#makeup bargain

Hey guys,

A few blog posts ago I let you in to one of my favourite beauty bargain secrets, that’s right we’re talking about the £10 Tuesday at Boots. If you didn’t see the previous post on a Tuesday Boots take an assortment of beauty products and reduce them to £10 for 24 hours. It can be anything from make up, hair , beauty , lifestyle and so much more. So today we are chatting about my recent beauty bargain finds.

Starting off with the KVD Beauty Go Big or Go Home Volumizing Mascara , £22.00. Previously I bought a KVD gift set and it came with a mini version of this mascara and I honestly adored it. The fluffy brush is amazing at grabbing every lash and giving it a beautiful volumised finish. The formula is vegan and powered by plant-based fats. This mascara looks effortlessly on my lashes and is so long wearing that if you have a issue with transferring mascara this is your new best friend.

The second product I picked up was the MAC Prep + Prime Fix+ 100ml, £26.00. Now I honestly can’t remember but I think I bought this spray before but didn’t like it because I wasn’t using it properly which was a me problem so when I saw it on promotion I had to try it again. This spray is a lightweight mist of water packed with vitamins and minerals, infused with a blend of green tea, chamomile and cucumber to gently soothe and refresh the skin. Spritz under or over makeup to revitalize skin throughout the day and keeps your makeup looking fresh for up to 12 hours. I’m excited to give this a try again and see what difference it makes to my complexion.

As always all products mentioned in my blog post are linked above!

Lots of love

Hi guys,

While we all love a luxury makeup moment, sometimes I think we underestimate the quality of drugstore products. One of my favourite affordable makeup brands is By Beauty Bay which if you didn't know is Beauty Bay's cosmetics brand. The brand as a whole has amazing quality products at really affordable prices but my personal favourites are the eyeshadow palettes. They are crazy pigmented and don't break the bank so let's chat about today's palette.

In this brand I have lots of vibrant and colourful palettes but not really a palette with a everyday simple colour story I could throw on so I recently added the Neutral 16 Colour Palette £14.00 to my collection. In this palette you get a gorgeous range of matte nudes, browns and the most intense shimmer shades. Everytime I use one of these palettes it blows my mind how pigmented they are and yet so affordable.

This colour story in particular is something I could easily wear to work, when I want to do a soft glam look and just a everyday easy palette to play with. If you are looking for an affordable makeup brand to shop I truly recommend checking out By Beauty Bay generally but especially their eyeshadow palettes. They blend like a dream, are crazy pigmented and a great range of colour stories. As always all products mentioned are linked above.

Lots of love

Hi guys,

Revolution is always that brand that just keeps on releasing new products and is one of the only drugstore brands that I would consider consistent with their formulas, pricing and just amazing quality products. Compared to other brands I would say that Revolution is already REALLY affordable and yet they have just brought out a new range of products that are even more affordable. This range is called Relove by Revolution and the best thing about this collection is everything is £5.00 or under!! That's right the most expensive thing in this whole collection is £5.00 which blows my mind. So today I am going to be chatting to you about the face products I picked up from the collection. (FYI I didn't get everything from this collection because there were some products I didn't need to get).

The first product I got was the Super Matte Primer for a bargain of £4.00 12ml. There are 4 primer types in this collection and I tend to gravitate towards the mattifying primers as I have a oily combo skin type. This primer is perfect for shine control and genuinely works really well under high end and drugstore foundation formulas. Next up we have the Super Serum Foundation , £5.00 25ml. This is the most expensive product in the collection and I picked up 2 shades F1/F3 to see what suits me better and F1 was a winner in my case. The foundation is a lightweight breathable formula that is also buildable. It gives you the perfect dewy finish and also has hyaluronic acid in the formula to keep your skin hydrated. Blends like a charm and it's light it doesn't feel like your wearing anything. It is described as a medium coverage however I would say it's almost full coverage.

