Makeup Geek

Hi guys!

I am excited about this post because I am featured the start of what I think is going to cost me a fortune! I have just purchased my first Z-palette in the size small with leopard print detailing, and 3 Makeup Geek eyeshadows to go along with it!

I have not got round to using them yet but I want to talk a little bit about them with you guys. Going from Left to Right I have got Godess, Bitten & Creme Brulee.

Goddess is such a beautiful golden shimmer shade, it is so buttery to the touch and I can see this being a lovely all over the lid colour, it is so pigmented and will really add some pop to the eyelid!

Bitten, again is so buttery to the touch, it is a lovely deep matte burgundy red shade, so perfect for the winter/fall seasons. I do not own a shade like this and I am excited to play around with it, I feel like this will be excellent for darkening the 'Outer V' of the eye.

Creme Brulee, I have only heard great things about this shade, it is your everyday matte light brown, this to me looks like the perfect transition shade in the crease. Out of the 3 I would say this is the most buttery and silky to the touch. 

These shadows are very comparable to MAC eyeshadows, I have a couple from MAC but none dupes for these shades, but I can honestly say the formula to touch, feels so much better than MAC, I wonder if they apply the same? Better? Or worse?

I am looking forward to buying more of the Makeup Geek eyeshadows so if you have any colours that are a must have, let me know!

Love Alisha xo

The Flawless 3.

Hi guys! 

We all want that flawless foundation, that has great staying power, doesn't patch in the day and leave us looking miserable. So tonight I am bringing you my top 3 foundations of all time! I want to share these with you so that you can share the greatness and maybe even save yourself some money by finding the perfect foundation!

For me personally, I have fair skin- I am cool toned and have a pink undertone to my skin, so I find it difficult to find a foundation that has a perfect match. The 3 that made the cut where, MAC studio fix fluid with SPF 15, NARS Sheer Glow and Revlon Colorstay. 

Lets star the top 3 with my favorite, NARS Sheer Glow. This steals light for me, I get this shade in Light 3, Golbi. The reason I love this foundation so much is because it is so lightweight, it has a medium coverage and just leaves your skin with such a flawless finish. More often than not I like a foundation that gives me a dewy finish and this does, just that! I would recommend this foundation for people who have dry skin, because it gives off a dewy finish. A little on the pricey side, completely worth it though. 

Number 2 would have to be Revlon Colorstay. The first thing I have to say about this is that it is super afforadable! You can purchase this at almost every drugstore, such as Boots and Superdrug. I get this foundation in the shade Ivory 110. The good thing that I found about this foundation is that it comes in a lot of shades and is suited for all skin types as you can get it for, oily skin types, dry or combined skin types, a great selection really! On my paler days this is the best match for me. It has a medium/high coverage  I would say and it is very buildable. However I find when trying to blend this foundation out with a beauty blender it is not as seamless as if you were to blend it with a brush. My brush of preference is the Real Techniques Buffing brush. 

Last but certainly not least is MAC studio fix fluid. I love this foundation and reach for it a lot, however I go through periods of hating it. Sometimes I feel it makes me look really washed out and the colour does not match my skin at all; those days do not last long at all! Maybe it is just me being picky... I get this shade in NC10 which is the lightest shade that they do. There are a lot of varieties of shades in this foundation so it is suitable for a lot of skin types. This foundation has the thickest formula and for that reason it is definitely full coverage. A dupe for this would definitely be the Revlon colorstay, it feels the same when applying and gives a similar finish on the skin. 

I hope that this has give you some insight on some foundations that you may or may not have tried! I would recommend any of these 3, they are great! Let me know what your top 3 foundations are or if you have any recommendations for me?

Love Alisha xo

Splurge or steal?

Calling all beauty bloggers! I am after all your opinions on whether the hour glass ambient lightening powders are not only worth the hype, but are they worth the splurge!? 

I have heard mixed reviews but hey look so beautiful it's hard to stay away...

Let me know what you think?!

                          

Love Alisha xo

Redemption.

Hi guys! I am back for another review, this time is for the Revolution Redemption Palettes, I have purchased 3 of them and I believe there may be 5. These palettes are super affordable because they are from the drug store, if you're from the UK you can purchase these in Super drug and if you're from other places of the world they have a website which I will link at the end of this review!

I am going to jump right in with the Redemption Palette Iconic 3, in this palette you get a variety of shimmers and matte shades. I feel as if the matte shades are not very pigmented, this may be because in this palette they are light shades, however the shimmers are nice and buttery and very pigmented. This palette screams NAKED 3 to me, I would even say that it was a dupe because all the shades are beautiful are mimic the ones in NAKED 3. so if you want a cheaper alternative for a high end palette I would defiantly give this one a go.

ICONIC 3

The next palette I am going to be talking about is the Redemption Palette Romantic Smoked. The first thing that I noticed about this palette is that the shades are absoloutley beautiful, in the palette they all look so good together. It is divided up into 6 shimmer shades and 6 matte shades. Unlike Iconic 3 the matte shades are a lot more pigmented and they blend out so perfectly to create a flawless smokey eye. What I will say about this palette in particular is that they eye shadows didn't have a lot of staying power, they faded quite quick, even wearing a primer, but for £4 each, who is to complain?

ROMANTIC SMOKED


The last of the palettes I have is my favorite and it is the Redemption Palette Essential Shimmers. I feel as if this is the best palette out of the 3 that I purchased this is because I feel as if these shadows are the most silky, buttery, pigmented shadows I have tried in terms of drug store make-up. These shimmery shades are great for an eye look that you want to 'POP' and if you apply something like MAC fix plus to your brush the color really intensifies and gives a beautiful metallic sheen to the eyelid. These shades wear best in the inner corner or center of the lid and this is because on the outside they tend to fade away to nothing. Great for this time of year.

ESSENTIAL SHIMMERS

That's it for my make-up revolution eye shadow palette review! I hope you enjoyed 

  it and it gave you some insight on what their eye shadow products are like, they are really worth picking up if you see them, £4 for 12 shades, it's a steal!

Love Alisha xo