NYX Eyeshadow Base - Review

Hey, guys just a quick review today on the NYX eyeshadow base. I picked this up on a whim a few months ago, I'd been on the hunt for a flesh toned eyeshadow base (other than MAC soft ocre) for a while, so when I saw this in Boots I decided to pick it and give it a try. The product comes in a plastic jar with a screw top lid, which is quite lightweight and doesn't take up much space in my makeup drawers, and you get around 7g/0.25oz of product.

Favourite Drugstore Foundation & Primer - Maybelline Fit Me Matte+Poreless

Hi guys, today's review is on my all time favourite drugstore Foundation and Primer. I've always found it difficult to get a great colour match when it comes to drugstore foundations, back when I was in college I would just grab whatever shade I thought matched me and went with it (not the smartest move to be honest), and let me just say it did not look good. The foundations were never dark enough or they didn't have the right undertones for my complexion and I was always left looking a little grey - I'd then try to fix this by applying bronzer all over my face - it was a mess guys it was actually a mess.

But then I came across the Maybelline Fit Me foundation - the original one - and I think it was the first time I found a drugstore foundation that actually matched my skin! I was in love, this foundation worked pretty well for me at the time because my skin was going through a dry phase - the best thing about this was that it didn't cling to any dry patches and left me skin with a dewy finish. But my skin started changing and became less dry and more oily/combination and I felt that this foundation just wasn't working for me anymore, so I bit the bullet and got colour matched at MAC and bought the Studio Fix Fluid - which has become one of my holy grail foundations and something  I have repurchased multiple times. But I was still on the lookout for another drugstore foundation that matched me as well as the Fit Me.

Kiko Cream Crush Lasting Colour Eyeshadow - Review

Hi guys, today's review is on the Kiko Cream Crush Lasting Colour Eyeshadow in the shade 05. I picked this eyeshadow up on a whim when I first saw it because it was such a pretty shimmery colour and I hadn't really heard much about these eyeshadows so I thought it would be great if I could test it out and review it for you guys.

Essence Cosmetics £10 Makeup look

So the lovely ladies over at Flipside PR set me a challenge to create a makeup look for £10 using Essence products and I happily accepted. I'm a regular user of essence products and their Lashes Go Wild Mascara is a firm favourite, I use it everyday and I'm now running out, but whenever I go to pick up a new one it's always out of stock, which just goes to show I'm not the only one who thinks it's amazing! Their lipliners and blushers are also firm favourites (I've got quite a few reviews coming up so keep your eyes open for those) and everything is so affordable - which is great if you're just starting out with makeup/you're on a budget.

 Now I did want to do my whole face using essence products but unfortunately their foundations are slightly too light for my skintone, so I stuck to my regular foundation, but everything else I used is from Essence.

All the products I used are pictured below and my total came to £10.64, which is great in my opinion because these days even buying just one mascara from a drugstore brand could cost you £10+, so being able to get six products for a little over that amount is amazing!

Top 5 under £5

Today I want to talk to you about a few of my favourite drugstore products, and the best part is they're all under £5. So you can shop away without feeling too guilty ;)!

 First, we have the MUA single eyeshadows, these are a complete bargain at only £1.00 each. They're really pigmented and fairly easy to blend, you can find a full review on them here.

Bourjois Bronzing Primer - Review

When I first heard about this product the first thought that came to mind was that it sounds a lot like the Soleil Tan De Chanel Bronzing Make up Base and I have been lusting after that product since forever. I don't know why it's taken me so long to actually buy the Bourjois bronzer but for some reason I kept overlooking it whenever I went shopping (I tend to do that a lot with Bourjois products), but now I have it and I've been using it for the past week so I thought I would do a little review for you guys to let you know what I think about it.

When I first swatched this bronzer I felt like it would be too light for me but I bought it any way just to try out and after using it for a few days I have to say that it's a great product for adding some warmth to your face.

|| Sleek Matte V2 Palette - Review and Swatches ||

I am a huge fan of Sleek cosmetics and I absolutely love the quality of their eyeshadows and blushes. This was the first palette that I bought from Sleek and since then I have picked up two others in Storm and Vintage Romance and I also plan on picking up the Au Naturel palette and the Oh So Special palette.

The main reason that I bought this palette was because, the other palettes that I had contained mostly shimmers with only a few mattes thrown in, so I was on the hunt for a palette that contained a good amount of matte shades and that's when I came across the V2 palette, it was exactly what I was looking for.

The palette consists of twelve shades all matte, there are a couple of brown shades, a plum shade, some light highlight shades with a few brighter shades like the green and the purple thrown in.

The shadows are very pigmented as you can see from the image below. Most of then are quite easy to blend, with very little fall out. The exceptions being the dark blue shade and the black shade in the top row, these two colours are slightly more chalky and hard to blend and the black does have a lot of fall out.

Other than that this is a great palette which can be used to create some simple everyday looks and also some smokey night out looks. I sometimes use the dark brown shade in the bottom row to fill in my brows and it matches them perfectly.

Finger Swatched

This palette retails at £7.99 and can be purchased from Superdrug, the official Sleek Makeup website who offer international shipping, and I believe that Boots stock them also? though I'm not too sure about that.

I hope this review helped you! Thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a great day! :)