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Tuesday 21 February 2012
Monday 20 February 2012
February Glossybox!
Hey Guys!
So I got my Glossybox this morning, I was watching for the postman all morning and when he came down the street I watched him until he came to my house. Now I cheated (as I generally do) and I went onto the Glossybox page and looked at what everyone who had already got theirs had said. Some were very happy and others were outraged, apparantly there was an £18 difference in alue between the boxes, with one having a full sized product worth £20 and others having their full sized product worth £1.99. Now you can guess which one I got, I always seem to get the worst box they send out, I think they have it in for me haha.
But without firther ado, this is my box:
So this is my box, the little purple bottle is the 'full sized' product worth £1.99. Woo!
I'm going to type out what's written on the card and then say what I think about each item, I haven't really tried them out, I'm just going on first impressions, so here we go!
1. DuWop Venom Gloss-Combining subtle tinted lip gloss with DuWops lip venom to create venom gloss (what a stupid blurb...).
This is supposed to make your lips tingle, and it does, but I'm not sure if its the most comfortable feeling in the world, it feels rather similar to when I've bitten my lips too much. But it smells like fireballs (the sweets if you know what I'm talking about. Okay, so I put it on when I wrote that its supposed to tingle and I feel like wiping it off. It's a shame because its a nice golden peach colour. I think its cinnamon that makes it tingle...and it hurts. Gone now haha.
2. Dr Bronner magic liquid soap-a combination of organic extra virgin coconut, olive, jojoba and hemp oils, together with pure essential oils.
Okay I'm going to be honest, and this is lavendar scented, I hate the smell of lavendar, so I probably won't even use this, I've used another item in this box that I'll get onto in a minute and thats already annoying me haha. I might give this to someone who likes lavendar, unfortunately my mum doesn't like lavendar either so yeah =/
3. Paul Mitchell Round Trip-This liquid curl definer is fast drying for enhanced curls in an instant.
According to the side of the bottle, this makes your hair dry faster and enhances your natural waves. So I'm looking forward to trying this in the morning because I've been using Herbal Essences Tousle me softly, and I've noticed that my hair has more definition in my natural waves, so if this adds even more to that then I'm excited.
4. BM Beauty Pure mineral eyeshadow-award winning pure mineral eyeshadow. Cruelty free and suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
I feel like I'm going to start of a mineral kick after I bought the elf mineral foundation and following that trend I really like this item. I got it in noir, and other people are saying it is matte, but mine has a definite sparkle to it. It has really really minute glitter sparkles in it and I think it'll be so pretty smoked out for a night out. The packaging really does look like a sample though, like one of those travel pots you can buy or you get from a department store. I also like how its cruelty free :D
5. Como Shambala invigorate body lotion-a revitalisng blend of essential oils that puts you in a perfectly uplifted mood.
I got lavendar. So this did not put me in a perfectly uplifted mood. The formula feels very moisturising, but the perfume is so strong it smells disgusting. I might keep it in my bag for when I notice dry patches on my skin (which seems to be happening a lot at the moment, I wish it would warm up a bit). When it soaks in a bit, it smells kind of like a sweet I can't put my finger on, I think it's love hearts. But there's a bizarre blend of lavendar and peppermint with eucalyptus and geranium...never heard of a combo like that before.
I'm not too sure about this box, especially with the massive difference in the values of boxes, I know it's about trying new things, but you would think they would make it fair amongst everyone.
In light of this, I've subscribed to another beauty box I haven't heard of before called She Said Beauty, this one is £9 a month plus £2.95 delivery and if you order before the 27th of Feb, you get 25% off of your first box.
Plus unlike the other beauty boxes which are mostly pink or black, this one is turquoise with pink lining :D best combo ever! But I'll blog about that when it arrives at the end of March, I think it's their first box so I'll let you know then!
This is the link to their website:https://www.shesaidbeauty.com/home
Thanks for reading this very long blog post haha
Hayley
So I got my Glossybox this morning, I was watching for the postman all morning and when he came down the street I watched him until he came to my house. Now I cheated (as I generally do) and I went onto the Glossybox page and looked at what everyone who had already got theirs had said. Some were very happy and others were outraged, apparantly there was an £18 difference in alue between the boxes, with one having a full sized product worth £20 and others having their full sized product worth £1.99. Now you can guess which one I got, I always seem to get the worst box they send out, I think they have it in for me haha.
But without firther ado, this is my box:
I'm going to type out what's written on the card and then say what I think about each item, I haven't really tried them out, I'm just going on first impressions, so here we go!
