Skincare/Bodycare favourites!

Now that summer is just around the corner, I've been stepping up with my skin and body care products! 

I adore having a summery glow as the weather gets nicer and I have two tanning body/skincare products featured in this post as well as two skin care products which I'm also loving, so if you want to know my thoughts carry on reading lovelies!

The Products featured and direct links to them: 

Dove DermaSpa Summer Revived Body Lotion -www.boots.com

Bondi Sands everyday Gradual Face tanner - www.feelunique.com

Cetaphil cleanser - www.feelunique.com

La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo - www.feelunique.com

The first product is a very new product to me, after seeing this gradual tan on offer on the super drug website a few weeks ago I decided to take the plunge and try it, because I self tan I use the Bondi Sands Tanning range, and I can never ever get my hands to look somewhat not disgusting, I have watched countless youtube videos to see what I was doing wrong when applying the mousse to my body and also my hands but every time I did it it was hideous, no other word to describe it unfortunately! So I tried this on my hands applying it with a tanning mitt and oh my goodness what a difference, it matches my Bondi Sands dark foam perfectly after two solid coats and I am obsessed! I am yet to try the Bondi Sands tanning lotion, as I was going to try that on my hands and feet instead of the mousse but as this was on offer for around £3.50 and the Bondi sands one was £14.99 I thought I would give this ago first and the results I am beyond impressed with! 

The best natural looking hands I have ever had when fake tanning!

Now time for my Bondi Sands face gradual tan, now this is perfect for when you don't want to wear much makeup on your face and I've been loving it for makeup free days as it adds colour to my face obviously and builds up to match the tan on my body over two to three days of me applying it each night, because obviously when I don't fake tan my face I have a very visible pale face and tanned body haha!!The only small downside is if you use harsher face scrubs it obviously won't last amazingly but I think is super good and I've been looking for a product like this that doesn't break me out! it doesn't! and I'm definitely going to use this on holiday this summer since I need to use factor 50 on my easily burnt face! Goodbye to my pale face and tanned neck! 

So any US readers of my blog you'll probably think I'm crazy but I have been dying to try the Cetaphil cleanser for so long after hearing how good it is for sensitive or acne prone skin, which lucky me I suffer from both! I love the Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish but I was looking for a liquid based cleanser instead of like a lotion which is what cleanse and polish is for those who may not know!

I have been using it for three weeks solidly now and my skin hasn't felt this soft in forever so now I'm definitely saying goodbye to harsh face scrubs which probably made my skin even more sensitive! It is amazing if your looking for a product that won't irritate your skin at all this one claims to do that and I agree!

Lastly is another completely raved about product, and I talk about it all the time! BUT it's the biggest staple in my facial skincare routine, if I couldn't have any other product except one it would be this one! *Bold claim I know!* it keeps my skin clearer than any other product has and I feel it works best when I completely cover my face in a small layer so it helps to tackle blemishes even before they appear. The Effaclar Duo + is a french brand and I also need to try more products from them! I have yet to find a acne curing product but this is as close as I've found to improve my skin the abolute most and it seems to prevent whiteheads and those really painful spots which is gross but amazing that it does such a good job!

So these are my favourites! 

What Skin Care or Body Care products can you not live without?!

A Mini Feel Unique Haul

I adore buying makeup, but as you can see by this little haul I did have some self control this time, but not much! as I still managed to picked up a makeup product! So I hope you enjoy this little post!

The products I purchased:

The Balm Mary Lou Manizer Highlighter - here

Cocoa Brown Tough Stuff - here

The Feel Unique Website - www.feelunique.com

So firstly I picked up the infamous and very much talked about Mary Lou Manizer highlighter which I tested out straight away as I just could not resist, it's so beautiful, snd a super shimmery highlighter and it looks gorgeous on the eyes and above the cheekbone area and basically it's just so pretty if I could apply it everywhere to my face I probably would... as it makes me feel like a glowing goddess!

