Poland Haul

Last week I went to Poland with two of my friends, primarily going for the Auschwitz tour (yes, no “Maga” or “Napa” for us) but once I found out their local shopping centre contained a Sephora and Inglot store, the excitement for our trip definitely built!
The first thing I purchased from Sephora was this highlighter. The pigment is stunning (I took a photograph with the flash on and off so you can see how the flash picks up the shimmer, you can tell it photographs well and would look awesome on photos from nights out!) and it only cost me £8ish, can’t remember the exact amount of Polish zloty.
Also from Sephora, I picked up this “Ultra vinyl lip pencil” which was on sale for 21 zloty, which is around £4. The pigmentation on this is also amazing but the colour kinda reminds me of Christmas. I’ve also just realised you have to sharpen it as I thought you could just twist the bottom, oops. Excuse the wonky mouth and dodgy smile.
I also picked up these 4 brushes. I thought the “angled blush” brush would be perfect to apply highlighter with to really define them areas. I also bought the “powder” brush as I like how slim the side of it is, so I could possibly use that for contouring. My favourite brush of the lot is the “smudge” brush as I haven’t seen one quite like it in English stores and I thought it would be perfect to easily recreate really grungy eyeliner looks such as the one Ashley Benson often wears. I also picked up a “rounded crease” brush which is very much like my MAC 217, but I’m going to use this one for blending darker colours and my MAC for lighter ones as I find no matter how much I wash my MAC one it often becomes stained. All the brushes worked out at around £8-£10ish each.
We then ventured across to Inglot. I see missglamorazzi talk about this brand a lot so I was very excited to see the stock in the flesh! I firstly bought a trio eyeshadow palette and I was almost overwhelmed by the amount of eyeshadows they had in store I kind of panic chose the shades, but as you can see the pigmentation is incredible and I thought the cranberry like shade was very pretty, whether I’ll  get a lot of use out of it or not is another question. The complete palette came to around £8-£12, can’t remember exactly, but it was a bargain!
I then picked up a blusher, and decided I’d get their magnetic case for this one. I’m so happy I chose this shade as it’s very much like my everyday go-to Avon “Earthen Rose” blusher which I’ve hit the pan on, and I haven’t seen in their catalogue lately. A little bit of this blush definitely goes a long way, so it’s going to last me ages! This cost around £8.
I then picked up this “Nail Enamel” which worked out at around £6. A few layers needs to be applied in order to make the iridescent shade really show but I think this colour is perfect for summer and reminds me of “The Little Mermaid” for some reason…
Last but DEFINITELY not least… BIODERMA!!!!! I’ve only used this a few times and it’s already love. This cost 70 zloty, which works out at about £14 a bottle, but it’s SO worth it. Ever since I’ve seen the hype across the bloggersphere and YouTube, I’ve desperately wanted to try it and when my friend saw it in the chemist section of a shop I could almost hear angels singing and see speckles of glitter and mist emerging from the shelves. It gets makeup off with such ease and skin just feels so clean afterwards, everybody needs this in their life!

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