#I was going for a glowy thing with some coloured lines but idk if they work how I intended but oh well

[smalltimidbean]

On the 10th day of December, someone gave to me - A Very Large Fish

Truffle goes for a swim! Well, she does every day! She lives there!

[servingprimes]

Can't think of anything to post, so I will have a gripe about this:

Bc they definitely should have had a side view becuase that's when I think it looks half decent like this

Becuase in my honest opinion - this was one of the designs I disliked - its sort of grown on me and now I don't mind it as much as some others amalgamous like I know what they were going for but also :/ but like I can't put my finger on what I initially don't like 😔

I do have to say it looks a lot better in the War of the Primes art, I think I find the face over complicated to the rest of the body 😑 but thats just me and - confession time - I found his face a little scary??? Idk I just don't like it - I think that there's a massive gap where a nose like thing could have gone and its just not there?? And that weird tube thing on his head??? Idk man looks like he can't emote his face when I know for a fact he can bc he pulled a face at Megatronus in the Covenant 😣

I don't want this post to be overly negative so here's a few thing I do like about Prima's design:

Unlike the other primes (save 13 bc its 13) I'm pretty sure Prima is the only one without smol inscriptions on him its just like squilly lines of light - and thats pretty cool considering he was the first Prime made, its nice to see little differences between the primes

At his hips the light looks like a face

I actually like the whole 'knight' thing - it kind of makes sense - Primes were initially made to be essentially killing machines but ☠ noble ☠ but I think it would have made more sense to have him be given the Star Saber from Primus for it to tie together

I like the colours - it suits him to have a bland colour scheme, he's glowy

Coat to not get cold

[whatudottu]

Because I've held this off for too long, once again it seems that @nukeli has beaten me to the punch with colour schemes. Damn my procrastination or whatever, but I only just realised that I didn't put any mention of the 'fodder' classes (Vehicons, Insecticons and I suppose Autotroopers since I'm including them) and wanted to put down my thoughts before writing this up.

An added bonus here is that certain character have different alts (based on character changes and even the heavier focus of 'robots in disguise' that these Decepticons are after) so it's not just me ranting about colour schemes.

Yes, this was why I was complaining about the wiki altmodes, so deal with the vehicles I found instead. May or may not be due to me using images as references haha.

The Autobots (you are here)

The Decepticons Part 1

The Decepticons Part 2

Going in order of my notes, we begin with Cliffjumper. He’s obviously a 1970 Dodge Challenger and what colours I’ve given him are on the image below. Nothing much to say about a definitely dead character other than I didn’t just wanna make him blue.

Next on the list is good old Doctor Ratchet. I’ve had it in my mind ever since Nuke’s one post that SG!Ratchet was like Medic from TF2, so I guess I took it and ran.

To play an opposite to regular Ratchet, he comes across as affable and friendly but is really just doing the things he loves to people he hates. Autobots, Decepticons, hates everyone. He despises Optimus Prime too, but he can’t do anything unless he wants to be cooped up in his berthroom reattaching his limbs for it. Believe him, he tried.

As for altmode and colours, I spent way too long finding that he resembles a Mercedes Benz G-Class ambulance that I was ticked to find out he wasn’t at all. I special looked for the green coloured ambulance because Synth-En, duh!

Breaking in after the Doctor comes our local wrecker Bulkhead. I don’t have much of a read on this guy, other than the fact that I thought it’d be a cool idea for him to lose a lot of his memories after ‘TMI’, ya know, from the Synth-En recipe? Certainly not set in stone, but it could very well contribute to my accidental theme of memory (which only has some small links in the posts I actually created).

With the help of my car enthused cousin I have given our not so loveable mech a Terradyne Gurkha, a little more military than the wiki’s off-roader Lamborghini that I’m too annoyed to bother to look at. I thought that the military origins and the black colour scheme sorta allude to something something mindless military man. yada yada.

Following him is our ever wonderful Optimus Prime, or maybe Lord Prime? Haven’t thought too much about that. What I have thought of is this master manipulator who mayhaps also be a little bit delusional idk we’ll decide in the car.

