Hello, everyone. Welcome back.
Thank you so, so much for joining me.
So today, what I thought I would do, I'm on
this kind of, like, affordable streak at the moment where
I want to see how affordable we can
get our makeup and how we can save money in
general when it comes to makeup.
So what this video is today, I went on Amazon
and I found the cheapest makeup I could find.
Now, cheap meaning it didn't cost much money.
I don't know the quality because I haven't tried it
just yet, but we're going to do that today.
Now, here's the deal with this, right?
When I went on Amazon, I would find a
lipstick that was like a dollar or like a
pound, but postage would be $10 or £10.
I'm like, how does this... how...
No.
So I found the ones with the cheapest postage
and also the cheapest price point in general.
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This vein in my eye.
You know what?
I need to prime my eyelids just very
quickly because I couldn't find a primer.
Okay, so let's go in with our first product.
This is the Technic
Mesmerizing Pressed Pigment Palette.
I'll put the prices up on the screen here for you.
This is a cute little green color story.
Now, here's the deal, right?
I have learned very... not very recently that
affordable and cheap doesn't always mean terrible.
So I'm looking at these and I am thinking the
mattes maybe do look quite tightly pressed, so I don't
know how much pigment we're going to get from them.
Well, no, actually, they don't.
Let's give it a go, shall we?
Let's do a halo eye situation so then we can use more.
Wait. Did I do that recently?
I filmed so many videos in advance that
I have no idea, like, where I am.
Okay, so let's start off with this green here.
Oh, no, it's actually very pigmenty and dusty.
There's a lot of fallout coming off.
Oh, my goodness me. Wow.
That's a lot of pigment. But does it blend?
That's what I want to know.
And can we build on top, like, other colors on top?
Because you know I usually have that issue
with more affordable eye shadows.
Last night there was thunder and lightning.
I was like, this is it.
This is the end of Summer, and I'm so happy.
I could not be happier.
It's gone for another year.
You won't hear British people complaining
about the heat for another year.
It's blending quite nicely.
It has a nice fade to it.
This is nice, you know.
Why do I know this brand's name?
Have I used them before?
Sorry, something just flew across my window.
It was like a huge pigeon or a dragon. It was huge.
So far, so good.
There's a tiny, tiny, tiny bit of fallout, but
I always start with my eyes first to prevent that
anyway, to not have to worry about that, I just
wipe it away before I get on with my skin.
With a bit of the skincare moisturizer, primer,
whatever it is I've used.
What the f*ck is going... things are moving in here.
This isn't bad.
I'm very, very impressed.
Like, this eyeshadow is completely acceptable.
It's blending just like any high end eyeshadow.
It's really, really nice.
I swear this was really, really cheap as well.
Like, really affordable.
While I'm doing this, by the way, let's not...
take cheap as a bad word. It is cheap.
It doesn't cost much. It's cheap.
My blending could be a bit better
today, but the eyeshadow is looking nice.
Yeah, I like it, you know.
Okay, let's go in for this darker brown.
Just to deepen up the outside corners a little.
No, that's that kind of brown
where it's actually... oh, I don't know.
Okay, let's try it.
It's kind of, like, not actually darker than the green.
It's just brown.
It looks fine on camera.
We'll just do that.
Now, it'd be nice to see...
I do find sometimes with more affordable and cheap
eyeshadows is that they don't tend to sit
on top of their own formula very well.
So if this blends out nicely without
just completely disappearing
then I think we're onto a winner with this palette.
Yes.
Let's see, what is going on with my blending today?
I'm going through one of those moments where I have so
much to do, that I feel like my body wants to
be sick, but it's not allowing itself to do so.
Okay, so I'm thinking either
this green...
That's beautiful.
Or this gold.
I can't even see it.
Okay, I'm going to do this gold.
It's, like, solid with this kind of
shimmer on top. Let's use our fingers.
Really feel like I might have done this look
very recently, and if so, I'm sorry.
I did. I...
No, I didn't.
Did I?
Go in with this, like, greeny shimmer.
And we'll just tap that dead in the middle,
just to add a bit more dimension to the eye look.
It's all right.
It's okay. I'm...
