can be built up and doesn't straight away give you crazy eyebrows as the colour is light but not too light for filling in my eyebrows so I think this is great, however I do not use the other shade as I only use that on my eyes! This eyeshadow on it's own retails for £10 from Mac. 

Omega - here

Woodwinked - here

(woodwinked not used as a brow shade by the way it is a shimmery gold!)

Urban Decay Naked Basics 2 Palette - here at www.houseoffraser.co.uk

Lastly but definitely not least is my Urban Decay Naked Basics 2 palette, now this is so versatile and is so good as it has basically every eye brow shade you could need and I love using this as a palette for my eye shadow as well as an almost everyday essential for filling in my eye brows. I just find it has every neutral eye shadow shade I would need and it's just a bonus that it has my perfect shade for filling in my eyebrows which is called 'Frisk' as you can probably tell because I have hit the pan quite a bit now! I think this has such a variety of shades so I would say it's literally a perfect eyebrow palette! even though it's an eyeshadow palette it's perfect as it's basically a 2 in 1! The only downside is the price at £23 but it can be used in so many ways and with Urban Decay products you get what you pay for! The quality is amazing!

What is your favourite product or products for filling in your eyebrows?

Makeup brush cleaning and My Essentials

I wanted to do a post a bit different today it's still beauty/makeup related but I just thought it would be something a bit different to a makeup review or what I'm loving at the moment, and that is makeup brush cleaning! 

Now I personally hate cleaning my makeup brushes as it's such a tedious chore, but definitely HAS to be done! 

Now I don't use anything fancy really, I had started using baby shampoo for my brushes ever since I actually started washing my makeup brushes which was quite a few years ago and I definitely recommend it, as it gets rid of the dirt and I find gets stains out of my brushes the best! 

Baby shampoo is great as it is cheap and can be bought from drugstore shops and in super markets, so it's perfect for picking up from just about anywhere!

You can buy the Johnson's Baby Shampoo here

I have also started regularly using this silicone brush cleaning mitt (well I say mitt but it is tiny!) It has a slot on the bottom which you can use like a mitt which you can hold with two fingers on one hand and then with the other hand you can swirling the brush in water and then using your soap or in my case baby shampoo then cleaning the brush with the mitt. and repeat this process until they are clean! It is super quick (a lot quicker than I made it sound haha) 

The only down side to this little mitt/brush cleaner is how small it is! I did get it from amazon for under £2 so it's great for eye brushes and small face brushes, but for bigger brushes it's not worth using! It works on all my brushes I would say except my Real Techniques powder brush and to be honest it definitely would but just will take a lot longer than the others! 

I definitely want to try another bigger silicone brush cleaner/mitt because I love this method and it makes the process a lot easier and quicker! I know Soap and Glory do one and also 

Products Mentioned:

Johnson's Baby Shampoo - here

Amazon Silicone Makeup Cleaning Mitt - here

Real Techniques Brushes - here

Soap and Glory Face Mitt - here

What are your makeup brush cleaning essentials?

Love Me Beauty - What I got In My Box

I had wanted to try love me beauty for a while now and I thought why not take the plunge when they had a offer on which got me all of this for only £4.95 including p&p lets just say I was pretty damn chuffed with this little bargain! 

If any of you want to use my promo code to get your own credits to get a love me beauty box, then my code 'JESSI357' will give you £21 of credits! enjoy!

Love Me Beauty Website - www.lovemebeauty.com 

So let me go through everything I got! everything came in a lovely grey box embellished with 'love me beauty' on the front which was gorgeous and so sleek. I have actually already started using it to hold some body products otherwise I would have put this in the blog post!

Let me also explain that unlike other subscription boxes, love me beauty lets you choose all the things you want to try yourself, with the credits you have which are what cost the money, so you buy the amount of credits you want then spend them! which I think is great as you can pick everything you'll use and it isn't so much a waste as some other beauty subscriptions might be if you don't use the products!

The first product I picked out were these little love me beauty eye lash curlers which are obviously from there brand! I think they are amazing though as I have actually tried and tested all these products now, after receiving this box around a month ago! They really create a great curl and I didn't think eye lash curlers were that important but these are soo good!

I then chose this brow pencil called the Lord and Berry Magic Brow mine is called 'Wonderful' as it is the shade for blonde hair and it's such an amazing brow pencil I am super duper happy and I really wasn't expecting it to be that great when I got it as I have high expectations for products and usually I end up disappointed but nope, this is the perfect match for my eye brows and it has a spooley on the other end so it's really useful how this is like a 2 in 1 product! perfect for travelling too!

