Nude by Nature went under a huge cosmetic change around a year ago and now all of their packaging is to die for. Two products that I have had on my radar for a long time is their Contour Palette* and Highlight Palette*. After having them for a month, I thought it was time to share my thoughts.

If you've never tried or heard of Nude by Nature before, in my opinion they're a brand that stands out from others in Priceline. Everything not only looks luxurious in its packaging, but the products themselves are of a high quality, made to last.

For those of you who are new to my blog, Nude by Nature is a brand that I've loved for quite a while. Their Mineral Finishing Veil Powder and Mineral Foundation Brush are such a winning combo that I have legitimately not used any other setting powder or brush in over two years. You can say that my expectations for their contour and highlight palettes was therefore, pretty high!

Collectively speaking, the Contour and Highlight palette, share something in common that I have to address first up. Gorgeous. Packaging. It's super reflective, rose gold, cold to the touch and all round awesome. The external packaging that this comes in too is white and feels quite satin like. Thumbs up, the luxuriousness starts off at the very start.

NUDE BY NATURE CONTOUR PALETTE*
This palette contains one contour, bronzer and highlighting shade. I love that this palette tells you which darker shade is for contouring and which is for bronzing. I think that's a great idea for beginners so it's easier to know what to use instead of just calling them 'shade 1, shade 2' or something similar. Instructions on the back of the packaging also tell you where to place them.

The formula itself of all three shades is smooth to apply and blends easily. The contour shade isn't muddy and it's the perfect cool toned brown for chiselling. The bronzing shade isn't overly orange and it isn't too pigmented so you can build it up nicely without going overboard. Lastly, the highlighting shade is more of a banana powder shade in my opinion, perfect for setting the under eye area.

As always, I love using contour shades as eyeshadows and these are perfect. The contour and bronzer shades are absolutely perfect in the crease and the highlight shade is also great as an inner corner highlight. They blend wonderfully and they don't have any fall out. I would bring this palette for holidays because of how versatile it is. It covers all of your contouring, highlighting and eyeshadow if you're like me and love super basic makeup on holidays. By the way, this palette was included in my September Favourites which you can read here.

NUDE BY NATURE HIGHLIGHT PALETTE*
This palette contains three highlighters. There's a bronze, rose and champagne shade. My personal favourite is the champagne shade.

Formula wise, they're great. Taking a sneaky look at the ingredients, there's a bit of vitamin e, avocado oil and jojoba oil. As you can imagine, this makes the highlighters very easy to apply and they have a gorgeous sheen to them.

This highlight palette probably isn't an essential for a beginner or someone who is feels a bit so-so about highlighters, it's for those of you who love highlighters and want to experiment with a couple formulas of different shades.

Both the contour and highlight palette are $39.95 and you can pick them up in store. If you'd like to buy them online, the contour palette is here and the highlight palette is here.

Have you tried the Contour or Highlight palette?
What's your favourite Nude by Nature palette?

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The Ride Or Die Makeup Tag has been floating around for a little while now and after being tagged by the lovely Sarah from Bows and Pleats I thought it was about time I get involved!


If you're unfamiliar about this tag, you basically say thank you and *praise emoji* your absolute ride or die, holy grail products from each category. For someone who is makeup obsessed, this is probably going to be a challenge - but I'm up for it!

PRIMER 
I'm already struggling with this one. I have two favourites that I've praised for the past few years so picking one is so tricky. I would probably still have to go with my Maxfactor Face Finity Primer because it feels moisturising and is a great base for my makeup. Application is always so easy after I use this primer and even though it might not be suited to my oily skin type, it actually works extremely well at keeping my oils controlled. It also has a little bit of SPF in it which is great because I always forget to apply sunscreen under my makeup. At the same time, I've worn this primer at night on lots of occasions and never had a white flashback in photography.

FOUNDATION 
This one will 10% be no surprise to you if you've been reading my blog for a while. It's the Covergirl TruBlend Foundation. This has been a solid favourite of mine for the last two years and I honestly always keep going back. It looks great on my skin even after 10 or more hours of wear and when I use it, I don't feel like I'm actually wearing any makeup. I'd say that the coverage is medium but buildable. My particular shade is M6.

CONCEALER 
So I'm not sure if this is me breaking the rules but I mean, we don't just use one concealer, we have to use two right!? One to brighten and one to actually conceal.

My brightening concealer is my Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer. I HAVE TO use this under my eyes in a triangle or I feel like I might as well have not worn makeup at all. This brightens my entire complexion and pulls the whole look together. It never creases and even though I use it so often, it lasts forever and a day.

