Let me tell you, the summer beauty drops across the board are getting me hot under the collar right now. Being an extremely cold-blooded person who constantly has to wrap themselves up in at least three layers or have the heating turned up to max (which Mark has banned me from doing due to our extortionate gas bills – my bad) in order to feel any kind of warmth, I’m definitely more of a summer gal than a winter one. Now I don’t ever seem to get my summer wardrobe down, but makeup? I bloody love it. The copious amounts of bronzer, the golden eyeshadows and nude pouty glosses call out to my inner wannabe Cali girl who has always yearned to be just like L.C – a wish only egged on by my recent trip to L.A.
Leading the field in the warmer month launches are Urban Decay. The range is pretty huge featuring items from liners to foundations and everything in-between, but it’s two things in particular that are really floating my boat and unsurprisingly they are both for complexion; the area which due to my sweaty and red nature during the summer, gets the most attention.
The Urban Decay Naked Skin One and Done Hybrid Complexion Cream, is described as the middle ground between a tinted moisturiser and a sheer foundation. Now in my mind depending on what formulas you’re talking about, those two things can be pretty darn similar and I would tout this as more of a sheer foundation because it packs a decent coverage, which still leaves a lot poking through – in a nice way. Overall the finish is a satin one, but it’s malleable in that it’s defined by whatever you have underneath it. Slap it over a heavily moisturised base that’s nice and juicy and you end up with something more dewy on your hands. I think the reason why I get on with this so well is that the shade Light is a really good match for me and actually, the colour range is small but decent. My advice would be to throw this on with your fingers as more of a weekend base and don’t be alarmed if you can feel it on your skin when it’s first applied. It soon settles down into ‘I don’t feel like I have anything on my face‘ smugness territory.
Whereas bases are always going to be more of a personal preference, the Afterglow 8-Hour Powder Highlighter in Sin is more of an all-round people pleaser. There are three highlighter shades in total released in the collection, though I found Fireball to be way too orange and Aura too pink. Sin is perfect yellow-y, champagne. In fact it’s pretty similar to the BECCA Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in Moonstone, perhaps just a tad more golden. If you’ve already got Moonstone in your stash, then you don’t need this – but hey even as someone who is constantly trying to downsize their beauty stash, I’m partial to a highlighter or 10. You can never have enough highlighters, right?
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