Review: Maybelline Dream Matte Powder

I have never completely finished a pressed powder. For some reasson I always either lost them or they fell and broke into tiny pieces. So even trhough I have hit pan on my powders I have never actually completely finished it. Until now.

I used up my Maybelline Dream Matte Powder until there was not the tiniest little speck of powder left in the packaging! I didn’t lose it and I didn’t break it.I loved this powder so much that I treated it carefully and stored it so that I would never misplace it and have to go a day without this amazing product!

Yes, I’m in love.

This powder has it all, great packaging, amazing price and best of all it works! It keeps me matte throughout the day.

I apply this over my Revlon Colorstay foundation and it gives me a beautiful soft, matter finish. I only need to re apply this once somewhere around mid afternoon and I’m set for the entire day. This really is a great quality product.

Some other things I love about this product include the packaging, the price and the fact that you can just get this any drugstore. I love the packaging for this product because it has a mirror you can slide out from underneath and a great place to store the powder applicator so that you don’t have to place it over the product like you normally would with another powder.

This product can be found at most drugstore for around $7.

I want to introduce my new rating system that I will now be using for all reviews. It’s like a 5 star rating system, except I’ll be using little sweet candies! I hope you like it J

So the final veredict:

I love this powder and seriously need to go repurchase as soon as possible!

The Maybelline Dream Matte Powder gets:

A 5 on the Sweet Scale!

XOXO,

Milk of Magnesia: Does it really help with oily skin?

I am a total sucker for any DIY or all natural remedies so I had really high hopes when I decided to try milk of magnesia for my oily skin. I had read that is was a wonderful and cheap way to deal with excess oil. I tried it out for about a month, maybe a bit more, and these are my results:

When you first apply it you immediately feel it’s drying effect. My skin felt quite tight, when applying you must be very careful because a white film will most likely form around the edges so you want to make sure you get rid of that, all you have to do is rub it a bit and it comes off.

While it is quite mattifying when first applied it really didn’t have any long lasting effects for me. I still got oily as if I had applied nothing at all. I was pretty disappointed because I had very high hopes for this! I had heard it was wonderful for so many people! I really don’t know if it’s just me but milk of magnesia was not the cure for my oily T-zone, the search for my solution continues!

XOXO,

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel!

I’ll start out by saying I’m in love with this moisturizer. If you have oily skin and you worry about making your skin greasy by using a moisturizer than it’s probably because you haven’t tried this. Oily skin needs moisture to avoid over production of even more oil and this provides me with just the right amount of moisture. It’s a non-comedogenic moisturizer so it won’t clog your pores and break you out. It is a very light formula that absorbs quite quickly and after I apply it my skin feels like satin! Seriously it’s left ridiculously soft! It provides me with the perfect base to apply my makeup. I didn’t really get amazing results from the Clinique 3 step system but at least this one product was well worth my money. I’m running out so I have to go repurchase before it’s all gone! Clinique makes two formulations, gel and lotion. If the lotion is anything like the gel then I would definitely recommend it for people with dryer skin. This is the best moisturizer I have tried to date, I’m giving this 5 stars!

XOXO Vanilla Pop <3