Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation

Bourjois 123 Perfect Foundation

Bourjois 123 Foundation

 

 

If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know I’ve been suffering with erratic allergy breakouts on my face recently and I’ve been struggling to find a great foundation that hasn’t made it worse.

My skin has been red raw in parts, lumpy and even more sensitive than usual and no matter what foundation I have tried, from Bourjois to Benefit to Chanel + Estee Lauder have all been oxidising and seperating to some degree making me look unsightly. I’ve spent a shed load trying lots of foundations to try and sort out my skin woes. When I haven’t been at work I’ve been taking the fresh air approach but sometimes make up is needed!

I must say Bourjois Healthy Mix + Serum has been a god send for light coverage on good days while Estee Lauder double wear was great when my skin was at its worst. This brought me to try the new 123 Perfect foundation from Bourjois as I usually get on so well with their Healthy Mix and their Healthy Mix + Serum.

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Blown away by Bare Minerals

Blown away by Bare Minerals

Hello Lovelies,

Have you ever loved everything from a certain brand and then they’ve brought something new out and you’ve hated it?
That’s what I was worried about with the Bare Minerals READY range. A new line of pressed powders, blushes and eyeshadows.

I was very dubious of whether they would live up to the high standard of the Bare Minerals loose products as I am a big fan and of course their skincare is exceptionally good as well. It could have gone either way really, couldn’t it? I have been hesitant to order any of the Ready line until I could get to a counter and have a play.

Now don’t let me mislead you, this post isn’t all doom and gloom. Last night I finally got to have a closer inspection of the READY line and OH.MY.WORD. I cannot begin to explain how pigmented and buttery soft the eyeshadow quads I tried were. Even the white, which is quite often a hard colour to pull off, pigmentation wise, was just gorgeous and bold.

My favourite has to be the The Soundtrack 4.0 eyeshadow quad and The Top Shelf 2.0 eyeshadow duo. The colours, depth, finish and quality just truly blew me away. It was love at first swipe!

The Soundtrack 4.0 quad

Priced at £29 for the quad and £19 for the duo, which is a LOT more than I was expecting but now that I have seen the quality for myself, I can say the eyeshadows are worth every penny. A little will go a very long way so they will be long lasting.

For convenience, as I travel a lot, I never take any Bare Minerals loose products away with me but now I can, from the Ready range!

I must admit though, I found the blushes to be a little bit underwhelming, but that’s probably more down to my own personal preference of liking bold blushes that you need a light hand for, rather than building a subtle colour up. 6 and 2 three’s really I dare say!

Keep your eyes peeled for some colour swatches coming soon of the eyeshadows!

 
Have you tried the new Ready range? Do you prefer loose or pressed products?

 

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John Frieda Frizz Ease Smooth Start shampoo & conditioner

John Frieda Frizz Ease Smooth Start shampoo & conditioner

Hello lovelies,

John Frieda Frizz Ease Smooth Start Shampoo & Conditioner

John Frieda Frizz Ease is one of those products that feels like it’s been around for a lifetime, there on the shelves of Boots, offering salvation to all of us fuzzy mopped ladies (and gents too!).
Despite trying to only use SLS free shampoos as far as possible, I am happy to sporadically use SLS laden products as I cannot find a blonde toning shampoo without them.

With that said, I recently tried the Smooth Start shampoo & conditioner in the hope that they would give me sleek, managable hair now that it’s getting warmer outside.

With a light fruity scent, the shampoo lathers perfectly, not overpoweringly foamy but enough to make the wash feel luxurious. The product rinses away well which is a bonus as I personally find a lot of shampoos with SLS are quite hard to rinse out of my dry, curly blonde hair. After shampooing, my hair felt soft already as opposed to that straw feeling from more harsh shampoos that seem to over clarify.

The conditioner is also well behaved. It applies well with the same light scent of the shampoo and again, rinsed out well. Using these products certainly don’t feel like a chore.

After using the John Frieda combo, my hair was a lot easier to dry and I felt that it was much easier to straighten without much effort using a paddle brush. It wasn’t a struggle for straighteness like usual. My straighteners zoomed through the lengths, gliding over the hair.

