As you probably know from all of my social media channels I recently travelled to Bengaluru, India. Aside from being the most amazing and eye-opening experience of my life to date it was an opportunity to try some beauty products from the other side of the world. The shopping in India is a totally different experience to that in Ireland and the UK and I made sure to visit some beauty and skincare stores.

Lakmé cosmetics was the beauty brand I seen the most of in India. It seemed to appear in a lot of the department stores and drug-stores I visited and ultimately I was talked into buying this mascara. Admittedly it didn’t take a lot of convincing, I’m a sucker for a bristle mascara brush over a plastic one anyway and this was super budget-friendly.

I must say, out of all the products I picked up in India, I am absolutely loving the lipsticks. I’ve added these to my everyday makeup collection and this Colobar Cosmetics Long Wear Lipstick quickly found it’s niche in my essentials. I went for shade 03 Rare Truffle which is a nude to red shade that is perfect for my office makeup look. It lives up to it’s name too – very long lasting.

Now I decided to get this illuminating lotion in light of the latest beauty craze – strobing. I tried it in the shop and it looked beautiful but alas as soon as I arrived back in Ireland and unpackaged the lotion it just would not work! *sad face* For some reason the dispenser isn’t dispensing any lotion, but I’m still working on it. Determined to get it working. Watch this space.

I tried two lips products from Faces Cosmetics in India. The first is the Glam On Lipstick in shade 03 Fantasize. Again this is a neutral, everyday lipstick in a slightly deeper red to the faces Colorbar Lipstick mentioned above. The second product I picked up from Faces Cosmetics is their Ultra Lip Plump gloss in shade Le Flirt. This is a light peach coloured plumping gloss with a glistening shine.