Sleek face form pallet - contour must have!

Hello all,

So, in one of my favourites (January I think) I mentioned the Sleek face form pallet. And I love it so much I thought I'd do a full review on it.

I bought this in the new year, after wanting it for so long and hearing so many good things about it. I purchased it from my local Superdrug for £9.99, which is such a good price for the quality and quantity. Mine is in the shade 'light' and they also have pallets that are all blushers, and a few darker shades I think.

 

The pallet comes with 3 different powders: a bronzer, highlight and blush. All of which are really pigmented (I learnt that the hard way!)
I use this nearly everyday and I'm nowhere near hitting pan!
I honestly don't use the blush that much, as I'm not that much of a blush person but when I do use its it's so pretty!

The bronzer colour is perfect for contouring and bronzing, it's a warm tone shade but not orangey at all, so it's perfect for pale skin tones as well as darker ones.
I like to use my real techniques contour brush and a big fluffy brush to apply this to the hollows of my cheeks and forehead.

As much as I love all of the colours, the highlight has to be my favourite, as highlights are my favourite thing ever!
It's such a pretty peachy colour and adds such a pretty, subtle and healthy looking glow to your face. I apply this with either a flat brush or a stippling brush onto my cheekbones, cupids bow, brow bone, and sometimes forehead and down the nose. (I sometimes go crazy, but it's worth it)

 

I also love the packaging, the picture above is what the pallet comes in, and on the back it explains how you could use it, so it's great for beginners.

The actual pallet is black and looks so sleek (excuse the joke) and professional.

 

Finally, I love to use this pallet on my eyes as well, it saves so much time in the morning as it's one less thing to get out.
All I do is apply the bronzer in the crease and the highlight all over the lid and in the inner corner. And it makes such a pretty, simple eye.

Overall, I love this pallet and I don't know what I'd do without it! I recommend this to all makeup-users and think that its deffo worth the money!


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Fern :)

Smashbox - double exposure pallet!

Hello all,

so recently I went shopping in oxford and I may have ended up at a smashbox counter and I may have ended up buying the newest pallet....

It's called the 'double exposure pallet' and it cost me £37, which is pricey but its so worth it!
I've heard so much about this pallet and it deffo meets all the good reviews and raves.

 

You may be thinking 'Fern, this is just another ordinary pallet' but believe me...it's not...

What makes this pallet so special is that you can change the colours by simply adding water. All you have to do is wet/dampen the brush and the colours transform from either: matte, satin or shimmer to become: more metallic, amped up vibrancy, deeper or added sparkle. Which is so cool and unique for a pallet! So, 14 colours, become 28.

The pallet also comes with a little booklet thing that tells you how to do pretty eye looks for different eye shapes and how to make your eyes look most flattering.
It also comes with a bit of paper that goes over the shadows that tells you what they're called, what they look like and how they change with water.
Much like the too faced chocolate bar pallet, the actual pallet doesn't have the names on, they're on a separate bit of paper, but it doesn't really matter, unless you're picky.
It also comes with a double ended brush, one end flat and the other angled and fluffy.

The pallet contains both warm and cool tone colours, which is really good for making a variety of different looks. However all the colours are quite dramatic, so it's best for dramatic, night out kind of looks, but you can still make some really pretty everyday looks from it.

All the shadows are pretty pigmented, however some of the lighter shades some don't show up too well on me, as I am as pale as a ghost and vampires child, but when I add water they become more pigmented and show up a lot better.
Also, the colours are all really creamy and blend out really easily.

I decided to swatch the colours (excuse my moley arms) so you could see how they change when wet. In the pictures above, they are the dry colours. ( I know they are quite hard to see, as I said, pale as a vampire) the first picture is the cool tone purples and blues and the second is the warm tone pinks and browns.

Now these are the wet colours. As you can see they instantly become so much more pigmented and vibrant. Some of them become more like cream eye-shadows, which I love!
You don't have to worry about the colours permanently changing, they change back in the pallet again almost instantly, but stay transformed on your eyes. 

