Wake Me Up!

My Favourite Foundation!

In the past the only foundation I had re-purchased was the Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse which is super drying and horrible and I wouldn't buy it now but when I was 15 and wanted complete fuss free make up it worked pretty well for me.

After that I just tried out various foundations, always buying something new when it had run out or before it had run out in a few cases which is quite unusual for me as I do try to get the most for my money as much as possible.

I struggle with buying foundation, particularly in the summer months because I'm allergic to some sun creams and therefore quite a few foundations that have SPF in them. This made me more than a little wary to try the Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation that was being raved about by every beauty blogger in the world. In the end I just couldn't escape it and when I tested it in store it automatically lifted my face. It's the most amazing thing I have ever seen and still after months of using it it continues to amaze me. It has not been bad for my skin at all and that makes me so happy!

I have normal to combination skin, it's mostly normal and quite problem free but I do get a dry forehead and an oily nose which I swear is a weird mix but weird is just me to be honest. Lots of people say don't recommend this to people with oily skin but my nose has a tendency to be very shiny and this foundation doesn't make it any worse so I don't think it would be awful for people with oily skin although it is very dewy looking.

The only problem I have with this is to do with the packaging. I like the glass bottle and pump and orange lid but the pump design makes it very hard to get out the last of the product, I've been having to take the lid of and get out the foundation by wiggling the end of the pump round the bottle. I should just buy a new one but I'm a cheapskate and like I said I like to make the most out of my products. I do however like that because it is glass you can see how much product you have left.

Another foundation I'd like to mention is GOSH X-ceptional wear. I've never heard anyone speak about this and I don't know if that's because it's awful or because they haven't tried it. I got this in the winter in shade "golden" which was a complete mistake because I am Ginger and obviously very pale so I went for a while being orange until I bought Wake Me Up in Ivory but I've been using the GOSH foundation recently now I have a bit of a tan and it's quite a nice foundation. Not amazing, there are definitely a lot better drugstore foundations around but for £ I would say it's definitely one to try.

Don't judge a mascara by its packaging!

My Favourite Mascara!

This one is easy. A few months ago if you'd have told me I could only have one product, I'd have probably chosen a foundation but this mascara has changed my life.

I had been buying Maybelline Great lash in blackest black with no interruption ever since I first started to wear make up when I was about 13 and I still think that is an amazing mascara and I would go and repurchase it any day.

I stopped buying my comfort blanket mascara when Rimmel Scandal Eyes came out. This was around the time I was becoming obsessed by make up, lusting after all products out there and spending most of my time in Superdrug, despite my lack of money to spend on it. It seemed impossible to escape the bright orange packaging and I succumbed, I also then got another one free when I bought the Rimmel Wake me up foundation. I cannot stress enough how much I do not recommend this mascara, it's super crumbly and it makes me sad. The only thing I like about it is the packaging. BUT this blog is about my favourite mascara not my least favourite, so let's move on in my mascara story.

One of my friends had a foam party for his 18th and as if I didn't hate Scandal Eyes enough for it's crumbliness I had also recently discovered that even though it never claims to be waterproof it seems to give you worse panda eyes than any other mascara ever with only the slightest bit of water so I went on the search for a new (cheap, because that's all I do) waterproof mascara.

The Bourjois clubbing waterproof mascara caught my eye, not because of it's packaging which unlike Scandal Eyes is the only thing I don't like but because the tube has "tested at foam parties" written on the side. This is volumising but not at all clumpy and it stays on no matter what. It survived the foam party and quite a few tears that night, it has survived 2 rides on a very wet log flume, rain, jumping off a boat, swimming and another foam party. I rave about it so much, it is without a doubt my holy grail product, it's brilliantly waterproof and I have now idea how this works but when you want it to come off, in the shower, with a make up wipe, face wash, cleanser or however you take your make up off at the end of the day, it is super duper easy to take off. My top tip though is to wipe off excess product on to the side of the tube before applying or it will be clumpy.

being impressed with the mascara after jumping off a boat in Crete

Bourjois Volume Clubbing Waterproof Black Party Mascara 

Moral of the story: don't judge a book by it's cover or in this case, a mascara by its packaging!