For me, personally, YouTube has nearly
completely replaced TV for quite a long time now. However, I like to think that it’s a
rather recent phenomenon that some YouTubers’ popularities seem to have absolutely
gone through the roof. Nowadays, especially some specific British YouTubers
appear like real filmstars when you hear how whole crowds go crazy once they
have spotted one of them somewhere (seriously though, the screaming can be
quite mental).
It’s also kind of become a habit for
Internet stars to bring out their own merch like books, clothing, posters or similar
stuff. I certainly don’t mind that at all, but most of these things just don’t
really manage to catch my interest … maybe with only one exception to the rule:
cosmetics!
What intrigues me most about beauty
products brought out by YouTubers is how good the actual quality of these items
is. Hitherto, my assumption has been that most of the budget would be spent on
cute packaging as well as clever marketing and less on decent ingredients, nice
formulas et cetera. Nonetheless, I was definitely willing to adjust my opinion,
in case a product that I’ve tested out myself could actually persuade me!
It’s usually quite hard to get hold
of most of these beauty items here in Germany, but when I spotted something
from the Tanya Burr cosmetics range in TK Maxx I just had to get it –
especially because it’s a set of nail polish that I’m talking about (not that I
actually own nearly every colour of the rainbow, anyway).
There were different sets to chose
from, each with three out of the ten polishes in total that Tanya has brought
out by now. I actually managed to find one that includes all three of my
favourite colours from her range! I don’t know exactly how much they originally
are in the UK, but I paid about 10€ for the set which seemed like quite a good
deal to me.
The shades I got are called Penguin
Chick, Peaches & Cream and Little Duck.
But now, let’s see how they actually
look on the nails!
I find this a really nice take on a grey nail polish. The slightly brown undertones in it add kind of a warm effect to the whole shade. It is a rather subtle hue which makes it the perfect colour to wear every day!
