If you've seen my post about Born Pretty Store a week or so ago, you'd know that I reviewed their brush set and I really loved them. So, I decided to delve into some makeup from them. I love that they always have so many unique items to choose from that you've probably never seen before. I came across this 'Mixiu Powder Blush*' in Shade #2.
I was drawn to it's Pinkness(of course) and the pattern looked pretty as well. This blush retails for a modest $3.99 and that being said, I do like drugstore products a lot and I believe cheaper items can work out brilliantly(Think Rimmel Stay Matte Powder). I chose this pinky shade, over the coral one because I thought it would work well as a everyday cheek colour. I was quite impressed with the packaging when I first opened it. It is shiny, good quality for the price and had a nice big mirror in it(full points for that).
I was drawn to it's Pinkness(of course) and the pattern looked pretty as well. This blush retails for a modest $3.99 and that being said, I do like drugstore products a lot and I believe cheaper items can work out brilliantly(Think Rimmel Stay Matte Powder). I chose this pinky shade, over the coral one because I thought it would work well as a everyday cheek colour. I was quite impressed with the packaging when I first opened it. It is shiny, good quality for the price and had a nice big mirror in it(full points for that).
There are two pretty shades in it, a pastel pink in the outer ring and a brighter pink in the centre. They make a really nice medium pink when blended together.When I swirled my blush brush in it once, there was quite a bit of fall out as you can see in the image below and I was a bit disappointed with that. The shades were pretty pigmented when swatched but they applied a little patchy. I don't know if it's because my skin is quite dry at the moment because of the weather, but it does tend to cling to drier parts of my face and ended up looking not so impressive. I think I will save this one for summer and do probably do an update on how that goes. Would I indulge in more asian makeup? Hell yes! I already have a list of products that I want to try out. Hopefully you'll see more of those on the blog. (You can use my coupon code MTH10 for a 10% off all products on the site so that you can try out some stuff for yourself)
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Outer, Inner, Blended
