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Revolution Pro has released a set of pomades in unusual colours. People with brightly coloured hair can now rejoice as there is likely one that’ll suit you or at the very least one or two that be mixed to create the perfect colour.
Continue reading “Revolution Pro Pigment Pomades Review and Swatches”
Venus 2 is the second palette in Venus series from Lime Crime.
It costs £34 from UK Suppliers or $38 from Lime Crime direct. It has 16 g of product and has a 24-month shelf life once opened. It’s vegan and cruelty-free.
As part of the Lime Crime 10th Birthday celebrations, they released a set of brushes. They cost $38 from Lime Crime or £35 from UK Suppliers. As always with Lime Crime, they are vegan and cruelty-free.
Continue reading “Lime Crime Birthday 4 Piece Eye Brush Set Review”
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.
Continue reading “Revolution Fast Base Stick Foundation in F1 Review & Swatch”
Love Every Shade costs £5 from Revolution Beauty or Boots. There are 8 shades with 1.6grams of product in each. it has a 12-month shelf life once opened and is vegan and cruelty-free.
Continue reading “Obsession Love Every Shade Palette Review & Swatches”
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.
Continue reading “Revolution Conceal and Define Foundation F1 Review”
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.
The I Heart Revolution Chocolate gift set is one of the Christmas releases from Revolution this year. Full retail price is listed as £40 although the contents are not worth that. There is even a sticker on the front that lists the value of the items inside as worth £33.
So let’s take a look inside shall we?
Contained in this set are two makeup pigment palettes, one face palette and one chocolate heart bronzer.
The makeup pigment palettes are the ‘exclusive shades’ Peanut Butter Cup and Red Velvet. Each palette has 18g of product and would normally retail around the £8.99 mark.
The face palette has 1 one bronzer, one baked blush and three highlighters. It has g of product. I do not have a retail price for this as Revolution does not do something similar, it would probably cost around the same as the eye palettes given it is the same size and shape.
The Chocolate Heart bronzer is a backed bronzer in the same style as the others from I Heart Revolution. It has 10g of product and would normally retail for around the £5 mark.
In general, I like this set but I don’t feel it’s worth the full retail value. Is it worth £40? No. even adding all the cost of the products together you don’t even hit the £33 value listed on the front. Under £30, yes I can see the value here.
So what do you think? Is it worth it?
If you’d like it you can get yours online at Revolution or Superdrug.
Deeper reviews of the Face Palettes here and the MakeUp Palettes here.