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Maybelline Vivid and Smooth Eyeliner Metallic Silver Review & Swatches

For a beginner with eyeliners; pencil eyeliners are the best options. There is never going crooked in the line that is drawn. I remember I had begun my journey with pencil eyeliners. And today I have moved on to color liners too. This is a review post on Maybelline Vivid Smooth Eyeliner in Metallic Grey.

Price & Quantity:

Rs.215 for 1 g.

Shade Reviewed:

Metallic Silver

My Experience:

Packaging: Maybelline Vivid Smooth Eyeliner is the common type of pencil with black body and a small portion of color at the end of the body. The pencil tip has a transparent cap for closing.

Color & Texture: The product is very creamy and glides very easily on my eyelid. It gives a good pigmented color on my eyes. I have dark circles around my eyes, so nothing much can be expected for me from any eye product. Yet, this silver color fares well on me.

How it works: If you wear it like an eye liner then this is a perfect one. If you use it thick and spread it along the lid to look like an eye shadow, then it creases badly. It stays on good for 5 long hours if used as eyeliner. Later on it begins to fade and smudge slightly.

This range has many shades; various pigmentation type and sheer ones. It is a range with mixed type of product. So, the view about Metallic Silver pencil cannot be considered for other colored pencil of the same Maybelline Vivid Smooth Eyeliner range.

I find this pencil eyeliner very handy. The cap makes the pencil very travel friendly too. It can be easily carried every where in the bag.

PROS:

Easy handling pencil eyeliner
Beautiful silver shade
Creamy texture
Glides on lash line without clumping and tugging
No pressure is required for the color pigmentation to be shown
Good staying power
Travel friendly product
Variety of shades in the same range

CONS:

If used as an eyeshadow along the eyelid, it creases badly.

Rating: 3.5/5

My Recommendation:

Yes. A pocket friendly colored pencil eyeliner that is creamy and soft on the sensitive skin around the eyes. The pencil id well pigmented too.

Would I Repurchase?:

Yes. I have one more shade from this range. And I am planning to buy more.

VLCC Skin Defense Wild Turmeric Face Wash Review

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Hello Everyone!

Today I am going to review the Turmeric Face Wash from VLCC brand.

Price & Quantity:

Rs.125 for 100 ml

Key Ingredients:

Honey & Turmeric

How to Use?:

Apply a small amount of the cleanser on moist face and neck. Massage gently with fingertips & rinse thoroughly. Can be used round the year.

Shelf Life:

3 years

My Experience:

Packaging: The face wash comes in a plastic bottle with a screw cap. The cap is open able with a flip cap too. The bottle is not transparent, and hence it does not show up hoe much of the product is left over. The quality of the package material is very strong and sturdy. Some times I have come across bottle that just breaks or cracks off with just a few handlings of the flip cap.

Color, Consistency and Fragrance: This face wash has a yellow tinge in color. It is a thin gel like liquid in its consistency. It is a runny face wash. And fragrance seems strong to my senses.

How it works: The face wash lathers very well. It helps remove the sweaty dirt from the skin; leaves the skin fresh and relived.
But there is one major draw back. It is definitely not suitable for dry skin and even normal skin. For me, during summers, skin gets back to some what normal. Yet after using this face wash my skin feels stretchy and then it even begins to itch. If I follow with moisturizers during summer, I begin to sweat uncontrollably. Using this face wash during winters is absolutely out of control.

People with oily skin will be able to use this product without any trouble. I feel this will help acne prone skin to a great extent. But the package details say ‘all skin types’. This is very misleading.

PROS:

Suits oily skin very much.
Will help acnes and pimples.
Leaves skin squeaky clean.
Sturdy package.
Screw cap along with a flip cap too

CONS:

Not suitable for normal and dry skin.
Leaves skin dry and stretchy (for skin other than oily types)

Rating: 3/5

My Recommendation:

Oily skin people can try this product.

Would I Repurchase?:

No. It is not helping my skin at all. It leaves my skin dry after wash which means the product is stripping off all the oil from my skin.

Triple Copper Eye Makeup Tutorial – EOTD

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I like coppers in all form. Nail paints, eye shadows, lipsticks, liquid eyeliners, pencil eyeliners; in all of these categories copper is the shade that suits all skin tones. On fairer skin copper stands out bright and on dusky skin copper blends in to the skin tone without any effort.

This post is all about combining different types and different shades of copper. I feel this type gives an elevation to the shade. (Ooops…excuse me I don’t know what I am talking. I just want to convey that I am so much in love with this type of look.)

I love to do the mixing of different greens, blues and browns too on my eyes nowadays. :-). This just damn simple. No blending is the main feature of this eye make up.

Tutorial: (7 Steps)

Step 1:

Prepare and prime your eyes the usual way you have been following so far for your eye make up. Below pic is the image of my bare eyes.

Step 2:

Fill your eyelid with a copper eye shadow. I have the NYX Trio Shimmer Peach Copper Eye shadow (my all time favorite!).

Step 3:

Now take a copper shade in the pencil form. I have used NYX Eye Pencil in Copper. Draw a pretty thick line near the upper lash line. Now, the eyes will look as in the below pic.

Step 4:

Also draw a line following the lower lash line from end to end.

Step 5:

Using your favorite Kajal, apply with very light hand in the middle of the lower lash line, over the copper line. Do not go on from one end to other end of the eye. A small line in the middle will do. (Sorry, I forgot to click before smudging)

Now run your ring finger over the small line of Kajal. It will make the black intense Kajal to mix up with the copper line. I did this to tone down the brightness of the NYX Copper Pencil around the lower lash line.