By now you guys know I love doing giveaways when I can, and I’m excited to say I’ve got roundup of items that I’ll be giving away over the next three weeks! There will be three giveaways throughout the rest of December, each one starting on a Wednesday and lasting a week. Please feel free to enter each of them!
Here’s the full listing of items for Giveaway #1:
Too Faced Naughty Kisses & Sweet Cheeks Duo in Milkshake and Baby Love
Too Faced Merry Kissmas Lipstick Set
Sephora Collection Glitter Happy Brush Set
QUO Soft Focus Highlighting Palette
MAC 130 Brush
Hard Candy Lip Gloss Duo
Hard Candy Hydrating Lip Stain Duo
EOS holiday 3 pack
EOS Vanilla Bean
NYX Soft Focus Tinted Primer in Medium Beige
NYX Soft Focus Tinted Primer in Warm
NYX Face and Body Glitter in 06
NYX Suede Matte Lip Liner in Amethyst
NYX Suede Matte Lip Liner in London
NYX Suede Matte Lip Liner in Run The World
The Body Shop mini Body Butter in Frosted Plum
GOSH Matt Lipstick in Nougat
Baby It’s Bold Outside makeup bag
Rules are the same as any other giveaway I have, but here they are for your ease of reference:
Giveaway Rules
This giveaway is open internationally!
This giveaway starts on December 7, 2016 and runs for one week.
Please be aware that all entries will be double checked to ensure fairness.
One winner will win the Prize Pack pictured and described above.
The winner will have 48 hours to respond to my e-mail. If they fail to respond within that time frame, I will pick another prize winner. (And so on.)
“Giveaway accounts” will not be considered for this prize. (If you want to know what I mean by that, please click here.)
Coming soon (seriously, I cannot find any launch information to save my life), Coming December 28, 2016, Charlotte Tilbury‘s pre-packaged sets to help you get out the door looking poised and polished in five minutes!
Charlotte Tilbury Quick ‘N’ Easy – The 5 Minute Makeup Revolution
And who doesn’t need a little help to get out the door just that much quicker?? (Heck knows I do since I’m eternally late for everything in my life!) I’ve got one of the four Quick ‘N’ Easy Makeup – The 5 Minute Makeup Revolution sets to walk you through today – the Natural Glowing Look.
Charlotte Tilbury Quick ‘N’ Easy – The 5 Minute Makeup Revolution
Jam packed with some of Charlotte Tilbury‘s best selling products, you’ll find these Quick ‘N’ Easy sets are complete no-brainers when it comes to doing your makeup. The Natural Glowing Look kit comes with:
Wonderglow (mini – 15 ml)
Legendary Lashes (mini – 4 ml)
Beach Stick in Moon Beach (full size – 6.5 g)
Matte Revolution Lipstick in Very Victoria (full size – 3.5 g)
Colour Chameleon in Amber Haze (full size – 1.6 g)
A plastic Charlotte Tilbury makeup bag
Charlotte Tilbury Quick ‘N’ Easy – The 5 Minute Makeup Revolution – Naturally Glowing
The products come perfectly matched so you know they’re going to suit each other!
Charlotte Tilbury Wonderglow
I’ve previously reviewed Charlotte Tilbury‘s Wonderglow (so you can read a full review here), and I use this on and off as foundation primer. In this review, in sticking with the five minute makeup theme, I opted to use this without foundation and found that it gave my face a very, very subtle sheen. Do not expect to get a discoball face with this one!
Charlotte Tilbury – Colour Chameleon in Amber Haze, Matte Revolution Lipstick in Very Victoria and Beach Stick in Moon Beach – swatches
In swatching the other products, I was especially delighted to find that the Colour Chameleon in Amber Haze was incredibly smooth and pigmented. No need to worry about having to drag this colour across your lids to get pigmentation!
The Matte Revolution Lipstick in Very Victory was also a lot more pink than I was expecting from the bullet (which I’m VERY pleased about!). I also found it slightly more emollient than the rest of the Matte Revolution lipsticks I’ve tried (Lost Cherry here and Miranda May here). No difference in wearability – just that it felt a bit smoother gliding onto my lips.
