Hello everyone, welcome back. Thank you so much for joining me.
So, today we're gonna be trying the Leia sponge, everyone was asking me
to try this. Yes, it looks like a penis I'm not going to touch any more on that.
But loads of people were wanting me to try it out, see how it goes, see if it's worth
the price tag and just what all the fuss is about really. So we're going to try
that today. Let me apologize for the state of my eyebrows, I've just laminated them and
I can't really do anything to them for 24 hours so
that's good, so this is how they are. But we're just gonna be doing foundation,
concealer, blusher, bronzer, whatever today, so everything. No shadow. But yes, if this
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Okay, should we just do it? So, the Leia sponge, it says right on the back here,
“Creates professional makeup results flawlessly for an artist applied look.
A very smooth, even finish.” So it says we can create a
full or sheer coverage with our foundation. “It's great for applying
contour, bronzing and blushing, and using liquid and creams with no product waste.”
So I'm guessing no powder, fine, whatever. I don't like to use a sponge with powder
anyway. So straight up, one of the first things that I really liked about this
sponge was the case it came with, that breathable...
oh, is it magnetic? I think it's magnetic, case.
This is nice, we like that. I have watched the instructional video on their website
just to see how to use it because although a sponge... oh, what's all that sh*t on it?
Oh, why's it got like... I haven't opened this and it's got all this
crap on it. I don't know if you can see, it's got like this weird like dusty crap
on it, so that's great. I don't know what that is. You know what? I don't have time,
I'm just gonna use it. On the website, it's suggested in the video, the textured
side we're gonna use to like blend the product in. The smooth side we can use to
apply the product and to apply skincare and to add like, you know, if we want
to draw lines in our face, whatever, we can that side. I think I'm going to be
using more of the textured side first and seeing how that goes. It's a kind of a
decent texture I really like... from
my Beauty Blenders and sponges, I do like them to be...
although this isn't a sponge, I do like them to have that really nice
bounce, and really nice cushion to it. It's not as sticky as maybe it looks,
like it can definitely like... yeah, it's cool, it's all right. Again, I
don't know what that crap is on there. So let's use it to add a little bit of
primer, and then we'll go on with foundation, concealer, and all the rest.
Okay, let's go. Going in with the Porefessional Light Primer
from Benefit, see how we get on. I'm going to use the smooth side to apply.
That's a really strange feeling, it feels
cold, almost. Wet.
It's absolutely going on very, very smooth.
Let's try and do a little more tapping into the skin. Now, let's just talk while
I'm tapping this in about this kind of product.
There is nothing in me... now listen, just before I say this I know
a lot of people think I just complain and moan but you know what? I'm not gonna
sit here and pretend I, I'm like, oh my God I love this idea, when I actually
don't. But I'm always... here's the deal, I'm
always gonna give you an honest review whether my feelings before agree with
the outcome or not. But what I was going to say is, I don't see why
from looking at this, bear in mind I haven't used it yet, from what I've seen
online why this would be worth $59. That's a lot of money, right?
So much stuff is getting caught to it, it's so annoying. So we'll see. I don't...
yeah, I don't know, okay. Primers on, primer is good, feels great.
It definitely feels like it's part of my skin, which is nice. I was expecting maybe
it to just leave a layer on my skin but no, it feels really good.
There's so much fluff on this, I think it's because I just used a new towel on
my face, the fluff... I still don't know what these little bits are but the fluff...
anyway. Okay, so let's try, let's go in with my Pat Mcgrath found... foundation.
And on the video on the website it said to apply little bits in little areas and
blend as you go, which I think is nice, I think that's a really nice way to apply
foundation. So what I'm going to do is I'm just going to apply the occasional
little bits initially, and then we'll go in with
more if I feel I need more coverage later. And we're going to use the
textured side of the sponge now to blend that in.
You don't want to whack it on your face, you do still kind of want that pressure
right there, so I'm going to hold my fingers right at the back
and maybe a little bit down, so it still allows a bit of
movement but we still get that coverage as well.
