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Sep 7 2019

A Little Essence Cosmetics Haul….

Hello, lovelies, Welcome to Elegant Ageless Beauty.

I recently popped into my local Wilko aiming to get a few Essence Cosmetics products that I’ve had my eye on for a while. I wanted the Lash Princess mascara but to be honest the Essence stand wasn’t well-stocked at all. There were a few other things I was after and couldn’t get hold of, so my shopping list/haul ended up slightly different. But alls well that ends well, as they say, this is what I did pick up.

I have been after a decent eyeshadow blending brush and smudge brush for a while, they had to be of low budget and Essence does have rather good brushes I’d seen. So that’s what I picked up. I’ve yet to use them so I will get back to you with my thoughts of them, soon. I have always known that a dark blue eyeliner is particularly flattering for the mature lady’s eye makeup so I picked up this lovely propelling pencil in the shade Cool Down, it’s a blue-grey shade, said to be long-lasting 18-hour waterproof wear, I’ll let you know how I get on with that one too! The products from my little beauty booty that I have actually used are rather good! The Banana nail file is absolutely brilliant. I don’t like a real course file for my nails and this one is perfect for me. It’s double-sided, one side (black) is to shorten the nails and the pink side is to smooth and shape. I love it! It leaves my nails so smooth and ready for all the nail treatments and polish. A right good nail file. The two glitter nail polishes are all ready for the coming Christmas season (sorry) The pretty pink glitter polish is in the shade 07 Party Princess. The glitter is very fine particles and really do sparkle and shine when on the nails, it’s gorgeous! The purple/silver glitter polish is in the shade 23 Party Time. This one has bigger glitter particles and again is very shiny when it catches the light. This one, however, is a bit of a devil to take off. I’m now looking to get myself a peel-off basecoat. I picked up the Lashes of the Day super volume mascara, and because I was thinking that I would need it, I also got myself the Essence Volume Booster lash primer. I do have a review of both these products coming up, but I can tell you that I don’t need the lash primer when I wear the lashes of the Day mascara! 

So, that was my little Essence/Wilko beauty haul. I’ll be back with reviews very soon. Thank you for stopping by today.

XXX

 

Jul 8 2016

My Top 6 MUA Makeup Academy Products….

Hey lovelies, Welcome to Elegant Ageless Beauty..

As regular readers of EAB might know, my favourite High Street budget makeup brand is the fabulous MUA Makeup Academy. Obviously I love them for  the price point of the products, but you also get great quality for such little money too. I thought that I would share with you my top 5 MUA products that I’ve been using for a long time or I’ve just found and been loving quite recently.

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The Skin Define Matte Perfect Loose Powder. This is a newer product in my makeup bag and I do use it every time I wear makeup. It really gives my skin the matte finish I like, it doesn’t clog up my pores and it’s nourishing with the Vitamins A and E, and Jojoba in there too. See my full review HERE

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The award winning Pro-Base Prime & Conceal. This is just fabulous! It’s got everything you need for colour correcting different areas of the face, it’s soft and creamy and blends beautifully. I’ve actually “hit pan” on the salmon pink shade now, it’s the one I use most of all. Click HERE for full review.

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The gorgeous Elysium eye shadow palette is my most reached for MUA palette. Gorgeous mix of shimmer and matte shades for a pretty daytime look, to the sexy sultry smokey eye for evenings out. If you would like to see my full review, please click HERE.

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For Spring and Summer time I’m loving a more natural look for my lips. For me there is nothing better than the Sweet Sheen Lip Balm in the shade Coral Reef. It’s just the right amount of colour and is super hydrating for the lips. You can see my full review HERE.

MuaLipScrub

I adore this lip scrub, I use it every night during my evening skincare routine. No more waking up with dry lips for me. It sloughs away all the dry skin and hydrates and conditions them with lovely Vitamin E. You can see my full review HERE.

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The Eye Define Nourish & Care Volume Mascara is a new discovery for me and it’s now my favourite budget brand mascara. It’s so black, it volumises my eye lashes and it conditions too. The brush itself is perfect and grabs every lash for me. You can see my full review HERE.

So that’s my top 6 MUA Makeup Academy products that I love to use on a regular basis. If you haven’t checked out MUA yet, click HERE.

XXX

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Apr 9 2015

Viper Mascara – Makeup Revolution….

Hello again lovelies!

I have found what I believe to be the BEST budget mascara I have ever tried. I’ve wanted a mascara that lengthens, thickens and volumizes for the longest time, I’ve found that in a premium brand mascara that I love and use on a regular basis, but I had yet to find a budget/high street brand. Well I’ve found myself the one now, and of course it just had to be from Makeup Revolution!

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This is The Viper Mascara, it’s “Mascara With Bite” says Makeup Revolution, and it’s on the tube too. I love the packaging of this mascara, a bronze colour with a snakeskin pattern in black. It looks really cool. I was a bit worried when I saw the brush for the first time, it’s BIG! I thought that I would be smudging this mascara all over my eyes and not applying it to my lashes as they have become shorter with age. BUT I was so surprised and very happy that this mascara applied like a dream. The brush is fantastic, it’s a bristle brush which made me happy (I’m not a fan of the plastic type) and it’s a super curved shape. I was surprised too that it’s quite a fat brush. When I used the mascara I used the brush so that the curve was uppermost (as in the photo) and I “sat” my lashes into it and moved the wand upwards to coat them. Just with one swipe of the brush I had thicker looking lashes already! I then turned the brush to point it upwards and used the end of the brush to coat all the tiny little lashes and it really did catch them all. The Viper mascara really is  super volumising. I always curl my lashes before applying mascara and usually they lose their lift when I use a budget mascara, but with this beauty my lashes remained lifted, and it doesn’t flake off and land on my cheeks either, it lasts all day keeping my lashes looking FAB U LOUS! and it comes in Black only.

The Viper Mascara is just amazing value at only £3.00 from Makeup Revolution HERE

Have a great day lovelies!

XXX

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Jan 2 2015

Luxury Black Mascara from Ariane Poole*

Hello again lovely people, and Happy New Year! Here’s to a fabulous and beautiful 2015!

In my ongoing endeavour for long thick lashes I’m always looking for a new mascara and I have been very lucky to have been sent a black mascara by Ariane Poole* I used it for the first time on Christmas day, it’s called Luxury Mascara and I can see why.

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With the first “sweep” of this mascara I knew it was going to be good for me. The curved brush helped to give my lashes a curled appearance rather than straight, it volumised and lengthened too, it coated each lash. I didn’t want to faff about with eyelash curlers on Christmas morning and with this mascara I didn’t have to worry I was so happy with the way my eyes looked after applying, they looked open. To be honest I actually thought my eyes looked less “hooded” too. The formula of this mascara strengthens, and conditions the lashes which is another reason I love it, my lashes didn’t feel hard and crusty, they really did feel soft. Soft enough to give my new baby Granddaughter “butterfly” kisses. The Ariane Poole* Luxury Black Mascara has become my new favourite mascara. (sorry Rimmel)

The Luxury  Mascara comes in Black only and is £17.00 click HERE or click on the Ariane Poole* logo in the sidebar of this blog.

Thank you for stopping by today lovely people. Look out for future posts where I tell you about my favourite products and highlights of 2014 and of course there will be lots more product reviews too.

XXX

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