Sleek Makeup Candy Collection Blush By Three Sweet Cheeks | Review and Swatches

Limited Edition Sleek Blush By Three Palette in Sweet Cheeks from The Candy Collection. £10.00. link

After finally getting my hands on the Blush By 3 Palette called Sweet Cheeks from the Sleek Candy Collection, I went a bit mental. I'm not entirely sure why this palette appealed to me so much but I went bonkers over it. 

 I photographed it the minute I got home, just so I could have a play around with the three blushes. In the palette you get a selection of three blush, one of which is cream and the other two being powder.  
 

Cupcake is the cream blusher in this palette, and is your blue toned offering the this pink filled palette. It's nice and bright, but blends to a nice flush on the cheek. 

 

Dolly Mix is the matte powder in the trio. It's a light, lilac pink colour and offers a colour perfect for lighter skin tones. The lilac tone doesn't show up to much on the skin, so it's not hard to pull off at all. 

Candy Floss is a bright more yellow toned pink blusher, with shimmer running through it. It is the shimmering offering in this palette, but it's not full of glitter so fear not you will not be looking like a Cullen! 


I've never seen a cream blusher from Sleek before, but after trying this on I sincerely hope they bring out more with this formulation. I found it to be incredibly pigmented, easy to work with and probably most importantly long lasting. 




The powder blushes live up to the hype of the other Sleek blushes. I found these two, along with the other Sleek blushes I've tried, to be highly pigmented and really blendable. They don't kick off to much powder when you touch your brush to them, and a simple touch of the brush to the powder gives you enough for both cheeks. 

Overall, I would highly recommend picking this up if you can get your hands on it. It took me a while to find it, but if you can it's great for anyone who loves a pink cheek. 

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Best Drugstore Neutral Eyeshadow Palettes | Sleek, B, MUA and more

Sleek i-Divine Palette in Au Natural (link)
 I'm sure everyone has heard of Sleek and their brilliant eyeshadow palettes. They are great quality, with great pigmentation, blendablity and lasting power. The packaging is great. It's sturdy with a nice big mirror for travel and on the go touch ups. They are sneaking up in price but if you are on the look out for a brilliant neutral palette for under £10 this "Au Natural" palette from Sleek is worth the investment.


Beauty UK Eyeshadow Palette in No4 Earth Child (link)
 This is a palette and brand that if often overlooked in my opinion. These little palettes aren't going to beat out MAC or Urban Decay but they are great value for money at only £3.99 for 8 shadows, and come in a nice range of colours. Earth Child is a great selection of neutrals with hints of khaki for those who want something other than brown.

B.Complete Eyeshadow Palette in 132 Glisten (link)
 B. is quite a new brand to Superdurg, and is brilliant. I have quite a few reviews of the brand and I love nearly everything I've tried from them. The eyeshadows are great quality with nice pigmentation, good blendability and long wear. Glisten is a great group of 4 shadows that complement each other well and create a nice neutral look. 

MUA Professional Palette in Undressed (link)
 Everyone and their dog have given this and it's follow up counterpart a go. Undressed, and Undressed Me Too are only £4 each and contain 12 eyeshadows each that are very close dupes for the Urban Decay Naked and Naked 2 Palettes. They are great quality for the price, and are great for almost any occasion.

Maybelline Eye Studio Palette in Bronze Drama (link)

 Maybelline are my favourite brand in the drugstore. They have something great in almost all categories and their eyeshadows are no exception. The eye studio palettes are four complementary shadows and Bronze drama is great every day palette that can create beautiful looks on the eye. 

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Sleek Luminous Pressed Powder Review

The Sleek Luminous Pressed Powder is supposedly a powder infused with light reflecting mica pigments that give the skin a fresh dewy glow. It also contains SPF15 for added protection from the sun.  



I adore the packaging. I think Sleek, as a brand, create high quality products that come in beautiful 'sleek' packaging. The black square compact feels secure is a nice matte colour with subtle branding and clear gold lettering for the product name. 


The shade range is brilliant. While they only offer 4 shades, at least in the store I was in, they range from a very pale shade to a very deep shade. The lightest shade, LPP01, works with my foundation that are in the NC/NW17 shade range which is Ivory in most drugstore foundation. 



I've worn this a few times now and I have a love hate feeling for it. The powder is of a nice quality and holds my makeup in place all day without making me look totally matte and dull but the glitter in this powder is insane. I look like a Twilight vampire, and that is not a look I want to go for. The 'light reflecting pigments' are nothing more than gold glitter particles. Some or more subtle than others, but the others look really chunky. 



