Vichy Dermablend Foundation Review...

Hey everyone :)

So, I recently bought the Vichy Dermablend Fluid Corrective Foundation, after hearing only good things.

My first impressions of this foundation were amazing! But I soon realised there are some down sides to this foundation.

When I first apply this I am amazed by the coverage. It covers all of my blemishes, redness, spots, veins etc. But after a couple of hours this foundation is already wearing off the skin. It goes patchy, and feels cakey the longer you wear it. I don't have oily skin, and right now my skin isn't particularly dry either, as I have been using my Dermatique moisturiser. But this foundation always wears away on my skin, my nose, cheeks and forehead.

It is also very easy to use too much of this foundation, which can make it look very very cakey, but a little goes a very, very long way.

In my opinion this foundation is only suited for short term wear, because after an hour or two it starts to look very patchy and horrible. I've tried applying it with a brush, my hands, a sponge. And I have tried setting it with different powders, high end and drug store. And I have tried using different primers also, but the foundation always wears away after a couple of hours.

I would rate this product a 4/10, mainly for it's coverage, if it lasted longer and did not feel so cakey then it would undoubtably get closer to a 10/10.

You can buy this foundation here: http://www.boots.com/en/Vichy-Dermablend-Corrective-Foundation-with-SPF35-30ml_1481875/

It retails at £18.

Thanks for reading :)

Love, Abbie

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Benefit Operation Pore Proof First Impression/Review

Hi guys, so as you might have seen I recently purchased the NEW Benefit Operation Pore Proof kit from Boots.

I generally love Benefit products, despite the fact they are quite expensive in comparison to the rest of the makeup I own. But because they offer these kind of kits with smaller sizes of the products I am fortunately able to own quite a few of their products.

When I saw this kit was out I was SOOOOO excited for it! I have trouble with minimising my pores so I literally thought this kit was sent from Haven just for me, haha! But seriously, I had high, high hopes for this.

You can't go wrong with the Porefessional primer, no, I don't think it totally minimises pores, but you also can't expect it to work miracles, so it doesn't bother me. So that product was fine, it is the rest of them that I have the issues with!

Dr Feel Good, is a product that is meant to be pat and smoothed over makeup to mattify. BUT all this seemed to do, even though I followed the instructions perfectly, was wipe away my makeup! I could see the freckles and redness on the area I used it on! It literally just wiped it ALL away!

License to Blot, is essentially a very similar product, you pat it on areas that are a little shiny to mattify. But, again, there is a theme here, it just wiped my makeup away! As I patted it onto the shiny parts of my face it literally took all my powder, foundation and concealer with it! Frustrating!

And, Shy Beam was the product I was most excited for, it is a matte liquid highlighter, which sounds like my dream product! BUT I applied this to the high points of my cheek bones, and on a second occasion (to give it a second chance) I applied it under my eyes, somewhat like a concealer, just to try and brighten my under eye area, and oh my god, it too just took my entire foundation etc with it as I used my finger or a sponge to blend it in!

Overall I am so disappointed with the product! Because it is not cheap either! At all! It retails at £28.50, and when I am only mildly happy with one product (the primer) then it really is not worth that much!

I still remain hopeful that I just got a bad batch, or faulty product, and that these products are all actually really good and as amazing as I would have initially thought. But these products that I bought are seriously so bad! And I am absolutely gutted I have basically lost out on £28.50 because to me that is a lot of money and I could have bought so much drug store makeup that is brilliant quality for that amount of money!

Oh well, you live and you learn.

If I haven't scared you off, then here is where you can buy the product http://www.boots.com/en/benefit-Its-all-about-prime-POREfessional-Operation-PORE-Proof-kit_1715892/

Thanks for reading,

Love, Abbie

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KISS Cosmetics KISStick first impressions...

Hey guys! Today I am giving you my first impressions and pictures of a new lipstick to my collection.

I was lucky enough to be sent to one of the new KISS Cosmetics mini lipsticks to review. These minis retail at £2, and they are such a good idea for when you don't want to spend the money to buy the full sized lipstick and you just want to try it out. They would also be perfect for travelling or to fit in your purse. 

I was sent the shade Caressing Red, which is a gorgeous blue toned, bright red, so it makes your teeth look super white.

I don't usually wear red lipstick, I have a couple that I LOVE but I still rarely wear them, so I was slightly disappointed when I saw they'd sent me a red lipstick, as I would have chosen a nude myself. BUT, this lipstick is super creamy, it doesn't transfer onto your teeth, it was easier to apply than other lipsticks I own, and the colour is beyond beautiful! It also has a gorgeous satin finish. I have a new FAVOURITE red lipstick! I felt so glamorous with this bright red on my lips. 