Now I couldn't go without this product when I was looking online at everything I could have chose from! It's the Nails Inc Gel Effect nail polish in 'Hyde Park' and I am obsessed but I won't go on too much as my last post had this featured in it which I will link below if you want to read it but it's such a greyish blue colour which doesn't sound that great but it is so so pretty!

Lastly I got a very talked about product in the blogging world, which is the Dr Paw Paw red tinted balm, it is a multi purpose balm which can be a lip balm or can be used on your eye lids and it's basically just a balm which has many purposes! I have been using it as a lip balm/moisturiser and it smells lovely and does really hydrate my lips before and after I am wearing lipstick.

So those were the products! I love everything and I still can't believe I got them all for such an amazing price! 

My latest post featuring the nail polish mentioned - Products I'm Loving Lately 

My invite code which will give you £21 in credits - 'JESSI357' 

Love Me Beauty Eye lash Curlers - here

Lord and Berry Eyebrow Pencil in Wonderful - here 

Nails inc Gel Effect in Hyde Park - here

Dr Paw Paw Red Tinted Multi-Purpose Balm - here

Would you try any of these products?

Have you ever tried beauty box from Love Me Beauty? 

Product's I'm Loving Lately

If you'd like to see what products I have been loving in the past month or so then you've come to the right place! I have a mixture of Makeup, Perfume, Body care favourites so I hope you lovely's enjoy and don't forget to tell me what you've been loving too! 

You can find all of the products below: 

Soap and glory Sugar crush body spray - here

Nails Inc Nail Polish in Hyde Park  - here

Benefit Laugh with me Lee Lee Fragrance - here

Nyx Soft Matte lip cream in Copenhagen - here

Seventeen Wet look Liquid eye liner - here

Soap and glory heel genius cream - here

The comforter shower cream - here

Mac lipstick in Velvet Teddy - here

Mac Whirl lip liner - here

Soap and glory Sugar crush body Spray: This body spray is such a gorgeous, sweet scent and it's just a mist/spray so it's easy to just use and makes you smell amazing! It's super good value but it's so easy to use so much as it just smells so amazing! If you like the sugar crush scent you will love this!

Nails Inc Nail polish in Hyde park: I have been having this on my nails constantly throughout January and this month too as it's on my nails right now so it's definitely a nail polish I have an attachment too, because I literally can't stop wearing it. It is the loveliest grey/blue and it just looks so classy and elegant on the nails.

Benefit Laugh with me Lee Lee Fragrance: For a perfume favourite this Benefit one has been my absolute favourite. I love the scent, it's the perfect feminine floral and powdery and I adore the packaging of this perfume too. I definitely think I a going to be loving it for a long long time and the scent lasts really well on my skin!

Nyx Soft Matte lip cream in Copenhagen: Now I hate purple lipsticks on me, but this is the only colour I have found that I actually really like on my skin tone, with some goldy/bronze eye makeup I really have been liking using this, but I probably won't be using it for a while because I am wearing so many pink/peachy lipsticks now the weather is getting a little better.

Seventeen Wet look Liquid eye liner: I am definitely not a pro at applying eye liner. This one is probably one of my most favourites I've discovered along with the barry m liquid liner which you can find here it looks so good on and I feel I can control the nib and the thickness quite easily, which I find very difficult with most liquid eye liners! I really like the fact its 'wet look' too because I think it looks super black as soon as it's applied and stays the same the whole day for me!

Soap and glory heel genius cream: Now I am not a foot lover, really to be honest I hate them, like they are just weird compared to my hands I think feet look super weird, but I know we all have them so. I have really been liking this foot cream, it is quite thick but is so nice to put on and then put on a pair of socks to let your feet soak in the moisture and literally my feet have never looked better! I love painting my toe nails too just because well I think painting them and keeping them nice makes my feet look at least 20x better! I don't usually use foot cream but I really think this is so good!

The comforter shower cream: I am someone who really loves sweet scents and this shower cream from lush is no exception for that! It has the same smell as the much loved and raved about 'The comforter bubble bar' which I adore so I had to buy this! The smell is glorious and I know that I need to buy more before I run out or I will definitely not be a happy bunny!

Mac lipstick in Velvet Teddy: I know this is everyones favourite Mac lipstick but it just has barely come off my lips lately, it's my go to lip colour if I want something that looks sophisticated or won't require to much upkeep throughout the day. As it's a matte lipstick it lasts for ages on the lips!

Mac Whirl lip liner: I also have been loving my Mac lip liner in the shade whirl, it is a super stunning colour and if you like neutral pink lips this lip liner is great and because I have so many neutral nude lipsticks it suits so many of my lipsticks which is a bonus in itself!

What have you been loving recently?!