October 2024 Favorites

 



Geek & Gorgeous 101 Mighty Melt Cleansing Balm

This is a very short ingredients list cleansing balm. I am not going to pretend I understand all the ingredients listed, but one is olive oil. It's that thicker balm consistency that melts once you spread it among your fingers and it interacts with your body's warmth. It acts like a cleansing oil then and breaks off any long lasting makeup. It rinses off like milk. I love that there are no added fragrances. It's very basic, yet effective. Plus now in colder months cleansing balms just feel so nice on the skin. I would have loved a bigger packaging, because I use this daily. 


Olival Hydro Toner

I got this toner on holiday in Croatia, because I wanted something light and hydrating. Now I find it great product for layering, since there is more dry air in the house and I don't want to overload my skin with emollient thicker layers. This one has betaine, allantoin, glycerin, aloe vera extract. At first I thought it was braking me out, because my skin sometimes disagrees with aloe vera extracts, but I think it wasn't its fault. It's just a very thin liquid hydrating toner that is great to apply right after cleansing and before any other serums and creams. There is no added fragrance, but it smells very very subtle of florals, probably due to rose water in it.


Skincyclopedia Face Cream-Serum SPF50 and Face Serum Metrixyl 3000

I already had SPF30 from this brand and now I got to try SPF50 as well. Just as SPF30 version, this one is also very lightweight, almost milky. It's a thinner consistency that spreads with ease and doesn't leave any white cast on me. Again, no added scent which is nice and it wears good under makeup as well. Metrixyl 3000 serum is just as it suggests, serum with one of the most popular anti-aging peptides. It's got glycerin base and a very short ingredients list. It's that slightly viscose serum consistency that gives the skin a nice slip and hydration that sticks to the skin and leaves your skin looking plump. I use it in the evening, because it's nice serum to layer and now in colder months the texture of it feels nicely hydrating on the skin, plus there is some stickiness of it due to glycerin. I can't say much of anti-aging benefits, because I haven't used it for that long. 


e.l.f. Jelly Pop Glow Stick

This is a limited edition product, but you can still find it online. It's a stick highlighter, but what makes it so nice is that it's got that luminous sheen and the base almost seems transparent. There is slight gold to pink sheen that it leaves on the skin, but mostly it just looks like dewy skin. That proper dewiness that I haven't seen many highlighters give to the skin. For the summer this was way too much for my then oily skin, but not in colder months this gives the skin that proper dewy juicy look that it lacks. It's probably one of the most unique drugstore highlighters in terms of the finish on the skin. It smells of melon. 


Catrice LE Finding Dory Loose Powder Blush 010 Reef Reflection

I was on a hunt for this limited edition collection. There were supposed to be two blush shades, but in every store I saw it, there was just this pink version. The concept immediately reminded me of Givenchy loose blushes, because this one also has three different pink shades. From a cool pale pink, to warmer light pink to vibrant fuchsia pink. You can use them separately or mix them all together. I usually just mix them together and it gives me proper vibrant flushed-cheeks-from-cold pink shade that would suit many skin tones. The darkest shade is very pigmented, so the blush stays on really well. Loose texture helps it blend easily, but it's a quite pigmented blush, so you have to use a light hand. I think it's a really nice quality for such a price. 


Maybelline Lifer Gloss - 008 Stone

Topaz is my favorite shade from Maybelline Lifter Gloss collection, but because that one was sold out, I instead got Stone now. Topaz has a bit of that transparent shimmery thing going for it, but this shade feels more like a shiny liquid lipstick. It's very pigmented, almost too much for a lip gloss in my opinion. the shade is that warm light brown that is a neutral shade that will go with most makeup looks. I absolutely love the formula of these. Slightly thicker, but not uncomfortable and hyaluronic acid in the formula makes them hydrating on the lips. 

Essence Hydra Kiss Lip Oil - 01 Kiss From A Rose

Now this formula is much thicker than Maybelline. This one is probably the thickest lip oil I have ver had. At first application it can seem too heavy, but I sort of like those thick heavy coats on my dry lips. This feels more like a protective barrier, not so much hydrating as Maybelline one. But it gives you that mirror shine. I don't understand the different colors, because although this one seems pink, it's basically just transparent. It has giant doe foot applicator, which needs to be scraped off, because you don't want too much of this product on the lips or they can feel gunky. There is sort of a sweet sour scent to it.


L'Oreal Professional Vitamino Color 10-in-1 Professional Milk

This is leave in milk with heat protect and antioxidants resveratrol. It's supposedly multi-benefit milk that will give your skin shine, smoothness, softness, detangling, hydration, anti-breakage, anti-frizz and what not. It's also heat protectant. I actually like it more than Pureology Color Fanatic spray, because it leaves my hair smoother and definitely more frizz free. Pureology seems to keep my hair more frizzy, meaning more volume. But this one from L'Oreal keep my hair much more smooth and soft to the touch. It has sweet hair salon scent to it and the texture it quite milky as it suggests. 

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