Freedom

Review: Freedom Pro Decadence Rock & Roll Palette

04:15:00

Freedom is a sister brand of Makeup Revolution, but I'm sure everybody knows this by now. While no Makeup Revolution palette shook the ground under my feet, this one definitely did and it deserves its own post. For such a low price these shadows perform really good. There are a few shadows in the palette that don't perform as good as other, but for such a low price that's not a big deal, atleast for me.



The packaging is a standard shiny black case, which screams after finger prints all over. It has a mirror inside, which is a big plus for me. It comes with double sided sponge aplicator, which is useless.

It contains 18g of product and you can get it for 10,95€ on ličila.si or their official website.

The color scheme in this palette screams my name, since I like doing colorful eye makeup and neutral colors seem mostly dull. Most of the time, I use this palette in combination with other more neutral palettes, due to lack of matte shades.

Palette offers shimmery, satin, matte, duochrome and matte with small chunks of glitter eyeshadows. Eyeshadows feel soft and buttery and they have good pigmentation with some exceptions. Mattes are easy to blend, while shimmer shades tend to crease on my lids, since they're even more buttery than matte and feel almost like a cream.



1 - shimmery light champagne. This one doesn't have wet like texture and it's slightly less pigmented in comparison with other shimmer shades.
2 - shimmery light cool brown. Feels like a cream and has good pigmentation.
3 - satin brown. Good pigmentation.
4 -  warm gold shimmer. Cream like texture and good pigmentation.
5 - warm bronzy brown shimmer. Cream like texture and good pigmentation.
6 - brown with gold  glitter. The biggest disappointment in this palette. It has drier texture, poor pigmentation and has a ton of fall out.
7 - matte grey mauvey color. This one is slightly less pigmented.
8 - plumy matte. Good pigmentation.
9 - matte black. Decent pigmentation for a drugstore black eyeshadow. It has the driest texture among other matte shades.
10 - matte black with silver glitter. Slightly less pigmented than previous black shade.



11 - burgundy matte with small glitter. Good pigmentation and blendibility.
12 - brown shimmer with reddish sheen. It has drier texture although it's nicely pigmented.
13 - burgundy matte with gold glitter. Swatches patchy and has drier texture. Altough I didn't have problems while applying it with a brush and blending it out. It's quite similar to shade 11, just that it leans more on the brown side.
14 - lilac matte. Very poor pigmentation.
15 - dark greyish lilac satin. Less pigmented.
16 - violet satin. Good pigmentation.
17 - duochrome blue with violet base. This one is by  far my favorite. It's more on the sheer side, but it can be nicely build up over a black base.
18 - blue matte with silver glitter. Good pigmentation.
19 - green shimmer. Good pigmentation.
20 - forest green shimmer. Good pigmentation and drier texture than other shimmer shades.






I personally don't like that there are two blacks in the palette, one would be enough. The pigmentation and texture isn't consistant, but in general they're good. They don't fade through out the day (but none of them fade on me, so keep that in mind) and creamier shimmers tend to crease on me after few hours. Overall I think this palette is worth the money, even though it has a few duds. If you're looking for affordable and good colorful eyeshadow palette, look no further.

Some looks I did, using this palette.









Do you prefer neutral or colorful eye look?

Freedom

Freedom Pro 12 Le Fabuleux review

12:31:00



Hello.

Today i'm going to review the Freedom eyeshadow palette that I have recently bought and mentioned in my previous post 'November Haul'. At first I wanted to write a little bit more about the palette in haul post, but I just fell in love with it the second I swatched it and decided to review it immediately.

So let's start with the palettes packaging. There is nothing really special about it, it just has a classic black cover with a see through lid, but the plastic is pretty decent quality. The palette comes with a two sided sponge applicator, but I'll never really use it. The only flaw this palette has, in my opinion is that it doesn't have a mirror inside the packaging. It's a little disappointing, but defenitely not a deal braker.

Okay, that's it about the packaging, lets move onto the actual eyeshadows. The Le Fabuleux palette consists of 12 eyeshadows. 3 eyeshadows are matte, one is matte with a touch of glitter, other one with satin finish and 7 are shimmer eyeshadows.

Eyeshadows don't come with a name so I'm going to swatch them, starting with the upper, first row, left to right. All eyeshadows are swatched without a primer.

First row: first one is matte, others are shimmery.

Second row: first shade has satin finish, others are shimmery (My favourite from the palette is cooper shimmer, oh I just love that shade)




Third row: first shade is shimmery, second and third are matte and the last one is matte with a touch of glitter.


In general the quality of eyeshadows is good. They are buttery and soft, they blend easily. I didn't notice any fall out of pigments during the application, which is great, because I really hate having small glitters on my cheeks at the end of my routine. The color payoff is good, it's definitely better with matte. Applications durability is way better with matte eyeshadows, they will last the whole day. While the shimmery ones fade throughout the day. I used them with a primer (I always have to use primer, because I have slightly oily lids and hooded eyes) so I can't tell you how they'll work without a primer.

Here's something I created with those eyeshadows.
I got mine Freedom Pro 12 Le Fabuleux palette from www.licila.si for 5,95 €.


Love, Andrea

Afrodita

November haul

06:12:00

Hello!

In this post I'm going to share with you the products I have bought this month and my what I think about them. I look around for new products in the stores and on the internet all the time and every month I'll buy something new that I wanted to try out or I'll see some product for the first time and I'll immediately say to myself; oh, I must have it. Every time I buy or find something new I feel so happy, like a little kid on christmas.  

This month I went and bought a few products in the DM store and I ordered some makeup from a website: www.licila.si. 


This year I'm kind of having an obsession with shower gels. I buy at least two each month.

 This month I bought three, all of them in the DM store.
I bought Baleas Vanilla & coconut just because there's nothing better than the scent of coconut. Love the smell, but I didn't try this one yet.
Afrodita Orange cream smells amazing! This line of cream shower gels is silicone, paraben & paraffin free. They also have three varieties more, Vanilla cream, Raspberry cream and Pistachio cream. I smelled all of them and they all smell so amazingly good.
Balea Luxury Red Love I bought this one because of that beautiful red color. It smells good, but it's nothing special. It's with coconut & peach scent, however I couldn't smell the coconut at all.


 This month I also decided to try out some Aussie products, because I have read that they have good products. My expectations were set very high with this brand. I can't review these two products, but I can tell you my first impression of them. 
The first time I washed my hair with Repair miracle shampoo, my hair felt hard and dull. And when they were completely dry I was in shock how bad they looked. Despite the first impression of the product I decided to give it a try and use up this bottle.
I don't have anything bad to say, about the Miracle dry shampoo hovewer. When I tried it out, my hair didn't look greassy anymore at all. They were looking silky and smoth and they felt soft on touch, so it does what a dry shampoos is supposed to do.

 List of things I got from www.licila.si:
  • Sleek Face Contour Kit in light
  • Makeup Revolution Hypocrisy Eyeliner in shade Tipx
  • Real Techniques setting brush
  • Freedom Pro 12 Le Fabuleux  
  • Makeup Revolution lipstick in shade Make Me Tonight 

Love, Andrea

Instagram