September & October Favourites

I completely forgot to upload a ‘September favourites’ blog post, so I am combining the last 2 months in to one blog.

My makeup has been pretty basic over the past couple of months; being a mum to a 2 year old toddler who is on the go from the minute she wakes up til the minute she goes to sleep, doesn’t really leave me a lot of time to ‘put my face on’. If I manage to do my brows and slap on some mascara then we are having a good day! 

Anyway, I am rambling. Here are my favourite products I have been using over the last 2 months: 

The Technic Lashitude mascara is something that I have mentioned in previous blogs. I love this mascara so much. It separates my Lashes perfectly, applies evenly, doesn’t clump and doesn’t transfer on to my face after a few hours. This mascara is bloody brilliant! 

Benefits Ready Set Brow! Brow gel. I have the clear brow gel, I have coloured brow gels in my collection but I actually prefer the way this brow gel makes my eyebrows look. My brow routine has been the same for months, I use a cheap brow palette (mentioned in previous blogs) to fill in my brows, and then I use this brow gel in top. I love this brow gel! 

MUA Skin Define Matte Perfect foundation. I love that makeup products’ names are just getting longer and longer 😂. I have got the shade ‘natural beige’, I would say it is darker than I expected it to be, but it matches my skin perfectly when I have fake tanned. It blends out easily, I would say it is a medium coverage, but buildable if you want more coverage. This foundation and my current favourite setting spray are a match made in heaven. 

The w7 ‘The Fixer’ Face Spray is a lovely little setting spray. I would say that I was slightly disappointed at how small the bottle is compared to other setting sprays I own, but apart from that it’s great. It sets my makeup perfectly and makes it stay in place ALL DAY (or until the evening when I have put my PJ’s on and want to take all my makeup off). 10/10 for this product! 

Makeup Revolution Rose Gold lipstick in the shade ‘Chauffeur’ is my go-to nude lipstick. I cannot describe just how amazing this lipstick is. It’s the perfect shade for me, it’s creamy and applies so easily. I always struggle with dry lips and lip products not lasting (even if I buy a product that says ’12 hour wear’ or whatever, the product seems to move and disappear from my lips as the day goes on. So I never expect a lip product to last a long time on me. But this lipstick really does! Again, 10/10 for this product! 

I know a lot of people shy away from unbranded makeup because they don’t know where it is made, what is in the product(s) etc. I saw this 15 colour eyeshadow palette on Amazon for an absolute STEAL of a price and I just had to give it a go. I was mostly intrigued by the red toned shadow in the centre of the palette. I have used this palette so much over the past 2 months, it is crazy! And it looks like I’ve hardly touched it! 

This palette is absolutely perfect for Autumn & winter. Here is a look I created with this palette. The wing was done with the black shadow from the palette! 

Check it out on Amazon here:

LyDia® 15 COLOURS EYESHADOW PALETTE Matte Smokey Eye Effect Neutral Nude/White Highlight/Brown/Black/Chocolate #2

I will also be announcing a brand new giveaway on my Facebook page soon! 

http://www.facebook.com/bargainmakeupblog

And I also reached over 600 followers on my Instagram page this month! Instagram has been a tough cookie to crack, but I am getting there I think! I am so grateful for all of your kind words & support of my blog and my pages. 

Thanks for reading.

Jen xx

My Makeup Collection

Last week I shared a video on my Facebook page that briefly showed my makeup collection. 

I didn’t go in to too much detail about every drawer or each product (because the video would be way too long) 

I thought I would write a blog and upload pictures of each drawer of my makeup storage. 

This is where I store my makeup, dry shampoo, skincare products, fake tan etc:

Here are my foundations & primers

My concealer/contour/setting powder collection:

Some eyeshadow palettes, cream eyeshadows and individual eye shadows:

Face palettes & spare eyeshadow palettes:

Bronzers, highlighters, blushers etc: 

Mascaras, brow products and lashes:

The main eyeshadow palette drawer:

And this is how I store all my brushes, lip products, setting sprays and brush cleaners:

I have to keep the brushes out of reach from my daughter (because she is a professional brush destroyer), so they are high up on a shelf. 

As you can tell, most of my collection is high street and super affordable. If there are any slightly more expensive products in my collection it’s because my gem of a husband treated me ☺️

I also must say that yes, some of the products in my collection were sent to me to review. However, 95% of my collection was purchased by me. 

This blog was not intended to show off, and I do understand my collection is quite big, but as a beauty blogger I love trying new products and writing about them.

Thanks for reading. 

Love Jen xx

My Biggest Giveaway Yet

I am trying to do a giveaway every month. Here is my latest one: 

You could win: 

X2 sets of eye brushes (11 brushes in total) 

Technic Correct & Contour palette

Technic Brow Tamer

Eyeshadow palette 

Makeup Revolution Baked Highlighter

W7 Hollywood Bronze & Glow

Technic Contour Stix

Kylie Cosmetics Kyshadow palette

W7 Absolute Lashes mascara

W7 Glow for Glory Illuminating palette

Eyebrow shadow palette

Ardell Wispies False Lashes

Loreal Paris individual eyeshadow

Kylie Cosmetics Birthday Edition Cream Shadow (rose gold shade)

W7 The Fixer Face Spray 

X2 W7 lipsticks

L’Oréal Paris Lipstick

L’Oréal Paris lipgloss

L’Oréal Paris nail polish 

Seventeen Easy On The Eye eyeshadow palette

W7 In The Mood eyeshadow palette

And these brushes are also included in the giveaway:

To enter, all you have to do is head to my Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/bargainmakeupblog and 

1️⃣ LIKE MY FACEBOOK PAGE

2️⃣ LIKE MY GIVEAWAY POST

3️⃣ COMMENT ON MY GIVEAWAY POST

A winner will be chosen at random and announced on the 29th October with a video. 

International entries are also welcome! 

Good luck! 🍀

Jen xx

Kylie Cosmetics Review & Swatches

A couple of weeks I was lucky enough to come across genuine Kyshadow palettes on eBay for an amazing price. I ordered 2 palettes (1 of which will be part of my next giveaway 😏😜) 

I also found the Birthday Edition Liquid Lipstick Mini Kit. 

Let’s start with the eyeshadow palette. Firstly, the packaging is beautiful. I really like it. The shades are lovely and very blendable. There are 6 matte shadows and 3 shimmer shades. 

They eyeshadows swatch perfectly. Very pigmented, apart from the gold shimmer shadow which I would recommend wetting your brush before applying to get a better pay off. 

Now on to the liquid lipstick mini kit. 

They are very pigmented, and they smell amazing. The packaging is lovely too. 

Here are my bad points…

Only the box is labelled with the shade names. Not the individual products. To me that’s annoying. 

I swatched each one on my arm, but I suppose you only get a true reflection of a lip product when you try it on your lips. Once I applied it my lips dried up almost instantly. The product made my lips feel really really dry. It also felt quite sticky too. It was also really difficult to take off.

I took this picture after 5 minutes of scrubbing my arm 😫😵😲

The eyeshadow palette is a winner, but I definitely won’t be using any of the liquid lipsticks again! 

Have you tried any of the Kylie Cosmetics range? What did you think? 

Love Jen xx