Back to School: Make Up Recommendations

September has arrived, and for us in the UK that means back to school, college or university. Being in my last year of college, I choose to wear a full face of make up every day, as do many other people, and these are my recommendations for which beauty products will be long lasting and natural looking.

Face

Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation – This foundation is cheap as chips, and works well for many people, it is a popular foundation amongst beauty bloggers and I find it easy to apply evenly, leaving my skin looking natural yet covered to perfection.

Rimmel Match Perfection Illuminating Concealer – I use this concealer under the eyes, it’s brightening and awakening and after late nights trying to finish work, I definitely need it!

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer – this is the concealer I use for blemishes and it definitely does the job. It blends in well and covers blemishes better than any other concealer I've ever used.

Benefit Hoola Bronzing Powder – This is the luxury splurge of the recommendations, but it is the best! It contours your face like no other bronzer I’ve ever tried and is so highly pigmented that one brush stroke through the powder is enough for one cheek.

Rimmel Stay Matte Pressed Powder – This is possibly the best drugstore face powder, and it does what it says on the tin. With one application my face stays matte all day and makes me feel like I’m not wearing any make up at all!

Eye Brows

Maybelline Master Sleep Brow  Mascara – This is the new brow mascara from Maybelline, and it’s great, it keeps my brows looking great all day and I’ve used it every day since I bought it! I couple this with a Revlon eye shadow to make my brows look more defined, but it looks just as great on its own.

Eyes

L'Oreal Super Liner Black Lacquer – This is the king of all liquid liners, it literally stays on all day, I've even worn it swimming once by accident and it came out looking the same as when I went in! it is so easy to apply and needs no topping up during the day, ideal for busy school days.

Soap and Glory Lid Stuff Flawless Finish Eyeshadow – These four shades are perfect for school, three of the eye shadows are matte and look very natural, and the fourth has only the slightest shimmer meaning it still looks very natural. I recommend ‘what’s nude’ as these are the neutral shades, but there is also a smokey eyes palette and a colourful palette which includes blue and purple.

Rimmel London Lash Accelerator Endless Mascara -  This mascara makes lashes look natural rather than clumpy and coated in mascara, yet they make lashes look long and defined, the perfect mascara for a natural look!

Lips

Maybelline Baby Lips Lip Balm – Of course it would be these lip balms; they’re everyone’s favourite at the moment! I own all six, but the two I would recommend for school are Intense Care and Cherry Me, intense care is great for people with dry lips, like me, and Cherry Me gives a beautiful natural tint to lips without looking to intense.

Keep your eyes open for a ‘what’s in my school make up bag’ post later on today!

Review: Maybelline Master Sleek Brow Mascara

Working in boots has an added advantage of seeing new products being put out on the shelves as soon as they are released. Yesterday we put out the Maybelline Master Sleek Brow Mascara, and I snapped one up as soon as I could. At £4.99 you wouldn’t expect miracles from this product, but it claims to have a ‘long wearing formula that won’t streak, clump or flake’.  So I thought I’d do a quick review after testing it out.

The brush has a ball shape on the end for easier combing through eyebrows to give a natural finish. My brows ended up looking well groomed and still natural; I could hardly tell I had put anything on. I will definitely be adding this into my make up bag to use every day, I think it is a great new product from Maybelline. 

Collection Review: Max Factor Wild Collection

 In July 2013, Max Factor released a new range of products; this included the wild mega volume mascara, the wild shadow pots and the wild shadow eye shadow pencil. I picked up one each of these products from boots in a ‘3 for 2’ event.

The mascara has an hourglass shaped wand, designed to reach every lash, and it definitely does, however I feel it makes my inside lashes appear too long and unnatural. The mascara claims to be water resistant and give three times the volume, both of which are probably untrue, although it does build the lashes up well and stays on all day. After applying the mascara, my lashes looked instantly longer and darker and it was obvious I was wearing mascara. Overall I think this is a good, quality drug store mascara, although I would not use it every day, it’s nice to use occasionally for days where I want to look more ‘made up’.

The shadow pots are by far my favourite in the collection, with thirteen colours to collect; I was spoilt for choice and will definitely be going back for more next time I go shopping. I wore burnt bark all day to test out how long it lasted, and to my surprise it was still there at the end of the day! The colour pots are highly pigmented and have lots of great shades to choose from. Overall I think these eye shadow pots could be used for day and night and are a make up bag necessary because of the quality and large variety of colours.

Finally the shadow pencil, there are again a large variety of colours, with eight to collect all together. Although they do last well, because of the shimmer to them, they are not as easy to wear during the day. All of the colours are metallic; meaning pulling these off on a day to day situation would be much more difficult than the shadow pots. I chose the neutral shade of Caramel Rage and still found this colour hard to wear in the day time. Overall I would choose the shadow pots over the pencils any day.

Although the collection features three very good, very wearable products, I feel slightly let down by Max Factor as the products don’t make me want to wear them every day, like many other products do. However I would recommend trying them, as they are of a high quality and worth the cheap prices!

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Review: L’Oreal Colour Riche Collection Privée

Hey Guys!

So L'Oreal has recently brought out a new, limited edition brand of lipsticks known as Collection Privée. The collection consists of eight lipsticks, each designed to suit the skin colour of the star it was created for. The eight stars included in the collection are; Frieda Pinto, Julianne Moore, Jane Fonda, Fan Binging, Eva Longoria, Liya Kebede, Ines De La Fressange and Doutzen Kroes.

 I picked up three of the colours from my local Boots on a 2 for £14 offer (original price £8.19)

I think the packaging is absolutely gorgeous, its matte black with gold trim and gold writing, very elegant and sophisticated and suits the Hollywood personalities it is trying to represent.

But anyway, onto the actual product, the lipstick itself is sheer with a glossy finish. They do tint your lips, but are not as pigmented as other lipsticks, meaning they still look very natural which I think is great as it makes them wearable everywhere and would make a good back to school lipstick!

The texture of the lipstick is really creamy, and they apply to lips easily, making them feel moisturised, however the product can feel a little heavy, unlike many lipsticks that feel natural and light.

The three colours I picked up were Eva, Julianne and Doutzen, Julianne being my favourite of the three.

Eva’s shade is the darkest of the three; it is a dark pink shade and is also the least glossy of the three.

Doutzen’s lipstick is the lightest of the three, a sheer, pale pink colour and is more tailored to her tanned skin, hence why it doesn't suit my pale face!

Finally, Julianne’s colour is a reddish-pink, very sheer and glossy. I find it looks very natural because of its sheerness which is the main reason this shade is my favourite.

Also in the Collection Privée collection, the women have a nail polish and blush to match their skin tones, however I haven’t seen these in England’s drug stores yet, fingers crossed they’ll be available soon!

Bye Guys and have a nice week!

An Introduction

Hi Guys!

Initially I planned for my very first post to be beauty related for you, but I thought it might be better to do a quick introduction to myself and my blog.

My name is Jess, and this is my blog. On this blog I will be posting mainly beauty related posts, such as product reviews, top 10’s or something similar.  I may also occasionally include posts about other things in life that I enjoy, it may be a day out somewhere, a non-beauty related product that I love or a spontaneous post that could be about anything!

I will try and post at least once a week, depending on how busy things get, but you can expect a beauty post very soon.

Until then, have a nice day!