Beauty Brawl Day 3- Eyeliner

Day 3- Eyeliner

Gather around friends and companions, I have a sad tale to tell...it is the epic tale of HOW MY EYELIDS DON'T LIKE ANY EYELINER.

Whew...anyway. I have highly sensitive skin, it goes red if the temperature changes even slightly, part and parcel of Rosacea and sensitive skin. I'm fortunate in that over the past few years I have gained a lot of control over my skin, and now my main issue is just the redness and not really spots or veins etc...but, because I don't want to aggravate the skin Gods when my skin does play up against a new product I let my skin win it's little tantrum, for an easy life. So I DID buy a lovely liquid eyeliner to review today, but instead I am going back to an old faithful that I never have any issues with. I'm breaking the brawl rules slightly but when needs must...

Make up Revolution Awesome Double Flick Eyeliner (surprise!) 

Product: 80

Price: 95

Packaging: 60

My lovely old faithful is still not perfect. My issue with the product itself is it runs out so quickly. I do eyeliner nearly every single day. Other eyeliners I've used similar to this have lasted a good couple of moths...this is usually a monthly purchase for me. But considering it's only £3.50, even tightly budgeted months I can actually afford to get this product. 

When i'm doing special event make up on clients I always use high end products, usually Jane Iredale, Lush etc...but this eyeliner is always one I come back to for clients too. I even end up getting them hooked on this item too. 

The packaging is ideal for keeping in your handbag, a clutch or even a pocket. So you can literally top it up any time. It's super easy to use, even if you're not very skilled at the cat eye look. My only advice and stipulation would be to not use it for your lower lid. It's far too harsh and hard to blend out. Overall a great and inexpensive product.

Love and light. xoxo

Please go and check out Beth's Reviews so far over on her blog Here.

Beauty Brawl 2017 Day 2- Brow Product.

 Day 2- Brow Product

 Brows are important these days, long gone are the days of pencil/drawn on tiny lines and in with the bushy natural  looking (for most), eye framing brows. I quite like my brows, and like most people mine are definitely sisters and not twins. I had one that cooperates without question and the other that's a rebel without a cause. That's usually the one I hide under my hair, also happens to be the massive deciding factor in what side of my head I chose to shave. 

For this one I chose another Make up Revolution Item; Their Brow Pomade in "Graphite"

Brows done :) 

Product: 98

Price: 90

Packaging: 75

This product is actually amazing for the price. It's £6.00! That's INSANE for what it does. If you're not too apt at doing brows it may take a bit of practice, but once you get the hang of it (and have the right shade for your brows) this product is perfect. The consistency of it actually is quite waxy, which means it holds the brows into place, its easy to wipe off and adjust at first but also equally quite easy to remove at the end of the day...but also as a plus if you don't take it off at the end of the day your brows are actually still there the next morning. The packaging initially is the usual gold/black box, in keeping with the brand's style, but the actual product itself comes with an excellent little duel ended brush that is perfect for filling in on the flat side and shaping on the angled side. the little jar fits perfectly into your daily makeup bag. My only gripe is that the brush is really hard to clear off excess product if you do want to take it in your make up bag, and you do end up painting everything in your bag with the excess off the brush. 

That said this is an excellent product. 

Love and light. xoxo

Please check out Beth's day two Review Here

Beauty Brawl 2017 Day 1- Liquid lipstick

Day 1- Liquid lipstick

Not going to lie, I'm not a fan of liquid lipsticks. I'm an artist, make up artist and illustration, I like to be creative, wild and make a mess. Liquid lipsticks are harsh and unforgiving. They require you to be precised in a way only a surgeon can be... and then there's usually me plastering it on like a reject from a Miranda Sings lookalike competition. 

I went with an old faithful brand and chose Make up Revolution's Salvation Liquid Lipstick in "Velvet rose" , I also teamed it up with one of my favorite and a bit more pricier lip liners by Jane Iredale also in the shade "Rose" 

This is pretty much the only photo of me wearing this lipstick where it isnt smeared half way across my face or on my teeth.

Product: 40

Packaging:  70

Price:   90

All marked out of 100, as you can probably tell I wasn't too impressed. It took ages to dry and go matte, it dried my lips out and stained them really bad until the following day, and despite the fact it was stained it didn't actually stay on my lips very well, in fact the lip liner stayed on my lips a lot longer. The packaging is swanky and makes it look a bit more high end then it is, it feels nice to put on, although given how precised you have to be it's a bit tricky to get the hang of even for a pro. The best part about it was the price as it was only £3.00, which is insane. 