For comparisons sake, I’ve been using these products without any other styling aids to see how they fair and I’m really impressed. Without using any serums or oils, my hair feels less coarse and more managable but in a humid condition, with only a blow dry, my hair did feel frizzy again at the back but I think that’s nothing that some serum couldn’t contain and manage.

My hair also seems to feel cleaner the day after a wash than it has in a long time, with ends retaining their thickness but not being frizzy and bushy. That’s the major downside of a lot of frizz fighting shampoos, they over load the hair to combat the problem leaving it lank and lifeless.

On whole, I’m not sure I’d use these shampoos every day purely because of my preferences for SLS free shampoos but conversely, the scent and product has triggered absolutely no allergic reactions so I’m very very happy with the duo and I’d recommend it as a daily use if you have any coarse frizz issues.

You can buy John Frieda Frizz Ease Shampoo & Conditioner at all good retailers as well as at Boots

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YSL Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stain #7

YSL Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stain #7

Hello Lovelies,

What a little stunner I have for you today! YSL Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stain in shade 7, a browny pink shade that is very much ‘my lips but better’

First of all, this is my first dip in to the waters of YSL lip products and I am suitably impressed, nay blown away.

With some trepidation I tried these. I really wanted to like them but with a lot of stains they revert back to a deep pinky red base by the end of the day which I do not like as it overly emphasises my deeply pigmented lips which makes it harder to cover. With the Glossy Stain, the colour remains ‘true’ to the end. Huge bonus in my book.

The packaging is just as luxe as you’d expect from a YSL product and I don’t feel the £22.50 price tag is overly expensive when you consider the price of a MAC lipglass or lipstick really. Yes, it costs more, but in the grand scheme of things not THAT much more. Does that make sense? I appreciate the price is probably not to everyones liking but I think this stain is well worth it.

You can apply this in a few different ways.. One coat gives a subtle wash of colour with a slight sheen to it, 2 coats brings out the pigmentation for a colour pop with increased gloss then a 3rd coat gives you maximum coloured pouty goodness. With each additional coat you aren’t left with extra stickyness or that gross overloaded feeling you can get with lipsticks and glosses (regardless of their price).

You don’t feel like you are wearing any product at all and when you purse your lips, you can’t feel the product. It’s got enough moisture in it for me personally not to be reaching for the lip balm every half an hour. It’s a very comfortable, non drying product.

Application wise, it goes on well with the applicator wand in an almost creamy formula. Very easy to work with, doesn’t feather and the point of the applicator tip makes it easy to do your cupids bow on touch ups during the day.

I will warn you though, it smells funny. Like a chemically, almost winey smell. You can’t smell it once it is on, but in the tube and on application it is quite strongly scented. If you are a bit iffy with scented products I really would recommend you giving it a sniff test first prior to purchase so that you are prepared. It’s not an unpleasant smell… just a strong one.

I find from 2 coats at 7am, I can get through until 1pm with out needing to touch up or add any more gloss / balm. That’s sitting at my desk constantly drinking water or eating fruit. I do a light touch up at 1pm and then that lasts me right through until I take my make up off.

With 18 colours to choose from, there’s a colour to suit everyone.

YSL Rouge Pur Couture Glossy Stains are available  from Boots priced £22.50.


Have you tried the YSL Glossy Stains or any other YSL lip products? I think I have developed a new obsession… which lip product should I try next from YSL?
 
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Save 60% with She Said Beauty

Save 60% with She Said Beauty

Hello Lovelies,

I’m pretty sure we are all aware of Beauty Boxes by now right? With a whole host to choose from I can safely say I have tried all the big hitters and after subscribing, I find myself losing interest, cancelling after a few months, chopping, changing and returning.

The most difficult part of this fussy flitting, is remembering to cancel subscriptions so that I can move around.

I’m fickle aren’t I?

Did you know that She Said Beauty do gift subscriptions and 3/6/12 month subbing options? I think the next time I change around, I will definitely be buying a 3 month sub, which attracts discounts usually, to save myself some money and be assured that I won’t keep getting boxes when I forget to change!
Well, She Said beauty are offering an AWESOME 60% off their 6 month subscriptions for 1 week only to celebrate the Queens Jubilee.
From June 1st – June 6th, you can save a whopping £32.40. That’s mind blowing! All you need to do is use the code JUBILEE60  over on the site

Will you be taking advantage of this?

 
 
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