Braun Face Epilator

Asalamu 3alykom everyone!

So this blog is about the braun face epilator and cleansing brush! 

Before I actually tell you what I think about the Braun Epilator, I want to talk about epilating the face in general. 

Okay so being an arab-girl, I am very white (I wasn't lucky enough to have beautiful golden skin, I got pale white skin) and being white with dark hair, it just shows so much. Ever since I can remember I have always hateddddd being so hairy, and I have always tried to find ways of minimising the hair to look like an actual human. 

So I have tried everything from waxing, to threading to my preferred method of bleaching my facial hair. 

 

When I was younger my mum wouldn't allow me to remove my facial hair as she always told me it would get worse, so bleaching was my best friend. 

I used to regularly bleach it, until one day I got older and thought hey why don't I try to wax it, I'm sure it would so much better. I started off with waxing my side burns only. Big mistake, every tried to wax a portion of your face and then apply make up?...Yeah don't you will look like an actual weirdo, because waxing removed the dead skin too, so I guess that portion became whiter? I don't know all I know it was a big mistake, so I thought hey instead of doing only my side-burns i'll just do my whole face? that sounds like a good idea right? Wrong again! Waxing broke me out so badly I was just one big spot. Worst thing ever. 

I decided mama is always right, and decided to stick to bleaching my facial hair. 

Threading is always an option, but I suffer enough pain with threading my eyebrows and upper lip that I couldn't imagine ever doing my side-burns with it too. I could possibly pass out from the pain! 

So one day I stumbled across a video of Huda Beauty where she reviewed this Braun epilator and cleansing brush and I thought oh my goodness I need this. 

I went out and bought it, because I thought bleaching my side-burns makes the hair grow longer and I could sometimes see it when I put make up on and I really do hate it, which is why I decided to give it a go, of course mama told me it was a bad idea, but did I listen?... of course not!

So we finally come to the actual product sorry to bore you with my facial hair problems. 

The Braun epilator, is a beautiful little machine, its very small, and so easy to use! 

So here's what i looks like, the epilator and the cleansing brush. 

Firstly I felt like the epilator didn't do a great job removing the hair, even when I used it on my upper lip it didn't remove the hair fully I felt like the hair was being cut slightly, but that could have been my fault!

I used it on my side-burns and forehead and it gave me a little break out which I wasn't very happy about. But the plus side was not having any hair did feel beautiful and I felt it made a difference when applying makeup! But the sad truth is my dark hair shows when it grows, so even at the very beginning of growth I was able to notice the hair so I didn't get to enjoy the hair free feeling for too long. I guess that's more of a problem to do with me than the product itself? But the epilator I felt drained the battery way too quickly? so when I first came to use the cleanser it was very weak and I didn't feel like it did anything? 

I changed the battery and used the face cleanser again, and it was a bit stronger but still not what I was expecting. I mean I do like it, of course its more than just cleansing with your hands but I didn't feel like it was an amazing product. 

All in all, If I had the choice again I probably wouldn't buy this product, but now that I have bought it, I use it to maintain my upper lip, and use the cleanser just for extra cleansing. 

Also the price is a bit steep for something that isn't amazing, I wouldn't recommend buying this if you are looking for something to remove a fairly large area of hair, but for touching up small bits like upper lip its quite useful I guess? 

I guess I will stick to bleaching until I find the next thing to try? 

anyway that's enough about my horrible facial hair problems... 

Take care my lovely Internet friends, 

Mimi xoxo

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L'oreal True Match Foundation: Review

I have wanted to do this review for SUCH a long time. The L'oreal True Match foundation is one of those foundations that people rave about whether its on YouTube, Beauty Blogs, Instagram, wherever. My question is: WHY?!

Don't get me wrong. I have most certainly tried worse foundations in my time, and though this is not one of them, I don't think it deserves the credit it gets.

Lets begin with my main bug bear, so we end on some sort of a high.

The Colour Range. Seriously, all those colours, and not one of them runs truly yellow?! My understanding was that this was a foundation to cater for ALL colours and undertones, and I honestly thought L'oreal was going to deliver. If you look online, you'll find shades that are labelled "C", "W", or "N", basically Cool, Warm and Neutral. Being an NC42, I went with W7, Golden Amber, assuming it would be a beautiful yellow, golden colour.

Sadly, I was wrong. Though L'oreal have churned out 23 shades (don't get too excited as you probably won't find all of them in store) they did NOT get the yellow toned shades correct at all, a true bummer. W7 was runs way too red for me. I went with it though.

It's okay. It's not great, it's not exceptionally bad. I feel that this foundation is anything but natural looking, and I have tried to apply it many different ways, with a sponge, with a dense stippling brush, with a buffing brush. Whilst it doesn't look exceptionally cakey, it doesn't look as natural as I would like. L'oreal don't claim that it will, but even so. Perhaps thats due to the fact that I am simply not happy with the colour on me, I don't know. As it is super blendable, it moves around on your face when you apply it which isn't fun. I also found that it oxidised a little bit.

Now the good stuff. It has a pump, and being a Nars Sheer girl, thats an ultimate whoop-ee! It IS blendable, as L'oreal states. If anything its a bit too blendable when you're trying to work it in as it is a thin, runny type liquid.. It does last a good while for a cheap foundation, but only when you set it with a powder. I wouldn't recommend using a spray, as the foundation itself is pretty dewy. And hey, it was pretty cheap at £9.99. 

I won't ever buy it again, simply because the colour is awful, and I don't like how I have to wait a good 10 minutes for it to dry on my face before I can add powders. I prefer a foundations with a thicker consistency and less dewiness. Sticking to other foundations for the time being. 

So, that's that. If anyone loves this foundation, feel free to argue that its great in the comments below.