5 Products Under Rs.500 To Help You Look Your Best This Festive Season.

Hi guys! Hope you all are doing great! Thank you for all the love you have given to the festive season series.

Trying to look your best can be a little heavy on your pocket during the festive season. However you don’t need to be worried. Compact Matters is here to your rescue. We have come up with a list of 5 products to help you glam up your look for the festive season.

PAC Pure Pigmented Eyeshadows retail for Rs.250 each. They are highly pigmented and perfect for this festive season. Since they are individually sold you can choose exactly the colour that go well with your outfit. An overall wash of only one colour is also more than sufficient to make your eyes pop. You do not need any brushes for these eyeshadows too. They apply well with your fingers as well. I have them in 12 and 16. If you would like to see the look I create with these for Diwali, follow me on my Instagram.

Swatches of PAC Pure Pigmented Eyeshadows in 12 and 16

Incolour Matte Me Lip Creams retail for Rs.200.These are dupes for the Sleek Matte Me lip creams. They have an amazing formula and dry totally matte within a minute. They have a variety of shades. However I love the shade 415. It is my go to colour when I do not have time to think and is always in my bag. I would prefer these over the Miss Claire lip creams that are also very popular.

Sivanna Colors Shimmer Brick retails for Rs.350. A lot of brands have similar shimmer bricks like Bobbi Brown and Revlon. However at less than half the price, the Sivanna Shimmer Brick does exactly the same thing like any of them. You can use it as a highlighter, blush, bronzer or even eyeshadow. You can use individual shades, mix a few of them or just swirl your brush around all of them.It is available in a few shades that complement the Indian skin tone really well. This shade is 04.

L’Oreal Mat Magique Powder retails for Rs.400. It is available in 5 shades. For people who do not like wearing a foundation or a BB cream, this is the product they should go for. It provides reasonable coverage, has high longevity and helps your skin stay matte for long hours. The packaging is neat and it comes with a mirror and an applicator. The only downside of this product is that it has SPF 34 which may not photograph well.

Nykaa Nail Enamel retails between Rs.150 to 200 depending on the range. I absolutely love the Nykaa Nail Enamel. They have an amazing quality and a huge variety in terms of colour range. They do not chip off easily. They apply extremely smoothly. I personally own 17 of these and want to add some more colours to my collection. This shade is Lavender Drizzle.This product was recently awarded at the Elle Beauty awards as well.

Swatch of Incolour Matte Me Lip Cream in 415 and Nykaa Nail Enamel in Lavender Drizzle

That is all for this post. Comment below and let us know if you will be using any of these products for your Diwali look.

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Photography Credits: Ananya Khatri.

5 Products Worth Splurging This Festive Season.

Hi guys! Hope you all are doing good.

The festive season is coming soon and I love this time of the year. It is just an excuse to pamper yourself and your loved ones.There are certain products that all of us have an eye on for a while and this season is the best rationalization we come up with to treat ourselves.

I have come up with a list of 5 items that are worth the splurge.

The NYX Highlight & Contour Pro Pallete retails for Rs.2000. This is a highly versatile pallete and has it 8 shades. It has 4 contour shades with which you can play around and create a contour of the intensity of your choice. You can also use these shades to give some depth to your eyes or just define your crease. It has 2 highlighting shades, similar in shade but different in intensity. It also has a setting powder and a banana powder, which works amazingly to set the under eye area. Even though this product is a little steep for a drugstore product, it is totally worth it and has been compared to some pricey high end palletes.

The Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate for Rs.3800 for 30ml.This product is magic in a bottle.It works for every skin type in every weather. It is a serum that repairs your skin and makes it glow.It has a neutral fragrance and the application is totally easy. You can check out our review on The Kiehl’s Midnight Recovery Concentrate.
 (http://compactmatters.blogspot.com/2016/09/kiehls-midnight-recovery-concentrate.html)

Benefit’s Porefessional Primer retails for Rs.2860 for 22ml. If you are having a good skin day, this product is all you need. Just a pea size amount of this product is more than enough to blur all your imperfections. The primer sets the base for your entire make up. Even when you have 10 layers of different products on your face, this primer ensures that your face does not look caked up. 

