Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today we are doing... let me shut this, sorry.
So we are going to take a look at some of
my favorite products that are all under £5 of $5.
So, yeah, that's it, basically.
I have a bit of everything and these are extremely affordable,
I'm very fussy when it comes to affordable products, as
I am with high end products. If it's sh*t, it's sh*t, right?
But these are some of my absolute favorites because they
work and actually do what they should be doing.
Just before we get into this video today, I
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And back to me.
Let's get straight into it and
let's get into our first product.
I haven't got any brow products because I just
can't find a really good, affordable brow product that
doesn't smudge, that doesn't look...
you know?
So anyway.
Okay, let's go into our first product.
This is the e.l.f Putty Primer.
Now, I really, really, really like these.
I know a lot of people have an issue with them.
They find them quite dry.
But here's the deal.
Eye primers need to be a little bit drier, unless
you have like, super dry eyelids then you should use
one that's more of that slippery, like, clear base.
But eye cream.
I know some skincare people
like eye cream isn't necessary.
Some people love eye cream.
I like eye cream in terms of prepping for makeup because
it's a cream
for your eyes
and it's just the right
amount of moisture and the right amount of hydration for that
area that doesn't interfere with your eye makeup.
So, here's the secret here.
Finger, holding it in the eye primer.
I'm just going to warm it up.
It needs to be a little bit warmer, just to make
it a little bit more smoother, a little bit more movable.
And I'm going to tap onto my eyelid very gently.
I'm not being aggressive in any way.
And that way we're going to get a smooth base
that doesn't interfere with the texture of our eyelids.
Now, these eye primers work just as
well as any high end eye primers.
I always say that these are not just because
of the shades that are available, but they're almost,
like, exactly the same as the MAC Paint Pots.
The MAC Paint Pots are perhaps maybe a
little bit smoother in terms of texture.
They're a little bit more, I guess, of the
softer cream, whereas this is a little bit harder.
But they do exactly the same thing.
You wouldn't be able to tell if you're wearing
a Paint Pot or the e.l.f Putty Primer.
So this is a shade Cream, and it's quite
a fleshy, fleshy shade. I'm just to make sure I can
get close up to my brow because I don't
know how high I'm taking up my eyeshadow today.
What am I doing for eyeshadow?
Oh, yeah.
This isn't going to crease either.
This does not crease, so it's like
the perfect amount of
what it is.
Oh, my camera is in the wrong position.
Bear with me 1 second. That's better.
Okay, sorry about that.
No one probably noticed but I noticed, but I did.
Okay, so eyeshadows next.
I talk about these a lot because these are, it
still blows my mind that these exist and are the price they are.
These are these e.l.f mini eyeshadow palettes.
They're about £3, $3 each.
And they're just incredible, pigmentation is amazing.
They blend beautifully.
They work really well together, and
they're just really, really amazing eyeshadows.
You can get, like, 5.
£15, $15, and
you have loads and loads of colors.
Oh, I think there's only one more e.l.f product after this. There are other brands.
This isn't just all e.l.f.
So to me, what makes a really good,
affordable eyeshadow is one, an eyeshadow that actually
comes out pigmented and actually blends really nicely.
I find with some affordable brands,
they're very hit and miss.
You can either get the ones that work really
well and blend really nicely, or you get the
ones that are kind of like crappy,
you know, like, you can get better
from AliExpress kind of situation.
I'm taking this quite high
because we're cut creasing today.
And even for, like, a pastel, look
how great this is coming out.
In terms of a color.
I think thats... it's just...
Know what I mean?
I think it's just an incredible, incredible pigmentation for what it is.
I just love it.
Oh, this is... what is this one called?
Mint To Be.
So I just used this one.
I'm going to go in with this darker green.
Okay, just going to leave that there for now.
This isn't a product I've used a lot on my channel.
In either way.
I think I've used them once or twice.
But when you start to build up this
ridiculous amount of makeup, which is so stupid,
you forget you have a lot of stuff.
You know it's there, but you
constantly want to try new things.
So we're going to go in today
with the Beauty Creation Color Based Primers.
These are really, really great.
These are eye primers, but color, personally, I
think they are quite fluid like, so I
wouldn't use them as my first base.
I prefer something on me a little bit
drier, but I think blended out quite sheer
they would do really well.
However, if you want to build up the
color quite thick, maybe not so much.
I have this one, or I have this green.
Let's do this green, because this might fade.
No, let's...
Let's see what happens.
Let's use this brighter one for now.
This is called Fresh Aqua.
So these are really, really great
for creating those graphic liner looks
if you want to, cut creases or if you just
want to do, like, a wash of color on the
lid and blend it out completely and then maybe add
a glitter on top or a, what's it called?
Oh, what's it called?
F*ck Me.
Gloss!
Okay, I thought I cleaned my cut crease brush, so I'm going to
have to use this one, which I'm sure will be fine, but
it might not be as precise as I want it. That's fine.
We can make it work.
So what I do with this is I apply
it, and then I let... I shouldn't talk.
And then I let it dry down a little bit
and then pat it down and then go over it
again because it will crease a tiny bit where I'm
using such a concentrated amount of the product.
Okay, so I just did this side.
I was just talking to my partner,
our dog is at the vet, and they were just giving an update.
So I'll do this one again. Okay.
Try and get it symmetrical, because... I was only going
to do a little cut crease, but for some
reason, I started like, following it through.
So as I'm doing this side, I'm just checking
on this side, and I just keep patting it
down as it gets a few tiny little creases.
I don't... it really,
I really don't think it would increase if you use a
small amount, but because I really want the color to be
quite solid, it is getting some solid little lines.
Okay, so that's that.
I think my symmetry is going to be
slightly off today because, honestly, I'm tired.
