My staple summer makeup products (2017)

Hope you’re having a lovely and productive new year so far guys! Happy 2017!

New year means summer weather getting hotter and hotter here in Australia and I’m so excited to share with you some of my favourite products in my everyday makeup for this summer. As it gets really hot and sunny during the day, I don’t tend to wear blush or eyeliner as I get red when the weather is too hot and also eyeliner smudges on me in this kind of weather. But I promise you these products I’m about to share is going to give you a great summer complexion as well as beautiful colours to the face.

• Maybelline Dream Velvet Soft-matte Foundation (Nude) – I only recently found out about this foundation and it seems like a drugstore dupe for NARS Velvet Matte Skin Tint. It’s got great coverage and a natural matte finish, I don’t normally set this with powder though as it tends to get cakey on me.
• Maybelline The Falsies Volum’ Express Mascara – Absolutely love this affordable mascara. It will give you thick and long lashes like falsies is all I’m gonna say!!
• Too Faced Sun Bunny Bronzer – My forever favourite if I want a summer complexion! This bronzer is so pigmented it will give you a long wearing golden highlighted glow you will absolutely love omg haha!! I just love it for summer!
• MAC Cosmetics ‘All Fired Up’ Retro Matte Lipstick – A classic bold bright pink pair of lips to go with the bronze, why not! Looking the bomb when you get to the beach with this lipstick on. I promise it will empower you as it has been doing for me! An absolute staple!!

Hope you like these products as much as I do if you have them or are going to buy them after reading this post ❤ If you are in Australia, don’t forget to wear sunscreen everyday before putting on your makeup! I love the LaRoche-Posay ones, they’re the best sunscreen and lovely on the skin 😉

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Enjoy your summer everyone! Another 35-degree day in Melbourne today! Stay hydrated!

XO,

Kimmy

 

 

 

Tarte HOLIDAZE limited-edition blush palette

So excited to be swatching this awesome limited-edition blush palette from Tarte Cosmetics. It features 5 of their 12-hour Amazonian clay blush shades and they are all so so pretty!!

Beautiful sparkly sequin packaging – my style haha.

Price: AUD 59 (Somehow it is only available in store at Sephora)

The blushes are almost full size, definitely worth the money since Tarte individual blushes are retailed at AUD 36 ea on Sephora AU.

Here’s the swatch!

Left to right: ‘fetching’ – ‘dollface’ – ‘prim’ – ‘smashing’ – ‘beaming’

I love all the shades. The pigment is amazing, very natural on the cheeks. And have I mentioned they are the long lasting type of blushes!!

More about the shades:

• ‘Fetching’: a rosy pink shade, perfect for a romantic or an every day look.
• ‘Dollface’: needless to say – a very bright cool toned pink for some dolly cheekbones 🙂
• ‘Prim’: one of my favourite shades of all time. It is a plum-ish nude shade which I love using for a more retro look.
• ‘Smashing’: a coral pink which will instantly brighten and give your face a youthful appearance.
• ‘Beam’: as the name has stated, is coated with sparkling shimmer for highlighted cheekbones with apricot pink shade.

I’m absolutely in love with the palette and would recommend everyone to get it. It’s a good set of blushes that are universal with long lasting power as a bonus. The packaging is to die for – it’s black and it’s bling bling! This is a limited edition product, but if you could get your hands on it, please get it cause I know you’ll love it as much as I do.