I always loved the idea of a smiling SG!Prime, as if there’s still hints of this benevolent leader that the original has, but it’s warped and meant to add fodder to the war, encouraging mechs to fight to their deaths all in the name of not only the Autobots, but their Prime. Also as a warped version of the original, I wanted Shattered Glass Optimus to be deluded in the fact that Megatron will change, change at least, to submit to the real leader. Ain’t happening. That’s sorta there with Ratchet too, but well, you read Ratchet’s piece didn’t you?

SG!Prime is consistently purple and black, and whilst I have found a Peterbilt Semi Truck with that wonderful colour, it comes with white instead. Think about it, this typically evil colour paired with often innocent white, that’s like perfect for what I’m going for.

Fitting that he’s next, it’s time for Prime’s Second In Command Ultra Magnus. I’ve... really got nothing for him. Maybe he’s still by-the-books but like he finds loopholes just to commit atrocities? I don’t know.

I’ve given this boy a Mack Trident alt instead of Prime’s Peterbilt, just for differences sake.

After Magnus, we got our little bug Bumblebee... or is it. Because I wanted to change his colours a bit without going into Beast Hunter territory, I wondered if bees come in different colours and, low and behold, they do!

As for the boy himself, I think he was one of the bots manipulated by Prime himself to join the cause and, given his almost rewritten personality, has only lived through to this point in the war by sheer luck. This mech is an absolute menace, feral and powered by the need for Prime’s approval, tearing others with denta and servo more often than with stingers and blasters.

Now you’ve noticed I haven’t been using his name? That’s because he’s now Blue Band (I just realised he’s still bb haha)! He gets his name from the Blue Banded bee, and I found a Chevrolet Camaro to match.

In line with BB’s younger status, feast your eyes on Shattered Glass Smokescreen! Oh boy isn’t he a delight. His hero worship has essentially turned him to a prime (pardon the pun) candidate for Optimus to form into his perfect super soldier, who already would die for this deranged mech even before laying optics on this grand Prime.

So, he’s an absolute suck up, a straight up spoiled brat that has it harder than Blue Band for Prime’s acknowledgement, and is actively showing off and bragging that he’s Optimus’ favourite (he’s not, he just encourages it because that’s the easiest way to get Smokey to do what he wants).

Almost to reflect that (perhaps another pun) I found this gaudy Chameleon Chevy Corvette that absolutely SCREAMS show off.

Regrettably partnered up with him after the passing of Cliffjumper, Arcee has run out of patience. Not everything she does is motivated by Airachnid (what kind of character would that be? not a fun one) but she does often enjoy killing those connected with her. After Tailgate, she’s gotten a little mad, but her effectiveness otherwise increased so others never bothered to ‘fix’ her.

Having lost both of her partners, when she absolutely hates another (read; Airachnid and Starscream because he still kills Cliff) the best kind of revenge is putting her opponents in her own pedes. Oh, that mech’s growing attached to one of his comrades? Slice and dice them before their optics. Oh, that femme is finally coming out of her shell and making friends? Gore out their spark and hope that humans don’t decide this would be the perfect time to practice what they preach and save the life of that same mech with a hard to perform surgery that may or may not have been lost to time.

Okay so she’s obviously a Kawasaki Ninja (haha that’s kind of fitting) and I was tempted to make her pink like other Arcee iterations, but look at this fancy stuff right here. He hoo glowy look pretty!

Almost in leu of an Airachnid archetype, Wheeljack comes in. Though still quite the wrecker and ever the bomb enthusiast, instead of actively celebrating his impacts and going solo to stop the rust settling in, he’d rather be offed whilst mechs are distracted by his pretty explosion and lay forgotten in the dirt.

I may have accidentally rooted the unintentional memory theme deeply with the wreckers (Breakdown included) and maybe just took it and ran, giving everyone else a little connection, but Wheeljack is probably the most explicit in this idea. He hates nicknames (which i super Ratchet uses to mock him here in Shattered Glass) because that’s like... naming something you’re going to keep to quote that specific fic which, honestly, I can’t remember. Wheeljack split from others to stop them from remembering him and put himself closer to a situation where he can die alone, as morbid as that sounds. No grand death, no stupid death and no straight up suicide (generally that’s a VERY impactful kind of death) so just a mediocre end is what he’s been looking for for a little bit too long.

