BEST and WORST NEW BEAUTY LAUNCHES | JANUARY 2017 | Hello October

Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. So today I'm going to be talking you through the best and worst new beauty launches that I've been trying out recently. As always, I'm going to get started with the best things. Also, before we move on, my voice sounds really weird right now because I'm a little bit ill and I just sound very strange. So the first thing that I was probably most excited to try this month was a new cushion foundation. I really love cushion foundations. They are one of the things that I thought that I would never ever really get on with, but actually they're one of my favorite kinds of foundations and Dior have just released their new one. So this is the Dior Forever Cushion Foundation and it's basically their forever foundation, which I love in a cushion form. So this one, like the Forever Foundation, is a little bit more matte and very long wearing. I've tested this on a day out in London. I was really impressed with how it wore. It's obviously a little bit lighter. So I do find it does break down a little bit quicker than a liquid foundation, but for the fact that it's a cushion foundation, it lasted really well. It lasted a good eight hours and I was so impressed with that I didn't feel like I needed to touch up at all. As always with these, you can apply it with the sponge that it comes in, which is the traditional way of applying a cushion foundation. I personally like a very dense, round topped brush. I have my EcoTools Perfecting Brush, which I use every day with this, but there's also like the Bobbi Brown Foundation Brush and the Morphe M439, I want to say. And they'd also be great brushes to use with cushion foundations and the brush head is the perfect size for these. So those are the two options. If you're wondering how to apply this, I also have a couple of other new bits from Dior, which I'm loving. There basically is so much coming out from all of the luxury brands at the moment. I think from all brands, they're all releasing spring collections, but Dior, Chanel, NYSL, they all released huge spring collections and I love them. And I'm still going through and testing all of those different collections because there is just so much. But these two little lip products from Dior, I've really been loving using and they're just really nice everyday basics, which is what I love about them so much. The first one, which is really super new, I don't think Dior have done anything like this before, is a lip scrub. It feels so lovely, it doesn't feel too rough and it gives your lips a really nice, like tiny weeny little pink stain and it's very natural, rosy pink. It's nothing garish or anything like that. I can basically just notice it a tiny bit because my lips are very pale naturally. But it's a really effective scrub and I've been using this everyday before I put my makeup on and I haven't had to deal with any dry lips or anything like that. So I've been super impressed and it also smells incredible. Oh my god, it's gorgeous. It's very vanilla-y and sweet and it's not too sickly, it's just a really lovely light scent and I just think that it's gorgeous. And then I have the Lip Glow as well, which I feel like is new, I could be wrong. They might have just sent this along with the lip scrub, but I thought I'd talk about this anyway because this is a new discovery for me and I love this, this is absolutely gorgeous. This is a lip balm from them and it is just beautiful and has another hint of a rosy pink colour as well, which is beautiful. So like I said, a lot of the luxury brands have newness out at the moment and Chanel have quite a few new bits. They have some new foundation launches, both of which are in this video, but this is my favourite one, which is why it is obviously in the best category. And I really like this foundation. It's their Ultra Wear Flawless Foundation and it's so perfect for if you are looking for a slightly heavier coverage that's a tiny bit more matte, but not too matte. This isn't really, I wouldn't call this a matte foundation because it still looks very luminous on me. I would actually compare it to Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk in terms of coverage and finish. I'd say it maybe has a little bit more coverage actually, but this is just a lovely foundation. I used this for a couple of shoots that I've had recently and it's just worked really, really well giving me a really nice flawless complexion and the makeup hasn't melted off or anything like that. It's really kept everything set in place. So I've been really impressed with this one and because I have had more shoots and I've been filming a lot, I've been reaching for it a lot more than some of the other foundations. I've basically been alternating between this and the Dior Cushion Foundation depending on the coverage that I need. So yeah, I'm really liking both of those foundation launches at the moment and I'll keep you posted as to whether they make it into like a top spot because I obviously