Review: Coastal Scents contouring palette

A review on the Coastal scents contouring palette, one of my P10 pan items. Summary: It is trash, do not waste your money.

So why is it so bad?

Looks alright, just a bit plain. It is a pain to open sometimes, as it can snap shut quite tightly.

Top row: white, yellow, pink

Bottom row: Peach, brown and pink

Swatches in that order. As you can see the peach and yellow do not show up on my skin at all. The primary problem with all of them is that they are chalky to the core and hard to blend out. Moreover, the blushes are simply indistinguishable from one another!

 My P10 Pan product was the contouring brown shade right? So what's wrong with it?

This is what wrong with it. Just look at it, I tried to blend it out but the most concentrated part is still the intial point of contact when my powder covered finger touched the skin. All my brushes, no matter how soft or whether they are stippling brushes, encounter this problem as the intial part where the powder was deposited will always be darker than the surrounding area. So there have been days where my cheeks or the sides of my faces are much darker than the other coutoured part. No one likes a line running across their face but this was the effect that it gave! No amount of blending worked, so for such a crappy product, it deserves the bin. The other powders has no effect on me (yellow and peach) or are too crappy (white, the 2 pinks) to salvage this palette. Cheap palette and cheap product. Absolute waste of money

Summary: Don't waste your money on this. Give it to charity rather than to own this palette.

Rating: 1/5 Toss! (and with pleasure) 

Love,

Tabby

Project $50 10 Pan - Makeup

Let's just get this one out since I'm feeling determined to stay on this no buy.

The rules for this is:

1) After using 10 products, a reward of $50 for makeup will be allowed. This can be accumulated for purchases later in the year. Until the 10 products are used up, I will not purchase any beauty product.

2) This applies to skincare and makeup items. For lipsticks, I have to use finish the allocated 5 lip products before I can purchase another one, for which a budget of $10 is given.

3) I will aim to use finish the items stated but if another item is used up, that also counts as part of the products.

The aim of this project is to:

1) Save money

2) Use the makeup that I have accumulated in a short span of time and finish them before they expire

So here are the 10 items in question,

Item 1: The bronzer in this Coastal Scents contouring palette that I bought 2 years ago (eek!). It's a bit orange but since I'm pretty tanned now it's not so obvious so I'll try to use this as much as I can.

Item 2: Za 2 way foundation cake 22

My first foundation ever. Used this until I bought into the hype about BB creams

Usually I apply using a wet sponge but I've been using a powder brush which makes it go down soooo slowly.

Actually I won't be using this for a while because when I went to the Mac counter, I realised that through un-intended tanning, I have gone from NC25 to NC40! So I'll be using the Studio Sculpt foundation in NC40 until I fade back to my normal colour. Then I'll go back to this

Item 3: NARS Concealor Duo in Vanilla/Honey

Insanely pale on me right now, so I'll probably try to mix it around to get close to my skintone.

Not much of a dent huh?

Item 4: UD Primer Potion that came with my Naked palette

Item 5: Heroine Make long and curl mascara. Number 1 in a Japanese cosmetic user-review website, someone needs to tell me why!

Item 6 and 7: Loreal HIP pencil in Gold Charge and Silkygirl Funky Eyelights Pencil in Metallic Bronze

Item 8: A palette of 4 eyeshadow colours that I pulled together from my depotted shadows as I'm trying to finish my unwanted shadows before I start on my precious palettes. The shades are easy and wearable except for the purple shade, which I'm a bit adverse towards

Item 9: La Femme blush in Satin Rose. I chose this shade to be my staple blush as it's in the same bluish-pink tones as my most hated lip products in my Project 5 lip pan, so hopefully having a similar colour on my cheek will make me look less dead/freaky. La Femme blushes are so pigmented and you need so little that I wonder if I will ever hit pan on this =(

Last but not least: Etude House LuciDarling Eyeliner pen.

In order to keep to this makeup ban, I shall no longer visit Musings of a muse or Temptalia, sites that I visit practically everyday and are huge enablers for buying makeup, at least not until I finish 10 products first!

Wish me luck,

Tabby

[Edit: I forgot to stipulate that this is until Dec 31 2012, so I have a year to re-organize my makeup and skincare collection]