As for his colours, I apparently have no taste and should not have a car because I really like what this image has going for it. This C3 Corvette is probably one of the few cars that fits the straight up box of a sports car that Jackie’s got, so I’m sticking to it, so no, don’t show me the wiki I’m ignoring it this was too painful to give up dang it!

Okay, finishing off the bots, I have the Autotroopers. Sure, I’m not using a reference of a car to show off the colours, mainly because there’s also going to be flier troopers too, maybe... surely... definitely. Most depictions of them are white, you know, goodie goodie, and I’m tempted to just laze around and do just that. Instead, I think a goldish colour would be fun.

Aside from sharing a key colour with Ultra Magnus, essentially a war lawyer, which is perfect for subjects made to obey, a nice glimmering finish almost feels like they’re all manipulated by Prime to believe in the Autobot cause. I suppose the special devision, if there is one, would be a nice Prime purple, sorta like if it’s Optimus’ personal guard if he actually had any belief they would do their jobs.

Oh boy this is so long...

[the-nut-queen]

I Have a lot of thoughts on beyond light so I’m going to share them

spoilers for beyond light obvs

The Nut Queen’s thoughts on Beyond Light/SotH:

Campaign:

·       Pretty much went how I expected, i.e. nothing unpredictable or particularly interesting/mould breaking

·       That being said, I liked it! And had a lot of fun

·       Good to see Variks again, good to see the Stranger.

·       Eramis was a pretty decent villain, but pretty much had the same motives as every other Eliksni enemy before her (Skolas, Aksis, Siviks, etc.)

o   Very much felt like Rise of Iron… 2! With the Eliksni taking a new power that they didn’t fully understand to wreck shit, and also, it’s Clovis’ fault again

·       The boss fights felt a little dull. Getting to the end and just spamming stasis got old pretty quickly. I think having that for the first time work, then being able to use stasis as a subclass going forward would have been better (instead of getting the subclass at the very end of the campaign, I haven’t even started upgrading it with shit yet)

·       Liked the ghost lines and voices lines that would happen as you travelled to places

·       The progression felt very smooth, I hardly noticed when the game switched from “story mission” to “kill some adds for some stuff to progress” which was nice.

·       Liked the likewise smooth integration of the empire hunts to the main story line (good source of repeatable content for the future) although I was a little confused when I got a triumph for empire hunts since I literally hadn’t heard House of Salvation call themselves an Empire before

·       Ghost being super concerned with you using the darkness then the guardian just not fucking saying anything is kinda dumb lol but that’s pretty standard

·       It was pretty dumb when at the final boss fight Eramis freezes your ghost and shatters your splinter and freezes you then the stranger’s voice over is like “look within” and you can just suddenly use stasis because why not lol

o   Would have been cool to have a “guardians make their own fate” reference here instead

·       WHAT IS THE POINT OF FIRETEAM “E” (Elsie/Stranger, Eli/Drifter, Eris) Don’t get me wrong, I love them! and I love that 1 solitary cutscene where they’re brawling and using stasis, but they literally serve no purpose to the story? Especially dumb how mara and the nine were like “ooh only 3 have transcended their design ooh they are so special” and then they just stand around a campfire while you do all the work lol

o   Sidenote, the Stranger’s little floaty thing: what is it? And what is the point of it besides looking cute in one cutscene??

·       Also really annoyed that the BOSS for the Glassway Strike is just another boring fucking hydra, like wtf. You introduced a fucking sick new Vex type!!! (wyvern) and you DIDN’T use it as a BOSS for the NEW VEX strike. The boss fight was so boring too, it was literally just a hydra but with lots of health and sometimes it disappeared, come on bungie

 New Light:

·       Pretty cool! Shaw Han is boring though. Bungie you need more women characters and more GHOST characters (also like any non-binary characters)

o   It’d be funny to see a guardian/ghost duo NPC where the guardian doesn’t talk and the ghost does! Like with literally every npc except Osiris/Sagira their ghosts just don’t fucking say anything . (I get that it is more money to hire more voice actors and to write more lines etc. etc. etc. but its getting a bit old. GHOSTS HAVE OPINIONS!

o   Maybe even an npc who is just a solo ghost! They haven’t found their guardian or their guardian was slain by the hive or something that would be cool

·       Where is Shiro-4?

