3 Highlighters I've Been Trying | £5 and Under

Hi lovelies!

Today I'm going to be sharing with you 3 drugstore highlighters that I've been trying recently (all £5 or under) and give you my opinions on each one! I've been looking for a good quality highlighter that isn't going to break my bank so I decided to try a few to see what worked for me. I feel like drugstore make up is really improving lately, which is great because not everyone can afford to splurge on high end products 24/7 (like myself and my part time cinema wage!) 

Make Up Revolution Vivid Baked Highlighter (Golden Lights) - £3

 

I was a bit skeptical about trying Make Up Revolution products at first because I didn't think they'd be very good. However, I love their eye shadow pallettes so I decided to try something different. This highlighter has actually been my go to highlighter for quite some time. It's a gorgeous golden shade and it lasts on my face all day. It definitely gives your skin a golden glow, but after using it for a while I started to see that it became very drying on my skin. I'm not sure whether that's to do with my skin type (normal/dry) or whether it's just the product, but it would look great when I first applied it and then after a while it would look slightly dry. With that being said, my mom uses this highlighter and really likes it, she has quite oily skin. For £3 you can't really complain.

Rating: 3.5/5

Collection Speedy Highlighter (Pearl Sheen) - £3.99

This highlighter came in a stick form which I thought would be really useful when it came to applying, however I actually found it a lot harder! I much prefer using a brush or even my fingers. The colour gives you quite a subtle, natural glow, but it took me quite a few layers to be able to see the slightest bit of highlight. I also found it really hard to blend with my bronzer and unfortunately it just isn't long lasting! I could see it fading after just half an hour, and with that being said I'm not a big fan. The Make Up Revolution highlighter is cheaper and much better than this one!

Rating: 1/5

Freedom Professional London Pro Highlight Pallette - £5

 

I am absolutely in love with this pallette! I'd never really bothered with Freedom make up before, it was always one of those brands that I'd walk straight past when I was make up shopping. I spotted this pallette whilst in Superdrug and I couldn't resist. The pallette contains 6 cream highlighters and 2 powder ones and as you can see, there are a wide variety of gorgeous shades to suit pretty much anyone! For £5, they are amazing quality and super easy to blend. They seem to be lasting most of the day on my face too which is great! I prefer cream highlighters to powder ones because I feel like they give you more of a glow, but that's just my personal preference. The only thing I'd say is they are abit glittery which I don't mind but I know some people do. This is my favourite out of the 3. The shades don't have names but I've swatched them below.

Rating: 4/5

2 powder highlighters (middle 2)

3 of the cream shades

The other 3 cream shades

Rankings (from best to worst):

1: Freedom Pro Highlight Pallette
2: Make Up Revolution Vivid Baked Highlighter
3: Collection Speedy Highlighter

What good drugstore highlighters have you tried? I'm thinking of doing more posts like this, I love trying new products and not breaking the bank whilst I'm doing it!

Lots of love,

 

Weekly Life Update | Gym, Grades and Holidays

Hi everyone!

I thought as it's Sunday and it's the end of the week I'd give you an update on what's been going on in my life recently. I'm going to try and get one of these up every Sunday whether my week has been boring or exciting. Unfortunately I haven't got much to share with you this week (I appologise for having such an uninteresting life)

To be honest I don't really know where to start.. I haven't had the most exciting of weeks haha. I've recently joined a new gym called Anytime Fitness. It's a 24 hour gym which is pretty cool (although I don't know why anybody would want to go to the gym in the middle of the night!). The only reason I joined was because it's a lot easier to get to than my old gym. I was really anxious about starting at first because I was so used to my old gym, but I'm really enjoying it now and I'm going 4 or 5 times a week. The gym is fairly small but it has really good equipment and facilities such as virtual classes in the studio if there isn't a live one going on. I've been thinking about adding fitness posts to my page so I'll let you know soon whether or not I've decided to go ahead with it.

Incase any of you don't know, I'm studying my A levels at college. I'm actually a year behind because I went to sixth form last year but I left half way through the year due to personal reasons and it just wasn't the right time for me. Anyway I took my mock A level exams in the first week of January and I got all but one of my results back earlier this week. I got an A in health and social care and a B in law which I'm really happy about! My hard work has paid off and I feel like everything is finally starting to work out. I'm still waiting on my english results but hopefully I'll get them back soon.

My boyfriend Sam has been working away in London the past two weeks and I've been so bored without him! He's coming home tomorrow though and I'm excited to catch up with him (I have so much gossip to tell him haha). It's his birthday soon (21st February) so I've been present shopping and trying not to spend all my money. I've been really struggling because I feel like I always get him the same kind of present and I wanted to get him something different.. I haven't got very far with that. It's such a pain because I get paid on the 23rd of each month so his birthday is 2 days before I get paid again! It's valentines day coming up too which is also the day when we will have been together for 1 year and 6 months, but I don't think we're buying presents because I'm not really into the whole "valentines day" thing. We will probably go for a nice meal or something, but I'm putting all my effort into his birthday.

Me and my family have finally booked our holiday for July! We're hiring a gorgeous villa in Majorca (I'll try and post some pictures soon but they're on my dad's laptop at the minute) I'm so excited. Now me and Sam have just got to book ours and I'll have my two holidays for this year sorted.

Other than that I think it's been the same old college and work routine. Like I said, I haven't had the most exciting of weeks! I will be posting a book haul either later today or tomorrow so be sure to check that out if you're a book lover like me.

Lots of love,

* Photo is mine from my trip to Lanzarote last year.
* This post is in no way sponsored or affiliated.