Two visits in one week, this is the part of the year where those resolutions are being stuck to religiously.
Here's a little background, the other day I went to meet my lovely friend and her lil baby for a coffee, I got a chai and chocolate cake if you're wondering, at the art house cafe in Southampton. This is a vegetarian cafe run by a few staff but mostly volunteers. We chatted for ages about life and next steps and eventually I saw her on a bus and went to catch one myself.
Yeah, so, that didn't happen. I was waiting for a bus and this nagging little voice in my head kept on saying 'it's only 4.15, you could stay outa bit longer', I ended up leaving the bus stop and going shopping instead!
What a life I lead...
First of all I went into super drug as I wanted to look at the sleek palettes, I can never find the ones I'm looking for or want to look at, they had some nice cream blush sets but I was after a powder and some time the sleek ones are too orange. So I changed plans and looked at good ol' MUA.
I love that the majority of their stuff is £1 so you can really feel free to play around with your look without breaking the bank.
The reason I bought these face products is because I had a set from soap and glory. Inside it had a highlight, blusher and bronzer. Slowly it's be falling apart, I lost the little brush then started to hit pan on all three. The I broke the mirror, I'd say 7 years bad luck but I must have broken so many mirrors over the last few years I'm really over it now. Back to the makeup I bought two bronzers in, shade 1 and shade 2, a blush in Bon Bon and a white eyeshadow in oyster.
I bought the bronzers as a dupe for soap and glory's solar powder as mines running out and has broken out. This one is actually quite good as it goes onto the brush well, I found with my soap and glory set it some times got oily residue on it. As with the S&G set the darker shade is matte and the light shade has a little shimmer in it.
I bought the blusher in Bon Bon, I really like that MUA sell their blushes seperatly. The S&G one has a darker, lighter and white popped in together to make a shimmer block. This colour is the darker pink from the block and this one dosnt have shimmer in which I quite like.
I didn't buy a replacement highlighter. I'm not a huge fan of the highlighter in the set as it has a pink tone to it. However this eyeshadow has proved to be quite good as a highlighter when used sparingly. It has a shimmer in it and is excellent when used in the corners or the eyes and on the brow bone.
Here's a swatchy swatch swatch.
Whilst in super drug I also picked up a new powder, I like to use collection. It's a simple powder but it has an SPF in it which is excellent as it means I'm covered in both makeup setting and sun care. In winter I like to use Ivory and as we move into summer I use the translucent powder.
I also got some new facial wipes. To be honest I don't believe all the hype about never using make up wipes. I think they have their place, I like to use them before bed to remove makeup. Or before cleansing or just to freshen up. I like to use the Nivea wipes and in the cold weather I use the ones for dry skin.
Next thing I got was a facial cleansing buffer, I picked this up because Ingrid Nilson from the YouTube channel missglamourazzi (http://m.youtube.com/user/missglamorazzi) always uses a product called a dew puff (http://www.dewpuff.com). I thought this would be a good way to test it out without having to order one online. I haven't tried this one out just yet so I'll have to let you know.
That's it for beauty, I then nipped into primary and picked up a couple of bits. I got lovely necklace for £1! I know it's not the best quality it being from primani but it's gold and has hearts and I thought it would be pretty alone or under a collar.
Then I picked up this sleeveless shirt, it's a sheer black shirt and I got it because primary are sometimes a bit shit on arms, sometimes they're a bit too tight. So it's nice that I can wear this under a jumper and not have to worry about that.
Last but not least are these awesome gold metallic temporary tattoos, there's four designs, two sugar skulls, a triangle design and a Indian Hamsa design. Very happy with that.
That's everything I got from my little shopping trip. I hope you liked seeing everything I got, if you enjoyed reading this please put it on your reading list and I will talk to you soon.
Love,
Lucy.
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