Glasgow Haul - Boots and Superdrug

I live in a small city and, although shopping is fairly decent, our Boots and Superdrug stores are both small and limited. Recently I had a weekend in Glasgow with my boyfriend and took the opportunity to do a little shopping.

Boots

Real Techniques brushes are available in my town and I have quite a few of them. Whilst in the spending mood I decided to pick up a few more. I chose the stippling brush, £11.99 as I have recently purchased a few cream blushers and have been told this brush is perfect for applying these. I use my buffing brush for powder usually but thought I would give the powder brush, £12.99 a go instead and perhaps use my buffing brush for applying my foundation.

Superdrug

Superdrug have some brilliant brands but my local shop is tiny and has only a small selection of their brands. I have never tried anything from Look Beauty and so was keen to try them! I picked up this Matify Me Pressed Powder, £4 and thought it would be perfect to use with my new powder brush. I love this Mini Makeover Palette in Rock Chick, £4. It has 2 layers and contains eyeshadows, a blush and lip products, really handy for throwing in your bag.

A small range of MUA used to be available in my local store but has now been stopped. I bought one of these eyeshadow trios last time and have used it almost daily since so decided to get another. This time I chose Chocolate Box, £2.50. I have heard good things about the Undress Your Skin Highlighter and couldn't resist it at £3. Lastly I picked up a cream blush in the colour Marshmallow for £2. This will be great to try out with my new brush.

I got the Sleek contour kit for my birthday and love it and so decided to try another Sleek product. This blush in the shade Rose Gold, £4.49 is raved about by bloggers so I thought I would give it a go myself!

Over the next few weeks I will be using these products and reviewing some of them. If there is a particular review you would like to see, please comment below.

 

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MUA Undress Me Too Palette

MUA are a brand who I hear a lot about these days. Their products are so cheap and well spoken off that I am always desperate to try them. Unfortunately, the only Superdrug in my city is trying to make that impossible! MUA have two ranges, MUA and MUA Pro. MUA is the £1 range and the only range that my local store stocks. The MUA Pro range is where the most talked about products are from. I have been trying to get my hands on the highlighter, brow kit and this eyeshadow palette but I'm unwilling to pay postage costs to get these online. Luckily for me my boyfriend was away for work and came across a large Superdrug store! The other items I want were out of stock but he kindly picked up this palette for me to try!

The Undress Me Too palette is a dupe of Urban Decay's Naked 2 palette. As I have never been lucky enough to own this I am unable to compare the two. Lots of beauty bloggers have compared them however and the swatches are very similar. The prices tags are the real difference! Naked 2 retails at over £30 while this dupe is a mere £4!

 

The palette contains 12 eye shadows and a double-ended foam applicator. I would say that the colours are not as heavily pigmented as usual MUA products but I prefer this for a smokey eye set as it makes it easier to build up and have light and shade.

 

On the reverse of the packaging the colours are named. I would have found it more helpful if the names were printed below the actual pans of colour but it is fairly new for MUA to even have names and it is a welcome addition. The packaging offers instructions on how to create some looks with the colours and I always find these really useful.

I am really looking forward to experimenting with this palette. For £4 this is an absolute bargain and something that I am delighted to now have in my collection.

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