Here's a list of colours from left to right, top row: silver, mauve, peony, blanc, quartz, flushed, veiled
second row: midnight, temper, haze, noir, copper, fig, espresso.

My personal favourite few are quartz and flushed, as they are melony pinky colours and that's what I personally love on my eyes! I also really love blanc as its like pure glitter and so shimmery and pretty. As you can tell I love my warm tones!

So I thought I'd say my favourite combos and how to do them.

My favourite warm tone:

1. apply espresso into the crease (dry)
2. then put flushed (wet) all over the lid
3. to deepen the eye, add fig (dry) into the outer V
4. Add quarts (wet) onto the centre of the lid
5. Finally put blanc (wet) in the inner corner to open up the eyes more.
6. Blend flushed and fig under eye

This makes a really pretty everyday kind of look that can be made more subtle or intense by adding or not adding water.

My favourite cool tone:

1. apple haze (dry) into crease
2. put mauve and peony (wet) onto the lid
3. deepen outer V with temper.
4. finally silver (wet) into the inner corner
5. sometimes I like to put some blanc (wet) on the centre on the lid to make it a bit less dark.
6. blend haze and temper under the eye

This creates a really pretty purple smokey eye, which is quite dramatic and looks stunning on lots of skin tones.
I also add a thin line of eyeliner to both these looks, sometimes a wing if I want it to be more dramatic!

Finally, my only issue with this pallet is that there is no 'crease blending colour' for example a light brown or burnt orange colour, so some of the colours may take a while and more precaution to blend out seamlessly. However it's easily worked around with a good blending brush!

So, thankyou for reading I hope you enjoyed! I really love this pallet and recommend it to anyone who is thinking about getting their hands on it!

Cool tone eyemake up look (ft my on point brows)

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Fern:) 

February Favourites

Hello all,

So February is over! February always goes so fast (well duh it's got less days) for me, February was a pretty good month! However I don't have that many faves, simply because there's just not enough time to buy new things when its so short and busy!

Ted Baker - Eye crayons

I received theses for Christmas, in a set of Ted Baker makeup and I only really started using these this month. The colours aren't named, but one is a really shimmery gold and the other a bluey grey colour. They're both so pigmented and blend out really easily. I don't personally use them together, but I haven't tried that yet! I use the gold all over the lid with other gold, coppery colours and the grey one in the outer v with a more plain eye.

Joss Stirling - Storm and Stone

I again, have no words. this book is soooooo good! I love the author, as you know and the story is so good. It's so well written that you feel like you're in the book, which for me, is what makes an amazing book!
However, this book is no longer called 'Storm and stone' and the cover is very different. It's now called 'Struck' and has a picture of a bird on the front, which I don't think suits the book at all! But I recommend this book to everyone!

Jennifer E. Smith - This is what happy looks like

Another book! This book was so cute and deffo got me in the mood for summer! I managed to finish this book in like a day and a half (would have been a day if it didn't get dark so early) and I loved it so much! It's a cute romance between two people who meet online, but it has a bit of a twist and its so page turning, I love it!

One Direction -Four

I know this album is kinda 'old' now, but this past month I've been listening to it non stop! I love every song on it but my favourites are 'Stockholm syndrome' and 'clouds'
I constantly listened to this album every morning whilst doing my makeup, or in the car, basically everywhere!

 

 

Painted west

I have loved this band for soooo long (like 2 years) and recently they changed their name, and put out some new music and it's been on replay ever since it was released. Which then made me want to listen to their older music and covers again, so I've also been listening to them non-stop for the last month! (and every month before that) They work so hard and you can really tell by all their amazing music, not to mention they're so nice too! So, you have to go check them out, believe me you will thank me later!

Topshop - Love, Love jumper

As February is 'the month of love' I thought it only necessary to wear this top! I will always be proud of myself for this top as it should have been £37 but it was on sale for £7! Now if that's not a good deal I don't know what is!
I live in jumpers (slightly worried I might turn into one) so I love this one! It's so soft and comfy and looks good with everything!


Soooo, that's it for my favourites, I hope you enjoyed, lets hope that March is just as good as February, hopefully even better!
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Thanks again!

Fern :)