Catrice absolute nude palette review!

Hello sweeties! Thanks for tuning in again today!
As you probably know if you read this blog often, I like to try out new palettes. Coloured palettes, but neutral palettes I like the most.
Quite a while ago I got a new everyday neutral palette but I never wrote about it. It is what I use to create my daily looks though. I'm going to review it for you today.

 

So this is how my palette looks, I think it looks fabulous! It reminds me of the Urban Decay naked palette. It holds six nude colours.

Here are the swatches! The first picture is how the colours look with natural light and the second picture is how they look with flash.

The pigmentation could have been a little bit better. I don't have problems with getting the colours on my eyelid though. Easy to apply, build up and blend, no fall out.

Aside from the remark that the pigmentation could have been a little bit better (but hey, what am I actually doing, comparing a $5 to MAC quality), I have no other remarks. I do really like this palette. It holds colours for any occasion and any kind of look, love it! I already want to get a second one, just in case I hit pan on one of the colours soon.

I would recommend this palette to everyone who is just starting out with makeup or to girls who just really like the neutral look on their face. This palette is really nice ànd affordable. 

Have a great day! 

- Mamie Monroe ♥

Affordable blushes - affordable series part 5

Hey lovelies! 

Today I'm continuing my affordable series. I'm going to be writing about my favourite, affordable blushes. As you see, they look very simlar in the pictures. I love orange toned blushes a lot and pink doesn't suit me, that's why.

The two blushes that I love the most are by different brands. The first one is the one that I've had the longest. It's called "Apricot Smoothie" and it's by Catrice. It's a duo blush that's well pigmented. I got it from a friend and I fell in love with it! I'm close to hitting pan.

The second one is by Essence, it's - just like the first blush - an orange toned blush. This blush is called "It's popul-art" and it's from the "Vintage District" collection. It did have a really nice gold glitter overspray but unfortunately that's already gone.

Just wanted to show the picture where the gold overspray was still there... Pretty, huh?

As you can see in the swatches the blushes are very similar, this one is just a little bit more pigmented than the first one. Aside from that they're pretty similar.

Both blushes are very cheap, well pigmented, and loved by me!
Stay tuned for more affordable products!

- Always, Mamie Monroe ♥

Affordable eyebrow products - series part 1

Hello! Today I'm going to start off my "affordable series". I'm starting with eyebrow products, because I'm obsessed with them myself and I'm always interested in eyebrow products.
Recently, I have been testing quite a few eyebrow products and some of them were really amazing. And affordable! That's why they're in today's post.

One of the steps after drawing and/or filling in your eyebrows is cleaning everything up with concealer. I'm not going to mention concealers in this post because there's another post in the "affordable series" coming up about that!

Let's get started!

I use two eyebrow kits and one eyebrow pencil. The first eyebrow kit is by Essence, as you can see the colours are more brown toned. This kit holds 3 eyebrow stencils, a little angled brush and a little piece of paper that tells you how to do everything.
The second kit is by Catrice, these colours look not as harsh. This kit holds a mirror, a teeny tiny tweezer and a little brush.
The eyebrow pencil is by Catrice as well. It's the medium colour and I love! It works really well for me. Maybe it would've been nice if they made a little sharpener but I have one so for me it wasn't really a problem.

So here are all the swatches. I added number so that you could see everything clearly but the numbers are rather small now that I look at them. Well okay the first two colours (on the right of my wrist) are from the Essence kit, the next two are from the Catrice kit and the small line is a pencil swatch.

Voilà, here you have my favourite, and very affordable, drugstore eyebrow products! Would you like to see an eyebrow tutorial? How I draw/fill in my eyebrows?
Let me know! 

- Love,
Mamie Monroe ♥