Make Up Academy Review

 

I recently became the proud owner of all but 3 of the MUA eye shadows! 3 were out of stock but I will be buying the rest ASAP!

I first heard of MUA products in a magazine quite a while ago, all I knew was they were available at Superdrug in the UK and everything in their range was £1. I went on the Superdrug website to find out where my nearest stockist was and unfortunately, as they are only available in bigger stores, there wasn’t one near me. I hate buying make up online, pictures are never the same as the real thing, but needs must, so I picked out 7 of the brightest eye shadows from the range, along with a couple of liquid and glitter liners. The rest of the eye shadow pictures on the site unfortunately looked dull and boring.

When I received the package, to be honest, I put them away with the rest of my make up collection and pretty much forgot about them! It wasn’t until a YouTube guru did a haul video on them and showed the colours in “real life” that I decided to get them out and order the rest. And my goodness I am so glad that I did!

For £1 each I was expecting chalky, powdery shadows with hardly any pigmentation. However, I was totally wrong! The shadows are almost creamy and have incredible colour payoff. Not to mention the colours themselves! The dull and boring ones turned out to be the most exciting! There’s a dark violet (shade 13) a green/brown (shade 12) and the silver is beautifully metallic (shade 3). There’s also a matte black (shade 20)which is essential for everyone’s make up collection, and gorgeous purples and greens. Surprisingly no blues.

I would do swatches for you, however, as you can see from the picture above, my camera’s not the best and you can’t see the colour very well. However, take it from me they’re worth every penny!

The colour goes on well used with a primer (Urban Decay Primer Potion) and with that, lasts all day/night. They blend well with each other, along with other brands. After receiving these, I can’t wait to go out on Saturday night and my 120 colour palette will be getting a well earned rest!

xoxo Lisa

*Disclaimer – I bought all of the above with my own money and am not sponsored by any company to do this review. My opinion on this product is entirely my own and 100% honest. The product testing was on myself and while I experienced no problems with this product there is no guarantee that you will not.