Despite the miserable weather outside my window at the
moment, it wouldn’t be called April showers for nothing, I thought I’d share
with you a few of my favourite beauty products I have been using and will be
using this spring.
About 2 months ago I subscribed to Elle magazine. The gift
with the subscription was an Elizabeth Arden gift set which included some mascara,
their red door red lipstick and a tube of their eight-hour cream. I’ve been
really curious about using the eight-hour cream, as beauty blogger Tanya burr
is a massive fan of the product so I was really excited when I received it in
the post about a month ago. It’s more of a thick balm consistency than cream
and you only need a pea-sized amount. It can be applied to dry patches of skin,sunburn and peeling but I mostly use it on chapped lips. It leaves my lips feeling
hydrated and soft and although the product doesn’t smell and taste particularly
great it’s become one of my favourite lip products.
My second beauty favourite is again a lip product. It’s the bubble-gum
lip scrub from Lush. I spoke about this product in a recent beauty haul post. I
originally purchased it, as it is one of those products everyone raves about
and thought I would try it as and my lips get really dry and chapped. I’ve never
used a lip scrub before as it never really even crossed my mind but since I
purchased it, I have used it everyday and my lips are less chapped and feel
really soft. After using it and licking off the sugar, my favourite bit as it
tastes really good; I apply a small amount of the Elizabeth Arden eight-hour
cream to give my lips moisture.
Having painted nails is a bit of a rarity for me; I’m not
allowed to wear nail varnish in my current job so when I have a few days off I
like to pamper myself a little by painting my nails. I brought 3 bottles of Barry M’s gelly
hi-shine nail varnishes a while back; this particular one in the shade Lychee
is my current favourite. The colour gives the appearance of almost having a
French manicure and goes with every colour so you can wear it with anything.
It’s the perfect shade for spring pastels.
I’ve also spoken about this smashbox primer in my recent
beauty haul and mentioned how I don’t really like silicone foundation primers
as they don’t work well with my combination to oily skin, this oil free
foundation primer has a lotion like texture and soaks into my skin unlike
silicone primers which sit on the skins surface. I am so impressed with this product.
I’ll be honest I wasn’t expecting miracles with this primer but its does
everything I want it to. Application just feels like I’m applying another
moisturiser and my make up sits perfectly on top of it and stays on my face
through out the day. It’s also lasted ages, a lot longer than I thought it
would seeing as it’s a small tube.
The last on my list of favourites is Origins' GinZing energy
boosting moisturiser. I really wanted to try a moisturiser that would give my
skin a boost and the origins moisturises have a really good reputation so I
thought I would try it. I don’t really
like moistures, sometimes they can be a bit too oily and greasy which can be
really annoying when you are wearing them throughout the day, as you don’t want
to have the appearance of greasy skin. But this moisturiser isn’t like that at all;
it hydrates my skin and soaks in well. It has a really light texture and smells
really nice. I’ve only been using it for a few weeks so and I’m already in love
with it.
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