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and their high maintenance, front and centre kind of beauty,
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be Rihanna.
Be beautiful but also hilariously witty and self deprecating both in the way you present yourself to the public and in your off the cuff make up tutorials.
I’ve been curious about trying Fenty ever since it launched but never quite got around to reading the opinions of the beauty blogger world or battling the crowds at Sephora to try things in store for myself. I found myself watching Rihanna’s make up tutorial for Vogue (see further up this post) in which Riri demystified contouring as she analysed flaws on her face I couldn’t see myself. Then Sephora recently had a 20% off storewide sale and I ‘needed’ to buy myself something for Mother’s Day on behalf of Master SSG.
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The ‘magnetized’ claim on the packaging alludes to the fact that the three sticks in the set click together with internal magnets. Very handy for ensuring that you don’t lose one of the set on your travels. There are also colour coded stickers on the base of each stick which makes it easier to see find the shade you need.
The Match Stix magnets in action |
Each stick contains 7.1g of product so they are smaller than the testers in store. For comparison, a single 7.1g retails for $37AUD. Considering I got the set of three for $64, I think they’re good value in comparison to some of the other brands out there.
- functional, chic packaging. Lids easy to both open and close, nice weight to each stick with the hexagonal barrels easy to hold.
- they have no fragrance and no SPF.
- good colour pay off when applied directly to the face (as opposed to the make up artist technique of applying from a swatch on the hand)
- I found it most effective to blend with my fingers but a beauty blender sponge works well too
- I got a day’s (around eight hours) wear without any obvious fading or break down of the products on my face
- the trio are a good match for my skin (MAC NC40)
- removed easily with cleansing oil.
- so easy to work with, while the colour pay off is great, the consistency isn’t greasy or heavy. Instead, the light texture makes it very easy to quickly blend out when you’re contouring (or attempting to as the case may be).
- I’ve also been wearing the set without foundation and use Bamboo as a kind of concealer and Tripping as a blush. Both work well in these roles and I didn’t get any caking or creasing with Bamboo. Some reviews have mentioned creasing issues with using the Match Stix as concealers. That being said, as a concealer, I feel that Bamboo only offers light coverage.
- that Bamboo doesn’t offer much concealer level coverage but then again, I don’t think it was created primarily as a concealer so an unfair con, I think.
- I’ve also noticed that Bamboo doesn’t wear too well under my eyes, it gets patchy pretty quickly when applied over foundation. I’ll be avoiding Bamboo on this part of my face in the future when wearing foundation. Interestingly, I didn’t really notice this when wearing Bamboo under my eyes without foundation.