1. DuWop Venom Gloss-Combining subtle tinted lip gloss with DuWops lip venom to create venom gloss (what a stupid blurb...).
This is supposed to make your lips tingle, and it does, but I'm not sure if its the most comfortable feeling in the world, it feels rather similar to when I've bitten my lips too much. But it smells like fireballs (the sweets if you know what I'm talking about. Okay, so I put it on when I wrote that its supposed to tingle and I feel like wiping it off. It's a shame because its a nice golden peach colour. I think its cinnamon that makes it tingle...and it hurts. Gone now haha.2. Dr Bronner magic liquid soap-a combination of organic extra virgin coconut, olive, jojoba and hemp oils, together with pure essential oils.
Okay I'm going to be honest, and this is lavendar scented, I hate the smell of lavendar, so I probably won't even use this, I've used another item in this box that I'll get onto in a minute and thats already annoying me haha. I might give this to someone who likes lavendar, unfortunately my mum doesn't like lavendar either so yeah =/
3. Paul Mitchell Round Trip-This liquid curl definer is fast drying for enhanced curls in an instant.
According to the side of the bottle, this makes your hair dry faster and enhances your natural waves. So I'm looking forward to trying this in the morning because I've been using Herbal Essences Tousle me softly, and I've noticed that my hair has more definition in my natural waves, so if this adds even more to that then I'm excited.
4. BM Beauty Pure mineral eyeshadow-award winning pure mineral eyeshadow. Cruelty free and suitable for vegetarians and vegans.
I feel like I'm going to start of a mineral kick after I bought the elf mineral foundation and following that trend I really like this item. I got it in noir, and other people are saying it is matte, but mine has a definite sparkle to it. It has really really minute glitter sparkles in it and I think it'll be so pretty smoked out for a night out. The packaging really does look like a sample though, like one of those travel pots you can buy or you get from a department store. I also like how its cruelty free :D
5. Como Shambala invigorate body lotion-a revitalisng blend of essential oils that puts you in a perfectly uplifted mood.
I got lavendar. So this did not put me in a perfectly uplifted mood. The formula feels very moisturising, but the perfume is so strong it smells disgusting. I might keep it in my bag for when I notice dry patches on my skin (which seems to be happening a lot at the moment, I wish it would warm up a bit). When it soaks in a bit, it smells kind of like a sweet I can't put my finger on, I think it's love hearts. But there's a bizarre blend of lavendar and peppermint with eucalyptus and geranium...never heard of a combo like that before.
I'm not too sure about this box, especially with the massive difference in the values of boxes, I know it's about trying new things, but you would think they would make it fair amongst everyone.
In light of this, I've subscribed to another beauty box I haven't heard of before called She Said Beauty, this one is £9 a month plus £2.95 delivery and if you order before the 27th of Feb, you get 25% off of your first box.
Plus unlike the other beauty boxes which are mostly pink or black, this one is turquoise with pink lining :D best combo ever! But I'll blog about that when it arrives at the end of March, I think it's their first box so I'll let you know then!
This is the link to their website:https://www.shesaidbeauty.com/home
Thanks for reading this very long blog post haha
Hayley
Impatiently waiting
Impatiently waiting for my Glossybox to arrive...never mind I have a scientific paper due at two that I've only half finished...
Will blog when it arrives ;)
Will blog when it arrives ;)
Sunday 19 February 2012
elf haul!
Hey guys, it's me again!
Sorry for the delay between the last post and this one, I've just been swamped at uni and didn't feel like doing uni work, going to uni and this all at once. Hopefully it won't happen again!
So I was thinking about doing a small series about what ELF products I have as I got my latest order in the post today which was just a few things I picked up during the 30% off sale. When I say a few, I mean eight things, but my order still only came to £16 so you can't really argue with that!
So here's what I got:
(I also got some of the elf shine eraser oil blotting sheets and the mineral powder foundation, I just forgot to add them in when I took the photo, oops)
I got four lip products:
elf lipstick in Classy, which looks really bright in the tube but goes on quite sheer and is kind of a 'my lips but better' colour for me as I have quite pigmented lips anyway. Also, just have to say that this lipstick smells amazing, they kind of smell like calpol (if you know what that is) but a lot sweeter. Major plus haha.
I also got the last two elf studio matte lip colours that I don't already have and I'm not too sure about either of these, I got coral and tea rose. Coral is obviously a coral colour, but I think I'm far too pale to pull it off and it just looks a bit orange on my lips. Tea rose looked like a light pink on the website but when it arrived I found out that it was a lilac-y colour. I don't have a lilac lipstick so that's new for me, but again as I'm so pale it just sort of looks like I'm very very cold. So I'm not sure about that, might have to give them to someone with darker skin than mine.
