Next Beauty have brought out a new range of makeup, handily accessible via their plethora of High Street stores, or via their very convenient home delivery service. The range is pretty wide, including brushes, eyeshadows, foundations, nail polishes, lipsticks, and gift sets - everything you'd expect from a high street makeup brand.
I've tried a few products out, and the results were, well, mixed. The Sheer Chubby Stick, £8 (not sure how that's not trademark violating) isn't actually that sheer, rather bringing a good punch of comfortable cherry red colour. The peachy toned Matte Lipstick, also £8, is a little on the dry side, but wears comfortably and packs a good level of pigment. The eye pencil, £6.50, is creamy and blendable.
On the other side, the eyeshadow palette, £7.50, is terrible - it's incredibly sheer, and I struggled to build the colour up to anything noticeable on the lid. The texture is also overly waxy, making getting the shadow off the mounds in the palette difficult. The nail polishes, which come in sets of 4 for £10, are lacking in pigment too - they can be layered up to get an opaque finish, but these days, I see no reason why I should use a four coat nail polish when there are so many well priced two coat nail polishes on the market.
Mixed product quality aside, the thing I really dislike about this range is the name. Make Me Beautiful? It implies that women need makeup to be made beautiful, and that without the makeup, a woman isn't beautiful on her own. Which is bollocks. Not good enough, Next Beauty.
Disclosure: PR samples
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