Why not share your desert island
beauty picks?
So, like most of us, I have a handful
of absolute 'cannot live without' products which I use daily to do my
basic face!
1. As I mentioned in my previous post,
I can't live without the Rimmel Stay Matte powder for shine control.
If I don't use it I get the greasies by noon and end up feeling
really shiny and uncomfortable so even if I ended up shipwrecked
alone on a deserted island, you'd still have to prise this from my
cold, panicked hands!
2. For blemishes, you really cannot
beat the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer, I use the lightest shade. I started
using this around six months ago after reading so many rave reviews
and every last one of them spoke the truth, for a really cheap item
it performs like something ten times the price might! I like to use
it on the redness around my nose and on the odd blemish.
3. I have really dark hair (it's dyed
almost black) but light, sparse eyebrows, so I can't get away these
days without using the Rimmel eyebrow pencil, you know the one with
the little brush on the end (that I totally don't need)? I use little
light strokes to add definition to my brows.
4. My desert island eyeliner has to be
the Soap and Glory Smoulder Kohl pencil eyeliner, the pigment and colour payoff is
unreal, you only have to lightly touch your waterline to get a really
deep colour and it doesn't budge all day. I can't usually get away
without something on my bottom waterline given that my skin is so
pale, I look exhausted without it!
5. For liquid eyeliner (gotta have that
cat eye) I got a tip off about the Rimmel Glam Eyes black liquidliner years ago (from Sali Hughes, Guardian beauty editor), she said
that this liner works better than liners at four times that price
point and man, she wasn't kidding. I've been using it ever since.
Easy to use, doesn't smudge, it even survived a funeral. Fact.
6. Mascara-wise, I reckon the one I go
back to time and time again is Soap and Glory's Thick and Fast. I got
one free with Elle magazine years ago and found it was brilliant,
really simple to get super thick and dark lashes. It's not cheap at
£10 but a tube lasts ages.
7. Finally, for blusher, I always
revert to one of my few higher end beauty buys, NARS blusher in Orgasm. It's a stunning rose gold colour and I always get compliments
when I wear it on how well I look! If you can't stretch to £20+ plus
on one item, Sleek do a brilliant dupe in 'Rose Gold' which is pretty
much identical, I own and use both. The only issue I think is that if
you have quite big open pores, the Sleek really highlights that and
makes them look like craters, while the NARS doesn't as much.
So there you have it, my desert island
beauty must-haves... I could happily go on with eyehsadows,
highlighters, primers, tools etc. but the above is the only thing I
need and use for my basic everyday face, anything else is a bonus.
What are you must haves? Do you have
any alternatives you really rate for the items I mentioned? Thanks for reading!
Charlotte xX
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