Baby Products: Beauty Budgets

As you've seen on TV adverts, baby products are not only good for babies, we can use them too! So, here are a few examples of baby products I use for makeup and cleansing, and they work just as well if not better!

First up, cotton buds: they are so useful when applying makeup! Especially if you cannot afford expensive brushes, it is the number one alternative. It's cheap, you don't even need to buy a branded one and you probably have these at home already.

Johnson's Cotton Buds @Boots £1.25

What do I use them for? Well, apart from the obvious, I use buds to highlight the inner corners of my eyes to make eyes stand out a lot more; highlight my brow bone, so that the eye area looks more 3D; finally lining eyeshadow on my lower lash line. Cotton buds are a really good, convenient, hygienic and cheap alternative to a make up brush.*Thumbs up*

Johnson's Baby Powder @Boots £3.10

Baby powder is a awesome alternative to dry shampoo; it smells great, last for ages, and again so much cheaper! The only downside to using this is that when you use too much your hair does make it look ashy grey or white (worse if you have dark hair), so don't put too much! Do a bit at a time, tilt your head into the sink or bath tub and then put some of the powder in the palm of your hand and rub it into your scalp. This not only avoids a powdery bathroom floor (yes, been there done that) I also find that by tilting your head gives a better application of product into your hair and scalp. If you feel that you've put too much, just brush it out and it should all come out. Give this a try, you won't go back to the spray stuff.

Johnson's Baby Skincare Wipes @Boots 89p! (Usually £1.79)

Now, last but not least my favourite, baby wipes! I actually prefer Johnson's branded wipes than other branded baby wipes because I find them a lot stronger. And I think I'm addicted to the lovely smell of these bad boys! I use these to take off my make up every night before washing the rest off with facial wash and water. They are also good to have when you are applying eyeshadow to gently wipe away fall outs without removing all of the makeup. I find that using baby wipes is a lot more gentle, the sheets are bigger, softer and again CHEAPER than makeup removing wipes!

I hope this has given you an insight of multi-use of baby products! If you can think of anything else, please share.

Thanks for reading,

Chauface

Introduction: Confidence, Skin, Makeup & Mission

Hello lovely people!

So, my blog will contain things I love and I would like to share. Yes, mainly about makeup. I love exploring makeup! I have been wearing makeup since forever, the first thing I put on myself was a red lipstick when I was about 4 or 5. I used to take my Mum's lipstick and put it on my chunky baby lips, and yes I used to get laughed at by my family, yes they were very harsh laughing at a baby, it's lucky that I have grown up into a normal person huh?

My skin
I have terrible skin and few people have realised that my skin has gotten better since I started a relationship, I don't know if that was the reason, but for the past 3 years I have been more pleased with my skin than ever before. I still have oily skin, pimples and scars but it has come a long way. I tried to cover my face with so many products trying to hide it, but it just made the skin worse!

 In my early teenage years my Mum took me to see all sorts of doctors whom provided me with tablets, creams, and Chinese medicine (yuck). I found that Chinese medicine was a big help! But I just couldn't stand the disgusting bitterness (yuck yuck yuck!) I even found dead bees as part of the medicine, so that definitely put me off Chinese medicine for  life!

Since then, I have learned to look after my skin, drink lots of water, find the right products for my skin and all the things you can think of (without going bankrupt of course). I'm still not completely happy or confident with my skin, but I can say is that I have learned to live with what I have. More importantly, I am more comfortable talking about my skin than I have ever before. 

Wearing makeup
 The first time I wore eyeliner was in high school, and then when I left for sixth form I started to put on more products: concealer, foundation, mascara, blush etc. It was not until 2 years ago, that I started to feel comfortable with sharing my experiences with makeup. I guess it's because that I'm not confident enough to talk about makeup, or even applying makeup, I'm not a pro so I guess I didn't feel like I was 'qualified' to speak about makeup. I guess things change and people grow up ,and now that I feel that I know how to make myself more presentable that I can talk about it and share my experiences.

Mission
Like I mentioned before, I'm not a pro, but watching YouTube videos and experimenting in front of a mirror has been a big help for me. So I hope that my blog can help other people who are going through confidence issues like myself to nudge their shy-self to the side and experiment. If you don't like what you see after the experiment it's ok, it is whatever that makes you happy that is most important. Finally, I know that my reviews and the tips won't suit everyone but I hope that even if it doesn't help you much, at least you would've had a good girly read.

Stay tuned for the first post guys and take care!

ChauFace.

P.S I have overcome my childhood trauma, the red lips are back! 

Revlon Colorstay Foundation Combination/ Oily Skin & Blending Sponge

Everyone has different skin types, I unfortunately have oily skin and pimples (yep, everything a girl would hate to have). I usually apply my make up in the morning and finish it off with powder, then a setting spray. However, because of my oily skin, there are times where I need to re-touch throughout the day, sometimes it feels like I need to do the whole makeup routine again! Usually redness shows up around the nose, face and chin are shiny, you name it. So, out comes the makeup bag and reapplying and it ends up cakey and then I just want to run and hide because it looks so awful, nothing like how it was when it was first applied in the morning.

Revlon Colorstay Foundation (Combination/Oily Skin) £12.49 @Boots (Buy 1 get 2nd half price on Revlon Cosmetics)

But not anymore! I had read great things about Revlon Colorstay foundation, so I decided to try it out. It is by far THE BEST foundation I have ever come across, it gives a full coverage, matt finish and lasts pretty much all day, (apart from the odd day when I haven't had enough sleep so makeup isn't staying on my face). I still apply a tiny amount of powder to be safe (I think it might be my makeup OCD) but I think even if you didn't set this foundation with powder, it will still last all day. The only time that I saw this product slide off my face is probably in the evening, when I'm just about to clean my face, so it really is a great product.

As for the texture, it is quite thick so a little goes a long way. It does feel like you've just put paint on your face when you first put it on, but believe me, it will blend like a dream and it will feel weightless once you have finished blending it into your skin. It won't look cakey providing that you do not apply too much product! Also, because the coverage is so awesome, you don't need to apply concealer, so it is one less product to buy and apply. (Yea, I didn't mean for it to rhyme, I know it's lame.)

Since using the product, I have not needed to retouch my make up at all. In fact, I have stopped carrying my make up bag with me because I really just do not need that retouch anymore, not even with powder! My handbag is much lighter now thanks to this foundation!


The only downsides to this product, which actually doesn't bug me that much, but I can see how it can annoy some people out there; one is that the product doesn't have a pump, so you would need to be very careful when you tip some of this out of the bottle. Also, there isn't a massive choice of colours, 'Sand Beige' is what I use, it is slightly lighter than what I am, but it does have a yellow undertone which fits my skin tone and it doesn't look like I have put white a mask on. Revlon, if you are reading this: GIVE US MORE SHADES!

Cosmopolitan Blend Perfection Sponge £4.99 @Superdrug

I've found that the best way to apply this foundation is using a blending sponge. Clean the sponge with soap and use it damp when you are applying the foundation, I can assure you it blends the make up so well, you wouldn't want to go back to using a foundation brush (from my experience anyway). I know this is a just a cheap alternative to the Beauty Blender, but hey, this works and who isn't happy spending a quarter of the price huh? This sponge is quite hard to find in Superdrug stores, so if you wanted one you would probably need to order from their website, but there is a delivery cost. Or you can order from Amazon and it's only £3.99 at the moment, and FREE DELIVERY. Even better!

So, I hope you've had a nice little read, if you have tried any similar products please give me a shout so I can try them out too.

In the mean time, thanks and take care guys,

ChauFace