One thing is, once it gets like a bit of fluff on it it's gonna transfer that
bit of fluff right onto your face. I actually, maybe it's just this particular
foundation. I'm just gonna go ahead and apply my foundation
on my face because I feel like it's not moving the
foundation around as much as I would like. Quite nice with this little corner,
you can get right into these areas around the nose.
Now, this doesn't... I keep calling it a sponge and it's not a sponge, sorry. Now
this doesn't hold product, so for example if I want to go in these little bits
here, not much comes off but that's fine. There's this kind of
like... with sponges holding product
like it's bad because it wastes your product but at the same time like
sometimes it's good, so it can move product around the face a little bit
more. Okay, I actually don't like the way this is going on
but I think it's because of my primer. I never have much luck with the Benefit
Porefessional things, and this was a newer version so I wanted
to try it. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to remove this
and try a different primer and go from there. So sometimes the best primer for
me is just a serum, so I'm using Good Light We Come In Peace Probiotic
Serum. If you have oily skin, serums are perfect just to add just the right
amount of moisture to the skin without it being
overwhelmingly hydrating. But serums really pack a punch when it comes to
moisture so that's always good. Okay, I'm actually gonna try, I'm gonna
try another foundation as well, I think I'm gonna grab my Lisa Eldridge one. So
this is Seamless Skin, it's a little bit dirty, I use it a lot.
So let's grab... that's better, it's a bit more,
a tiny bit more coverage to it. Try that again.
I do quite like when I'm going around my nose I can use the flat edge here, or if
I twist it just slightly I can use that pointed edge and get right into all
these little tiny crevices.
I think I just want a little bit more coverage on my nose here.
Building up coverage in general little by little is a really, really
great technique to use for foundation because you don't want to go too crazy
initially, you want to see what you can cover first. I always get like a little
bit of discoloration here.
Okay, cute. Okay, I'm going to take a little bit
of concealer. I'm going to use two different shades, I'm going to use this
shade to cover up my blemishes and then I'm going to use a shade for under my
eyes, and see how close we can get around the eye area. So let's just start...
where's that thing gone? Here.
This spot honestly was there for weeks.
I personally like to do my concealer after my
foundation, I know some people do it before on the face but I like to see how
much my foundation covers first, and then I'll go in with my
concealer for extra coverage. If you can really hear the rain going, I love the
sound of a rain, but it's just in the window behind me out there, so it might
be a little bit loud. Looks good, it looks nice. It looks blended, it looks really
smooth, looks good. Okay, let's try the lighter shade under the eye, let's see
how close to my eye we can get. We're going to use
the concealer from Rare Beauty for under the eyes. I'm just going to do where I
usually put my lighter concealer.
Tiniest amount, just there. Let's goooo.
I'm going to use like the, the edge here just to get right up into that corner,
right up around my eyes.
I think I used a bit too much, whoopsie. I think one thing you need to consider,
which I don't think I did just then with my concealer, is that when you use
an applicator with a different texture, be it sponge
or brush, you may have to slightly adapt how much of the product you're using. I
definitely should have used less as this isn't a product that picks up
makeup. I should have used the exact amount that I wanted instead of
applying
too much and it not blending out as well. I feel like with use and a bit more
practice using it then you'll learn that kind
of like mixture, mixture? Levels, you know what I'm trying to say.
Okay, cool. So far so good.
Yeah, I really, I really do like it so far.
Okay, let's contour. I'm going to go in with the Fenty Cream Contour. And I'm
going to, I'm actually going to use a spatula to take... do I have one? Now, in the
video the person used the edge to apply and then went on... sh*t, did they use...
I can't remember which side they used. Where are we? Here, okay. So that's my contour, I like
it nice and grey. Okay, and then we're gonna use the
textured side to blend, seamlessly.
And we're going to warm that up with some bronzer, don't worry. I do have to say
that is...
that is the best this contour product has ever looked on my skin. I like this
contour product anyway but that actually looks really nicely
blended and, and like it's part of my face.
That's really nice. I, I actually really like that. Oh, it's so, it works so good
with creams.