The effect of this powder is nice from a distance but when you see it up close or catch the light in the wrong way the effect is something less desirable. I might have to give the Suede effect powder a go to see if it feels as nice as this but for now I think I'll have to give up hope that this can work for me. 

You can pick this up in Superdrug store where they sell Sleek, and online here for £7.

 

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Products I've Hit Pan On #1

Products I've hit pan on: Nars Laguna Bronzer, Solait Maxi Bronzer in Golden Glow, B.Cheeky Blusher in Candy Cane, MUA Pearl Eyeshadow in Shade 1, Inglot Freedom System Concealer in LW100 and Sleek Au Natural Palette.

I was trying to figure out what kind of post to do,and realized I've never done anything like this before so I thought I would do a products I've hit pan on post. It gives you a chance to see the products I've been using a lot and you get to see what the products look like before they get into an empties post! 

Nars Laguna Bronzer & Solait Maxi Bronzer in Golden Glow

Nars Laguna Bronzer 

This is running out to fast for my liking. It's the most perfect bronzer for me, and I think I will repurchase despite the price tag. It isn't totally matte which is great but you don't glisten like a vampire when you wear it. It works for all over bronzing, and contouring too and it just works! It's amazing.  

Solait Maxi Bronzer in Golden Glow 

 This was the first bronzer that I found that worked for my skin, and is my go to after Laguna. It's super cheap, and huge! It took me so long to hit pan, and I still have a huge amount of product left to use. I love this because it's matte but not dull on the skin and it's not too orange either. It's a repurchase for sure!

B. Cheeky Blusher in Candy Cane & MUA Pearl Eyeshadow in Shade 1

B. Cheeky Blush in Candy Cane 

 I haven't used another blush since I brought this one. It's the perfect pink blush for my skin tone, and it lasts all day. It's hard to over do this on the skin which I love because I'm very heavy handed and it's not that expensive. I love this, and am going to repurchase this next time I'm in a Superdrug! It's amazing.

MUA Pearl Eyeshadow in Shade 1

I use this for a few things because it's just gorgeous. I use it to highlight my face. It leaves a nice sheen on the skin, and it lasts all day. It's a great for pale skin, and is just slightly more intense than a regular face highlighter. I use this as an all over lid colour when I want to really focus on a dark crease colour. It adds a nice amount of colour without distracting from anything else. I also use it to highlight my eyes. It looks gorgeous with a smokey eye because it's so pigmented it just stands out like nothing else. I will repurchase this without even thinking, because it works and it's only £1.  

Inglot Freedom System Concealer in LW100 & Sleek Au Natural Palette

Sleek Au Natural Palette

I got this palette when it first came out in a collection Sleek did, and I love it. It's a great neutral palette, and the two shades I hit pans on were the best by far. The only reason I haven't hit pan on more is because they are so pigmented that  you only need a little of them when I use them. The white is an amazing matte highlight shade, and it's one of my most reach for shadows in all of my collection. The nude, flesh tone shade is a great matte colour that you can use all over the lid, or to blend out other colours. It's almost gone, and I might repurchase the palette just for that colour.

Inglot Freedom System Concealer in LW100

I adore this concealer. I think it's the best under-eye concealer I've every tried and it's only £3.50. The colour I got was actually a mistake, because it looks nothing like this on the Inglot site, but it works so well under the eye that I'm glad I got it. I wear it everyday, and will repurchase it asap! 

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Disappointing Products #2

I'm an impulse buyer. I wish I was the kind of person who could see something they liked, walk away from it, research it and go back if I liked it or leave it has bad reviews. I just can't do that. I have no will power, and if I see something I want I get it. That, unfortunately, leads to me being disappointed a fair ol' few times because I haven't read up on anything. So, today I have my disappointing products part 2. You can read part 1 here.

  Lets start with hair products. I have two at the moment that just aren't impressing me. I actually mentioned one of these in my last one, but I photographed it again without realizing it. I won't say much about that one, you can just go and read the last post! 

Nicky Clarke Endless Waves Leave In Conditioning Spritz

This just doesn't do anything to my hair. Maybe my hair is too curly or dry or something, but it does nothing. I like that it's a spray but it doesn't give my hair any kind of conditioning. The Gliss Liquid Keratin is much a better option if you want something like that, or even This Is 10 products if you can afford them. 

Kerastase Soleie Overnight Restorative Treatment 

It does nothing. That's all I say! Check out my last one for a better description.

