NYX Wonder Pencil & Cream Blush Review

Today's post is my second instalment for my NYX beauty blogger of the month, reviewing there 'Wonder Pencil' & Cream blush.

A lot of brands have recently started selling nude coloured eye pencils. The idea is that when applied to the water line, the nude shade makes your eyes appear wider & more awake (which, with my little peepers I am more than happy about, they need all the help they can get) it seems NYX have taken the nude eyeliner pencil idea & run with it creating the 'Wonder Pencil'.

The wonder pencil has three main purposes, concealing, lining & brightening.

Concealing; There are three shades available, light, medium & dark, being that it's the winter & I am now ghostly pale I opted for light. The light shade is a very light shade indeed, a lot lighter than I expected. A light pink toned nude perfect for pale porcelain skin tones but for me to use as a concealer it was far to light, it In fact acted more as a highlighter on my skin. So I don't feel I can comment on it's concealing properties.

Lining; This is my favourite use for the pencil, lip liner. Line the outside of your lips with the wonder pencil to help prevent lipstick bleeding & you can also fill the entire lip with the 'wonder pencil' to cancel out your lip colour & get a true opaque finish from your chosen lipstick. These two tricks are great & do work wonders, but my fave method & I have been doing this ever since I received the pencil is to line the outside of my lips & then blend out for a less harsh look, but apply extra amount on the Cupid bow & POW pouty lips! Where the shade is slightly too light for me it acts as an amazing highlighter for my lips, LOVE it!

Brightening; Other brand nude liners I have tried do look a dark tone creamy nude when in my water line, where as the NYX one is slap bang in the middle between this & a white liner shade. It really does help with making my eyes appear wider, but sadly doesn't last long on my water line. I'm yet to find an eyeliner that will stay put in my water liner, so the fact it didn't last long on me may just be personal to me!

Recently I have been really into cream blushes, I love how they blend into the skin & look so much more natural than a powder blush, so I was super excited to try a NYX cream blush.
Shade 'glow' is an extremely pigmented beautiful deep pink.
As it is so pigmented my fave method for application is to dab my mini duo fibre brush in the cream then dab off the excess on the back of my hand & then lightly apply to my face, it blends in seamlessly with this method leaving me with a natural pink glow.

I love the natural dewy effect it gives my cheeks, & the fact that it doesn't feel sticky or tacky   when on my cheeks like other cream blushes I have tried. Also I found that it can double up as a lip colour (in my pictures all I'm wearing on my lip is the cream blush) so another great multi tasking product.
I most definitely will be trying more NYX cream blushes.

Wonder Pencil - £4.50

Cream Blush - £5.50

Have you tried any of these products?

Thanks for reading guys I hope you all have great week :)