Recent Rediscoveries: MUFE HD Foundation

Ello lovelies!
This has got to be one of the top, if not the most hyped about foundation on the Internet and since picking this up at IMATS earlier on in the year has pretty much sat in my collection unloved. I'm a bit of a floozy when it comes to foundations, i love them and having a perfect base is my top priority when it comes to makeup. So needless to say i own a good few, so with my spending ban i decided to hook a few oldies out and give them a fair test.

In the UK Makeup Forever isn't the easiest to get hold of, it is available from Guru Makeup Emporium online but at £29.95 a pop, I'm not sure i would of taken the plunge at that price. So i jumped at the chance to pick this up for a far more reasonable £18 at London IMATS in February. When i first tried this many months ago i couldn't really get on with it, i was into applying foundation with my F80 and i just couldn't, for love nor money, get it right. So when i went back to try this out i went for the good ol' fashioned fingers application, and unsurprisingly it worked much better!

Now from the hype online i was a little disappointed with the coverage, its light - medium at best and if you suffer with uneven skin tone / ache / blemishes you'll probably still have to use concealer. For me, this would be a day time foundation purely because of the coverage, i prefer my Double Wear for nighttime because it covers most things and i KNOW its not going to budge.

Its a very "natural" looking foundation and to me feels lovely and moisturising on the skin. I don't feel the need to set this as its not overly dewy but not completely matte, and it works beautifully with creme blushes and highlighters. I know i always say this, but i really do wish I'd hooked this out my collection sooner. I've worn it every day for the past week (Sorry Nars Sheer Glow!!) to work as i love the very little effort involved in applying it.

Face:
Makeup Forever - HD Foundation - Shade #110
Collection 2000 - Lasting Perfection Concealer
Makeup Forever - Smoky Lash Mascara
Stila Convertible Colour - Petunia
L'occitane - Lip Balm

Overall its a really lovely, light, day foundation. Would i buy it again? At regular price, probably not. But at IMATS price, yes! Now i need to stop being a foundation hoarder and stick to one for more than a couple of weeks. But I've recently discovered they now sell Dr Jart BB Creams in Boots?!! My bank balance hates me...

Whats your "go to" foundation? 

xox

Inglot Freedom System - Rainbow Neutrals

Hiya lovelies!

Another long overdue post for you today. If you remember back a couple of months ago i was lucky enough to win one of Girlie Review's giveaways that included not one, but TWO five pan Inglot Palettes.

As some of you may know i LOVE Inglot shadows, i picked up quite a few at Imats this year and have been lusting after more ever since. So needless to say i was over the moon when i won these! The rainbow shadows were at the top of my lust list, and for an eyeshadow hoarder, i really don't have that many mattes! So this palette was the perfect addition to my little collection. I've been absolutely loving the lighter neutrals with a bit of winged liner for a more "Pin Up" look, I've been wearing some of the more medium browns lightly through my brows and needless to say the matte blacks gotten quite a lot of love! I'm really wondering why I've never really owned mattes before, they are SO versatile! Love!

120R, 112R, 107R, 106R, 116R.

120R

112R

107R

106R

116R
Price wise these aren't too expensive in the UK at £6 each, but once you've bought a few and a palette it soon mounts up. But in comparison to other brands of around the same quality its phenomenal! The Inglot palettes start from 1 all the way up to 20 or 40, so theres a size to fit any budget. If you live near London, i really recommend checking out their Westfields store, then you can get a feel for the products, have a little swatch and not pay annoying postage, which is a whopping £6!

Again, if you can get your hands on Inglot shadows, DO IT, they are well worth the money. They've just released some new shades... So more to add to my lust list! I can see a new palette (or two) being ordered before too long, hehe!

I'd like to pop in another big thank you to Girlie Review, feel free to check out her blog, she posts some awesome reviews and videos!

And you can check out the UK Inglot website here.

What are your favourite Inglot shades / products?

xox

NYX Cream Blushes

Ello again!

Nyx's Cream Blushes are often a hot topic in the blogging / youtube community and I'd been meaning to get my paws on a few for some time. But hating paying £4.50 shipping for things and not being able to see the products up close and personal REALLY put me off. So these were at the top of my list of things to check out at IMATS (I can't believe it was a month ago!).

Ideally my colour selection could of been a little better, but i do tend to loose all sensibility and just grab pretty colours (oops)! A more natural toned one wouldn't have gone amiss, but oh well! Just something else to go on my ever expanding wish list.

The two i picked up were Pinky (Left) and Red Cheeks (Right). These look pretty damn scary in both the pan and swatched as they are SO pigmented. But with a light hand (i use a small stippling brush) its easy to apply a flush of colour without looking like Coco the Clown. A little bit really does go a long way and they blend and melt into the skin beautifully.

There's not really a good offering of cream blushes on budget price end so I'm pretty pleased with these. And at just £5.50 each, makes them doubly appealing. The only let down is that you can only buy online through the NYX UK website, Ebay or Cherry Culture and shipping from any of these sites can be pricey.

These are currently available in 13 different shades on the NYX UK Website. But do have a look on places like Ebay because of the UK / USA pricing difference you can sometimes bag yourself a bargain.

Hopefully we'll see some quality cream blushes on the high street in the near future! Whats your favourite cream blush?

xox

Inglot Freedom System Eye Shadow - Swatches

Aloha!

If you've seen some of my previous FOTD's or any of my IMATS posts you would of noticed i picked up these bad boys. Four ten pan palettes from Inglot's freedom system. These are probably the most exciting purchase for me of the year so far, and i'm not sure i'll find any that top them either!