When it comes to spot concealing, this is a new product for me but one that I've not been able to put down since discovering it. It's the Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer in Natural (Pale Yellow)*. I use the cream concealer side and spot this on all of my problem areas before foundation. It really helps to just deflate the puffiness and redness of my acne, giving me an overall more flawless look. It blends very easily too and it's especially good under mineral powder foundations.

POWDER
As earlier established, yo girl Katina oily. I therefore need an incredible powder and one of the very first ones I ever tried was the Nude by Nature Mineral Finishing Veil. It's been a favourite ever since. It doesn't alter the colour of my makeup, it gives my makeup a beautiful silky look to it and I can layer this stuff as much as I'd like and it will never look cakey. It also doesn't turn up weird in photos which is always a plus.


CONTOUR 
For contouring, I can't go passed the Kat Von D Shade and Light Palette. The bottom left contour shade in Sombre is STUNNING. I use it every damn time I do my makeup and it makes the world of difference. It's a super smooth, blendable, cool toned brown.

BRONZER 
I don't wear lots of bronzer but sometimes when my foundations don't completely match me, I love using the L'Oreal Glam Bronze LaTerra*. I haven't seen too many people speak of this product but wow I'm in love. It can look a little orange in the pan or when first applied to the skin, but it blends like a dream and gives me a gorgeous bronze boost that looks quite natural.

HIGHLIGHT 
A while ago on my blog I wrote about how I don't really like using cream makeup products that much. I don't know if that's because I have oily skin or what, but there is one product I can't live without and it's my ride or die highlighter which is Benefit Cosmetics' Watts' Up. This highlighter looks natural on its own and it's also a great base to really amplify another highlight powder. If you haven't tried Benefit before, I'd suggest starting here!

BLUSH 
Another not so surprising one - my Essence Blush in Autumn Peach*. This is a limited edition baby that gets re-released once every year and I was too lazy to pick it up this Autumn so I have to make sure I do next time round. There's just something about this blush that looks so great on my skin. It's natural but really beautiful and I think that if you have olive skin you will die for this.


BROWS 
This is another two product semi-cheat. Only because I need to fill them in and then keep them where I want them!

To fill in, I'm still obsessed with my Anastasia Beverley Hills Brow Duo in Ebony. I've tried quite a few other brow powders lately but I keep going back. This one is a little more cool toned and the formula just feels superior.

Keeping the babies in place is a job for Benefit Cosmetics Gimme Brow in #5*. I've probably gone through at least around 6 tubes of this stuff. It's a no brainer - I need backups all the time because I live for this product. It never feels flakey on my brows and the colour matches me perfectly too.

MASCARA 
Out of all of these ride or die products, this is probably the one product that I'll still be using up to the moment before I leave this planet. My eyelashes are the most stubborn ones this world has ever seen and this is legitimately the only mascara to do anything good for my lashes on a consistent basis. The L'Oreal Volume Million Lashes in Waterproof is so damn underrated and it makes my heart cry. If you have stubborn lashes that refuse to hold a curl, this is going to be your best friend.

EYELINER 
This is another of those products that no one talks about and everytime I tell people what it is, I hear 'really!?'. No, it isn't Maybelline Master Precise. It's Thin Lizzy Precision Liquid Eyeliner. I find this formula more pigmented and the felt tip just works a lot more in my favour. I also find that the formula doesn't dry up as quickly either. On a trip to Adelaide earlier this year, I found a chemist that was selling them for $2 a piece. You can say I stocked up alright.

EYESHADOW 
Unknown to me until around a month ago, my beloved Stila In The Light Palette has been discontinued. Makes me so upset that you guys can no longer pick this gem up but I'd be lying if I said that I preferred another eyeshadow palette before this one. It just has everything I need for an eyeshadow look and I particularly love the shade Sandstone underneath my waterline to really make my eyes pop.

LIPS 
There's three products here - oopsies. BUT, they're all different okay.

Lipstick wise, I pick my MAC Cosmetics Lipstick in Cosmo. It's my ultimate My Lips But Better Shade and it looks absolutely butchered. It's one of those lipsticks that I'm actually going to finish and it has my exact lipstick shape imprinted into it now. That's dedication.

For a liquid lip, it has to be my NYX Lip Lingerie in #04 Ruffle Trim. Even though I do love my Colourpop ones, I feel like the NYX formula is slightly more comfortable and I'm all about that comfortable life.

