June Favourites

 

 

Hello Readers!

 

 

Today I'm doing my first ever monthly favourites post! I wasn't sure if I'd ever find myself doing these posts as I feel like I don't switch up my products often enough as I'm the type of person who once they've found something they like, they stick to it. I'm hoping that if I enjoy doing this post I'll make it a regular thing to update my blog with my monthly favourites. These are my favourite products from the month of June. I can't believe that's us in to July already, this year is flying by so fast and it's scary! Especially considering the fact I haven't done much during my "Summer". Enough rambling, now on with the post!

 

The first product I'm going to talk about is a blush. This is MAC's Melba blush, which my boyfriend got me for my birthday back in November. I use this product on and off all the time but I've really been loving it this month. As it's Summer and the weather is starting to be a bit more summer like, I've been really getting into wearing more of a bronzed makeup look and this adds a lovely peachy flush of colour to my cheeks!

 

The next product I'm going to talk about is Collection 2000's Sheer Loose Powder in Translucent. This is a product I've used on and off for a year or two now. I used to swear by this powder but recently I started using another one by L'Oreal and stopped using this one. However this month I randomly picked it up and started using it again and I have rediscovered my love for it! I love the way this looks on my skin and I feel like it helps to set my makeup nicely without making it look cakey and it also helps make my makeup last longer unlike my L'Oreal one which seems to wear off quite quickly.

 

 

Next is Dainty Doll's Creme blush in Billion Dollar Babies which I featured in a post just a few days ago. As I mentioned in my review of this post, I was never really overwhelmed by this product until I started using it as a contour. It makes the perfect contour colour as it's a light taupe / pink colour which looks lovely and natural on the pale skin. I've been loving using this to help create a nice bronzed summer makeup look.

 

Another product that I've rediscovered my love for! I bought this mascara months back when seeing Youtuber BeautyCrush say it was one of her favourite mascaras. At first I wasn't really impressed with this mascara, I thought it was okay but nothing special. I stopped using it after a few weeks and began using Benefits They're Real Mascara. Since running out of that mascara I started using this one again and I can honestly say that I love it. I feel like it makes my lashes really volumized and long. Mascara is mascara to me and none of them seem to differ that much for me. My lashes are quite short and stubby so it was nice to finally find a mascara that seems to do something for me.

 

Finally, my last favourite makeup product of this month has been the Urban Decay Naked Basics palette. I've been loving using this product for both my eyes and eyebrows. I've been enjoying using Walk of Shame, the pinky toned cream shadow all over my lid as an everyday colour. I've also been enjoying using a mixture of Naked 2 and Faint the two brown shades as my eyebrow colour. I've always struggled trying to find the perfect eyeshadow colour to fill in my brows (when I occasionally do it), normally I end up going too dark but finally I've found the right combination!

 

That's it for my first ever monthly favourites post!
I hope you have enjoyed.
What are your views on these products? What have been your June Favourites?
Let me know in the comments!

Paige.



Dainty Doll Creme Blush Review.

Hello Everyone!

Today I'm going to be reviewing a piece of makeup from the Dainty Doll Range, created by Nicola Roberts. I've got a few pieces of makeup from this range and if I'm honest, I don't often use them. Not necessarily because I don't like them but because once I have a set everyday makeup routine, I rarely use any other products. That being said, I recently discovered a new found love for one of the Creme blushes from the range that I own. The product I'm talking about is the Dainty Doll Creme blush in 003, called Billion Dollar Babies.

 

This blush comes in a beautiful matte black compact with Dainty Doll printed in gold. The packaging looks incredibly high end due to the colours and I really like the simplicity of it. Inside is a small mirror which is really handy! However one thing that I don't like about the Dainty Doll Products is that they all have names, yet none of the names are printed on the product, just the product number. I personally like seeing the name of my product rather than just seeing a number as it helps me get a better idea of what kind of colour the product would be and in general I think it's just nice to know the name of your product!

