Revolution Conceal & Define Foundation Review!

Hey beaut's!

I have been absolutely loving Revolution's base makeup launches over the last few months and I think it's fair to say I'm not the only one, I've tried both of Revolution's concealers and the stick foundation and really liked them all especially the concealers but now theres a new kid on the block in the shape of a foundation, ohhhh! That's right the Conceal & Define Concealer now has an older sister so say hello to the Conceal & Define Full Coverage Foundation!

Just like the concealer the foundation has a crazy amount of shades to choose from, 24 to be precise which is just incredible! Ranging from fair to deep, in cool, pink, neutral and warm undertones - there really is a shade for everyone, I think that's chuffing amazing for a high street beauty brand and I really praise Revolution for doing this! I have the foundation in the shade F4 which is for light skin tones with a pink undertone and it matches me perfectly, Revolution also have a full run down of the shades on their website if your unsure what shade you might be.

The foundation itself claims to be lightweight yet buildable, oil-free yet creamy and comfortable, long-lasting with a demi-matte finish that won’t settle into any fine lines or cling to dry patches, sounds pretty amazing right - I couldn't wait to whack it on my face! I have to admit as soon as I started blending in the foundation on my very first application I was loving it, it blends into the skin with complete ease (I use a beauty blender by the way) and the coverage is mega good, it's definitely more on the full side of things and a little of the foundation goes a long way too! The foundation does claim to have a demi-matte finish but I would say it's more on the matte side that demi-matte so if your looking for a bit of a glow you wont really get that from this foundation. Despite being matte I didn't find the foundation heavy or cakey in any way and it wears on my skin really well, my skins quite combination at the moment and I never have any oily/shiny patches come up when I wear this but I do notice that it does cling to a little dryness I have around my nose which isn't a biggy but something to bare in mind! The foundation seemed to last on me for around 7 hours before it had started to wear off slightly on my chin which I think is a pretty good wear time and I never powdered my skin either because I felt that natural matte finish that the foundation has was enough for me!

The only thing I don't really like is the applicator...it has a jumbo doe foot style applicator which holds the product much like how a concealer does and then you spread/dot it around your face that way, personally I don't find it very hygienic and I would of much preferred a pump to be honest, however it is quite a controlled way to use the foundation and I cant see how I'll waste much of the foundation because I cant accidentally pump too much out so theres always that. The bottle however is gorgeous, it has quite heavy glass bottle which is frosted which makes it feel so much more expensive and luxurious!

Overall I've been bloody loving this foundation and I'm so glad I picked it up to try, in terms of the formula it ticks all of the foundation boxes for me and the fact theres 24 shades to choose from is just amazing!

You can find the Revolution Conceal & Define Foundation for £9.00 HERE.

Revolution Soph Nude Lipstick In Cake Reviewed & Swatched!

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You might have seen a few weeks ago I did a mini haul and first impressions on a couple of bit's I bought from Revolution (Makeup Revolution or Revolution Beauty, I seriously cant keep up with what their calling their selves these days lol). Within that haul was the Soph Nude Lipstick in the shade Cake and seeing as I've been using it a good month now I thought I'd do a proper review on it! 

The Soph Nude Lipstick in Cake in one of three shades that Soph has launched with Revolution and boy it was hard to track down, I actually went into three Superdrug stores to get mine because it was constantly out of stock so it seems to be the most popular shade out of the three Soph has launched! The lipstick itself is so nice, it has an extremely creamy satin finish which almost melts onto the lips as you apply it and feels very soft and nourishing as you wear it too. The colour is right up my street, it's a pink toned nude and definitely the best shade for me out of the three because I cant do beige or brown toned nudes at all. I get a good 3-4 hours wear time out of this one before I could use a top up which I think is pretty good for such a creamy formulation. The packaging is gorgeous, it's rose gold and cream which works really well and looks so pretty on my dressing table and I love the fact the lipstick bullet has 'Soph' etched into it, I'm all for those little touches! Oh and did I mention the lipstick is only £4.00, I mean what an absolute bargain! 

