M.A.C. Eye Shadow

AMAZING.

I could write a review for each and every one of my mac shadows, but I have so many! I only got into mac about 7 months ago when I got sick to the back teeth of spending so much money on drugstore shadows and being so disappointed with them. The colours never seemed to suit me, the colour range isn't there - they just seem so generic and boring. On occasion I may find 'the one' but I have spent so much on finding them. I also found that most irritated my eyes or just disappeared that there was no sign that I had put any on! I also found that shimmery ones were waaay too shimmery and just accentuated anything I wanted to disguise, or matte ones looked flat and dull. So one day I went to Mac and never looked back. I have to say that £10 per eyeshadow is not expensive. I have spent say £10 on a trio of drugstore eyeshadows that contains hardly any product and probably only ended up using one of the colours! But with Mac I can pick and choose what I want, building up my own personal palette, which is so exciting! They all blend and look differently, can be paired up in so many ways, some can look different depending on what you pair it with - there are so many options its unreal! One eyeshadow in my palette I may regret buying, but teamed with something else can change my whole view on it. I have never been able to do this before. I do agree with others, there are some awful fakes on eBay and Amazon. I cannot believe they are allowed to get away with it. As a buyer you have no idea what is in these products, and what is the point of saving a few pounds if they - at best - muck your skin up! I have learned the hard way from buying cheap knock off blusher. Luckily all I got was some minor blister-type breakouts, but it could have been worse. The only reason I realised they were fake was while depotting them to put in a new blusher palette. They smelled different, the casing was different, and there was actually a lot less product than it showed in the pan. After the breakout and seeing them depotted I threw these away, so didn't save money on getting these 'bargains'. Please, get them from Mac or authorised stockists. Its not worth it. And besides, these knock off can only leave a bad impression of what is great make up. -written by dizzielittlerascal on makeup alley

July 14, 2013

E.L.F. Powder Brush

Great Brush!

i use this brush for my foundation every time i wear it. the handle has become a little loose but thats because i've used it for 5 months now. its very dense but at the same time very soft and it's pretty big so it blends out your foundation well and it doesn't take a long time to do your foundation like it does when you use another tool, like a beauty blender. it has not started to shed yet. when i do use this brush i use it for basically my whole face (foundation, power, blush, bronzer). it will glide my powder on so nicely and it doesn't make my face look blotchy or powdery or cakey and i love that. when i use my sigma powder brush, the powder i use (covergirl clean pressed powder) can get kind of cakey and with my dry skin, cakiness feels tight and dry. where as when i use my elf powder brush the powder kind of just sits on top of the foundation and locks in my foundation. the only problem with this brush is that my foundation kind of sinks into the brush. i did some research on this problem and some people said the foundation can cause that to happen and the brush can cause that to happen so i don't know. but this isn't a huge issue to me at all. if you dip the brush into foundation, the foundation will soak into the brush but if you dot your foundation on your face and then kind of buff it out, you will get the most coverage, the best finish, and the foundation won't soak into your brush. overall, i do recommend this brush to all of my friends because i consider it to be my HOLY GRAIL founDation brush and i just love this tool so much. AND IT'S ONLY THREE BUCKS LIKE WHAT.

July 14, 2013