Coastal Scents Camo Quad

A while ago I made an order on the coastal scents website when they had a sale on, I think I spent around $35 in total for 2 palettes and a camo quad. I'd seen these mentioned a lot on youtube and so decided to try one out. I'm always hearing about how certain colours can tone down dark circles and redness on your skin so figured I'd give it a go and see for myself. 


I found it bizarre at first that there was even such thing as a green concealer, it didn't make any sense to me why you would plaster green on your face, I eventually found out that green helps conceal any redness in your skin. I haven't really heard very much about what the other colours do? I have seen several products that look similar to this, like the ELF powder which is supposed to even out your skin tone by swirling your brush into all the colours and I thought what a great idea. 


If I'm honest it felt weird putting these colours on my face, I always put concealer on before my foundation anyways but with these you'd definitely have to! I only really tried the green where there was red and sheered it out before putting my foundation over the top. I don't know whether I was doing it right or not but even after my foundation the green was still visible. I don't feel like it evened my skin tone out or that it concealed the red, it just made my face green! I find that using my regular concealer does a much better job at evening out my skin than this ever would. For me I feel like this is one of those products that in theory should work but doesn't when actually applied. I would love to know if anybody has had success with something like this. I've tried it out and now know it's not for me, unless there is some secret way of applying it in which case I'd give it a go.


Do you own any green/coloured concealers?

Her Nirvana

In January this year, Benefit Cosmetics launched their new boxed blush "Hervana". I managed to pick this up in Debenhams not long after it came out, with my beauty points I managed to get it for £13 so I was pretty happy with that. The word Hervana is a cross between Her & Nirvana. The four shades that make up Hervana are lucky shell, divine peach, heavenly rose and berry delight. Benefit describes this as "orchid blossom finish to cheeks with a low amount of pearl" The first thing I noticed about this blush was the smell, it has a very sweet kind of berry-like smell to it which I love! Although the smell doesn't really bare any purpose to the product itself it's little things like this which sets the Benefit Brand apart from others. When applied I noticed that this blush was quite a light subtle soft pink colour that is easily buildable. Included is an angled brush too which I don't use but is nice to have if you are out. I prefer to use my travel size MAC 129 brush as I find this is small enough to get into the corners but also big enough to not pick up any concentrated colour. These shades can be used individually if you have a brush small enough and find a way to apply them although I haven't tried this. I'd also recently found out that this blush is a multipurpose blush which can be used on both lips and eyes. Although I wouldn't use this product on my lips it is nice to know that you can use it anywhere on the face. What do you think of Benefit's new boxed blush?

Bourjois Pop Up Boutique

Today I visited the Bourjois pop up boutique that I've been hearing so much about on various blogs, located in Shoreditch on Bethnal Green Road. I've never actually ventured this way before, I've been around Brick Lane and grew up in East London but just never had a reason to go to this area. It seems a strange location for a pop up shop like this, at least to me it did, I thought it might have been more central. I took a train to Liverpool Street and it was a short walk from there. Today was the last day this pop up shop was available unfortunately, I wanted to get there for opening at 12pm so I could get some free goodies but after missing the train it seems I just missed out. As I was on my way to uni in the afternoon anyways I thought I would take a visit over there. They were offering free manicures, makeovers and hair styling as well as up to 65% off. I did plan on  getting a manicure but by the time I eventually arrived it wasn't long before I had to be in college. I loved the way they designed the whole thing, my favourite was the pink Eiffel Tower's.

I knew that I wanted to buy the limited edition little round pot collection, and also picked up 2 other items. The healthy mix concealer in 52 and the healthy balance face powder in 52. The little round pots were £20 and the powder and concealer came to £9.

Did you guys visit the Bourjois pop up boutique? What did you think of it?