NIGHT TIME FACE ROUTINE

Hiya guys,

 so I showed you my morning routine a few weeks ago and have been meaning to do a night time routine to go with it for  while but it has been changing so much with different products I have been buying but I have eventually managed to stick to some products. Just to let you all know i have combination/oily skin just so you can compare with your skin care routine.

 

I have picked the products that I use on a daily basis and those that I use maybe 2/3 times a week to treat my skin. To start ill show you the things I use on a regular basis.

 

So to start with I take the L'Oreal Paris Skin Perfection Micellar Solution which can be picked up from most beauty stores such as boots and superdrug, it is normally around the £4 mark but it is often on offers so you will be able to pick it up cheaper! I take this on a cotton pad and firstly remove my eye make-up, I find that this micellar water is perfect for eye make-up. Loreal do have a eye make-up remover in the range but I find it too oily for my skin so just use the normal one. I will then remove my make-up with this making sure there is non left on my face. Of course like all of us I do sometimes have a lazy day and use a make-up wipe but that's ONLY when ive had a bad day. When I do this I usually use the Simple Kind To Skin Facial Cleansing Wipes, just because I find they are gentle on my skin.

My next step it to cleanse my face and recently I have been loving using the Soap & Glory™ Peaches and Clean™ 3-in-1 Wash-off Deep Purifying Cleanser. This is £8 but Soap and Glory normally have a 3 for 2 offer on so you will be able to stock up on other soap and glory favourites! This cleanser smells amazing! Its peachy and fresh at the same time. I will rub this into my face and then rinse of using a face cloth making sure I get any remains of make-up or grime off my face.

The last thing I use on a normal night time face routine is my Liz Earle Skin Repair Moisturiser™ - Normal/Combination, this is my favourite moisturiser as it doesn't leave my face feeling greasy but keeps my skin feeling hydrated. This is a bit more expensive than my other products used but I feel it is well worth it, it is normally around the £20 mark.

 

 

Next, these are the products that i will use maybe 2/3 times a week to treat my skin and keep it feeling refreshed.

 

Firstly I will talk about the Sanctuary Radiance Exfoliator, I always like to have an exfoliator to hand to get rid of any dead skin on my face and to keep my skin feeling healthy. I find the Sanctuary Spa exfoliator particulary good as I don't feel like the beads are too harsh on my face. I would just squeeze a pea size amount into my hand and rub it into my tea-zone and then rinse. This is around the £10 mark but lasts so long so is well worth the money.

I also like to use the N-Spa 5 Minute Magic Mask Exfoliate, this is another exfoliator which I like to use but in a mask form. I like to use both once a week as I feel the mask gets into my pores and get the dirt away but the Sanctuary spa gets rid of the dead skin on my face. I love the smell of this mask and will get some in my hand and it rub it into my face after i have cleansed my face. Put on my favourite music set my phone timer to 5 minutes, lay back and let the products do its magic! This is a cheaper exfoliator around the £5 mark, although you don't get as much product as others you may find.

The third thing in this photo is Sudocrem Antiseptic Healing Cream, which I will ALWAYS have in my room. It is the best thing I have found to get rid of spots and blemishes and it is cheap! Winwin situation here guys! So with this I will put a layer on the blemishes and just go to bed, in the morning you will find the redness to have faded and spot to have reduced in size. Everybodys happy!

 

The last few things I have to talk about it N-Spa Deep Hydrating Facial Oil Treat, although I have combination/oily skin to begin with I find that every now and again adding a little bit of oil to my face can help keeping my skin looking radiant. This is around the £7 mark but I always find the n-spa products to be on offer. With this I will just squeeze a droplet into the palm of my hands and rub together to get the oil warm and then just pat it into my skin. I would usually do this before putting on my moisturiser but always leave it about 10 mins between to make sure the oil is absorbed into my skin.

The last thing I have to talk about is this Montagne Jeunesse Cucumber Anti Stress Peel Off Masque, which you can usually pick for around a £1. I find these masks easy to apply and they leave my skin feeling soothing and soft. I would apply the mask after I have cleansed my face.

