2017

Monthly Favourites: March & April.

21:16


And just like that, March and half of April have past before my eyes taking Easter and mothers day along with them and I honestly don't know what I have done with my time. There are so many things I've been enjoying using but I've kept the list extremely short and only choosing the things I've truly loved these past couple of months and that I've looked forward to using every time.

SKINCARE

In a previous post, I mentioned how important it is to keep your lips moisturized and healthy, especially if you use a matte product on them as they dry out the lips a lot, especially in the colder weather. Recently, whether I wear a matte lippy or not I find myself constantly applying my Anatomicals Never Loose Your Cherry Lip Gloss which I purchased early last year. It seems as if I have re-found my love with it and it couldn't make me happier.


If you have been following my blog for a long time, you will know my struggle with my skin never really has an end to it, every time it picks up it just falls all the way back down again and it feels like a loosing battle. Again this is a product I've loved and missed seen as it was my lifesaver last year and has yet again, returned for a second round.
The E45 facewash is quite pricey (it cost me around 25), hints to why I use it as if it was fairy dust but I totally think it is worth it in the long run. As I said, my skin does fall back time after time but that seems to be most frequent when I lack in this step of my face wash routine at night.

MAKEUP



Bronzers have never been my forte, especially since my mum is my biggest critic (or the most honest person) and every time I apply a bronzer she tells me not to wear as much and comes up with a funny "sarcastic" remark. Well, may I say that all my wishes were granted when I came across this "retro" inspired bronzer by the brand IDC, which I have actually loved products from many times before.
This bronzer just works with my skin amazingly, it gives the perfect subtle bronze that I want, I can build it up as I desire and it wears really well throughout the day.


Recently I re-purchased the Rimmel Match Perfection foundation that I loved and that I wore religiously throughout the beginning of last year and I was so happy to have finally come across it at the Rimmel stand in Primor. BUT . (I know, as soon as there is a but there is something wrong). And you are right, it was wrong. As soon as I applied the foundation I knew there was something fishy, it just didn't look right and after playing around with different concealers, powders, etc I just gave it up as a bad job. I believe Rimmel may have changed the formula of the Match Perfection as I just look like a escapee Umpa Lumpa whenever I apply it seen as the oils just mix with the PH in my skin and yes... It just doesn't do the job.
ANYWAY, after going on an unsuccessful hunt for a water based foundation where I just got weird looks from all the shop assistants, I just decided to risk it and buy my trusty old Rimmel 25 Hour and for some miracle reason, IT FRICKIN WORKS!!! I don't know how, why or whatever, but it just does.
The Rimmel 25 hour foundation is a buildable full coverage foundation that works a dream, wears amazingly and is easily up there in my all time favorites. Definitely one of the best drugstore foundations, and that is a fact, even Zoella said so herself.


PERFUME


The perfume I have been wearing and loving on a daily this month has been the David Bustamante Muy Mia perfume that I got last Christmas as a present and never really used. I love the fresh scent it has and the fact that the smell lingers throughout the day and you can always smell it.

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My everyday makeup essentials.

18:27

[SORRY FOR THE SHAKY HAND CUT OUTS]

I've been wanting to write this post for a couple of weeks but I've never really got down to it so here goes. 
These are the few essentials I use for my everyday makeup. 
I'm sorry I missed out the eyeliner but I swap between three: either the Deliplus liquid eyeliner, the P.S Love one from primark (It is GREAT and long lasting, especially with a bit of primer) and the Deliplus felt tip one.

First of all, brush wise I use these traveling size Urban Decay brushes, as you can tell I dropped the foundation brush and broke the handle and I have not yet fixed that, oops! I love these brushes because they are very soft and easy to take in your makeup bag due to there size, I have a collection of a total 12 of these brushes, but these are the four I most use.

Then, I use this colourful Bobby Pin fluffy brush to apply my blush, I'm not sure if this is the right thing to use (probably not) but I'm not a professional and for that you shouldn't take much of my advice aboard.


To blend in my concealer I use my Beauty Blender and as you can tell by the colour of it I have been loving it, I was going to wash it before taking these photos but I just thought that would be quite fake and unrealistic and at least as it is it looks loved.


Moving on, my in the mood pallete from W7 has become my favorite everyday nude palette, I actually did a review a couple of weeks ago about it and I have just fallen more and more in love with it since then! I think the thing I love the most about this palette is the fact that the colours are matte and neutral but make a lovely day to day look and they are super easy to apply, long lasting and very pigmented even at the end of the day, basically everything you want your makeup to be. 


Foundation wise, my rimmel match perfection wake me up foundation is my holy grail foundation and I have used it for a very long time now. It isn't a massive cover-up foundation, but like nearly all, you can build it up to be one. I apply this along side my rimmel match perfection concealer and highlighter, this is my first time using this concealer and I really like it so far and I will definitely be buying it again. 

The bronzer I've been loving is this 2,50 one I again hyped about in a post a couple of weeks ago, I use it as more of a contour than a bronzer and although the tone is very dark and scary, it blends into a very nice tanned color.


As I have been loving the W7 products, I thought on trying out their blusher to give a bit of colour to my cheeks and I got this one in the tone Galactic and now it has an everyday use.


Mascara wise I use my deliplus maxi volume mascara, at first it was a bit tricky to get used to but now I have the hang of it I really like it and it gives me some incredibly long lashes. 


Lastly, brow wise I don't do much, all I use is this Loreal brow artist plumper and I think it is really good alternative if you want to do something to your brows and keep them in place but don't want to go full out and color them in.


These are all the products I use on my day-to-day, what are some of yours? 
Xx


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