It looks very gold/champagne colour in the pan which you can see in the photo I took of it below, but when it's applied its like a mixture of cream/gold so it's the perfect in between so it doesn't look crazy, it doesn't look coloured to me when applied, just a gorgeous glow, but it is very glowy and makes wherever you apply it to, on your skin look shiny and youthful, and it is literally amazing for above contour and makes chubby faced me, actually look like I have some cheekbones woo! It's clear to say, I'm in love!

This next item is something I have really been in need of, as I have recently got more into fake tan and making my not so tanned skin a bit darker, I really wanted to invest in a good body scrub one that would really make my fake tan apply better and one that would be amazing for removing excess tan which may have gone not so nice. I had tried the Cocoa Brown tan in Dark, and I love it and for such good value it's amazing and the colour is so gorgeous. I love being in the sun but I don't like the risks it apposes to my skin, especially since my face burns like a peach I have started taking much better care of my skin especially when being in the sun, so I decided I would rather fake tan as that is a lot better than damaging my skin in the long term. 

I love being tanned, I don't mind being pale but I find foundation is so much easier to match me when I'm tanned, maybe I'm just super fussy but I find foundations never match me correctly, either they are too pink toned or make me look ghostly white, and then the next shade up is usually too orangey on my skin! You can never win. When my body has it's natural colour I usually mix foundations to get a better and more precise colour match. But I love fake tanning and even though it's a lengthy process it makes me feel better about myself and personally I love my makeup more when I have a tan!

What's on your Feel Unique Wishlist?! 

Love Me Beauty - What I got In My Box

I had wanted to try love me beauty for a while now and I thought why not take the plunge when they had a offer on which got me all of this for only £4.95 including p&p lets just say I was pretty damn chuffed with this little bargain! 

If any of you want to use my promo code to get your own credits to get a love me beauty box, then my code 'JESSI357' will give you £21 of credits! enjoy!

Love Me Beauty Website - www.lovemebeauty.com 

So let me go through everything I got! everything came in a lovely grey box embellished with 'love me beauty' on the front which was gorgeous and so sleek. I have actually already started using it to hold some body products otherwise I would have put this in the blog post!

Let me also explain that unlike other subscription boxes, love me beauty lets you choose all the things you want to try yourself, with the credits you have which are what cost the money, so you buy the amount of credits you want then spend them! which I think is great as you can pick everything you'll use and it isn't so much a waste as some other beauty subscriptions might be if you don't use the products!

The first product I picked out were these little love me beauty eye lash curlers which are obviously from there brand! I think they are amazing though as I have actually tried and tested all these products now, after receiving this box around a month ago! They really create a great curl and I didn't think eye lash curlers were that important but these are soo good!

I then chose this brow pencil called the Lord and Berry Magic Brow mine is called 'Wonderful' as it is the shade for blonde hair and it's such an amazing brow pencil I am super duper happy and I really wasn't expecting it to be that great when I got it as I have high expectations for products and usually I end up disappointed but nope, this is the perfect match for my eye brows and it has a spooley on the other end so it's really useful how this is like a 2 in 1 product! perfect for travelling too!

Now I couldn't go without this product when I was looking online at everything I could have chose from! It's the Nails Inc Gel Effect nail polish in 'Hyde Park' and I am obsessed but I won't go on too much as my last post had this featured in it which I will link below if you want to read it but it's such a greyish blue colour which doesn't sound that great but it is so so pretty!

Lastly I got a very talked about product in the blogging world, which is the Dr Paw Paw red tinted balm, it is a multi purpose balm which can be a lip balm or can be used on your eye lids and it's basically just a balm which has many purposes! I have been using it as a lip balm/moisturiser and it smells lovely and does really hydrate my lips before and after I am wearing lipstick.

So those were the products! I love everything and I still can't believe I got them all for such an amazing price! 

