Affordable Drugstore makeup products under £10

I love a bit of drugstore makeup shopping and drugstore makeup quality has been improving so much lately, I thought I would just share with you all a few affordable drugstore makeup products that are for eyes and eyebrows, I find there are actually so many amazing dupes for high end products so I thought I'd share them!

So the first is a palette, from Maybelline, and I don't actually hear a lot about this palette but I think the shades are lovely, they are mostly shimmery shades and I think this palette is great for those who want to branch out into trying different eye shadow shades but don't want to spend around £40 for a pre-made palette like the Urban Decay Naked palettes, this blushed nudes palette is just under £10 and the shades are mostly pink, like the Naked 3 palette. 

The next product is from Freedom, this is a fairly new (I think, correct me if i'm wrong) high street makeup brand, which is sold in Superdrug. They have a lot of products that have caught my eye as of how cheap and good quality they look, this product is a brow pommade/pomade which is the cheaper equivalent to the anastasia dip brow pomade, I have the shade taupe, which I think is a lovely shade for my considerably dark eyebrows (for me having dark blonde hair anyway!) 

The great thing is you only need the tiniest bit and this was £5 so I'm guessing it will last me ages! 

The last product is by Makeup Revolution, which is a makeup brand I am loving to pieces at the moment! I love their eyeshadows, contour kit and now this, which is a handy little eyebrow kit mine is in the light/medium one and I can't believe it was only £2.50 I think they shades in it are brilliant and I can mix the shades to match my eyebrows perfectly (and yes I have used it but it still looks untouched haha!) I think they do a medium/dark one too but it is just such a handy palette to take on the go or in your bag, it has a mirror and tweezers and a brush if you need to use the product on the go to, which I think is fab!

Products featured and links:

Maybelline Blushed Nudes Palette - www.superdrug.com

Freedom Brow Pomade (Taupe) - www.superdrug.com

Makeup Revolution Brow Kit (Light/Medium) - www.superdrug.com

What are your favourite affordable makeup products?!

Makeup products I'm Obsessed with this month!

I am going to be sharing with you three items (all makeup products, surprise surprise!) I have literally not stopped over the past month or so. 

So this month I have been loving trying a few different makeup products in my collection, which have been sadly pushed aside, from me buying so much makeup lately, OOPS. but it's easily done! -you can never have enough am I right?! 

Products Featured: 

Chanel 'La Mysterieuse' - www.johnlewis.com

Sleek Matte Me 'Birthday Suit' - www.superdrug.com

Maybelline Lash Sensational Waterproof - www.superdrug.com

The only product I had been yet to try before in this photograph was the waterproof lash sensational mascara, as I had already absolutely loved the non waterproof version, but now the weather is hotter my itchy/watery/hayfever-y eyes definitely do not! 

The first product is actually this beautifully packaged Chanel lipstick called 'La Mysterieuse' which unfortunately I have lost the swatch picture of it so if you are curious to see the colour you can find it featured in an older blog post of mine here. It is the prettiest shade which I would describe as a purple-y red pink shade and I find it so hard to wear red shades but on the lips it is a gorgeous in-between of red/pink on me and I am so happy with it and the formula is so silky considering its a matte lip stick and I adore it!

The second you may have seen in my liquid lipsticks blog post, and it is the much talked about Sleek Matte Me lipstick in the shade 'Birthday Suit' it is so pretty and has been compared and is said to be a dupe for 'Dolce K' by kylie cosmetics. It is quite pinky on me, which I'm not sure is because of my natural lip colour, but I think it is such a pretty shade perfect for Spring/Summer weather hence why I have been using it a lot throughout the past month!

The last is the mascara, the lash sensational-non waterproof has been my favourite mascara for around 6 months I would say could be less or more but thats my rough estimate. And I had absolutely no fault in it at all, until my eyes were affected by the ever so dreaded hay fever which I experience everytime the weather gets nicer! It's annoying but I'm so glad I tried the waterproof because it DOES NOT BUDGE! It is soooo good and is definitely replacing my normal lash sensational, the only downside is that it takes me twice as long to get off as non waterproof mascara does, but it works even better than my normal lash sensational as my lashes hold so much better and the curl lasts me literally all day. If you have been wondering whether to try it... then do it, it beats any high end mascara I have tried too, and for only £7.99!

