I'm a Sucker for Recommendations: Mini Drugstore Haul

Any time I see someone talking about a product they really like, I instantly write it down on my list of ‘Make-Up to Buy’ (which is now about 2 pages long now!). I cannot resist buying at least one of someone’s recommendations every single time I go into a Boots. And this morning, I had a job interview, so to reward myself for it going well, I bought myself a couple of items.

The first thing, or things, I picked up were the Bourjois ‘Rouge Edition Velvet’ matte lip products. If you watch a lot of beauty YouTubers or read a lot of beauty blogs, you will have probably heard a lot about these. In practically every video I’ve watched for the last week, people have been hyping about these, and with good reason. These are SO incredible, the finish is really matte and it’s not sticky at all, even though it applies like a lip gloss. They stay on really well, I noticed particularly when I was drinking from a bottle of Diet Coke after I applied it and NONE came off on the top of the bottle- amazing! I got the shades ‘Hot Pepper’ and ‘Olé Flamingo’. I have tried both and the colours are great, although I will say, the red shade did take a couple of coats to get perfect, not necessarily a bad thing, just something to think about.

I also picked up the Soap and Glory ‘Supercat’ eyeliner. This is one of the felt-tip-pen style eyeliners, which I love. I think it was Lily Pebbles that I had seen talking about it, but I’m not 100% sure. I haven’t tried it yet, but I have swatched it a couple of times and it looks like it’s going to be really good (and it was only £6, bargain!). Also, sorry the picture just won't turn around!

And the final thing that I bought was the Real Techniques ‘Expert Face Brush’. This has been around for a while, every blogger seems to use it and love it. I don’t know why I put off getting it for so long, but I finally did and it was definitely worth it! I've been using a MAC foundation brush for years, which has been great but I wanted to change it up a bit. This one is a really different shape to the ones I've used before and I think I definitely prefer it. I just use it with my liquid foundation over a primer and the finish is great.