have new favourites but then I have like old, like holy grail favourites. And then we have a blush I've been loving that is from the YSL Spring Collection and I love this. It has the cutest packaging on the outside. It says, I have a blush on you, which I love. And this is their Healthy Glow Powder Blush and it comes in the most incredible colour. I love this. It looks so much more muted on camera right now but it's basically a very bright peach. It's just absolutely gorgeous. It's almost like, looks slightly neon in the pan but it doesn't come out that way at all. It looks like a very light pink on camera right now but it's a little bit darker. It looks a little bit more orangey-reddy but it's just absolutely stunning and I've really been enjoying using this when I want just like a little pop of colour on my cheeks. You have to be very light-handed because you can very easily go over the top with this but I think in terms of using a little and it going a long way, this would last you a really, really long time. Next we have a lipstick palette that I was trying out before Christmas and just didn't get the chance to put in a video because I haven't done one of these videos in ages and it's the Urban Decay Vice Lipstick Palette and it comes in the coolest packaging. It's like chrome kind of effect on the outside and then you open it up and it has lipstick as my vice and then a little like cover. And I originally thought that was just gonna be a flimsy plastic thing looking at photos but it's actually like really solid and I just think it's really cool. It does come with some very interesting shades in each palette but this one has all of the nude ones in it which I am all about but it also has like some pink glitter and for me because it's very pinky and it has pink glitter in it, I wouldn't say it's like a must-have for me but the nude shades in it are really nice and I do feel like for a makeup lover or someone who is really into lipstick and wearing lots of different shades of lipstick and likes playing about with it, I really think this would be perfect for them and I just really like the formula of the lipsticks that come in this palette because they're not super matte, they are just like creamy, light, feel really nice on the lips and that is what I'm all about. At the moment, I'm really over like super, super drying things so I really like the fact that this palette just felt really nice and comfortable to wear. Now we're moving on to the Bare Minerals Liquid Lipsticks which I've been trying for a really long time and they're finally out in the UK and I think I have mentioned these in a previous best and worst video, I thought I'd just mention them again because they are now out in the UK and it's been like a year. The colour range of these are lovely, they're all nude shades which I think is why I gravitate towards this range so much is because they're all nudes and I know I'm going to love them all and I just like everything about them, I like the packaging, it feels really, really luxe and they smell amazing, like they just smell incredible and it's not that kind of smell where, I can't get this one open, it's not that kind of smell where you can smell it a lot when it's on your lips and they smell like Ben and Jerry's cookie dough ice cream as well which is just incredible. So I think these are a really nice new liquid lipstick launch, they're not in like the best category partly because I feel like I've already mentioned them before but also because recently my liquid lipstick preferences have changed a lot so they're not something that I am really gravitating towards right now. They're a little bit more high end but I think the quality of the product is really good for the price. And then we have another new foundation launch from Chanel and this is a powder foundation. So it's basically that ultra flawless foundation but in compact form and I like this a lot, I don't really reach for powder foundations often, I will normally just use them over the top of my makeup if I'm filming like today and I've used this on my face today and it's what's keeping everything all nice and set and it's very, very good for that and I think if you are on the hunt for a powder foundation this, it will just be amazing, it's nice and kind of matte but it's not too matte and cakey and it doesn't leave that kind of powdery look on your skin, it just blends in really nicely and I think it's a really lovely one, obviously it's just not for me which is why it's not in the best section. If I liked powder foundations I think this would be like in the best section and I would be reaching for it all the time but if you are into powder foundations you're gonna love this and yeah, it's just a really nice size compact as well, I feel like for like having in your bag when you're out and about for touch ups, it's so good because the compact is the nice size, you get a nice amount of product in there and the mirror is really big as well. Now we're moving on to the things that I didn't like so much and my usual disclaimer, these