Last up is a gloss, or an 'elixir' which is the Maybelline Color Ellixir in Caramel. I've loved this for years and I've gotten lots of my friends onto it. It's incredible. The only thing you might not like is that it has quite a perfumey scent, but I dig it.

PERFUME 
Speaking of perfume, my ultimate favourite is probably CK2*. There's something about this fragrance that's so unique. It actually has some wasabi notes in it which is insane right. It's fresh, and reminds me of being somewhere with lots of trees that have been wet from the rain or taking in a deep breath somewhere far away from the city - those kind of vibes.



Wow that was A LOT of writing. Thank you very much if you actually made it to the end. I hope you found this post interesting! Thanks again Sarah for tagging me.

If you haven't done a tag post ever or in a while, I tag you! :)

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Zoeva keeps delivering the goods because they are making their already amazing Spectrum Collection larger, this time with Contour and Concealer palette releases.

In today's post, I'll be giving you the ins and outs of the new Zoeva Contour Spectrum which has just been released today, September the 12th.


The Zoeva Contour Spectrum Palette* is made up of four powder shades. In this palette, you receive one banana shade, one highlighter and two contour shades.

Going through the shades, I'd say that the banana shade CN010 is perfect for setting the under eye area or eyelid before applying eyeshadows. The highlighter CN030 might not look like much in the pan or in the swatches, but wow it's stunning. I tried my best to capture this in a photo of an up close swatch but I really struggled! Just take my word that it's a sheen highlighter, with a lovely iridescence and a gold touch to it. It's perfect for highlighting the tops of your cheeks, the inner corner, under the brow bone or even as a colour all over the lid.

With the two contour shades, CN020 is slightly darker in pigmentation and more warm, while CN040 is cooler and lighter. Because I am quite tanned, CN040 is a great shade to begin to lighten chisel my cheekbones and I then use CN020 as a bronzer to warm up my complexion.  I'm also an advocate of using contour shades as eyeshadows, so I'd also use these in my crease.

All powders are of course smooth, buttery, have zero fall out and blend like a dream. I say of course because we all know by now that Zoeva means business with all of their formulas. I'd even go as far to say that for a point of comparison, the formula of these are smoother than the Kat Von D Shade and Light palette contour shades.

A reason why the powders are so smooth could be because one of the key ingredients in the formulation is Vitamin E.

The packaging of this product is like its brothers and sisters in the Spectrum Collection. Matte black packaging with a few beautiful reflective rainbow lines. Yes, this palette doesn't have a mirror. But, because it is so lightweight, I still think that this would be a great product to travel with.

Do I love this palette? Um, YES! I'm thrilled that the shades are so smooth and easy to blend. I don't have any harsh lines and I don't need to use very much product. I think that this palette will last me quite a while!

To pick up the Zoeva Contour Spectrum Palette, head to the Zoeva website here.

If you're curious to see what I think of the Zoeva Concealer Spectrum Palette click here.

Are you excited about the ever expanding Zoeva Spectrum collection?
What's your favourite Zoeva product?

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The last few weeks I've been going to a work trial and have given myself a 10 minute window to do my makeup every morning.

I don't usually take that long to do my makeup anyway, maybe 30-40 minutes, but I did manage to make 10 minutes work for me and I wanted to share my tips.

When you're in a rush, I personally don't like to play around with many new products. I stick to what I know and love. Thats probably the number one tip that I can give! But, here's a product break down of what I use and why.

BASE
My primer hasn't changed and it's still the Benefit Cosmetics Porefessional Matte Rescue*. This has been a favourite of mine for quite a few months now and the reason I love it so much is because it sinks in straight away. It also keeps my face more matte than any other primer that I've tried.

I'm usually all about that liquid foundation life but I found it too heavy and annoying on my skin during work, so I decided to opt for a powder. Because I preferred powder, I had to do my concealing before hand. I used the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer in Light Pale under my eyes in a small triangle shape and then used my fingers to blend it into my skin.

For my red, active, acne volcano spots, I used the Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer in Pale Yellow*. This is the first spot concealer that I've tried and I'm in love. It really helps reduce the apperance of my breakouts and it doesn't feel heavy on my skin.

The foundation that I used everyday was the bareMinerals Blemish Remedy Foundation in Clearly Silk 05. This stuff is AMAZING. I've used mineral foundations before but this is next level. It covers my skin really well while also looking natural. My skin feels great when I wear it, it doesn't break me out and it actually helps your skin breathe. It has some pretty cool ingredients like Tea Tree and Witch Hazel in it so it's better for pimples too. I definitely give this product a thumbs up and if you have oily / acne prone skin, I think you really need to give this a shot!