And lastly, the Beach Stick in Moon Beach. This product can be used on your cheeks and lips, but I always prefer to stick to just one kind of usage and stuck to applying it on my cheeks. It’s easy to blend on to my cheeks, but I did find a needed a few layers to really build up the colour. It’s gorgeous though!
The Natural Glowing Look
From nothing to naturally glowing!
And here’s how it all played out on my face! On the left I’m wearing absolutely nothing but a smile. On the right, I’ve got the whole Naturally Glowing Look on plus my eyebrows cuz… well I wasn’t going to leave that out now was I?
Wearing Charlotte Tilbury’s Naturally Glowing 5 Minute Face
Although I’ve not been one to rave about Wonderglow before, I do feel like it works with this particular makeup look to bring some life into my skin. I feel like it works especially well with the Beach Stick to get that little extra oomph of colour onto my cheeks.
Wearing Charlotte Tilbury’s Naturally Glowing 5 Minute Face
I already knew I loved the Matte Revolution lipstick formula as it’s such a comfortable matte formula to wear, but I wasn’t sure what to think of Very Victoria when I saw it in the bullet. It seemed kinda… brown. On the lips it was such a different story – it’s a pinky-brown that is incredibly easy for me to wear with a wide variety of eye looks (I’m looking forward to pairing it with bright eyeshadow!).
The one thing I really, REALLY have to rave about is the Legendary Lashes mascara. It is SUPER black, slightly wet and it deposits the perfect amount of product onto my eyelashes. This stuff is fan-freaking-tastic! I’ve also noticed no flaking which is really unheard of on me. Two enormous thumbs up for this item!
Wearing Charlotte Tilbury’s Naturally Glowing 5 Minute Face
The Colour Chameleon was an absolute dream to blend. I’m not usually a fan of eyehadow pencils because I find them difficult to blend out with a brush and they often do not set the way I want them to. This one gave me enough time to blend it with a brush (and honestly, it was effortless), but it set shortly after I was done. It also layered well! I was able to add a layer, blend it with my brush, and then add another layer on to my lid to up the intensity. You can also see how it looks deeper in my outer corner? Yeah, I didn’t add any extra product – that’s just the Colour Chameleon proving how much of a one-and-done shade it is!
Final Thoughts
If you couldn’t already tell, I’m more than a little bit smitten by this selection of products. The Charlotte TilburyQuick ‘N’ Easy makeup set is not only foolproof, but it’s also a phenomenal way to try out a bunch of Charlotte Tilbury products all at once.
I’m sad to say that I do not currently have pricing or a release date, but as soon as I do, I’ll update this post with the information. The release date for these sets is December 28, 2016 and they’ll set you back $85 CAD. Thankfully, each item in this bag is a permanent product by the brand, so you needn’t worry about missing out on a particular shade!
Charlotte Tilbury products can be purchased on charlottetilbury.com and you can shop from a variety of countries in your own currency!
The products featured in this post were sent to me for review.
MAKE UP FOR EVER has thrown their offering into the holiday palette mix: the limited edition Artistic Palette!
MAKE UP FOR EVER Artistic Palette
The palette comes encased in tin packaging which is entirely reusable. The shadows are embedded in a foam core which can be removed whenever you want and the tin reused for something else! For handiness, I’d recommend removing the shadows and sticking them in a Z-palette!
For those curious, there are three new shades in this palette: ME912 (orchid), D712 (copper) and ME614 (graphite brown).
MAKE UP FOR EVER Artistic Palette Swatches
MAKE UP FOR EVER – S-102MAKE UP FOR EVER – D-552MAKE UP FOR EVER – I-220MAKE UP FOR EVER – ME-302MAKE UP FOR EVER – ME-122MAKE UP FOR EVER – ME-108MAKE UP FOR EVER – ME-614MAKE UP FOR EVER – D-712MAKE UP FOR EVER – ME-912
The MAKE UP FOR EVERArtistic Palette is a limited edition item for the holidays and can be purchased on sephora.ca for $58 CAD or on sephora.com for $49 USD. (As I’m writing this post, it’s currently on sale for about $10 cheaper!)
The product featured in this post was sent to me for consideration.