What are some amazing makeup products you've recently discovered?! 

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?! 

Current Drugstore Palette Favourites

Makeup Palettes take up quite a big proportion of my makeup collection, I love trying lots of different colours, mattes, shimmers glitters, I love them all so I think this is why I have quite a few palettes now with various colours and finishes to them. 

I want to focus today on my current palette faves from the 'Drugstore' and I will hopefully do a high end version of this post soon so watch this space! So Enjoy Lovely's!

Where you can find them:

The Balm Nude Tude Palette - here

Makeup Revolution Redemption Iconic 3 Palette - here

Makeup Revolution Flawless Matte Palette - here

 My First fave is a hard one to categorise as I wouldn't say it was a drugstore palette but I bought it from Superdrug which is a drugstore health and beauty shop in the UK.  It is the Balm's Nude Tude palette, and it is sold on Superdrug, intact all of these palettes 

It has lots of beautiful shades and has a wide variety for a palette, it has a mixture of shades which is great for someone like me who uses neutral shades a lot and wants to experiment with new eye shadow shades! If you want to see what the inside looks like as I forgot to take a photo of the inside for this post you can see it here in my review of it!

The second is the Makeup revolution palette ahh these shades are divine and are so pretty on so many eye colours especially the shimmery ones. It's supposed to be just like Urban Decay's Naked 3 palette, which I have never tried and I didn't know if the pink toned shades would suit my eyes so I bought this one as a dupe for only £4 yes, you did hear that right! It's incredible for that price tag and the pigmentation is amazing... I don't need the Naked 3 while I have this! The palette has a mixture of shimmers, glitters and matte shades so perfect for creating so many pinky feminine eye makeup looks!

The Last but not least is also from Makeup Revolution can you tell I love there palettes...? It's called the Flawless Mattes palette and you guessed it, they are all matte shades, this was the perfect edition to my eye shadow collection as I have so so SO many shimmery and glittery eyeshadows but always end up using the same Mac or Urban Decay shades for my crease or transition colours, and I wanted to change that and this has so many different colours and different variations of each colours so it's perfect for creating simple eyes, but also you can use it for intensive eye makeup looks too!

Rimmel London Foundation Routine

I'm both a lover of foundations from both the drugstore e.g. Boots or Superdrug in the UK, but I also love high end foundations too, for example, Estee Lauder, Mac etc. But today I wanted to share my foundation and concealer routine using two of my favourite Rimmel London products.

So the two products I use regularly are: The Rimmel Match Perfection foundation in 103 True Ivory, and the Rimmel Wake me up concealer in Ivory. The concealer is the lightest shade in the range I think, but it's lighter than my skin tone and the foundation so it's perfect from creating that lightening effect under the eyes which also makes me look more awake, so it's a winner for me!

Firstly the foundation is a great match for me probably the best drugstore foundation colour wise for me, it blends in super well and there's no obvious foundation line. It offers I think a light to medium coverage but it covers spots and blemishes quite well for me so I rarely need to use much concealer on my pesky blemishes when I use this foundation. It lasts well for a drugstore foundation I think this is because of the consistency it isn't too thin or too thick but it's a nice in between. I love using it when I know I want a basically perfect colour match to my skin and want to look nice and glowy as without powdering this offers a nice natural glow but doesn't make my oily patches look too much!

The concealer I will then use under my eyes, I do the typical triangle shapes under both of my eyes and then blend it in put patting it in rather than blending it in, as this is the way I find works best for me and I don't need as much of the concealer under my eyes so cover the darker patches when I've had a late night! I rarely use it for blemishes at it's suppose to be a 'wake me up' effect concealer so I don't want to bring more attention to my blemishes but if I don't have any other concealer a.k.a my favourite-istt one for covering blemishes the collection lasting perfection which can also be bough from Boots or Superdrug in the UK. But I'm not sure if they stock it anywhere else unfortunately!