BROWS
By this stage, I've probably only taken around 3 minutes and I'm onto my brows. I firstly fill in my brows with the Booki Brow Trio Eyebrow Powder in Light Brown / Blonde* and comb through with Benefit Cosmetics Gimme Brow to keep my brows in place all day.

DEFINING MA FACE
I then move onto my contour and use my trusty Kat Von D Shade and Light Palette. I'm not sure why, but I then like to apply my highlighter. I stick to what I know and love which is first using Benefit Cosmetics Watts Up and then Becca Cosmetics Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in Opal*. My last move for my face is blush and I'm currently living for the Clinique Cheek Pop in Melon Pop*.

EYES
Ain't no body got time for eyeshadow before 7am so I just completely skip that step. All I do is curl my lashes, apply my L'Oreal Volume Million Lashes in Waterproof and do a line that kind of resembles a wing with my Thin Lizzy Precision Liquid Eyeliner.

LIPS
Last up, I slap on my favourite MAC Cosmetics lipstick of all time which is Cosmo. It's my perfect 'my lips but better' shade and I don't need a mirror to touch up during the day.

So there we have it! My 10 minute makeup routine in the morning before work. Of course when I first started this routine it took around 15-20 minutes, but over time I cut it down and the end look is the exact same.

What's your go to makeup look for work and how long does it take you?

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Because I wanted to take quite the dip into Clinique's Makeup, I decided to pick a couple of lip and cheek goodies, plus one contour product.

Starting with lips, I received the Pop Lip Colour and Primer in #14 Plum Pop* and Chubby Stick Intense in #10 Grandest Guava*. Both products as you can see are very pigmented and smooth.

Plum Pop is a beautiful dark berry lipstick. I haven't worn a berry shade in a long time and after wearing this, I can't remember why! This colour looks so lovely on me and I feel like it's the type of berry shade that would look lovely on a range of skin tones.

Grandest Guava is a lip crayon and is what I'd describe as a very pigmented, lip balm. It's very comfortable to wear and you can easily touch up during the day without a mirror. The colour is a little like a dark burnt orange with small amount of a very small sized sparkle.

Clinique's Cheek Pop's are something that I have seen a lot of online. The blushes have a gorgeous pattern imprinted into them and the colours look very bold. I was actually surprised to find out that the cheek pop's are actually on the more subtle side of blushes. They give your cheeks I guess, well, a 'pop' or flush of colour. Nice, natural and easy to work with.

The Cheek Pop's that I ended up picking up were Melon Pop* and Peach Pop*. Both of these shades are gorgeous but my favourite is Peach Pop because I'm a sucker for peach and coral blushes. For my next cheek pop, my eyes are locked on Rosy Pop.

The last product I decided on is Clinique's #01 Curvy Contour Chubby Stick*. I was so intrigued to see how it would work because I haven't ever used anything like it before. The formula itself applies really easily to the hollows of my cheek and blends like an absolute dream. Unfortunately it is a little too warm for my olive skin complexion. I think if you had light to medium skin, this would look great on you.

Overall, I'm really impressed. I love that Clinique is really accessible because now I can go instore, swatch everything and unfortunately spend lots of my money - oopsies haha!

What Clinique makeup products have you used?
Have you tried any Clinique skincare?
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It is no longer difficult to find eyeshadow palettes in the drugstore. However, it's definitely still challenging to find a great one. Spoiler alert, I found one and you probably haven't heard about it before. It's the Max Factor Masterpiece Nude Palette in 02 Golden Nudes*.

Months ago I saw this palette floating around my Bloglovin' feed and I think those posts were from a few girls overseas. Online swatches and reviews were fantastic so when I realised I could get my hands on it here in Australia, I knew it had to be mine.


What's so great about this palette? In my opinion, I think that Max Factor was really smart when they designed this palette. The matte shades are the shades that we all scream and beg to be mattes in a palette. We're given a great matte brow bone shade, crease shade and a deeper shade to darken up the look. The shimmers are all diverse and depending on what you're feeling for that day, you could createa goold, champagne, grey, or bronze eyeshadow look. Talk about variety, right!?

I know that in most of my reviews about drugstore eyeshadow palettes one thing I usually say is that they are great for beginners. Well, this one on the other hand I think has a place in your makeup collection. For the price, diverse shades and quality, I think you can't miss it.

