Cruelty-free beauty
Meet the newest of the Pocket Candy palettes from Lime Crime, the limited edition Birthday cake palette. It costs $34 from Lime Crime.
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Over the next 9 months, I’ll be wearing a foundation a month and testing it out with various primers, application techniques and post my review here. I’ll also mention any issues when the foundation is used with cream-based products such as blusher or highlighter. Before we continue, I have oily skin, a few fine lines and the occasional issues with breakouts. I don’t have an issue with dry skin so if you do you might find we have very different results from the same foundation.
The four primers I’ll be using are, Illamasqua – Hydra Veil, this one is a water-based gel primer. Evelyn Ion Cosmetics – Green Tea Primer, this one is a water-based dream primer. The Body Shop – Instablur Primer, this one is a silicone-based primer. Revolution Pro – Prime Oil, this one is an oil-based primer. I’ll also go without a primer to see how it performs without any help.
Other variables include using fingers, sponges or brushes to apply the foundation to see if it makes any difference in the finish or performance with these methods. I’ll also use cream, powder and liquid blushers and highlighters to see if there are any issues too.
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The Macaroons Chocolate Palette is one of the non-exclusive palettes in the Chocolate Vault. It’s available separately for £9 from Revolution Beauty. It’s vegan and it is cruelty-free. It has a 12-month shelf life once opened.
The Salted Caramel Chocolate Palette is one of the non-exclusive palettes in the Chocolate Vault. It’s available separately for £9 from Revolution Beauty. It is vegan and cruelty-free. It has a 12-month shelf life once opened.
Who loves salted caramel?
Revolution brings you the best salted caramel recipe. There is no better combination than these 16 shimmer and matte addictive shades. From delicious nudes to tempting pinks to bring you salt and sweet at the same time.It’s sweet, it’s buttery, it’s salted caramel goodness.
As you can see this is also one of the older palettes from the inside design. There are two fewer shades than you get in the newer palettes because there are two large highlight shades. Great if you’re of lighter skin tone, the reverse if you’re not. The names are also on a plastic sheet rather than the packaging itself.
As a result, it’s the older formula, that means while it’s still good it’s not as good as the newer palettes. They’re a little drier and harder to blend but they’re by no means unworkable. They’re more like your regular highstreet shadows.
It’s a good range of colours if you’re into the range of brown neutral tones again. There are two pops of colour. One more of a navy blue and one pink. They’re both shimmer shades, although it’s more obvious in the pink. This one mostly contains matte shades with only 6 shimmers overall.
If you’d like this one on its own it’s available at Revolution Beauty for £9
This jelly highlighter costs £6 from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug. I can not find the amount of product listed online and it’s not on the product itself either. It does have a 12-month shelf life once opened and is Vegan and cruelty-free.
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The Diamond Dews are eyeshadow toppers. They cost £18 from UK suppliers or $20 from Lime Crime direct. They have 4.14 ml of product each and have a 12-month shelf life once opened. They are Vegan and cruelty-free.
A lid topper that brings the effect of sparkling diamonds to your eyes. Packed with reflective particles that instantly add that OMG! factor to your makeup.
Continue reading “Lime Crime Diamond Dew Review & Swatches – Holy Shift, Confetti and Tinsel”
The Smores Palette from I Heart Revolution is exclusive to the I Heart Revolution Vault, which you can get from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug for £72. It is Vegan and of course Cruelty-Free.
The outside has lovely white chocolate drips on, which makes it easy to find in your Chocolate palette collection.
The inside is full of warmer tones in neutral colours. There’s a nice mixture of matte and shimmers in here for that perfect brown smokey eye. The mattes blend well and the shimmers look amazing when they’re foiled.
It’s a particularly good palette if you’re fond of the neutral brown eye look. It’s got just enough foil shades to take it from day to night.
I like this palette and it’s great for the price. It’s currently exclusive to the Vault but I won’t be surprised if in the future we see this one as a single release.
The Smores Palette from I Heart Revolution is exclusive to the I Heart Revolution Vault, which you can get from Revolution Beauty or Superdrug for £72.
Continue reading “I Heart Revolution Chocolate Vault – Smores Palette Review and Swatches – Part 3”
We’ve seen the face palettes, let’s take a look at the makeup pigment palettes. The name makeup pigment palettes tell me at least some of these are not eyeshadows, I think especially in the Red Velvet palette to get a bright colour.
The palettes are all in the same shape as the I Heart Revolution Chocolate range. They’ve got the melting chocolate palette design on the front. Normally these kinds of palettes retail for £8.99. There’s two in this set. The Peanut Butter Cup palette and the Red Velvet set.
The Peanut Butter Cup palette smells a bit like peanut butter. I’m not fond of the smell but it doesn’t last on the face.
As for the swatches, as you can see they’re quite strong colours. A few of them are quite stiff but they blend very well. It’s about on par with the usual Chocolate palettes. There’ of course a very warm overall tone to this palette but there are a few cooler undertones too. It’s of course very yellow toned overall.
I do like it but I’m struggling with ideas on how to use them all. Some of the colours are very similar so of course, will blend into one another but that can also be useful for a seamless gradient. Overall I like this one more than I thought I would.
The Red Velvet palette was the one of the two I was the most excited for but the one that let me down the most. There are a fair few tones in here that are too close to the Peanut Butter Cup palette for my liking. It’s a slightly cooler-toned palette.
Frosting is the first I’m going to mention because you can’t really see the two-toned nature on my arm. That flash of pink is what you can see. It’s a nice flash but can get lost. Beetroot is really quite patchy and better off as a transition shade or inner corner highlight.
I’ve found these shades to be harder to blend. They’re not unworkable but they’re not great either. If this was a single palette I’d say skip this one. As part of the set, I think it brings it down a bit.
Overall they’re not bad palettes, Red Velvet is not great though.
If you’d like it you can get yours online at Revolution or Superdrug.
So are you picking this set up? Did you agree with me? Let me know in the comments below.
Today we’re taking a look inside the I Heart Revolution Chocolate Heart gift set. Specifically the face products inside.
The Praline Chocolate Face palette has three different products in the one palette. There are a bronzer, a baked blush and three highlighters. In total there’s 18g of product and it’s all vegan.
As I said in my overview of the set, I think this particular palette isn’t the best because it tries to please everyone.
They are as usual for Revolution highlighters really pigmented. The blush is less so but can be built up.
Next out of the package is the Chocolate Heart Bronzer.
There’s 10g of baked bronzer in here. It’s much warmer than the bronzer in the Praline Chocolate palette and has golden shimmers in it. Of the two bronzers, I prefer this one as it really does warm the face. It is also much lighter (although a little buildable), so suited to the lighter end of the spectrum.
So what do you think of the face palettes? Have you asked Father Christmas for this set?
If you’d like it you can get yours online at Revolution or Superdrug.
As part of their 10th Birthday collection, Lime Crime released several unicorn lipsticks, some of which were new shades. They cost $18 each and are Vegan and Cruelty-Free. They have of 3.5g product and a 12-month self-life on opening.
