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MeMeMe Cosmetics Review

MeMeMe Cosmetics Review

Hi Everyone,

I recently was sent a few products from MeMeMe Cosmetics Ireland, the products I received were the following:

Tinted Moisturiser

Flawless Concealer

Eyeshadow Quad In Goddess

Eye Sweep Eyeliner

I have tested these products over and over again and put them to the test and I am pleasantly surprised as these products are high end drugstore and perform extremely well! The packaging is so chic and I love it, the black with gold swirls give it an elegance which you normally do not see in drugstore cosmetics! I have included a few pictures of me with the products on and it photographed really well. The Prices for the products are:

Tinted Moisturiser - 12.99 Euros

Flawless Concealer - 8.50 Euros

Eyeshadow Quad - 8.50 Euros

Eye Sweep - 7.99 Euros

The first product I tried out was their Tinted Moisturiser, it is sheer to medium coverage, sets with a dewy finish, evens the skin tone and does not make the skin look flat whatsoever, I normally do not like tinted moisturisers as I feel they don't last very well on my skin and that they cause me to get super oily in my T-Zone but this is the exception to the rule, this tinted moisturiser gave me good coverage, lasted 6 hours before I had to touch up and I never got oily once whilst it was on my skin!!!! I would day this is a miracle product because my shine did not break through. Overall I really liked the tinted moisturiser and found it did moisturise the skin slightly but my recommendation is this is suited for more normal to oily skin types.

The second product I put to the test was the Flawless Concealer and it did exactly what it said on the tin (well Packaging lol), it blurred my imperfections and helped hide my dark circles under the eye. It is rare to find a concealer that conceals both blemishes and hides dark circles as generally a concealer that blurs blemishes is thick and creases under the eyes when used to hide dark circles. This concealer was light and pigmented, so I didn't need to use much and when I set it with powder it stayed put for around 6 hours, roughly the same as the tinted moisturiser. In my opinion I think all skin types could use this concealer and if you are looking for a good concealer with cute packaging at drugstore price then this is the one for you!

The Eyeshadow Quad in Goddess has the most beautiful shades in it and all are shimmery, these are baked eyeshadows and can be used wet or dry, my only problem with these is that they didn't last without a good cream base, I used the concealer lightly over my eyelid and it gave the eyeshadow something to cling to which made the product more vibrant and last longer! There is some fall out with these eyeshadows but if you do your eye make-up before your base it can be easily cleaned up. There is not much more to say about these as they are pretty typical of drugstore eyeshadows, however I will say that I like how compact the four shades in one compact is.

Last but not least is the Eye Sweep Eyeliner, this eyeliner is a liquid liner in a felt tip pen which makes it uber easy to use. The first use of this pen was brilliant, it glided on like butter and was well pigmented. I had one slight problem and it was that it did take a few minutes for it to set but I find all liquid eyeliners do that anyways, so it is no different.  The eyeliner lasted extremely well and it had to be removed with an oil based eye make-up remover. If you have the patience to wait a few minutes for this to dry on your lash line, then you will really like this eyeliner. ***BONUS POINT*** It is super easy to take in you handbag as there is no brush involved, it is just one item in pen form.

This was my first time experiencing these products and I really do like them and look forward to purchasing from them in the future!

You can find a list of their stockists on Facebook @ Mememe Cosmetics Ireland.

If you pass by their page, remember to tell them Gemma Murtagh MUA sent you!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post and I hope to speak to you guys and gals soon! 

Love Gemma xxx

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Rimmel Glam'Eyes HD 5 Eyeshadow Palette's

Rimmel Glam'Eyes HD 5 Eyeshadow Palette's

Hey guys and girls, its been a while I know but I have been rather busy with my personal life and two new things in are my baby twin niece Emily & Hatti, they are just the most adorable things ever and their big brother George is very protective! Anyways enough babbling about my life, today's blog post is on Rimmel's Glam'Eyes HD 5 Eyeshadow Palette's.

I have only got two out of the four colours in the range and are called Brixton Brown & Pinkadilly Circus, the other two in the range that I don't have are Golden Eye & Foggy Grey.

As you can see below the packaging is not exactly luxury but it not worst packaging ive ever saw in the make-up industry!