My latest post featuring the nail polish mentioned - Products I'm Loving Lately 

My invite code which will give you £21 in credits - 'JESSI357' 

Love Me Beauty Eye lash Curlers - here

Lord and Berry Eyebrow Pencil in Wonderful - here 

Nails inc Gel Effect in Hyde Park - here

Dr Paw Paw Red Tinted Multi-Purpose Balm - here

Would you try any of these products?

Have you ever tried beauty box from Love Me Beauty? 

Product Spotlight: The Body Shop Lipsticks

I made a HUGE order from the body shop a few weeks ago... and ended up getting these gorgeous lipsticks from there makeup range for £1.20 each!! How amazing is that!? I could not have said no! So I got these two beauties for under £2.40!!

You can buy similar here at The Body Shop

So the first shade is a lovely peachy pink shade which I thought would be perfect for next spring and summer and I will probably end up wearing it this season too as I love the more subtle shades for autumn as well as a berry/red lipstick too. This one is in the shade '01' which is called 'Cheeky Coral' and I think it's the cutest and definitely a fitting name for this lovely colour. I want to wear it loads throughout this winter as I do love a nice understated lipstick and this one won't require too much effort too keep topping up the colour.

The beautiful second shade that I bought was just so pretty even though, I didn't think it looked like this online but it worked out for the best as I love it so so much! It's a perfect lip colour which can be more berry coloured and built up to be the colour that it is in the bullet. I'm sure it'll be a amazing colour for this autumn winter too. This one is called 'Rose Quartz' which is number '13' which I thought would be more pinky but is actually more of a light berry red shade, so I was surprised as I didn't think it would be a reddish colour and it is, definitely more red than pink! But hey, sometimes these things happen with online shopping but it's great because I do absoloutley adore it!

These lipsticks and so creamy and are definitely not drying at all, so I am loving the formula, they are easy to apply and the packaging is really nice and makes them look a lot more expensive than they are! I think the colours are both such pretty and unique shades which would suit so many people for £1.20 each I couldn't really say no and wish I'd have bought more at that price.

So these were both in the body shop's sale, which I also did a haul post on here, so if you're interested then give that a read and tell me what you think!

 I am kinda sad as I can't find them online for you all to browse at too. But they must have all gone in the sale. So this is more of a spotlight blog post too tell you about the body shop's lipsticks and what I think of their makeup in general, and I am so pleased they are both amazing value for money and the colours are stunning!

Have you tried any of the body shop's makeup?! 

My Three Part Skincare Routine - Moisturising

As it's getting a little colder now I thought I would bring my skincare routine to my blog and rave about three of my favourite skincare products- although of course they are my favourites or I wouldn't put them in this haha!

Now this is all about the products I use to moisturise, so if your looking to see what I take makeup off with/face masks I use I will be doing a separate post on these soon!

So I start off by moisturising in the mornings, sometimes I use a face scrub but not always, so I will just be telling you about the products I use religiously and ones I never miss out at least try to not! 

The moisturiser I use in the mornings is the Garnier Moisture Match in 'Goodbye dry' and it just does that! It feels quite thick when you squeeze the moisturiser out of the tube, but it really isn't very thick and sinks in relatively quickly considering it really does help combat my dry patches which I find not much actually helps! I love it because it doesn't really have a scent just a moisturiser scent, which is great for me as products with strong fragrance can irritate my unbelievably sensitive skin! So if you're like me and react to most products you should try this I hope it will work for you all too with dry skin!

So I only really take care of my skin thoroughly in the mornings and evenings, I do use other products to take off makeup and cleanse, so you'll have to wait for a few blog posts before I show you all.

In the evenings I use my Avon Cocoa Butter Face cream which is my fave moisturiser to use overnight as I feel it really softens my skin and leaves it feels baby soft in the morning -which is the best feeling ever am I right? It takes a while to dry and absorb into my skin but it's all worth it for the baby bottom soft face I gain the next day. haha. It works magic on me really and I wasn't expecting to love a moisturiser so much and not to mention how divine the smell is... I could eat it!