Overall I'm super impressed with this Revolution-Soph lippie collaboration, the pigment is great and doesn't need building up at all, it wears and lasts well on my lips, the colour go's with pretty much any look and the price is super affordable, if your into your nude lips then this collection will definitely be for you!

You can find the Soph Nude Lipstick in Cake for £4.00 HERE.

Freedom Makeup HD Eye Foils Reviewed & Swatched!

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I've been really into eyeshadows with a foil finish at the moment, and when I was browsing  all the makeup in Superdrug on my lunch break recently I saw that Freedom Makeup had released their very own packets of eye foils, obviously being the makeup addict that I am I just had to buy a packet to try and I'm so glad I did because I love them!

Freedom Makeup have a few colour variations of eye foils to choose from but I opted for the Metallic 1 set, this includes 5 magnetic eyeshadows pans all in a beautiful mix of neutral and warm tone foil finish shades. The reason I opted for this set was because for me it's really versatile, I love wearing warm toned shades all throughout Summer and Autumn/Winter so I knew I'd get the most use out of these particular shades. The pans actually come sat in thin plastic packaging but their designed to go into Freedom's #ProArtist customisable magnetic palettes, I have a Z Palette with a few Makeup Geek shades in so I've popped mine in their and they fit perfectly and securely!

The formula of these foil shades are stunning, each shade is intensely pigmented, buttery soft to swatch and apply beautifully with either a flat brush, fingers or you cam spritz your brush with some fixing spray for a super intense foil finish. I actually like using my finger to pop the shades on and then I blend out with a brush, they blend out so easy as well with basically no fall out and stay super intense all day!

I'm so happy these caught my eye in Superdrug, I absolutely love them and these shades are so on trend right now, the warm tones make me think of the Urban Decay Heat palette or those Huda Beauty Textured shadows, their so pretty! And if the quality of these shades wasn't good enough then the price will knock your socks off, their only £5.00 a pop! Yup that's right, it makes each foil shadow £1.00 each, how amazing is that! If your into foil shades or warm tones your going to love these shadows as much as I do!

You can find all of the Freedom Makeup Eye Foils for £5.00 each HERE.

The Body Shop Down To Earth Smokey Grey Eyeshadow Quad Review

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I've always been a fan of The Body Shop and oh my goodness aren't their body butters amazing!!! However I've never tried any of their makeup before and their latest releases seemed the perfect way to start because they all look amazing! On the 26th July The Body Shop launched six all new eyeshadow palettes, five of which are little quads which are £15.00 each and theres a bigger eyeshadow palette containing 8 shades which is £22.00. Whats so cool about all of these new palettes is that all of the individual shades all click in and out of the palettes casing, so you can switch shades between palettes and quads and get customising your perfect palette!

The shades I've been testing out are from the Smokey Grey Quad* which I would say is the perfect night out palette as you can create a killer smokey eye with this beauty. Inside the palette theres a champagne coloured highlighter shade in a metallic finish, a matte dark grey, a glittery silver and the final shade within the palette is metallic gunmetal grey. Each shade is so buttery soft to swatch, highly pigmented, easy to use and they blend out beautifully, they don't crease or fall down and the lasting power is really impressive on me considering I have oily eyelids. These shadows also contain no petrolatum, no mineral oil, are 100% vegan and are suitable for the most sensitive of eyes which I can vouch for as my eyes are quite sensitive and I've had no problems with these eyeshadows what so ever!

Overall I absolutely love this palette and love the whole concept behind The Body Shops new eye shadow palettes. Theres four other quads to collect with gorgeous colour combinations and like this palette, all of the other palettes are customisable too. As for the price I'd say these are quite middle of the road, there not too expensive at £15.00 per quad but it’s not super cheap either, however the eyeshadows pans are a good size and the quality is very very good!

Have you tried any of the new Body Shop eyeshadow quads? Which is your favourite? I'd love to know!