For any of you that have been living under a rock over the past year or so... Inglot are a Polish brand that have recently gone global and have been getting a lot of attention in beauty blogging community. I purchased a good few things from Inglot but for today I'll be focusing on their infamous freedom system shadows.

Their freedom offers a variety of different sized palettes varying from £2 - £20 giving you the freedom to pick and choose your own shades. They come in five different finishes and over 200 shades. Matte, Double Sparkle (DS), Pearl, Shine and Advanced Makeup Component (AMC). The pigmentation of these is phenomenal and they blend like an absolute dream.

Its a tad hard to choose but i think the pearl finish is my favourite. DS are a matte shadow packed full of glitter and the shines seem to vary per colour. Some leave as the name would suggest more of a sheen and others are more pearl like with added glitter (39 being one of those).

So onto the swatches!

 

The one downside to Inglot is that there is only one UK store in London and although they now have a website its a little tricky to pick colours due to their pretty awful swatches. I did quite a bit of searching online and couldn't find a huge amount of clear swatches for the colours or finishes i wanted. Although Temptalia does have a pretty good selection.

Considering the booth was pretty packed i think i managed to pick out a pretty good selection of shades. I'm still greedily lusting over some more matte neutrals and some pearl brights, I'm an addict. Price wise online a full 10 palette will set you back £53 which may sound a little pricey, but take into consideration you'd pay around £150 to fill a Mac palette. In my opinion the quality of these is superior to Mac.

Inglot shadows can be purchased for £4.50 each online here.

Which shades are your favourites?

xox

London IMATS 2012 - The Haul

Ello lovelies!

If you saw my other post you'll know i travelled to London to attend IMATS this past Saturday. I had an AMAZING day and if you'd like to see any of the pictures i took on the day click here.

I'd saved for the past months including Christmas money and been on a semi successful spending ban, so i splurged quite a bit... oops! I'd been making a list of products i wanted and didn't deviate too much from it, and stuck to my budget. I ended up going back to Inglot multiple times, and getting a little bit overexcited! I'll try to list prices where i can, although some may just be a rough idea, i have a brain like a sieve at times.

 Inglot

My most exciting purchase of the day! Inglot shadows! <3
10 Palette - £41 

Nail Enamel: 940 and 319 - £6 each

AMC Eyeliner Gel Matte: 86 and 77 - £7 each?

Lipstick: 204, 188, 179 and 184 - £7 each

Under Makeup Base - £9

AMC Cream Foundation: LW200 - £11?

Loose Powder: 11 - £11?

 Illamasqua

This was probably the most hectic booth of the day as they were offering a generous 75% off most of their products. They didn't have their full range with them, but they did bring some real beauties. I really wish id gotten a better look and picked up some more, i love an epic bargain!

Light Liquid Foundation: LF120 - £7.50

Cream Blush: Sob and Libido - £5 each

Liquid Metal: Surge - £5

Pure Pigment: Chasm - £5

Lipstick: Fetish - £5

Medium Pencil: Feisty - £2 

 

NYX

Nyx didn't have the best discounts of the day but there were a good few products on my list that I'd been meaning to pick up. I normally buy my NYX from Ebay or CherryCulture as its so much cheaper, but this would of probably worked out the same including shipping from the states.

Lip liner: Purple Rain, Pinky and Plush Red - £2.50 each

Cream Blush: Hot Pink and Red Cheeks - £4.50 each

Blush: Pinky and Red - £5 each

Jumbo Pencil - Milk - £3 

 

Make Up For Ever

HD Foundation: 110 - £18

Smoky Lash - £9

 

Embryolisse

Lait Creme Concentrate - £15

 

 

Royal and Langnickel

Flat Top Kabuki - £6

Small Stippling Brush - £7

Eye Crease Brush - £4 

 

Crown Brushes

I can't for the life of me remember individual prices for these, but they were all between £2 to £5.

Bdellium Tools

This was one of the last booths i visited, and i really wished I'd gone there first. I'd been on the hunt for a large powder brush and didn't want to pay £16 for a mediocre one from Crown or Royal. I was so shocked at how nice these brushes are i wish I'd picked up a few more!

Face 953 - £7

Face 959 - £8

Face 980 - £8

Eye 776 - £5

Overall I'm dead chuffed with my purchases. I got nearly everything i wanted and a few extras, and most at bargain prices too! I did manage to forget to photograph a couple of things. I was restrained and only bought one lip tar from OCC, in demure. And after a bit of searching i eventually found the best priced Z palettes and £12 each, so i got two! Depotting fun ahoy!

I'm super excited to try all these out and review most of it. I'd love to see your IMATS hauls too, so link me up!

xox

London IMATS 2012 - The Pictures

Hello lovelies!

So yesterday was my first ever IMATS and even with a 3am start ended up being a fantastic day! Having to get a coach at 5am wasn't my favourite part of the day, but i think the excitement pretty much kept me going. I traveled up with my good friend and fellow blogger Janey and two of her friends. We arrived pretty early around 8:30 which happened to be the quietest time of the day, giving us some time to nip round a few booths and get our shop on! I won't talk about the spoils in too much detail since i plan to do a post or two (yes two, i should not be allowed money) on them.

So onto some pictures from the day! 

 

 I have to give Jane credit for taking this one, I'm rubbish with cameras! 

I didn't manage to get as many as I'd of liked, and a lot less actually in focus /facepalm. But I'll be better prepared next year!

All in all i had a GREAT day at IMATS, saw some absolutely AMAZING work, and spent faaaar too much money! Now to get on to photoing the goodies!

Did you go to IMATS? Leave a comment below or link your post!

xox