Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Makeup Revolution London Sugar and spice blush palette


 I'm very bad at remembering to use blush. I always forget it and end up looking like a painted corpse. Which is fine, I am kind of into that look. But blush must be one of the oldest cosmetic products, humans began using it thousands of years ago... So why can't I? I was very happy with my Makeup revolution highlighter that I bought couple of weeks earlier, so since the palette was on sale before Holidays on https://www.eurokos.lt/e-parduotuve/ , I've decided to get it for myself as a Christmas present.


  With flash off:


  With flash on:


Swatches:


  With flash on:


In natural light:

 Blush is blush. I have very little understanding about it. This particular palette is nice, pigmented, blends well, has many shades to choose from and has a bomb highlighter in it too, the same one that I already own in full size.

Nyx Ultimate Warm Neutrals eyeshadow palette review and swatches

 I've got this palette a while ago. I was considering to buy it online from http://eu.feelunique.com/, but it was always out of stock. I decided to wait until official Nyx store opens in Lithuania, which was only a couple of weeks later.
This is how it looked when I first opened it.


 


Except, not really? My phone camera adds a blue-ish tint to all of my pictures. This palette is very warm. This instagram edit I made later is more true to life than unedited photo.




For a comparison I'll add a few photos I've found online of this palette.







Now swatches: As you can see the first two rows are very light




The next two are very pigmented. I love the brick red and deep maroon shades.





 Later I figured that the colors might show up better with a flash on, but it was too late for the light shades.

In conclusion - I love this palette, the shades are some of my most used and favorite ones and the palette was worth the 19 dollars I've payed for it even though it is one of the most expensive makeup items I've bought in my life so far.  It is literally what a person in my country makes in a day, working on a minimum wage. I often buy makeup and end up not using it as much as I thought I would, so I usually only buy drugstore / affordable items.