·       Where is Misraaks/House Light?

·       Navota: also boring. Just a hive wizard. You may as well have just had Omnigul come back. Or her nightmare (though I understand that that was dealt with on the moon in the nightmare hunts but still)

o   Disgraced strike: also boring. And the boss fight is also boring and takes forever?

·       Cosmodrome: Cool to be back, was fun to get annihilated by an immune hive night in skyshock as is tradition

o   Annoyed there doesn’t appear to be any Rise of Iron continuity with the landscape, the splicers fuck some shit up in the divide and outside the wall

o   Also, is the path to the Rasputin bunker just gone?

o   Yeah I just checked, the path to the grottos area (from D1) from the forgotten shore has just disappeared in D2 they just put more cliff there

o   Wtf why

o   Also the D1 location maps are so awful lol (wow, we really used to live like that huh)

·       Cosmo lost sectors: nice. Hive labyrinth was fun. Sad they didn’t reuse like the Rasputin bunker but that’s chill

 Season of the Hunt:

·       I’m keen to see my BOYS Pulled Pork and Crow

·       SPIDER DON’T HURT CROW ISTG

·       Not sure what the seasonal content has in store

·       I hope it isn’t as boring as season of undying that sucked asss (obvs I have this worry since they spent the majority of the time developing Beyond Light/Europa, (I assume))

·       It looks like a combo of nightmare hunts and other seasonal public-style events

·       Maybe an escalation protocol/blind well style thing? Idk we’ll find out

 Overall:

·       BUGS! So many fucking bugs

o   you fucked up a perfectly good game, look at it, it has anxiety

o   omg bungie please help us

o   girl help, I’m trapped under the prison of elders grav lift thingo

o   girl help I’ve been launched into the wall at mach speed

·       GAMBIT:

o   You fucked up gambit too. You took all the cool shit out of Prime then mixed it with the lame shit from regular gambit to make gambit whatever the opposite of “prime” is

o   My idea for a better gambit TM:

o   Each class gets one (1) class item

o   They look like the prime class items except not coloured/glowy

o   There are 4 mods you can slot in the “combat style” mod slot ie the last slot

o   They’re like, idk 6 energy to slot

o   And they give you the gambit prime role! And the class item glows in the respective colour and you get an aura too

o   you get all the fun prime perks without having to grind r*ckoning and also have a full set of amour equipped, so you got freedom with your gear

o   it would be GOOD

o   sigh

o   gambit is the worst now

o   it’s like just as hard as prime was too but you don’t get good perks so you just eat shit

o   gambit rant over, moving on to planet rant:

·       YOU CAN’T SAY THAT FOUR CELESTIAL BODIES HAVE “DISAPPEARED” CANONICALLY ONLY LEAVING AN “ANOMOLY” (AS DESCRIBED BY WEBLORE) AND THEN

·       AND THEN fucking have CRUCIBLE AND GAMBIT MATCHES ON THE DISAPPEARED PLANETS

o   I totally get that for time, resources, crunch, and hell even desire would mean throwing out a heap of crucible matches would be not ideal because then there would be like 3 left

o   But

o   WHAT THE FUCK. Maybe if you said idk the vanguard has quarantined the four legacy planets due to the giant fucking darkness pyramids looming there so you’re not allowed to go there any more (as like an in game/lore reason for the planets being vaulted)

o   Cus like yeah you can’t patrol there anymore but drifter doesn’t care about vanguard sanctions so he can just ignore it for the gambit maps

o   And shaxx

o   Could like come up with a reason? Idk

o   It’s just really

o   Really

o   Stupid

·       I like the move towards being chill with gender (changing “male” and “female” to “Masculine” and “feminine” however I would like to see this go further. Ability to change your pronouns whenever you want, ability to change your characters gender presentation whenever you want, ability to be “androgynous” and use “they/them” pronouns

o   Like really, we’re space wizards in the far far future and some of us are even robots. there’s no doubt there would be trans guardians