 

024 Pinkadilly Circus

022 Brixton Brown

On further inspection of the eyeshadows I discovered that the formulation was very hard, which meant when you touched them you got hardly any pay off, but if you rubbed a small layer off the top of the eyeshadows you got the pay off that you would expect from drug store make-up. Don't expect these to be like MAC, Illamasqua or higher end make-up brands as they do have fall out and will rub off easily.

Above you can see the colours in the palette's more clearly, they come with the usual foam applicators, my advice on these applicators is to throw them straight into the bin, as they are rarely any good, you can not get good precision results with them and they harbour so much bacteria over time that can cause a multitude of infections, I seriously feel we are still in the 80's with these applicators, come on Rimmel and similar brands, either leave this disgusting things out or put in a decent brush!!!

In the pictures below I have swatched all the colours in each palette for you, once without an eyeshadow primer and once with an eyeshadow primer. The results where drastic with the lighter colours, with out the primer I could hardly see the lighter eyeshadows at all but with the primer you could see them very well and it helped the darker eyeshadows appear more full.

My verdict on these is, if you are on a budget and don't want to spend alot on make-up then yes this would be an option for you, as long as you got an eyeshadow base/primer to put on before you apply the eyeshadow on top but if you had some money to spare and are willing to pay a bit more there are alot more better brands out there that provide better quality, some even drugstore products!

These palettes are priced at £6.99 and can be purchased from Boots, Superdrug and most drugstores on the high street!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post and I hope to speak to you guys and gals soon! 

Love Gemma xxx

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Review: Ur Makeup Brush Set

Hi All,

This Review is on the Ur makeup brush set and what a wee set it is!!! You get four handles with a brush at each end, in total that is 8 brushes which comes in a lovely make up brush case. They are fabulous quality and would be great for travelling,  im sorry I didnt have these before I went away on holiday a few weeks ago. The brushes you get in the set are as follows:

1. Angled Liner/Brow Brush
2. Smudger Brush
3. Crease Brush
4. Lip Brush
5. Flat Eyeshadow Shadow Brush
6. Precision Concealer Brush
7. Angled Contour Brush
8. Precision Powder/Blush Brush

All of these brushes have been made cruelty free which is an added bonus.

The brushes named above can be used for anything not just for the use inteneded from their labels. The creator of Ur Makeup is Nichola Graham a pro make up artist from Drogheda, Ireland, I first met her whilst doing a course in Northern Ireland and she has been my go to girl for advice ever since!! She is an amazing make up artist and great girl, she also just got engaged and I would like to congratulate her and her hubby to be Mark once again and hope they have a great wedding day and marriage for years to come.

Back to the brushes now, these are priced at £9.70 Sterling and €11 Euro including delivery,  what a bargain and comes in 6 colours Purple, Pink, Blue, Yellow, Orange and Red!!!

Would be an excellent gift for teenagers just starting to use make up, a travel set of brushes, brushes for your handbag or someone who doesnt have much space for make up or make up tools and wants to have good tools that are compact!

Visit www.urmakeup.com now to purchase this brush set or to know a bit more about Nichola and here career!

Thanks for reading my blog!

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Review: Nspa Melting Cleansing Gel

Hi Everyone,

Today's review is on nspa's melting cleansing gel. The description on the packaging states that it is a "luxuorious gel that turns into a cleansing milk", well it is exactly as they describe! You only need a small amount of the gel on your fingertips, a small pea sized amount is plenty as it spreads easily when you start massaging it onto your face due to the warmth of your fingertips. Once you start to massage it into your dry skin it transforms into an oil texture but dont worry this is normal,  the oily feeling on your skin feels nice and soothing for all skin types and will nourish and moisturise the skin but people with oily skin might worry that it will cause more congestion in the form of spots, this is not the case as the oil actually clings to the oil, dead skin cells and sweat in hour pores and then pulls it out when you rinse your face clean with a face cloth that has been soaked in warm water.

As I have mentioned in previous blogs I have an oily tzone that gets congested and I have dry skin on my cheeks, so when cleansers say they can be used on combination skin types I find it hard to believe as it either drys the skin out or it leaves my skin feeling oily and breaks me out in spots, however this cleanser is the best I have came across and is the staple product in my bathroom cabinet that is used every morning!

Since using this cleanser my skin has now balanced itself out and I can now say I have normal skin to begin my make-up routine. My skin does not suffer from as many breakouts and my dry patches are no more.  This cleanser truly is for all skin types and is a luxury product for afforable prices, you can purchase it from asda and nspa's website, asda is the only other stockist beside nspa themselves and asda always have the 2 for £8 on the majority of nspa products which is a bargain for such a great product!

