Foundation

Diorskin Nude BB Creme – BB of my dreams!

February 13, 2013
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I honestly can’t believe how good this product is. Sometimes premium products are just drugstore products in expensive packaging. Diorskin Nude BB Creme is some kind of heavenly face ambrosia in make up form. I don’t know if BB Cream is really anything other than a light foundation, and when I’m wearing this free sample of Dior’s latest product, I honestly don’t care.   Look. At. My. Skin. Ok, this stuff is expensive at £30 for 30ml. I’m not suggesting you rush out and buy it without trying it. However, they are sampling it at Dior counters at the moment and I really recommend giving it a go. Dior foundation sample card The Dior Complexion – frankly I want it. Cute little 5-day sample bottle, I wish they were bigger! Like most BB Creams, this is a light foundation product. I’ve found that I like to use a bit more of…

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Quick Sampler: Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation

January 18, 2013
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In this image (above) I’m wearing Urban Decay Naked Skin Foundation in Shade 2 On Monday I popped into Debenhams to pick up a sample of YSL’s Touche Elcat Foundation. They’re sampling again and I thought I’d get a match for my winter skin shade to try out. While I was waiting for the YSL lady to appear I was drawn to the Urban Decay counter and couldn’t resist asking to try the Naked Skin foundation. The lovely sales assistant applied it quickly and efficiently with a brush and -wow- I love this make up! It is a perfect match for my skin and looks incredibly natural. Just like skin! Thanks to the scarcity of daylight, it’s really hard to photograph how much like skin it really looks. Trust me, it’s one of those where you see yourself in the mirror and go “Ooh! Good skin day!” It took me…

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Foundation Before and After: Max Factor Facefinity 3 in 1

December 11, 2012
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Max Factor have a new foundation out.  You might have seen a few sachets kicking around in magazines or at Boots. I’ve got one I’ve got to admit, I didn’t expect to like this product much. I expected it to come out pinkish, and dry on my skin. I also didn’t expect much in the way of performing like a concealer. It’s £11.99 for the usual size, which is 30ml I think. This makes it less than half the price of a premium foundation, and around the same price as something by L’Oreal or Revlon.   I got three uses out of the sachet and, by the third use I was so impressed with it I decided you needed to see Shocking Before and After Images of the product at work. I’m going to warn you, my winter skin without makeup on was *not* looking good (this is what I get for…

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Face of the Day: New Clarins Foundation Skin Illusion

November 1, 2012
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It’s not a full review as I’ve only tried a sample sachet but I must confess I am super excited about the new Clarins foundation “Skin Illusion”. It’s a light reflecting foundation with mineral and plant extracts and it’s so lovely to use, it’s definitely one for my foundation wish-list.  In the photo above I’m wearing the Skin Illusion Foundation in shade 109 “Wheat” with no concealer or powder. Such great coverage but it feels really light and lasts really well. Props Clarins, this is foundation-love-at-first-sight. I’m also wearing eyeshadows from the brilliant MUA Undressed Palette (£4). It’s the one that is the clone or “dupe” of the Urban Decay Naked palette and they’ve done a superb job. The colours are so wearable, blendable and the pigmentation is great. I don’t have the Naked palettes but I have several Urban Decay palettes and the quality of UD eyeshadows is obviously…

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Current Favourites: Foundation Routine

September 30, 2012
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Now the weather is turning autumnal and I’ve lost the *minescule* amount of sun-colour I pick up in July and August, it’s been back to pale and interesting with my foundation routine. I’ve gone from using a mix of two shades of the Rimmel Wake Me Up, to only using the paler shade, 100 Soft Ivory, and pairing it with the Rimmel Match Perfection illuminating concealer. I still really love Wake Me Up – a foundation that punches far above it’s weight. It’s still £3 off at Boots at the moment, making it just £5.99 – such a good deal! I reviewed it back in February and my love of it is still going strong. I wasn’t wowed by the match perfection concealer when I first picked it up as I felt it was a little too pale for me and my under eye area needed more cover. My under eyes…

