=== The product ===

This is a make-up concealer that is designed to help cover spots, blemishes and general small skin afflictions.

=== The packaging ===

This cover up stick comes provided in a plastic tube. There is a plastic lid, adorned with the 'Natural Collection' words and logo, and then you just twist the stick to reveal the cover up stick. This prevents this from getting damaged in your handbag and is a fantastic little idea, much like a lipstick in appearance.

=== Where can I buy this & for how much? ===

This can be purchased from Boots stores and www.boots.co.uk for just £1.99 and there are frequent special offers on Natural Collection products. At present (October 2011) you can purchase 3 selected items for just £5.00, a fantastic saving on some of their items.

=== Overall opinion ===

I was really cadged in to buying this by my niece who was telling me how well it worked. As she is quite a fussy person when it comes to make-up purchases I figured that she must be quite pleased with this to recommend it to me and therefore I purchased one, along with a few other bits from different companies that I had specifically gone to Boots for.

There are two shades available, in my local store, and the one that I chose was the 'fair' as I have pale skin and usually need an Ivory or Natural colour/shade/tone/pigment when purchasing beauty products. I believe that the other one available was a medium, it was like an orange colour though and looked far too bright and garish for my skin.

This cover up stick is very simple to use. I just apply this to my skin, in small dots and then I use clean fingers to blend this in a circular motion. This goes on at a medium thickness and this is ideal for covering up my flawed skin. This blends easily, in to my skin tone and when I use a mineral based foundation over the top it is not possible to tell where I have applied this cover-up stick. Any spots or blemishes are covered easily and smoothly using a combination of this and a mineral based foundation so I have been very pleased with the quality of this cover-up stick.

My skin has continued to look good using this and while my niece has now 'borrowed' this indefinitely I would be happy to purchase it again, particularly due to the very reasonable price. I usually stick with higher priced products due to assuming that they will give quality but this has been a very pleasant experience using this. My skin did not suffer any more breakouts than it usually would when using make-up and I had my issues with my skin being extra sensitive to this. This removes easily with the use of a make-up wipe with minimal effort.

Overall I am very pleased with the quality of this cover up stick, it works well, it is cheap, it suits my skin tone and it covers up my spots when I'm having a breakout.