While I love all the products I have tried so far, the next is by far my favourite and I have even repurchased another one already because I am that obsessed. It's time to meet the Super Matte Pressed Powder , £3.00 in the shade translucent. Again if you like matte powders you will adore this formula and it honestly reminds me of a high end powder I adore and now don't need to repurchase thanks to get gem. It comes in 12 shades, weightless formula, has ingredients to keep your skin looking matte and feeling soft and blends for a natural finish. Also does not cake when you reapply during the day. Lastly I picked up the Baby Gloss Lip Gloss £3.00 in the pink toned brown shade called Sugar 2.2ml. This mini gloss is the perfect high shine, hydrating formula and is such a cute size to throw into any handbag. I wasn't sure what the formula would be go I went for a simple everyday shade that's easy to wear. It's very comfortable formula to wear and doesn't feel sticky on the lips.

So there we have it Revolution once again bring out an amazing collection of products. In this range you have eye makeup, base products, powder products honestly so many that I have split the posts up otherwise you would be reading a Harry Potter sized novel so keep an eye out for the next posts. If you are looking for makeup to try at a great price or you are on a beauty budget and still want to get amazing quality it's time to check out the collection so head over to www.revolutionbeauty.com

Lots of love

A beauty outlet haul !!!!!

Hi guys,

A few weeks ago I went outlet shopping, I got some really good bargains and they even added some ranges including old Revolution products!!!!!!

Many moons ago (probably 3-4 years ago) revolution was once known as Makeup Revolution and their packaging was staple black and gold everything and it was a smaller brand at the time to what it is now. I used to get so many face products that I adored and when they rebranded some of their old products were discontinued which broke my pale heart. So imagine 3-4 years later I find all my old favourites in one space and cheaper ! It honestly felt like christmas had come early.

So naturally i picked up as many of the favs I could find. Starting off with the Blush Palette - Blush Goddess palette, this palette was reduced to £4.99 from £8.99 and this palette is a selection of blushers and highlighters that suit fair skin tones so well. I used to use this palette so much i would hit pan on all the shades really quickly. The blushers are pigmented so i always had to use a light hand but the quality of the blushers were amazing and blend like a luxury blush on the skin. The highlighters in this palette are different light shades of silver, gold and pink. They are all baked highlighters which i think is perfect if like me you love that high shine. Honestly seeing this palette was such a throwback and then next to it was my ultimate favourite face palette the Ultra Sculpt & Contour Kit - ultra fair C01, reduced to £2.99. I literally let out a mini scream. This palette had my perfect shades for contour , blush and highlighter and i used to go through these like crazy and then again after they sold out in Superdrug i never really saw it again. Naturally i had to pick up 2 since I spent like 5 minutes explaining to my mum why this was the best thing ever! I’m genuinely so excited i own this again, the shades are perfect for someone as pale as me and it just suits me perfectly.

I also found one of the Ingot Highlighters in the shade Rose Gold reduced to £2.99. When this collection first launched I got the silver version of this highlighter and could never find the rose gold so i decided why not try it out for such a good price. This highlight is a lot more sutble to what i was expecting which is a good thing because i was worried it would end up being dark for me. It’s definitely more glittery then i expected but i totally loved it! I also have a bad habit of picking up Essie nail varnishes when i go to the beauty outlet i mean £7.99 down to £3.99 isn’t something you can miss so i picked up 3 shades. Two of the shades are metallic which is the blue and purple and as you can see in the pics the shine is crazy with those colours. I also picked up a very autumnal unique shade I haven’t seen before which was this rusted orange almost pumpkin shade and the second i saw it i was like oh crap that’s the perfect autumn shade. I was looking for something like this but not exactly sure where to look and then BOOM right in front of me lol.

So there we have my beauty outlet haul! I found some real good bargains and what makes me even more excited is they are now doing revolution!!! Not that i needed an excuse to buy more but saving money makes me hella happy so there’s that i guess.

Hope you’re all doing well.

Lots of love

A TKMAXX bargain we have to talk about .....

Hi guys,

When I stay in Brighton I always have to check out their TK MAXX because it is always the best for bargains that I never find anywhere else and this time it’s my best find yet. When I was browsing the shop I had a good look around at the different collections and as I was getting ready to leave the shop out of the corner of my eye I saw purple and gold packaging and instantly my eyes popped out of my head! It was Charlotte Tilbury packaging which until that point I’ve never seen in a TKMAXX shop so naturally I ran over and investigated!

