Haul or Nuthin': MUA 3-in-1 Contour Pens + Single Eye Shadow

I am not very good at keeping up with these blog posts, am I Lovelies?

So I actually decided to venture outside today and check my local Superdrug for MUA goodies, with the original intention to hopefully buy something from the Undress Me range that has recently come out. Sadly that did not happen, however I did pick up three things that I have either wanted for a while, or wanted to try out recently.

The three things that I did happen to pick up are from the older and original lines that MUA have produced, and they are the 3-in-1 Contour pens in Smoked Plum and Sage, and a single eyeshadow in Shade 8. Now I actually went into Superdrug with the intention of purchasing the 3-in-1 Contour Pen in Smoked Plum, but I was also planning on buying a foundation and a new eye primer from the newer ranges from MUA, however because some of the products do not have seals on them (an issue that is frequent with the cosmetics brand Collection) I had to pass; I do not want to buy something that could have been played around with, and considering the little amount of stock that was left of the Undress Me range, I did not want to risk the few product that may or may not have been tampered with.

I am a bit of a freak, yes, but that is how I am.

I was also planning on picking up a new eye primer; sadly my Superdrug does not seem to stock it (or MUA are planning to pull the primer's plug, who knows?) and the one that was available was from the new line, however there was no seal. Not gonna risk it for a biscuit, thanks.

But yes, I decided to purchase two of the 3-in-1 Contour pens. I picked up Smoked Plum because it is purple, and purple does quite well with me, but the surprise when I bought these two was that I actually liked the colour Sage enough to buy it. I love the colour green, in fact it is one of my favourite colours, however it is also my eye colour; Green does not suit me either, however this is a kind of grayish green colour, and I really wanted to try it out.

In terms of colour payoff, I am pretty happy with what I have got; for £1.50 I can not complain, but both colours are very pretty once you swatch them. I plan to use these both as eyeliners or bases for my eyeshadows because they are not as dark as I thought or hoped they would be, but really, I am not complaining!

My dreaded eye

I decided to try out Sage to see how it would fare on my eyes, actually, and I was pretty impressed; it goes on smoothly, however I did need to build it up a bit for a nicer colour payoff, and it is pretty easy to use. What impressed me the most, though, was that it did not transfer onto my eyelid at all during the short amount of time I wore it, which was about 2-3 hours. I have very oily lids, so I was sure that it would transfer pretty quickly and crease or fade within 30 minutes to an hour (the normal amount of time for cream shadows or liners for me) and considering I did not wear a primer either, I was amazed that it stayed as it was. Hopefully this will last all day, but so far I am indeed impressed!

I also had a play around with both contour pens later on once I had removed my liner and used them as bases, and both seem to work well as basic cream shadows... I still need to play around with them a little more though before I can say much more, but the 3-in-1 Contour Pens are easy to use, nice as eyeliners and seem to work as a good base so far!

Finally, I bought a single eyeshadow in Shade 8. I have actually wanted to buy this shade for a while now, however never seemed to because new collections from various brands kept coming out, so I tended to overlook it, however I managed to finally pick it up and have a little play around with it when I got home, too.

Now I actually do not have a lot of the MUA solo eyeshadows; in fact I now have a total of four, but that's because I generally don't use a lot of colourful eyeshadows, that and some of the colours just do not appeal to me. However I like this colour; it's a nice teal colour, and one I have admired from afar. Why I have admired it from afar, I do not know, because MUA's single eyeshadows are only £1 - I am not exactly killing my bank here! However, there are so many pretty things, and I overlook other things that I have wanted for a while, as I have said.

Anyway, this is a really pretty colour, and also: It is highly pigmented. I kind of forget that these solo eyeshadows are nicely pigmented, to the point that I was actually surprised that colour showed up on my eyelid when I applied it with my flat brush; that's how terribly pigmented the Undress Me Too palette is to me... it makes me think that all MUA eyeshadows need to have a massive amount of build-up before I get a decent amount of colour on my lids.

Tangent done, I really like this colour - it's pretty, and extremely pigmented as I have already said. I've really been liking blue eyeshadows recently, so I hope to include this in a look soon enough! It's too pretty to not use!

And that is pretty much it! It's a small Haul, I know, but I really did not expect to come back with much anyway, just a few things such as one of the contour pens and possibly a new foundation and eye primer. Of course that did not go to plan, and I ended up with a few different things, but I am happy with my purchases; is that not what counts, lovely readers?

Until next time. Toodles!