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Physicians Formula Butter Blush Plum Rose Review

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - March 03, 2021

This blush has had so many bad reviews that I can't even count how many I have read. So why did I pick this up and wanted to try it by myself? First of all, it was on sale, and second I was immensely interested in the fact that people described this blush as not having pigment or very little of it. I love to try different complexion products and see how they look on my skin. As I have very pale skin, I knew If I was to try out this non-pigment blush it could work and the idea of blush I could layer sounded interesting.

Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter Blush - Plum Rose - €14

Discover the Physicians Formula Murumuru Butter Blush 7.5g an ultra-luxurious formula, infused with Murumuru Butter, delivers a radiant Brazilian goddess glow! Incredibly soft and ultra-creamy texture combines the best features of a powder and cream blush. Skin-Loving Blend Infused with Murumuru Butter, Cupuacu Butter and Tucuma Butter, from the lush and nutrient-rich Amazon. - FeelUnique website

What it promises:

Infused with Murumuru Butter, Cupuacu Butter and Tucuma Butter
Radiant finish
Soft - ultra-creamy texture
Combines best features of powder and cream blush

THE FORMULA

This Physicians Formula Murumuru butter blush has the most amazing formula - it is ultra-creamy, soft, and feels super luxurious. The Murumuru butter blush has a strong sweet smell that I really enjoy. The formula feels more premium than what the price is.

COLOUR

I can see why this product has gotten so many bad reviews - the colour range is strange for blush type of product and the shade plum rose that I got barely shows up on my super fair skin tone. On the pan, the product looks cool-tone bronze with a hint of a pink undertone, but when applied to the skin it sheers out to be more of a soft blurring powder with a hint of colour. I really wish I had picked a different shade as the formula itself is gorgeous. I have tried to build this up, but the more I build it more of an ashy-tone it gets. I'm still testing out if there is a way to make this work, as I really want to use it.

PACKAGING

The packaging of the Physicians Formula Murumuru butter blush seems a bit tacky for me personally. The blush compact has a lid, then the blush and under it, there is a compartment with a spongy brush type of applicator that to me seems totally unnecessary. The compact seems very lightweight and flimsy, not my favourite type of packaging from the drugstore.

OVERALL REVIEW

The formula and the scent of the Physicians Formula Murumuru butter blush is totally unique and I'm thinking of picking up a different shade of this blush as I totally fell in love with these two things, even if the product has major issues.

Have you tried this product? What you think of it?

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Is Baked any Better? Milani Dolce Pink Baked Blush Review

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - November 28, 2020

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Elf Putty Primer Review

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - November 20, 2020

These products are deemed as 'holy grail'. I knew I wanted to try these out, especially because the price point is fantastic and ELF is so easily available almost everywhere in the world. I ordered a few lip and eyeshadow products from Elf and picked up the Poreless Putty Primer and Monochromatic multi-stick at the same time.

Elf Poreless Putty Primer - RRP £8

This skin perfecting poreless putty primer is infused with Squalane to help grip makeup for all-day wear and help protect skin from moisture loss. The velvety texture glides effortlessly over the skin, smoothing over imperfections for a poreless effect. - Boots Uk website

The Poreless Putty Primer from Elf is a cult product no doubt - priced reasonable £8 and widely available, this little primer pot has made the beauty community rave about it. I ordered this finally to try it out and see if it would work on my partner's acne prone skin with enlargened pores.

The primer is a thick creamy texture and it is light beige is colour that diffuses to the skin and leaves no colour in the end. It visibly fills in pores and makes skin feel soft and ready for foundation. The primer is infused with hydrating squalene and antioxidant-rich green tea extract.

Overall this worked so well on both mine and my partner's skin. I would recommend anyone to try this.

Monochromatic Multi-Stick in Luminous Berry - RRP £5

This versatile, multi-use stick can be used on your eyes, lips and cheeks for a soft, glowy, monochromatic look. Use this shimmery, luxuriously blendable cream-to-powder stick as your eyeshadow, lipstick, and blush for a cohesive, monochromatic look. The lightweight, blendable formula makes it virtually mistake proof and perfect for touch-ups on the go. - Elf Uk website

Another item that has been widely talked about and gotten a lot of positive reviews is the elf monochromatic multi-use stick. I picked up the shade Luminous Berry to try out, while I was a bit worried about the monochromatic look it turned out to be an amazing product. It does what it promises, its blendable cream to powder formula that feels like nothing on the skin. It is lightweight and super easy to use.

It can be used with a heavy hand for more opaque and intense shade or blended out a flush of colour.

I use this mostly on my cheeks as a blush and it works so well - it blends down easily and leaves lovely flushed look to the skin - no glittery or over shimmery finish at all. I have tried this also on my lips which works fine. Overall super excited about this product.

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The Ultimate Purple Shampoo Brand? Provoke.

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - November 19, 2020

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3 Reasons why you need to try Simple Skin Quench Sleeping Cream

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - November 13, 2020

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Eco-friendly Nivea - Should you try?

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - October 19, 2020

NIVEA Fresh Blends Shower Cream gives you a sensation of joy and natural freshness. The delightful & refreshing readily biodegradable formula is lovingly blended with naturally derived ingredients, fruit extracts & plant-based milk. Yes, our bottles may be a little grey but we make these from 100% recycled plastic, helping you & us to reduce our impact on the environment. - Nivea UK website.