aren't terrible products, I think that everyone has different preferences and these are the things that I just personally haven't got on with but if you have slightly different preferences to me then there is a chance that you could love these items. So always take what I'm saying with a pinch of salt, they're not necessarily terrible but if you are kind of similar to me in certain preferences then maybe you could save yourself a little bit of money and the first thing I'm gonna get started with is a liquid lipstick because I just wanna get these out the way, I feel like I talk about liquid lipsticks so often at the moment and I'm getting really bored of it but this is the Burberry liquid lipstick, I think it's their Lip Velvet and this is number one light nude and I have a couple of these, I think I got sent them before Christmas but I picked this one up the other day because the colour I got sent was a very mauvey pink colour and that's so not me and I was like, well maybe I'll just really get on with it if I find my perfect shade and this one's a little bit too light and I was actually really disappointed in the colour range of these, I don't know if they're slowly rolling out more colours but I was looking on NET-A-PORTER which is one of the places where you can buy Burberry beauty products and there are about four or five shades on there and it was just a little bit disappointing and in terms of the formula, these are quite thick and heavy and it's not necessarily in a really liquidy, thick way, they feel quite dry, it's a very, very strange formula, it's almost creamy, I don't know if you can see this, I will do a close up, but it almost feels like it's a cream to powder liquid lipstick, the formula of this is really interesting but because of that, I just find it to be quite drying and it's just not the ideal formula for my lips because my lips are obviously very dry and then my personal preference at the moment is for a more creamy liquid lipstick so it's just not for me all round but I think if you like a really matte liquid lipstick, I think you would love these because they do dry down to a matte finish and they have a very matte feel to them as well, they're not like a matte finish that feels creamy or anything like that so if you're really into that, then you will love these. I feel like there are some people that are going to absolutely love these and yeah, it just wasn't for me. Now we have a couple of bits from MAC and the first is one of their fragrances, they've recently brought out a lot of fragrances to mimic their lipsticks, which I think is such a cool idea. I haven't tried them all, so I'm not saying that I don't like all of them, I've only tried this one and this one I really didn't like and it's very unusual for me to really not like a fragrance and to want to wash it off as soon as I've sprayed it on because I appreciate most fragrances, whether they are my kind of thing or not but this, I really just couldn't get on with and the problem I have with the smell of this one is actually the same problem I have with the next item that I'm going to talk about from MAC and that is that it basically smells like a drugstore lipstick and I feel like some people might love that, specifically, I think it smells like the Rimmel Only Matte lipsticks, which is fine if that's a lipstick and it's a drugstore lipstick and it's kind of their thing to smell like that but I wouldn't want to necessarily have a fragrance that smells like that, it actually gives me a headache to smell it, so I'm not going to be smelling it anymore. It's kind of very fruity and sickly sweet and I'm not loving this one. I'm interested to give some of the others a whirl, see if they are better because it could just be this one, this is the Ruby Woo fragrance and it's just not working for me and it's the same reason that I can't use their lip scrub that they've just released, this is the Lip Scrubtious lip scrub and it's a little bit like a jellier version of the Fresh Sugar Scrub lip balm and it feels quite nice and scrubby. I have to say I love the Dior one so much more than this because I'm so over Sugar Scrub since discovering that because it's so much more gentle and doesn't feel too harsh but it's the smell of this. It smells really similar to the Ruby Woo fragrance except it has a bit more of a strawberry tinge to it and I just feel like that really cheapens the product and MAC isn't necessarily an affordable brand so I just feel like I just really didn't like it. It does leave a peachy stain on the lips which is quite nice but like I said it's quite harsh and it smells so bad. I can't believe how many liquid lipsticks were released this month. In the spirit of liquid lipsticks people, please leave me some lipstick emojis in the comments below because this is insane. I hope you guys have enjoyed this best and worst new launches video. I will leave previous videos up here and then a subscribe button here as well. I would love if you could join me for more videos and I will see you again on Sunday in my next video, bye.