Affordable Beauty Faves - Part 3 - Revlon Colorstay Liquid Foundation

Affordable Beauty Options are something we talk about a lot here at Lusty Lashes Beauty HQ! As a beauty product, makeup lover and beauty blogger on a budget, I love finding little bargains, love a good sale, love finding amazing 'dupes' and equivalent products to amazing yet more expensive beauty and makeup products! 

Today I would love to share with you all some more info and my reasons for loving : 'Revlon' Colorstay liquid foundation. 

This post is definitely waaaay over due as this foundation has been a firm fave and a go-to for me for some time now. I have previously spoken about my love for this product on social media and here on the blog, recommend it to family and friends with happy results and no matter how many new foundations I try wether high end or drugstore I just keep coming back to it! 

As much as I would place 'Revlon' in the 'Affordable Beauty Brands' category they are one of the more expensive drugstore brands in my experience, however they can be forgiven in my opinion because their products regularly have promotions, bonuses and sales and this product is definitely worth the price tag! 

'Revlon' Has hit the nail on the head with this range of liquid foundations offering a wide range of shades and tones different skin type suitable formulas : normal to dry and combination to oily. 

For me personally and after trying a few different shades, I settled on choosing a shade from the combination / oily skin type range '240 medium beige' 

I find I can wear this foundation on its on for quite good coverage that is extremely easy to build as the formula is quite thick but non drying. 

As you can see this product is advertised as "24 Hour Wear" for me personally I'm never really aiming to wear any makeup quite that long! But it is extremely long wearing even on the longest of work days and with my somewhat oily and problematic skin! 

To build up coverage after applying a light layer of my fave liquid foundation I will set with an all over pressed or loose mineral powder my faves at the minute are 'Physicians Formula' & 'Models Prefer' 

For super full coverage or heavy coverage I set my foundation with 'MAC Mineralize Skin Finish Natural' powder in shade medium. 

To simply set and mattify with the coverage the foundation naturally provides I will use my 'Laura Mercier Pressed Translucent Powder' or any other translucent powder I am favouring at the time. 

Thank you so much for reading! I really hope you enjoyed this latest edition of "Affordable Beauty Favorites" I would love to hear your thoughts on this product, brand and this post in the comments below! 

LLx 

Face of the day - Bohemian Contrasts

Hi Guys, welcome to my first Makeup Of The Day / Face Of The Day post on the blog! I have made no secret of the fact that when it comes to the application of makeup, that I am no expert. Never does this apply more than when it comes to the application of eyeshadow however I love makeup, I keep working at it and practicing, I love trying new looks and I'm not afraid to wear bright coloured products for my makeup of the day / face of the day! 

With all that being said, I was looking through my eyeshadow palette collection and came across this little mini palette from revlon photo ready range called BOHEMIAN,I have had for some time and never really shown much love and decided to play around with it for my makeup on a day when I was just hanging out at home for the day and heading out for date night with the man later in the evening, thereby giving me time to restart if everything went pear shaped with my makeup! 

Such a pretty colour combo! 

Products used : 

Maybelline Baby Skin. 

Too Faced Born This Way Foundation in Vanilla. 

Maybelline Fit Me concealer in shade light. 

Maybelline Brow Drama in transparent. 

Essence Sun Club Matte Bronzer in the Blondes / Light shade.

Essence Blush Up Blush in shade. 

MAC Mineralize skin finish in Soft & Gentle. 

Revlon colour stay eyeshadow in Boheminan. 

Maybelline Colossal Volume Express Mascara.

Australis Velour Lips in Hon-o-loo-loo

For the rest of my makeup I tried to stick to muted and neutral tones so that my eyeshadow could really pop! 

Now on to the eyes : 

I started with the shimmery orange (number 4 in the palette) shade as a transition colour in my crease and I was careful to apply it minimally and blend it out as best I could before adding the matte brown brown shade (number 3 in the palette) and lining my lower lash line with the same brown colour. 

The shimmery blue / gold in the palette is just so pretty so I carefully sprayed my brush with my MAC Fix + spray before picking up a generous amount and packing it all over my mobile lid. 

I used the lighter gold shimmery colour (number 1 in the palette) as a highlight for my brow bone and inner corner before adding a smudge of the super molten metal gold (number 5 in the palette) 

I did my best to blend, blend, blend and I'm quite happy with how this look turned out! I definitely have a long way to go as far as skill but this was some fun practice!

As a quick side note ; this was my first time trying my newly purchased Too Faced Cosmetics "Born This Way" liquid foundation and I am so impressed with the coverage and colour! Oh my gosh! I hope to post a full review all about this beautiful product soon! 

Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed this post, I  really enjoyed creating this look and I feel like with more practice I'll get better at this whole blending thing! Lol 

LLx