Recent Beauty Buys.

I've been loving MAC lately, previously I only ever purchased their lipsticks but I'm loving their eye shadows. No wonder why there is always hype around them! 

My fave lip balms at the moment are from  Burt's Bees, they are so moisturising, I have the mango one as well which I've been using everyday.

My skin has been really bad the past few weeks, I've been breaking out like crazy! My skin is usually dry but I've noticed that it has become more oily for some reason? After watching Kandee's recent video on clear skin I thought I'd try out the Dermalogica Clean Start kit that she recommended, however once it arrived my skin started to get a little better so I haven't actually tried it out yet. I've just been cleansing & moisturising for the past few days whilst my skin slowly gets better. I also read the ingredients & realised the active ingredient in the products are Salicylic Acid, which I've heard a lot of people seem to be allergic to so I'm scared to use it! 

Before my Dermalogica kit arrived, I popped in Superdrug the other day & suddenly wanted to try some face washes, cheaper alternatives to what I'm currently using. I have been using the Clean&Clear one in the mornings & its really nice & refreshing. Its just a really quick & easy face wash which works well! I bought the Neutrogena ones because I remember someone recommending it & it smells so nice! However I went home & looked for reviews online & it seems like A LOT of people are allergic to the Salicylic Acid in it, I had no idea what it was. I had to go on google & do a bit of research! But yeah, I'm scared I'll be allergic to it too seeing as my skin is quite sensitive!

I have been wanting to try Estee Lauder's Idealist Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher for ages so I finally went to purchase it a few weeks ago, but somehow the lady sold me the Even Skintone Illuminator instead, I didn't even realise until I got home but I thought I'd try it anyway. I did like it but I still wanted to try the other one so I went back the next week & purchased that one as well. I was expecting it to be really good, my skin was really bad at that time & I just wanted something which would be quick & effective. I like the consistency but it didn't seem to do much for me, maybe I didn't use it for long enough? I did see changes with the Even Skintone Illuminator though so I used that during the night & the Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher in the mornings. My skin was slowly getting better but I started breaking out in other areas of my face as well so I've stopped using any toners and serums at the moment until my skin clears up & maybe I'll find what the problem is.

I had a sudden urge to try out some Lush products the other day, I have no idea why I've never tried them before. I purchased a few things from their online store & received the package this morning. I've tried the Snow Fairy Shower Gel & it smells amazingggg! No wonder why its a bestseller!

& thats it! I started my degree this week, studying is draining me out. I feel so tired all the time! Its pretty usual for me when I'm studying, especially after having 19 weeks off! Its just getting back into the routine again I suppose. But yeah.. I hope everyone has been well!

xx

New Haul

Hallo ladies,

I hope you had a good weekend. Mine was really busy, but I did have time to do abit of hauling :) I found alot of Catrice polishes that was discontinued so of course I scooped them up :)



Yes I was able to find 2 more Beyu 209 (Clarins 230's cousin)



Eeeekkkkk 3 new P2 crackle glitters :D





I found glitter to franken with less just hope this glitter does not melt!!





I found some really cute Halloween cookie cutters. Can't wait to use them :D



Have you done any hauling lately?

Thanks for looking,
Kesha

Swaps/ Hauls

Ladies ladies,



I wanted to share some new swaps and hauls I've gotten. I can't swatch Clarins 230 or BeYu 209 yet since we are not getting much sun in this part of the world :( so it would be a waste.



Ok lets start off with the swaps.



This is a swap from Singapore.









This one is from my favorite swap buddy Crystal shes a green freak like me. Hubby laughed when I opened this package, he was like "Damn baby think you got enough green yet?" LOL

















Now check out this package. Can you see what that OPI polish is? OMG it's Whats Dune @_@











This swap is from a sweet girl in Singapore. My first 2 Make Up Store polishes WOO-HOO!!







Thats it for the swaps so far but I have more coming in the mail :D because of the 3 lovely swaps from Singapore, I now own the whole Rainbow collection.







Ok now onto my hauls.















Ok thats is for now!! I was wondering I have loads of nail wheels and wanted to know would you ladies like to see swatches of all my polishes?



Thanks for looking,

Kesha

Beauty Haul.

Helloooo! Just thought I'd do a quick haul because I've bought a few beauty things lately..

