REAL TECHNIQUES MIRACLE COMPLEXION SPONGE : REVIEW

Every Beauty Guru worth their salt cant stop raving about the original Beauty Blender. I have been guilty of it too. In fact, even when I have had my Make Up professionally done a few times, all my make up artists have used it. So when I found a product which could take this cult favorite head to head, it was indeed quite a find.Meet the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge 

Created by UK's Top Beauty Bloggers : Sam and Nic of Pixiwoo. I am a great fan of the sisters and have learnt a lot about make up from watching their videos. But rather than blindly falling for a product, I decided to weigh in the pros and cons.

PRICE :
Beauty Blender is priced over $20 and the Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge is priced around $8. The Beauty Blender is available, Sephora and a few other select beauty retailers. The Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge is available at Ulta, Walmart, Target, Walgreens, CVS, Amazon and many other places. That makes this sponge more easily accessible to a consumer.

SHAPE:
The Beauty Blender is egg shaped. The Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge has a pointy end, and a flat surface. The flat surface makes it easier for me to blend in my contouring . The pointy end in both sponges helps in blending concealer under the eyes. Both sponges need to be wet under a running faucet, then squeezed dry, before using them. The Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge is a tad bigger in size than the Beauty Blender.

BLENDING :
Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge does an IDENTICAL blending like the famed Beauty Blender. I apply my foundation with a flat foundation brush and then use a damp sponge to blend it in. It gives it that air brushed finish which I love. The sponge ensures that you have a natural finish rather than your make up being streaky with brush marks. I also use the clean side of the sponge to remove or tone our any excess blush or contouring I may have done with a heavy hand.

CONS:
The Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge does have its share of Cons, despite its apparent Pros. Its larger in size than the Beauty Blender which can make it a bit difficult for some epole to blend under the eyes, or around the nose. When you try to squeeze out the water from the sponge, I feel it retains a bit more water than the Beauty Blender

Products mentioned in the post :
Real Techniques Miracle Complexion Sponge
Beauty Blender

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TRAVEL BEAUTY - MAKE UP MUST HAVES

For those of you who remember me from my past life, remember my days of facing the camera. Days of working 24x7 , and days of being deprived of vacations but days which definitely gave me a professional high. Its been more than 6 years I guess that I faced the camera professionally. From a popular Journalist working the National Networks in India to a home maker in the large Midwest, the transition has been bittersweet.

Youtube had been a constant companion of mine during the few years. It gave me the opportunity to appreciate the work of so many like minded people. All these people who grew working on stories they wanted to work on. Not something which had been thrust on them. They had no pesky producer sending them off on random shoots or some editor asking for re-writes of scripts or retakes of PTCs.

It took me long, but I jumped on the band wagon, to begin my own process of healing.

As I faced the camera, after so long, it was difficult. Memories kept coming back of the old days, and I had to fight it all back. The once flamboyant reporter who prided herself in single takes, was clearly fumbling on her lines.

But the journey began. Of producing,creating, starring in, and also editing and publishing your own work, in your own channel. A huge thank you to a few friends of mine, who had been asking me to do it for all these years. Thank you for believing in me.

As I had just got back from a week long vacation in the Canadian Rockies, it made sense that I rambled on all that I had packed in my beauty bag. So here goes my picks for TRAVEL MAKE UP - BEAUTY MUST HAVES.

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