 

So that's my night time face routine at the minute, however in a few weeks i will probably have another one to write as i am forever changing the products i use.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Cya.

 



 

 

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HAUL: FEBUARY HAUL

Hiya guys,

 

So today I thought i would show you all the bits I have bought so far in febuary, i have also included the things that i was lucky to get for valentines and our four years anniversary.  Please forgive me for the shocking photography but I am waiting on my new camera coming so they will improve.

So above is all items i have bought this month or have had bought for me, i actually used my boots points to get the make-up products as i used boots treat street to gain many points and ended up with around 100 points which meant I saved money and got to buy beauty products! WINWIN!

These are the items the I managed to get with my boots points, the first thing I bought was the Nailene French express manicure false nails which I have already ready written a review on so if you would like to have a look at that click here. I then bought the Fuse Gelnamel kit which is the kit for doing gel nails, this includes the LCD light, one of the nail varnishes, a bottle of the solution needed, some cotton strips and a nail file. I haven't used this yet but I am very excited to and will be putting up a blog post as soon as ive had a little experiment with it. You can find this product here.

 

Now on to the make-up bits which include Bourjois 123 perfect foundation, I have used this a couple of times and so far love this foundation, it claims to correct anti-dark circles (yellow pigments), anti- dull complexions (purple pigments) and anti-redness (green pigments). It doesn't give a huge amount of coverage on blemishes but for a drug store foundation I particularly like it. I also got two of the new Revlon colour burst balms, I got a matte balm in 240 striking, which is a gorgeous matte red and a lacquer balm which is in 120 vivacious. I love both these balms and will definitely by adding more to my make-up collection.  To go wth the lacquer balm I got one of Revlon's Super Lustrous lip glosses in Pink Pop which gives it a lovely glossy finish.

For the eyes I got another two of Maybellines colour tattoo 24 hr, I got them in Immortal Charcoal which is a lovely grey/navy colour and one in Metallic Pomegranate which is a dull red both have a shimmer to them. The last thing I got was the Maybelline Browdrama in Dark Blonde, I have used this yet so I am yet to comment on it but it just has a wand with a thicker end and colours in your brows.

 

 Off my lovely boyfriend I received this Ted Baker purse which I had been looking at for weeks! it has a bow clasp and is a powder blue colour. I will be doing a full review of this purse after I have used it a little bit more. I also received the other lovely gifts that are in the photo at the beginning of this post. If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

 

Cya.

 

 

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REVIEW:NAILENE FRENCH EXPRESS

Hey guys, so yeah im not very good with the whole keeping up with blog post but ive got so much on at the minute from placemet top creating childrena board games!

But i am back and there will be a few more posts in the next week to make up for lost time.

So last week i bought these nailene french expreas press-on nails. 

They are in short pink and have a gel like shine, the part that stuck out to me was that you didnt need to uae glue! Now when i put on nails i always struggle with where to put the glue so i though id give these a go as they already have the glue on the back of the nail. You get 24 nails in the pack different sizes. 

So i sat down to put them on, filed my nails cleaned them and stuck the correct sizes onto my nails. As i hadnt used glue i felt like i had to be extra carefull but after a while i couldnt tell i had them on.Unfortunately the photo i took when i first applied the nails has been deleted but i do have a photo of them on my nails  7 days after. 

As you can see from the photos they are still staying strong on my nails although my nails have grown and pushed them forward.

Final results:

I love these nails and will definitly be repurchasing  these again! They have stayed on perfectly bar one nail which fell off today and i have re put on a nail. Some of the white on the nails has chipped but it hasnt made the nails look bad. 

Lovelovelove these nails and cant wait to get some of their other styles! 

Cya 

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HEALTH KICK SUNDAY: OVERVIEW

Hiya guys,

Now that we have entered febuary and the laziness from christmas is just about to gone, i thought i would do a mini series to start with on my blog to do with health kick. As i have recently booked my summer holiday to Turkey this year i have given myself a kick up the bum to get myself back to a healthy state.

