New Cid Cosmetics

Thursday night I was invited to the New CID Cosmetics studios in Central London, to get a sneak preview of some their soon to be released products and let me just say . . . girlies you are in for a treat this year.

I'm really new to New Cid Cosmetics (I'm a CID Virgin *sniggers to self*) but I've heard a lot of good things about their products; especially about their lipsticks, so as you can guess I was really excited about learning about their products . . .and more importantly what they had that could suit my skin shade.

The first thing that caught my beady lil' eyes were their lipstick and glosses. I know why everyone has hyped up the i-pout lipsticks now. They are bloody amazing, so glossy and pigmented which is exactly how I love my lippies. If the pigmentation had not swayed me, the inbuilt touch and mirror that comes standard with each i-pout won me over. I think this would be a perfect addition to my bag, especially at night when I'm trying to find my keys. There are 12 shades in the i-pout collection and my favourite *which you can see below* is a gorgeous pink shade called Fuscia and Very Cherry, an indulgent dark red/plum shade.


A new product which will be hitting the shelves in the next few months is their i-Perfection Colour Adjust Foundation to replace their current i-Perfect range. The i-Perfection is a light to meduim coverage foundation which allows you to warm up and cool down your foundation to match your skin tone perfectly. It is available to purchase in 9 shades ranging from Nougat (very pale porcelain skin tones) to Mocha (dark/black skin tones). 

Our Makeup Artist for the Night, Mikey was on hand to show us just how wonderful this new foundation was and how easy it was to use.

Sabrina from the Science of Style, gets a free makeover *lucky thing*

It looked so gorgeous and lightweight.

New CID Cosmetics have a lot of great goodies coming out in the next few months, like i-Polish, which is a Light up Nail Polish that I will be keeping an eye and an ear out for, and I suggest you do to.

After all, who wouldn't want chic packaged cosmetics which light up??

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Benefit is set to launch dark foundation shades

Great news for all my dark skin lovelies.

Image from British Beauty Blogger

Benefit have FINALLY got their act together and will be launching a some foundation choices for us in their soon to be released Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Foundation.

Although it is not set to be released til April *le sigh* I am personally thrilled to hear this news *It's about time!!!* If you have ever read through my rants, you would notice that alot of them centre around my frustration with finding makeup pigmented enough or foundations dark enough to be used on my skin, so Benefit this is definitely a step in the right direction, now all they have to do is release some blushes that are actually pigmented enough to be used as something more than as an expensive highlight and I might actually think about venturing near a Benefit store again. (Click here to find read about my First and Only experience with Benefit)

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Glowing with NARS Sheer Glow

So summer has finally decided to peek it cheeky little head this week so I thought I should da a review on the foundation I'm currently *kinda* using for the summer. This is not a really a brand new product straight off the beauty press. I think it was launched last year spring time sometime (not sure exactly when though)

NARS Sheer Glow foundation is a light- medium coverage foundation that is meant to brighten, clarify and hydrate your skin, as well as minimised skin discolouration. It comes in 20 different shades and should be available for purchase at your nearest NARS counter or online. 

NARS Sheer Glow in Trinidad - I'm now Trinidadian =)

My foundation colour in NARS is Trinidad (dark 3), *and fyi I'm an nw45 in MAC*, and what I was initially impressed with, is that this foundation doesn't have an weird yellow undertone that many foundations for Afro-British skin have, so it looked very natural on my face. I love, love, love the lightweight, dewy feeling of this foundation, it's exactly how a summer foundation should feel. It doesn't sit on your face like a ton of bricks and then melt off in a rain-pour the moment you step outside into the heat like a lot of foundations do. I felt it blending very nicely without too many streaks *which is a bonus* and lasted relatively the whole day.

Swatch of Foundation

Blended a little so shade is visible

All blended out

Negatives

I don't really have anything outrageously evil to say about this foundation as I did quite like it, however:-

• I think NARS should really rethink the formula for this foundation as it made my face look way too shiny and oily, (it complete changed my skin type from normal to oily*Not good!!*) and as a result I had to use a lot of more powder than I usually do to combat the sheen.
• I hate the fact that this doesn't come with a pump, as it can get a bit messy and I personally felt that I was partaking in a science experiment trying to measure out the right quantity to use

Overall Feedback (2/5)

 I really want to rate this foundation highly because on one hand it hit the targets which I was looking for in regards to a summer foundation (lightweight and a decent coverage) but on the other hand I really do not want to look more shiny that I need to be. I actually have not really used this foundation too often; one because the weather in London has been completely HORRIBLE and two because I'm currently using a MAC NW40 concealer and my concealer and this foundation doesn't match or work very well together . . . . and well it makes me look a bit patchy. But after a quick visit to the Selfridge's NARS makeup counter this weekend, I found out that they were planning to release a wide range of concealer that would/should work with their foundation shades.

I am a bit disappointed that I'm going to have to buy a new concealer in order to get my money's worth out of this foundation, because at £29.50 (RRP) this foundation is not what I call cheap and it costs more than my regular foundation.

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