Final thoughts:

I love this game, I love bungie, I am keen for what the future has to offer

But

I can’t help but feel like this is just another “beginning”

Like shadowkeep was supposed to kick off the era of darkness with the discovery of the first pyramid ship then we just had two random seasons after it that just felt like Curse of Osiris and Warmind Redux

Then arrivals was a phenomenal season

But yeah I was expecting things to be more high stakes I guess? The beyond light campaign didn’t feel very high stakes and it kinda just felt like “oh look you can use the darkness now”

in short, bungie hire me for good ideas and more queer characters

[eroticcannibal]

small question, do you have an oc? if yes, what do they look like? :3

I have MANY. SO MANY.

Dinner Date: Kian: pretty boy, tattoos and piercings, may or may not wear a polo shirt but I like the idea of him in leathersLiya: I’ve got her posted on @dinner-date-official, butch muscled beauty who I LOVE with purple hairMs (Annabelle-Rose) Lewis: Fat, wears suits, frowns a lot, high pony tail and glasses, needle sharp teeth. Probably not human. 

Maci: Small, adorable, wears pastels, idk much about them yet

Khloe: Slime girl! Slime!

Dr. Greene: long green hair, looks Stressed, clothes ALWAYS need an iron. Imagine a more normal version of Dr. Wickeline (black survival) (she is not a ripoff, she is my oc, don’t sue me please)

Felix: Big, friendly, kinda chubby kinda muscled, smile that will make u melt, the only one with a canon race so far woop (black), v tall, I have commited to him having locs rather than braids, v long hair, just... so beautiful. 

Eugene: idk how he looks yet. Smart looking. He’s got money. 

Hunter: entirely white, not human, his eyes ain’t right and neither are his teeth.

Currently unnamed plant person: Veeeeery short, plump, round face, short black hair, clothes always grubby, looks very shy

Sherbert Lemons (working title):

Katie Mullins: weedy and tall, redhead, loads of freckles, very curly hair, green eyes, very fair skinned. Imagine the kind of person you’d see on a farm as you are walking through the english countryside.

Padmalaya Chandra: Not sure of much yet but she got niiiiice hair. Like u see her and ur just like “holy shit ur hair is nice”

Violet Arati Mullins-Chandra: Little bit chubby, short, brown eyes, brown curly hair, light brown skin, you can juuuuust see some freckles if you look close.

B/W Swan:

Asma (I do have a full name somewhere but it’s not in the scrivener file?????): variable build, she starts out all weedy and weak, at her best she’s fucking BUILT, but often she’s pretty malnourished. wears a hijbad, kinda plain looking.

Khadijah: it’s an AI. Has been hosted in the main computer and later in a mobile host module (which is ORB and has a screen where it displays emoticon faces)

Unnamed Ghost Story:

Jenna (I THINK SCRIVENER IS DELETING THINGS I FUCKING KNOW I HAD STUFF ON HER AND HER SISTER FUCK SKJFDHSKFHSK): Middle aged, dumpy, way more lines than she should have, going a bit grey.

Unnamed Urban Fantasy (that’s my longest running WIP I really should name it):

Kasumi: Siren (shape shifting), usually appears as a veeeeery pretty boy (he basically looks like Kian but edgier and a bit more tired). On occasion may have 6 eyes and 2 mouths, exposure to water causes scales to appear on his skin (which tear through his skin), too much exposure to water will cause him to become more fish-like. He might glow a bit idk. 

Raito: kinda short, skinny, very pale with platinum blonde hair (at the moment). Covered in tattoos, dresses kinda... boyish but still feminine??? also appears human most of the time, hides her wings with glamours. In this universe wings are based off existing creatures eings but I aint decided what hers are like. Eyes go all glowy and her teeth go real shard if she’s mad. Fairys are scary. 