Then when I'm needing a bit of moisture under those eyes where the hefty eye bags lay, I use the Simple Soothing Eye Balm which is a recent skincare discovery but I'm not dissapointed I feel like it really makes my eyes less puffy and less tired so if I put it on at night even if I don't get much sleep at least my under eyes aren't the ones suffering. Love this stuff!

So all of these products altogether cost around £10 depending on offers I got them all with, I think that's pretty good for how much I love all of these three skincare products. I recommend any of them if not all, but I have combination but quite dry skin at the same time, and blemish/acne prone skin and since nothing works to improve the appearance of my skin I just use products targeted at my skin type which is mostly dry. 

Hope this interested a few of you,

What's your skincare holy grail product(s)?!

September Favourites

I thought as I don't even think I've done a favourites post (even if I have) I would do one this month, as I've loved so much! well last month now, considering its October 1st but yeah, so these are the  most 'loveable' (I think that's the word) items I haven't been living without over the past month or so!

So I have the Zoella scrubbing me softly body scrub, The seventeen skin wow highlighter, Garnier micellar water, a beautiful berry red Avon nail polish, the Seventeen Contour Kit and a Makeup Revolution Lip Lava, so keep reading if you want to know why I have been loving them all so very much! 

So firstly the Zoella scrubbing me softly, body scrub smells so so lovely, it's not too overpowering like I find some scrubs are and it's really great for prepping my skin for fake tan if I want to use one or even a gradual tan it was features in my Fake Tan Faves post if you want to read that I have a more in depth review of it on there!

To buy it from superdrug I believe it was around £7-8 so it isn't cheap...well for a scrub, but I find a little goes a long way so that's how I justify it and oh the smell of it too! *mmm it smells amazing*

The Seventeen skin wow I have been using for about two weeks now and I'm loving it, I LOVE highlighting at the moment and I feel like I can't wear makeup without it anymore! It makes my makeup look fresh and makes me feel like I look more awake too, if that possible even makes any sense? It can be used as a normal highlight to add a glow to the high points of your face, or it can be mixed with your foundation, or just applied as a primer, I have also loved using it as a primer, it's great for when my skin feels dry as I want it to look more dewy and basically the opposite of dry, to look dewy and to make my skin look better than it feels, especially in the winter weather I think I will be using this a lot! 

I have been loving the Garnier micellar water, which let's face it you probably do as well since I swear every has it now haha! It is amazing though but I won't babble on about it as so many people have it would just be a repeat of what you have probably heard already... 

All I will say is it's around £5 and it's amazing!

My Avon Nail polish is in 'Cherry Jubilee' it is such a lovely reddy/purple colour and looks so pretty on my nails, it actually looks exactly like the bottle which some nail polishes don't look exactly the same but this does and I'm happy about this as it looks lovely on my nails for a good 4-5 days!

The last Seventeen product in this favourites is the Define and Conquer Contour kit, it is a lovely highlighting and contour duo, the contour colour is lovely, the only downside is mine is in medium and has to be built up quite a lot to show up on my skin, but I love the product when it's on my skin and the highlighter doesn't look fake, it looks quite natural but you can tell you skin is looking a bit more glowy!

My last product for this favourites I have been wearing throughout this month, it is the Makeup revolution Lip Lava in 'Tremor' it's a nice pinky shade, and is like a liquid lipstick but it doesn't dry very quickly, so that means it's moisturising and looks so nice and glossy on but isn't sticky, so it looks like a lipgloss but is very pigmented and is a lovely pinky liquid lipstick and I'm loving it for £2.99 I want to try some more of them!

What are your makeup/skincare or random favourites of the month of September?!

My Current Skincare and Bodycare Favourites

These three have been my complete favourites! During the past few months my skin has been getting so dry and I've needed to use more products targeted at dry skin and these are the three I'm so happy with now! So let me tell you a bit more about them!

They are all from the high street and are a mixture of products from Sainsburys/Superdrug and Lush, so all quite affordable and easy to get hold of it you want to give any of them a go. Hope you enjoy seeing my Current Skin/Body care Favourites.