I would definitely recommend that you purchase this cleanser as the newest trends in skincare at the minute are cleansing balms but majority are ridiculously priced and have mineral oil in them which cause spot breakouts but not nspa's it is cheap, mineral oil free and paraben free which is great for anyone with sensitive skin or anyone going through radiation or chemotherapy treatment! Some ingredients are ginseng,  vitamin e, essential oil of neroli and grapeseed oil, all of these ingredients moisturise and enhance the skin as well as drawing out impurities, removing make-up and clarifying the skin. You get 125ml in a squeezy tube and with a pea sized amount used every morning it should last for a good 2 months.

Hope this helps, speak soon!!!

Love Gemma
Xoxo

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FashionistA Custom Palette's By Make Up Academy (MUA)

Hi Everyone,

It's been a while since my last blog post, however I just had to upload swatches and pictures of these new custom palette's from FashionistA by MUA as they are so great!

The empty palette's comes in the sizes 4 pan (Red or Black) and 6 pan (White), these are great as you can custom make your own palette to suit your needs, who doesn't love that, right?  Obviously MAC are known for their custom palette's that you can pick eye shadows and blushers to put into, but they don't show you the labels on the back, so it is hard sometimes to tell what the eyeshadow is called (Big problem for forgetful make-up artists like me! lol), well these palette's have solved this problem as they pop out of the single packaging so easily and pop into the palette's just as quick, but the difference between these are that there are holes at the bottom to show you the label of what eyeshadow, blusher or bronzer it is you are using!

Bonus of these palette's is that the eye shadows, blushers and bronzers are all the same size, so you can make up one palette with everything you need in it and take it with you travelling saving you space in your bag (BIG BONUS FOR ME lol). They look so elegant and have a massive full size mirror in each of the compacts that are proper mirrors and not the shiny plastic mirrors some make up brands try to put in their palette's.

Pigmentation is not a worry with these, as you will see in the pictures below they are intense and the swatches are only one swipe!!!! No fall out, blend easily and stay put, all rounder from FashionistA, my recommendation is go out and buy yourself these now as they are better than some higher end make up brands (I shall not name & shame).

Prices for the eye shadows, blushers, bronzers & palette's are below:

Eye shadow: £1.65

Blusher: £1.65

Bronzer: £1.65

4 Pan Empty Palette: £2.00

6 Pan Empty Palette: £3.00

This is great value on it's own, however if you fill the palette in one go you get even better value (Read Below).

4 Pan Filled Palette: £7.00

6 Pan Filled Palette: £10.00

AMAZING VALUE FOR MONEY!!!!

Review: Revlon Colourburst Lip Butters

I first heard about the revlon colourburst lip butters last year and my first thought was, it will be too sheer or colour and wont stay on long as it sounds more like a balm than a lipstick! How wrong was I? After purchasing one this week in my search for the perfect red lipstick for my skin colour I came across the colour wild watermelon and it does exactly what it says, it moisturises your lips to give them that smooth, baby soft texture with a gorgeous shine that is hard to get in a lipstick without shimmer!

 

 

This lipstick can be built up from sheer coverage to full impact lips, if worn over a base of foundation and lip liner the lipstick will last for hours even if you have been eating or drinking, the only fault is the shine will disappear over time if you are eating or drinking but a quick top up with the lipstick or a gloss will bring them back to look like its freshly applied.

 

 

It comes in 20 shades from baby punks, corals, reds, plums etc a colour for everyone in this collection.  The lipstick itself is called a butter rather than a lipstick as it has mango, shea and coconut butter as the base for the lipstick and with these ingredients together your lips are constantly hydrated and instantly feel plump with moisture.

 

It is rare than you find a lipstick that you can build up from sheer to full coverage and also apply it without a mirror straight from the bullet! It doesn't stain and there will be no drying of the lips throughout the day and no scrubbing with make-up remover or wipes at the end of the day to get it off your lips, a baby wipe will take this off with ease, so imagine how easy it is to remove with make-up remover!

 

I shall be purchasing more of these lip butters as they are a great lipstick for anyone to have either in their professional make-up kit or your personal make-up bag or handbag.

 

Thanks for reading!

 

Gemma xxx

 

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