Okay, let's go back into this palette.
And what I want to do is take
the darker green again, fill in this outside
corner, just gently fade that into this.
Can you see where it's starting to crease again?
I'm just going to go back in with this brush.
This is why you shouldn't use too much
eye primer, like this as your eye base.
This spread out would be really nice.
You can see it kind of blends
out into a nice color anyway.
But for cut crease, I do like to
have it very heavy contrast of color.
And then I'm going to take the
green on the end right here.
And just going to press that over the edge of the two,
the darker shade and the cut crease thing.
Okay, so for our concealer, I'm just going to go
in with these e.l.f The Hydrating Flawless Brightening Concealer.
I don't see these a lot, and I
think these are severely underrated, especially now coming
into this phase where people are trying to
do a little bit more natural makeup.
These are really, really good.
Okay, so for our foundation, you've seen me talk about
this so much, but I still absolutely love it.
This is the Rimmel Kind & Free Foundation.
Now, this is a weird one because I see it
some places on sale for about £2, and then I'll
see it in other places for about £9.
So I'm guessing it's somewhere in between.
I don't know if it's going to be too pale
for me now, but it's the only shade I have.
Hmm, we can make it work, right?
We can just bronze it up.
But I just love this. I always say it.
I know you guys are probably like, yeah, we know.
You said.
It is the best, one of the best...
Probably this... actually, you know what?
I would say it's the best.
And then the other one I like, which
is the L'Oreal True match, comes in second.
And the reason this one's first, I
think it's just because of the finish.
It looks really, really natural on the skin.
Yeah, it's slightly too pale for me at
the moment, but, you know,
living in England, I'm sure my
tan will disappear in the next few weeks.
I blame that on Brexit. No, I don't.
I'm joking.
Yeah, very pale, but a beautiful foundation.
One thing I would say about this, though, which I
did notice only when I did a kind of like
this versus a high end product, is that this one
will kind of show up quite porous skin.
Like, for example, my nose.
It shows up the texture quite a bit.
And on the apples of my cheeks,
it shows up texture quite a bit.
But if you mattify those areas, it doesn't look as bad.
Okay, let's talk about bronzer.
This is actually, it says it's a
blush, but this is from ColourPop.
This is called Bankroll and it's
just a really, really nice one.
Oh, the hings lasted quite a while.
You can see it's faded a tiny bit.
It says blush, but to me it's bronzer.
Colorpop at the moment
do have some incredible bronzers.
Their newer ones especially are really, really nice.
I just couldn't find my one.
The Matte Bronzer really, really, really nice.
And the shade I used actually was almost like
contoury rather than bronzey, which was nice.
But I don't know what they're doing. Colourpop,
yes, they do release a lot of stuff.
But these bronzers at the
moment, I'm really, really liking.
It's nothing too crazy, it's nothing over the top.
It's bronzer and that's it.
And that's life.
Okay, blush.
This is from Beauty Bay.
Beauty Bay's own formula,
everything, I just love.
I just think it's amazing.
This is the shade Peachy, so obviously it's peachy.
But they just have their formulas down.
I would love to know if they share their
formula with anyone, like if any other brand has
a similar formula, because it feels like a high
end quality in terms of pigmentation, in terms of
finish, but really, really, extremely affordable.
And they do have quite good sales on Beauty Bay
as well, where their own products go on sale.
And if you can grab their eyeshadow palettes,
then it's a good deal.
It's a really good deal.
I always forget about these highlighters, and I'm just always
blown away by this one every time I use it.
And this is the Wet N Wild Mega Glow highlighter.
These are insanely beautiful.
They are so, so stunning.
Very, very pigmented.
So if you want something that's
quite strong...
here, look, look at this.
Then this is a really, really good one to go for.
They are so... oh no, this is wrong shade. Oh, sh*t.
They are heavily, heavily pigmented, and they just
have the most incredible glow to it. Look at that.
Look at that.
And I always do this, like, number seven here.
Take it from right under your eye and back around.
And then I'll take a clean brush and then buff that in.
Okay, so like I said earlier, I do find with more
affordable products, they do need mattifying in some areas.
And one product I'm always so impressed with
is the NYX HD Finishing Powder.
This is really, really nice because it's really soft,
it's not heavy, it doesn't look
cakey, and it literally just mattifies.
Does its thing, does what it needs to do.
If you live your life on screen,
it blurs a little bit on screen.
I lost a bit of coverage here in my nose. That's fine.
Okay, and for the lips, we are going to
go in with the Essence Hydrating Nude lipstick.
I was so pleasantly surprised with Essence as a brand
when I did a full face of Essence, and this
was one of the ones I was really, really liked because
it blocked out my lips completely, and it just had
this really smooth, buttery kind of finish to it.
I just love, love, like, fleshy lips.
I know it's such an old fashioned thing now,
but I love colors like this, because then I
can go on top with a gloss.
And this is the So...
Oh, I got lash glue on it.
And this is the So Glassy lip gloss from ColourPop.
And it just adds that nice, creamy shine.
But I want to put this gloss on top of a nude.
But I also want it to not have color.
So if it's like, completely flesh, that's great.
If I just put it right on top of my lip, it kind
of just looks pink and glittery because my lips get so pink
with product on. I love that color.
I just think it's so nice with that gloss on top. It's beautiful.
Okay, let me whack on some lashes.
I don't have any drugstore lashes because there aren't any I like.
If there are any drugstore lashes that you like,
do let me know below because I would like to try some.
Put some lashes on, I'll be right back.
And here we are, a finished full face of
products that are £5 and under, $5 and under.
And that one that's like, occasionally $5 and under.
I hope you enjoyed this video. I would love to know
your favorite affordable products below.
I'll also have all the products linked
down in the description box for you.
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