Sunday 29 April 2012

April Faves...

Hey there beautifuls

I love April! April is the month where (technically!) the weather gets warmer and the sun shines more...It's also the month where I turn a year older!

This month I've been loving some beauty items I hadn't really tried before but have fallen in love with nevertheless.

Image from Bourjois.co.uk
When it comes to foundation I tend to stick with what I know best but everybody raved about the bourjois healthy mix foundation so much...well curiosity killed the cat and I just had to try it. The first time I tried it I hated it, it caked, settled in my lines and dry spots, and didn't look very good...

I then tried it again on top of a good moisturiser and guess what? I fell in love! It evened out my skin and just smoothed over my fine lines and pores. Made my skin look healthy and flawless and the colour match was pretty good too. It's safe to say I'm now in love.
Image from Beautifulwithbrains.com
Recently I've been loving the glowy highlighted cheek and I've fallen back in love with my Sleek Glo highlighter in Peach Shimmer. The product is soft, not powdery. Very pigmented and a little goes a long way. Apply too much and you can end up looking disco-ballish but buffed in just looks beautiful

Image from Temptalia.com
Again this has been a rediscovery but I recently found some stuff that I'd packed and moved from my Uni Halls about 6 months ago and only just un-packed (yup I'm hanging my head in shame as I type this) But look what I found in the process of un-packing...? My too faced Natural eye pallette that I purchased quite a while back, it's 9 colours cater for a neutral/smokey eye easily adaptable from day to night looks and all in a nice compact little box :D

Image from Body shop website
What with the weather being absolutely pants to put it nicely my hands have had a pretty rough time! they're dry and cracked and even quite sore in some places and these little Body Shop saviours have been brilliant to have in my handbag or makeup bag. I've tried all the scents and love them all especially the Wild rose, it has a light fresh cut rose petal scent which lingers on the skin. I hate greasy and oily hand creams but this sinks into the skin and gives the moisture without the mess. It soothes the soreness and there aren't enough good things I can say about this...Oh and also at the time of writing this The Body Shop were having a sale where you can pick up the large 100ml size for £5 so obviously I stocked up!

Image from Elf website
I've had this ELF face kabuki in my room for what seems like years now and I'm a bit OCD with new products, I like to use the absolute crap outta old ones before cracking open a new one but my old kabuki (a cheapy bourjois one which felt like sand paper on my face!) had really seen better days and I thought why the heck not? I absolutely should have done this months ago! This feels like velvet on the skin, is sturdy and easy to grip and does not shed hair.

I'm in the market for a good eye cream seeing as sleepless nights and early mornings have left me with huge bags and panda like dark circles. Can anyone recommend a good eye cream?

Thanks for following and thanks for all your lovely comments!

Until next time

Ciao for now World

xoxox

19 comments:

  1. That eyeshadow pallet looks soo pretty! Xx

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    1. Why thank you my lovely! it's very pretty. xoxox

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  2. Great monthly faves! I recently purchased the healthy mix foundation as almost every Beauty Blogger raves about it, but I haven't had chance to try it yet. Hopefully this week will be the one where I get round to it!x

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    1. Hopefully you'll skip the bad first impression and love it like everyone else! Thanks for commenting lovely

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  3. I'm glad you likes the Bourjois Healthy Mix, I know when I did a review on it you mentioned that you were in love with you Revlon Photoready and you were going to stick with that xx

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    1. Yup I'm still loyal to my photoready but the healthy mix is really good too! Thanks for commenting

      xoxox

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  4. Love your favs as I also own a few of those items :) For a good eye cream i suggest going to clinique they have a range of eye creams that are amazing :)
    http://starvogue84.blogspot.com

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    1. I love clinique products so I'm sure they'll have something for me, dont know why I didn't think of that before? lol Thanks lovely!

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  5. Gotta love the ELF Kabuki brush.. So softtt! Got the wild rose hand cream from Body shop too, saving it for wen my Hand food runs out.. Would love the shea butter (?) one too but seemed to have run out :-(
    Great pick of April faves! X

    P.s. Iv tried the superdrug own brand vitamin e eye gel which was good cheapy option.. Not sure if they do it now. Got my eye on the Garnier under eye roll on, think its on offer at superdrug atm xx

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    1. I know right? SOOOO Soft! lol thanks for the recommendations hun! will check out superdrug soon and raid the eye creams!

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  6. I love my bourjois healthy mix and elf kabuki brush too! Infact I think they were in my faves for last month. That sleek highlighter looks so nice! And the body shop hand cream sound amazing, I'll have to try them :) New follower here too! xx

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    1. You should try them, I'm almost certain you wont regret it! Thanks for following my lovely!

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  7. Hello lovely :) i love your blog so i have awarded you the Liebster Award
    check it out on
    http://zoloriri.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/liebster-award.html

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    1. Awwww wow! such an honor! Thank you so much lovely! I'll deffo check out your blog

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  8. I've heard many good things about Sleek make up but it is too bad we don't have them available here in Canada. sigh.

    I am now following your blog!

    xoxo,

    http://icycrystalgalleria.blogspot.ca/

    Cindy

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    1. Awww Gutted you can't get Sleek where you are, Maybe you can do an international swap with someone who has access to sleek. Thank you for following my lovely!

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  9. Girl you have amazing taste ;) these are a few of my favourite things too!!

    http://superficialsydney.blogspot.com.au/

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    1. Lol! Then I guess that means we BOTH have awesome taste!

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