So what I'm doing right now is creating the shadow that I want from my contour,
and then I'll go in with a bit of cream bronzer,
and I'm going to just go slightly above and warm up
that shadow. That spot, oh I wish you would go.
Great, I don't feel like any of my foundation has been disturbed underneath,
it actually just looks like how it should.
Okay, let's do the same with our bronzer. So I'm gonna use Butter Biscuit from
Fenty, there it is again. Is again? Again. So, smooth side to apply the actual bronzer which
I'm going to place just here.
Almost on the edges of that cold contour that I did, and we'll just warm up the
nose also.
I like it, I like it a lot. Obviously hands are getting a little bit dirty
here, so let me just give them a little bit of a wipe.
Okay, let's do a little bit of blush. Which I'm going to use on my cheeks
because my face is a little bit longer I want to... I've concentrated quite a lot up
here, so to level it out I'm just going to use a blush on the apples of my
cheeks. I'm going to go into the Danessa Myrick's Dewy Cheek & Lip Palette.
I've been dying to try this. I did use a bit of a lighter one but I really just
like this, this color right here. I don't want to ruin the palette so I'm going to
scrape a little bit out with my spatula and use it from the back of my hand.
When I say ruin the palette I mean I don't want to get like another color
involved in there. I'm excited to try this, okay.
Actually, I think I want to use... let me just try on the other side here applying
the color with the flat side first, and then going with the texture side.
Because I feel like I want a bit more product from it.
Can you even see that color? Maybe not.
That's better.
It is kind of like stamping... can you see there's like the occasional like
globule of blusher because it's kind of like getting caught in like the
brain like crevices and then sticking? Definitely need to do
some foundation here, so let's do that. So considering I just used a lot, a lot of
layers of different blush and product it doesn't look like that on
my skin. It's blended really, really well. Yeah. Okay, let's try highlighter
and let's use Mesmerize from Rare Beauty.
I'm just gonna check for all those areas that are glowing and apply my
highlighter there, not all of them of course just the occasional
few.
Done. Everything seemed to blend nicely. Let me get something on my lips, and let
me powder just on this area here. I don't think the sponge is going to... sponge? I
don't want to call it, blender? I don't think the blender is going to be
any good for powder, so we won't try and use it with powder.
Give me two seconds, I'll be right back. Okay, so let's summarize the whole thing.
Okay, so here's the deal, it did exactly what it said it was going to do.
Very, very impressed, actually really impressed. The only thing for, for me, for
me personally, it was really, really good at doing your foundation. However,
I found it better and maybe more effective... what's wrong with the focus on
us today? However, I did find it better and more
effective at blending in all the other products, the bronzer, blusher, contour,
everything like that. I actually felt like that had more of like, oh my God,
effect than the foundation and concealer did. Yes, it was really good at doing
everything including foundation and concealer, however, for me old habits die
hard and I would personally still use a brush on my foundation and concealer. I
did go in under the eyes with a small blending brush just to get that better
blend under the eye but other than that it's really, really good. I would use
it for my cream bronzer, cream contour, blush, highlight etc but I do think it
is very good at doing the full face. When I think about price point I think if you...
It's cute. I feel like if you buy
Beauty Blenders a lot, perhaps the brand Beauty Blender... how much are they?
And if you buy it like what, once every six months? I don't know how often you're
meant to change them. I don't personally use them
often at all. So $50 really is what? What's that? Like two and a half
Beauty Blenders? And if it's something you can wash and just use over and over
again, then I definitely think it's worth it. I do think you will have to have a
tiny bit of patience initially as you start using it and getting used to it,
and getting the right balance of product because it will differ to what you
were using before. But other than that I think it's... what's happened? Why does my
camera keep focusing differently? But yes, I do think it's a good product, I do
think it's worth the price tag, also. If you are a Beauty Blender person and keep
having to buy them often, I think you'll really, really like the finish that this
gives you. Alright, well thank you so much for joining me. I would love to know
your opinions below, do you think $50 is worth it for a blender? Let me know.
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