The Body Shop Shade Adjusting Drops Review

So it's been  good few days since I've posted but I've been away & had work, so now its my day off I'm back and doing a Review on The Body Shop Shade Adjusting Drops. 

Everyone knows about the Cover FX Custom Cover Drops which are priced at a whopping £36.00, I've never tried them myself so I thought this is the cheaper alternative and if they work well then bonus!

The Shade Adjusting Drops come in at £10.00 a pop, both containing 15ml, depending on how much you want to lighten or darken your foundation that is a great bloody price!
They offer 2 shades of the product, both being the lightening and the darkening. And as you can see from the images below the lightening shade is pretty much stark white with a slight hint of pink undertone. And the darkening shade is a chocolate brown, with just a neutral undertone.

As you can see from the images below the bottles come with a droplet like applicator, which I will say isn't the best functioned, it does take a few tries to get the desired amount of product out. I guess for £10.00 you aren't going to get overall great quality.

With the Lightening Product, the consistency of the product is very thin, which I liked because it gave me the impression it wouldn't change the consistency of my foundation which was my biggest fear. Once I started to mix it into my Estee Lauder Double Wear on the back of my hand I was so impressed with the fact that it lightened my foundation to my desired shade.
I will say mix little by little so you don't end up with a stark white looking foundation! The consistency and application and long-gevity of the foundation was exactly the same as it would be if I hadn't of used the shade adjusters which I was super impressed with. I would recommend this product as it saves you buying multiple shades in the foundation especially when they're not cheap.

2 droplets of each shade with a small amount of the Estee Lauder Foundation in 'Tawny'

Onto the darkening side of things, again the same consistency but a tad bit thicker, nothing too noticeable. A I started too mix in my fear came true from the reviews I'd previously heard, it did make my foundation muddy / grey looking. This disappointed me, because I only used a little amount and I thought it'd work. But it wasn't so bad where I would never wear it because a light bulb went ding in my head and I thought well hey? CONTOUR. This product would be great for liquid contouring, it has a a grey undertone and would create a natural base for contouring. As they say, good always over-rides the bad!

The middle shade is the original foundation, Left is the darkening shade once blended and the right is the lightening shade once blended.

So overall if I was going to reccomend just one of them based off of the way they perform, I would go with the lightening product! You obviously cant create different undertone based shades but its good to just lighten that foundation a tad if it doesn't match you perfectly! On the other hand the darkening would be great for a liquid contour so if thats what youre looking for, bobs your uncle ha! Thanks for reading lovelies.

Mel X