Dupe Diaries

CRUELTY FREE DUPES, HONEST REVIEWS, & MORE BY DAISYNA KATRINE

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Benefits of Using Lemons in Your Skin Care

Benefits of Using Lemons in Your Skin Care

Lemon has various health benefits, and when added to your skin routine it can really help to make noticeable changes.

So what can lemons do for your skin?

NOTE: There are various ways to use lemon in your skin routine including lemon juice, lemon peels (aka the lemon skin), and lemon essential oils. (When using pure lemon juice, be sure to mix it with the proper ingredients because it can be a…

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How Do I Know If A Brand Is Cruelty Free?

Lately there’s been a larger mention about cruelty free brands (Brands that don’t test their products / ingredients on animals), but unfortunately not every brand is cruelty free (Note a brand/product can be vegan but not cruelty free, and vise versa).

So by now you’ve probably found products you really love and unfortunately some of those might have been tested on animals.

(If you’re barely…

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Dark Eye with Nude Lip Look

First off… I’m not much of a blue haired typed of person… but it’s always nice to change things up and try something new.

  PRODUCT DETAILS (All are cruelty free):

Erborian BB Cream in “Dore” (It’s a super amazing product that just made my skin look more flawless and in a natural way. I liked it better than any full coverage product I have ever tried… plus it didn’t look cake at all. It honestly…

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Nars Scarlet Empress Dupe Note: Nars is no longer cruelty free due to deciding in June 2017 to sell their products in China (Where it is required by law to test all cosmetics on animals before selling to the public)

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Beauty Creations Tease Me Matte Lipsticks

Available at: BeautyCreationsCosmetics.com

Price: $4.99 (All 20 shades + eyeshadow palette= $94.99)

Discount Code: DAISYNA

Cruelty Free?: Yes So Beauty Creatipns came out with 20 brand new matte lipsticks that come in a similar packaging to Mac’s. A very simple, lightweight bullet form. A noteable difference would be the packaging color, Mac’s is a plain black with “MAC” written on it and a silver…

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Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette Dupe

Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette Dupe

(Photo from Sephora.com)

Above is the Huda Beauty Rose Gold Palette which costs $65

I don’t know about you, but I definitely don’t have $65 to drop every time a new palette comes out, so a good alternative is always nice to find. Especially one that saves me a lot of money and still preforms just as good.

(Photo from BadHabitBeauty.com)

Above is a more inexpensive alternative, theAphrodite…

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ABH Subculture Palette Dupe

ABH Subculture Palette Dupe

(Photo from AnastasiaBeverlyHills.com)

The palette above is the famous Anastasia Beverly Hills  Subculture Palette that has gotten plenty of mixed reviews. Some people loved it, and others claimed it was super hard to blend and not worth spending $42 on it.

Regardless of whether the palette is amazing or not, not everyone wants to drop $42 on a palette that contains only 14 shades; unless you’re…

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Ladé Cosmetics:

Available at: http://ladecosmetics.com

Price: $12.00

Cruelty Free?: Yes (See Cruelty Free List for more)

Vegan?: Yes

Finish: Matte

Pigmented/Streaky?: Definitely pigmented. Of all seven Ladé Cosmetics colors available , they were all very pigmented and none of them streaked.

Comfort:It is very comfortable and doesn’t dry up your lips. If dry lips is an issue for you, try lip balm before…

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LA Colors Rad Rouge Blush Review

Available: LAColors.com

Price: $3.50

Cruelty Free?: Yes

Shades Available: 16 (5 with a shimmer finish, 11 with a matte finish)

Shimmer Finish Blushes: Preppy, Flipside, For Sure, Psych, Chill

Release Date: 28 September 2017

Let me begin this review by saying I am not a blush person. My cheeks are naturally really red, so I stray away from using blush in my everyday routine. However, on those…

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Beauty Creations Glitters

Available At: Beauty Creations Cosmetics

Price: $4.99 each (10% Off Discount Code: “DAISYNA“)

Cruelty Free?: Yes

So Beauty Creations has actually come out with glitters and I’m totally loving them! (It should be noted that these were sent to me, however my opinions are completely unbiased and 100% my own).

I think that for the first initial batch of glitters Beauty Creations released was really…

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Top 5 Favorite Liquid Lipstick Formulas

Top 5 Favorite Liquid Lipstick Formulas

Below are just my current personal favorite liquid lipstick formulas from five different cruelty free brands. These are just some that I personally love wearing and are my go to brands for liquid lipsticks. The list counts down to my all time favorite:

    5. Colourpop Ultra Satin ($6)

VEGAN OPTIONS

These are amazing. They last all day with a super comfortable wear. Note that these are different…

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Beauty Blvd. Confessions Trio Review

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Price:

Cruelty Free?: Yes

Above we have the three lipsticks from the Beauty Blvd. Confessions collection. The concept of each of them containing three different shades to make one is really cool! 

Plus they smell like candy! (more on the semi sour side but those always smell good… like a sour punch straw or very slighty like a jolly rancher)

So above are each of the lipsticks…

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Beauty Creations The Sweetest Palette Review

Available at: BeautyCreationsCosmetics.com (Launches July 20th)

Price: $18.99

Cruelty Free?: Yes The palette has similar packaging to the chocolate palettes from Too Faced. They also have a slight sweet scent to them, however the “Sweetest Palette” is much more bright in appearance and gives a more uniformed performance (Overall each shade performs the same with the exception of “Fudge”)

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Makeuprevue Liquid Lipstick Review

Makeuprevue Liquid Lipstick Review

Available at: Makeuprevue.com

Price: $16.99

Cruelty Free?: Yes

Vegan?: Yes

Gluten Free?: Yes

So recently I have been playing around with a few matte liquid lipsticks from Makeuprevue. Their products are all cruelty free, vegan, and gluten free. All of which sounds great, but how well do they perform?

 The packaging is really neat and the wand itself is quite convenient when applying the product,…

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The Facial Bar Liquid Lipstick Review

Available: thefacialbar.com

Price: $16

Cruelty free?: yes

Vegan?: yes

Above are the two liquid lipsticks from The Facial Bar that I was sent to try out. They’re both super pretty colors that are waaayy opposite of one another. So let’s get into their performance.

The wand in these liquid lipsticks is a standard wand, which works well when applying the product. The producy itself feels water when…

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Ofra Mocha Dupe Comparison + Swatches

Of the above, none of the shades are completely 100% the same in shade or formula. As far as the formula for each I’ll break it down:

Atomic Makeup NYC:

Very pigmented

Dries down matte

Lightweight

Very comfortable (Not drying at all)

Application is smooth however the product can be a bit liquidy (it doesn’t drip or run, it just feels very liquidy)

Smells similar to the vanilla scent Kylie liquid…

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Cool Toned Brown Vegan Liquid Lipsticks

All of the liquid lipsticks above are both cruelty free and vegan but the way they’re formulated and the way they feel is all completely different. 

Lime Crime: Pigmented and has a smooth application. The wand gets messy very quickly grabbing way more product than you need each time.

Baby Bat Beauty: Smells AMAZING like a really sweet cake.. I want to say like trés leches mixed with something…

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