HAPPY VALENTINES. I hope you're being pampered, and have eaten your weight in chocolate!
Make Up Revolution is a brand that's been circling the bloggersphere for a long time now, and, like everything even slightly worth having, I'm turning up to the party way too late. I think I need to face the fact that, for the most part, I'm a bit of a make up snob (so I've been told by Mum anyway.) I've never been someone to obsess over designer clothes, but big brand make up - I'm drawn in by the large price tags. One of my goals for this year is to try more value brands and find the quality that works for me - this is as good a place to start as any I guess!
I decided to make an order a few weeks ago after a pretty hectic day on a bit of a whim, and since then I've made another and I'm planning what goodies to pick up next. These products are amazing quality, and dupes for high end brands that I'd usually go for but which hurt my wallet big style. Everything I'm about to haul in this post came to £31 after discount, and I can't believe its taken me this long to catch the Make Up Revolution bug.
Products that I knew I wanted to try were the blush, highlight and contour palettes - I've heard that the bright white highlighter is an excellent dupe for MAC, and since my NARs bronzer is reaching its final days *sob*, I needed to look for a reasonably priced replacement. After lots of internal debating, I went for the 'All About Bronze' bronzer and highlight palette, and the 'Sugar and Spice' blush and highlight palette (the highlight and merged blush in this palette are possibly two of the best face make up items I've ever tried!)
I also picked up one of the Blushing Heart highlighters in 'Goddess of Faith'; these products are almost identical dupes for TooFaced, and the pigmentation on the highlight I bought is unreal. Like, seriously unreal. I've been reaching for this every day since I got it, as its so easy to apply compared to my liquid highlighters.
Since lip products speak to me on a close personal level, quite a few ended up jumping into my basket. I've been loving lipgloss lately, so I got two in 'Natural Pink' and 'Raspberry', which is a lovely dark pink on the lips. My pet hate in life is sticky lipgloss, so I was over the moon to find that these aren't sticky in the slightest (£1 I cannot even), and that they smell like those little multi-coloured sweets, kind of like parma violets but colourful? You know the ones.
With a cynical mindset I picked two Ultra Velour lip creams, which, being only £1, I wasn't expecting much from. I ended up getting a pinky nude ('Why can't we make love instead' ) and a brown nude ('Their eyes can't find us') and I absolutely love them! The brown nude is a brilliant dupe for the NYX Soft Matte Lip Cream in 'London'.
I also bought a Lip Lava (I accidentally misplaced it, so no photograph - eek) in the shade Forgiven, which, as you could probably predict, is a brown nude. These are meant to be a dupe for the TooFaced melted lipsticks, but to be honest I wasn't impressed with the product. Its the only let down, but I'm holding out hope that it might grow on me like make up products do over time. I would be interested to try a melted lipstick, and see whether its just the nature of the product that I don't like, or the formula of this particular brand.
I had to get the Chocolate palette, which is another TooFaced dupe, and I haven't been let down. The pigmentation, especially of the shimmer shades, is gorgeous, and the colour range is right up my alley - there's a khaki shimmer in there that I am dying to try out. The eyeshadows from MUR get so many good reviews that I also picked up a couple of singles, a frosted pink shade and a cool brown tone.
The final product I got was an eye foil in the shade 'Rose Gold''. I was so confused about what this product entailed, but I completely fell in love with it when I used it for the first time last night. I might just have to do a separate review, and purchase some more colours - it's a wonder product!
Have you ever purchased anything from this brand, and is there any specific products you'd like me to review?
You got some lovely things, I've had my eye on Makeup Revoloution for a while. The blush palettes look really nice!
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Thanks! That blush palette highlight shade is well worth a try!
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They've got so many dupes it's amazing. I really want to try their blushing hearts range!
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I'm so excited to compare them to the TooFaced range!
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I love Makeup Revolution. I have that chocolate palette which I absolutely love! I'm intrigued by the velour lip creams. At £1 I'll definitely be picking a few up :) xx
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Isn't the chocolate palette amazing?! The shade range is beautiful.
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