I mananged to find myself a Beach Stick for £14 that is worth £30!!!!! What a damn good bargain!!! So what a Beach Stick you ask? Good question, a beach stuck is a multi use product that can be used on the cheeks as a cream blush or even as a lipstick. I got the Beach Stick in the shade Moon Beach which is a rose- gold iridescent peach shade. Now recently I’ve really got into cream based products which is really new for me and this product is such a dream to work with. It’s the perfect coral blush for a fair toned person like myself which is even more amazing since I found one random tilbury product in a TK MAXX store. This product is so creamy and easy to blend whether you’re applying it straight to skin or on top of other products.

I have been using this a lot lately since I got it and it gives me such a gorgeous healthy glow that I adore! There are other shades in the collection where deeper tones could use for highlight even. I love using the same shade for both lips and cheeks because it pulls the look together perfectly. I’m so impressed with how effortlessly it blends in with makeup and it’s quick to use and you can literally use (clean ) fingers to blend the product together. I’ve really gotten into products like these really recently so I was so excited to find such a bargain much less a half price Charlotte Tilbury product.

So moral of the story have a good browse in your local TK MAXX because friends you never know what you’ll find.

Lots of love

Hey everyone,

So as we all know I love a makeup bargain and while my taste ranges from drugstore to highend a good bargain always wins. I’m sure by now we’ve all heard of Urban Decays Naked Eyeshadow Palettes in one capacity or another, when I finally got my first ever urban palette I went for Naked 3 because it was pink natural shades that would work for everyday looks but also featured shadows to make my eyes look more glam. Now this was my first ever highend palette and I spent a while deciding if I wanted to get it because it was a lot to spend on one palette and I was purely using drugstore at thus point. Now I must admit this palette is easily my favourite I’ve ever used and as you can see below on the left it’s been through a lot.

One thing I really love about drugstores brands is when they design dupes of highend makeup for a much cheaper price now the palette below on the left was £39 and the Lottie London dupe on the right was £9.95.

Now when you put those prices together it sounds insane that it has such a price difference. Recently I’ve been trying out Lottie London makeup and really enjoying it so when I saw their Naked 3 dupe I had to try it out. From first appearances the shades the palettes include are really similar the two obvious differences are 1. The colour order of the shades in each palette 2. The actual palette casing, personally this doesn’t bother me at all as long as they hold the product. Now this dupe makeup they will have to make subtle changes so it can still be considered original by the brand which is why they may have changed the colour order.

When I tried out Lottie palette I was really surprised how much it compared to the urban palette, both have really good colour pay off and last all day. I decided to do the same look using both palettes and at the end of the day both shadows were still sitting perfectly on my eyelid. I wanted to do a post like this to show that whether you’re buying makeup on a budget or just looking for cheaper highend replacements it’s really worth shopping around and having a browse, especially when you find two palettes extremely similar but have a £30 difference. I love to try highend products but 90% of the time once I find s drugstore replacement I normally then stick to that one.

Hope this post gives you some ideas about bargain shopping.

Lots of love

Hi everyone,

I was recently browsing Urban Decay’s website and noticed a new page link for “outlet” now straight away I got excited as we all know I love Urban anyway but Urban with a discount .... even more. So instead of £24.00 I paid £16.00 for the new On The Run Mini Palette in the shade Bailout. Now there are 3 versions of the palettes there is one palette that focuses more on browns and blue / teal tones and the other is more pink and dark reds. I tend to use a lot of pink / burgundy palettes so I decided to go purple for a pop of colour.

The shades in my palette (Bailout) are gorgeous because you have some deep purple tones but it features a lot of neutral tones which I would use daily anyway. So this palette was the combo of playing with bold colours and yet having neutral shades to tone it down or play it up.

For an urban palette to get 8 shades for £16.00 is a good bargin, check out the outlet page for more bargains.

Lots of love