My Best Coral Blushes- Drugstore Edition

Come spring, its time to break out the coral blushes. I'm not kidding when I say the drugstore brands have been killing it with innovative new products, blushes being the foremost product that are just as good as the higher end versions. So for you reading pleasure I present to you my all time favorite blushes in the coral color family from your local drugstore brands.

And the unveiling....

Top L to R: Flormar Blush in no. 90, Rimmel 111 Coral, NYX Mosaic Powder in 12 Dare

Bottom L to R: Max Factor Blush in 235 Chestnut, Maybelline 45 Apricot Flush

The Makeup Color Series: Bright Whites

White is such an unassuming color. I suppose its the mathematical equivalent of zero...literally having no value, yet without it, the whole world would crumble away...

Though in "The Makeup Color Series" I'll be going through some products I think are awesome in that color range, I'm starting out by the most overlooked and underrated color...white.

These are from my stash, but loads of brands do all the items and they are easily available. So moving on...

Flormar Pretty Compact Quartet Eyeshadow in 47

When the Naked Basics Palette came out, it created such a splash that other drugstore brands wanted their piece of the matte eyeshadow craze. Mattes were back in style and who can blame these eyeshadows? They're subtle and look beautiful in all situations on all types of women, especially the nude variety.

Strolling along the stores one day, this particular palette caught my eye and it was on sale on the Flormar counter. This is a Turkish brand and not very well known, but I have sampled their products and always felt them to be top notch. On closer inspection I noticed that this palatte had all matte shades. It was too good to be true. I thought they'd be chalky, or really hard so that there would be hardly any color pay off even though they looked to vivid in the pans. But this is what I found out: