MAC Lightscapade

I love high lighting my face and making features pop. I've always had difficulty finding a nice one I don't really get on with liquid ones. I've always been intrigued by this MAC's lightscapade but they discontinued it and trying to find one was a nightmare not to mention prices were sky high! Every one wanted to get their hands on this. So when I discovered it had gone back on sale I was so excited and just had to have it! I was brought this for my birthday. Boyfriend got it right again!

I love this! Its lovely and almost ivory not quite champagne coloured. The one I have as you can see isn't all that blue. Which is great, I was warned by a friend that some of them are quite bluey in colour. 

Its a nice subtle high lighter and looks great oround the cheek bones and brow bones area. It gives my skin a really nice glow. This also catches the light beautifully.

MAC Lightscapade £21.50

I love the packaging this is in. It stands out in my box. As this is my only individual powder high lighter its in with my blushes so against all my others this stands out even though it has a more basic packaging.

This is one of their Mineralize skin finishes. I do own soft and gentle and love that as a high lighter too. To apply Lightscapade I use Real Techniques setting brush, This is because it is big enough to cover the places you want to high light but small enough to have a great amount of control over where you apply the product.   But this is just amazing. I have seen a few bloggers speak about the difference in veining between this and the original, I never had an original or got to a MAC store when it was available so I have no idea about any comparisons.

The only thing I have similar to this is Benefits Watts up, but that is a cream high lighter, but the colours are quite similar. I do like to layer this over Watts up, this does a give an ultra high lighted look. But I'll talk more about that product later.

This is super pretty and looks amazing on. Im fairly pale as is my sister and I've used it on her with great results and we're both cool toned. My other sister is warmer toned than me but I've yet to talk her around to letting me trial it on her so I'm not sure how it looks on darker/warmer skin tones.

What highlighters do you use? Have you used this? Let me know!

You can purchase this at House of Fraser stores or online here

xoxo - Lizzy

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MUA Artiste Collection

I like alot of beauty bloggers love MUA, I've seen all the excitement about their artiste collectione. Unfortunately for me my local Superdrug is always running out of stock on their MUA stand! Pretty annoying! I'm also not a big fan of buying make up online especially new pieces. The amount of times I've seen something ordered it and when I've opened the box I've discovered its nothing like what I thought it was going to be is unreal! So I do prefer having a tester I can look at in store. So when I finally found an Artiste collection I had a quick look and decided I just couldn't resist it. At £6 for 6 marbled eye shadows, 2 blushers, a bronzer and a highlighter. That equates to just 60p an item! Who can resist?

The palette comes with 6 beautifully pigmented marbled eye shadows. These blend like a dream. The marbled effect changes the colour ever so slightly, but not enough to be noticeable  They have a beautiful shimmery sheen to them. I love these colours MUA eye shadows are always highly pigmented with such a great colour pay off. None of the shadows are sheer and even though they are cheap you do not need to build the colour up.

The colours:

From left to right.

Pistachio: A beautiful pastle greeny blue. Looks different in different lights. Sometimes catches a very bright white colour.
Mocca: A gorgeous ivory shimmery colour. Perfect base colour.
Ice: intense powder blue.
Grape: A sheer purple. This is the only sheer colour
Chocolate: A shimmery golden brown. Almost on the bronze side.
Cookie: A coppery pinky brown.

The Artiste Collection also has 2 blushers, a bronzer and a highlighter.

FRom left to right.

Pink sparkle: a light pink girly shimmery blush. This is pretty pale and great for a sheer flush of colour.
Primrose: A darker matte pinky coral blush. Its still a pale shade so both these are suitable for all skin tones.
Bronzed: A matte bronzer, this one isnt too orangy and is a similar colour to their bronzed perfection bronzer. Its a great colour for contouring, but lighter skin tones might want to be a little careful with it as if you are little a heavy handed with it you will end up looking a little funny.
Shimmer kiss: Am ivory highlight colour, which is shimmery and catches the light perfectly when your out.

I love this palette its what my boyfriend would describe as a 'Download make up item' a few things in one and it is great for festivals or going on holiday saves a bit of room in your make up bag!

You can buy one Here

Do you have this palette? Do you know any other great multi use palettes? Let me know

xoxo - Lizzy

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