Makeup Geek shipping US to the UK

Hello, welcome back! Today we are going to be chatting about ordering Makeup Geek from the US site and what it was like to order from it. I found it particularly hard to find many reviews or videos on shipping US to UK from the Makeup Geek website so I thought I would let you know what I think about the whole thing.

Makeup Geek are now being stocked from the UK site beautybay.com. Unfortunately beautybay.com only stocks the pigments, eyeshadows - foiled, duo-chrome and standard and the blushes. So the Makeup Geek brushes, sparklers and gel liners are not yet available from a UK stocklist.

Shipping US to the UK can be risky as many people may know due to custom charges because you can never really estimate how much you will be charged. However, sometimes you are charged and sometimes you are not.

I placed an order with Makeup Geek of the following: 13 eye shadows and 2 pairs of lashes.  This came to a cost of around $85(£57). Shipping was then around $10 (£7)  and I paid an £18 ($27) custom charge. This all in all would have cost me… £82 ($122) which to me is a lot for eye shadows. From the day I ordered it took three and a half weeks for my parcel to get to me!

I would like to point out that the Makeup Geek website is really easy to navigate and you can find everything you need including FAQ’s without any hassle! I also love the fact that it shows looks of what people have been doing using Makeup Geek shadows which really gives me inspiration for looks I could be doing with the shadows I have got!

The Makeup Geek eye shadows on beautybay.com are sold for £4.95 if they are the standard shadows. The first time I ordered from beautybay I ordered 15 shadows which came to a total of £74.25.  I paid absolutely nothing for shipping and they came after 2 days.

My experience shopping with beautybay was better but that is due to the fact I am so impatient waiting for my delivery to get to me and there is no hidden charges. the only problem with ordering from beautybay was that Makeup Geek sells out really quickly.

I hope this helps!