Contents: My Face

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Welcome to my first ‘Contents: My Face’ post.  This is going to be a regular thing where I dive into mine and my friends make up bags and list the products in there.  I got the name for this feature from a brilliant little Waldo Pancake make up bag that says Contents: My Face on it, I thought this was genius.

Now I know most of us don’t simply just have one make up bag, in my case I have 5 make up drawers, but by bag I mean your daily essentials, the products you put on your face most days and maybe take in your handbag with you.  I think this can say a lot about a girl. 

So naturally I am going to start with my own make up bag.  

Here are the rules…

List everything that is used on a regular basis in your make up routine

Pick 3 top items that you would recommend to anyone

Pick 1 top brand from your selection that tops the rest

Estimate the total price of your daily make up routine

Here goes…

Face:

Primer- Nars Pro Prime Multi-Protect 

Foundation - Estee Lauder Double Wear- Bone 17

                      - Nars Sheer Glow - Fiji 

(I currently mix these two, I have no idea why I started but now I cannot stop)

Concealer - Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection 16 hr wear

                    - Mac Pro long wear concealer NW20

(Mac is for nights out as its a little darker)

Blusher - Topshop cream blush - Neon Rose

Finishing powder - Rimmel- Clear Complexion 021 Transparent

Highlighter - Topshop - Sunbeam

Bronzer - I am currently all out of bronzer and waiting money to buy Nars

Eyes:

Shadow - Benefit Creaseless Cream shadow/liner- r.s.v.p

                - Topshop smokey eye palette - Tawny

Eyeliner - Topshop liquid liner

               - Soap & Glory Smoulder Kohl

Mascara - MaxFactor False Lash Effect - Black

Brows- HD Brows Advanced Brush Pencil - no.2

Lips:

Lipstick - Topshop - Pillow Talk

              - Revlon Lip Butter- Crem Brulee 

Gloss- Soap & Glory Sexy Motherpucker

Brushes:

Powder- Boots Ecotools large powder brush

Blusher - Models own blusher brush

(I don't use a foundation brush or eye brushes, I use my hands as I find I get more coverage this way)

My 3 top items

1.  Benefit Creasless Cream Shadow/liner - This product is amazing at giving your lips a little shimmer without looking like you have loads of make up on, good for everyday use and smells like toffee. BUY IT!

2. Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer - This is amazing for the price, its under £5 and it makes dark under eye circles vanish without looking caked on, I LOVE IT!!

3.  HD Brows Advanced Brush Pencil- I am massively into brows and I get mine done HD about once every 3 months.  This pencil lets me keep them looking good in-between, its weird because you cannot sharpen but it works wonders on your brows, I will post on this in the future.

Favourite Brand 

This is hard for me cause I have favourite brands for different parts of make up but this time I'm going to give it to Topshop as it is the most used and I have no complaints about any products.

Cost

To fill my make up bag costs approx £146…this is scary considering i have only included about 20% of my entire make up collection.  Time to save.

Next time I plan to rummage in Kim @lovecloth 's make up bag.  Be ready!

Beauty Battle // Benefit They’re Real VS MaxFactor False Lash Effect

On hearing the hype about the Benefit ‘They’re Real’ best selling mascara, I like any other beauty lover had to try it.  Luckily my good friend Evo was one step ahead of me and got me it for my birthday.  It has come to my attention that every beauty blogger in the country has done a review of this so I thought I would do something a little different and compare it to my all time favourite mascara, MaxFactor ‘ False Lash Effect’.

MaxFactor

I have been using False Lash Effect for nearly a year now and for me that is a big commitment, I am very fussy about my mascara and I rarely find one I stick with.  I also don’t like to spend too much on a mascara, Im not sure why, maybe because, having blonde lashes I use it so much so they often run out and I have to keep buying, so the less money I have the spend the better.  This product is around £10-12.

My lashes are blonde and fine, without mascara it feels like there is nothing there.  MaxFactor works wonders at making my look like I have ten times more lashes than I actually do, it multiplies them and makes them longer at the same time.  The best thing about this product is the applicator brush, I love a good thick brush which catches all your lashes and most importantly doesn’t clump.  This brush is the best I have found yet, especially for blonde lashes.

Sometimes with blonde lashes it can be so hard to find an applicator that lets you get the mascara right down to the root without making a massive black smudge of product across your lid or under your eye.  This brush grips the lashes from the bottom and allows you to drag it up through to the tip with no clumps.

MaxFactor also have a 24hr version of this mascara out, which I bought when my normal one ran out but had to quickly buy the original after I discovered that when they say 24hrs they mean 24hrs.  This version takes waterproof to a whole new level, it is intense and I found it quite hard to remove at the end of the day, I had to almost rub my eye off, it also doesn’t easily come off your hands if you get it on them.  My advice, stick to the original, unless you sleep with mascara on for some strange reason.

Benefit

So the beauty world is ranting and raving about ‘They’re Real’ and to be fair, I can see why.  It promises to do the same thing as max factor and give your real lashes that false effect where they are so long and luscious that people cannot tell the difference.

The applicator brush is like no other, it has an amazing grip on your lashes and also a handy little spiked ball tip which allows you to catch the really small lashes.

The mascara itself is very good at giving your lashes some length.  The only thing I would say is that for me with fine, blonde lashes, I like to be able to coat over them a couple of times to really stretch them out and make sure they are all darkened out, I found with this product that once I have went over it twice of more the lashes start to stick together, which actually makes me look like I have less.  It also doesn't seem to lift my lashes in the way they the MaxFactor product does.

The cutest thing about this product is the mini handbag version that I got with it, I’m not sure if my friend got this as a gift set or if this comes with them all, but it’s literally just a mini one for you to take out, which I do on most nights out.

And the winner is…

Ok so I think its pretty obvious that Benefit has not managed to steer my away from my love of MaxFactor False Lash Effect, although I have to give it props for coming very close.

I do still use the Benefit product and I do love it, but for nights out and for me having such small light eyes I find the volumizing ability of MaxFactor is just too hard to beat, why have ten lashes when you can fake having 100?