I'm impressed.
I'm very, very impressed.
To be fair, I did expect it to be
a little bit crappy, not just because it's affordable,
but when I looked at the actual product itself...
Sorry, I'm cleaning my hands.
I was like, that doesn't look the best.
Okay, just before we finish up
around the eyes, check for fallout.
There's a tiny little bit.
It's not anything crazy.
Let's go onto our concealer for today.
And this is the Hypoallergenic... what? Dermatologist.
Okay, what's the brand? Bell.
I want to say Bell.
Lightning Concealer, Dermatologist Approved, HYPOAllergenic.
It's a lot of unnecessary words. So it has a
little brush like this and this is a twist-up, okay.
I do like concealers like this, like, with
a little brush on the end there.
Oh.
There's no real smell.
But I did just use the Bath & Body
Works hand sanitizer, so my whole house
smells from that one usage of that sanitizer.
This is very, it's very...
I don't know why, but when I see,
like, concealers in twisty, like, brushes, I don't
expect it to be the fullest coverage.
But this has a really
good, very thick, creamy consistency.
Actually blends a really long way.
I think I may have used too much here.
Let's just blend that in.
Into these areas.
You know what?
It's almost kind of, it feels like
it's almost set on the skin.
It feels a little bit dry.
Not dry as in... actually, let me check.
I wouldn't say it was cakey in any way, but maybe
I would suggest if you do have a drier skin, then
go ahead and prep your skin perhaps a little bit more
than you would your under eyes, maybe, because it is slightly dry.
I don't know if you can see much texture, but it is slightly dry.
It's all right. That's nice.
It's not my favorite concealer ever,
of course, but it's usable.
It has coverage.
Look, should we try and cover a blemish and
just see how we get on with that?
Let's leave that a few minutes just to kind of
do its thing, and then we'll go and blend that in.
And let's move on to our foundation.
This is foundation?
Now, this is the only shade I have, so if it's
wrong, then that's just going to be life, I'm afraid.
So this is the QI... oh no, there's a foundation mark on
it, like someone's touched it with foundation fingers. Oh well.
Soft Matte Longwear Liquid Foundation.
QIC Coverage Foundation.
Naturally Flawless, Oil Absorbing, Lightweight Feel.
"Always shakes before use."
Let's check this before, I know we're going to go over
this, but I just wanted to see how much it covered.
Yeah, pretty good, right?
I mean, if there wasn't the texture of
the spot, this would be a really... that's good. Very good.
Very nice. Okay.
Now, I'm not too... I said this about every product.
I'm not on the side of this one.
I don't think it's going to be very good.
Not just because the foundation match might be
slightly off, but because I just feel like
it's not going to be the best.
Yeah, that's going to be pale.
Whoopsie.
We have a bronzer, though, so that's fine.
It's very dry.
Very heavily fragranced as well.
Which I actually don't mind, if it's a nice fragrance,
some fragrances just make you want to be sick, though.
You know what it smells like?
The big Nivea pot, the blue one, you know?
Dry. Dry, urgh.
You know what I'll do?
I'll let it sit on my skin, and I'll get a bit
oily because I actually need to film something in this makeup.
So if I let it get a bit...
You know, let my... oh.
Let my skin get involved, the oils and everything could be all right.
Very pale.
Okay, so obviously we're not reviewing this for
the color, but for the texture.
Oh, my God.
I look like a Tudor.
I do have to say, though, the pictures
on Amazon were not the most correct, let's
say, when it comes to how this looks.
Okay, let me just finish up under the eyes.
Okay, let's get this bronzer on my face quickly.
This is the Miss Sporty Insta Glow Bronzer.
Do you remember Miss Sporty?
This is like back in the day.
I didn't know they still made it anywhere.
Do they still make this, or is it like 20 years old?
This is the shade 002 Sunny Brunette.
My face just stinks like Nivea cream.
The colors's a bit off for a bronzer, like even,
not just in terms of the tone
and shade for my skin tone.
But it's almost blushy. Can you see?
It almost has that hint of rosiness to it rather than
bronze or terracotta.
It's very much rosy.
The shade isn't great, but the texture itself,
and the way it blends is nice.
