A new lease of life for baked eyeshadows..

..Courtesy of Fee at Makeup Savvy and Muhsine at Bubblegarm.


After reading Fee's post on scraping the top layer off baked products to leave them more pigmented I decided to have a go myself with Accessorize's baked duo in Rendezvous as after originally being impressed with it I then became less and less so as I used it a few more times. I tend to use this foiled, so with a wet brush, which seems to cause this problem of a frosty top-layer much faster than with a dry brush.


Here's the obligatory before shot:

Pale, washed out colour. This is relatively heavily swatched. 

Pretty shimmery colours in peachy and pale pink colours.. but with a frosty sheen

Time to score the surface of your baked shadow (or other baked product) to reveal fresh new surface!

Top to bottom: before & after. Both swatched over ELF's eyeshadow primer. There's a huge difference in pigmentation and the bottom swatches took a whole lot less loading onto the brush too! 

I look forward to being able to use this duo properly once again. 

Have you had pigmentation problems with baked products? Tried this? 

x

Debenhams release Naked palette online today!

Today Debenhams released the new Urban Decay palettes online, and thanks to the lovely (blogless!) Becca I found out yesterday that all Beauty online is 10% off plus they have free delivery, making the Naked palette just £24.30 including delivery! 

I've ordered mine.. Will you be going for it? 

Saffron Eyeshadows

After seeing the lovely Dottie rave about her Saffron eyeshadow palette I was pretty keen to get my hands on one! A quick ebay search revealed quite a range of different palettes, and I went for number 5, a palette based on pinks, golds and a couple of blues. The golds range from a pale shimmery yellow to a brown-y gold with shimmer (it's a shimmery selection!) I don't think there are any un-usable colours in there which is lovely!

They swatch almost exactly as they look in the palette, and I love that, nothing worse for me than seeing a lovely eyeshadow only to find it looks totally different on skin, no matter what you do to it.

The eyeshadows are soft and highly pigmented, yet easily blendable. They are also scented. Why anyone would choose to scent an eyeshadow palette I do not know, and for me it's slightly offputting to be able to smell my own eyeshadow (it's strong enough that I can smell it when it's on my eyelids, after a couple of hours you get used to it and don't smell it anymore)

I did plan to take a picture of these on me, but unfortunately one of my eyelids plotted against me, and swelled up in the night, so I've decided not to share that beautiful image with you ;)

Oh, nearly forgot! I paid the bargain sum of £1.80 for the shadows, and couldn't be more pleased with the quality of them for that price!

Anyone else had a major success with a cheap eyeshadow brand? This is probably my first that I've been this pleased with, thinking back on cheap eyeshadows they've always been amazingly vibrant in the pan, and come out pale and pastelly when applied.

Hope you're enjoying the sunshiiiine where you are!

Rachel :) x