Makeup Discoveries and Bestsellers in Australia

As you may have noticed, I have being living it up on my travels, I started in Dubai, flew to Sydney, stayed  around the east coast of Australia for a few weeks and ended my travels in Singapore for a couple nights.

I have honestly have the trip of a lifetime, and I didn't expect to be doing this all so soon.

So I wanted to share with you the makeup brands I have discovered and the products thats are Australias best sellers.
They really are Makeup lovers over here, there are many popular makeup/beauty vloggers and talents makeup artists on the makeup counters.
Sephora and Mecca are their most popular department stores that sell a TON of makeup and brands that are greatly known around the world, and ones that are Australias own brands.
And thank god I got to paint a few faces whist over there too!

First off I came across Australian made Skincare brands which have fresh products and ingredients that are grown and created in the AU, I saw this shop in a little shopping town hidden amongst the clothing shops, I could tell straight away that this would be a fresh skincare brand so of course I needed to take a look.
This really interested me, as I LOVE natural skincare products that are freshly made and work naturally instead of filled with synthetic products.
One of these shops was Savant Apothecary. I met Kylie, the creator in the shop, she created all the products from scratch as well as mixing the products in store AND creating the labels for her bottles.
Amazing and inspiring!!
She uses pure oils and ingredients within her products, so you know exactly what you are putting on your skin as well as what and where each mixture will be targeted.

Since being in Australia, I knew Sephora was in many places, so this meant a shopping spree for me!
But I also discovered Mecca which is another department store that i had never heard of.
These were of course the 2 places that I treated my lovely credit card to ;)
My Sephora purchases were;
HUDA Beauty Lip Strobe
Fenty Beauty 'Gloss Bomb' and
Fenty Beauty KillsWatt Highlighter
Sephora Charcoal Micellar Cleansing Water  (I needed to try the Charcoal skin hype)

My Mecca purchases were;
Mecca Max - The Illuminati Metallic Liner
Hourglass - Ambient Lighting Blush in 'Incandescent Electra'
Hourglass - Confession Refillable Lipstick Set includes shades 'My One Desire', 'True Love Means' & 'You Are My'

Then i went back again to Mecca and brought more…

Too Faced - Lip Injection 

Stila - Glitter and Glow Sticks

and a couple of skincare samples that i am still yet to try (once i have tested and trialed my back log of Powder beauty boxes)

I also came across another australian brand called Napolion Perdis, which kind of reminds me what No.7 is in the UK, but the products are a lot more fashion forward.
These were very much in every beauty pharmacy and pop ups around the centres.
I got myself a lip gloss from their range as this was the exact colour that I had been looking for…
a Coral/Pink pigmented gloss.

But overall I got chance to discover, play and try out more of the brands that I cant always get my hands on in Derby…
These brands are literally Australias bestsellers when it comes to make brands;
Too Faced
Tarte
Benefit
Kat Von D
Sephora (own collection)
Napolion
Hourglass
Stila
Mario Badescu

These brands are of course available to us all over the globe pretty much, but as each country has a top selling brand they were pretty much the brands that Australia were obsessing with right now.
They were also massive fans of YouTube and watching their local makeup artists online, from hauls to tutorials they were dedicated fans.
It was also great to discover more closely about their online makeup influences like;
Chloe Morello
Shani Grimmond
Kasey Rayton
Erin Scott
Sammy Robinson
Lauren Curtis
Dani Ransutti
Michael Finch

Honestly these makeup lovers are great over on youtube, its honestly brought back my youtube love.

So for most of my time I was located in Newcastle, NSW Australia, which is where i saw and experienced these places, if any of you were wanting to go ;)
I really loved Newcastle, even though this wouldn't be a travelling location its a great place to visit if you miss the everyday lifestyle.

I shall be doing individual blog reviews on some of my products buys - listed above.
Please let me know if you want any particular products reviewing, and i shall put the first!

Now im back to reality, back to work, but LOVING my job!
If you have any questions or enquiries regarding my services please contact me on
makeupbysophiedowning@yahoo.co.uk

Love Sophie xxx

Spring Makeup Trends 2018

I LOVEEEE Spring!!

Just knowing that we are saying goodbye to those cold days and night and walking into a blossoming garden, so refreshing.

This is how your makeup should be - CHANGE

So many people have the same makeup routine and products for years! Its time to switch it up.

I can help you out with 1-1 makeup lessons and makeup bag revamps.

Just see my website for these Spring gems! www.makeupbysophiedowning.co.uk

REVIEW: Guerlain Terracotta Joli Teint

I posted on my Facebook Page, what blog post you would like to see this week, and you voted Product REVIEWSSSS, so here you have it.

I thought it would be a great time to review the Guerlain Joli Teint Foundation, as I am in Australia at this current moment and this is one of the Foundations that I brought with me.
Mainly because, I didn't want a thick coverage, as I knew I would be exposed to the sun, and of course I want to go home with a sun tan.
But it is known as Guerlain's Beautifying Foundation - Sunkissed, Healthy Glow.
Which is obviously the perfect description of what we all want on our holidays.

So its only February, but it is Spring next month, so it is the season that we should all be switching up our makeup bags and aiming for a more healthy, glowing look.
(My free Spring Makeup Revamp will be out on the 1st March, to help you all out)
So why not switch up your foundation with Joli Teint.

Joli Teint is a single formula of a foundation and skincare in one. It gives a sun kissed, radiant, healthy glow finish within the Terracotta range.
The Terracotta range is broken down into hair colours and skin tones, which makes it so simple to find your colour. This foundation comes in 5 Shades and really adapts to your natural skin tone with the help of the skincare ingredients.

Guerlain actually describes this to be used, at the heart of Winter, or upon the arrival of Spring - PERFECT!
This foundation fights against fatigue that blurs the complexion, and instantly evens, warms and adds radiance to the complexion.

I found that the texture does feel slightly thicker than a tinted moisturiser (as i expected it to feel lightweight) although it spreads evenly over the skin feeling creamy whist also giving a lovely coverage!
The coverage is enough for every day, it covers and evens the skin tone out in one application but it doesn't feel as thick as a medium foundation.

Throughout the day it stays looking radiant, healthy whilst keeping a warm complexion but if your in humid weather I did find that it went a little patchy on the jawline, but maybe I will just apply most the coverage where I actually need it.

It also contains SPF 20 within the foundation, which is a bonus if you are wanting to walk around in the sun on your holidays.
Guerlain have so many products in the Terracotta range, such as powders to body products.

Have you tried Guerlain's makeup before?
Or any of their foundations?

Love Sophie