This is what it looks like on the lips:

Overall, I LOVE this lipstick!

I will wear this lipstick as often as I can, as it really does make you feel amazing.

You can buy this lipstick and all of KISS Cosmetic's other products here: 

https://kisscosmetics.co.uk/KISStick/KSL08-kisstick-caressing-red

Enter the code SHOW15 at the checkout for 15% off your order.

Thanks for reading, I hope you liked it.

Love, Abbie

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Disclaimer: yes, this product was sent to me for free to review, but this is still my 100% honest opinion. I'd never ever promote a product that I didn't actually like. 

MUA Luxe Bronze & Sculpt Contour Kit Review...

Hey everyone, now, I wanted to do this quick blog post about a new favourite product of mine! I have been searching for a new highlighter for ages, as all of the highlighters I have, despite the fact that they are nice, they don't highlight as much as I would like them to. I love the look of the Balm's Mary Lou-manizer, but I didn't want to fork out the money for it. I was determined to find an affordable highlighter that I love! I did't think it was ever going to happen until I found this product.

Look at that highlight on my high point of my cheekbone!!

That was exactly the look I wanted to achieve from a highlighter powder, and until now I hadn't found anything that gave my this look! 

Now, you are probably wondering what this amazing product is that I am raving about and more important how much is it?! Well, to answer the question of cost, it is only £5, AMAZING! But what is even more amazing is that it also comes with a contour shade, which is equally as impressive as the highlighter!

So enough of the suspense now, the product I am talking about it the MUA Luxe Bronze and Sculpt Contour Kit in the fair/medium shade!

Just take a look at how gorgeous, both the product AND the packaging is!

The highlighter, at first glance, didn't look as though it was going to fulfil the highlighting dream drugstore product I had in my head, because I thought it was going to be more of a shimmery bronzer than a highlighting shade, but oh how wrong I was! It is beautiful. The contour shade too is totally matte, and gives the most lovely contour, as pictured below (both the highlighter and the contour). Both powders are very creamy to apply and definitely do not feel chalky at all! The contour shade blends beautifully, and looks great on my pale skin, in my opinion, as my fake tan is fading.

 I literally can not get enough of this highlighter, and just the kit in general, because it is so affordable, yet performs so well, and is of outstanding quality. I personally think that when I use it, it feels like I am using a high end product. The only thing that makes it seem cheaper is because of the plastic packaging, but that doesn't bother me one bit.

Again, this product retails at £5, and you can buy it here: http://www.superdrug.com/MUA/MUA-Luxe-Contour-Kit-Fair-Medium-735/p/471303#.Vb-Ax0IQK0s

I hope you all liked this post :)

If anyone already has this product, or goes out and buys it because of this post, let me know what you think! I'd love to hear from you.

Also, if anyone wants me to do a review on a drugstore product let me know, and I will try my best to do it if I don't already own the product, but if I do own the product I will definitely do a review for you :)

I hope you all have a lovely day, and keep your eyes out for a new blog post either tomorrow or Wednesday

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Disclaimer: this post is not sponsored in anyway, I bought this product with my own money, and all opinions are my own. I just genuinely love this product more than I would have thought, and it really deserves to be mentioned and raved about!

Makeup Look using some of my Beauty Crowd products...

Okay, so I wanted to do a review blog post today about something I bought recently, but something came up and it means I haven't had the chance to take photos of the product and swatches :( so I will put up that blog post tomorrow. But as I really wanted to have a blog post up today for you all I will post about the products I used for this look:

For foundation I used the sample of the Bell foundation I got from Beauty Crowd. As mentioned in my previous post, I liked this foundation but it didn't wow me enough to go and buy the full sized product. It was very VERY thick, and sort of just sat on my face and felt cakey rather than being comfortable to wear. It was medium to full coverage though which, as you might know, I like. But other than that it wasn't that amazing.









As for primer I used my favourite, L'Oreal Nude Magique Blur Cream. Followed by the natural collection green concealer on any red areas. Then I used the LA Girl Pro Concealer, which I LOVE! I definitely think it's a close dupe for Benefit's Erase Paste, in terms of thickness and coverage. I then set the concealer with my usual, MAC's Prep and Prime Transparent Finishing Powder.

 For bronzer I used Freedom's Bronzer in the shade 110, which again, I love! I contoured my face using the Freedom Pro Contour Kit in fair. I then used my natural collection blusher in Peach Melba. I then used the Milani Highlighting Powder.

