Skincare Haul

My skin's been in a right state at the moment, so I feel as though I need to switch up my skincare routine and the products I use. These are the bits that I picked up today and I'm hoping that they'll help my skin come back to at least its normal state, even though I still have my acne scarring! 

001- No7 Radiance Boosting Hot Cloth Cleanser: As this is supposed to be a dupe for the Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish, I decided to try it as Liz Earle is so hard to get hold of unless I order it online and I'm trying not to do that so much. Anyhow, this was £9 from boots and has 200ml in the bottle and comes with one muslin cloth. I tried this tonight and it made my skin extremely soft and removed every single bit of my makeup - Extremely Impressed!

002 - Clean and Clear Dual Action Moisturiser: After watching "Miss Budget Beauty's" Video on this earlier today, when I popped into town I had to buy it! I needed a new moisturiser anyway but I'm hoping this really lives up to the video hype. I haven't used this yet, as I'm typing this with a face mask on (white chocolate by the way, hehe!) So yes.. I will try this when I've taken this off. I'm uber excited! 
003 - Aapri Exfoliating facial scrub cream: I have never heard of this brand before but while I was browsing my local savers, I thought it looked different, meaning that it's a cream rather than a gel (if you get me!). Again, I needed a new exfoliator, so this should be nice to try! 
004 - Boots Tea Tree + Witch Hazel Cleanser: God, I only just realised how out of stuff I was as I needed a new cleanser as well! Basically, I know that my No7 Cleanser that I got is quite obviously a cleanser and I will use it everyday, but I need something to target my spots as well, so this should do the trick. I used this after my No7 Cleanser tonight and I really liked how it felt and it smelt really nice and soothing. 

005 - Montagne Jeunessue Face Masks - From L-R: Fudge Sundae, Passion Peal-Off, Miracle Mud, Chocolate Masque, White Chocolate Masque (The one I've got on now) I think everyone must have tried these masks one day in their lives, I really like them and all the different flavours they do. I've been using one every sunday night before school, but as it's my first day back tomorrow, I've got it on tonight. 

006 - Witch Clear Pore Strips: The blackheads on my nose have got really bad in the past week and I wanted to get some of these as they seem to do the trick when my blackheads go bad. 

I also brought some things that weren't skincare so..

007 - Lacura Makeup - I know that I said I wasn't going to buy any other makeup but these were for reviewing purposes only and I just wanted to see how they compared to other things. I brought: Powder Blush in Sunset (Suppose I should've shown you the colour really!)  Lipgloss in Cherry and Liquid Foundation in Transparent. I heard good things about the foundation so yeah. Looking forward to trying those out! 

008 - Dorothy Perkins Snood - I've wanted this for like an ice age but I couldn't bring myself to fork out £12 for something I didn't need. However, they reduced it to £8 and mum brought it for me! I really love it and by the way, sorry for the horrible picture of me!  I couldn't show it properly without me being in the picture. 

So these were the bits I brought today,

Hope you liked them! 

Loveyou,

Jess

x

MUA Haul

Hello my lovelies, have you realised that I've been pretty good with posts the past few days- I'm quite proud of myself!
Today I'm going to be doing a haul on the brand that is MUA. This range is amazingly priced at £1 each for every single item in the range. For those of you that don't know, this range is superdrugs own and is subjected to 36 branches in the UK. Unfortunatly, my superdrug isn't one of the thirty six that stock it so i had to order online. These are the thirteen little pieces that i ended up with...

everything together.

eyeshadows
from L-R: shade 12 pearl, shade 1 pearl, shade 11 pearl, shade 13 pearl and shade 3 pearl

sorry for the weird upside down picture!
eye shadow swatches-
from L-R: shade 13 pearl, shade 12 pearl, shade 1 pearl, shade 11 pearl and shade 3 pearl

lipsticks-
from L-R: shade 3, shade 2, shade 11, and shade 13

lipstick swatches-
from L-R: shade 3, shade 2, shade 11 and shade 13

 lipglosses-  
from L-R: shade 2, and shade 3

lipgloss swatches-
from L-R: shade 2 and shade 3

nail varnish's -
from L-R: shade 7 and shade 10

Thats my haul for you all, I'm a bit un impressed about the lipstick shades of two and eleven but i'm sure I'll warm to them. The only products I've tried properly are the nail varnish's. I have shade seven on now and oh my god! Its amazing, I will totally be stocking up on loads of these polishes, they are such good quality- might have to buy all of them! For only £1 each Its not going to break the bank!

I'll be reviewing the rest of the things I picked up soon (:

make-up addict<3

a la drugstore hauling

today i just popped into town to pick up some things that i'd run out of,but then 3 for 2 kicked in *raises eyebrow*!

so here's just a few bits and pieces that i got from superdrug and surprisingly... audi!

Twin pack of cotton pads - thought i'd start with the least glamourus things! these are from audi as my dad had to go in there to buy some choccies so as they were only 99p and i was desperate for new ones, i picked them up  (:

Antibacterial hand gel - again, this is ultra boring but when i'm hauling- i'm showing you girls everything i've got! this one was from superdrug, it was 2 for £1.50 so i picked one up and so did dad. he said it'd be good for my school bag!

Gosh Darling Lipstick - i'm  probably the last person on this earth to get hold of this, every one knows what this looks like and i'm really looking forward to trying it. It was £6.49 (i think) from superdrug. I don't normally like nude lipsticks as i think brighter colours suit me a bit better but i needed to get my hands on this after i swatched it. It was really creamy and i felt better about buying it!

