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 favourite BB Creams

Now I am a girl who loves buying foundations, I have so many but find sometimes a lighter coverage is a nice change, and is perfect for any season. 

I love using a BB cream or a 'Beauty Balm' when I just want my skin to be able to breathe a lot more or if I'm having a good skin day. I love how easy to apply a BB cream is compared to a foundation as foundations can be quite thick and sometimes a little hard to blend especially with no makeup brushes or tools to use!

I thought I would show you my two favourite BB creams so far that I have tried. I have two more BB creams but I feel like these two are my little gems. I will now get on to telling you why!

The Body Shops All in one BB Cream 

I love the fact that this is colour a adapting BB cream, although only to some extent as you have to pick out of 3/4 shades anyway! But it comes out like a white liquid consistency, it's easy to blend and looks light on my skin, like I'm wearing nothing at all, but I love how this is and it looks so luminous and really adds a glow to my skin. It is very light coverage, to me anyway and I feel like you may need to use a concealer if you want extra coverage, this is usually my preference and it looks lovely and is a nice change if you want something light and easy to apply. Mine is in the colour '01'

Buy it here at The Body Shop

Maybelline Dream Pure BB cream for oily skin

I think this one is the thicker of the two BB creams, it feels like it to me, if I want a bit more coverage than the body shop one or one that suits my skin with a tan better it would be this one haha! although it won't be the right shade for me this autumn/winter so I think I will be using the Body shop one a lot more! But This one gives a bit more coverage over spots or other imperfections, so if you want a better coverage one it would be this one. It covers all of my small blemishes but a concealer may also be someone else's preference with this one too depending on the coverage you'd like. My particular shade here is in 'Medium'

Buy it here at Boots

I love BB creams and I will be using these a lot throughout all seasons of the year! I recommend them to people who may only need a little bit of coverage on their skin, or if you're just starting out with makeup and want to try a foundation but may not want something as thick and heavy. 

What is your favourite BB cream?!

Topshop Lipstick Dupes With BornPrettyStore

So recently, I've been loving my Topshop lipstick on the left (the purple colour) as the weather is getting my autumn/wintery I'm loving the vampy lip colours, and I love this one which is in the colour 'The Damned' it is a lovely dark purple colour in the bullet and can be built up to that colour, I am loving the Topshop makeup at the moment, I also have a blush from them which is really nice too although it's more of a Summery shade I won't wear it much now, I'm all about the bronzer in Winter! haha now back to the lipsticks! 

So BornPrettyStore recently contacted me asking if I wanted to try a couple of things from their website, and I chose the lipstick on the right hand side and the lip crayon which is in the mint green packaging. Now I thought the packaging looked a lot like the Topshop lipsticks and I thought the 'TheHotShop' and 'LipHop' Sounded a lot like they were very similar to 'Topshop' so they might be dupes of the Topshop one and so I decided to give them a go. I chose both of the colours from the website and I will link the exact products I have received below and they look exactly the same as the ones I chose I will have swatches of them all together so I can show you the similarities, and the pigmentation of the lipsticks are like the same they look like they are just the same in different colours.

So the colour of the lipstick I received is the colour 'Not with a Cup of Lipstick'* which I love the name and it's also the number '03' and I have the link here if anyone is interested, now the colour as you can see by the photo it is a gorgeous bright pinky colour, now this colour I wanted to get as it's a bit out of my comfort zone and I haven't got a colour lipstick like this one! So far I love it and the pigmentation is great. 

The next one is the colour '12'* in the mint green packaging but sadly it doesn't have another name, unlike the other lipstick but I love this packaging so much and this one looks so alike to the ones I see in Topshop but they are in a white packaging I think and the writing is almost identical to my purple Topshop lipstick in the photo above. I was so drawn to this colour because it looks quite toned down but a lovely light berry pink shade for the autumnal months ahead. I knew I wanted a colour like this, for the upcoming colder months so when I saw this one on the website I was very happy, it looks so gorgeous on the lips! And has to to be my favourite of the two! You can find it here

If you'd like to try any products from BornPrettyStore I have a discount you may like to use, it is JVBH10 if you use it you'll receive 10% off your order, but you can also shop the code by clicking on the code in the discount's section of the right side of my blog.

So here are the lipsticks all together but the BornPrettyStore ones are the two on the right hand side, so the left lipstick as I mentioned earlier is the Topshop on in 'The Damned' and wasn't purchased from BornPrettyStore.  As you can see the pigmentation of all of them is amazing and they look like there from the same exact brand.

