Makeup is freaking expensive. I never realized how much of an investment makeup was until I got obsessed with it. On my journey with makeup, I've encountered several dupes that I thought would prove beneficial to someone whose looking for amazing quality products without breaking the bank along with products that I think provide quality in general. I'll list them out and you can check them out for yourself. I'll insert photos later.
1) Mac Diva vs Wet N Wild Cherry Bomb
2) Coastal Scents Revealed Palette vs Naked Palettes 1 & 2
3) Coastal Scents Revealed 2 Palette vs Naked Palette 3
4) La Splash Cosmetics Latte Confession vs Lime Crime Riot
5) Sleek Rose Gold Blush vs Nars Orgasm
6) MakeupGeek Cocoa Bear vs Mac Brown Script
7) Makeup Revolution Iconic Pro vs Lorac Pro Palette
8) Makeup Revolution Iconic Pro 2 vs Lorac Pro 2 Palette
9) ELF eyelid primer
10) Makeup Revolution I<3 Makeup vs Too Faced Chocolate Bar Palette
11) Wet N Wild Vamp it Up vs Mac Cyber
12) Mac Candy Yum Yum vs Milani Rose Hip
13) Wet N Wild Sugar Plum Fairy vs Mac Rebel
14) Makeup For Ever HD Foundation vs Revlon Colorstay Foundation
15) Hard Candy Sheer Envy Primer
16) MakeupGeek eyeshadow brushes
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Sunday, March 8, 2015
MakeupGeek Eyesahdows Review & Swatches
Ok, so recently I splurged on some eyeshadows from the company Makeup Geek. For those of you who don't know, Makeup Geek(MUG), was started by Marlena, a beauty guru/youtuber that is basically the "it" girl to the makeup youtube world. She started it all and fortunately, has been able to start her own line of MUG makeup that includes things such as eyeshadows, pigments, blushes, and brushes.
Her eyeshadows are fairly cheap ESPECIALLY for the amazing pigmentation and quality. The shadows are extremely buttery but strong enough to minimize fallout, and they last a long time without creasing, with or without primer. This is from experience, if you have oily eyelids I would strongly suggest using a primer regardless of company.
The eyeshadows retail individually for $5.99 each, which is an awesome and affordable price point for these above-and-beyond eyeshadows. I have yet to find someone, that I know personally, that has customized their z-palette with MUG eyeshadows so maybe this review will change that.
They also sell a new formulation of eyeshadows known as foiled eyeshadows. They are supposedly a powder cream hybrid and extremely shiny and glamorous so if you're a fan of satin and sparkly finishes, definitely check those out. Unfortunately, my foiled shadows haven't arrived yet, but when they do, I'll put up a post about them. They retail for $9.99 each.
MUG contains many near dupes of MAC eyeshadows which are $10 a pop for a refill pan and $18 for their regular eyeshadows that you find in their non pro stores, so if you're looking to splurge on Mac, I suggest you check MUG out first especially because I find that a lot of the Mac shadows are over hyped and either a hit or miss when it comes to pigmentation. Even though Mac has a greater variety of shades, MUG will soon put out a new line of eyeshadows for the spring season.
The cool thing is you can buy the shadows in magnetized pans which allow you to customize your own z palette, they just stick on inside the palette, which I did; or you can buy them in individual pods, that are more expensive of course.
Now onto my swatches. I've broken them down between two z palettes, one for neutrals and the other one for colors. I'm going to go through them individually and tell you what I think of each.
I'm gonna start off from the neutrals palette I created. Most of these shadows lean a bit to the warm side, but there are plenty of cool toned/neutral shades on the website. I just prefer warmer tones.
Beaches & Cream: this is a nude matte with peach undertones, it can be used as a brow bone highlight or a blending color, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Creme Brulee: a nude cream matte with peach and brown undertones, reminds me of Mac's Tete a Tint, a slight bit more warmth and brown than Beaches & cream, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Cocoa Bear: this is a dupe of Mac's Brown Script, I prefer this due to the price point and because personally, it applies more smoothly, it is a cocoa chocolate brown with reddish undertones, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Mocha: this is a cool toned neutral brown matte, reminds me of Mac's cooler toned Ground Brown, I use this as a substitute for black for the day time smokey eyes, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Pretentious: a beautiful bronze gold satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Shimma Shimma: a very buttery neutral white champagne satin, perfect for the inner eye, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Prom Night: a satin grayish taupe satin with purple undertones, it's a cool toned shade but I love it for smokey gray eyes, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Glamorous: a honey gold satin, reminds me of Mac's Amber Lights, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Goddess: an orangey gold satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Brown Sugar: a chocolate brown satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Corrupt: the darkest blackest matte eyeshadow I've ever encountered, it swatched gritty but applies rather smoothly to the eyes, however it requires a steady hand
Drama Queen: a very lovely dark purple satin that almost comes off as black when applied with purple duochrome, love this, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Dirty Martini: a dirty green matte with olive undertones, I like this because I don't have many green eyeshadows, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Envy: a dark green satin with hints of black, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
www.makeupgeek.com
---Mehrab xoxo
Her eyeshadows are fairly cheap ESPECIALLY for the amazing pigmentation and quality. The shadows are extremely buttery but strong enough to minimize fallout, and they last a long time without creasing, with or without primer. This is from experience, if you have oily eyelids I would strongly suggest using a primer regardless of company.