Daisy Eau So Fresh By Marc Jacobs 

I love this perfume, but I regret spending so much money on it because I don't wear it. The scent is like Parmaviolets, which made me want it. But I just can't find occasions to wear it like I can with perfumes like Lola or Wonderstruck so it just sits there. It looks nice on the dressing table, but that's about it.

Soap and Glory Lid Stuff in Off The Wall Flowers

I think I've raved about these in the past, but after trying other shadows I realize these really aren't that great. It's partly my fault for getting a palette with a couple of colours I wouldn't use to often, but it's partly the product because they aren't that pigmented, and they aren't that easy to work with. There are much better shadows out there like MUA or Sleek or even NARS. 

Sleek Blush By 3 Palette in Sugar 

 This is my fault really because I probably picked the worst colour range for my skin tone. These blushes are great, but they aren't as great as some as the single blushes I've tried. The matte ones tend to go on a little patchy, and the shimmery one is just not the right colour for me. 

Collection Cover & Go Foundation and Concealer Duo 

This isn't good. I reviewed it here is you want to give it a read, but to sum up I just don't like this. The foundation goes on really strangely. It offers little to no coverage, and lasts about an hour. The concealer is very sticky and doesn't dry or set in any way. It offers a little coverage, but not enough for a concealer and it's just not creamy enough for me. 

Miss Sporty So Matte Perfect Stay Foundation

This claims to wear 14 hours. It doesn't. This claims to be a matte finish foundation. It's not. It claims to give you a flawless looking complexion. It doesn't This offers very little coverage. It doesn't go on very well, and it doesn't go matte. It's not really dewy, but it's not matte by any stretch of the imagination. If I can get it to look acceptable on my skin, it doesn't last anywhere near 14 hours, or 4 hours for that matter. 

 

Lipcote This stuff stings like a bitch, for lack of a better phrase. I just cannot even bare to put this on my mouth anymore. Even if my lips are not chapped, or cracked (which is barely ever) it hurts, but even the smallest crack on your lips ensures that you want to rip this stuff off your face. It doesn't really keep my lipstick on longer either. It creates this strange texture on your lips, and if you rub your lips together the lipstick comes off in a weird balls of products. 

Estee Lauder Pure Colour Gloss in Quartz

 This is okay for a gloss I suppose, but it's not good enough for the price you pay. I just find that it doesn't offer enough gloss, if that makes sense. When you pull the wand out, there isn't enough product on the wand to even do a one lip, and feels greasy on the lips. Whilst it feels greasy on the lips it doesn't offer any kind of highly glossy finish. Just not worth it in my opinion.

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Foundation Routine | Great for Dry, Pale skin.

Solait Bronzer link, Collection Sheer Loose Powder link, MeMeMe Beat the Blues link, Rimmel Wake Me Up Shimmer Touch link, Rimmel Fix and Perfect link, Soap and Glory Hocus Focus link, Vivo Highlighter link, Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid link, Bourjois Flower Perfection primer link, Sleek New Skin Revive foundation link, Collection Lasting Perfection Concealers link and Rimmel Wake Me Up concealer link.

I finally have a foundation routine that I'm happy with and thought I would share it with you. It works for my dry skin, and helps cover up the extreme redness and blemishes and scars I can get. The products I use are also pretty good for those who are Casper the friendly ghost pale like myself. I'm going to jump right into this because I have a feeling this is going to be a long post! Thanks for reading.

I've only just really found some good drugstore primers that work for me. For some reason, most of the primers that I tired made my skin feel great but my foundation (or BB cream or anything else really) wouldn't sit well on top of it. It made it look streaky and horrible so I gave up my search. 

But after getting the Bourjois Flower Perfection Primer in a Secret Santa present I thought I would give it a try. To my surprise it works really well. It smooths out my skin, and helps mask some of my pores. It leaves my skin feeling really soft and smooth, and the foundation I used sits on it really well. It helps the foundation last a long longer, and it doesn't have a matte finish which is great for my dry skin. At little dew is great.  

The Rimmel Fix and Perfect is another great primer that works very similar to the Bourjois one, and I love it all the same. I think if were to repurchase though, it would be the Rimmel product. It lasts a long longer, and is cheaper. 

I swap and change these when I feel like it so, obviously, I don't use both at the same time. 

 

I use Hocus Focus from Soap and Glory to add some glow to any foundation I use. It's great to mix in with foundation because, as I already said it gives it a nice glow and if it's thick full cover foundation like I tend to choose it makes it a little more liquidy and easily blendable on the face. I mix it with both Dream Satin Liquid and New Skin Revive, which I use on different areas of the face. 

