Reject!

Do not like the Benefit Erase Paste. Too thick and medium is definitely too dark for me! Will be selling this on. Everything else I bought yesterday was wicked though. All the Clinique stuff makes my skin feel AMAZING. And the Organix was lovely, it might even rival my Loreal Elvive shampoo I normally get.

I’m looking for a tinted lip balm, any suggestions?

My (not so) little haul today!

Got some Burts Bees chap stick, makes a difference from the Lypsyl one that is the only one I have EVER used.

Some Benefit Erase Paste. I was reading some reviews about concealer and this seemed to be the best thing for under eye circles. The lady tried it out for me in Boots and said I was number 2 - Medium… which I wasn’t sure about because I thought I was mega pale, but I trust their judgement much better than mine. It feels a bit sticky, but I’ll try with some powder over the top tomorrow and see… I really wanted a concealer in a pot that I could dab with my finger and not a stick or liquid.

Some Organix Brazilian Keratin Therapy Shampoo and Conditioner. Saw this recommended by this lady on YouTube so thought I’d try it. It was on offer in Boots two Organix products for £8 I think. http://www.youtube.com/user/michele121

Aaaaaand I spent a fortune on Clinique stuff, I only really went for some moisturiser, because I used the Dramatically Different lotion before when I had a free sample and it was so good I kept buying the samples off eBay. So I asked whether lotion or gel would be better and I went for the lotion again as I seem to have really combination skin, oily in the t-zone and dry cheeks. I then thought screw it and tried some of the exfoliating scrub in the back of my hand and it felt wicked, actually like it would exfoliate and rub some of that dead stuff off. So I went to the counter with those and she said if I got a third item I could get £7.50 worth of points on my Boots card! I couldn’t resist cause I always always use my Boots card so I went back and chose the Take the Day Off makeup remover, as I was umming and ahhing and she recommended that one. But althought I spent… far more than I should have, she did throw me in some little free travel size samples to try! And she didn’t pick any, she gave me ones she really thought would help me particularly so that was dead nice. They were the liquid facial soap, and the clarifying lotion, both of which I was eyeing up anyway. She said the clarifying lotion is a good everyday alternative to the scrub because it lightly exfoliates too. Finally she also gave me a mini high lengths mascara.

Also received some Dermalogica samples to try from eBay too!

Have you tried any of these things?

Ooops!

See I have a problem now. I can’t stop spending money on beauty products. I never believed in having a credit card but then I was so worried about Christmas I got one, and now I seem to use it more than my debit card!

I’m just so fed up of hating myself and hating the way I look and being shameful and hiding and being self-conscious and not even wanting to leave the house because I feel hideous and I just want to be what I always thought I could be. I want to be talented and successful and beautiful and confident.

Oh and the point is I just spent a fortune on Clinique stuff!

MAC Haul

This was my mini Mac haul!

I worked up the courage to go into the Mac shop in Nottingham, and one of the assistants came up to me to see if I needed help and normally, me being me, I would have said “NO THANKS I’M JUST LOOKING” but I actually said erm erm erm yeah I’m looking for some new foundation. So she asked me a few questions, my skin type and whether I prefer matte or satin and those kinda things, and she said would I like her to try a patch out, so I said yes please!

So she tried a few patches on my jawline and figured that my shade was a more yellow base than what she tried, so she settled on NC15, which I think is one of the lightest shades, but I am pretty pale. She managed to upsell some powder to me too, she tried two and the one I chose was just a bit warmer, and that was the medium plus. I then had a little look around and she came back again and suggested the…. things for putting on the powder (the word escapes me at this point in time!). When I got to the till she also suggested the pump, which I was going to ask about anyway! It was only about 2 or 3 quid, I think in total I spent about £40-45, which is alright really, I was expecting more. In fact when she first said the amount I was sure she said £105 and I almost pooed myself!

I tried them out yesterday morning and well…. I liked it. The foundation smelt nice, was a good consistency, went on well and wasn’t sticky. I only needed one coat and it covered all my sins! Normally I have to apply extra to my discoloured nose and the bags under my eyes but this did it all in one. I’m used to putting a fair bit of powder on to soak up the stickiness of foundation but I really didn’t need to put a lot on, in fact I think I put too much on, today I’ll only put a tad on my nose or t-zone.

It lasted all day, I kept going to check in the mirror at work and none had worn off and I didn’t even have to retouch my nose! The best thing is that normally my nose looks all cakey and awful because I have rhinitis and am always wiping my nose, but even this lasted pretty well. Excellent!

The last picture if probably the only photo you’ll ever see of me without eye make up, but that was skin yesterday.

My first real venture into more high end products! It's exciting. Do you remember the first thing you bought that started your love for make up?

Sigma F80 Brush!

I’ve watched videos on YouTube and everyone seems to see this brush as the holy grail of brushes, so I needed to find out what all the fuss was about. I couldn’t find it anywhere in the UK so I had to order it off the official American website. I think it was $16 which is about 10quid, which really isn’t bad for a foundation brush, the cheapest ones in Boots or Superdrug are about £9. Shipping was brilliant, it came within a couple of weeks, and I have to say I’m pretty sold on it!

I really thought that all these people on YouTube were paid to give it a good review, as you can see in a lot of the descriptions they say they’ve not bought it themselves and they're affiliates so I thought nerrrrrrr whatever, I bet its not that good….

But it is! It's soft, it doesn’t soak up all the foundation, it feels nice on the skin and it blends really well. All brushes I’ve used before have left streaks and just haven’t been as good as fingers or a sponge, but with this brush being flat you can “buff” it in and it just seems to work better.

What are your opinions on this brush? Have you tried it?