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Makeup Factory Soft Lightning Powder

It is time to review another highlighter, so let’s go! So I saw this powder quite a few times and it immediately caught my attention, but I never saw any swatches. The packaging looked similar to MAC products and based on descriptions and marketing, I expected something like those famous powders made by Hourglass. I was super excited when I bought it and could wait to try it because I am always open to a good everyday highlighter. Unfortunately, this is not what I expected it to be – it is yet another strong gold drugstore highlighting powder. I must admit, it is more sophisticated than most of them and looks expensive, but nothing special. It is advertised as ˝light˝ - whatever that means to them, it is very pigmented and you need to try not to look like a disco princess. On the box label it is even written that you can use it all over your face and it is supposed to be camouflaging minor imperfections, I mean, please. How? By blinding? Ok, this was mean, but I am disappointed with th...

Le petit strober - Bourjois

BOURJOIS – a word I can never remember how to spell. It's been a while since I bought something from them, but it used to be my favorite fancy drugstore brand. It used to be in ˝sisterhood˝ with Chanel, so there still might be some similarities, but I’m not sure. I had some big disappointments with their under eye concelaers, so because of that I decided to leave this brand alone for a while. Their new collection recently caught my eye, so I forgive them their bad products and I’m ready to try new ones. They launched duo blushers in three shades – blush and bronzer in that famous little pot and a strober, which ended in my shopping bag. Strober comes in one, universal shade - Universal glow , which supposed to be flattering for all skin tones. I would describe this as light golden with some silver shimmer added. It is light color, but buildable, which is great when it comes to easily overdoing products. It is delicately shimmery. It has quite strong floral smell, I b...