maybelline | I Want Your Style

I am always on the hunt for a new make up brand that doesn’t break the bank balance…. I use MAC, Bobbi Brown, YSL, MUA, Super Drug, Boots No 7… L’oreal.. Maybelline…. Barry M…Rimmel… Collection 2000…(I have ALOT of make up)…..I like trying lots of different beauty brands for many different reasons but I stumbled across this Gem when shopping with the Bestie!

KIKO Make Up Milano had a large variety of coloured eyeliners, nails varnishes, powder and cream blushers, foundations, lip sticks, lip crayons, concealers and also had a range of skin care products. As a lipstick lover I couldn’t get over the pigments of the lipsticks and the range of colours that they had. Not only did they have lipsticks, they have lipliners and ‘glossy lipliners’ which is basically a lipliner with a gloss/shimmer to it! I bought about 5 different products and it costs me £24 in total which I thought was great.

Velvet Mat Lipstick

When wearing a strong pigmented colour I prefer a matte lipstick as I personally feel that they stay on longer, I lost my mac ‘morange’ lipstick a few weeks ago and got ridiculously excited that I had finally found a dupe for a third of the price!

This velvet lipstick lasted about 5 hours on my lips and I added my own gloss on top. It felt really soft and creamy on my lips and two random people today asked me where I got my lipstick from… (woop woop)

Sometimes when you see a lipstick in store it looks great but normally doesn’t last long enough/ drys out my lips or the pigment is really light…. this little brand took me by surprise! For only £5 I was really shocked by how good the products were and I will defiantly be buying more. Matte lipsticks normally dry out my lips but I noticed for the first time that this didn’t happen, this lipsticks are enriched with K2 repulp which stimlates hyaluronic acid which helps to maintain moisturse levels and plumpness.

Check out the rest of their lipsticks here. This lipstick is avaliable in 15 different shades, I bought shade 604 in bright orange!

Ultra Glossy Stylo

Instead of wearing a bright pigmented lipstick it’s nice to have a natural light shimmery coloured gloss, this stays on like a lipstick its lightweight and adds a subtle amount of colour. The ultra glossy lipsticks from KIKO again are at an amazing price off only £3.50. I couldn’t help myself and I picked up 2 in shades 807 and 816. It’s a great price, product and tastes like candy! Check out their full range of ultra glossy lipsticks here.

Ultra Glossy Lip pencil

I always use a lipliner but I have never come across a glossy lipliner. The only product I can compare this to is the Clinique chubby stick with a stronger pigment with a glossier effect. Again the price is so cheap, £5.20 for a really good glossy lipliner, this is available in 16 different shades,

Natural Concealer

Finally …. we are nearly at the end of this little review.. I had to try their concealer. I am on the search for a full coverage, hydrating, non creasing concealer… (still looking). The natural concealer is light weight with a medium to full coverage and didn’t crease as much as my other drug store products. I bought this in shade 2 as I wanted the ‘kim k’ look. It was a reasonable price of £5.50 and they have a variety of different concealers, check out their full range.

Sometimes it is so hard to find a product that you love and actually works, I was surprised by this brand and will be purchasing a lot more products from them. As cliche as it may sound I assume that the more expensive the product the better coverage and product, I have been proven wrong. Check out their store in the original Westfield in London.

Have you tried this brand? What is your favourite beauty product of all time?

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The whole point of make up is to enhance your natural features and when worn well it should look flawless.

I created this look by using my Real Technique buffering foundation brush and a variety of other different tools in my make up kit! Contouring and highlighting is one of my favourite parts of my makeup routine, it brings the whole look to life and can shape your face.

Highlighting: When putting makeup on your face we want to add light to areas that we want to make bigger or come out. Therefore we highlight the inner corner of our eyes to make them pop, have a lighter conceler under the eyes and around the lips to make them look bigger.

Contouring: This is adding depth and shadows to the face to make certain dimensions and can potentially make things look smaller.

I created this look using Maybelline’s FIT foundation, the texture is light with a medium coverage but is buildable. I normally use a MAC conceler but it’s not light enough for effect so I used the L’oreal coverage conceler. The coverage is great but the consistency is very sheer so its buildable. For a heavy coverage I wouldn’t recommend this product, I would recommend an Illamasqua conceler.