Miners was started in 1937 and for over 70 years it has been creating cruelty-free cosmetics that are affordable and innovative. Their range is constantly changing to keep up with the latest trends and must-have looks and covers everything from eye shadow to the award winning Tin o' Tint. But what is it like?
These two palettes are really handy and would make an excellent addition to anybody's make up bag. The eye shadows are in great, fashionable colours and excellently complimented by the lipglosses and blushes. The shadows are nice and soft and they apply smoothly with no creasing. The blushers are quite shimmery but look excellent too and these will certainly get more use than if they had been matte. The only slight let down here are the lipglosses. These apply fairly well and give a great shine with no stickiness, but as neither have much colour they both look the same on the lips.
Essential Eye & Highlighter Palette: 7 eyeshadows; white, silver/grey, dark blue, black, dusky pink and beige. 3 highlighters; light pink, darker pink and orangey pink. With applicators.
Jewel Face Palette: 3 eyeshadows; jade green, coffee brown and fawn brown. 2 lipglosses; light brown and pinkish brown and a pink shimmer blush. With applicators and small mirror.
Love Phat Liner in Bossy £1.99 (was £3.99)
My first thoughts after playing this eyeliner were 'I wish I'd bought other colours too'. This chunky pencil can be used as eyeliner, definer or as an all over pencil. The jade green colour is the perfect tone too, not too bright and not so dark you may as well be using a black pencil, like others that I've tried in the past. The pencil doesn't tug or drag when you apply it, instead it glides on and stays where you want it to. These pencils come in six different shades and I will most certainly be buying them all!
Continuing the dark green theme, we head over to the nail polish section of Miners' range. The colour is bang on how it looks in the picture; a nice deep racing green. This would be great for those days when you want something dark but not black. The closer up you get however the greener it looks and so it wouldn't be mistaken for anything other than a dark green. The consistency was good and just one coat gave a great colour and coverage.
Mascaras are something I have trouble with. I have the most stubborn eyelashes on my right eye, made all the more annoying by the way the left ones curl effortlessly, so I'm constantly buying curling mascaras. I wasn't expecting much from this one at 99p, but it didn't let me down.
First of all it actually got a bit of curl out of stubborn ol' right eye, and any form of movement there is impressive. There was also no clumping, in fact it made my lashes look as though there was no mascara on there and they were just naturally curled and long. And for less than a pound! Nice!
Not going to lie, I'm a bit of a science geek, so when I spotted a lipgloss that reacts to pH levels, I got a little excited. In the name of science I applied some to the back of my hand to see what shade it went. I then rubbed some vinegar into my hand, wiped it off and applied some of the gloss to that section too. There was a difference in shade, condiment based lipgloss science has happened!
I can't really report that well on the shade as it will change for everyone, but neither shade I got was too overpowering they were both really wearable everyday shades. The shimmer in gloss is really nice too and compliments the pink really well. The gloss isn't sticky either, which is great, I hate that sticky feeling some glosses have.
So, overall I've been really happy with my Miners cosmetics and I wasn't expecting them to be as good as they were. I will certainly be buying more from Miners and reporting back to you guys when I do. I'm so glad that I've enjoyed these products as Miners were always a company that I, and my Mum, used to use. I'll admit that I didn't think they were around anymore, but with these products and the super cheap prices they can only do well!
Let me know if you check out anything by them too!
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