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2025 - Mateja's Beauty Blog

ESSENCE and CATRICE Products 2025

ESSENCE Foundation Stick 20Texture: thick, but very creamy.Coverage: light-medium.Finish: Moderately glowy, eventually more flat matte.Staying power: This doesn’t set and it easily wipes off when you touch it. Shade: 20 is a very light cool toned shade. Too light for me. | video | This has a very creamy formula that glides easily on the skin, but it's a difficult formula to blend. Sponge just ruins it,...

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Favourite Drugstore Concealers (for dry skin) 2025

MAYBELLINE Instant Anti-age Rewind Eraser Multi-use ConcealerCoverage: MediumFinish: NaturalQuantity: 6.8 mlMy Shade: 00 IvoryReviewThis has been my favourite formula for many years because it's one of those concealers that looks very natural on the skin and it blends seamlessly whether I'm wearing a foundation under it or not. It covers about a medium which is enough for me and the sponge is really...

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New in #143

ESSENCE Foundation Stick20I bought this online and the only help I had was Essence's official swatches, since no one on blogs or socials does comparisons anymore and I ended up with a shade that's perhaps too light for me. Essence's swatches are little help, as all of the light shades looked about the same. Honestly I didn't really expect much from this foundation,...

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New in #142

*MAX FACTOR False Lash Effect Supreme Recharge MascaraMax Factor's first refillable mascara. The outer rose gold casing holds a basic black tube. It has a hourglass silicone brush that's very similar to Milani's Anti Gravity mascara. After a month of being open this is still quite a wet formula that has a tendency to stick the lashes together if you don't wait enough between...

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