Tresemme Heat Defence Hair Spray - Smooth (Purple strip) - From any good supermarket or drugstore. Approximately £3 to £4.
You spray this over damp hair before drying/styling with hot tools like straighteners or curlers and it is supposed to protect your hair from heat damage, reduce frizz and promote shine in your hair. My hair tends to go very greasy if I use a lot of product on it and I found if I used too much of this it did make my hair a little bit greasy. All you need is a couple of spritzes over your hair. The spray itself is very light and smells very pleasant. My advice is to spray the dryer parts of your hair and avoid any areas that get greasy quickly. The spray pump occasionally needs a few squeezes to get a finer spray of the actual product as it has a tendency to jam and 'spit' rather than spray. It is difficult to tell if it actually protects my hair from anything and how well it does so because you'd need a microscope and lab coat for that but all in all my hair comes out smoother and shinier after using this. I personally can't do without it, I love the smell and the way it leaves my hair. Plus it's super cheap. I got a buy one get one free offer on mine from Tesco. You can buy Tresemme products at any good supermarket or drug store.
No17 Eye Dazzle Shadow in 'Good As Gold' - Approximately £3
I am going to be perfectly honest about my feelings toward this dust. The pigmentation was disappointing for No17 as I am used to their well pigmented mono shadows but if you pack this on a damp brush and use a cream base it will show up eventually. However it's hard to blend (the colour just fades away if you so much as move the shadow with your brush) and it fades quickly. I paid about £3 something for this and it wasn't worth the money. The good points are it has a very natural shimmery appearance to it so it would be ideal for a beginner who could apply it for day wear into night wear. It would be very nice over a more pigmented shadow to add a really nice shimmer. The colour is also very pretty once it shows up. Not bad but not great.
Maybelline Liquid Stay Shadow in 'Persistent Peach'. Not available in stores anymore but you can still buy it from Ebay. I paid about £1.70 but the prices vary from seller to seller.
This comes in a 6ml tube and has a sponge applicator. The applicator sucks up the product like no tomorrow and it is advisable have a good base on the lid beforehand. Also keep your cotton buds handy because this goes absolutely everywhere as a result of the applicator and you will find you'll need to clean up a lot. Don't try and sweep it on either because the colour disappears completely. In order to get it to show up you have to dab it on. But even then I found it creased. I even tried applying some to my MAC brush and dabbing it on but that just made it crease and smear all over the place even more. It's a liquid shadow but it feels like you're applying water to your lid as opposed to a shadow with the texture of a mixing medium for example which is kind of what I expected from a liquid eye shadow. It says it is crease resistant on the tube but that wasn't what I found. I hated the mess it made and the colour was more white peach thanks to the runny texture than the light orangey peach I was expecting from looking at the tube even after building it. Thumbs down :(
No7 Liquid Eyeliner - £8.50 from Boots
Very thin application brush which means if you want precision you've got it. Fair play to this it does go on very neatly. However the applicator is so thin that if you wanted to do a 'wing' effect you'd be there forever 'colouring in' the line to make it visible because the brush is so thin. If you like thin lines with your liner you will love this. Good for beginners as it doesn't all splodge on at once due to the application brush being so tiny but a little too pricey for an eyeliner. I got a £5 off voucher for mine from Boots but I wouldn't have spend £8.50 on it otherwise. It's 6ml in size and doesn't even have enough product for the money for my liking. However I do like it all the same. The pigmentation is high and the consistency of the liner itself isn't too shabby. Not too thin or thick and so far it has not flaked. I wore it on a night out dancing and it was going strong when I came home.
Rimmel Extra Super Lash Mascara in Black (Non Water-proof). Approximately £3 from any good drugstore or Ebay.
