Writing this post is giving me a major flashback. When I very first started to wear makeup, I remember wandering into Boots and really wanting the Collection concealer, however, it was £4.19. Since I was 13, at the time, and I thought that £4 for a concealer was extortionate so I went to the Natural Collection stand instead. All of there products were crazy affordable so I bought their concealer, blush and pressed powder in a 3 for 2 deal and it must have cost me a maximum of £5. Considering they were some of my very first makeup products, the brand is quite sentimental to me but it had been a few years since I used any of their products, so back in December, I decided to pick some of them up again. With their new packaging and a wider range of products, I had a little look online and placed a small order on Boots so I thought I would share my thoughts on the products I decided to pick up.
When I was placing this order, I was mainly drawn to the powders and the face section because I am pretty content with my base routine and my eye shadow collection is getting slightly out of hand, so trying out some new face powders seemed like the best option. I was so glad to see that they had some of my old favourites still there and I knew I had to pick them up again but there was an offer on. You could buy two products and get a blush and glow duo free, so all in all, I got three face powder products.
The new Natural Collection packaging is quite different from their old one so I thought I talk a bit about it before reviewing each product just because I think that they have improved it massively. I remember their old packaging use to be like a screw lid and I remember that my pressed powder lid actually broke so it did stop me from using it. Now, the packaging has a lid that is always attached, which I think is so much better because you then can't lose the lid. I also love that their pan sizes are a little bigger because that way, they are also a little more shallow, which I find makes them easier to store. I love the new packaging, I think that it is really simple but sleek and they are so much easier to store.
This powder was such a staple of mine for so long, even after I started to grow my makeup collection further and it is still on their bestsellers list too. I think I love this powder so much because of how simple it is. The amount of different types of powders you can buy now is just quite crazy, they all seem to do different things and they come in different forms but this powder is just so versatile. I use this to set my under eyes, I use it to set my whole face, I use it to set my eye shadow base, it is just the best product to travel with because it can do so much. This powder is really finely milled and it gives off little colour so it is just so useful to have. Having not had this in my collection for so long and now having it back, I can't see myself going without it again. I also have to mention that this powder is so crazy affordable and so there is no reason for anyone not to pick this up and try it out.
I feel like these blushers are what Natural Collection is best known for and rightly so because they are fantastic. I still have the shade Peach Melba in the old packaging and although it is very old, it still works like it did when it was brand new. The main reason I love these blushers so much is that they are matte. I don't know about you, but I find it so hard to find good matte blushers at the drugstore but I feel like Natural Collection did them first and they are still some of the best. I love matte blushers because they double up as cool eye shadows too which I just think is a huge bonus. The formula of these blushers are really nice, they are pigmented but not overly, the blend really well and I love their colour range. This shade, in particular, is a warm, pink shade and I think that this shade is going to be amazing all through the warmer months. You also get a super generous amount of product in this, I think it might even be more than what you got in the old packaging so they are well worth the small price and definitely worth trying out, I definitely want a few more in my collection.
This was the product I got free in this purchase, and sadly I can't find it on the Boots website right now but I have left a link to an Ebay seller that sells them. I think that this product is a really cool concept, it is basically a matte blush on one side and a highlighter on the other, so it is a pretty useful two in one product. The shade Peach has a very, as the name would suggest, peach blush shade with orange undertones and the highlight is actually more on the yellow/ golden side which is unlike anything else I have in my collection. After trying this out a few times, the blusher formula is pretty much identical to the regular blushers, which is great because like I said, they are some of my favourites and this shade is just to die for. As for the highlighter, it is pretty creamy and pigmented but I will say that some of the glitters in it came to be a little chunky, depending on how you apply it. I tend to apply with a slightly wet brush and it makes the applications so much nicer as well as making it super metallic on the skin. I think that this is a super cool duo though and it is something I am glad to have in my collection. Whether I would by this or not is another question but I will definitely get my use out of it now that I have it.
Let me know if you have tried anything from Natural Collection and if so, what are your thoughts on their products? Even after all of these years, I still love their products.
Grace xx
These are such pretty blushes
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They are beaut!xx
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