The weather here in England is still horrible, with it raining 90% of the time and, despite it supposedly being spring now, it still feels like winter. So in an attempt to keep the seasonal depression at bay, I am trying to manifest some summery vibes but adding a little bit of colour to my wardrobe and to my make up. As I have said before, I am not someone who is very skilled when it comes to make up. I work in a very corporate job where self expression is very aggressively stamped out, so my make up has always had to be very modest and very subtle. So my every day make up is very plain. It is however something I want to work on, and I am very slowly experimenting with the different techniques and products out there to find what works best for me.
Before I went vegan, I was always quite impressed with the Rimmel London make up products. They were never the best on the market, but they were always affordable and had a wide array of products to choose from. However in recent years it appears that they have brought out a fully vegan friendly and cruelty free range of make up products that are parallel to their usual range. The range itself, Kind & Free, isn’t a massive range of products, but it does offer your basics: foundation, blush, mascara and lipsticks/lip-glosses. Again it isn’t very big, so there are some limited option as to how many colour varieties you can get with the lipsticks, but I suppose it is a good place to start.
I am someone who very rarely ever wore blush because, in all honesty, I have yet to master the art of when enough is enough. I tend to add too much and look a bit like a clown, or I don’t add enough and so I don’t look any different. I am however also a very pale person so perhaps colours go a lot further on my skin than it is probably meant to. Another thing just to bear in mind.
This multi-stick is advertised as being able to use on both your cheeks and your lips, but I would not recommend this at all for your lips. I found it did nothing but make my lips insanely dry, and then it would flake off after a few hours anyway. Perhaps if you were to mix this with some sort of lip balm or a gloss then that may help set the product a bit more and add some hydration, but for me it just wasn’t happening. I am also a bit hesitant to buy a product that ultimately needs another product added to it in order for it to work as stated. So for me, I have only been using this as a blush stick.
Now it does go onto the skin very bright, as you can see from the photos. I picked the colour pink heart, as the pink colours tend to look a bit more natural with my skin than the darker reds. As I say though, I am about as pale as you can get so colours do tend to stand out a lot more against my skin than they likely would for another person. However whilst the colour goes on very bright, once blended it definitely dilutes it out. I find that one pass of the stick is enough, once blended, to give me a subtle bit of colour to my cheeks, but if you have a slightly darker complexion (and by slightly darker I mean, any colour that is not ghostly white) you may have to build it up. I do find that the colour is very buildable, in that you can go as light or as dark as you please. I do find that the product does blend very well, which is expected for a product that is buildable. I use a brush to blend, so cannot say how it works with a sponge – but then again I don’t even know if there is correct method for blending so…happy to be corrected!
The multi-stick does come in 5 different colour options, so it may be a degree of trial and error to find which one works best for you. As I mentioned before the range isn’t the biggest range around, so the options are limited, but I think it is a promising start. This multi-stick cost ÂŁ8 (well ÂŁ7.99 to be exact) and I think that is quite reasonable. Rimmel is very much a high street brand and has always been an affordable option. However if I was to compare it to the other options out there, such as the e.l.f multi-stick which costs ÂŁ5, I don’t believe it will be the best option on offer. It is definitely worth trying though to see if it is a product that you could use regularly. I have seen online reviews where people use this as their signature lipstick, whilst others only use it as a blush, whilst others use it everyday as both a lipstick and a blush, so it is very clearly a personal preference. I am also very much aware that in the world of make-up, ÂŁ8 for any sort of product is an absolute bargain, as I know some of the more luxurious brands can cost far higher than this.
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