I've tried their darker liquid lipsticks and they all seem to be amazing in spite of my hatred of liquid lipsticks, I may just have had a dud, or because it is a lighter colour it doesn't perform the same as the others, or am I just making excuses. Regardless, only impressive thing was the price!

Love and Light. XoXo

Please go and check out Beth's Day 1 Review Here. 

Beauty Brawl Graphics http://emmadrury.com/

Make Up Revolution Haul (Tam Beauty)

Hello Beautiful Faces!
My blog posting was on such a roll, but life and tech issues are a plague upon the modern blogger!
Excuses aside...
I am a qualified make up artist. I'm allowed to have an unhealthy obsession with make up, but unlike other artists I have a low budget, no savings, I live pay to pay and sometimes cant afford to buy food... so when I do have spare money I don't really want to be spending ridiculous amounts on designer and trend make up. But I still want the outcome...and all I can say is THANK GOD FOR MAKE UP REVOLUTION.
I'm utterly in love. Its well priced, drugstore make up with the pay-off of a high quality brand, the added benefit of having vast amounts online, in store and being cruelty free too! BOOM

Over the past 5 months I've been picking up the odd item here and there so I thought i'd share them with you guys! I also created a couple of Halloween looks using these items AND I even did swatches of the lipsticks for you beauts! As usual links and current prices at time of posting are all below photos.

As much as I adore all their products I have to say the lipsticks have to be my favorite of them all.

(Left to Right)

Ultra Amplification Lipstick Shade; "Deepen" £3.00

Iconic Pro Lipstick Shade; "Liberty Matte" £2.49

Iconic Matte Shade; "Chauffeur" £3.00

Rose Gold Shade; "Private Members Club" £3.00

Rose Gold Shade; "Chauffeur" £3.00

Swatches (left to right) 

Chauffeur Matte, Chauffeur Rose gold, Private members club, Liberty Matte and Deepen.

 My first purchase was the Chauffeur in Rose gold, and I'm not going to lie, it was because of the packaging. My magpie mode engaged, I had £3 and a "F*ck it" moment. Then that lead into the pinky and berry shades, then the darkest berry matte and then Chauffeur in Matte because...well sometimes a girl needs a matte shade.

I also bought some of their Salvation liquid Lacquer- which I shall openly admit is not as good. It's a bit drying, if you eat with it on it seems to go powdery and its STAINS. I bought the shades "Velvet Vamp", "Velvet Reble" and "Velvet Black Heart", another disappointing part of this was Vamp and Black heart are identical shades. If i took the stickers off the packaging I wouldnt be able to tell them apart except in opacity. They also take a really long time to dry! 

and then stained for hours after...

They can all be found HERE and are all £3.00

 Next is Palettes. I have 3 eye shadow Palettes and one blush Palette and every morning it is always an annoying choice between them all as I usually want to wear all of them. But they all cater to my inner unicorn as much as my inner goth.

Mermaids Vs Unicorns £4.00
The colour pay off on this isnt as intense as you may think first off but it is totally worth the extra effort to drag across another layer. Shades are easily bendable and all of them pretty much work with one another. There are a few shades with added glitter just to appease that inner unicorn!

Dia De Los Muertos £6.00

This was actually my first ever Make up Revolution item and it's now about a year old. I bought it because at the time I had just coloured my hair bright green and I wanted the brights to contrast with my hair. Its well used and still not touched pan!

                                   
                                      

Flawless Matte £8.00
This is for my inner goth and grunge days. Every single shade in this palette is highly pigmented, and some even come out a lot darker than they are in their pans. I am very pale so do take into consideration that any colours will appear more pigmented on a blank canvas. But I truly Adore this palette. (there's now a flawless matte 2)

Ultra Blush Palette Golden Sugar £6.00 

I use this every day. I use the bottom right, non shine brown for contouring, the 3rd top for my blush and the white for highlight. And when i'm doing bridal make up i use bottom row and second in for blush as it has a pigment to it that also acts as a highlight and the soft rose colour works on all skin types and is amazing on every bride. 

Odds: Individual eye shadows and highlight.
Make up Revolution Eye shadow £1.00 each!!! There are loads of colours to chose from I have "Insomnia, Purple Heaven and Good Life"

Vivid Baked Highlighter "Pink Lights" £3.00

(Pink lights is no longer available on there website so I linked a coral highlight called "Rose Gold Lights")

And finally Awesome Double Flick eyeliner £3.50

(if you ever see my amazing cat-eye I usually wear daily on my Instagram, THIS is what I used)

If you've made it this far down the post here are some bonus Halloween pics using Make up Revolution products!

XoXo