 

Few weeks ago I made an order on sasa because I wanted to try some products.  

♥ Dolly Wink Liquid Eyeliner 

♥ Face Q All in One Facial Mask (3 boxes, 4 masks in each)

♥ My beauty Diary Japanese Cherry Blossom Mask (10 masks) 

♥ Essential Nuance Airy Ultra Honey Air Mask.

I love everything! I'm probably gonna repurchase these when I've used them up except for the Dolly Wink Eyeliner, I like it, I like the brush ( I thought it was a felt tip but its actually a calligraphy brush pen kinda brush) but the only problem is that it doesn't seem to last long on the inner corners of my eyes.

 

My purchases from Superdrug, Boots & The Body Shop.

♥ Ardell lashes #109

♥ Nivea Essential Lipbalm

♥ L'oreal Telescopic Mascara (Waterproof)

♥ Revlon Nail Enamel #095 Facets of Fuchsia

♥ Collection 2000 Lasting Perfection Concealer #2 & #3

♥ Collection 2000 Volume Sensation XXL Mascara (Waterproof)

♥ The Body Shop Honey Bronze Bronzing Powder #03 Medium Matte

I have loads of boxes of lashes at home that I love but when I saw these Ardell lashes I had to get them, I believe they only just started selling them in the UK because this was the first time I saw them. L'oreal Telescopic <3 I finally got this, when I said I wished that Benefit's They're real had a waterproof formula.. well this is the equivalent! Out of the millions of mascaras I own this is probably the closest one to being "The one" for me! I never look at Collection 2000 but I heard a lot of good things about the concealer so I picked those up & they were doing a 3 for 2 in boots so I just picked up a mascara too, I haven't tried it yet but it seems quite dry, I'm not expecting much from it. Finally got the Body Shop bronzer which I've been wanting as well, mainly because I love the packaging & the actual honeycomb print on the bronzer lol. It is very good though, a perfect matte bronzer! 

 

 

This is Revlon's Facets of Fuchsia, its the first Revlon polish I own, I always love their colours but I never buy them. Back in the days I never liked glitter polishes, I always found them quite tacky until recently, glitter polishes have developed majorly! I've had my eye on a few of Deborah Lippmann's glitter polishes but I haven't purchased any yet, then I walked into Superdrug & saw this, it just looks so nice I HAD TO get it! I hate fuchsia but this polish is actually really really nice, I love love loveeeeee it. It has a black jelly-ish base which fuchsia coloured small round glitters and larger hexagonal glitters.  It's also a dupe for Deborah Lippmann's Bad Romance, from looking at the pictures, I really can't see a difference. I just had to take a picture although my nails are in a terrible state, they were all breaking so I just cut them all down & my cuticles are super dry!

But yeah thats it, I always get carried away when writing..

Shopping & Benefit's They're Real mascara!

So I received a package in the post after work on Friday, I'm expecting a few things so I was wondering whats inside because it was quite a big box.. opened it up to find Benefit's They're Real Mascara!!! Finally, it isn't out in stores in the UK until next Saturday but they started selling it early online so I purchased one with free shipping, woo :) but SERIOUSLY, does the box have to be that big for such a small thing? I wouldn't of minded if it just came in a bubble wrapped envelope to be honest.

 

Love the brush! love everything except the fact that it does not hold the curl in my lashes. I expected it though because I ALWAYS have to use waterproof formulas when it comes to mascara but somehow I expected this to be different haha. I hope they come out with a waterproof formula!

 

Went to do a bit of shopping today because I needed to restock on my Amie moisteriser & get some jeggings. I came home with neither of those, instead I got these & a few tops lol.

More rings & earrings, Peach melba nail polish (I gave mine away so had to get a new one), Mac's Studio Sculpt Concealer (My eyebags are so bad I decided to try a full coverage concealer, I chose this over the Studio finish because of the packaging to be honest LOL), Burt's Bees lip balms (never tried it but I've always heard they were good, just never bothered to purchase it, I got the tinted one to; impulse buy) and finally Lancome's Bi-Facil because I'm coming the the end of my 3rd bottle of Bobbi Brown Instant Longwear Makeup Remover & I took a risk at trying out this one just because I heard good things about it. Hopefully it doesn't disappoint me though, I thought my BB one was expensive but this one is even more!

