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New! Cherry Batiste Dry Shampoo

Hello Lovelies

Well lookie here, look what I found hiding away in my local Boots. Cherry Batiste!

I tweeted about it on Tuesday night with glee at finding something so cute in the can and cherry flavoured (looove cherry prints and smells) and it turns out a lot of you lovelies had never heard of it, seen it or knew it was coming!

I thought that was a bit odd as the furore surrounding Batiste Wild was quite widespread. Wonder if my Boots have done a woopsie and stocked it out too soon? Who knows.

The can is a beautiful ditzy cherry print and the smell… well it isn’t as cherry-ish as I would have liked, I can’t really detect much of a cherry smell to it but it is sweet and fruity and that’s good enough for me!

As I’ve mentioned before, being a bit of an ‘alt girl’ and rockabilly fan, anything with a cherry print on gets the thumbs up with me so this can will take pride of place in my bathroom along with her new partner in crime… Batiste Wild.

Will you be trying Cherry Batiste? What is your favourite scent?

Katie Beauty

Boots Skin Clear Ultra Treatment Cream

Hello Lovelies,

This is a Holy Grail product for me.

It takes a lot for me to say that but I never leave the house without a tube of this. There’s one in each of my cars, handbag, desk at work, desk at home, make up bag, bathroom, bedside table.. You get the picture!

Whilst I don’t suffer with your typical spots, I suffer a lot of reaction flare ups. When my facial skin comes in to contact with something it doesn’t like such as perfumes, products etc it goes mental and breaks out in to nasty red itchy lumps.

I suffered with this for a long time untreated and then I started to try anything I could think of and nothing worked. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon this, and it’s non ultra predecessor that I had success in calming down my flare ups.

Using this creamy gel as a spot treatment (geddit?!) you can target the product on to the affect areas for a hit of calming. In about an hour it has reduced the redness, taken the itch out of the area and started to work it’s magic on healing it up.

Being a hypersensitive skinned lady this really has been a godsend and has joined the ranks of my arsenal. It does work super well on ‘normal’ spots as well.

It’s best applied under make up but you can lightly dab it on over the top, if you use a bit too much it does go a bit cakey with any powder but a little works wonders.

For less then £5 ( £4.07 for 25ml, currently on 3 for 2) I won’t be without this gem and it’s quite often on special offer too so stock up!

Have you tried this before? What spot fighting treatments do you recommend?

Katie Beauty

Avene Tolerance Extreme moisturiser

Hello Lovelies,

I am in love with the Avene Tolerance Extreme moisturiser. Let me just get that out there right now! It’s awesome.

Tolerance Extreme is a moisturiser specifically designed for hypersensitive and allergic skin. It contains the purest ingredients without any potentially irritating additives < Sounds good right?!

I use this moisturiser night and day and have not had a reaction to it at all. It soothes and nourishes. It feels quite a thick cream when you apply but it soaks in well and leaves skin feeling moist all day without that clammy feeling you sometimes get.

I let the moisturiser soak in for about 10 minutes before I apply my make up and I have no issues with application.

This is the 2nd item from Avene I have tried and continue to be impressed. The Eau Thermale is still a god send and I’ve just started to use the cleansing lotion. Been using that for about a month and I’m getting on well with it. Looking forward to trying more of the range seeing as I have had such positive experiences so far… which is rare for me and my H.S skin!

Unscented, unpretentious and readily available in Boots. If you have sensitive or hyper sensitive skin, I really recommend this moisturiser.

Have you tried Avene before? What do you use on your sensitive skin?

Katie Beauty

Tesco Beauty Blog – Come read me!

Hello lovelies,

Some of you may have spotted already via Twitter or Facebook that I have been the guest blogger over at the Tesco Your Beauty blog on their Facebook page!

How exciting is that eh!

I have lots more posts in the pipeline so I will let you all know as and when they pop up but in the mean time, you can read my feature HERE for yourself. It’s via the Facebook page, so you will need to ‘like’ Tesco Beauty. It sits under the Blog tab on the title bar.

Yes, dreadful picture… I know!!!

If you want to read the original 2 blog posts that inspired my feature, you can read them HERE and HERE

What do you think? Will you be giving the DIY treatment a try? Do you have any other recipes? Is there anything else you’d like me to feature?

Katie Beauty

A moody yet super glitzy NOTD

This past weekend, husband and I went away so I thought I’d treat myself to a nice festive-y manicure and pedicure. I wanted something super glittery but still quite grown up.. If that is even possible!

What I decided to go for was a dark grey and silver combo that I can’t stop looking at. I think it’s beautiful and reminds me a lot of China Glazes Tinsel Town

What I used…

1 coat of Trind Nail Repair
1 reasonably thick coat of Avon Matte Grey polish, not looking for perfect coverage, just to lay the base colour down.
4 coats of Barry M Limited Edition Silver Effects glitter
1 coat of China Glaze Fairy Dust
1 coat China Glaze No Chip top coat

8 coats in total might sound excessive but I have had this polish on for 5 days and it’s still not showing any signs of wear or chipping so I can’t complain!

I normally have much much longer nails but after a disasterous run in with a high street nail chain and some acrylic extenions I was actually missing huge chunks out of most of my nails so this is a VAST improvement! Onwards and upwards they say!

I think I’m going to try this look over China Glazes’ For Audrey next, I think that will look gorgeous.

Do you have a grown up way to do glitter or do you go all out glitterbomb?