Wait, is it? Maybe I spoke too soon.
Bit patchy in some areas as well. Like it's...
I'm going to have to take this
off before I do anything else.
I was going to do my makeup and sit
and film like a reaction video, but I can't
sit in this makeup and do this.
Okay, we have a blush.
And the cheapest one I could find was from
Rimmel London, and it came with a free bag.
And this is Lasting Finish Soft Color Blush.
In 050 Live Pink.
So again, when I was... I did forget to mention, when I
was looking for the cheapest, it was also just,
there wasn't like pick from multiple shades.
It was, you have this shade
and that's what you're getting.
Smells like makeup.
That smells cheeeeeap.
Actually, it's not that bad.
If I think about it really hard.
It's not that bad.
It's alright, it's okay. It's okay.
You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to take this big brush.
And just, let's try and...
Come on.
Perhaps the foundation underneath was... is making everything
look a little bit patchier than it should.
Is it still sh*t?
Is it better?
Or are my eyes just getting used to it?
I don't know.
We do have an eye pencil,
but it really doesn't go with the look,
but I think I'm going to use it anyway.
This is from Essence, and I do
quite like Essence and their stuff.
And this is Long Lasting Eye Pencil
in turquoise, which is this shade. Oh, it's a nice
like, I love these. The wind-up ones.
They always seem a little bit more long lasting.
It's okay.
It's not as smooth perhaps as the ones from,
like, ColourPop, for example, where they're really, really smooth
and the color just goes full on.
Okay, let's take a look at the lip.
This is from... I can't even see the brand because
they've put a sticker right on top of it.
I can't. Camadoo? I don't even know.
And this is this.
What does it say?
The shade is 7.
I hate it when it's just a number. Okay.
It smells decent.
It came out really nice.
Like, it's a really nice color.
So if you want like, a full rich color, it's nice.
It's really smooth.
It doesn't taste like anything I find.
Again, most affordable brands.
I've tried Essence, something else, some of a brand.
It tasted like a flavor.
It was almost like they were trying to
make the lipstick more, trying to mask something,
but it made it almost unbearable to wear.
So this is nice, actually.
It feels good on the lips and I can't taste it. Okay.
This is just another brand blue fin.
And this is a mascara.
Now look how classy this is.
Imagine pulling this out in front of your friends. Okay.
The one is really nice.
It's one of those ones of all,
like, the business on the top.
So you can get your bottom lashes.
You can get right into the corner there.
Let's give it a go.
I did say it doesn't really look like much.
Product is actually on the brush itself.
I do like that little knob job on the
end there just to get into all those, like,
the bottom lashes and all the little parts.
I did smudge a little bit.
Unfortunately, my lashes, I just called them
and I look at them hanging down. Ms.
Mascara is nothing impressive.
If you have good lashes, like thick lashes,
all nice, then it's a nice mascara.
Or coat them and show your lashes.
If you have terrible lashes like mine that
need a bit of pushing up really straight
out, then it's probably not the best.
It really doesn't do much, so I
would maybe give that one a miss.
Now, I saw these lashes online and
it's like this whole set here.
So let's do it.
That mascara where I got some
of my skin doesn't feel great.
Oh, my God, these are super curly.
I don't think I've ever had
those lashes that are so curly.
They're getting earlier.
They got curlier as I took them off this.
Okay.
Does the skin look better? I don't know.
Does it look better?
Should I powder it?
That always seems to be my
answer to making it look better.
I don't know how I'm going to get
these on because they're so tightly curled.
Okay, let's do it.
Surely that's the outside corner.
No, these are terrible for me.
Okay, so because my lashes stick, they go down.
I rely on the lash being a little bit further
down so I can stick my lashes to it.
Oh, God.
These are terrible.
I can't think of what is off the top of my
head, but these are like the eyelash equivalent to this.
I don't know what to do.
Yes, they look curlier than any other
one, but this is literally back on
itself and they're very uncomfortable.
They're touching my eyelids.
So this is a definite no in that department anyway.
So this is a full face
of affordable makeup just from Amazon.
Let me know what you thought of this down below.
Let me know if there's anything you'll be looking into.
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