The eyeshadows retail individually for $5.99 each, which is an awesome and affordable price point for these above-and-beyond eyeshadows. I have yet to find someone, that I know personally, that has customized their z-palette with MUG eyeshadows so maybe this review will change that.
They also sell a new formulation of eyeshadows known as foiled eyeshadows. They are supposedly a powder cream hybrid and extremely shiny and glamorous so if you're a fan of satin and sparkly finishes, definitely check those out. Unfortunately, my foiled shadows haven't arrived yet, but when they do, I'll put up a post about them. They retail for $9.99 each.
MUG contains many near dupes of MAC eyeshadows which are $10 a pop for a refill pan and $18 for their regular eyeshadows that you find in their non pro stores, so if you're looking to splurge on Mac, I suggest you check MUG out first especially because I find that a lot of the Mac shadows are over hyped and either a hit or miss when it comes to pigmentation. Even though Mac has a greater variety of shades, MUG will soon put out a new line of eyeshadows for the spring season.
The cool thing is you can buy the shadows in magnetized pans which allow you to customize your own z palette, they just stick on inside the palette, which I did; or you can buy them in individual pods, that are more expensive of course.
Now onto my swatches. I've broken them down between two z palettes, one for neutrals and the other one for colors. I'm going to go through them individually and tell you what I think of each.
Row 1(L to R): Beaches & Cream, Creme Brulee, Cocoa Bear, Mocha, Pretentious
Row 2(L to R): Shimma Shimma, Prom night, Glamorous, Goddess, Brown Sugar
Row 3: Corrupt
I'm gonna start off from the neutrals palette I created. Most of these shadows lean a bit to the warm side, but there are plenty of cool toned/neutral shades on the website. I just prefer warmer tones.
Beaches & Cream: this is a nude matte with peach undertones, it can be used as a brow bone highlight or a blending color, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Creme Brulee: a nude cream matte with peach and brown undertones, reminds me of Mac's Tete a Tint, a slight bit more warmth and brown than Beaches & cream, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Cocoa Bear: this is a dupe of Mac's Brown Script, I prefer this due to the price point and because personally, it applies more smoothly, it is a cocoa chocolate brown with reddish undertones, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Mocha: this is a cool toned neutral brown matte, reminds me of Mac's cooler toned Ground Brown, I use this as a substitute for black for the day time smokey eyes, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Pretentious: a beautiful bronze gold satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Shimma Shimma: a very buttery neutral white champagne satin, perfect for the inner eye, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Prom Night: a satin grayish taupe satin with purple undertones, it's a cool toned shade but I love it for smokey gray eyes, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Glamorous: a honey gold satin, reminds me of Mac's Amber Lights, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Goddess: an orangey gold satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Brown Sugar: a chocolate brown satin, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Corrupt: the darkest blackest matte eyeshadow I've ever encountered, it swatched gritty but applies rather smoothly to the eyes, however it requires a steady hand
Top to Bottom: Corrupt, Brown Sugar, Goddess, Glamorous, Prom Night, Pretentious, Mocha, Cocoa Bear, Creme Brulee, Beaches & Cream
Now on to the colorful shadows, these contain some of my favorite color shadows out of all of my palette collection due to pigmentation and because I've never seen the shades duplicated anywhere else.
Row 1(L to R): Cupcake, Mango Tango, Cosmopolitan, Bitten, and Razzleberry
Row 2(L to R): Unexpected, Drama Queen, Dirty Martini, and Envy
Cupcake: a neutral taupey pink matte, reminds me of Urban Decay's Naked 3 Nooner but a slight more pinky, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Mango Tango: a vibrant pink matte with warm red and orange undertones, this color is eyecatching but not too crazy, a beautiful crease color, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Cosmopolitan: these types of shades are my obsession, this is a peach pink gold duochrome satin, similar to Anastasia Beverly Hills China Rose and Mac's Expensive Pink; however this is more pigmented than Mac and more gold than Anastasia, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Bitten: a deep berry burgundy matte, one of a kind in my collection, chalky pigmentation, tons of fallout but it's worth the buy because it still applies beautifully when applied patiently
Razzleberry: ohmygod THIS SHADE THO, it's a raspberry pink with red undertones and gold flakes of glitter, when you pack it on, the glitter shows but when you apply it by spreading it around, the glitter falls off which is unfortunate, this has tons of fallout but once again, it's one of a kind
Unexpected: a taupey purple matte, this and Cupcake combined probably would create a color similar to N3 Nooner, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Drama Queen: a very lovely dark purple satin that almost comes off as black when applied with purple duochrome, love this, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Dirty Martini: a dirty green matte with olive undertones, I like this because I don't have many green eyeshadows, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Envy: a dark green satin with hints of black, smooth application, amazing pigmentation
Top to Bottom: Envy, Dirty Martini, Drama Queen, Unexpected, Razzleberry, Cupcake, Mango Tango, Cosmopolitan, and Bitten
There you have it! My review and swatches of each of these shadows. I am not affiliated with MUG and I bought these shadows with my own money.
Go here to check them out! They also have reviews, tutorials, and a makeup/idea gallery for tons of products other than MUG:www.makeupgeek.com
---Mehrab xoxo
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