Cute brings Concrete Minerals to the UK!

Nothing excites us more than scouring the world for fabulous beauty brands to bring home to the UK.  May we introduce you to US mineral make-up brand, Concrete Minerals, soon to grace our shelves. 

From next week we will stock a wide selection of stunning eye products including Pro Matte Eye Shadows, Mineral Eye Shadows and Eye primer, with prices starting from £6.

This richly-pigmented mineral make-up contains no parabens, fragrances and artificial flavours, nano-particles, bismuth oxychloride or talc.

Some pretty swatches to drool over while we’re waiting? Don’t mind if we do…

 

 

Hover over each image to see the shade/product name…

From ‘Sugar Skull’ rainbow brights to the rich, sultry tones of Zombie girl, we’ve got it covered!

Prices:

Pro Matte eyeshadows £7
Mineral eyeshadows £6
Eye primer £9
Sugar skull & Zombie Girl collections £25
Sugar & Spice / Naughty but nice collections £20

Zealous, turquoise and Brat, hot pink are rocking our world. Any of these shades jumping out at you?

Mineral Metallics To Shine

Here at CutECOsmetics we absolutely loved the trend on the catwalks this Spring for Smoky Metallic eyes as seen here on one of Emilio Pucci’s models in the SS12 show.  We think this look is gorgeous.

We thought we would showcase & put to the test the best in mineral eye shadows in some gorgeous Metallic Shades, so here are some of our favourites that we tried and tested:

Lily Lolo Eyeshadow in Sticky Toffee

Lily Lolo’s mineral eyeshadow is a natural loose powder with a good colour pigment and comes in a cute little sifter pot so you just get the right amount. Sticky Toffee is a light brown/beige shimmer with golden undertones. These are great used wet or dry. One of the best things is the price of these shadows at £5.29

This shade applied very smoothly and was the palest shade of the three giving a very pretty pale golden bronze. It blended well and had pretty good staying power without a primer.

Bellapierre Shimmer Powder in Bronze

Using 100% pure Mica powder, these beautiful shimmer powders will provide long lasting, vibrant color without any additional filler that can often smear, crease, fade and even cause allergic reaction. The Bellapierre shimmer powders are priced at £12.99 but are definitely worth the investment, the quality is great.

This shade was the real surprise, thinking it would just be a golden bronze shade but once applied the centre of the shade at the deepest point gives a gorgeous deep metallic brown/grey look to it. We completely adored this one. It applied very well with a lovely texture and creamy feel to it and you really only need the tiniest amount of this, great pigmentation and staying power.

BM Beauty Mineral Eyeshadow in AdobeBrick

BM Beauty mineral eyeshadows are free from parabens, synthetic dyes and fragrances, fillers, bismuth oxychloride, nano particles and animal products. A very reasonable price at £7.00

Adobe brick gives a smooth shimmery bronze brown

This shade does what it says on the tin! It applied well, again only needing a small amount. It’s a beautiful coppery bronze with a great sheen to it, not too sparkly! The BM Beauty shadow has good staying power and nice pigmentation.

Which metallic shade will you be wearing this Spring?