Too Faced Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette Review

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Who else was patently refreshing the Debenhams website at the very beginning of May for the Too Faced Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette as I sure was, and thankfully I managed to order it without any trouble at all! I'm seriously head over heels in love with this palette now and have been using it every single day since it arrived, I honestly had no idea what to expect quality wise because I have never tried any Too Faced makeup before but after trying Sweet Peach out for myself I'm super impressed!

The Too Faced Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette (£39.00) comes packaged in a cute pink/peach/orange ombre style tin with a mirror on the inside of the lid, personally I love packaging, I know some might find it young or tacky but I absolutely love it and I think Too Faced get packaging so right! Within the palette are 18 eyeshadows in a good mix of shades perfect for creating lots of summer time looks, theres warm browns, bronzes, creams, peaches and purples with a great mix of matte, metallic and shimmer finishes, arhhh they are so drool worthy! Before actually getting the palette I did hear lots saying the eyeshadows actually smell of peach but I thought mehhh yeah right - but wow, they do actually smell strongly of the juiciest of peaches, it's so good and you can even smell it when you applying and blending the shades too! 

The formula of the eyeshadows within the Sweet Peach Palette is amazing, most have a buttery soft, creamy texture and insane pigmentation, their are a couple of shades that don't have as much depth as the others such as Georgia, Bellini and Candid Peach but they are fine if you build them up, the rest of the palette for me has an amazing amount of pigment. The one huge difference that I have found when comparing the Too Faced eyeshadows to my other high end palettes is just how nice and easy these eyeshadows are to work with, they apply beautifully and blend like an absolute dream and I never experience any fall out what so ever, they even last on my oily eye lids all day which is a major plus!

From Left to Right - Luscious, Caramelized, Just Peachy, Nectar and Charmed Im Sure.

Overall I'm so happy I managed to get the Sweet Peach palette and for me the quality is literally incredible, I'll definitely be buying more Too Faced palettes in the future and would highly recommend their eyeshadows if your looking for somthing highly pigmented, easy to work with and long lasting! 

Did you manage to get the Too Faced Sweet Peach Eyeshadow Palette beaut's? 

NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in Milan Review

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If you read my Mini NYX Haul a couple of weeks ago you'll know that I got rather excited in the Norwich Boots store when I saw that they had a huge NYX makeup stand, as well as buying some other things from NYX I ended up purchasing my very first NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in the shade Milan, so I thought I would share my thoughts on it with your all today!

The NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream's some in loadsss of different shades but I opted for Milan to be the first in my collection, it's a gorgeous mid tone pink shade that suit my skin tone really well, I was actually hoping this would be more of a dusky pink when I bought it but I'd say it's one or two shades brighter than a dusky pink but it's still a gorgeous colour that I'll be rocking loads through out Spring/Summer. Formula wise, it's lovely! It smells incredible, just like vanilla frosting and instead of general liquid lipsticks that have that liquid, wet texture to begin with I find the NYX offering has more of a light weight mousse texture when they are first applied and then it dries down to a gorgeous matte finish after about 5 minutes or so. I must admit I don't own very many matte finish lip products because I hate that drying feeling that matte lipsticks usually leave me with, but I was actually pleasantly surprised by the NYX Lip Cream finish because despite being matte I don't find it drying or flaky on my what so ever! 

As for the lasting power... I find I get a good 3 to 4 hours wear out of Milan or basically until I eat something and then it fades from the middle of my lips and just needs topping up in that area, that doesn't bother me at all because I find in general I always top my lip products up after I've eaten! Overall I absolutely love the formula of the NYX Soft Matte Lip Creams and I already have the shades Paris and Istanbul on my wish list! Also if you haven't guess already that shade names are all from places around the world which I love, it's so quirky!

You can find the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream's on the Boots website for £5.50 HERE!

Have you tried any of the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream's beaut's? Which shade is your favourite? I'd love to know!

Zoeva Cocoa Blend Eyeshadow Palette Review

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I've always lusted after the Zoeva Eyeshadow Palettes and last year for my birthday my Mum and Dad kindly bought me the Cocoa Blend Eyeshadow Palette which just looks so god damn beautiful! My birthday was actually last August so I've had plenty of time testing out this palette, I totally forgot to review it and then recently found the images of the palette on my memory card so I thought it was about time I gave the Cocoa Blend Palette a cheeky review.