For healthy & fresh skin
Kind on skin and planet
Readily biodegradable formula
90% naturally derived ingredients

I picked these up from my local Wilko for £4 each:

Fresh Blends Shower Cream with Raspberry, Blueberry and Almond Milk -RRP £4

Fresh Blends Shower Cream with Watermelon, Mint and Coconut Milk -RRP £4

Fresh Blends Shower Cream with Apricot, Mango and Rice Milk -RRP £4

What really excited me to try out these shower creams and write a post about them was because of the packaging. I was so delighted to see a bottle made out of eco-friendly recycled plastic in the mass-market arena that I knew I should write a post about these. Also, the names of the products really appealed to me and I really had high hopes for the scents.

Eco-packaging

So these bottles are made out of 100% recycled plastic and what made me very impressed was the fact that the bottles seem to be super clear. Usually recycled plastic has a grey undertone that can make bottles and other packaging look unappealing, but these looked as good as virgin plastic.

Formula

This product is meant to be a shower cream, while it delivers the nourishing side of a cream, it is definitely a shower gel formula, not a cream. It is a nice gel-like formula with 90% naturally derived ingredients, it is also biodegradable and vegan. There a lot of people who might not really care about the feel of their shower gel or cream, but I'm pretty obsessed about details. While I really enjoy using these, the formula feels the same as most cheaper shower gels and it is not really memorable, while the price point is a bit high for just an average shower gel.

Scents

I was a bit of disappointed about the scents in the products, while the front text excited me to believe these shower gels might have a unique and complex smell that would satisfy even more snobby taste I was wrong - they smell like any other mango, watermelon and raspberry shower gels. The scents are nice and refreshing and I think most people would enjoy them, but they are definitely not any luxury scents, but at the same time, we are talking about Nivea products that are targeted to mass market.

Overall thoughts?

I really admire the eco-friendly aspect of the product and hope that more of the big skincare giants with affordable price points would follow to lead, but for my taste, these shower creams were a bit too mass market for their scents and looks, while definitely being a bit high on a price point for most drugstore shower creams. While I understand that natural formulas can be more expensive to make and recycled plastic is more expensive, I wish they had picked a bit more exotic fragrances or looks to the products for the price point.

Nivea is owned by Beiensercrof. You can find Nivea sustainability goals and information here: https://www.nivea.co.uk/about-us/sustainability/world-is-our-skin

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Nip & Fab Fix Stix Contour

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - October 12, 2020

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Elf Bite Size Beauty Palettes Acai You + Rose Water Review

By Glow Up Beauty Blog - October 10, 2020

Elf Bitesize Eyeshadow Palettes have been the talk of the beauty industry this summer and how could they not? They are affordable (only £3), they come in 8 shades and they are easy to buy. I initially didn't want to pick these up and I was more interested in the Elf Bitesize Blush Palettes that didn't yet launch in the UK unfortunately, so eventually, I gave in and got these two mini palettes.

I got the shades:

Elf - Bitesize eyeshadow palette - Rose Water - RRP £3

Elf - Bitesize eyeshadow palette -Acai You - RRP £3

elf bite size beauty eyeshadow palettes acai you and rose water

elf bite size beauty eyeshadow palettes acai you colour swatch on arm

Elf - Bitesize eyeshadow palette -Acai You - RRP £3

First I want to say, I'm not usually a big fan of cool-toned eyeshadows especially blues, but these hues really spoke to me and after seeing a few eyeshadow looks with this palette I decided I wanted to try this out and I'm really happy I did! I don't have anything like this on my collection and the light matte grey-baby-blue shade was something I really wanted to try.

The palette consists of four shades - deep almost black blue, shimmer purple-blue, shimmer grey-blue and matte grey baby blue. While I won't be reaching for the darker blues, I know I will use up the pastel shade.

Elf - Bitesize eyeshadow palette - Rose Water - RRP £3

The Rose Water palette is a cool-toned rose champagne eyeshadow palette with one matte shade, two shimmer shades, and one shade that seems to be somewhere in between.

The first shade is true Champagne shimmer shade that is amazing as inner corner highlight, brow bone highlight, or just all over the lid. It is pigmented and super smooth on the skin, it blends well and gives a lovely dimension to the eyes.

The second shade was the reason I was so drawn to this palette, the shade is somewhere between cool-toned brown and pinkish-mauve that I found super unique and interested. It is the only properly matte shade on this palette and it applies nicely, it is pigmented and for £3, I would have only bought this shade.

elf bite size beauty eyeshadow palette rose water colour swatch on arm

The third shade is a warm rose shimmer shade that is neutral enough to be my liking. It is smooth, nicely blendable and adds shine to the lids. While I really like the shade I don't think it is that unique in the end.

The last shade is dark brown that has light golden shimmer on it, but when applied to the eyelid the shade looks matte.

Overall the shade range is gorgeous and you can easily create gorgeous beginner-friendly looks with this, without trying to think too much. The palettes only downfall is that the matte shades are a bit patchy and really hard to blend, it is such a shame as the colour story is so beautiful and the price point so good that I really hoped this would be the next cult eyeshadow product.

For £3, do I think it is worth it? I think for anyone looking to play around with new colours definitely, but if you own a lot of palettes with these shades already you don't really need these in your collection in my opinion.