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*PR products - obviously, otherwise I'd have matching shades. I hope reviews are still helpful.

A new foundation by Maybelline and one of new serum ones that claim to combine the benefits of a foundation with skin care - it contains a mini amount of Ascorbyl Glucoside, a version of vitamin C. I've been wearing it for the last few days and my first impression was that this is not that nice. I've worn it with different bases, but for my before/after pictures I didn't want to wear any SPF as they affect the finish, so I only used a toner. With an SPF it didn't look great (except the velvety finish Biore) and with a toner I initially thought it looked better, but then I saw the result of before-after pictures. It makes my skin look textured and worse than without foundation. Without it you can see my freckles and that's it, but with it my pores are more visible and lines deeper - it has the "orange skin effect", similar to Catrice's two such liquid foundations. Coverage is on the light side, but it can be easily layered for a light-medium coverage. Finish is unique, as it sets essentially matte on me, but the formula contains extra fine shimmer, so the skin is matte, yet glowy from that highlighter in it. I actually like that, but I think I need to try to find a smoothing primer that will work with this formula and prevent it from making the skin so textured. Matte + Poreless is considerably better than this one precisely because it manages to smooth the skin. Shade 02 is not a brilliant match like their Dream Urban 095, but passable.

I checked Müller for a Mac Please Me/Jordana Pink Passion lipstick dupe and this was close. It was only 4 €, which is very cheap for Maybelline prices in drugstore here. The formula is nicely smooth and creamy, pigmented and semi-matte. It's a good formula for the price, better than the Eveline one I got last month, though the colour isn't as good of a dupe for Pink Passion. It's a slightly darker, more muted light pink and another easy to wear shade for my skin tone.

I liked this straight away. They call it a tinted lip balm and blush - it's pigmented like a classic moisturising lipstick, but the formula feels like a lip balm and it smells similar to Nivea. I often use lipsticks as blushes when I'm in a hurry, but this is easier to blend on the cheeks, yet it doesn't feel greasy as you might expect from a lip balm. I bought the lighter Dreamy Rose first and since I loved it, I picked Fresh Magnolia as well. Both look very similar in the tube and also swatched, but on the lips and cheeks the difference is apparent. Dreamy Rose is coral pink on the cheeks and on the lips it's a pale warm pink. Though both have a great pigmentation, Fresh Magnolia is more intense and while I need two big swipes on the cheeks of Dreamy Rose, I need to be careful with Fresh Magnolia not to overdo it because it can look too much quickly. Fresh Magnolia is a medium warm pink and on the lips and cheeks. These are great if you have a chance to pick them up.

When I got Fresh Magnolia in DM, I got this at the register for free. I'm fussy about lip balms and this is a good one. It's about as soft and creamy as Lip Smackers, it nourishes the lips well and stays on for a good amount of time. It has the same Nivea-like scent as the tinted versions.

Healthy Mix is a long favourite of mine, it's a foundation I can always rely on it looking good no matter the condition of my skin.They recently changed the packaging and it looks like the numbering system, but they also changed the formula because unlike the old one, this is now thicker, the finish is much more glowy and it doesn't set quickly. So far I'm a bit taken aback by the change, as the previous formula was good and I don't understand why they felt they need to make it different. Still, it's a perfectly nice foundation (for normal-dry skin) that blends invisibly into the skin like before, it's just more shiny (I wore the new and old on each side of the face and the difference was apparent).

Though I love HM foundation and this concealer has been around for a while, it's my first time trying it, though I was a big fan of the discontinued 123 Perfect CC Eye Cream and Radiance Reveal. I can't test this one properly because shade 52 is too dark for me, so I can't really say what the coverage is (medium?). It's unusually thick for a Bourjois formula, similar to high coverage matte concealers (formula reminds me of Milani's Conceal + Perfect concealer), except it's moisturising and the finish is glowy.