I use the Maybelline Dream Satin Liquid in Light Porcelain in the centre of the face, and it works really well. It gives me a nice coverage, and it's just a touch lighten than my skin so it gives a highlighted effect as well. It's easily blendable and while it does last a long time it doesn't give that super matte finish like others can. The finish is quite natural and leaves my skin looking fresh and just all around nice. 

I use the Sleek New Skin Revive in Sand on the outside of my face and it's just s touch darker than my skin. It makes the Dream Satin Liquid look a little more highlightery (is that a word) and creates some natural shadows without it being horribly obvious.  It offers a similar coverage and finish to the Maybelline foundation so they work well together. 

I apply these with either a Real Techniques Buffing Brush, a Stippling Brush or a Beauty Blender sponge (damp, of course). 

 

Concealer is my faithful friend. It helps hide the sins on my face, so what more could I ask for. My favourite concealer ever is probably no surprise to anyone because it;s raved about my everyone and their dog. It is of course the Collection (or Collection 2000) Lasting Perfection Concealer. I have two shades of this because I use them in different areas of the face.The lighter shade is used to cover the inner portions of the face, while I use the darker shade (still really light thought) on the outer portions of my face. It covers well, lasts a decent amount of time and doesn't break the bank so a winner on all counts. 

The Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer (in Ivory)  is probably the only concealer that I have found that does a light enough that it actually makes the area under my eyes brighter and lighter. It really does wake me up, makes my dark circles a thing of the past for the day and doesn't crease. It's not to expensive, and the shade range is pretty good for the pale people out there. It's doesn't have that may darker shades though so be aware of that.  

I just blend these products in with my fingers. I have tried using brushes but they just don't work for me. My fingers leaves the products nice a warm so it blends into the face well and it leaves the finish looking pretty natural too which is great.  

I always highlight. I think I have quite dull skin so I use whatever I can, whenever I can to get some radiance back. Highlighter is a subtle makeup products, but in my opinion makes all the difference to a look. I've been loving liquid highlights best since the winter hit but in the summer I'm partial to a powder highlighter of two because my skin isn't quite as dry.   

The first highlighter I love is one that I got 'free' with an eyebrow kit form Vivo. It's only a small little thing and I hope you can buy it on its own because it's great. It's a white highlight in the tube, but when blended out it's almost translucent but it leaves a lovely pink iridescent shimmer on the face that looks gorgeous.

The second highlight I love is great for when I want a more subtle highlight. It's the MeMeMe Beat the Blues Highlight.  This looks quite yellow/gold but it blends out to almost nothing just leaving that 'glow' everyone wants on the skin. I believe it's a dupe for Benefit Moonbeam, and it's much cheaper than that. It works just as well (I've tried High Beam) lasts a decent amount of time on the skin and doesn't cause my foundation to go cakey. 

The last of the highlighters that I've been reaching for recently is the Rimmel Wake Me up Instant Shimmer Touch in 004. This is the least subtle highlight that I use, and for that reason I only tend to use this on nights out or bronzed days. It's a nice gold/bronze highlight that has more a shimmer/glitter than the others. It highlights beautifully but it's a lot more noticeable.  

   

I blend these over the tops of my cheekbones and down the nose with my fingers or a Real Techniques Stippling brush.  

 Finally we come to the end process. I'd give yourself a pat on the back if you made it this far! The last things that I do is pop on some bronzer, blush and powder. The blush changes day to day, so I didn't include it but the bronzer and powder rarely change so I thought I'd say a little on them. 

The Solait Maxi Bronzer in Golden Glow is a brilliant bronzer for the pale girls. It's not too orange or to dark. It's not full of shimmer (in fact it's matte) and it looks great on the skin. I used this to half bronze/half contour. I don't hard core contour but I do add a little under the cheekbones  and chin to add some shape to my round face. I then add some around the outside of my face, focusing on the temples and blending it to my forehead . I used the 3E technique that people talk about to make sure it's blended and to add some definition to the face. 

The powder that I reach for most of all is the Collection Sheer Loose Powder. I's just a nice fine powder that sets the foundation without adding coverage and caking the foundation up. It's only £2.99 and this pot is seriously lasting me forever and a day. It's so worth it. 

I use an angled blush brush from Forever 21 to apply the bronzer, and either RT Blush brush or Powder brush to dust the powder over my face. I use light downwards stroke for the powder to make the foundation look a little more flawless.  

PS: Sorry this was so freaking long but I hope this helps in some shape or form. This is for 'full makeup' days, and I don't do this everyday but this is my full routine. Hope you enjoyed. 
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