I will level with you all and say I haven't been really keeping up to date with MUA and other high street
brands, over Christmas I became a little jaded with the hustle and bustle of the high street
and more often than not decided to online shop for pretty much everything.
Well I'm glad to say that brands such as MUA have reignited my spark for high street brands with their little
concealer palette, fluffy nail kits and setting sprays.
Yay for budget brands!
The MUA Pro Base Conceal & Brighten Kits come in three shade families and having seen them in store
I have to be honest and say that shades do not vary all that much and there is not a palette for those with
deep skin tones which is a shame.
Hopefully 2013 will be the year we see UK brands pull up their socks and offer every complexion
a shade match not just us with light to medium skin tones...here's hoping!
Each palette contains three large pans of product, two concealers and one highlighting cream.
I picked up the MUA Pro Base Conceal & Brighten Kit in the shade Beige-Golden which isn't really my ideal match but the others happened to be too light or pink toned.
In the Beige- Golden line up there is a light nude highlight, a light tan concealer and a ruddy toned brown
concealer that is far to pink based for me to use it for anything else other than a cream blush.
Shade wise I'm not all that impressed but with the three pans at least you can blend shades together
to form something more suited to your skin tone.
Formula wise the concealers and highlight are creamy, light and easy to apply and blend out.
The give moderate coverage but are slightly more slippery than I am used to so I do recommend using
a powder to set and prevent slip throughout the day.
The highlighter is not at all shimmer based but one that you would use to add light to the face when
contouring and highlighting, in fact I do feel that someone a little lighter skinned than myself could use this
palette to sculpt and define instead of forking out on pricey cream sculpting products.
I know it doesn't exactly sound like I enjoyed this palette but I did and really hope for a few deeper
additions so I can use them to fake Kim Kardashian style cheek bones...okay a girl can dream!
MUA Pro Base Conceal & Brighten Kits are currently £2.50 and available at selected Superdrug
stores and via the MUA Store - link
These sound fab and so cheap too! Will have to check them out :) xo
ReplyDeletei thought these were tone correctors :|
ReplyDeleteYou may be right, I can't find much official information on them at the moment, sorry about that!
DeleteTruthfully the shades in this palette aren't really all that great for correcting tone but the others may well be :)
I thought the shades were similar to some of Hard Candy's nobody's perfect, specially the 3rd one looked kind of salmon-ish so I was thinking about getting it only to take care of the under-eye blue tint...could you do me one favor? use the 3rd shade on your arm veins and then the first or second shade to see if it can hide the blue tint? Would totally save me some money if it doesn't work :D
Deletesorry for the late reply :) the first shade (lightest) doesn't conceal any blue or red tones, I find it to illuminate. The Mid shade again didn't do anything on my circles or veins but calmed the redness of a blemish and the pinkish shade did calm the blue tones of my dark circles.
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Great swatches :) Thank you so much :*
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Agreed that I haven't kept up to date with MUA. They are bringing out so many new products I just can't physically do it! I hope they don't run out of ideas soon and hit a brick wall. I'm interested in the fixing spray though, have you tried it? xxx
ReplyDeleteMUA products always seem to come out with products that seem to be really amazing for the price you pay. This kit oes seem pretty cool with the three shades to mix and match to make it work for your skin accordingly :) However, i do have an issue with the packaging~ I do not like the cheap plasticky packaging and because of my oily skin, i think i will need to avoid this product otherwise i will look too 'glowy' in a bad way. Thank you for reviewing though, its nice to be introduced to new products :D
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I think you would really enjoy it if it was exactly suited to your skin tone. I am tempted to buy it, but I'm afraid I'm not gonna use it, as I don't know how...
ReplyDeleteI've just written review on the fluffy fur nails by MUA, if you fancy a look:
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Do you think the peachier shade would correct under eye darkness? I love my Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer for blemishes but haven't found a holy grail dark circle coverer :)
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love this! I use the pink tones for dark circles and the yellow to correct redness or blemishes. It lasts so long too! But yes you do need to set with a powder!
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When i first saw this i had no hope for it at all but as soon as i saw the swatches i wanted to try it out! they look really creamy and easy to apply.
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ottima review!
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MUA has launched so many new products at the start of new year and are hinting that there are in fact more products to be revealed . I hope they are good . I will skip buying this palette because it doesn't look that impressive and i need a serious heavy duty concealer for covering my blemishes and those irritating pimples .
ReplyDeleteWhen I got this it had a film over the top, so I don't know what was wrong with it. Such a shame because it looked so good xxx
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I was going to buy these online the other day, im glad i didnt i always buy prosuxts like this and i regret it!:)
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For only £2.50 these look great value!
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I think I will try this palette, you can't go wrong at £2.50 really, thankyou for the post! xxx
ReplyDeleteI never try MUA products, but for the prices you cant go wrong!
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Sounds not too bad but the price is great! x
ReplyDeleteIt was a toss up between this and Sleek's version, but I opted for this because of the price. I agree, it feels really slippery and I haven't quite managed to blend this properly because of that. It feels like I'm just wiping it off rather than blending it in! x
ReplyDeleteAm not really keen when it comes to creams but this looks intresting, thinking about giving it whirl, spesh coz of the price pritty good.
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