Beauty UK Shimmer Box in Rose

In my £15 high street challenge post on Tuesday, you'll have seen I picked up this blusher by Beauty UK - it's the first thing I've tried by the brand so I had no real expectations.  On appearance, it reminds me of the Bobbi Brown Shimmer Bricks, and I'd imagine that's no accident.  But, seeing as I've never tried any of the Shimmer Bricks, I really can't compare.

In this box there is a mix of 5 different shades - 4 are pink, and one is pretty much white.  Generally, you'd just swirl your blusher brush over all of them, but if you wanted to add a little bit of highlight, you could just use a smaller brush, or your finger to go into the white shade, could be good to use on the cupids bow?

Just thinking about it, these could also double up as eye shadows.  Personally, I'm not a fan of pink shadow, so I wouldn't use it for that - it'll be staying as a blusher in my collection!  Each stripe is shimmery, so does contain little glitter particles, but I didn't find that this translated onto my skin - it did give me a gorgeous glow though without being overly shimmery.  

The quality is lovely - I only needed one swirl for each cheek.  It's very well pigmented, but not over the top, and blended beautifully.  With blusher, as a rule, I always use my powder brush after applying blusher to soften the look just by brushing it over the cheeks - it helps to soften the edges of the blush.

I bought mine at Superdrug for £4.99 - do I think it's worth the price? Yep, it's a really lovely blusher with a lovely finish that's great quality.  So far my foray into Beauty UK is great, are there any other products of theirs you'd recommend?

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£15 High Street Challenge - February

Cast your mind back to January, I started a year-long challenge to hit the high street, spend £15 and try to pick up at least 3 products.  I decided to do this to try and reduce the amount of PR sample posts on the blog, and give some more variety.  Here's what I bought last month if you want to refresh your memory.  

This month I have spent countless nights browsing the Superdrug and Boots website in search of products to try, and after so much deliberation, I finally made a decision :)

I've never tried anything from Beauty UK before, and this shimmer box really caught my attention. Priced at £4.99 I thought it was pretty good value too, and a potential dupe for the Bobbi Brown ones. I haven't swatched it or even tried it yet, so I can't say anything about it's quality - but I can say that the packaging feels really well made.  

Next up, the new Maybelline Lash Sensational mascara - on offer for £5.98 at Superdrug.  I'm a BIG fan of Maybelline mascara's, 'The Falsies' is probably one of my all time favourite mascara's, it's so good!  I actually unwrapped this today and used it for the first time, I'm not yet decided on it, but I do like it, I'm just deciding how much I like it :)  What I will say as a first impression - it gripped my lashes brilliantly, and was fantastic on my bottom lashes :)

Last but not least, a Barry M metallic liquid eyeliner in Gold (£4.79 in Superdrug) - now, I'm not one to normally sport a gold eye liner, however, I bought this for a look I've had in mind for AGES, I'll post back here with the look when I've perfected it, I need time to practise first :)  If it looks good and I'm happy, I'll invest in some other liquid eyeliner colours for the look.

I'll be back in the next few weeks to review each of these, some sooner than others :)  Oh, and I did go a little over budget with this by 76p

Do you like my picks? Any recommendations for next month?

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Top 5 Glitter Topcoats

Hey guys!  So I've been thinking about doing this post for a while and today I thought, now is the time!  So I grabbed all my glitter top coats and played around with them a bit, and decided on my top 5, it's pretty much the 5 I was going to pick before playing around with them :)  So, without further ado, here they are :)

From left to right Beauty UK Comet's Tail, Maybelline Flash Cosmic, Beauty UK Twinkle Twinkle, Rimmel Disco Ball, Rimmel Disco gold.

I put each of these colours, on to my fingers too :)  Again, the same order as above (left being my little finger, and the Rimmel one on the right being my thumb)

Obviously they all work differently with different varnishes - i.e. the Rimmel Disco Gold works really well with Purple, and the Maybelline Flash Cosmic works great with turquoise :)  But all of these I really like, and you can build them up too for greater effect :)  

Have you ever used any of these?  What's your favourite glitter top coat?

Pixi3 out

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