But if I don't this is when I will use this concealer, but I love this one for brightening my dark and tired eyes.

I hope at least one of you found this helpful if you're looking for some makeup base gems from the drugstore! 

These two are so much cheaper than high end foundations and concealers as these two work just as well in my opinion! 

Here are the products I use if you want to take a look at them a bit more:

Rimmel Match Perfection - Here at Boots

Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer - Here at Boots

Mini Haul | Rimmel Kate Moss Lipsticks

These Lipsticks are SO Gorgeous! They are the Rimmel Kate Moss lipsticks, and I bought them recently from Superdrug, for around £4 each on an offer, which was a total steal as I have four other Kate Moss Lipstick's which you can take a look at in my Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick's Collection here, which I will have to update soon as I have these beauties to add!

So the one on the Left hand side is the number '03' it's a gorgeous muted pinkish brown/ it is a lovely nude colour and I feel it really complements my skin tone well and I'm sure would complement a lot of skin tones too, as I have been using them for a few weeks now but took the pictures previously (but who doesn't like taking pictures of their new untouched makeup haha am I right) They are both so pigmented and smell amazing for drugstore lipsticks as I've had a few that I hated the smell so much I can barely use them! *cough Bourjois rouge edition velvet's*

The one on the Right hand side is '38' which I have heard a lot about this year especially from beauty guru's on YouTube I have been lusting over it for ages and ages and I'm so happy I finally have it and I'm not disappointed I'm been so obsessed with using it as it looks so pretty and complements my lip shape, I've only been using it for a few weeks and within the first two applications I knew it was love... 

Left To Right - Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in '03', Rimmel Kate Moss Lipstick in '38',

Here are the links below to them:
www.feelunique.com

As I previously said I love the Rimmel Kate Moss Lipsticks and they are the Brand I always go back to and they never fail to impress me with the quality and how beautiful all the lipsticks apply and last, they are probably my favourite drugstore lipsticks along with the L'Oreal Eva's nude lipstick! *heart eyes emoji* but they are so comparable to Mac, and other high end lipsticks I have used and they are less than half the price or even a third of some expensive lipsticks I own!

Have You Ever Tried Rimmel Kate Moss Lipsticks If so, what are your favourites?!

I'd love to know in the comments below!

Drugstore Products I loved through Summer 2015

I thought today would be a perfect day to make a blog post all about the products I have been loving throughout Summer which is well and truly over well for having nice weather and wearing summery clothes it is! for me anyway! For the past few days I have been cold everyday! And it keeps raining at the most annoying times! ugh one step closer to winter I suppose!

So I've been loving a primer, foundation, concealer, a contour kit and a mascara, all of which are drugstore so are easy to get hold of for a great, affordable price too. But just because I have been using them a lot this Summer doesn't mean I wont carry on using them, because I certainly will!

So the primer I have been using has been the Body Shop's Instablur which I think really does make my makeup last all the bit longer that I need it too, which has been perfect this Summer as with having combination skin, I have needed this in my oily parts where makeup seems to slip off haha! It has been a godsend to me and I wish I tried it sooner.
Body Shop's Instablur Primer - £14

The foundation and concealer I have been loving are both from Rimmel London, one of my favourite drugstore brands!

The foundation is the Match perfection foundation and I love this one for a good medium coverage I would say with the amount I use anyway it gives me a medium coverage, I love the consistency too which is a weird thing to say but some foundations are too watery but this one is a good in between and offers good coverage for small imperfections and blemishes if you are looking for a foundation like that I would try this one!
Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation - £7.99

I am loving the wake me up concealer for just concealing dark circles under my eyes, but it doesn't work well on spots for be as it is a brightening concealer and has little shimmers in, and I definitely don't want my blemishes sticking out more!
Rimmel wake me up concealer - £5.49

The Maybelline Lash sensational has been my lash favourite and it makes me lashes appear so much more lengthened and volumised, I tried this after I used a small sample of the Benefit Roller Lash and it's supposed to be a dupe but I think this one is SO much better! It is amazing and it does beat most high end mascara's I have tried and It just makes your eyelashes so much bigger, and I have such short lashes I find it hard to find a mascara which will lengthen and add volume to thicken my lashes, but this one has it all!
Maybelline Lash sensational Mascara - £7.99

