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June 10, 2013

Guest Post: The Beauty Audit




Today over on Georgina's blog, Make-Up Pixi3, is a guest post that I've written which runs along the same vein as the 'How Much Is My Face Worth' Tag. The Beauty Audit was a feature in InStyle magazine a couple of months ago and ever since I read it I knew I wanted to write my own version. The idea is to bring together all the products that you use on a day to day basis and to see how many you use and how much they're worth! It was a really fun post to write and hopefully you'll find it interesting, you can read it by following this link.


Hope you're having a good Monday and look out for another post from me later ;)



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June 09, 2013

Collective Beauty Haul: High-er End Treats


Sooooooo... I went a little bit crazy on the shopping front. I've had a wish list the length of my arm for a while now and all it took was the promise of a few bargains for me to finally crack out my debit card and submit to the shopping urge. Now, don't get me wrong, I didn't get all of these beauties on the same day but rather over the last three or four weeks. I've tried a couple of them out but some of these items only arrived in the post this morning so in their cases it'll be more of a case of showing you them rather than having much to comment on!




Up first is my Escentual order, 30% off many french pharmacy brands (and a lovely £5 discount on the much acclaimed Dior Nude BB Cream) was too much for me resist. I picked up a 100ml bottle of Bioderma's Micellaire Water (with the intention to stock up on it later in the month if I like it),  Bioderma's Photoderm AKN Mat SPF 30 Mattifying Fluid and Dior's Nude BB Cream in shade 001. Look out for a review of each other these over the coming month! 




This purchase was very much made in the spur of the moment. With FeelUnique offering me a 10% off code I just couldn't help myself, Antipodes Divine Face Oil has been luring me in with its promise of plumper (and less oil prone) skin for the last few months. Along with my order came a lovely little perfume freebie.




I also made the most of Boots' 3 for 2 offer on skincare, one item has escaped this post (a Garnier moisturiser) but truth be told I don't really like it so it is not great loss, although I will still be reviewing it later this month. I was excited to finally get my hands on some Hydraluron (you can see I've stocked up!) and I'm currently trialling this with the hope of reviewing it next month. I haven't started using the Peptabright but I love the sound of it, I have a few marks left by blemishes which I'm hoping it can set straight. The other two products, both Soap and Glory, are wonderful and I've been using them daily since I bought them. I'll definitely be reviewing them both soon!




Lastly, I placed a small order with Naturismo so that I could pick up Jason's Vitamin E Oil 32000IU which is scar/stretch mark treatment. It isn't what I expected at all (but in this case that is a good thing) and I expect promising results for this. I'm testing it out on both scarring and stretch marks to see if it makes any difference. I don't expect I'll be reviewing this for a while as I'll want to use it for a month or two to see if it really works. In the meantime, I also picked up some Elemental Herbology sample sizes (Naturismo is brilliant for samples) and I'll be giving them a go and probably reviewing them all together. 


Sometimes you have to treat yo'self, and that I certainly did. Spending is going to be curbed in the meantime (although I do have a small Fragrance Direct order still to arrive, naughty me). I have a hell of a lot of products to test out and a whole backlog of reviews which I'm going to be catching up with. It's going to be a busy month, but a really fun one!



Have you been shopping recently? Found any absolute wonder products that you'd recommend?



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June 06, 2013

Glamour's May Beauty Giveaway Win: Bourjois So Laque Glossy Nail Polishes

super glossy nail polish in pink and neutral


I don't consider myself a hugely 'lucky' person but I do believe that we make our own luck and it makes sense that you can't win prizes if you never enter competitions. I don't know how many of you knew about Glamour's Big May Beauty Giveaway where they had prizes for every day of the month. Ironically, despite entering every single day I won the prize that was for the very first day of the month, two Bourjois So Laque Glossy Nail Polishes. I am, however, thrilled to have won anything. Winning something feels just like receiving a gift and with the time I've been having lately it feels lovely to have something (however small) to smile about. The two colours I recieved were Peach and Love (a gorgeous pink shade) and BCBeige (the perfect neutral beige). 


swatch of spring summer glossy nail paint shades


Despite looking gorgeously glossy on the nails they formula leaves something to be desired. They don't apply as smoothly as I would like and they don't last terribly long when worn without a top coat. I'm glad that I didn't pay for them but they aren't being shut away anywhere anytime soon as I can't quite express how much I like the colours. I find it especially difficult to wear light pinks, I have a strong yellow undertone to my skin which is especially apparent in my hands. Most pale pinks leave me looking a little sickly but Peach and Love is just bright enough to not only be wearable but to be extremely pretty. BCBeige isn't quite as much of a find but I think that it's a wonderful neutral shade and I will be wearing it a lot over the coming months. Bourjois So Laque Nail Polishes are available from Boots for £5.99*.



Did you enter Glamour's Beauty Giveaway? Or have you won any other competitions lately?
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Guest Post: Underrated Products In My Spotlight



Up today is another guest post I've written, this time over on Grace's blog All That Slap. Today's spotlight is firmly focused on four wonderful products which I think go highly underrated. There's always hype going on about something or other and in my world these four products are getting all my love right now so I thought I'd write a post on them. If you go and read the post I've written (link here) prepare yourself- you might just find yourself wanting to try them all!



Angelica



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