Beauty
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Introduction to The Starting Off Project
This post will be a little different to usual as it is an introduction to a series that I, and over 100 other bloggers will be doing! It’s a project called The Starting Off Project, it was created by Steph at StephsInsideVoice and basically the point of it is to put one post up a week at the same time, on the same day (it will be Tuesdays 6pm UK time), outlining and featuring one specific beauty topic in the hope it can help out some younger teens or anyone new to makeup! We will all be offering tips and tricks, plus different application/usage techniques depending on the topic that…
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Benefit Stay Flawless 15-hour Primer Review
This post will be on the Stay Flawless 15-hour Primer from Benefit. I did a quick mention of this in a post a short while ago when I reviewed the Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Foundation by Benefit saying that I was liking it so far but wanted to use it a few more times before I did a full review, so used it for another full week before writing this! I like to use a product a lot/for a long time before doing a full review as I feel that sometimes it can take a while of using the product, getting used to the product, and finding the best way it works…
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Natural Collection Body Sprays
So today I present to you… the Natural Collection Body Sprays! Natural Collection is one of Boots own brands, which is very much a “cheap and cheerful” brand, and these sprays are no exception. I am a huge lover of fragrance, so can be a little picky when it comes to what scents I wear/have round me, but I must say these have impressed me for their £2 price tag! Left to right we have… Strawberry, Vanilla, Passionfruit, Mango & Papaya and Apple and Lime. They do have other scents in the collection but these 5 are my favourite ones. So for just £2 you get a full 150ml bottle…
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Benefit Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow Liquid Foundation
This post is on the liquid foundation Hello Flawless Oxygen Wow by Benefit. It’s an oil free foundation (which I love as I have combination skin) and is really build-able, from a very light layer right up to a pretty full coverage, without looking cakey (massive win). (If anyone is curious I am the shade “Im pure 4 sure IVORY”, though if I have any tan on, I wear “believe in me IVORY”.) This foundation is £25.50 for 30mls, which may sound a lot to some of you, but believe me this is worth it! I feel that somethings you can easily get cheaper dupes of (for example lip liner…
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Birchbox August 2013
As quite a lot of my products and reviews do/will come from monthly subscription boxes, I decided to show you what I got inside my August Birchbox! In case you don’t know about these sorts of boxes I shall do a quick explanation. Basically all it is is a monthly subscription service, you pay them £10 + p+p a month, and they send you a box with 5-6 high end samples in (more like travel sizes than little samples as you will see). Some months you get bonus items too! There a few different companies doing these sorts of boxes now, and I would be subscribed to more if I…
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Colours of the Rainbow Tag
So for todays post I decided to do my first ever tag! I had seen this tag in lots of other blogs and on youtube, so decided to join in 🙂 So basically you talk about a product you like, corresponding to one of the colours of the rainbow – Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet, then for extra giggles you add in Pink and multi-coloured too! This was actually a lot trickier than I first expected! Had to swap things around as at one point three of the products were perfume… but I succeeded! So here are my products 🙂 So without further ado (as this is…
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Dot by Marc Jacobs
This review will be on the fragrance Dot by Marc Jacobs. This fragrance came out in 2012 so it isn’t brand new, but the reason I decided to review this one now is that his brand new one Honey has just been launched and there is a lot of reviews about that one in blogs and other reviews. They aren’t hugely similar, but in having similar bottles I have been finding a few comparisons online, but I personally prefer this one. So this is Dot by Marc Jacobs: Marc Jacobs never fails to bring out beautiful collectible looking fragrance bottles, of course with matching boxes/packaging. I will say that it…
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Philip Kingsley Elasticizer
This review will be on Philip Kingsley’s Elasticizer. I first heard about this product when I received a 40ml tube of it via a monthly beauty subscription box, but I had put it in my “to be used” box and hadn’t tried it straight away as I had been trying/using other products. The reason I did end up trying it sooner than expected was that it was featured on QVC here in the UK in June as their “beauty pick of the month” – and as there is only one beauty product chosen per month to be the favourite for that month, I was intrigued, so started to use my…
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Balmi Lip Balm – Mini Haul
So I was in Boots the other day and noticed that my beloved Balmi lip balms were on sale! I had discovered the Balmi when it had been sent to me in one of my beauty subscription boxes – as mentioned in one of my earlier posts. I really liked it from the first couple of uses, but after nearly finishing it I can safely say it’s one of my favourite lip balms. They have recently improved the packaging on the Balmi, which feels a lot sturdier and also doesn’t roll away/off tables, which is a plus! I didn’t have anything really against the older packaging, but the newer one…
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Vaseline Spray & Go Body Moisturiser
This review will be on the new Spray & Go Body Moisturiser range by Vaseline. This is a brand new range by Vaseline, it was launched less than two weeks ago here in the UK! This product is an all over body moisuriser, but in spray form. A continuous spray at that, not single squirts! There are three sprays in the Spray & Go range, there is an Aloe Vera option (Aloe Fresh), a Cocoa Butter option (Cocoa Radiant), and then the Standard option (the one in the picture below). The Standard one is the one I own, but I got a chance to test out all 3 options and…