Monday, 12 November 2012

MUA Brush on Concealer Pen

The MUA Brush on Concealer pen in Radiance is a bargain at £2. 
Its light and creamy formula may fool you in to thinking that its not going to give much coverage but no. The middle bottom swatch shows that when blended on my hand covers the blue of my veins amazingly. Its just as good at covering the dark circles and discoloration under and round my eyes, nose and odd patches too. 

It lightens an brightens but is not shimmery at all. There was no creasing under my eyes or the slight tacky greasiness (that some concealers have) acting as a magnet to mascara. The Brush does a fine job or applying the concealer but I'm not a huge fan of "built in brushes" so I have been blending it in with either a finger or small brush.
It has a slight fragrance but despite practically shoving it up the nose of everyone in my vicinity nobody can say what it is. Its not unpleasant and not noticeable even when used right next to my nose! If anyone can tell me what it is please do!!

Great with a bit of powder for a minimal day but lasts all day/night with a full face.
Very short post I know but nothing more I can say than this is a good product and I will be repurchasing as soon as it runs out!

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Monday, 5 November 2012

MUA Ultimate Brow Kit and general brow ramble.

Brows where something in the past I've struggled with. The over plucking of my youth followed by the itchy stubbly just plain ugly growing them back stage. Threading is a little stingy but really good, as is waxing but I'm just to busy or tired and I tend to give them a tidy up every 2 to 4 days when I'm sat in front of a mirror taking may face off or putting it on.
As I have dark brown hair (excluding the natural silver highlights) and quite pale skin I've lived in fear of the dread "scouse brow" years before the hideous term was every uttered.
I am generally a power and small slanted eyeliner brush kind of girl. I have never really managed to get to grips with the pencil technique.
So as my beloved MAU brought out the brow kit for the bargain of £3.50 I thought I'd have go.
The colours don't swatch amazingly well on skin as you can see. 
The top left is for brown hair the top right for blonde, bottom left is a highlighter (I'm assuming, unless you have very pale brows) and bottom right is a wax like product for taming and setting your bows. I've used this 3 times this week and the brown is a spot on match for me. So I could give an honest review I borrowed one of my daughters (who is blonde) and although she doesn't used eye brow products as she is far to young she was very happy to try this out!

Again another win for MUA does exactly what I want it to! The colour is spot on for me and the blonde child, the "highlighter" is soft and not shimmery, which I love and the wax/gel grooms strays perfectly! Couldn't ask for more!

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