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Review: Body Shop Lily Cole Pearl Radiance Primer

September 27, 2012
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This limited edition product is no longer available on the Body Shop website, but you can still pick it up on eBay for around £9 if you’re interested in picking it up. I was lucky enough to get this as a gift in my Save Up goodie bag. This probably has the most interesting texture of any primer I have used. A little demonstration on my hand, below… Above, initially squeezed onto hand it looks like a pearlised blob. It doesn’t look too promising at this point… Above, beginning to rub the product in, it is pink pearlised chunks suspended in a clear gel. This doesn’t look very cosmetic so far, I continue to rub it in… Above, hmm… after quite a bit more rubbing into my hand it is still pink chunks in a clear gel. This is starting to look like it isn’t going anywhere at all! However,…

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Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream is the One For Me and 2-for-£10

September 8, 2012
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Hey guys! We’ve been here before but I feel the need to reiterate my initial conclusion: Maybelline Dream Fresh BB Cream is definitely  the best BB cream I’ve tried. I’m not being sponsored or endorsed by them to say so (although I wouldn’t say no if they offered, hai Maybelline!) it’s just that it is so fresh!   Here it is in action on Wednesday I was going out for an eye-brightening consultation at the Clinique counter so I had NO eye shadow, NO concealer, just a touch of mascara and a smidge of something on my brows. You can see my dark circles a bit but everywhere else looks great and it’s all *just* the Dream Fresh 8-in-1 BB Cream. Brill, and indeed, Skills there Maybelline! Even Better:  right now all Maybelline cosmetics are 2-for-£10 at Boots! So you can get two tubes of it for £10 or two of…

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Estee Lauder Invisible Fluid Makeup Review

August 31, 2012
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If you visit the Estee Lauder UK page on Facebook you can click on their links to find a store near you that is giving out 10 day samples of their foundations. I asked at the Estee Lauder counter in my local Boots store, and although the sales assistant hadn’t actually heard of the Facebook promotion (oops!) she was happy to match my shade in their popular “Invisible Fluid Foundation” and gave me a little bottle of it to take away. The promotional phrase for this product is “See no make up, Feel no make up” and “The newest way to go flawless”, this sounds like a bit of a contradiction in terms as flawlessness with a very light coverage seems like a bold claim. As you know, I’ll try any foundation with an open mind, so let’s have a go at this one… This is the little sample in my…

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Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Review

August 29, 2012
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When Benefit’s “Hello Flawless” foundation came out, I went to the Benefit counter at Debenhams to have a test makeover with it. You can click here to read that post. I know everyone has different ways of doing things, but I can’t say that I was happy with the effect that the sales assistant achieved when she applied it on me. For a start, she missed my nose. I mean, no offence, but that thing is hard to miss! Maybe it was so conspicuous she didn’t want to touch it and get big noseness on her somehow? Anyway, I was really keen to try the foundation but she didn’t have any take-home samples and I wasn’t keen on buying it based on the results instore.   Skip forward a few weeks, and I went back to the Benefit counter in Truro to find the lovely Lucy is now working there. She was…

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Maybelline Dream Fresh 8-in-1 BB Cream Review

August 12, 2012
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You might remember from my post earlier in the week that I sent off for and received a free sample pack of Maybelline Dream Fresh 8-in-1 BB Skin Perfector from the Maybelline UK Facebook Page. The sample pack contains three small sachets (1ml each) in the “light” shade. Three samples in a row, wait! I’ve used one already… I’ve tried a few BB creams for you already, and interestingly it seems to me that each one I’ve tried, the brand has interpreted what BB should be (as if it should be anything, obviously!) in a different way. There’s the basically just a light foundation interpretation of the Garnier BB Cream and there’s the strange, matte, delightful chameleon interpretation of the L’Oreal Nude Magique BB Cream, and then there is this one. Here is some on my hand. It’s a thin cream texture like a liquid foundation. Interestingly, the sample shade is actually…

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