I have started doing the 5:2 diet which I'm sure most of you have heard off. Basically, you have two days a week where you eat only 500 calories, it sounds like it would be easy but believe me its soso hard! On a normal 5:2 diet you can eat what you want on your normal days but i have decided to stick to around 1200 calories on a normal day and 500 on a fast day. Just to try and beat the bulge quicker. I thought i would give you an update of how i was doing with my diet including how much i was losing each week and what meals i eat and exercise i do to help.

This was my first week off doing the diet so i found this week particularly hard. However i stuck to it and have finally got through it! I choose to have my fast days on Tuesday and Thursday this week just due to my timetable and other reasons.

 

Amazingly this week I have lost 5 pounds! which I think is great!

 

Next weeks post will have photos of meals I have been having to give you an idea of what you can and can't eat.

 

Cya

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WHAT'S IN MY: MAKE-UP BAG

Hiya guys,

One of my favourite blog posts and youtube videos is 'What's in my make-up bag'. I don't normally keep my make-up in a bag as I like to keep it in the draw of my dressing table so I can mix and match what I use each day but I am sleeping out tonight so it thought I would show you what I carry with me in my make-up bag when I do sleep out.  I hold my brushes in a different bag so I wont be showing my make-up brushes in this post, but if you want to see what make-up brushes I use and a review on them just leave a little comment down below and ill be sure to do it!

 

I use the Ted Baker Make-up bag in a baby pink colour with a black bow and rose gold detailing, I got this for Christmas and lovelovelove it! It doesn't look too big on this photo but once you see what I can keep in it you will see how big this bag actually is. I believe this make-up bag retails around the £25 mark, but Ted Baker are always bring new bags out with different looks.

 

 

This is a slight overview of the make-up I will be taking with me tonight, I am actually going out for a meal in more of a formal restaurant so ill be doing dressy make-up but not too bold.

 

 

To start with I thought id show you the base products ill be using, so first I put in the Benefit Porefessional Primer, ive only packed the mini size to save on space. Its my favourite primer to use especially when im going out as my make-up stays put all night. I will then follow with Benefits Hello Flawless Foundation I have mine in the shade 'Believe in me Ivory' I think its one of the lightest shades but it has a high coverage without looking cakey. I then use my Maybelline Instant Anti-age Eraser eye to cover up any bags I have under my eyes and will use my Mac studio finish concealer in NC15 to cover any blemishes I may have. To set all of this I use the Rimmel Stay Matte pressed powder in transparent to matteify my make-up. This is the only powder I will buy as I think it does a good job and is cheap to buy. I don't really look at any other powders as I don't think I would want to spend more money on a powder when this does the job perfectly.

 

These are the cheek products I use, I love using the Bourjois Bronzing Powder as a contour and brush it in the hollows of my cheeks and near the hair line on my forehead to give my face a nicer shape. I will follow this with the Benefit blusher in Coralista this is my ALL time favourite blusher! To highlight I use the Bourjois blush in Lune D'or which gives a nice shimmer to the top of my cheeks.

 

 

To prime my eyes I use the Benefit Stay Don't Stray, I only have the mini version of this but definitely want to purchase the big size! I love how it keeps your eye shadow lasting all night with no crease. I am going to use the Charlotte Tillbury eyeshadow quad in The Vintage Vamp which goes well with what ill be wearing tonight, this eyeshadow can be built for a more dramatic look or used subtly for a calmer look on the eyes. To define my eyes I am going to use the Maybelline Gel eye liner to created a dramatic line on the top of my eye. And finish with the Benefit They're Real mascara which gives a lovely finish to the eyes making them long and bold.

 

 

Nothing is complete until the eyebrows are done! To define my brows I will be using the Benefit Browzing in light, using the powder first then setting it with the gel. I will also be using the Benefit High Brow to give my brows more definition.

Before stepping out the door I will apply my EOS in Strawberry Sorbet and then the Kate Moss lipstick in 107.

 

So there you have it my full make-up for tonight and all packed in the cute Ted Baker make-up bag. If you have any questions about any of the products do not hesitate to ask!

Cya.

 

 

 

 

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