Best Things in Beauty : recent haul: Alessandro, Catrice, Guerlain + Lancôme

today i want to show you some products from my last haul, containing a Guerlain blush and an eyeshadow by Lancôme (which will get own posts :P). but aside from that, i also got a blush from Catrice and a nail polish by Alessandro.

Catrice Mineral Soft Powder Rouge

i bought the shade in #130 Light Burgundy, i heard many girls state that it would be a great colour that goes with everything, and i can't have enough blushes, can you?
this line of mineral blushes will be discontinued these days, so i snapped the offer for 1.45€ (you get 5g of product with this).

the compact is just like a MAC one, it's really neat.
Light Burgundy looks like nothing in the pan, just a seamless brown-rose mix with fine shimmer, but applied it is a beautiful natural rosey flush that sculpts your cheeks. the fine shimmer just gives you a silky sheen and doesn't act obviously at all. it's a shade alongside of MAC Cubic, Blushbaby, NARS Madly and so on (so i also compared it with some of those). the pigmentation is on the sheer side, which i like and makes it even more wearable and fool-proof.
this is a great deal, so get one (and some back ups if you can) as long as they're still there! i keep my fingers crossed that you don't just meet empty displays :)

Catrice Light Burgundy in artificial light

Catrice Light Burgundy in direct sunlight

Catrice Light Burgundy swatched heavily & blended out in direct sunlight

Catrice Light Burgundy swatched heavily & blended out in the shadow

MAC Cubic - Catrice Light Burgundy - MAC Blushbaby - MAC Mocha

Alessandro Nail Polish "It Girl"- collection

i got this nail polish in "On Tour" because it swatched like a really nice blue-ish purple although looking like a muted sky-blue in the bottle. i'm on the hunt for the perfect, bright blue-purple since i found one that i couldn't order (i think it was the high shipping fee that detered me) some months ago. i find this quite expensive with about 4€ only for a mini bottle of 5ml. the colour is still a little to light compared to the perfect shade that's on my mind. this is rather a lavender-sky blue mix.
the texture is really really bad. it's too thick, at the same time the brush is too harsh, so you can easily get a streaky finish. i even needed a thick second coat on my acrylic swatch-nail to get a good finish. so no recommendation for this.