MUA products!

MUA, (Make Up Academy) is a fairly recent make up brand, available in Superdrug, and i think it may be available in Boots too! The first thing that attracted me to this brand was the price.. £1! with a few exceptions, the vast majority of the products available in this line retail and just £1.  The brand has quite rightely been compared to ELF (Eyes Lips Face), with the added value of being available to buy on the high street, where-as in the UK, ELF is an online store only.  

Apologies for the rubbish lighting - alot of these swatchers aren't appearing true to their colour, but whats a girl to do! 

I especially want to comment on the two trio pallet's.. the amount of pigmentation and product you get, all for £2.50 is incredible! 

The MUA proffessional eyeshadow trio, in "innocence"

The perfect combination for a lid colour, crease and highlighter.  Personally, i like to mix, match and combine these gorgeous colours with those from my other pallet... 

"Chocolate box"

Personally, this trio doesn't compliment all the different colours as well as Innocence.  I could easily use the first trio to create a look that i'd be happy with all day - but i don't feel like the chocolate box allows you to do that without incorporating some other shadows.  None the less, a gorgeous trio :)

The line also offers singular eyeshadows.  

The single eyeshadows definitely have mixed reviews with me! The second and the fourth picture, featuring shades 1 & 2 are extremely sheer.  The swatches you can see come from me digging my finger in to the shadow and applying 4 or 5 layers - so all in all, very disappointing.  Other than that, the colours are extremely matt, if that's the look your going for - i guess the white could be seen as a staple colour, but the more skin coloured tone is a powdery and really oranged toned.  

However! the two darker shadows, shades 11 & 12 have really impressed me.  They're very similar, with shade 11 having more red, burgundy tones.  Both shades shimmer beautifully, but don't glitter, which can often look too over done on the crease, and are extremely pigmented.  

My attention was then drawn to the amazing range of lipsticks! although they don't have many variations of colours, they make up for it in that they carry every staple colour a girl could need! 

Now, the lipsticks aren't the most pigmented available, but if you're anything like me, that's perfect! I love to have a bit of colour on my lips but i'm not brave enough to pull of the bold colours! 

So all in all, the brand has many positives and negatives! the biggest issue is the pigmentation,  but for the price ladies, can we really complain?!

Let me know what you all thought of the brand if you've tried it out, and whether i'm neglecting any must haves!

thanks for reading!

BeccxBeauty

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