Topshop Cream Blush: 'Prime Time'

 

Hey everybody! Hope that you're all okay and having a good week. I can certainly say I've been better.. if any of you reading this are students you will know that May is not an easy month of the year - assignment deadlines and exams tend to be a little bit life consuming and it's definitely not fun! Roll on a care free summer!! Speaking of summer... here's a pretty adorable and purse friendly cream blush that should see your cheekbones through the upcoming sunny season.

I'm a fan of Topshop's make up; from their lipsticks to their nail varnishes, to their bronzers and their highlighters, but one thing I'd never tried was their cream blushes. At only £6.00 each they're very affordable and cheaper than quite a few of the other brands on the high street (Revlon and Bourjois' cream blushes are both £7.99 each). There's 4g of product in the pan and they're super cute and 'dinky' in a very small compact that's just the perfect size to fit into the palm of my hand. Complete with a mirror for 'on the go' touch ups, there's no unnecessary bulkiness taking up space and the signature black and white, almost 'designed by a child' like, packaging just adds to the sweetness of this product. 

The formulation of these blushes is actually a 'cream to powder', so that when it comes out of the pan it's soft and creamy, but when dried on the skin it actually has a powder finish to it. The shade that I picked up was a bright pink shade called 'Prime Time' that looks pretty scary and vibrant while in the pan, but only a small amount of product is needed, dotted and blended (I just use my fingers) and it creates a lovely soft flush of colour across the cheeks. It's not scary at all once it's blended out. The formula is really easy to work with, easily blendable and you can easily build up the intensity of the colour pay off that you're looking for. It's an incredibly pigmented colour, but with a light hand it's also so simple to create such a natural soft wash of colour with this that can really perk a face up.

(My hands and fingers look a bit.. yuck because I'd just been playing about with this clay mask from REN before I took the pictures; I'm not normally covered with a crusty white dust!).

If soft rosy cheeks are something that you strive to achieve and are looking for a good quality and affordable cream blush then head on down to Topshop and have a look at their range of cream blushes - I know I'll be going back for more! You can see it on the Topshop website here.

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Sleek Face Form Palette

Hey girls! With the recent release of the 'Naked Flushed' palette from Urban Decay (here is a good post by Christine on that palette: link), I thought that this would be the perfect chance to talk to you all about a much more purse-friendly dupe that you can pick up from your local Superdrug: Sleek's 'Face Form' palette. 

Sleek's high street offering of a very similar looking palette to Urban Decay's version will set you back just half the price at only £10.00 which is incredibly reasonable for a 3-in-1 product. So what does this 'Face Form' palette contain? Well, it's only everything that you need for perfectly contoured cheeks! This handy little compact contains a matte contouring powder, a shimmer highlighting powder, and a shimmer blush in the shade 'Rose Gold' (a very popular Sleek blush on it's own). The packaging is basic but still classic and contains a mirror too which is a nice little bonus. It comes as a sleek black case that is a very small, compact size which makes it ideal for travel - I'd much rather be carrying this around with me than three separate products!

Both the 'Contour Kit' (just the contour and the highlight) and the 'Rose Gold' blush are popular products from Sleek and I'd been lusting after both of these for quite a long time, but when I was mooching around Superdrug and just happened to see all three of these lovely powders in one compact little case I was sold and I hopped down to the till and handed my tenner over with pleasure!

All of the three shades are lovely and 'buttery' and I've been reaching for this on most days as it's all you really need; just a light sweep of each over the cheeks makes such a difference because they're so well pigmented (sorry that there's no pictures of this on my face), and I got the shade 'Light' which is perfect for my complexion but it is also available in 'fair', 'medium' and 'dark' so there should be something for everyone!