ELF Professional Eye Shadow Brush

I put off this review for a while purely because I thought I had already done it! But a quick look at my blog and I realised that I hadn't so here it is.

I have tried a few brushes from the £1.50 (UK) range and sadly I haven't been bowled over by any, that is however with the exception of this one. Now it's no secret to anyone who spends any time reading/watching blogs that this is considered to be the best brush available for the price. Well, I'm happy to inform you that in my humble opinion this is actually worth the hype.

It's just a wonderfully dense brush that couldn't be more perfect for packing on colour, I use it pretty much every time I do eye makeup and it hasn't missed a beat. It doesn't even shed, unlike certain other ELF brushes. *cough* concealer brush *cough*. This has been washed a lot and it's just as perfect as when it was first bought. But of course the best thing of all is that it is a mere £1.50 here in England, it's even cheaper else where in the world.

Have you tried this brush, is it worth the hype? Let me know!

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Ancient Collection 2000 Mini Palettes

So who remembers when Collection 2000 packaging looked like this? It's certainly been a while, which really put me off buying this little trio at first as it's just such an old product. I found this in Poundworld and it came with a little nail varnish as well.So I figured that old doesn't necessarily mean bad and that even if it was awful for a pound I might as well give it a go.

I was shocked at how much I like this! As you can see the lighter colours are a tiny bit shimmery, but certainly not too much for everyday wear. The darker colour is quite matte which I prefer as I only really use dark colours in my crease or outer-v.

(Apologies for the random blue line the camera decided to add in)

I forgot to mention that this palette is in Sin City. Anyway, you can see that the colours are well pigmented, particularly the centre colour, they also last really well too. This is the perfect palette for just throwing in your bag before a sleepover and knowing the next day you can still do something pretty with your eye makeup if you want to. 

I actually have two of these as Poundworld have started selling these in sets of two, and I wanted the other trio that came with it, so I ended up with a second one. If you can manage to snap these up at Poundworld then you'll only really be paying 50p for them, which sounds really great! But it does kind of occur to me that even before this was discontinued, it was probably only around £3 anyway, so the saving is good but not incredible.

If you can't find this in your local Poundworls( they have like, loads in mine ) then you can buy it from Amazon here for £1.82, or alternatively there are quite a lot of people selling these on eBay.

Please do let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

MUA Heaven and Earth Palette

I hardly feel like this palette is worth reviewing as there are sooo many reviews out there, and they all say the same thing. "It's fantastic!" I've been wanting this for a while but my local Superdrug doesn't stock it, so you can imagine how happy I was when I found it . You can buy the palette here for £3! I paid £4 in store, and for ten good sized eye shadows I think that's pretty damn good!

As you can see I've used mine quite a bit already, it's just such an easy palette to default to for both morning and night. You can make a lot of really beautiful looks out of these shadows, the pigmentation is especially good on the darker colours, saying that the highlight colour is really pigmented for a highlight.

 

The only thing that might put some people off is that a lot of the colours are shimmery. I love a little shimmer at night and I think well applied subtle shimmer can look beautiful for day time, so this doesn't bother me personally but I thought I should give you a heads up. 

In conclusion I would without doubt recommend this, it's a really nice range of warm colours that are incredibly flattering and I think I will be trying out some of the other palette's MUA has to offer.

Please do let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx

Ebay 88 Warm Palette Review

If you are interested in the original eBay palette I have done a review of that here.  This is all about the warm palette which is favourite palette out of the two and to be honest out of all the palettes I own. I should point out though that these are the only large palettes I own.

So this is the lovely palette, unfortunately the flash has washed out a lot of the paler colours. But I promise you that there aren't just twenty shades of white. The colours in this palette are so pretty! My friend was getting ready with me once and just gazed in awe as the colours are so nice. They're really flattering colours too that are right up my street. I'm very pale and I don't find that bright colours suit me, but I still adore experimenting with makeup and this palette allows me to do that.

All the colours in the shot are matte, but they're are some shimmery colours and some with a satin finish as well. I cannot recommend this palette enough, I payed about eight pound for this, which makes each eyeshadow nine pence each and I honestly would use every single one of these colours! They're really good quality as well, they last all day and are well pigmented. The only thing I should point out about this palette is that the individual eye shadows are small, about the size of a penny (a British penny that is ).

Please do let me know if there are any products you'd like me to review,

This is all,

Gemmm xxx