Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so much for joining me.
So today we are going to
be looking at some indie brands.
Now, this has been suggested to me
over and over and over again.
You really wanted to see more indie brands
on my channel, and I'm not very good
at discovering, you know, new things.
But I've had a lot of help from you,
and I've had some wonderful products gifted to me.
So we're going to take a look at,
1,2,3,
4... wait, no.
1,2,3,4,5 indie brands.
Today we're going to do a full face.
Let's get into it.
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So we're going to start off with the eyes first.
And this is called the Midwinter Dream Palette. This is from...
This is from Ensley Reign Cosmetics.
And this is just the cutest palette.
These purples. Oh, my God.
You can't see it.
Right, I need to show you properly
on camera because it looks incredible.
Okay, my lighting's too bright. Maybe if I do that.
There you go.
Look at these shades.
Look. I mean, I mean...
These just look stunning.
And this was very kindly gifted to me,
not from the brand, but by Teresa Mulhern,
whose channel you may be familiar with.
She sent this to me, which was so kind and so
nice, and I'm glad she did because...
Look at these.
Okay, let's do it. I'm excited.
Where's a thing?
I'm actually not feeling so great, so what
I'm going to do here is switch into voiceover mode.
It will still be me.
Let's go.
Okay, so I started off with this pink shade.
I cannot believe how incredibly pigmented this was.
Like, it looks like pure
bubblegum, like pure Pepto Bismal.
It looks absolutely insane.
I actually didn't know what I was doing, so
I started to create this really weird shape.
That's another story.
I then went for this deeper purple.
Now, this did have a little bit of a struggle going on top
of the other matte shade, so I just had to build it up
quite a bit and tap on quite a bit of color.
But that can be down to ingredients
of the powder, which is fine.
It worked eventually.
It just took a little bit of time.
Now, this color base from Beauty Creations.
Beauty Creations.
You would have seen me, whenever I do
a cut crease, this is what I use.
And I have their full color range because they
did these amazing, this amazing collection where it was
the color bases, the pencils and gel liners all
in the same color, if that makes sense.
You had three reds, three greens, and it looked amazing.
So I bought them all, and I've used them since.
And they're absolutely incredible.
I haven't used it as an actual base
yet because it does dry quite dry.
That's why I use it to cut the crease.
It doesn't dry too quick, so you do have a bit of
time to play around with it, but then it doesn't dry ultra slow.
It's a really good perfect in between.
I used a shimmer shade next.
I wish I could have got this on camera
a little bit more because it looked absolutely insane.
Like, it captured the light.
It had this really nice shift to it.
I'm trying to catch it on the camera here, and I just can't.
But it was so nice and the texture was like cream.
I went in with this darker shade next.
This one blended really well on top of the other mattes.
It had no issue here.
Blended beautifully.
Now, I don't have any
indie brand concealers, foundations.
If you know any brands that do that,
let me know because I can't think off the top of my head
who makes foundations and concealers altogether.
Okay.
Caddy Cosmetics, these Velvet Puffs. Velvet Puffs?
Is that what they're called? I missed it.
So beautiful.
They come in a pack of three.
You get a really small one, a medium
size, and then, like, quite a big one.
And I've been using them nonstop.
They sit next to me on my makeup desk,
and they're just incredible to do concealer like I'm
doing now, because you get that full coverage of the concealer
but blends out perfectly into the skin.
It doesn't look cakey.
It doesn't look patchy in any way.
It looks really soft, really smooth and velvet like.
And you can really get up in those little
areas, you know, like tucked up right in that eye here.
And I can also do what I do with a brush as well.
I cut off the edge of my eye makeup just like this,
in a straight line, because it's that teardrop shape.
So you have that really nice point.
And then blend it out.
And I use this all over the face.
This is amazing.
I had, if you can see on the right hand
side of my face, if you're looking at the screen,
I have two blemishes there that are quite obvious.
You can see even more now.
And I'm going to show you how I use this puff to cover them up.
So I put a bit of the concealer on and
bear in mind that this makes sure that the product
stays on full, full coverage, but blends out incredibly.
You can't see the blemishes at all.
And the concealer is just almost,
like, melted into my skin.
You can see a little bit, but bear in mind, I don't have
foundation on, so you can see it a little bit against redness.
I'll tell you when it's fully done.
So you can see a little bit.
But here, it's completely blended in.
It looks really, really smooth.
It doesn't look like concealer.
I would happily leave the house
just like that and cover blemishes.
I did cover my nose a little bit
with the excess concealer on the pad. Pad? Puff.
It was great.
Kaleidos is one of my favorite brands.
They do some incredible stuff.
I actually don't use them enough on my channel.
I really should.
And this is their trio powder thing. I forgot the name.
It came up.
But look at the shade of this contour, and
they do a really good shade selection as well.
This is like, a really perfect gray.
Great for contouring and sculpting the face.
And because the palette comes with, like, a
deeper shade and then the highlight shade as
well, you can do a whole face.
So I'm using the powder puff again.
I'm going into the lighter shade just to kind of, like,
highlight, but in a matte way.
So not with, like, a cream or anything like that.
Just with the pure, lighter shade.
And I'm taking it everywhere I
usually would with the powder puff.
Now, this isn't baking.
We're not putting loads and loads and
loads of powder on at all.
We don't like that.
And you still get really smooth, smooth results.
I think I'm blending my contour a little bit here more
because I think I covered it up a little bit.
But look how just highlighted and bright
the other side of the face looks. It's beautiful.
Wonderful powder. I love it.
Blend Bunny Cosmetics have my attention at the moment.
These palettes are so beautiful.
I decided to go in with this kind of, like, dusky rose.
It's like a burnt rose, like a pinky, muted rose.
It's very neutral, but at the same
time packs a little bit of color.
I just love this shade.
And the pigmentation was quite intense.
So you really don't use that much.
I took it around the hairline as well
just to kind of continue that shade upwards.
Then I decided I wanted to
use this bright, bright pink.
So I did. And I stacked it on top of the contour and the blush.
It is insanely pigmented, so I did have to
work to kind of blend it out quite a bit.
And I totally forgot that it actually came with its
own brush, and I just completely forgot to use it.
I was really annoyed at myself, actually.
Okay, Jouer Cosmetics.
I used this lip balm.
It was really nice, but it was
pretty much just my lip color.
So I went in with the Caddy Cosmetics Lip Oil.
These smell incredible by the way.
They smell like edible. So good.
Just a little bit of hydration.
Now they do, Caddy Cosmetics do these full lash collection.
Five lashes, I believe, for £15,
which I think is a bargain.
Like, really beautiful corner lashes and ones
that are a little bit longer.
Such a bargain for such a huge set of lashes.
And they look amazing.
Okay, so that is a full face with those indie products.
I really, really enjoyed using them.
I thought they were so, so beautiful.
The palettes are wonderful.
The lashes, the puffs, everything.
Let me know some of your favorite indie brands below.
I will have links to everything
down below for you also.
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