Billion Dollar Babies is a muted pinky, taupe colour which at best can be described as a nude shade. When I first got this blush, I didn't think much of it and it wasn't until I saw Gabrielle Rose (a youtuber) use it for contouring in her Drugstore Makeup Tutorial video that I got the idea to use it to contour my face. I've been using it non stop for the past few days and I can honestly say that I really do love it. It's such a natural colour which goes on quite sheer but can easily be built up to create a nice natural pinky / brown colour which makes for a lovely contour. I really like how natural this looks on the skin, it suits me as a pale person much better then a normal bronzey colour. As you would expect from a Creme blush it wears nicely throughout the day and doesn't budge or slide so it's quite long lasting unlike some powder products.



I've included this image to show you what Billion Dollar Babies looks like as a contour. Here I've applied it to the hollows of my cheekbones using my Real Techniques Contour Brush to blend it in. As you can see from this image, it's a very natural and subtle colour but it does the job and contours my cheekbones nicely!

 

I think this blush originally retails for over £10, however as some of you may have noticed lately, all Dainty Doll products have dropped rapidly in price, what this means exactly I'm not sure. Hopefully this doesn't mean that it's being discontinued as a brand as I personally really like Dainty Doll! I got this from either Amazon or Fragrance Direct and payed somewhere between £2 - £3 odd for it which is amazing value.

 

So overall I'd have to say that I really do love this product and I highly recommend it to any pale girls out there who struggle to contour without looking too cakey or too dark!

Have you tried this product? What do you think?
Are there any Dainty Doll products you would recommend me to try out?

Paige.

 

 

Naked Basics Palette Review.

 

Hello Everyone!

Today I'm going to be reviewing the Naked Basics Palette from Urban Decay. Now I know I'm a bit late to jump on the band wagon with this product, but I've had it for quite a few months and I've only just decided to review it. When reading reviews or watching youtube videos of people talking about this product I've noticed quite a lot of them saying that they weren't overly excited about purchasing this product until they began using it. Some even said they'd put off buying it for ages because it didn't seem like anything special.

When I first found out about Urban Decay launching a 3rd Naked Palette, I was over the moon. I only had the first one at that point so I couldn't wait to get my hands on another one! This palette retails for £20 which I think is quite reasonable. This palette contains 6 eye shadows, 5 of them are matte, and one has a slight shimmer to it. These shadows are all neutral shades, as you would expect.



 

This photo above shows all of the eye shadows from the palette. From left to right there's:

Venus, Foxy, Walk of Shame, Naked 2, Faint and Crave.

Venus is the shimmery white shade. Foxy is a creamy, yellow shade. Walk of Shame is a beige / pink colour. Naked 2 is a light beige brown colour. Faint is a chocolate shade and crave is a very dark black colour.

All of these shades are incredibly pigmented, particularly Crave which has an amazing colour pay off! I normally find most black eye shadows quite disappointing but this one does not let me down!

The colours in this palette are great for creating a nice smokey eye look and the variety of shades allow you to go from a day look to a night look very easily. I've used this palette multiple times when creating a smokey eye as the shades are all so great!

 

 

The packaging of this product is a nice sleek, rubbery plastic box with "Naked Basics" embossed on it in a nice grey / metallic shade. The palette is very small and compact, so is therefore great for when you're travelling. I found that the original Naked Palette is quite big and can therefore be quite challenging trying to travel with or even store. So this size is really quite convenient! It also contains a mirror in the compact so this also comes in handy when trying to apply makeup on the go!

I definitely would recommend this palette 100% to anyone who is interested! It's got all the shades you need and can easily double as a brow kit also. Definitely worth £20!

Does anyone else in the blogging world have this problem? You take out a product to start photographing it and then moments later your cat decides to go to sleep on top of it? Little devil that he is!

That's all for this post! I hope you enjoyed it.

Have you used this product? What do you think of it?

Paige.