I also got one of their elf studio lip liner and blending brushes, I now have two of these and I tend to use them just on their own, blending them in so they're more like a lip stain. I got this in the colour wine, which is a dark plum-y red colour. This definately looks a lot better with my skin tone. I always seem to wear really vibrant colours on my lips, I think it enhances my skin tone and just makes my lips stand out more. This is a really lovely colour and blends out so it doesn't look so vampy so that you could wear it during the day.
I also got an elf studio blush in the shade Tickled Pink and this is a really nice, subtle colour which adds a bit of colour to your cheeks but isn't super overpowering. I really like the packaging of the blushes and eyeshadows as they're a kind of rip-off of nars' packaging. I like how there's a mirror in the lid and the formula feels really velvety on the skin.
I've recently been rethinking how I choose eyeshadows, usually I would got for whatever purples or greens were available and completely bypass the nude or brown shades. But I was thinking that as I have blue eyes and orange is the colour that would most compliment them, I should start looking for coppery or bronze toned eyeshadows. So that's why I got Sunset, a single eyeshadow from the elf studio line. It looks a bit brown in the picture, but in real life its like a golden coppery colour. It's very orangy, so I may have to tone it down a little bit but I really like the pigmentation and the formula feels really nice.
Finally I got the elf mineral foundation in fair, I can't really say anything about this yet as I haven't used it properly, I can just say that I had a really hard time trying to get the product through the sifter, I had to really bang it about in the end haha.
Overall I'm pleased with what I got and can't wait to start using everything!
Thanks for reading,
Hayley
Sorry for the delay between the last post and this one, I've just been swamped at uni and didn't feel like doing uni work, going to uni and this all at once. Hopefully it won't happen again!
So I was thinking about doing a small series about what ELF products I have as I got my latest order in the post today which was just a few things I picked up during the 30% off sale. When I say a few, I mean eight things, but my order still only came to £16 so you can't really argue with that!
So here's what I got:
I got four lip products:
elf lipstick in Classy, which looks really bright in the tube but goes on quite sheer and is kind of a 'my lips but better' colour for me as I have quite pigmented lips anyway. Also, just have to say that this lipstick smells amazing, they kind of smell like calpol (if you know what that is) but a lot sweeter. Major plus haha.
I also got the last two elf studio matte lip colours that I don't already have and I'm not too sure about either of these, I got coral and tea rose. Coral is obviously a coral colour, but I think I'm far too pale to pull it off and it just looks a bit orange on my lips. Tea rose looked like a light pink on the website but when it arrived I found out that it was a lilac-y colour. I don't have a lilac lipstick so that's new for me, but again as I'm so pale it just sort of looks like I'm very very cold. So I'm not sure about that, might have to give them to someone with darker skin than mine.
I also got one of their elf studio lip liner and blending brushes, I now have two of these and I tend to use them just on their own, blending them in so they're more like a lip stain. I got this in the colour wine, which is a dark plum-y red colour. This definately looks a lot better with my skin tone. I always seem to wear really vibrant colours on my lips, I think it enhances my skin tone and just makes my lips stand out more. This is a really lovely colour and blends out so it doesn't look so vampy so that you could wear it during the day.
I also got an elf studio blush in the shade Tickled Pink and this is a really nice, subtle colour which adds a bit of colour to your cheeks but isn't super overpowering. I really like the packaging of the blushes and eyeshadows as they're a kind of rip-off of nars' packaging. I like how there's a mirror in the lid and the formula feels really velvety on the skin.
I've recently been rethinking how I choose eyeshadows, usually I would got for whatever purples or greens were available and completely bypass the nude or brown shades. But I was thinking that as I have blue eyes and orange is the colour that would most compliment them, I should start looking for coppery or bronze toned eyeshadows. So that's why I got Sunset, a single eyeshadow from the elf studio line. It looks a bit brown in the picture, but in real life its like a golden coppery colour. It's very orangy, so I may have to tone it down a little bit but I really like the pigmentation and the formula feels really nice.
Finally I got the elf mineral foundation in fair, I can't really say anything about this yet as I haven't used it properly, I can just say that I had a really hard time trying to get the product through the sifter, I had to really bang it about in the end haha.
Overall I'm pleased with what I got and can't wait to start using everything!
Thanks for reading,
Hayley
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