Dracula (PUBLIC DOMAIN BITCHES HE’S MINE NOW): Still dresses like it’s the 80′s with the cheese turned up to max

Dusk (uh named him before I finished the character I’m gonna change that probly): very, veeeery dark skinned, which means he’s the luckiest vampire in town cus he don’t poof immediately in the sun, blind (idk what sun damage does to eyes??? idk if they will look different???) pastel pink, short hair, outfits tend to be either monochrome with differing texture or highly contrasting colours. (also he jewish and keeps kosher even if that’s a bit difficult for him)

Misc:

Big badass ripped elf whos culture is sea fairing and she likes dressing like a pirate. 

[maquillagemenu]

How to slay your makeup from the first base to the last set..

.. Get it? ‘First base’, bases.. primers.. ‘last set’, setting sprays? Ok, I don’t know where these sporty puns came from lol, it’s sounding like we’re entering some sort of makeup Olympics, but hey, if there was a medal for the longest-lasting makeup you’d for sure win after reading this post.

Primers are so important to me. I literally cannot apply anything onto my face without putting down ATLEAST one base product. Primers have different purposes to fulfil as a product, be it, smoothing the skins texture, filling fine lines and pores, mattifying, making the skin dewy etc. etc.

A few tips to allow your primer to reach it’s full potential: 

1) Allow your skincare to be completely soaked into your skin before applying it

2) Allowing it to dry and set onto your skin for a few minutes before going in with foundations, concealers etc!

I’ve been through a fair few different primers from the drugstore and higher end brands and have finally narrowed it down to my fave few. ~ keep reading to see my picks!

1) MAC Prep+Prime Natural Radiance base shade: ‘radiant yellow’ (£30, purchase here) 

Benefits: Hydrates, adds a healthy, radiant glow to the skin, overall just makes the skin texture smoother and moisturised allowing foundation to apply beautifully onto it. 

I typically use this primer in the winter when my skin looks dull and dry, it fakes gorgeous summer like skin. The yellowness of the product also helps counteract dull greyish tones in the skin so this doubles up as a colour corrector! Who loves multipurpose products?! ME when I’m half asleep at 8am getting ready for uni to look fly thinking I’ll find my future hubby strolling through the campus *Thanks Bryson Tiller for selling us all dreams lol*

Downsides: I don’t feel it has any benefits in making the makeup last longer throughout the day. It also doesn’t fill in pores and fine lines etc. so another primer needs to be used alongside it which is kinda annoying as I prefer a one-product-that-does-all primer, can’t win all eh?

Rating: 7/10!

2) NIOD Photography fluid tan opacity 8% (£21, purchase here) 

Benefits: Can be used under, over or mixed into foundation for a gorgeous dewy glow. As the name suggests it makes your skin look AMAZING in photography - it’s like facetune without the app, because um who’s got £3.99 to smooth their skin out??? 

In real life the skin also appears airbrushed due to the light-reflecting particles which diffuse the look of imperfections. Again like the MAC primer, the golden tone of the product helps to colour correct and get rid of any greyness.

Downsides: Again the product does not seem to improve the lasting power of the makeup.

Rating: 8/10

3) Benefit porefessional (£26, purchase here)

Benefits: It does exactly what it says on the tube, fills in pores! I also find it smooths the skin and gives a velvety texture so foundation applies fab on top!

I find a bunch of people not liking this product or finding it doesn’t work effectively however the products success is based on the application technique you use. Rather than rubbing the product in, really push it into your pores - this sounds abit iffy as-if it could clog your pores but with a good evening cleanse you’ll be able to remove all the product from your pores.

Cons: Too mattifying for my liking at first but a few hours into the day it tends to make the areas I have applied it to slightly oily, but a blotting tissue and some powder can fix that I guess.

Rating: 10/10 for pore filling, 6 as an overall do-it-all primer!

4) The Ordinary High Adherence silicone primer (£3.90, purchase here)

Benefits: One of my absolute fave primers ever since I got my hands on it - the quality and the price are incomparable! Extremely high quality without the price tag. It blurs all my pores and fine lines, leaves my skin texture insanely smooth and keeps my makeup lasting all day.

Cons: NON. I honestly can’t point a flaw out with this product - especially with a £4 price point, you can’t ask for more amazingness than you already get!

Rating: 10000000000000000/10, sorry I had to be extra.

