BOXYCHARM 🍭 APRIL 2018 🍭

BOXYCHARM 

APRIL 2018

April’s eye candy box is filled with goodies selected by the boxybabes and team. This month the info card came a little bit longer like a mini booklet with all the product infos and with the recommendations of the boxybabes.

1.Colourpop ‘Element of surprise’ palette.

Every subscriber will receive a variation of a colourpop palette (there are 5 ‘you had me at hello’, ‘semi precious’, ‘golden state of mind’, ‘my little pony’ and ‘element of surprise’!). 

I was hoping i would receive the first palette because the colours are more up my alley with the berries/plums/browns. But I received the element of surprise instead and I surprisingly quite like the colours inside.

Below are the 3 shades vertically from the first row down in each lane.

Feels: duochrome shade with shifting pink and purple shimmers.

Go with the flow: matte orange-peach shade, buildable pigmentation with each swipe.

Blank canvas: matte burgundy red shade, this shade is much chalkier than ‘go with the flow’ as seen from the swatch. But it is easily blendable.

Late night: a rose gold foiled metallic which would look awesome for a metallic eye look.

Subdue: a shimmery purple with hints of blue undertone. This is what a unicorn eyeshadow should look like. 

Sea stars: a matte mid tone brow with warm undertones, buildable coverage.

Silk street: a satin berry shade, smoother than the mattes and shade glides on much more buttery.

Opulent: a fluorescent neon hot pink with cool undertones.

Details: a matte brown with specks of pink glitter.

Rayon: a light copper gold metallic shade which can be used foiled too.

Labyrinth: a matte dusty rose pink shade, the smoothest matte in the palette and is not as chalky.

Peace of mind: cranberry red metallic shade.

As always, colourpop’s pressed shadows have good pigmentation and buildable coverage. The matte shadows are slightly chalky and most of the shades have kick back when brushed but they are all easily blendable. There are some shades that will leave a stain such as ‘blank canvas’ & ‘opulent’ due to the dye present in it. 

Kickback in pans:

2.The browgal The Instatint in shade Light hair 03.

This is a tinted brow gel with microfibers in the formula to help build up the brow thickness and fill in the sparse areas. I find that the shade here is far too light for dark hair, it is a light taupe brown that will suit blonde/platinum hair better. Does not transfer or smudge after applying, to darken my brows i draw as per usual with my colourpop twist up pencil before brushing the gel in. 

3.Tarteist pro glow liquid highlighter in Stunner.

Subscribers will receive either this product or a MAC lipstick, personally I would have preferred to get the lipstick rather than the highlighter because I’m a lipstick person and I won’t reach out for the highlighter often. 

That aside, this highlighter has a creamy jelly consistency that spreads to a thin layer. Can be blended with fingers too. This shade stunner matches the shade of the same name from the pro glow palette too. Its a light shimmering nude with hints of pink. 

4.Dr Brandt pores no more Vacuum cleaner pore purifying mask.

Another good full size tube of Dr brandt’s pores no more series, this time round its a purifying mask. It is a translucent gel with specks of blue and white particles inside, when rubbed on the face the particles disperse and gets mixed in with the translucent gel. It has a minty cooling effect and somewhat reminds me of colgate paste. 

5.Adesse NY&C hi definition liquid lipstick in Haute cocoa.

At first it sounded like a matte liquid lipstick, but then turns out this is like a lip lacquer, it is glossy like gel but very pigmented like a liquid lipstick. It reminds me of the cosmoholic gloss in shade mysterious mocha but only much more pigmented. The gel texture feels comfortable on the lips and is very moisturising too. The colour is also a great everyday my lips but better nude brown. Below is the lip swatch when worn. 

Overall April’s box is quite worthy of the total value of the 5 items. My favourite of course would still be the full colourpop palette and then the lipstick. I like this month’s box, now hopefully next month would be as good if not better.