My Favourite Autumnal Makeup Products

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Autumn is the best season for makeup in my opinion, because it's when we can get away with those bold colours like dark lips, intense gold, red and bronzey shades, and loads of bronzer.

I'm pretty simple with makeup, I don't mix it up very often but I sort of have a different look/theme for each season... Unintentionally. My mood changes with the seasons, and when my mood changes most of the time my makeup and clothing choices go with it. Typical.

By the way, I am NOT a pro MUA or makeup artist person, it's just my experiences with the makeup I have tried, I'm honestly like a child with crayons.





1. Nars Sheer Glow Foundation

This never changes. Before using this I used Rimmel Wake Me Up Foundation, which was good and it did the job but it lacked the glowiness and soft finish that Sheer Glow has. I'm in love with this foundation, it's by far the best product that Nars has ever come out with, and I love it so much it hurts. It's perfect for all seasons, but the colder seasons especially, as it's high coverage and the colour that I use (Mont Blanc) gives your skin like a nice cool tone to it, like an ice queen without being a Casper. It's perfect for bold eyes and lips because it makes them stand out all the more, so if you whack on this foundation with some bronzer, blush, golden eyes, and berry lips it's going to be a 10 everytime.


2. Lips: Charlotte Tilbury Glastonberry, Mac Velvet Teddy, Honey Love & Diva, and NYX Liquid Suede Sandstorm

None of these are new if you live on YouTube or have subscriptions to beauty outlet newsletters via email. I bought the Charlotte Tilbury lipstick as an impulse buy when I got a bit of money and went mad in Selfridges, I regret it but I'm not sorry. It's a gorgeous lipstick for autumn, it's classy as f and reminds me of Christmas... So I guess it's not really autumnal when it comes to me, but anything that's remotely berry coloured will work on your lips in autumn. I regret this lipstick because it was freakin expensive for a lipstick man, it was £23 people... For me, that's a lot for a lipstick, perhaps too much, but I couldn't help myself because it looked so nice, the colour was gorgeous, the packaging rose gold, and it smells like berries. You can't go wrong when it's scented, it's a bargain.

Mac is the holy grail of lipsticks I think, their best product in my opinion are their lipsticks because they're creamy, go on amazingly (even when you've got chapped lips), and they're decently priced. I'd say that these lipsticks, each colour is £15.50 each, goes on better and is more pigmented than the £23 Charlotte Tilbury lipstick. So the lesson learned is that pricier isn't always better, I got this with a nars concealer as well. I bought this also on impulse when I bought the foundation, I figured omg yes, matching concealer, yes we're doing it, done. But it wasn't anything special, I paid £22.50 for it and the one I used before was 100 times better, which is the Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer for £4.16 in Boots.

Back onto the lipsticks, my favourite colour ever from Mac that I've tried is Velvet Teddy. I'm simple as f when it comes to makeup, and I'm quite new to wearing lipstick so I don't have lots of them, but this colour literally works with everything. It's great as an everyday lip colour when you've got foundation on your lips and look like a lipless ghost, or when you're going out at night and you go that extra bit of glam for your makeup. It's just awesome, and it will go with every colour scheme of makeup that you can think of. Honey Love is also one of these that will go with anything, it's a little nuder than Velvet Teddy and has got a little more of a gloss to it even though it's matte, but it does the job. Both of these colours go really nice with bronzey/warm brown eyes (in my experience).

Diva is one of those autumnal colours once again, like Glastonberry by Charlotte Tilbury, but it's a little darker and a bit more bold... You'd need to be a bit more ballsy to wear this one during the day because it's that much of a in-your-face-WHAH colour. It goes really nice with golden eye shadows, like I'm repeating over and over, any berry-coloured lipstick will go amazingly with golden/bronzey eye shadows, I promise.

Nyx Sandstorm is just life, it's the best nude/brown lip I've ever seen or invested in, it's beautiful as it goes on wet and dries into a soft matte, however it was sold out absolutely everywhere at one point and when I finally got my hands on one it was in Barcelona, and it was the last one. If you get one, treasure it well.

