I've decided to do a little two part series about my favourite brushes or the ones I use most commonly! First up - face brushes. Anything to do with my base, cheeks etc.
Just a heads up - I purchased all my Real Technique brushes, ELF products and Eco Tools brushes from iHerb! It's a fantastic site and I recommend it because of their variety and also their cheap shipping! I have made like 4 orders through them and will continue to go back! I have a code to get up to $10 off for your first order: VOW650
Firstly, I want to say sorry! The last couple weeks have been hard on me, with final uni assignments due and I'm working more than usual. My whole "beauty" life has been on the sideline unfortunately. If I could do makeup all day, err'day I would, but alas, life is more complicated than that.
Anywhooos, this is my monthly favourites. Better late than never, guys!
The worst task of being a beauty lover? Cleaning brushes. You should be spot cleaning after like every use... I don't. And you should be deep cleaning once a week... I don't. I generally push my deep cleaning to once every fortnight or longer. I know that is terrible but I have in total close to 70 brushes, so I'm pretty safe and can generally use new brushes every day anyway!
I've had multiple request how I clean my brushes so I thought why not, a brush pictorial for you!
If you follow me on Insty (which you should! @heytherejacquelyn) I posted I received these two bad boys in the mail from the lovely Ulta3 team! These have been getting a lot of talk recently in the Australian beauty scene and I have been looking for them for ages but could never find them in the stores.
There is a total of six shades for the Ulta3 Lip Paints. I received Extreme Pink and Electric Orange - both pretty intense colours. I'm wanting to purchase Manic Mauve and Loud Purple asap!
Extreme Pink
Extreme Pink is a cool-toned bright Barbie type pink. It looks fantastic on. I am a sucker for a bright pink lip. I thought it might be too bright, but it isn't as bright as Australis Mal-I-Boo so it definitely makes it more wearable!
Electric Orange
I do love my oranges and this is no exception. It is a lovely orange colour. It is bright but muted... if that even makes sense. Definitely wearable, however I do choose the pink over the orange because I stress out about the whiteness of my teeth #firstworldproblems
The formula of these is fantastic, especially for the $5.95 price tag! Look how smooth and creamy they look on my lips! Just so you are aware my lips are hella chapped right now, even to the point of bleeding but these mask it so nicely! Also they smell like peppermint. If you don't like scents you won't like this because the scent is strong, but I love minty smells with lip products. Everytime I put these on I get excited by the smell and sniff them like crazy. I am weird.
I wore these for about 4 hours (no eating or drinking) with no touchups and they stayed well on my lips. They also reapplied lovely, didn't go patchy with reapplication. They don't dry matte or anything and stay on your lips with a lovely sheen.
I can't really fault them!
- Fantastic colour payoff
The formula of these is fantastic, especially for the $5.95 price tag! Look how smooth and creamy they look on my lips! Just so you are aware my lips are hella chapped right now, even to the point of bleeding but these mask it so nicely! Also they smell like peppermint. If you don't like scents you won't like this because the scent is strong, but I love minty smells with lip products. Everytime I put these on I get excited by the smell and sniff them like crazy. I am weird.
I wore these for about 4 hours (no eating or drinking) with no touchups and they stayed well on my lips. They also reapplied lovely, didn't go patchy with reapplication. They don't dry matte or anything and stay on your lips with a lovely sheen.
I can't really fault them!
- Fantastic colour payoff
- Delicious scents
- Smooth formula
Have you tried them yet? Ulta3 is releasing some amazing products lately and I am definitely getting excited!
- Smooth formula
Have you tried them yet? Ulta3 is releasing some amazing products lately and I am definitely getting excited!
Jacquelyn xx