 On my eyes I used various pinky and purpley shades from the LA Girl Ultra Palette, but first I primed by eyes with the lightest, almost white, shade from the Freedom Concealer palette! It really is amazing for that! I then used the Freedom liquid liner, which I thought was really nice, it is great if you want to create a really nice thin line! As the brush is so precise and thin. Then I also used the Milani Total Lash Cover Mascara (not pictured), which, again, is amazing! I also lined my lower lash line and water line with my HelenE black eyeliner. I then filled in my brows with the usual, Soap and Glory Archery and Benefit's Gimme Brow.

On the lips, I used MAC's Twig lipstick. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this lipstick.

Overall, I liked most of the products I used, but I wasn't too sure that I liked the way this look.

Did you like this look? Let me know :)

I will hopefully have the review post up tomorrow, but if you follow me on Instagram then you probably already know what I will be talking about.

And if you don't follow me on there then go follow me, my username is oxmakeupaddict

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Beauty Crowd Mini Haul Swatches and First Impressions...

So as you might have seen from yesterday's post, I did some shopping online at Beauty Crowd :D

I promised I would take some better pictures, and swatches and possibly some first impressions, so here it is :)

 I got a sample of this Bell foundation and primer. I used the foundation today, and I did really like it, but it didn't wow me enough to want to buy the full sized product.

I also got the Milani Illuminating Face Powder in the shade Beauty's Touch. It is really hard to see the swatch from the pictures, being a subtle blush/highlighter, but I do really like it.

You can buy it here: https://www.beautycrowd.com/products/milani-illuminating-face-powder
It retails at £8.
 

I also bought this LA Girl Ultra Eyeshadow Palette. The swatches was one light amount of the eyeshadow, so I think they are really nicely pigmented given the price!
I couldn't find it on the website but it retails at £6.

I also got one of these Bell lipsticks thrown in too, it is a gorgeous shimmery pink shade. Admittedly it isn't the kind of I would normally reach for but it also means I don't have a colour much like this, but I definitely want to start wearing these kind of colours. It also feels so moisturising and smooth!
I can't find it on the Beauty Crowd website, nor do I know the retail price. I will keep by eye out and update this post as soon as I see they are available.

I also bought the Milani Total Cover Mascara. I have used it twice now and it is amazing! It really gives the illusion of false lashes and you only need 2 coats at the most!
You can buy it here: https://www.beautycrowd.com/products/milani-total-lash-cover-mascara

It retails at £6.

I also bought the LA Girl Pro Concealer in the shade natural. I used it today and the coverage is flawless! It is very comparable to the Erase Paste by Benefit, but as such a lower price. I don't like the applicator too much, but for the quality of the product it isn't too much to put up with.

You can buy it here: https://www.beautycrowd.com/products/l-a-girl-usa-pro-conceal

It retails at £5.

I also bought the Micellar water from Bell. It is so soothing on the skin and feels so gentle. The micellar water I am currently using is one I am not too fond of anyway but it stings my skin when I use it, but this one doesn't do that at all! It feels so nice!

You can buy it here: https://www.beautycrowd.com/products/bell-hypoallergenic-micellar-makeup-remover

It retails at £4.95.

This was just a quick blog post, again, for you all :)

New blog post coming at some point at the weekend!

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MAC Stone Lipliner makeup look...

Hey, so the other day I received MAC's stone lipliner in the post, special mention to my boyfriend James for buying it for me! I have wanted it for SO long, and I recently went into a MAC store and there was none left, so I ended up ordering it online. As soon as it came I just had to do all my makeup and try it out, as you do.

Here is the look I created, nothing too much, just a simple eye, bold brows, contour, and the bold Stone lip:

Here is how I created the look:

 On my face I used L'oreal Nude Magique BB Cream. I don't use this very often, because it is usually slightly too dark for me, but I love it, and now I fake tan it is actually perfect. I used this as a primer rather than a BB cream. Over the top I used a tiny bit of Benefit's Porefessional under my eyes, and around my nose.

Then I used Benefit's Hello Flawless foundation, which is soooooo nice! I haven't used it much but it really does make you look flawless, even without concealer! But, I still used my Collection concealer, as no matter how good the coverage, I still don't think I'd ever be able to do my makeup without using concealer.