3. Eyes: Morphe 35T Palette

I started off with a long list of eye shadows that I loved and literally counted down the days until Autumn for so I could go mental and literally drown my eyes in them, but then it hit me... Every single shade that I had wrote down from all different brands like Nars, Mac, Too Faced, Urban Decay etc. Were all pretty much in the Morphe 35T palette.

This palette is the ultimate Autumnal eye shadow den, it's filled with amazing bronze, warm browns, and a crap ton of amazing golden shades (which are my faves unless you missed it). There's this one shade in this palette which is the most striking gold I have ever laid eyes on, it's so pigmented and shiny, glittery, shimmery and just gives me the will to live it's so beautiful.

This is my first Morphe Palette, and the first experience I had with the brand, and I love the shadows. They are so lovely to blend, put on, easy to take off as well, and the shades are really lovely. Each palette has something which will be your cup of tea, they're so diverse and large and they are AMAZINGLY PRICED. For the amount of shadows you're getting, and the diameter of the shadows themselves, they are so worth the money and more.

For 35 beautiful. high quality eye shadows you will pay £21, which I thing is an absolute steal. Especially when the quality of the shadows (I think) bests bigger brands such as Mac, which are famous for their shadows. It's a must have if you're like me and you love warm brown, taupe, golden eye shadows, and it's well worth the money for what you're getting.

4. Bronzer: Rimmel London Natural Bronzer and Benefit Hoola

Best of both worlds here as these two are completely different in price range. The Rimmel bronzer costs £5.99 and I got mine from Boots, and the Benefit Hoola bronzer costs £23.50.

I find that both of these work really nice together. I usually start by putting the Rimmel bronzer on first, just dusting it lightly on my cheeks, forhead, jaw, wherever you like, and that creates a warm dust of shadow on your face, unless you layer it or build it up it's not really strong enough by itself, so once I've dusted my face with the Rimmel one I go over it with the Benefit Hoola. I feel like alone Hoola can be tricky, it's either too much or too little, but over the top of Rimmel it creates a golden/warm sun kissed glow on your face, especially over a pale foundation like the one I use. It almost gives you a warm doll-like tone to your face, so you really don't turn into Casper, instead you turn into a "I will cut you" contour Casper.
5. The last thing I'll mention is highlighter

Highlighter has become a relatively new thing, and it's glorious. It makes me feel like a unicorn when a little sweep of stary-light is going across my cheekbones. I feel like a walking strobe light, and that makes me feel like a queen.

I don't actually use a conventional highlighter... Technically it's not a highlighter, or it's not classed as one. I use the shade Butter Pecan from the Too Faced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette. This might make some of the hardcore MUA's out there want to throw up in  my face that I use an eye shadow for highlighter, but it works so well guys.

I always use it on my inner corners to highlight those, so one day I was just like... Let's see if this works here, and it was like an epiphany. The angels of my bank account sang, and I was so happy that I didn't have to spend my life savings of £24 + on a highlighter.

Highlighter is a must have in autumn, as the sun has kinda f'ed off now. Bye England, bye forever. I'll return for half a week in July.


That's my little countdown of the makeup products that I will be living off throughout Autumn so I don't get depressed about the sun ditching the nation.

If anyone has any better recommendations of products you think I or anyone else will love, please let me know in the comment section!

Thank you for bearing with me!

Byeeee x


Links of the products if you wanna browse or buy: 

Mac Lipsticks: http://bit.ly/2dTp46W
NYX Liquid Suede: http://bit.ly/2eZbik5
Charlotte Tilbury: http://bit.ly/2eUHqHa
Morphe 35T Palette: http://bit.ly/2eDg35I
Benefit Hoola Bronzer: http://bit.ly/1yD0B8G
Rimmel London Natural Bronzer: http://bit.ly/1l1fLkZ
Too Faced Semi-Sweet Chocolate Bar Palette: http://bit.ly/2eXtGLj