2012 Beauty Favourites!!!

Hello my beauties!

Happy New Year! I wish to all of you health, love & luck! 

Did you have fun during the holidays. I want details! 

Beginning this year , I decided the first 2013 blog post to be about my 2012 favourite beauty products. 

What I loved, what I wore the most, which I did not take out of my makeup bag. 

A lot beauty bloggers did the same over the past days, so now it's the time to tell you about mine. 

I have categorised the products so it would be more easier to follow.

Let's start, shall we?

SKIN

Donna Valente exfoliating facial scrub: it is gentle enough to not irritate my skin and good enough to clean it. I love it.

Nelson's Pure & Clear Balancing Moisturiser:

I was searching for an oil free moisturiser that would be a good base for my makeup as well as help my skin with the occasional breakout's. 

Oh yes, I think I found it.

BRUSHES

from top:

bdellium tools # 955 for bronzer

bdellium tools # 957 for foundation

bdellium tools # 945 for contouring

MAC # 168 for blush

bdellium tools # 776 for blending

H&M brush for applying eyeshadow, concealer, blending

(not the same of course :-)

review here

FACE

-Dior HydraLife BB creme spf30++ 

A true beauty balm for my skin review here

-Bourjois Healthy Mix foundation

My favourite everyday foundation!

-Revlon Colorstay Fond de Teint

My evening foundation that gives me flawless skin. review here

-Clinique Pore Refining Solutions Instant Perfector: Fills my pores & smooths my lines just before my foundation. review here

-MUFE HD Primer: all time classic!

- Clinique all about eyes concealer: One of my favourite under eye concealers. review here

- Rimmel Stay Matte Powder: One of my latest discoveries and already a favourite! review here

EYES

clockwise:

Sleek Divine Palette The Original 594

Sleek Divine Palette Storm 578

MAC Paint Pot in Painterly

MAC Paint Pot in Constructivist

MAC Pigment Colour Powder in Aurora.

Clinique High Impact Extreme Volume Mascara in 01 extreme black.

One of the best mascara's I have used in a long time.

CHEEKS 

-Estee Lauder satin creme blush 

in 04 berry light

-H&M powder blush in 12 dazzling peach. 

my everyday blush. stays on forever! review here

-Face of Australia Blush in Terra.

my favourite everyday suttle bronzer!

LIPS

clockwise:

MAC chromographic pencil in Process Magenta.

MAC lip pencil in Magenta.

MAC lip pencil in Hip 'N' Happy.

MAC Matte Lipstick in Ruby Woo.

MAC Satin Liptick in Rebel.

Givenchy Lip Lip Lip! Essential in 227 Nude Pink.

These were my favourite 2012 beauty products!

I used most of them every singe day!

Is one of the above, one of your favourite's too??  Do tell which one!

If not, which else do you recommend?

P.S. Stay tuned for my Blog's 1rst Birthday's Surprise!

stay healthy & beautiful!

kisses

xxx

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Revlon Colorstay Foundation Review

Hello my beauties!

I know it's been a long time but now I am back with many posts ready to come!

Without any further delay, today I want to talk to you about the famous Revlon Colorstay Foundation. I have been wanting to try this foundation for a long time now after I was hearing about it so many things everywhere, and I mean it. Everywhere!
So as it is ridiculously expensive in Greece, I told a friend of mine who studies in England to get it for me. She bought it 12 pounds and here is about 20-22 euros. ts ts ts...classic.

Anyway!
We guessed my shade through photos via whatsapp, ;-), and took my chances with shade 330 natural tan.
We were right. At first I thought it must be dark for me as it says natural tan and during my internet search about the shades, I came out to be sand beige. The truth lies between.

So here we go.

As you can see it is a very pigmented foundation and thick. I have used it 2-3 times and the truth is I don't seem to get used to it on my skin.
It is a little hard to apply as it tends to dry rather fast but that is not a problem. You can do quick. 
Although it is a thick foundation I wasn't impressed with its coverage. To be fair, after all the ravings about it,  I was expecting something like a miracle on a bottle. That was not the case for me.
I have tried other foundations less famous with better coverage. This one did not have the coverage I expected and still felt heavy on my skin and flat.
As you can see on the picture I chose the combination/oily formula as my skin, esecially the T zone, tends to gets oily after a few hours. 
Sorry again but I did not noticed any difference. I got shiny after a few hours as well. To be fair again, !, it was during the extremely past humid days in Athens. The weather is not helping us to make a proper review!
One of the things I liked was that, besides my skin got oily, the foundation did not melt or moved. It stayed there, which means it is a rather difficult one to take off!
I was hearing a lot about a strong awful smell but I noticed nothing. Ok, it does not have a creamy high-end  scent but I did not bothered me.

Below I am showing how it looked on my skin.

no makeup

with Revlon Colorstay on

As you can see I had nothing big to cover up but still my face does not look flawless.
You might say that it looks good, and it does, as you can see my skin through which makes it a natural looking foundation. But.....
When I was dreaming about this foundation I had in mind something like my dreamy skin on a small bottle.

Overall, it is a very good foundation with medium coverage that you can build it. 
It stays for hours without moving around. It is a good price-good quality product. (if ordered online)
I know that many women around the world are raving abut this foundation but it simply did not impress me. 
Well, that's the thing when you are expecting too much! I thought I had find the One but to me is just a simple heavy-feeling foundation. 

I hope I helped you and strongly recommend that you give this foundaton a go. 

Have you tried Revlon Colorstay Foundation? 
If yes, what do you think?

Stay healthy & beautiful
xxx

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