Then I set my under eye concealer with MAC's Prep and Prime Transparent Finishing Powder, and then set the rest of the face with Benefits Hello Flawless Powder. Then I bronzed my cheeks, forehead, chin and jaw line with Benefit's Hoola. I contoured with Freedom's Bronzed Professional Pro Warm Lights, I also used the lightest shade to highlight under my eyes, down my nose and under my contour. I used Benefit's Rockateur Blusher, and MUA's Undress Your Skin to highlight.

On my brows I drew them on and filled them in using Soap and Glory's Archery Brow Pencil, and then used Benefit's Gimme Brow.

On the eyes I used the Maybelline Colour Tattoo in Creamy Beige, and then I used the light brown colour (last colour, top row) from the MUA Essential Mattes Palette in my crease and a tiny bit on the lower lid. Then I coated my lashes in the Freedom Curl Mascara.  

And then, obviously, I used MAC's stone lipliner all over the lips. I did apply the tiniest amount of Vaseline to the lips first though, as my lips were slightly dry and I knew using this lipliner all over would dry them out even more without the Vaseline. It also made it easier to fill in the lips too!

I hope you all like this look, I absolutely loved it! And I am in love with the Stone lipliner too! I will definitely be getting the lipstick version when it comes out in August/September here in the UK!

TanTastic First Impressions...

I was lucky enough to be sent to me a box full of goodies from the brand called TanTastic. I have tried fake tanning before, recently and a couple of years ago and nothing has ever worked, ever! Fake tans generally do not agree with my skin, particularly my legs! But I still wanted to give it a go, because since coming back off holiday and loving how tanned I was, I want to stay tanned, whether it is real or out of a bottle, haha! 

 Here is what I was sent:

 I was send one of their Self Tanning Liquids, a Self Tanning Mousse, a Self Tanning Spray and an applicator mitt.

I was advised that the liquid and the spray were probably best for my pale skin.

So, I shaved my legs the day before I first used the tan. I opted to use the Spray Tan as it was a little less scary than the liquid, as you just spray it on to the area you want to tan, and then with the applicator mitt you buff it in in circular motions.

Before I used the tan, I exfoliated everywhere I was using the tan, as well as put a teeny tiny bit of moisturiser on my knees, elbows, around my ankles and around my wrists, just to stop it from going orange and cling to my dry areas, and ultimately look horrible.

It advices you to leave it at least 7 hours from when you apply the fake tan until you bathe.

Applying the tan was super easy, it only took around 15 minutes to apply 2 layers to my whole body! It does have instant colour, but I did notice that later on in the day the colour had developed further and it was a little on the orange side, and admittedly I was a little scared. I left it 24 hours until I bathed, and I was hoping this would even the tan and reduce the orangeness, and it most certainly did that!

In the following pictures the top one is before applying the tan (super pale, I know), the middle picture is after around 10 hours of having the tan on, and the bottom picture is after I had bathed, and you can see it took away the orange tint and it looks a lot more natural than the middle photo.

When you first apply the tan it has no horrible self tan smell but as the colour deepened the smell started to come, but it went away when I bathed, so it didn't bother me at all. It still wasn't as strong as other fake tans I have used.

Since these pictures I have used the darker mousse all over my body, and again, I love it! I am loving the tanned life again, haha!

I would highly recommend this tan, I love it! A tan that actually works for me YAY! I just wouldn't recommend applying this on the same day that you want to go out clubbing, or whatever, I would apply the day before and bathe on the day you're going out so you are left with a natural even looking tan.

The self tanning mousse retails at £18 and can be bought here http://www.tantastic.co.uk/productdetails/3541/tantastic-self-tanning-mousse-150ml-/

The self tanning liquid retails at £15 and can be bought here

http://www.tantastic.co.uk/productdetails/3543/tantastic-self-tanning-liquid-150ml-/

The self tanning spray tan retails at £15 and can be bought here

http://www.tantastic.co.uk/productdetails/3531/tantastic-self-tanning-spray-tan-150ml-/

The applicator mitt retails at £3.25 and can be bought here

http://www.tantastic.co.uk/productdetails/3529/tantastic-applicator-mitt/

They also do other products, such as travel sized bronzer, glitter spray and a gift pack, all products can be bought on their website

http://www.tantastic.co.uk/shop/

Again, thank you so much to TanTastic for sending me these amazing products, I am literally in love and I am obsessed with fake tanning now! I will only ever use these products now because they are the only ones that have ever worked for me! I have used more expensive and cheaper products, but this is amazing. Thank you :)

Hope you all liked this post, as this fake tan is literally amazing!

My next blog post will be about a makeup look I have done using MAC stone lipliner, so keep your eye out for that :)

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