Fashionista palette review- Blush and Eye shadow

This post is going to be about the Fashionista palettes, available at superdrug. Similar to higher end brands, such as MAC, these palettes allow you to get a palette and choose your own individual eye shadows and blushes. The pallet's are £5 and the eye shadows and blushes are £4. You can fit 4 blushes/eye shadows in your palette and you can mix and match what product you can put in them. This means that overall your filled palette will cost £21, which in my opinion is quite expensive for drugstore make-up. However when I brought mine there was an offer on where you got your palette free when you brought four eye shadows/blushes. I am not aware if this offer is still on.

 The palette itself is very nice and good quality. I have it in black, but you can also get it in red. This is great because you can have one for blush and one for eye shadow and you don't have to look inside to see whats in them. The palette also has a big mirror which I use everyday when doing my makeup because it is a perfect size. the palette is also great for travel because it is very thin and closes shut securely.

Colours: Steel shade 3 (eye shadow), Amorous shade 33 (eye shadow), Blushing coral shade 5 (blush), Rose glow shade 2 (blush)

 I picked up two blushes and two eye shadows to test them out. Firstly the eye shadows, which i was not impressed with. I found the eye shadows did not have very good pigmentation and were hard to blend. Although they are drugstore products I expected more considering that they are £4 and MUA shadows (which are great quality) are only £1! So I would not recommend the eye shadows from this range. However the blushes are fantastic, they are super pigmented and matte which is really hard to find in a drugstore blush. If you are very heavy handed with your blush these may not be for you as you only need a light hand to get great colour pay off. I also love the fact that you can change the intensity of the colour, depending on how much you use.

Pro's...
-The blushes are great quality
-You can put blush and eyeshadow in the same palette
-Good to travel with
-Nice quality palette
-You can have the products in the palette or in single cases
-You can see the name of the product through the back of the palette
-It is easy to pop out the products and change what you have in the palette

Con's...
-The eye shadows are not great quality
-The price adds up quite quickly when buying the complete palette
-If you are heavy handed you will not get on with the blushes
-There is not a great shade range

Overall i think these palettes are a great idea, I was just disappointed with the eye shadows. I will definitely get two more blushes to replace the eye shadows in my palette because they are fantastic! I hope they will extend the shade range and maybe create new products to put in the palette such as lipstick and cream products. definitely check these palettes out when you next visit superdrug!

No7 Vouchers- What I would recommend using them on

Hi guys, The No7 vouchers are out again and I thought I would share some recommendations of what to use them on. The vouchers out at the moment are valid until 25th March 2012 and are worth £5. If you have never heard about the No7 vouchers they are money off any No7 product in Boots, you get them when you spend over a certain amount in any Boots store.

My first recommendation is one of my favourite products from No7, it is the Metallic eye pencil. This pencil is fantastic and in my opinion it is as good as the Urban Decay 24/7 glide on pencil. It goes smoothly onto the water line and lasts for a good majority of the day. The only downfall to this product is that there are only 3 colours available green, blue and purple. I have the green one and i am definitely going to get the other two with my No7 vouchers. This product is £7.75, which means if you use your voucher it is just £2.75 which is an amazing deal!

My next recommendation is the eyeshadow blend and contour brush. This is said to be a dupe for the MAC 217, however i do not own this brush so I cannot say if I agree with this. But what I do know is this is an amazing brush for applying shadow to the crease. It does shed a little but nothing drastic, it also cleans well and keeps its shape. This is usually £7.25 which is a good price for a decent brush, but with the voucher it is £2.25! It is hard to find any brush for that kind of money, let alone on that is good quality.

This one is for the nail polish junkies! No7 have brought out a mini nail kit with 4 limited edition nail polishes inspired by precious metals and gemstones. All the shades are beautiful and a great deal at £8.00, that's £2 per nail polish! But again if you use the voucher it will cost £3, which means you are getting each nail polish for less than a pound each!

My final recommendation is the beautifully balanced purifying cleanser, I have only tried the one for oily/combination skin. I really like this cleanser because it is really gentle but still leaves your skin feeling clean and very soft. I also like that it left my skin matte but not dry. This product is £8.00 but will cost you only £3 with the voucher.

Here are just a few of my recommendations for what to use your No7 vouchers on. I have tried other products from No7 but haven't been too impressed with them so if you would like me to do a post on them products then please let me know! They also have a new 'beautiful skin' range which looks very nice, but u haven't tried anything from the range so i cannot tell you if it is good or not. Please let me know what products you recommend i use my No7 vouchers on!