I hope you all enjoyed reading about these Topshop dupes and Thank you to BornPrettyStore for letting me try these lipsticks I am very grateful for them and hope this has helped someone who want's a cheaper alternative to Topshop lipsticks! And although I was sent these lipsticks all opinions are my own! 

*PR Sample(s) included

Rediscovering Old Products - My Golden Oldies

So as you've seen by the title these are my three golden oldies, I had recently discovered them again after not using them in around a year and I'm loving them! I thought I would share them with you all and hope that it might help others who haven't tried these and wanted to give any of them a go themselves! So Enjoy!

So The Sleek Rose Gold Blush has been a favourite of mine over the past few years, but recently after trying a lot of new products it had taken a back seat in my makeup drawers and had been forgotten about, but after trying it again I'm so happy with the colour and how flattering it is and don't know why I stopped using it! The packaging is also very 'sleek' see what I did there haha, how embarrassing I know but I am a sucker for packaging and it reminds me a bit of the Nars packaging and it looks really nice and is easy to travel with! At only £4.49 it's a blush that I will definitely repurchase but not for a while as a little goes a long way and I haven't even hit the pan yet!

My Next favourite is a foundation, the Bourjois Healthy Mix Serum which is perfect for creating that dewy but natural glow, but it doesn't leave me looking too shiny or oily, it's a gorgeous summer foundation as it is light, but I will also be loving it this winter as I find it's so moisturising and I could do with a bit of a glow when my skin is feeling a bit dry and in the winter this one is definitely on the cards for me! It is £10.99 which I feel is quite a lot for foundation but this one is perfect for when bourjois products are on offer as I think I got two products for £10 once so if this foundation is included I would totally have to stock up! It is a beautiful foundation, I would also love to try the normal foundation from this range to see how it compares and may do a review then if you'd all like to see one too! 

The Last product I've rediscovered is the Maybelline Baby Skin instant pore eraser, and this is a primer which really does help make my makeup last longer and makes my face look overall a lot nicer and applies makeup a lot smoother so I think it does really approve the appearance of my pores! Which is a bonus as well as making my makeup look a lot nicer. I love the way it makes my foundation sit and even though it is around £7 in a three for two deal at boots (which is quite often, But I don't complain haha!) is even better value as you could stock up on your favourite drugstore products as well as trying this one if you'd like!

Hair Products I'm Using! + Mini Reviews

Here are the hair products I'm using at the moment! I hate buying hair products mainly because my hair always seems to look the same as before or the product doesn't do what it says! But I am using these three products at the moment, a dry shampoo, a hair mask and a hairspray and let me just tell you why I love them! I will be going through each product and reviewing it, but like a little insight to it so just a little bit about each of them and why I love them so far!

The Dove Dry Shampoo: I love as it instantly adds a little bit of volume to my hair which is what I need most of the time my hair can look a little flat and lifeless! It also is a great dry shampoo, if ever I want to miss a day of washing my hair if I spray a small amount into the roots of my hair to make it look a lot nicer and it really does make me feel better, the smell is lovely almost like I've freshly washed my hair which is nice when it feels well, not so nice! It also doesn't leave a white cast in my hair which is great because I don't like using the ones that come out white unless I would leave a white patch in my hair! ... that wouldn't be a great look for me! I would give it an 8.5/10.

*The Nanokeratin RePlenish colour preserving mask: I have been trialing for the past few days now since I've never tried a hair mask, well at least I don't think I have, I can't really compare it to others I've used as I haven't! I have tried out the colour preserving mask and my hair felt really nice after I had used it, a lot more silkier than usual, but what I love from a treatment mask, as I love the feeling of nourished and healthy hair. I feel it kept my hair colour looking fresh and the colours in my hair looked nicely blended together, sometimes the colour looks quite bold! As I'd recently had a few colours put through my hair I feel like it really helped to repair the parts of my hair where the colour may have damaged or stripped my hair of the natural oils (I think anyway!) Anyway I really like it and I would love to purchase the full size. If I had to rate it I would give it a 8/10! Really good product!

You can buy it here at www.nanokeratinsystem.com

The Mask I used: Colour Preserving Mask

Lastly my Tresemme Extra Hold Hairspray: It has been a current obsession or addiction of mine, I used to use cheaper types of hairspray but as my mum is a hairdresser, she swears by the Tresemme hairsprays and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about, and I've been missing out, it holds my hair in place so well, not like any other hairspray I've used, I can see myself only using this hairspray from now on as a little bit really does keep my hair staying put and I strongly believe it sticks to it's 'Extra Hold' claims because my hair looks exactly the same at the end of the day as it does when I first apply the hairspray! LOVE IT! I would definitely have to give this hairspray a 9.5/10 but I don't think I will find a better hairspray than this one!