MAC Lipsticks retail for Rs.1450. Ever since I was a little girl, I completely adored MAC lipsticks. MAC has a beautiful range of shades with amazing formulation. They have some classic shades that are must haves. Ruby Woo is classic red shade with blue undertones that can amp up a simple outfit.Velvet Teddy is a My Lips But Better shade that was made popular by Kylie Jenner way before her liquid lipsticks hit the market. However I find it a little pale for my skintone and prefer to use Mehr which has a slight pink tone to it. Snob is another classic shade which falls in between Velvet Teddy and Mehr.

Lip swatch for Velvet Teddy.

Lip swatch for Mehr.

Lip swatch for Ruby Woo.

Swatches of Velvet Teddy, Mehr and Ruby Woo. ( Top to bottom)

The Make Up Forever 5 Camouflage Cream Palette retails for Rs.3500. It includes 5 cream concealers with 3 colour correctors in salmon, lavender and mint green. Most of us have certain discoloured patches on our face that may or may not be permanent. This palette gives you a range of concealers that you can use to cover up any blemishes. If you want to know more about colour correcting, you check out our post. (http://compactmatters.blogspot.com/2016/05/colour-correcting-101.html)

That is all for this post. Hope you have a prosperous and green Diwali with your loved ones.

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Photography Credits: Brinda Khatri and Shivam Bhatt.

5 Tips To Look Your Best This Festive Season.

Hi guys! Hope you all are doing great!

The festive season is the best time to put on your glam game. There are lot of parties, lot of family gathering and lots of pictures. Everyone wants to look their best and Compact Matters is here to help you with that.

We have made a list of 5 tips that will help you look your best during this festive season.

Use a foundation or BB cream with low or no SPF.

Everyone likes taking pictures during the festive season. However a foundation with high SPF tends to show up awkwardly in pictures especially flash photography. Weird grey or white patches may appear in your pictures or your skin may appear more oily than it is. This can be avoided by using a foundation with SPF not higher than 20 or simply no SPF like the Maybelline Fit Me Matte & Poreless Foundation.

Structure your face with some contouring.

During the festive season, even the best of us tend to gain a little weight due to all the lavish dinners and irresistible sweets. In such a scenario, a little contouring can take you a long way. Grab a contour powder or a powder which is 2 shades darker than your skintone and apply it gently across your jawline. It helps give your face some definition and hid that double chin.

Use a white/nude liner to look more awake.

The festive season seems a lot of late nights and that tends to take a toll on your eyes. However some white or nude liner on the inner corner of your eyes can help create the illusion of a good night’s sleep. You can do use eyeshadow as well but then it must be blended into rest of your eye make up.

Blot your lipstick for it to stay all night.

With all the food and drinks during the festive season, your lipstick will wear off sooner or later. However while applying the lipstick, if you blot it with tissue, that is put a thin tissue between your lip and press them against each other, it tends to stay much longer. I also like to apply some powder on my lips after blotting to keep the lipstick matte. Some people like to do this through the tissue paper but I prefer to do it directly with my fingers. You can then simply re-apply the lipstick.

Never sleep with make up on.

There are no exceptions to this rule. I know Diwali late nights can get really exhausting but sleeping with make up on is abusing your skin. It does not matter if it is only some lipstick or kajal, you must remove all the make up. If your make up remover is over, use some coconut oil. Just this simple tip will help you look amazing the next day as well. Otherwise all the concealer in the world can not save you.

That is all for this post. Let us know below in the comments if this post is going to help you look your best this Diwali.Hope you have a prosperous and green Diwali with your loved ones.

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Photography Credits: Ananya Khatri.