I really wanted to get Garnier's new BB cream too but I resisted temptation because I have too much.. I also wanted Lancome's Hynose Drama mascara. The sales assisstant at Lancome (she was lovely btw & so beautiful!) recommened it to me over the new Doll eyes mascara which I asked about but I just recently got 2 new mascaras so I didn't buy it. Unfortunately.

 

Then I came home & had this, nomnomnom :)

Enough yabber for now, hope you all have had a lovely weekend.

Collective Haul!

I've bought a few things in the past couple of weeks so I thought I'd do a collective haul to share some of the things.

Starting off with Makeup, surprisingly I haven't bought much makeup recently. I'm not really a lipgloss kinda girl, I like my lips moisturised but not glossy, I wanted something that lasted longer than lipstick for work so I popped in Superdrug for some lipstains. The colour doesn't budge and I can put lipbalm over it, perfect. I wanted to try the Revlon Just Bitten lip stains  but they didn't have the colour I wanted so I got these two instead..

Superdrug (Maybelline Color Sensational Lipstain, 150 Tender Rose) £5.99

This smells really nice, I love the colour aswell & its quite buildable. Lasting power is good, it lasts me long enough! The only problem is that mine has seemed to dry up really quickly.. not sure if thats just me.

Superdrug (GOSH Long Lasting Lip Marker, 002 Pink) £6.99

This smells amazinggg, the colour is quite bright, I just use this in the centre of my lips over the Maybelline one. The lasting power on this is amazing, it lasts foreverrrr.

eBay (Clarins Mosaique Summer Bronzing Compact SPF 10) £34 + £2 (RRP £26)

I'm so glad I got my hands on this, I never knew it was limited edition until I went to the Clarins counter in Boots & asked for it. The lady showed me a tester that she put away because they sold out because it was limited edition, she guaranteed me that I wouldn't find it anywhere! I was heartbroken. It was sold out in every online store so I decided to go on eBay & I found one from a seller called yourbeautybargains . I had to bid for it though, I always buy things on eBay but this was my first bid & I won! I payed £34 + £2 p&p for it, although it cost me £10 more than the RRP it is so worth it! The packaging is amazing, you also get 20g worth of product, that is loadssss. I was actually surprised at how big it is, it was the first thing I noticed when the lady showed me in Boots. The colour is perfect, not too shimmery either.

Ring fetish..

Top Left: Forever21, £3.90 || Top Right: Forever21, £3.15, £3.15, £3.90
Bottom Left: Accesorize £12 || Bottom Right: H&M £3.99

I had one more but it disappeared when I got home :(

& other random bits & bobs..

 Muji (Acrylic Pot, Deep) 95p each

My tinted moisteriser and BB cream is coming to an end so I bought these to scoop the products in when I cut them open.

Muji (P.E. 30g Tube) £1.25 each

I got these little tubes to put my cleanser and moisteriser in for when I go camping so I don't have the bring the big tubes.

 Pylones T/A Octopus (Pig Flashlight) £5 each

Me & my little sis got these for when we go camping. Ther're so cute & they don't use batteries either, eco-friendly (Y)

I got some clothes too & a few other bits too but I don't have photos of those.

I ordered a few nail supplies online too, some have arrived & I'm waiting for a few more but I'll do a mini haul when they all get here :)

What have you purchased recently?

Hauls/Swaps

Hallo ladies,

WOO-HOO It's finally Friday :D do you have plans this weekend? Even though I've been missing in action on here LOL does not mean I've stopped doing swaps and hauling loads of polishes, so I wanted to share with you some of my amazing finds.

Ok lets start off with the swaps :)
















I was so excited about these ones :D


















The new loves of my life ;)




Can you tell what some of these beauties are? Lets just say a few HTF OPI'S :D






















Ok thats it for the swaps (I'm guessing thats enough right?) LOL


Now onto my hauls :)














I got my hands on OPI DS Sapphire.











I was also able to find Clarins 230's cousin. As you can see they are labeled the same number but one is a dud can you guess which one is Clarins 230's cousin?




Ok thats all I have for now, there was like no end to this post HAHAHAHAHA!! If you have any questions about the polishes just ask.

Thanks for looking,

Kesha