MAKEUP BEWITCHED

Hey guys!

Today my review is about kiehl’s clearly corrective dark spot solution which I have been using for quite a long time and thought I could share my opinion about this product. I had a very bad acne-mark prone skin, which has been cleared out after few chemical peels and medications but due to hormonal changes, I wasn’t completely cleared out from acne and its stubborn marks. When I was searching for few products to try on my acne-marks prone skin, I came across this product and thought could give it a try.

Claims:

Dark spot corrector formulated to have visible impact on dark spots caused by age, UV exposure or post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation. This clear and corrective formula visibly diminishes the number and intensity of dark spots and discoloration and includes an ingredient active that prevents the formation of spots on skin’s surface and penetrates deep into the skin’s surface deeply and rapidly corrects the appearance of dark spots and evens skin tone.

Price:

This product is priced at Rs 4250 for 30 ml product.

Ingredients:

Direction: 

I was instructed by the kielh’s representative, to use it both in the morning and evening after cleansing and toning the face. And follow up with a moisturiser. She advised me to use a sunscreen with SPF 50 every day in the morning without fail.

My thoughts on kielh’s :

          The serum is a colourless and odourless liquid and comes in a glass bottle with a dropper lid. The glass bottle is fragile and needs to be handled carefully.

          After cleansing and toning, I use two drops of the solution and warm it up between my fingers and pat it on my entire face. It gets absorbed quickly and don’t give any greasy feel on the skin. Once the solution is absorbed, I use my regular moisturiser. After moisturising, we can follow up with our regular makeup.

          Initially for about 15 days, I didn’t see any changes in my spots but my overall skin tone was improved a little. After a month, I could see difference in my spots,  it reduced the redness of my new acne marks. This solution didn’t cause any breakout. After about 45 days, it slowly worked on my old marks and faded a bit, but didn’t make a drastic changes as such.

          As it claims, it works on the upper layer of the skins and treats your new marks and fades old scars a bit on regular usage. It doesn’t bring miraculous change to the skin in a week or so, it takes time and the time varies for every individual depending on their skin. This product does work on regular usage but takes a lot of time to show the results.

Pros:

•  Fades the scars.
• Odourless
• Gets absorbed easily.
• 2-3 drops is sufficient for a use. 30 ml goes too long way.

Cons:

• Pricey.
• Not travel friendly packaging.
•  Takes much time for visible result.

I would rate 4.3/5.

Definite recommend to people who suffer from those baby acne marks and to even out those pigmentations, but only, if you have patience.

Do share your experience, if you had used this product before.

Hello my lovely people!

          Today it’s gonna be a review again on one of the most raving product, COLOURPOP ULTRA MATTE LIPSTICKS. Liquid lipsticks are going crazy in the market these days and even if these lipsticks are not found in Indian drugstore still it remains to be raving product. I bought these through one of my friend in US but now these are available through many instagram stores(I will add the links of the instagram stores through which you can access these).

These are available in 33 different shades in total including the new launches but I currently have 5 of them. 

Shades: Avenue, Tulle, Bumble, Beeper, Lumiere 2.

          If you guys have access to buy these from US,you can check this website: https://colourpop.com/collections/ultra-matte-lip . Recently they have started shipping internationally but customs and taxes maybe charged. 

 you can buy these from http://beautytales.co.in/ , if you're from India.

Packaging:

          The lipstick comes in a plastic transparent tube with a metallic cap packaging. The packaging looks as that of a high end ones. The lipstick tube comes with the outer cardboard box. It comes with a doe foot applicator which works really well for those detailing and thin lips beauties. The shade name is mentioned at the bottom of the tube.

Price: $6 (in colourpop website) and price depends on each seller in insta stores.

Overview of the product and my experience:

          I love matte lipsticks and if they are liquid lipsticks, GRAB THEM BABY!!..yyaasss!!. They are to die for. You apply the coloured liquid and they set into matte, giving you that slayed lips which last for really long. But yeah! Matte lipsticks are drying. And these lipsticks are super drying. They feel slightly powdery after drying. Not a concern though!

           I highly recommend you guys to exfoliate and moisturize your lips properly before applying these lipstick as they do not have even a tiny amount of moisturizer in them. Using a lip primer under these lipstick is much better, if you can’t handle that dry lips.

          These lipstick have watery texture and when applied on lips they set into matte in few seconds and give the intense colour in one swipe. It is highly pigmented and opaque. Remember, DON’T PURSE YOUR LIP WHEN IT'S WET! It gives you that flaked and crumbled lips which is not appealing and it stays light weight on lips.
            Always try filling the lips in single stroke, as it would give a smooth finish than layering it up.

          This lipstick is very long lasting. It is crazily long lasting and doesn’t move from it’s place even after an oily greasy meal. It lasted for around 8 to 9 hours without food and for good 6 to 7 hours after food and starts fading from the center. Touch-up!!!!.
       

          This lipstick is hard to remove. So don’t be in an hurry or be harsh on your lips.

Shade description: colourpop has a huge colour variant but not all suits Indian skin tones, as each shade have different undertones. I have given a small description of the shades, which would help you guys pick your shades.

Avenue: Said to be a "Deep yellow red" by colourpop. This fabulous colour looks very unique and brings the chic inside you. This shade would look amazing on all skin tone. It is my favorite shade out of all.

Bumble: "A Dusky warm terracotta" shade which looks like a brownish red with little pink in it, would look amazing on fair to medium skin tone. May wash out a little on deep dusky skin. 