The Zoeva Cocoa Blend Eyeshadow Palette (£15.50) is a chocolate lovers dream containing 10 eyeshadows inspired by warm truffle colours, delicate nougat shades and tones of shimmering marzipan, sounds good enough to eat doesn't it he he! The 10 shades within the palette are mostly warm toned with golds, bronze an chocolate browns in the mix which and all have an array of finishes including matte, satin, duo chrome, pearlescent and glitter so theres plenty of choice when it comes to finishes.

The formula of each eyeshadow within the Cocoa Blend Palette is wear the party is at, the pigmentation is out of this world - I'm talking insanely good, each eyeshadow blends out an absolute dream because of their ultra-micronised formula and they last all day without creasing which is a HUGE bonus for me because I do tend to get oily eyelids from time to time. The only negative I have to say about this palette is that I've found that some the shades have quite a lot of fall out, they seem to be quite powdery when picking them up with my makeup brush which is quite odd as their almost creamy to swatch, and if I haven't tapped out the excess eyeshadow really well then I do get some fallout, this in no way faults the quality of the eyeshadows as they are brilliant but it can be annoying at times but other than that the formula is luscious.

As you can see from the swatches the shades are stunning and so rich in pigment! Theres quite a few shades within the Cocoa Blend Palette that are slight dupes too, Warm Notes which is the red-brown shade really reminds me of MAC's Cranberry, Subtle Blend is very much like Smog from Urban Decay and Pure Ganache has a definite Half Baked vibe also from Urban Decay, and finally Delicate Acidity really reminds me of my MAC Satin Taupe eyeshadow. Overall I think this is a stunning palette and for the £15.50 price tag it's an absolute win, I'm now lusting after the Rose Golden Palette and might treat myself with my Christmas pennies he he.

Have you got the Zoeva Cocoa Blend Eyeshadow Palette beaut's? What did you think? I'd love to know.

Urban Decay NAKED Basics Palette Review

Urban Decay NAKED Basics Palette £20

I'm super excited to review this palette being the huge Urban Decay fan that i am. The Naked Basics is a cute little palette with 6 neutral matte eye shadows, so if your into your matte eye shadows and your neutrals this is definitely the palette for you. The palette is quite slim and small with a rubberised finish to it and has a good sized mirror inside the lid, out of all the Urban Decay palette's this is my favourite packaging as the other palettes tend to be quite large so aren't so easy to travel with or carry around in your make up bag for touch ups during the day, but this little beauty is pocket sized id say. 

Two of the shades in this palette are available in other Urban Decay palettes but the other four are brand new shades. The only semi matte shade in this palette is Venus (the lightest shade in the palette) it has a slight pearly shimmer to it which is fabulous to highlight the brow bone or the tear duct area. What i love about this palette is that the shades can simply take you from day to night, you can use your lighter colours in the palette for the day time and then smoke it up at night with the darker colours, the colour 'Faint' is also great for my eyebrows too.

Colour Description:

Venus: An off white shade with a slight shimmer. NEW!

Foxy: A matte light yellow/creamy colour.

Walk of Shame: A very light nude colour also matte.

Naked 2: A taupe matte colour. NEW!

Faint: A matte dusty brown. NEW!

Crave: A deep dark matte brown/black. NEW!

Without flash.

With flash.

All the shades in this palette are highly pigmented, super soft to the touch and easy to work with, as the formula is so super soft they're really easy to blend and stay in place on the eyelids all day, i have super oily eyelids so i do use a primer or a base so i can get longer wear out of the shadows but i have tested this palette out without primer and the shadows lasted a good 6/7 hours which i thought was amazing.

Overall i really do love this palette, i think it super affordable considering its a high end makeup product, its great for travelling and the eye shadows are super good quality.

Have you got this beauty of a palette?? What did you think??

Love Hayley xXxXx