Some recent make up purchases.

I was waiting for payday to be able to buy some new makeup as I was starting to look incredibly boring wearing the same face every day!

Being a poor student for the 6th year now I am always on a tight budget so high end products are out of my reach.

But here are some stuff I managed to pick up that is well within my means!

These look so similar to the Benefit "benetint" cheek and lip stain and "high beam" highlighter. I couldn't resist when I saw them in Bodycare for just £1.99 each instead of Benefits hefty price tag.
I've never used a cheek stain before but I was quite happy with this. At first I was quite heavy handed with it and piled the product on as it didn't seem to be adding much colour and was quite watery. But once blended in it seemed to grow more and more pigmented so I ended up taking it off and starting again. You only need the smallest amount of product and it adds a lovely rosy flush that's perfect for these autumn days.
I've only ever used Mac strobe cream before as a kind of highlighter, and I used it for a couple of days and then completely forgot about it.  I've used this technics highlighter just on the brow bone, the bridge of my nose and the top of my cheekbones and it does add quite a nice sheen, although one of my male friends did comment that I looked "too shiny and weird, like a snail has crawled on your face"...great, snail trail! I do like the highlighter but I can't imagine wearing it during the day, maybe just on special occasions and nights out.
For £1.99 you can't really go wrong with these though!

I am not really a lipstick wearer. The natural colour of my lips is quite nice and I rarely look good with lipstick on, I feel like I look i'm trying terribly hard. But I actually bought three lipsticks this week! the first two were these from MUA at a cost of £1 each! Perfect, if like me, you are just wanting to experiment.
The pale pink one is shade 15 "juicy". I suppose you would say its kind of a nude colour. I quite like the texture and it didn't feel like it was drying my lips out which is what I've found with lipsticks before. There's nothing worse than flaky skin and lipstick in my opinion. It has a hint of sheen but isn't too overpowering and in your face shiny lips. I probably won't wear this very often, as personally, I have quite dark skin, and this gives me a slight look of "concealer lipstick" that seemed to be popular with teenagers a while ago. All in all a good one though.
The second lipstick is shade 10 (it doesn't have a name booo). When I first unwrapped this I was pretty gutted as I could see the gold glitter in it already! I do not mix well with glitter! But once I'd tried it on it wasn't actually bad at all. It wasn't overly shiny girly glitter glitter at all and gave my lips a nice rush of colour. I think this could be a contender as "the" red lipstick for me this christmas (although I am going to buy the Kate Moss 107). Its very moisturising and doesn't make me feel like I have loads of product on my lips. I prefer matte lipsticks but this is easily solved by just patting some loose powder over the top.
I think MUA may be onto a winner with these, who can complain at a £1 aswell?!

The third lipstick I purchased was from Bodycare and is from a range called "Body Collection". it was 99p...so how could I resist?  This one is Shade 17 "crushed rose". First of all, the packaging for this was terrible. It took me a good 5minutes to get the plastic off and it left this horrible grubby mark. uh oh, not a good start. The lipstick itself is quite nice. Not too dry but i had to put quite a lot on to add any noticeable colour. I used this to mix with a dark purple lipstick I have from topshop and it made a nice plum shade.  Not one that I would wear on it's own unless I was going for a natural, barely there look (but if that was the case I just wouldn't wear lipstick?!), but good value as a mixer!


Well, for my first post I don't think this was too bad?! I just ordered the Sleek Makeup face contouring kit, so I'll try do something on that next!