Budget beauty brilliance with Makeup Revolution

Budget beauty is booming. Everywhere you turn there is a new brand trying to become the best at proving affordable makeup. I'm not talking about your typical highstreet brands like Revlon and Rimmel (although both have majorly upped their game in recent years). I talking brands where each item only costs one or two pounds... And they are good! With the likes of Primark, NYC and MUA we were spoilt with a few gem items but equally as many duds. Then Makeup Revolution entered and changed the game.

I am not even going to try and pretend that I'm ahead of the curve when it comes to Makeup Revolution. Whilst I first came across them at a Christmas preview event in 2014 (about 6 months after their launch) I completely over looked them as just another budget brand similar to MUA and the like. I figured wow, the lipsticks are fab but I won't risk the rest. Oh how wrong I was. I am now completely obsessed with Makeup Revolution and their ability to create dupes of the most high end products (NARS, MAC, Anastasia Beverly Hills, Too Faced and many more!) for a fraction of the price. I am kicking myself for not jumping on the bandwagon sooner but thankfully it's not going to cost much to play catchup. For a full breakdown the lovely ladies of Matte To Metallic have painstakingly catalogued each product and it's premium dupey goodness here.

You'll remember I was recently mourning the loss of my MAC pro palette cream blushes. Well I bought the All About Cream palette because of it contained dupes for all of them! Likewise the gorgeous Iconic Pro 2 Salvation palette contains all the matte goodness I've been craving whilst I wait for the Blank Canvas Master palette to come back in stock. It feels like I've been waiting a lifetime and they just keep pushing the restock date back! This palette is helping me wait. It is gorgeous! See the look I created below for an example.

I just can't get over the quality of these eyeshadows. Even the fact that they contain talc as a main ingredient doesn't annoy me because the colour pay off is still very high. I just make sure to use a cream based product or a decent primer below them in order to protect my skin.

Makeup Revolution are currently found in Superdrug but you can buy them online directly from their website where there are usually a few awesome bundle deals and discounts. Well worth checking out.

"Brand New Mint In Box"

Of the ways to describe the most premium of items in your makeup collection "Brand New Mint In Box" should not be one of them. One of my most awful habits is buying makeup and then not using it and to my even greater shame it is usually with my most expensive purchases. There is an Alan Carr joke about the extortionate price of a Spanish Onion, the punchline is "when do you save an Onion for best?" This is kind of how I feel about expensive makeup. It's so pretty and so precious that if I get up the courage to actually purchase it, I'm then usually too scared to use it. The pride and shame of this habit is these two items from Dior. The absolutely sublime Dior Skin Nude Tan highlighter which I purchased as a pre-release special edition from House Of Fraser TWO YEARS AGO has sat in box all tightly wrapped up only being shown the light to show off to my friends and family. Yes I do show off my prettiest of pretties to my friends and family...

No Halloween Costume Needed

It's become an accepted norm that once December 1st comes around the nations will don their snowflake print leggings and their novelty jumpers but so far the other seasons are lacking in their effort. Yes, Halloween is famous as being the single greatest costume day of the year but I need October to step and represent in the seasonal apparel game. Thankfully retailers have heard my inner goth cry and have come up with some seriously cute Halloween inspired items. For those who love a slogan tee you have every variation of saying that could possibly be made by rhyming witch with bitch and if you don't say every one of with Emma Roberts' attitude then you need to watch season 3 of American Horror Story immediately! Dressing with the seasons is clearly big money but it doesn't have to cost the world. Here are my choices of how to get into the Halloween spirit all under £30. Boohoo Starting with my favourites because I can! I actually bought the f

The super cuteness of Studio Ghibli nail art

These were done with various Gelish colours over a Hard Gel overlay with embedded glitter. Characters featured are Totoro - My Neighbour Totoro, Soot Sprites - Totoro & Spirited Away, No Face - Spirited Away, and Calcifer - Howls Moving Castle.

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