Combination skin - dry everywhere except my oil slick of a forehead, haven't been mac colour matched, but my tone is mostly neutral leaning somewhere between olive and cool yellow. Currently suffering a few hormonal breakouts.
No7 Essentially Natural Foundation in Calico: This has been m favourite foundation for about two years now. It's light but buildable and I find it plays well with both my dry areas and my oily ones but it does work better on drier patches. I'm not sure it would work as well for someone who is oily all over as it has quite a dewy finish. The shade has the right lack of saturation and a greyish tinge that looks best on my undertones, and it doesn't settle in my pores like a lot of foundations have a habit of doing. The formula is quite thick though, so I've found it works best applied with fingers and patted in well - brushes tend to clog and leave streaky marks with it, sponges caused it to feel like it was sitting on my face a bit masklike.
Maybelline Fit Me Concealer in 115: I'm on my 4th tube of this now. It's my favourite concealer for undereye circles and I can't see myself switching to another product. My bugbears lie only with the packaging (they fixed the flooding issue but now the black ink on the packaging comes off on my hands!). My undereyes tend to run quite dry and are a combination of discolouration and hollowness in bone structure inherited from my dad, and this tackles the discolouration so well and manages to disguise some of the shadowy hollowness. Thanks Maybelline. But I've also been using it to spot conceal the past couple of days as my usual concealer has gone missing and I'm not as much a fan for that - it's too creamy and not opaque enough to be properly effective at that. It's doing its job just about adequately, but I wouldn't recommend it for that purpose.
Clinique High Impact Mascara: It's not my favourite, but I don't hate it. Lengthens nicely, doesn't clump, does the job. No complaints really - but I finished a tube of Benefit Roller Lash a few weeks back which did all of the above, while adding a little extra so my expectations are influenced by that at the moment I think. Good workhorse mascara, but I disagree with the name.
Illamasqua Brow Cake in Peek: my main use for this is warming my brows up a bit to match my hennaed hair. It works perfectly for that, and as a brow powder on its own. I never have any problems with staying power for it or its pigmentation, and I would say it's the best brow powder I've used. Top marks Illamasqua well done.
Topshop Cheek Jelly in Phenomenon, Reign and Museum: I bought every shade of these when they were on sale late last year and for the £2 I paid for each I'm very happy with them - however I don't think they'd have been worth the £8-10 they were priced at originally. They're a very nice sheer gel blush and can be layered with the other colours (which is what I did), and the colours are excellent - they remind me of that vibrant juice quality seen in a lot of Korean make up, but the lasting power of them isn't that great. I put them on at 9am this morning, and by about 1pm they were gone. I'm not having a day where I'm too fussed about my make up so I don't mind it so much, but on days where I want my look to stay put they're a no go. Plus my cheeks are on the drier side, so I can imagine these disappear from oilier cheeks even faster. A shame, because Topshop's cream and powder blushers are excellent.
Barry M Corr Balmy in Currant Bun: The colour is a nice jammy plum, and it tastes like blackcurrant fruit splits, but it's not the most moisturising balm and it collects on dry patches (which seems a bit silly with a balm). Lasting power isn't amazing, but my lips were very dry this morning and I just wanted something a bit more moisturising on my lips, while still having a bit of colour. Does that well enough, but it's not exemplary.