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I know I've been slacking and it’s been a while since I posted anything but I’m back with this new upload.

My favourite time of the day is the golden hour. One hour after sunrise and one hour before the sunset is the golden hour where there is a yellow golden hue in the sky. The sun is not too harsh that means it is the ideal time to click wonderful, aesthetic pictures. Your skin looks like you’ve been bathing in gold and all the imperfections of your skin blur out. The best part about it is that how glowy your skin looks, bonus points if you’re wearing a highlighter as it will pop out like the jewels on Queen Liz’s crown. Everything is just majestic about this hour.

Although it is monsoon right now in India, and it’s gloomy all day you can still wear this look while you’re out and about.

The key for a golden hour makeup look is lots of bronzer and lots of highlighter. So if you plan to ever have a photoshoot during this hour, or just want to simply serve some looks, here’s my go to routine which you can follow.

Before starting my makeup I prep my skin with rose water or aloe vera juice. I use the ones from Kama Ayurveda. I just spritz it over my face and wait till it dries down and then continue with the rest of my makeup. They hydrate my skin and I highly recommend it for people with really oily skin like mine.

My hands usually reach out for the rose water as it is more refreshing and wakes up my skin.

Here’s the makeup look and below that I’ve listed all the products I used to create this look.

Product breakdown:

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Hello guys!

I’ve not made any post about me reviewing products in a while. I love such posts as they really help you know whether you should buy a particular product or not. So here’s my opinion on the Huda beauty faux filter foundation.

In March Nykaa added this foundation to their site. I’ve wanted this foundation since the time Huda announced that she’s working on a foundation.

This foundation caters to 30 different skin shades although they just sell 28 of them on nykaa. To find my perfect match I did some research online. The best part was that Huda’s team has provided a shade comparison guide on her website (click here for the comparison guide) which made it all the more easier for me to find my shade.

I’m an NC42 in MAC so my perfect shade was anywhere between Macchiato 400G, Brown Sugar 410G and Toffee 420G. I decided to go with the darkest shade i.e. Toffee 420G (G stands for gold as in gold undertone) because I didn’t mind going a little dark as I can lighten the shade using a lighter foundation. I also found that it has a slight red undertone.

The foundation is packed in a frosted glass looking plastic bottle which is of a real good quality. Also I’m glad that they used plastic instead of glass as it’ll be lightweight and won’t break unlike glass packaging, making it travel friendly.

So this is supposed to be a full coverage, filter looking, matte finish foundation. And it does claim to do what it says. It is very high coverage and I just need one pump to cover my whole face.  The thing that I loved about it was the fact that it even helped me cover up my pores. Some foundations accentuate my pores making my foundation look cakey but this is nothing like those foundations. Also the surprising thing was that it didn’t feel heavy which I loved the most. I don’t like the feeling of some foundations as it feels like you’re wearing a mask which you just want to take off.

The only downgrade about this foundation is that it has a very strong smell which you’ll hear everyone point out. Some people breakout because of scented products but for me personally I cannot take any strong smells as they immediately trigger the worst kind of headache for me. This foundation has a pretty strong smell, it smells just like the “Blue lady” perfume and I only know this because a friend of mine uses this perfume.The scent itself is quite good but it's just too intense.

I hope you found this review helpful. Thank you!