The only one downside I can see to the palette is the fact that there isn't a mirror. I would still however say it is a good palette for travel, as long as you can bring a mirror or rely on one in your accomodation.

Have you tried any Max Factor eyeshadow palettes before?
What's your current favourite affordable eyeshadow palette?

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Becca Cosmetics has released Slimlights* in the shades of Champagne Pop, Topaz and Pearl. What's a Slimlight? Well, a slim makeup product that adds a precise amount of light aka highlighter to basically wherever you'd like to place it.


The Slimlights can be used as either a precise highlight or an eyeshadow base. For me personally, I prefer to use a regular Becca highlighter with a smaller brush or my fingers to achieve a specific highlight. This is just because I'm already totally in love with the regular Pressed formulas.

Because of this, the way that I like using Slimlights and the way that I'm going to review them in this post is for the purpose of an eyeshadow base.

I've used my fair share of cream eyeshadow bases and I'm always excited to try more. So far, I would say that the Becca Slimlights are the most luxurious. The packaging itself is quite weighted and feels special.

Something that I think is quite interesting about this product is that the first time I tried it and swatched it on my hand, I wasn't overly impressed. Don't get me wrong. The colours are beautiful, the formula is smooth but I just didn't think they were that special.

The magic really comes out when you use a Slimlight as a base and pop an eyeshadow (or highlighter) on top. I noticed that it really amplified whatever shadow I decided to use and even on my oily eyelids, I didn't have creasing until six hours in.

I also received compliments for my eyeshadow looks when wearing this product and I honestly think it's because usually when I apply shadows, they disappear. I find that the Slimlights really lock the eyeshadow in place and I don't have the same problems anymore.

All in all, my favourite shade is probably Pearl. Typically at night time when I go out I gravitate towards a silver, black smokey eye. Pearl combined with my favourite silver eyeshadow pops in every photo and I don't have to worry about anything moving around.

As I said in my split pans post which you can read here, I hope that Becca ends up releasing this product in the shade Opal. I'm already obsese with using Opal (Pressed) on my lids and I am crossing my fingers to have a creamy eyeshadow base to match and help amplify it.

Are you going to pick up Becca Cosmetics' Slimlights?
What's one of your favourite eyeshadow bases or precise highlighting product?

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Becca Cosmetics has recently released two new products under their collaboration with Jaclyn Hill. I am super excited today to be showing and telling you my thoughts on their new Split Pans*.

Beginning with how gorgeous the Split Pan products look. They come in your regular sized Becca Cosmetics compact. As you can see however, the packaging colour is quite different. Overall, it's very reflective and instead of having the typical brown shade on the outside, you've got a gorgeous gold colour that is super beautiful.

Inside, half of the compact is taken up by a Becca Cosmetics Shimmering Skin Perfector (Highlighter), in either Prosecco Pop or Champagne Pop. The other half of the compact has one of Becca's gorgeous Mineral Blushes.

I honestly believe that the formula of both the highlighters and blushes are faultless. I would actually go far enough to say that I think that the formula of these is even slightly better than the Becca x Jaclyn Hill Face Palette (which I already love and you can read about here). That could just be in my head though because I love compact products more than palettes when it comes to face goodies, but trust me - they're great.

My favourites of the bunch would be the duos with Flowerchild and Amaretto as I'm more into subtle blushes and I get the most wear of my makeup during the day. However, I definitely would reach for the darker blush duos in Hyacinth and Pamplemousse during the night time.

Who are these products for? Well of course, anyone who is a sucker for highlighters, blushes and anything Becca / Jaclyn Hill related needs to get these. I also think that if you're someone who travels and doesn't want to compromise on quality for convenience. That's usually one of my pet peeves because duos for travel aren't usually that great. Uh no hunny, not the case here.

I particularly think that the Split Pans are most suited to those of you who have thought that Champagne Pop won't suit your skin colour. I also think that it's a great way to trial the Becca blush formula. I mean, you get the best of both worlds because you get to try two in one. If you fall in love with Champagne Pop or a blush, you can commit to the whole compact.

I think that these are going to be a major hit. I'm crossing my fingers that Becca carry on the idea of these Split Pans and make some with their highlighter Opal because I cannot get enough of it. To think of Opal paired with a Becca blush would just be my ultimate travel makeup dream.

