YSL Volume Effect Faux Cils Baby Doll Mascara Review!

Hey ladies!♥

Last weekend my £5 credit on my Debenhams beauty club card was about to run out, so as you can imagine, in a mad rush, i had to get to Debenhams and buy some makeup!

I browsed for ages as there is nothing i really wanted to get, but then i saw this little beauty and it was pretty much love at first sight, i had to have it.

It is the YSL Baby Doll Mascara, this retails for £24.50 in Debenhams but with my £5 points balance i picked it up for £19.50.

First of all, can we all just take a moment to appreciate the beauty of YSL's packaging. So simple yet effective. Packaging always draws me to a product and will often be a deciding factor in my actually buying it and YSL never fail me on that front.

The mascara itself is applied using a plastic wand with short spikes all over. Personally, plastic wands are my prefered mascara applicator over brushes and bristle wands so this was a plus for myself.

To show you one coat of this compared to my natural eyelashes with no makeup on:

No Mascara (creepy)

 Left Eye Mascara, Right Eye None

Both Eyes Mascara

 From Underneath the Lashes

I think these pictures give you a good look at the coverage and the lengthening properties of the mascara and you can really see that they accentuate my lashes quite a lot.

I think the easiest way to do this is to just tell you guys my own personal pro's and con's of this mascara and you can tell me your opinions too! So here goes:

PROS

Comes in four different shades so suits a lot of different people's needs.

Beautiful packaging.

Really lengthening.

Hardly any clumping at all and no flaking so far.

Nice formula, not sticky or too wet.

Nice smell!

Pretty name, i'm a sucker for names!

CONS

The price, i really cannot justify even £19.50 on a mascara never mind it's full price of £24.50.

It in comparison to YSL Shocking, not sure if i like it better, or the same?

I also am unsure if i like it better or just the same as my much cheaper L'Oreal False Lash Telescopic.

So, although there are more Pro's than Con's and i really do like this mascara a lot, i have to admit i probably won't repurchase as, to me, this is just not worth the price. Don't get me wrong, it's lovely and it really does look good on the eyes but is it the best? In my opinion, i like it just the same as i like my all time L'Oreal fave.

I don't regret this purchase though as i love YSL products and i do love this mascara too.

Have you tried YSL Baby Doll mascara?

What are your opinions?

A♥

Drugstore Face of the Day!

Hello ♥

I was going to my friends flat to hang out with the girls for a while the other night and thought i would do my face using cheap(ish) products and not use any high-end brands on my whole face just for fun really.

I do use all of these products anyway but i just thought i would use them all together and this is what i came up with:

I look asleep...

Products:

So on my face i have:

Rimmel Wake Me Up foundation: 100 Ivory

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Pressed Powder: 2 Medium

Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer: 2 Light

ELF Complexion Perfection Tone Correction Pressed Powder: Translucent

Bourjois Bronzing Powder: 52

Barbra Daily Blusher: Flutter-Bies

MUA Undressed Palette: Shade 5- base, 4- outter corners, 11- crease, 1- highlight/browbone

ELF Eye Transformer: Upper Browbone

ELF Eye Brightener: Inner corners

Collection 2000 Skylash: Black

ELF Exact Lash Mascara: Black

Collection 2000 Liquid Liner: Black

Collection 2000 Pencil Liner: Black on bottom water line

GOSH Eyebrow Kit: Darkest Shade & Setting Gel

VIVO Eyebrow Pencil: Dark Brown (literally the best eyebrow pencil..ever! £2!)

Rimmel Kate Moss Matte Lipstick: 107

MUA Lip Liner: Brooding Plum

I think it went quite well really ...

(except my camera makes me look paler than i actually am!)

Hope you enjoyed!

What are your favourite drugstore makeup products/brands?

A♥

Little Makeup Tips #1

Hello ♥

I'm going to start a little series like my Nail Diaries but on Make-up Tips where i will post little handy tips every so often to hopefully help at least one person out!

Today's is a really simple one and a lot of you probably know it already but this is my savior!

When applying mascara, no matter what one i use, i always seem to get it under my eye:

As you can see, it is all under my eyelid and this annoys me no end! 

Such a mess!

So to get rid of this, i used to just use my finger and i would smudge it everywhere and feel as though i should start my whole face again!

Now however, i wait until the mascara is all completely dry and when it is i get a cotton bud and gently roll this back and forward under my eyelid to wipe and remove the excess mascara! 

You don't need any water or anything on it, just the bud itself effectively removes the mess!

Rub gently until all of the mascara is gone!

Much cleaner and no smudging! There are other ways of getting rid of excess mascara, like using a baby wipe, but at least this way, you don't rub off any of your other makeup :).

This also works if you get mascara on your brow bone just under your eye-brow when doing your top lashes, like i usually also do!

Hope my eye close-ups aren't too gross, haha!

(as well as my stray eyebrow hairs as i'm growing them to thread, sigh..)

Hope you try this quick tip if you didn't know it already! Maybe you're just not as messy as me!

What are your little handy makeup tips?

A ♥