Beauty Product Reviews

Longwear? Not by a long shot!

For the $44 I paid, I'm unimpressed. Longwear? Absolutely not on my combination skin. It transfered to my fiancé's skin during our engagement photos after having applied it only about an hour before photos.

With this foundation, I'm a grease slick by 3 pm and the foundation is broken up on my t-zone. And that's with Hourglass Mineral Veil primer, which is my go-to. The foundation settles in fine lines (and I'm in my mid-20's!) as well as clings and emphasizes dry patches. It applies cakey with my Wayne Goss foundation brush and my Marc Jacobs Face II foundation brush. It may apply better with a beauty blender but since I'm returning the foundation, I'm not going to bother testing it further.

The only good thing about this foundation was my color match. I based my shade off of swatches and was pretty dead on. I fortunately didn't listen to the shade matching tool on Sephora's or Charlotte Tilbury's website because both shade 2 and 3 that were recommended would have both been too dark. This foundation is in no way inclusive to all shades of skin though.

Overall, this would be good if you're dry but don't have any dry patches and fine lines for the foundation to settle in. I personally wouldn't recommend it though, Estee Lauder Double Wear is better for roughly the same price.

Brushes Still Shed

My now-fiance (then boyfriend) bought this set for me for Christmas back in 2017. I adore the brushes and use them daily. I would have rated them 5 stars when I first got them.

That being said, brushes 1 & 2 still shed after over a year. This can no longer be explained away as floating hairs because they've been washed enough that there should no longer be floating hairs.

I love this set but for the price, you shouldn't have to pick hairs off of your face every other time you use the brushes. Because of this, I can't recommend them.