Dainty Doll Cream Blushers

Hi All!

This post follows on from my last one which is a review of the powder versions of these blushers.

L-R Paper Roses, Orange County Girl, Billion Dollar Babies

They are pretty standard cream blushes, nice and smooth, good colour payoff, pretty shades. These seem to mirror three of the powder blushes in my other post but have different names.

Here are the swatches:

Top to bottom: Paper Roses (baby pink), Orange County Girl (peachy pink with gold shimmer), Billion Dollar Babies (tan/nude/bronze)

Now, the minute I swatched Orange County Girl something seemed oddly familiar. So I grabbed my Nars multiple in Orgasm and thought I would do some comparisons:

Top: Orange County Girl

Bottom: Orgasm

They are very similar, a pretty peachy pink with golden shimmer and a very similar texture. I would say that possibly OCG  is slightly more pink and Orgasm has slightly more shimmer but in the flesh you would struggle to tell the difference. A bargain at £1.99 each, just a snip of the cost of Nars.

All in all, I am happy with the products, particularly OCG and would recommend trying them especially while they are on sale.

I hope you enjoyed this post and thanks for reading. Love Sally X

Dainty Doll Powder Blushes

Hi All, 

Recently I bought a haul of Dainty Doll products on sale on www.fragrancedirect.co.uk they were 80% off and only £1.99 which is obviously a total bargain! I've been curious about the brand, created by Nicola Roberts specifically for pale girls and am really excited to try out a range of products.

First I will start with the powder blushes and the other products will follow in separate posts to keep them short and concise.

Top L-R: My Girl, You Are My Sunshine
Bottom L-R: Hippy Shake, Money Talks

First of all the packaging is really cute, very vintage and retro looking but classy and the compacts are simple black with a mirror. The compact does attract fingerprints and marks which leaves it looking grubby quite quickly which is a shame but I bought it for the product inside so not a huge issue for me. Another slight issue is that the compacts only have the number of the blush and not the names. You get 7g of product inside, for comparison Mac powder blushes are 6g so you are getting more product for a fraction of the price. But how good are they? Swatch time!

Top to bottom: Hippy Shake (lilac), Money Talks (tan/bronze), You Are My Sunshine (pink/gold),

 My Girl (pink)

The pigmentation is good, a creamy texture, blends well and the colours are pretty. I can't ever see a use for Hippy Shake which is a lilacy white and blends just to a sheer white but the other 3 are really quite nice and I can see myself getting use out of them. I would put them on a similar level to my Look Beauty blushes and think they are a bargain at £1.99 but wouldn't have paid the full price if i'm honest. 

I hope you enjoyed the review and thanks for reading. Love Sally X