Tulle: "Dusky mauve burgundy" shade suits all skin type and the shade might look little deeper on dark complexion. 

Beeper: "Warm mid-toned taupe" shade, a perfect pair for a smokey eye. best nude for medium skin tone and might wash out dark complexion beauties.

Lumiëre 2: "Dusky mauve pink" shade, it has been said by colourpop that it will suit all the skin tone, but i personally didn't like the shade. it looks grey on lips and definitely a big no for medium and darker skin tone beauties. This may suits fairer skin tone beauties, the most. 

Pros:

Cons:

          I would say this product is amazing for the money we pay and these lipsticks are fantastic when compared with high end lipsticks. Definitely give a try

i would rate this product 5/5.

Please share if you guy have any recommended shades in this range and do let me know your experience with these babies.

Hey there!

           Ever since liquid lipsticks became my obsession (don’t know from when! :D), I have been trying out lipsticks from various brands and found this lipstick from the brand called DIANA OF LONDON. I have been using this lipstick for quite a long time now (actually a very long time) and though would share my opinion about these babies with you guys. These come in 40 different shades. I bought 2 shades from 17(Raspberry) & 18(Hazelnut).

I bought these from habbana.com.

Packaging:

It comes in a usual plastic packaging with a metal screw blue cap and has a silver color neck with the brand name embossed on it. The wand has the doe foot applicator which gives a smooth application of the product. The applicator narrows down on the tip which helps in defining the outline of lips and also easy for people with thin lips. The shade name and number of the lipstick is mentioned at the bottom of the packaging.

Price:

This product is priced for Rs.699 for 8 ml of product.

Claims:

This product doesn’t have any detailed claims as such but says its long lasting, non-transfer, waterproof and light-weight.

My experience:

To start of with, Matte lipsticks are suppose to give you that driest lips ever. If you have the same thought in your mind, just stay with me, because this lipstick breaks that myth (I would call). This didn’t dry out my lips at all and this stays on lips for promising 6 hours even after having food. It eventually means that it stays for quite a long time.

            The shade 17(Raspberry) is a Mauve-brown shade and it’s a perfect MLBB shade for me and the shade 18(Hazelnut) is a warm brown colour.

            Talking about the texture, I feel it to be a cream or mousse kind of texture, not that liquid or runny texture of liquid lipsticks. It just glides on the lips very smoothly and sets in to matte very quick, maybe in 20-25 seconds. It feels very light on the lips, as I have said I felt it to b a mousse textured, it does stay as such. And this hugs your lips like a baby and doesn’t come off as I mentioned it before. 

About the other claim, water-proof, yeah, it doesn’t wear off with water or sweat or moist or whatsoever. Perfect for office and super perfect for summers. And this means its bit hard to remove(#MakeupRemoverTheRescuer). But all the claims have been met. Yaayyy for that.

          I recently attended a makeup workup conducted by one of the famous bridal makeup artist and even she swears about the long lasting power and she said she uses these lipsticks on her brides by mixed it up with other shades.

Even though I have the very dry lip (I would say!!), this didn’t dry out my lips for a good time and slightly dries out after 4 to 5 hours, which I won’t complain. But I would always suggest wearing a matte lipstick after exfoliating and moisturizing it well, to enjoy your long lasting, non-drying matte lipstick effect. 

Pros:

• Amazingly long-lasting
• Doesn’t dry out lips like other matte lipsticks.
• Waterproof
• Doesn’t transfer.
• Light weight
• Super comfortable
• Pigmented
• Sets into matte quickly

•  Smells little weird, but the smell vanishes in less than a minute.
•  Contains parabens, but I would say not a con because almost every product has got parabens as they are used for preservation of the product.

I would rate this product 4.75/5.

And I would highly recommend this lipstick and will definitely repurchase these shades and try out other shades as well.

      Let us take a moment to shout out, this baby is finally launched india. Yayyyyyyyy!!!

When it comes to new launches, Maybelline is something like, you buy a new launch product, try it out and there comes another new product. Which is a yay at times and no many times #PocketMoneyIssues  :( .

Mascara has been that one product which i was using even before knowing what makeup actual mean. i always wanted to get my hands on these from a very long time but getting it from international website would definitely cause a big hole in pocket. in my recent visit to lifestyle store, i found the new launches in maybelline and was over excited when i saw baby right on the table and grabbed it the moment i saw this.

I have been using Maybelline hypercurl mascara for ages now. But now it’s definitely gonna be this baby right here.


It comes in a rose gold colour plastic sturdy tube packing with the ingredients and other information printed on the outer cardboard.

Price:
This is priced at Rs 500 for 9.5 ml of product. It comes in 2 variants water proof and washable one.

      Because I always had problem with removing the hypercurl mascara, I bought the washable variant from this range and its amazing.

I like coating my lashes with this mascara and a bright lipsticks and that’s it. Ready to go!.  It just gives an instant lift and boosts up the lashes which I like <3 .

Eyelashes before applying mascara:

Eyelashes after applying mascara:

     Maybelline, Being my favorite brand has never disappointed me. I’m so much in love with baby!!!! . I would say its one of the best mascara in the indian drug store.

Pros:

• unique wand gives smooth application.
• lifts and volumizes the lashes in a single coat. 
• can be layered without formation of clumps.
• stays long.
• comes in water-proof variant as well.
• pigmented. 
• worth the money.

cons:

• too much product comes on the wand in new packing and its bit hard to remove the excess on the tube, which leads to over deposition of product on the lashes.

    I would rate this product 5 on 5 .