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 gel eyeliners - series part 4

Hello lovelies!

I'm back with my affordable series! In this part (part 4 already!) I'm going to talk about affordable gel eyeliners. 

Eyeliner, especially winged eyeliner is - as you probably know - a big part of vintage ladies and pin-up girls' makeup routine.

 

Today I'm going to show you the two gel eyeliners that I use. They are really inexpensive and the quality is good.

The first eyeliner that I have is by MAX. MAX is one of the cheapest, if not THE cheapest makeup brand that I know. They have quite a few products and even though they are so inexpensive doesn't mean their products aren't good. I really enjoy using their products.

The gel eyeliner that I got from them is called "Pure Black". Oh, and it's waterproof!

On the right is my eyeliner by Essence, this is a pretty cheap brand as well. The eyeliner that I got from Essence is called "Midnight in Paris". I got this one a lot sooner so it's logical that I almost hit pan!

As you can see, I only just started using the one by MAX. It's creamy, really dark black and so nice to use. It also came with a brush (not that it's super good quality but okay). The one by Essence is nearly empty - it has also dried out a little bit.

And here are the swatches. As you can see the MAX one is just a bit darker and creamier, but the Essence one certainly isn't bad either. I've been using these eyeliners for months and months and I'm still convinced they're the two best gel eyeliners I've ever had!

Thanks for reading!
- Love, 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 ♥

My favourite red lip products!

Hi sweethearts!
I wear red lipstick on a daily basis and lately I have found two red lip products that are so good I decided to do a post on them.  Both of the products are drugstore so they are budget proof, but the quality is amazing as well!

The first red lip product that I have is the lipstick from Kate Moss by Rimmel London. It's called "111 Kiss of life" and it's the perfect cherry red! The lipstick has great pigmentation and stays on the whole day. You do need to re-apply it after eating.
I payed €9.45 for it, which is a pretty good price for such a good product.

The second product, I got last Friday but I'm really impressed by it already!

It's the Essence stay matt lipcream in "Silky Red". This is a bit like a lipgloss, it's just not sparkly or anthing, it's matt instead. The colour is - just like "Kiss of life" - outstanding. The lipcream is easy to apply.

It stays on a really long time and only needs a little bit of touching up after eating. Even after trying to wipe it off there was still a red stain on my lips.

I payed €1.99 for this product so you could really say it's a budgetproof top product!