Revlon Photo Ready Review + Spring Collection and Gray Suede!

Are you ready for Photo Ready?

'Photo Ready' is the latest foundation from Revlon to achieve a huge interest within the beauty community. Revlon has had a huge success with Colorstay, therefore expectations for this one are high.


The foundation comes with a great pump for practical and controllable usage.

The texture is much lighter than color stay, but still quite thick. I have the shade 003 'Shell' which is quite light for me, but I wore it anyway minus the fake tan.

It is very easily blended with no streaking.

It looks quite dewy on instant application but dries to an invisible matte finish, if you close your eyes and touch the area in which you applied, it's not detectable. Even though it is matte, it looks like there is a sheen, which looks pretty.

Hit the sunlight and is there an Edward Cullen factor?
Errrr, YES!

Direct sunlight enables you to see tiny sparkles, it's very hard to capture in a photograph but I almost managed it in the photo below - taken with no flash.

The foundation itself feels light on the skin, I think it's a great foundation for when you want to be photographed or perfect for a night out. It's a medium coverage foundation with coverage that is buildable. I will NO WAY again wear this during the day in direct sunlight as I look like I have attacked my face with a sparkly highlighting powder. But, I think it would make a good highlighter . I recommend you swatch this on your hand in the shop and walk out into direct sunlight to see how you feel about the sparkles before purchasing if you are planning to use this as an everyday foundation.

Revlon Photo Ready £12.99 (available in 8 shades.)

REVLON SPRING COLLECTION

The pastel colours are very striking and perfect for spring. In addition to what you see in the picture below there is a lilac nail polish and 2 other shades of lipgloss. Available in March 2010.

• Super lustrous lipgloss £6.49

The lip glosses are the star of the collection for me, they are incredibly pigmented and long lasting. I wore 'Coral Reef' on Saturday for the whole day and my lips looked as fresh as ever. Application is with a doe foot applicator and the formula is quite smooth, it's not sticky at all and feels more like a moisturising lip balm. All of the glosses are milky pastel shades with no shimmer or glitter. the packaging also looks quite expensive compared to other drugstore brands, I like the touch of gold!

See swatches of 'Lilac Pastelle', 'Pink Pop' and 'Coral Reef' below.

• 'Summer Suedes' eyeshadow quad £7.99

The colorstay eyeshadow quad is limited edition, it includes a matte baby blue, red toned brown with slight green sheen (few shades lighter than Mac 'Club' e/s), matte pink and a matte coral. The colour payoff of the eye shadows are very impressive, however they are very dusty.

• Nail polishes £6.29

Minted (028) is a pale milky mint green which is similar to Peppermint Patti. It looks very pretty and perfect for the Spring season.

Gray Suede (030) is a nude taupe colour with not much hint of gray. It has a subtle sheen to it and is perfect colour for the summer. I find it hard to wear most peachy nudes as they make my hands look ill, but this one has enough pigmentation in it for it to look perfect against my skin tone. I plan on wearing it with turquoise flip flops and a silver toe ring. It looks very sophisticated and alluring. Gray suede is available in June.

I used 2 coats for both shades with no base coat, it was easy application and no streaking.

Have you picked up anything from Revlon recently?

All products were went to me for review purposes, I was not paid for this post and I am not affiliated with the brand. This is my honest opinion as always.