Last but not least is the Seventeen contour kit, which I recently featured in my Seventeen Makeup Haul go give that a read if you'd like to see what else I got and also see the inside of the kit! But it is a lovely little contour kit which just has a contour and highlight shade, and I must admit i have only been using it for maybe two weeks or less but I love both the highlight shade and the contour shade, as it can be built up to your desired contour look, it doesn't look too orangey or too brown toned, it just looks lovely, the only thing I would say is that I have the shade medium and I do have to build it up a few times, but for the price I love it and I really enjoy using it.
Seventeen Define and Conquer Contour Kit - £5.99

My Current Skincare and Bodycare Favourites

These three have been my complete favourites! During the past few months my skin has been getting so dry and I've needed to use more products targeted at dry skin and these are the three I'm so happy with now! So let me tell you a bit more about them!

They are all from the high street and are a mixture of products from Sainsburys/Superdrug and Lush, so all quite affordable and easy to get hold of it you want to give any of them a go. Hope you enjoy seeing my Current Skin/Body care Favourites.

Zoella Scrubbing me Softly body scrub - £7.00 

This scrub is gentle on the skin and smells so lovely This is my body favourite of the three products I use this on my arms, legs, elbows and knees and it leaves them feeling soft and supple it gets red of the dead skin(I know lovely) that we all will get over time and leaves your skin feeling nourished locks in some moisture which is good as I don't feel I need to moisturise straight after which is good because lets be honest moisturising your body can be a bit of a chore!

My Top Drugstore Foundations

Hello Girlies!

Today I thought as it's now summer, that I would show you my favourite drugstore/highstreet foundations, I will start by saying I have picked three foundations from Boots/Superdrug which are all around £10 or under. (also sorry for the awful foundation stains on the true match lid, they literally wouldn't come off the lid!)

Bourjois healthy mix serum foundation:
Probably my favourite foundation out of all of these. It offers a light to medium coverage, if built up it can be quite a good medium coverage but feels so lightweight on the skin, and doesn't look one bit cakey, even if it is set with a powder on top.

Review of the Makeup Revolution Iconic 3 Palette

Today's post is all about a palette I have been loving from Superdrug which comes to the total of £4! Yeah, you heard that right! 

I have always loved my Urban Decay Naked 2 Palette but when they bought out the Naked 3 which is all pinkish toned eye shadows I was a bit dubious to try it after never venturing out into trying pinky colours on my eyes, as I had always stuck to neutral colours as I thought they looked really elegant on my blue eyes, and I wasn't sure if pinks would suit me. but this little £4 palette has changed my mind!

Variety of shades: This palette offers 12 beautiful pinky coppery colours but has two or three darker purple-y-taupe shades, There are a mixture of shimmery glittery colours and mattes so you have everything you need in one palette to make lots of different pinky eye shadow looks anywhere you like! 

My top favourite Bronzers

Bronzing or contouring has become a very popular throughout the last year or so on YouTube, and the Blogosphere whether you want a subtle contour or a Kim K one it is easy to master with the correct products! 

Now I have a mixture of high end and drugstore favourite bronzers, mostly drugstore as I love a good contour and get through bronzers quite quickly and this means it can get fairly expensive if I am using just high end ones! I will be giving my honest opinions on them all but as you can see by the title of  this blog post these are my most loved and most favourite bronzers, so enjoy!

Left to right- Benefit Hoola Bronzer, Makeup revolution 'blush stick' in Matte Malibu , Sleek Face form Contour Kit in Light, Avon Bronzer in Medium Riviera-Top

Quick Drugstore Makeup haul!

Hi Everyone!

I'm back with a Makeup Haul! I have accumulated quite a few new makeup items from boots and thought I would share them with you all!

I will link all the pages where they can be bought below, and also I will list shade names numbers etc. But the whole point of this post is just to show you the makeup I've bought and if you would like any reviews on any or makeup including them pop a comment below to let me know!

1. Maybelline colour drama lip crayon in 'Nude Perfection'