Bonjour mes amis!
"Flower Beauty is for Everybody"
Hope you are all well and are all having a lovely week so far. I have a much anticipated review of Drew Barrymore's debut make up line called Flower Beauty.
I purchased my items from Superdrug UK online as the brand is not yet available to be purchased from Superdrug in store. To my delight, Superdrug currently have a 3 for 2 offer across all of their make up lines so I took full advantage of this offer and went for 3 of the Flower Beauty items. My choice of three products quickly became a tricky decision, but I was able to narrow it down and I decided to purchase a foundation, concealer and a highlighting palette (it would be so easy to just go all out and order one of everything!). I was a bit disappointed to see that the Supernova Celestial Skin Elixir Primer was sold out, as this is an item I am very intrigued to try after watching Drew Barrymore do a 'get ready with me' video with Jamie Genevieve. Here is a link if you have yet to see it.
This is such a fun introduction video to get a feel for the Flower Beauty brand and what products they have on offer, this ultimately captured my attention of the brand and made me want to try it out.
Ok... so on to my thoughts of the products I purchased. For starters, lets have a look at the foundation which I have been most excited to try. I am always on the look out for new foundations and because I have a very pale skin tone I am always interested to see how light the brands will take the foundations to; my normal base line for a foundation is start with the lightest and work forward but most likely I will tend to buy the lightest shade available.
The foundation range on the Superdrug website is a core collection of the line and has only 5 shades available: Porcelain, Nude, Natural Beige, Tawny and Sable. Needless to say I chose Porcelain and just hoped for the best that the shade would be light enough for my pale skin as testing the product in store is just not a possibility at the moment. The affordability of this brand is most definitely a plus point as the range is in the middle ground I would say; not on the low end of the spectrum but not high end either. The Light Illusion liquid foundation is £12.99 for 30 ml which I think is reasonable enough for a drug store foundation. My initial impression of this foundation having swatched it on my hand is that this foundation is medium to full coverage as the formula was a lot thicker than I expected when I pumped some on to my hand - it would seem a little goes a long way with this formula so happy days. The shade felt a bit on the darker side for me but I am not going to judge too prematurely and will see how it goes when I apply it to my face and blend it out properly.
Upon applying this foundation to my face I was really impressed with the coverage and the colour blended out a lot better than I expected once buffed in to the skin. For application I used a beauty blender and before application I used a primer which was a really nice base for this foundation and added to the luminosity effect of it. I normally like to set my foundation with powder but on this occasion I really liked the look of the foundation as it was that I only used a very light dusting of powder to not deter from the foundation's dewy effect.This foundation initially had me sceptical with its thick texture and appearing more on the dark side for a porcelain shade in my opinion however, after having applied it to my face I have been turned and I really love this foundation. The formulation is brilliant, its dewy, luminous, creates a natural look and I just love how it felt on my skin, not heavy at all and felt very silky on the skin whilst maintaining wear. I sometimes have the problem of foundation sinking in to my pores but I did not see this with Flower Beauty and I really believe a good primer sets this foundation off. I will be really interested to see what other shades Flower Beauty have to offer but for the mean time I am more than content with the Porcelain one and have found my new favourite foundation.
The next product I had a play with is the Light Illusion Concealer, I chose the shade Fair which is the lightest shade available.
There are 5 shades of concealer; as like the foundation, these are in the shades of Fair, Light, Light Medium, Medium Deep and Deep. The Concealer is priced at £8.99 which in my opinion is reasonable enough for a concealer. The concealer comes with a doe foot applicator sponge that is well suited to glide in the under eye area, on initially swatching the product on my hand I was thinking it was a bit on the darker side for me but lets not be too hasty and try it on the face.
The concealer is definitely high coverage and has a really creamy consistency. I applied this over the Flower Beauty foundation on my under eye area, on blemishes and any red or problem areas on my face. Due to having very pale and sensitive skin, my skin can be quite red at times in places so I like to target these areas with concealer for extra coverage. Yet again my initial impression of this product has been completely changed and I LOVE this concealer - the only slight draw back would be that the shade could be ever so slightly on the lighter side but for first impressions I am more than happy with the fair shade. I would say with the shades being ever so slightly darker than I am used to I spent more time in blending this into the skin but felt this only added to the flawless finish of the product and I was super impressed with how long lasting this was and barely transferable. I did set my under eye area with a little powder however, after around 6 hours of wear I was pleased to not see any creasing and did not require any touch ups. I normally wear the Glossier stretch concealer which I really love and was just about to re-purchase this however I think for the meantime I will stick to this one. I find the stretch concealer to be a little greasy at times and I feel like this can cause some creasing at times under my eyes but I didn't seem to get this with Flower Beauty, I found this formulation not too drying but set enough so it felt like it sort of melted in to the skin and created a really flawless, illuminating finish.
The final product I have been have been testing out is the Shimmer and Strobe Highlighting Palette which costs £12.99. The palette is actually a lot larger than I expected and comes complete with a strobing brush. The brush is a nice little feature and I will likely use it at some point but for my application I used a more feathery. lighter highlighter brush. There are three shades of highlighter which are all universal, the first one is more of a subtle faun, pearl like shade with the middle one more of a pinkish/rose gold shade and the last one is a more gold like shade.
I will get wear from all of these depending on which occasion it is and how much of a highlight I feel like. The formulation of these highlighters are super pigmented, very smooth and the powder is so fine it glides on like it could be butter. For the photo below I chose the left highlighter on the palette - the pearl like one and I only had to apply a very little amount of this to achieve a really nice highlight. The powders are so fine they feel weightless on the skin which I often find can be problematic with powder highlighters as often they can feel heavy on the skin and I become really aware of it just sitting on my face. Not the case for Flower Beauty it feels so slick and my skin feels luminous. 10's, 10's, 10's across the board!
Well it looks like Flower Beauty is quite a game changer for me in the beauty department. I am now eager to try out more products especially the Elixir primer and the Liquid lipsticks. I am really impressed with the items I have purchased and can see the products being super long lasting as the formulations have super staying power! Great work Drew!
Have you tried Flower Beauty yet? Interested to know what you make of it and if you have opinions of other products I haven't tried out yet.
A bientot et bisous
Cheryl xxx