5) MAC Prep+Prime BB beauty balm shade: ‘dark deep’ (£25, purchase here)

Benefits: Although not technically sold as a ‘primer’, in Asia BB creams are commonly used underneath foundation to help the wear and coverage of the foundation. When I’m feeling extra crappy about my skin I put a thin layer of this all over my skin - it helps in colour correcting, making my skin an even shade. Instead of a thick concealer all over, this is extremely thin so foundation can sit comfortably over top. This particular BB cream also has oil control properties and SPF which is all useful as a base!

Cons: If used heavy handed it can become too cakey and thick - especially if you intend to use a thick foundation over top too.

Rating: 8/10

6) The Ordinary high-spreadability primer (£5.50, purchase here)

Benefits: Works a dream for making thick, heavy foundation blend more seamlessly and look more natural. Use this with foundations you find trouble blending, or sit patchy and blotchy, It will help alottttt.

Cons: I have to use it alongside other primers because it’s pore-filling qualities are terrible. (Sometimes I feel it makes my pores look bigger idk why)

Rating: 7/10

7) YSL Touche Éclat Blur Primer (£29.50, purchase here)

Benefits: THISSSS IS EVERYTHINGGGG. This product allows for the best of both worlds - poreless and smooth yet dewy. I don’t know how YSL did it because the majority of porefilling products make the skin matte and velvety rather than glowy. This product however is filled with tiny gold flakes which give the skin a sheen, don’t worry, although it looks like a disco ball in the bottle, it’s nowhere near as dramatic on the face - just a subtle shimmer. I am obsessed with this. This does everything I want in a primer, what more could I ask for?!

Cons: Umm.. non! Maybe the price point is a little steep but you need a pea-sized amount for your whole face so I can’t ever imagine running out.

Rating: 100000/10, extra Sabrina back at it again.

1) Mario Badescu Rose water facial spray (£11, purchase here)

I honestly can’t tell you how much this spray has changed my makeup game. Have you seen that dressing gown meme? ‘cold? dressing gown. lifes a mess? dressing gown. broke up with your man? dressing gown.’ this is basically the same thing - foundations thick and cakey? Mario’s spray. gone a little heavy handed with the powder? Mario’s spray. Need to set your face for a day of finding a new man? Mario’s spray. HONESTLY, everyone just get this and drown in it. Every issue you have will be fixed - my promise.

2) MAC Fix+ (£18, purchase here)

This products abit of a tough one - although not marketed as a setting spray it still helps your makeup in looking it’s best. After I’ve applied all my powders to my face - inc, bronzer, blush and highlight, I mist this onto my face and everything melts together and instantly looks more natural, less powdery, cakey and looks all as one-layer rather than multiple products piled onto one another. 

3) Urban Decay all nighter setting spray (£10 for mini OR £23.50 full size, purchase here )

I purchased this once before and hated it but I was using it all wrong - I didn’t shake the bottle, sprayed it from a close distance and sprayed waaaaay to much. I bought another tiny bottle to give it another shot and since I’ve started using it properly it works a dream (always remember to shake, apply from arms length and do not to drown in it, save that for the MB). I always use this when I know I have tons of things to do in the day so my makeup is locked and doesn’t sweat off or get oily. Love, love, love it!

4) Superdrug own brand Vitamin E Hydrating mist (£2.99 can’t find online but available in stores)

THIS IS LIFE. Sorry for the excited caps. But again, like The Ordinary primer, the price DOES NOT match the quality - it is way too amazing to be £2.99, but thanks Superdrug for not breaking the bank and giving me the goods at an affordable price, I’m not complaining. Seriously, this is so comparable to the Mario Badescu spray. It makes the skin look stunning and dewy. Gets rid of the powderiness in the face and melts the product in the skin. I haven’t noticed any benefits when it comes to making the makeup last longer but you can always pair it with a good primer or spritz some setting spray on afterwards!

And I’m done! *Scrolls back up, oh jheze this is longgg, if you made it this low - congratulate yourself and contact me for an award hehe*

What Primers are your favourite!? Be sure to let me know!

Love always, Sabrina! x