With all the controversy of the Anastasia Beverly Hills Subculture palette so big at the moment I thought it would be a good idea to remember its sister palette, Modern Renaissance.. You've no doubt heard all your favourite bloggers and you tubers talking about it, and with good reason. 

 It features a gorgeous array of pink and red tones. It contains 10 matt shades and 4 shimmer shades. The mix of colour leaves for a gorgeous spring/summer eye look, with all the shades you would need in this one palette. For example for a quick running out the door look, I put 'Tempera' all over the lid and brow bone and they pick up 'Raw Sienna' and 'Burnt Orange' on a big fluffy blending brush and take it through the crease. To finish it off I just take a mix of those two shades on a pencil brush and place them on my lower lash line. 

The quality of these shadows is like nothing i've used before. They are so nicely pigmented that they just blend out with so little effort. The only down fall I've found with these shadows is that they do have a bit off fall out on the matt shades. This is definitely not a deal breaker for me, as the blendability and the pigmentation totally outweigh the fallout. 


If you're any way on the fence about buying this palette, I would definitely say go for it. Especially if you're just getting into makeup, these shades are just so easy to work with! I wouldn't let the fact that it's slightly brighter in colour scheme put you off at all. 

The palette retails for €53 and you can get it here here

My Must Have Eye Brushes

 Eye makeup is probably my favourite part of doing my makeup. I love eye brushes and over the years I've accumulated quite a few. 

This is probably the one brush that I would consider most important in my makeup routine. The Sigma E40 blending brush is perfect for blending out any colour. Its amazing. It makes my whole makeup routine a lot quicker and my eye makeup blend out so much more flawlessly. 

First off, I know the tape around this brush does not stand to the quality of this brush but it happened within the first week I had it because I washed it wrong, but since then I have had no fall out with this brush. This is the Essence smokey eye brush, it was one of the first eye brushes that I ever used and i've never not had this at hand during my makeup, so for me it really is a staple. Its the perfect brush for placing colour in the crease and it blends out pretty well too. A great option if you're on a budget. 

This brush is a more recent favourite of mine. Its from H&M and I'm really surprised at how great it is for a quick nicely blended eye look.I've had it for a while but never really paid much attention to it if I'm honest. You can use it to lay a shadow on the lid and also use it to blend a lighter colour through the crease. Another great option if you're on a budget. 

My final favourite is this shader brush is from Urban decay. This is a fairly basic item in my collection but its just such a good one, and I like it a lot. There will obviously be options that are just as good for a lot cheaper, but this one came with Naked Palette, and ever since I just really love using it. 

What are you must have eye brushes?

Favourite Neutral Shadows

Basically all I wear on my eyes is neutral shadows. I love the way they look and believe it or not theres a million different ways to wear them. My first favourite is a pretty obvious one. The Original Naked Palette is a cult favourite when it comes to neutral shadows. It has 12 gorgeous neutral shades that you can use a billion (roughly) different ways. I'm not going to bang on about these for too long because everyone's heard about it and if you're thinking about getting one I would definitely recommend getting it. My only gripe with this is the packaging gets filthy. A small price to pay for great shadows though. 

My other favourite neutral shadows are the Essence eye shadow Quattro in 'To Die For'. Its very inexpensive and it was one of the first makeup items I ever bought. It has gorgeous pigmentation and the shadows are so easily blendable. It's something I use almost every time I do my makeup and definitely a holy grail Item for me. A great one if you're just starting out in makeup and are trying to figure out what works for you. 

What are your must have neutral shadows?

Review: Sleek ShowStoppers Palette

Hey guys! So Recently I picked up the sleek ShowStoppers Palette from Cloud10 Beauty. The Palette is limited addition so if you are interested in it, I would defiantly act quick! 

 The Packaging the Palette first comes in is a little box with the crushed eyeshadows on it. Quite The Gruesome scene. When You take the actual palette out of the packaging its in quite ' sleek' ( See what I did there;) ) Nice looking packaging and is presented really well. 

                           

Outer Packaging

 

                                

Theres a really good range of colours and neutrals and also shimmer and matte shades. My personal Favourite shimmer shade being Sunset which is a nice shimmery slightly burgandy colour and Bohemian is my favorite matt shade which is a nice coral colour which will be beautiful in the spring time. From the research I have done before doing buying this product I have discovered that this is the first sleek palette in which the shades have been given individual names.

The Overall Pigmentation of the palette is good although I found it very hard to get any colour payoff from Paraguaya. Also when i applied graphite to the lid it went from being a sparkly brown colour to a dark grey shade. A bit Odd if you ask me. But overall I really Liked this palette the shades are long lasting and Pigmented( for the most part). The only real problem i've come across is a little bit of fall out and also the colours do crease. Even After all the Cons of this product I Would still really recommend this palette.

Swatches

Sparkle on the lid and Graphite in the crease. 

Pro's

• Good Range Of neutrals and colours
• Good range of shimmers and mattes
• Inexpensive
• Good Packaging 

Cons:

• Creases easily 
• Some Shades don't apply as they appear in the pan
• Some shades aren't that pigmented