I'd heard a lot of good
things about Charlotte Tilbury make up, seen articles in a few magazine and I
follow her on my instagram, so when I was walking through Selfridges in Birmingham
and it was nice and quiet I decided to stop and check out the goods.
I
was actually heading over to MAC for a new bronzer and I don't know whether it
was the beautiful shiny packaging or the really lovely sales lady but in true
Becky Bloomwood style I ended up blowing my budget and picking up Charlotte
Tilbury Filmstar Bronze and Glow... annnd an eyeshadow pallet. I mean if your
going to go over budget you might as well do it in style.
So
first up is Charlotte Tilbury Filmstar Bronze and Glow £49 in Selfridges (you
can buy it here). I'll start with the packaging... it is GORGEOUS, yes I'm a
sucker for things like this and I know it doesn't make any difference to the
product inside but it does add a little something and the shiny rose gold
compact is perfect, there's a real vintage feel to the outside and a large
mirror inside. The powders are labelled with 'sculpt' which is your bronzer,
'to apply to cheek hollows, temples, jawline, sides & tip of nose &
blend' and 'highlight' which you apply second to the 'top of cheek bones,
centre of nose, bow of lips & brow bone to give you candle lit skin.'
Basically by using it its really easy to emphasize your features without having
a heavily contoured look, and you can do in a minute. I found you didn't need
to put much on (especially of the 'sculpt' and it was a really natural finish.
I've since worn it on an evening out and as my over all make up look was
darker/heavier its easy to layer up without you looking orange at all. If I
were richer it would be my new everyday make up, as it is I'm keeping it for
the days when people I know will see my face not just for food shopping and the
post office.
Now
the Bronze and Glow I could kind of claim I needed, the eyeshadow pallet I did
not. But the lovely assistant on the counter looked amazing! her make up was
perfect (not really a surprise) and so I asked her what she had on, I now own
that. 'The Vintage Vamp' luxury palette £38
(you can buy it here).
Again, the packaging is beautiful! the colours inside are gorgeous! I did find
I had to layer them up a bit to get a strong colour but that may be deliberate
so that you can have more of a daytime or an evening look. On the back of the
palette there is a numbered guide for 'Prime, enhance, pop and smoke'. I think
its quite obvious from the colours what goes where but if you don't often wear
eyeshadow there is lots of Charlotte Tilbury create the look videos
online. I'm keeping it for evenings out as its almost to beautiful to use and I'll continue to use my Urban decay Naked palette for daily use, but I also wanted to mention a really good cheaper alternative to both... The Body Shop Cube Palette, I LOVE these and have used various ones for the last 10 years! seriously.
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| Charlotte Tilbury 'The Vintage Vamp' palette £38 available here. |
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| Charlotte Tilbury 'The Uptown Girl' complete beauty set £165 available here. |
If
your new to Charlotte Tilbury make up she has a quite fabulous system of
grouping make up together for a complete 'look', ie 'The Golden Goddess', 'The
Vintage Vamp', 'The Uptown Girl' etc, so if you wanted (and had the money) you
can buy the complete look knowing all your make up products will complement
each other. Sounds like brilliant marketing? It is! but it also makes so much
sense, not all colour combinations go together and this way you won't finish
your make up, go to put on a random lipstick and kind of ruin it.
Also
while paying for my new goodies, the assistant took my details and put me on
their system, meaning that for example if I needed to pick up another one of a
lipstick I really liked but couldn't for the life of me remember the name then
they would. Or as she suggested, if you sent in your boyfriend to buy you a
birthday gift they would know which ranges you liked/had and could recommend
something that would go. Brilliant Idea!! Except then he would know how much
this all cost so maybe not actually...
Another little tip... for
£35 (I think, don't hold me to that) you can also have your make up done for a
wedding, night out, date night and you then redeem the £35 against products you
want to buy! I only found this out afterwards! But MAC also do the same for £30
so it's worth checking if you have a favourite make up brand/counter.
In
all not only does Charlotte Tilbury seem like a really nice person with
fantastic hair she makes lovely make up to! Hope you've enjoyed my review,
Sophie x
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| Wearing; Skin-Charlotte Tilbury 'Filmstar Bronze & Glow', Eyes- Charlotte Tilbury 'The Vintage Vamp' and Lips- MAC 'Real Doll' |
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| See my blog post on MAC 'Real Doll' here. |
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