Quick review: Mememe Seventh Heaven

This doesn’t need to be a long review, in one word, I love this.

This is the first time a primer has really performed for me and I actually noticed that my makeup looked as fresh at the end of the day as it did at the start.

Mememe's Seventh Heaven is described as a moisturising face base and has a texture similar to a moisturiser, rather than a silicone based primer. It has a fresh, citrus scent, which I love and it sinks into the skin easily.

I apply a small amount of the cream after moisturiser and leave it to settle for a few minutes before I go on to apply my makeup. I have noticed that different moisturisers have affected how well the primer works, so I would suggest trying it with different moisturisers and also leaving a gap between applying your moisturiser and applying this.

Now the only bad point for me, I have been using daily for over a month and I am about half way through the pot. At £15 for 30ml, I can't decide if I think this is good value or not but I know, begrudgingly, I will go back for more.

FOTD - Smudged liner

I am hitting a bit of a makeup rut, wearing the same safe look every time.

Using what I already own I decided to go for strong cheeks and lips and attempted to do smudged liner, which is a look I love on other people but have never managed to master, until now?

Bella Pierre mineral foundation, mememe blush rouge, sleek rose petal, black eyeliner and a lot of smudging using a clean angled brush.

Whats your tip for getting the perfect smudged liner?

Face of the Day - War Paint (featuring Sleek)

Having got the disappointing news that I was not selected for the job I wanted, I needed war paint today to stop myself getting too down about it all.

I have been experimenting with my Sleek palette a lot recently, as well as my eyeliner stencil (which I think I have finally got the hang of), and really like the look I achieved today. 

This look was achieved by placing peach gold on across the outer two thirds of the lid, then taking parfait and concentrating that in the inner corner before bringing it lighting across the rest of the lid. Concentrated in the crease is bittersweet and a tiny bit of the colour stone. Finally belini was used as a highlight. I apologise I did not have the foresight to take pictures step by step, but I do intend on doing another tutorial soon. 

A mid blink picture which actually showed the eye makeup well! What do you think of the lipliner over gloss application?……..yea I can’t tell the difference either. 

My face with finished off with the usual suspects at the moment, Sleek sugar may gloss, and ELF mineral apricot lip liner, and mememe blush in rouge. 

Me Me Me Blush Rouge

I only own three blushes, an ELF blush and bronzer duo, Benefit Coralista and a pink Bourgeois one. I tend to reach for Coralista on a daily basis since I love everything about it, but I know it is not always suitable!

I have had my eye on MeMeMe blushes for a while, I have heard they are very similar to Benefit, the packaging is almost identical but they only have 4 shades, a bronze, pink, coral and peach shade. Each are beautiful, I love the bronze shade but I don’t know how often I could wear that and opted for the shade ‘rouge’. I am always nervous swatching products in stores since the lighting is so misleading. I assumed from the name rouge would be a red shade but it is actually more of a peach/orange tone. Although it is not a matte shade, it does not have a lot of shimmer and to me makes it more wearable daily than coralista. It is also more pigmented than I expected so only a light touch is needed and I imagine even with daily use this will last for a very long time.

Coralista above and Rouge below, both with blended and unblended swatch

Other blog posts have compared rouge as a potential dupe to coralista, which at first got me very worried that I had chosen the wrong thing! However, I do not think this at all. If anything MeMeMe’s coral shade may be more comparable although I have not looked at them together. Rouge is far more of a peach tone in my opinion while coralista is more shimmery and is more pink.

I am really pleased with my purchase, and would love to go back and pick up the other shades in the future. You can find MeMeMe in Superdrug and the blushes usually retail at £8.50, at the moment they are on promotion for £1.50 off making them £7 each.

Peach Faced

Having spent a hugely unproductive day playing with makeup rather than job hunting I have a number of posts coming to you of reviews/tutorials over the next few days. In the mean time I thought I would provide you with an idea of whats coming up.

My face of the day included a combination of everything I have brought in the last week. My eyeshadow was all from the new Sleek palette and gel eyeliner from saffron used with ‘the flick’ eyeliner stencil (may I add, first attempt!), sleek pout polish and mememe blush in rouge.

Be sure to check back for more detailed reviews, swatches and tutorials soon!