Zoella Scrubbing me Softly body scrub - £7.00 

This scrub is gentle on the skin and smells so lovely This is my body favourite of the three products I use this on my arms, legs, elbows and knees and it leaves them feeling soft and supple it gets red of the dead skin(I know lovely) that we all will get over time and leaves your skin feeling nourished locks in some moisture which is good as I don't feel I need to moisturise straight after which is good because lets be honest moisturising your body can be a bit of a chore!

What's in My Glossybox! #2

 Hello Everyone! Today I have My glossybox unboxing/review/what I got kind of thing! And I have done one of these before but more of a review type blog post which you can check out here: What's in my Glossybox #1, So if you haven't seen that one and your interested check that one out too! 

So the box came, and I had to open it straight away, like I have to do with every parcel I get!- Am I the only one?! haha So I couldn't take a picture straight away but here are the products I received in the August box! The contents of everyone's boxes vary depending on stock of items etc. But I am happy with the items and most of them will come in handy to me!
So basically if you've never heard of glossybox it's a monthly beauty box subscription and you get all full size which can be either beauty/skincare or hair care products or just a random mixture!

Summer Beauty Essentials

Today I am doing a blog post on my Summer Beauty Essentials! All of these wonderful products are included because I love them and feel they work well to keep you feeling clean and wonderful! These are all perfect essentials for a Festival or other specific places that are not the cleanest and you may want a few products to help make you feel nice and squeaky clean and help with other problems along the way!

Dove Dry Shampoo: Firstly I find whenever I have been camping (not very often but...) my hair feels awful I think because of natures air and all that haha, so I want something that's going to make it feel more manageable and help to get rid of excess oils which make our hair greasy quicker. I love this product for even when I'm not camping or anything like that but for when I have no time to wash my hair, I feel it adds a bit of volume and structure to my hair and feels so much nicer than just leaving my hair a day without washing or using anything on it.
The smell of this product is glorious too, the smell is amazing and having that scent lash in my hair all day is such a bonus too. Great for festivals when everywhere around you is mud ridden and you just want a bit of a cleanliness boost! I think this is such an amazing product for the price and really makes my hair look a lot fresher and cleaner than most other dry shampoo's I have tried and tested.

Banish the Blemishes!

I never usually write posts about skincare products as I have naturally spot/acne prone skin and I find nothing helps improve the appearance of my skin, but I must say I tried the body shop's tea tree range on a whim to see if it calmed down my skin or made my spots any less irritated than other facial washes did.

These two products I combine in my skin care routine and have done for around a month, and I must say they have definitely helped, I don't think they are a miracle product as nothing I have used on my face has been 100% effective in reducing my blemishes and acne, but I had heard the tea tree range the body shop did was great, so that is why I invested in these two products and I don't regret it at all.

My skin is a lot less irritated and less red and blotchy, I find I always need a high coverage foundation to cover redness from patches of blemishes on my face, but I feel a lot more confident just wearing concealer some days and not the full hog! 

What's in my In flight bag?! - a few things I'm taking

Hello everyone! 

Today I thought I would do a post on what I'm going to be taking on the plane with me as I go on holiday in a few weeks! I will only keep a few things in there as my flight is a long'un I thought I may as well take my makeup off and then reapply just before we land! 

I'm super excited so let me just show you a few things I'm taking I will also be listing things I still need to buy for when I go but will do that sooner the time.

So this post will just be all the basic things I think are essential on a long flight for me!

My Skincare Essentials| For Combination skin

The thing I always struggle with is finding skincare products that will help make my acne-prone skin soft and supple without drying my skin out. The worst thing I find for me when doing my makeup and foundation clings around my blemishes as some foundations I use need to be powdered to take away too much shine, but most of the time if I do it just looks like an awful cakey-mess! especially when I'm trying to cover nasty blemishes I don't want them standing out more!

These are a few products I find are really good at banishing these problems on my skin but also are affordable and aren't harsh on the skin.