CHARLOTTE LAUREN // MAKEUP ARTISTRY

I accidentally stumbled across this dupe when I was rummaging through my sisters makeup collection (she doesn't like the L'oreal lipgloss so obviously I took the opportunity to give it a new home haha), the Dior addict glosses (£22.50), have been my favourites for years! They are absolutely amazing and so shimmery, if you don't like glosses with glitter in them you probably won't like these but I personally love them! But for glosses they are quite pricey, but the L'oreal Xtreme Resist Mega Gloss (£6.99), formula is pretty similar!

Both of these glosses have glitter in them, so I know straight away a lot of people won't like that, but personally I do! The L'oreal one is a little but more chunky but you get what you pay for! The finish on them is very similar and I wouldn't say theres too much difference in the wearing time, but glosses don't tend to last for hours anyway!

As you can see the Dior gloss is a bit more peach and the L'oreal one is more pink, the colours aren't spot on but I think they're pretty close! And the L'oreal one has more glitter chunks in it, but they do both look and feel similar. These swatches are one swipe of the dior and two swipes of the L'oreal so it did take a tiny bit more building up, for the price difference this doesn't bother me at all!

The applicators are quite different, one being a sponge and the other being brush hairs. I do think the Dior one packs on more product but the shape of the L'oreal one is really nice and it doesn't take much to build it up. The L'oreal lipgloss does have quite a strong smell, it's quite a typical scent for drugstore lip products and it's the biggest turn off for this product for me personally I hate the smell of these!

The Dior lipgloss doesn't really have a scent, or at least not an offensive one! The brush picks up a lot of product so its great for getting really intense glossy looks. And the packaging is so nice, its such amazing quality! Im a sucker for cute packaging and this is definitely a selling point for me.

Overall I like both of these products, in my opinion the Dior one is better, but mostly due to how fine the glitter is and how off putting the smell of L'oreal one is! I would repurchase them both (I already have a few more shades of the Dior ones) because the smell doesn't last too long, but given the choice I would always go for the Dior Addict Gloss! My favourite thing to do is put the dior one on before I leave the house and top up with the L'oreal, that way it won't sting too much if I lost it! haha

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Todays blog post is on my favourite palette of the moment Tartelette In Bloom (£31.00), it has 12 colours all very neutral, some shimmery and some matte. I have no idea if it purposely smells like chocolate but it does, so thats an added bonus! I have been using this palette a ridiculous amount since i got it, it does not look this pretty anymore at all haha.

This palette has such perfect transitional shades I cant imagine using anything else at the minute, they're all very pigmented and so buttery and creamy and everything you want an eyeshadow to be and more hahaha. The only two colours I don't get too much use out of are rocker and firecracker but the rest I use all the time. They're easy to blend and sit so nicely on the skin, i'm a little bit obsessed! And needless to say the packaging its beautiful!

As you can see this palette has mixed cool and warm tones so is perfect for creating either look, I usually use these as sort of base colours and then use other palettes to add pops of colour etc. but this one is always my go to and its so perfect for just doing a simple everyday look! I would definitely recommend buying it as i'm already thinking about repurchasing it!

Heres a look I created using mostly this palette, I did use a shimmery silver on the lid and nylon for the brow highlight (obviously, whats a makeup look with out nylon haha) you can just see how nicely all the colours blend in together, you cant see any harsh lines and the colours also all compliment each other so nicely you could literally put almost every shade on your eye at one time and it would probably good! I nearly do that every time just minus firecracker and and rocker, as they aren't really colours I tend to go for!

And one more recent picture just to show how loved this palette has been! haha I've already hit pan on charmer and I could cry because it is the best base eyeshadow I have ever used and the rest of the eyeshadows have a fair dint in them aswell. Overall, utterly obsessed!

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Today I'm going to be sharing my opinions on P.Louise Makeup Academys first video tutorial. First off if you're not sure what Plouise is, its a makeup academy based in Manchester, they offer courses and master classes as well as taking normal hair and makeup appointments. In my opinion Plouise is quite different from other makeup academys, just because of the style of makeup they do. Its a very heavy, intense style of makeup but absolutely gorgeous (not for everyone as Plouise herself admits, but amazing none the less!)

Recently they've come out with their first online tutorial, which unlike most tutorials, you have to pay for. The first video (the one I'm reviewing today) is an introductory price of £4.99, the rest will be £19.99 or you can buy a yearly subscription, which is £299 for a year with a guarantee of 84 videos (so if you was going to buy them all you'd save over £1,000 with this subscription!) You get the videos for 48 hours and then they expire, its available on the website vimeo, its easy to sign up and you can pay through PayPal.

I was quite sceptical about these videos and having to pay for them, I fully understand why they haven't made them free, because they'd loose business if every Tom, Dick and Harry knew how to get that Plouise finish, but I thought, why am I paying for something I get on YouTube for free? After watching the video I do think it is well worth it though, the camera quality and editing is such good quality, you get a full run through of every product she uses with captions saying what the product is and the name of it, also includes the brushes she works with and explains the techniques. The video goes into detail on everything she does and why she does it and how its different from what a lot of other artists do.

The video is in a voice over style and sped up a tiny bit, but not so much that you miss bits. The video covers a full makeup application from start to finish, eye, face and lips of a purple blown out smokey eye. Overall I think the videos are worth money and I will be buying more (the next one looks amazing!), however I won't be getting the yearly subscription as personally I'd prefer to pick out certain ones that catch my eye. I do think that £19.99 is a little bit steep for 48 hours worth of time to watch it in, I think maybe a week would be better, but you can take notes and write down all the products so its not too bad, and they can only get better than this one as it was a tester!

Heres a few pictures of my interpretation of the look shown in the video!

It's not exact but I do love this makeup look!! I also need to run out and get a MAC 224 brush and more maybelline gel eyeliner as the video confirmed what I've thought for a long time, it is the best!!

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Ive recently decided my makeup kit needed revamping, it didn't excite me any more and i'd fallen into routines. Same eyeshadow palettes, same blushers not much changed apart from different techniques and application. So i've been treating my kit to a lot of new goodies, this palette being one of them!

First off this packaging is so beautiful, I am obsessed. Theres a mixture of blushers, bronzers and highlighters, the bronzer is quite light and works really well for my extremely pale complexion but i don't feel like it would work so great on someone with darker skin, the same with some of the blushers. However the highlight is quite dark so I don't think a lot of people would have a problem with that. All of the 6 shades are highly pigmented and sit so nicely on the skin, I really can't fault the formula of these at all.

It's a good range of colours, something to suit everyone which is nice, going from bright pink to the orange shade at the bottom (one of my faves). This palette is £35, and for the size/quality of the products and the attention to detail on all the packaging is quite a good price!

Overall I really like this palette, I probably wouldn't repurchase it as I'm more likely to pick out the shades I like the best and find similar ones to them rather than buy the whole thing and have doubles of my less used, but that goes for any palette!

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