Gosh Lip Gloss in 0098 - this is when the 3 for 2 kicked in. i'm such a sucker for offers! even if they don't even help me, i still get sucked in - god i'm awful! This colour is really nice, it looks more pink in the tube, but on the lips it comes off as a pinky-red. i put this on when i got home and i really like this colour. the lipglosses aren't sticky but they are quite wet. overall, this is a nice shade.

 Gosh Lip Gloss in 0096 - Yes, so this was my third on the 3 for 2. I wanted a more sustainable colour that wasen't too bright or too nude and i think this has that potential. Its more of a purpley-pink and for winter i think this will look nice (:  I haven't tried this on my lips yet, but i'm guessing it will have the same formulation as the first shade.

Superdrug's make up wedges - These come in a pack of 20 and in quite a good quality zip up bag. It took me ages to actually find some make up sponges that came in a big pack. I could only find ones that came in packs of twos or fours. I've been using sponges everyday to apply my foundation at the moment as i find it gives me a better finish than a brush at the moment.

Collection 2000's Lasting Perfection Concealer - most of you probably know that this is my holy grail concealer, and even though i had 3 back ups, this morning they all decided they didn't like me and none of it was left! so i had to pick this up. It's in medium if any of you were wondering!

Lacura Aqua Complete Moisteriser - i've heard good things about audi's moisterisers, and if they live up to the hype i'll be a very happy girl because this was only £1.99! it's in quite a large pot and it smells gorgeous because its enriched with sea minerals. It's actually a blue cream which is quite strange, however- i comes out as normal!

Lacura Concealer Pen - i'm really annoyed at this picture! you can't even see what it says, how stupid! anyway, i've also been told that this is amazing as well, its a dupe of ysl's touche eclait but for only £3.99. in audi they didn't have any testers so i had to take a guess at my colour match. there was only two shades to chose from anyway - amber and cashmere, with cashemere being the lightest and amber being the darker shade. after some debating i chose cashmere as i'd rather it be too light that too dark and i have to say, even if this is on the lighter side of things, once it's blended out the colour is perfect. there's a button on the bottom which you can see on the photo, that you press to eject the concealer into the brush applicator which can thm be brushed onto the face for the application. I'm really looking forward to trying this as i have high hopes for it, a review will follow!

thank you all for reading my blabber on this sunday afternoon! if you'd like reviews on any of the products mentioned then just ask and it'll be done (:

make-up addict <3

hugeeee ELF Haul!

as i promised last week, i've got an Elf haul for you all (:

this is pretty big and it go delievered to my mums work (which is my school) so i was looking through my hugee parcel while sat waiting for her to finish work - pretty occupying actually!

this is going to be a pretty long post, sorry guys!   however,it is mostly pictures :)

Enjoooyyy!

the lot (:

 above: £1.50 each (:





Beautiful Opia Pendants

Primark's new pendants are so ultra gorgeous! The beautifully charmed necklaces are so pretty and delicate its hard to believe that they only took £1.50 per piece out of my pocket!

There is four necklace's in the series so far however i only have two so far and without further ado here they are...

this is so adorable! there is four little keys on the pendant of the necklace along with a little red heart and a minute 'pearl' heart. the keys spell out love if you can't see already (:
i think this is so cute and pretty and i also love the gold chains that are around at the moment-i think they make the jewellery a lot more vintage-looking.

this necklace is beautiully designed as its very simplistic and gives off a look that is more kitsch. the bumble bee is gold and black stripped with little crystals in the stripes - this is also on a gold chain.

so you can see they're both completely different but both lovely :)

have you brought any nice necklaces recently?

make-up addict <3

MAC Haul! :)

my MAC parcel was at my feet when i walked through the door and i was just so excited about it all i had to blog about it!
i got some money for my birthday and knowing me, the day after i was off on MAC's website looking for some other bits of make-up that i totally didn't need what-so-ever!

i came across things i'd 'favourited' before hand and did some 'ahh-ing' and 'ooo-ing' but decided on these four lovely beaut's...

my first little beauty was the Fluidline in Blacktrack - i'm really excited to try this and i think i'm going to apply it with my 263 and see how it goes. i'll let you know :')

the second is the Studio Finish Concealer SPF 35 in NC20 - i brought this because i was out of my collection 2000 lasting perfection and fancied trying something different. i've read so many great reviews about this one so it should be good but i need a new concealer brush first before i can even try this - furstrating or what!?!
so the review on this one could take a little while longer!

third is this gorgeooousss mineralize blush in warm soul - i have it on right this minute because i couldn't wait so i did my face again just for this!
its a lovely peachy-pink with slight gold shimmer-but hardly anything at all. i love this so much and i'll give you a review on it soon,  once i've given it a good go but after applying it once and seeing the pay off i'm guessing it's going to be a pretty good one (:

i know, i know its another blush but my obsession seems to be changing between products every two seconds! this is the Sheertone Shimmer Blush in Springsheen and no i haven't tried this one yet, but it feels and looks so gorgeous! this is a mid-shade pink with gold shimmer but this one has more of it than warm soul but not to much that its over powering and it doesn't look chunky either (:   
i'll try this one tomorrow for you all!


so that was my lovely little MAC Haul for you all and i'm really happy with the bits i've purchased. there will be another haul up in the next few weeks as i'm going to do a big e.l.f order tonight (:

oh and also, thought i'd let you know..  the shipping on this order was amazing - i ordered this bunch on sunday night at around 7 o'clock and it was here today by ten in the morning, thought it was pretty good in my eyes!

make-up addict <3