In terms of a release date, they are already available in the USA both in stores and online. When it comes to Australia sadly I can't tell you. Unfortunately I haven't heard back from Sephora Australia when they're going to be available. But, when I find out I'll definitely let you know on my Instagram and Snapchat katina-lindaa, so make sure you're following me over there to keep up to date.

If you're curious about the also newly released Becca Slimlights which are used for precise application of highlighter or an eyeshadow base, click here to see my swatch and review post.

Will you be picking up any of the Becca Cosmetics Split Pans?
What's your favourite Becca Cosmetics product of all time?

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July was an incredibly busy, yet fulfilling month for me. I got up to quite a lot at various blogger events and also had a few work interviews here and there. Aside from all of that, I also (of course), discovered and rediscovered some makeup goodies.


I'm really excited to include this product in my favourites because I actually misplaced it for around 6 months and finally found it early July! MAC Cosmetics Cosmo is probably my favourite lipstick of all time. For my olive skin, it's the perfect my lips but better colour. It's such a beautiful brown, pink, mauve colour and the formula of this lipstick is amazing too. I have never actually completely finished a lipstick before but I am certain that I will shortly, and it'll be this.

As you'd know, I love it when products surprise me. One product that I fell in love with this month is the Maybelline Master Fix Wear-Boosting Setting Spray*. If you read my full post here, you'd know why I love it. In a quick rundown, it doesn't have the nicest scent. But, it is amazing for my oily skin and I actually prefer using it over my Urban Decay De Slick spray now.

The entire Essie Winter Collection* has been a solid favourite of mine in July. It's basically all that I've had on my nails the entire month. The collection is limited edition and will stop being sold in Priceline's after the end of August. Don't worry, I have a swatch post coming very, very, shortly (this Wednesday). If you can't wait until then, my favourite shade is the gorgeous light, pastel purple called Virgin Snow.

Benefit has slayed the brow game with all of their new brow releases. I was lucky enough to get the range sent to me and I have a full review which you can read here. My two favourite products are Goof Proof* and Ka-Pow*. Goof Proof is perfect for a natural, filled in, day time eye brow look while Ka-Pow is perfect for a bolder eyebrow look. The formula of both products is incredible and since having them, I've ditched my previous eyebrow routine.

Last up and the newest product into my life out of the bunch is the NYX Blush and Contour Duo*. This small product should definitely not be underestimated. The brown contour shade is cool toned, pigmented and blends well. The blush shade is gorgeous and mauve. It's the ultimate travel product and I just love how easy it is to use.

That wraps up my favourites for this month.
What were some of your favourites?

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The Maybelline Master Fix Setting Spray* is a product that I was really sceptical about. I'm one oily skinned gal and I haven't found a spray that really works for me. I thought that there was no chance that this would be 'the one' for me, but I was pleasantly surprised.

Packaging wise, there is nothing too special here. Just a simple black spray bottle, some nice fonts and a pop of pink.

If you follow me on my Snapchat katina-lindaa, you would have seen me use this setting spray already. For those of you that don't, here is a few demo photos.

Application is really good. The spray is quite sparse and the product dispenses nice and evenly. I held the bottle around an arms length away from my face, shut my eyes and went for it. For a point of comparison, before the Master Fix Setting Spray the only other setting spray I've used from the 'drugstore' is Australis'. I really didn't like it because it felt harsh on my face and applied in one big blop. It was highly concentrated in one area and actually made my makeup last a smaller amount of time than usual. If you've been scared to try a setting spray from the drugstore because of bad previous experience, definitely don't let that deter you from trying this one.

Longevity and wear is amazing. Lately I've been using a combination of or switching between Urban Decay's All Nighter and De Slick setting sprays. I'm super surprised in myself to say this, but I prefer Maybelline's more. The original All Nighter doesn't do anything for me and the De Slick is good, but I still get super shiny and oily.

Using Master Fix I did have to powder my nose and t zone around 3 hours in. But after that I didn't touch it at all. I checked 10 hours later in total, and my makeup still looked amazing. No matter what foundation, setting powder, setting spray I usually use, when I leave the house I honestly have to powder every 2hours, at least.

To keep this review entirely honest, there is one tiny thing that I'm not too fond about and it is the scent. I'm not sure how to really describe it but it isn't my favourite! Luckily the spray sets super quickly and the smell doesn't linger.

Overall, I would definitely suggest this product. I thought it would be the 'eh' product from the Maybelline launches for the end of this year but I actually think it's my favourite.

You can pick up this product at Priceline for $15.95 here or in store.

What is your favourite makeup setting spray?

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