Everyone knows how much of a fan I am of Rimmel mascaras and I figured this one might be a let down since it wasn't as expensive as Lash XXX but I was very wrong. It's actually on the same level, if not slightly higher up than Lash XXX. The only thing this does not have is the benefit of the de-clumper fine comb that Lash XXX has. It's buildable and has a lovely texture (not overly thick or thin) and very little smell. What you can smell is pleasant. It gives me enormous sky high lashes and I love it. Also gives you fairly thick lashes. You can even curl with it and I did not use eyelash curlers at all but I got a huge curl out of this simply by rotating the wand against my lashes. I do not usually get a big curl unless I use curlers with my mascara but this saved me the fuss of using my curlers at all. Major thumbs up :)
Bourjois Shimmer Shadow in Beige Metallique. £4 from any drugstore.
Omg lovelovelove this shadow. I was a bit apprehensive about trying another liquid shadow after the disaster with Maybelline's but this beats Maybelline liquid shadow into the ground and thensome. The colour is more light peach than beige but I loved it all the same. The applicator is a sponge tip once again and that was the only downfall of this product. I find the sponges make the shadow crease a lot because they soak up so much product and make the shadow splodge all over my lid. I would highly recommend sweeping some of the product from the sponge onto one side of a compact (not a fluffy shadow brush) eye shadow brush and then dabbing it over the lid. It can get messy since it is a liquid shadow but I had nowhere near the amount of mess with this shadow that I got with Maybelline's. It only takes 2-3 applications for the colour to show up and trust me, it's a gorgeous peachy shimmery colour. Perfect for a natural day look or to blend with a darker shadow for the night. It blends really well too :) I swatched some on my hand at the store and expected the high shimmer to be duller once I got to daylight but it wasn't. It's such a gorgeous shadow and I like it so much I will be using it in my next tutorial so you can see the colour. Plus it lasts a really long time provided you use a good base but that applies to any shadow. I love this so much I am going to buy the other colours when I can :D
Collection 2000 Translucent Pressed Powder approximately £2.99
Translucent powder is used to help your foundation last longer. Some powders help control shine and have an SPF depending on which brand you buy. I think this one has an SPF but do not quote me on that!
Fairly fine powder it does a fairly good job of concealing mild shine attacks. I don't have oily skin but if I did I don't think this would do it any good or conceal any shine but then again, it does not say that it is a shine controlling powder so you can't expect it! It has a nice texture and since it's translucent you can hardly see it once it is applied. Very good for beginners who just want to practice using powder. You apply this to a fluffy brush, tap off the excess and buff it over your foundation or over any area of your face you need it. It conceals redness okay but not greatly. Some people buff it over their blusher too. I tend to only do this if I am using cream blusher because if I am using a powder blush it will just pick up the powdered blush and send it all over my face with the translucent powder. Does a good job of keeping my blusher lasting though. I like it.
Maybelline Dream Mousse Blusher in '01 Dolly Pink'. Approximately £3-4 from any good drugstore or Ebay.
This is a mousse blusher which means you can not apply it using a brush and if you did, good luck to you because you'll probably either not see any colour at all or see too much depending on what brush you're trying to apply it with. Oh, and you'll most likely get clumps of product stuck in your brush. (Awesome.) Best applied with a sponge or fingers. I apply mine with clean fingers.
Lots of people complain that these blushes don't show up but maybe it's down to my fair skin that I can see it clearly on mine. I LOVE the colour of this in particular because it gives that fresh pinky flush colour to my cheeks which is perfect for the daytime. I wouldn't use this for the night because it's too light. It also has a shimmer running through it so if you don't like shimmery blushes or have oily skin then you may not like this.
The texture is very very soft and there's no smell. I like creamy blushers because they blend much better into the skin than mineral blushers but it is all a matter of personal preference at the end of the day. Some people like mineral blushers because they're supposedly better for the skin but each to their own on that one. I still like cream blushers. This one is buildable too but I only have to put a little on in dabbing motions with my fingers and it shows up fine. I then blend it into my foundation and it still shows up fine. You could use this to add a touch of shimmer to your blush if you find it doesn't show up well on you. Either way I love it and it has been known to last all day one my face once I set it with my translucent powder.
