Makeup Lust: Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Double Face Perfector
Monday, 3 September 2012, Monday, September 03, 2012 | 0 comments, Leave a comment? ^^,

Hi my little sweethearts! Today I've got a real treat of a product to talk to you guys about and it's gonna become a staple in my makeup collection (long as I can keep finding it! It's discontinued and really hard to find) but regardless I've gotta gush about it; the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Double Face Perfector.


Packaged in a sleek dual-ended tube are an amazing highlighter and concealer combo in the shade Light Medium, and the ends are packaged (as well as tinted) to match their products. I got this for $10 at a discounted price from Nova Pharmacy (my friend bought it for me, love it!) and if you're lucky you should be able to still spot it in some pharmacies and on eBay as well, onto the products!


I'm very picky about my concealers as I have a lot of requirements my dream concealer has to meet. The areas of my skin that require concealing tend to be drier than the rest of my face, or oilier due to a growing blemish meaning my concealer will melt off; so it needs to be long lasting. I love a medium to full coverage concealer to cover up any scars and since I don't have a huge issue with dark circles I like my concealer to be one that gives good radiance (I often use a separate concealer for brightening but now I don't have to!). It sounds impossible but I've most definitely found it! This concealer lends great medium to full coverage opacity in an extremely lightweight concealer that requires quick blending (due to its fast setting and flattering matte finish) and has a flattering neutral/yellow undertone that suits my skin perfectly. I find this concealer so well pigmented and blendable that I can afford to use it on drier areas without fear of flaking and underneath the eyes without settling into any lines. As this is an anti ageing based line in the Maybelline family the concealer is designed to mask "adult imperfections" such as discolouration and scars caused by the sun and broken capillaries.


The highlighter end is just as stellar and I'm absolutely loving it! It has a thinner texture (with a brush tip instead of the doe-foot sponge of the concealer, which applies the thicker texture of the concealer better) that has more slip, meaning you have more blending time. It has sheer to light coverage with a matte/satin finish rather than a shimmer or pearl finish typical of most highlighters such as Benefit High Beam. I find this highlighter is subtle enough to really brighten up underneath my eye area above my foundation and concealer as well as down the bridge of my nose, cupids bow, below my bottom lip, cheekbones and my browbones. Because it has a pinker/peachier tone rather than a yellow tone such as the concealer it can neutralise your skin tone more and bring more brightness to the affected area (think about the Bobbi Brown correctors and it works a similar but better effect!).


I really do adore this product and have been using it every day since I got it, hopefully I can use it in a tutorial for you guys soon as I can't wait to try it out and gush about it even more!

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Makeup Lust: Maybelline Dream Lumi Touch Highlighting Concealer
Friday, 13 July 2012, Friday, July 13, 2012 | 0 comments, Leave a comment? ^^,

Okay, let me start of by saying I am obsessed with this product! What is it you may ask? Well you should have read the title! Kidding, it's the Maybelline Dream Lumi Touch Highlighting Concealer! A drugstore dupe of the famed YSL Touche Éclat and the Lancôme Teint Miracle Instant Retouch Pen Lit-From-Within Perfector at a fraction of the price and equal the quality. 

Shade 02 Nude (Credit)

I've been raving for weeks now about the Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer but I honestly like this even more. My skin has been so dull cause of this chilly winter weather so anything with the words illuminating, highlighting, dewy finish are standing out to me in a positive way (which is usually the opposite for my typically combination/oily skin!) so I figured this would be a great option. Supposedly Dream Lumi Touch gives a light coverage but depending on how you apply I feel it can easily spread to medium, it blends so effortlessly; like silk and the colour is a perfect match for my skin. The concept of the packaging is the same as Touche Éclat with the click pen and synthetic brush (which are notoriously difficult to clean, so I don't suggests using this concealer on other people or lending it to your friends due to bacteria!), at first it took me a moment to figure out which way to twist the bottom of the pen since I was worried I'd break it, but it's simple and easy, the first time you use it though you have to twist it for a while till the product comes up and after that you're set!

This is incredible for highlighting and brightening underneath the eyes and on any dark spots on the face, I feel that it's moisturising enough to use to cover blemishes but you don't want them to be illuminated! My trick is that I apply this concealer on blemishes and dark spots before applying foundation because I love the coverage, finish and lasting power, and after foundation I use it to highlight under my eyes, on the bridge of my nose, on my cupids bow and around my eyebrows and forehead to add dimension (these are the areas I want to be illuminated and stand out, whilst underneath my foundation I want blemishes to be covered.). Dream Lumi Touch has a thin and again super blendable texture that doesn't cake or dry out, nor accentuate wrinkles or fine lines. 

I went to Myer after buying Dream Lumi Touch to take a look at Touche Éclat at the YSL counter and one of the things I noticed is that the shades of Touche Éclat lean much more on the pink/peach side, where I find that Dream Lumi Touch leans more on the neutral to yellow undertone side, which is much better for me because those are the undertones of my skin personally, meaning I would prefer it over YSL in that sense. 

I bought Dream Lumi Touch for about $10.99 at Priceline (it was discounted from a few dollars more which is great) and I highly, highly recommend it!

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M.A.C Extra Dimension Skinfinish
Tuesday, 19 June 2012, Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | 0 comments, Leave a comment? ^^,

I've never really been a person to wear a facial highlight, as my skin has always been combination to oily (yes, people did used to call me "shiny face") I never wanted to add to the shine. But in the past few months I've actually been enjoying a bit of shine and accent to the high points of my face, and what  better way to add dimension than with the M.A.C Extra Dimension Skinfinish in the shade Superb.



M.A.C makes 3 different shades of Extra Dimension Skinfinish but I found superb to be the most wearable, a soft peachy to champagne nude. The other shades include Whisper of Gilt (the lightest gold colour that would only be workable on light to fair skin tones as it may come off chalky on darker tones) and Glorify (a beautiful dark copper/bronze that would only be workable for tan to darker skin tones)

(from left to right; Whisper of Gilt, Glorify, Superb) Credit

I haven't seen or heard of this product from M.A.C before, and the first time I spotted them was at the M.A.C counter at Harrods in Knightsbridge (fancy I know?!) and it took me around 10 minutes just to choose which shade I wanted, when you swatch them they're the most soft textured powders. They have a quite dry texture and they're also extremely long-lasting, and highly pigmented!


The reason they're called Extra Dimension is because the wavy pattern is embedded into the powder, and it has ridges that rise and fall, therefore the next dimension! Rather than a flat powder. It also has M.A.C in a pattern in the top half of the powder, but it's rubbed off since I've been using it every day since I bought it! 


Superb is the shade that suits practically all skin tones, warm, cool, light and dark! It adds such a beautiful wet look sheen to the skin and I always apply it with an angled blush brush above my eye brows, my brow bone, on my cheekbone, down my nose and on my cupids bow. Superb also photographs beautifully on the skin, another bonus!

I believe that Extra Dimension Skinfinishes are around £25 or more, I honestly don't remember, but I do love and recommend it as a luxury highlighter!

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