Elle

Over the past few weeks I have become a little obsessed with the Revlon lip butters. I have four shades to show you today: - Tutti Frutti (015) an orange colour - lovely  for spring/summer but not too bright -Pink Truffle (001) - a gorgeous brown -toned nude. -Berry Smoothie (050) - pink - berry colour with a little bit of glitter -Cotton Candy (045) - pale pink. I have been wearing this for school for a subtle bit of colour and to protect my lips. Firstly, I'll give a quick review before I show the swatches. I was extremely surprised at how pigmented these were. I expected them to be more like tinted lip balms (despite the Colourburst advertising - duh!) but instead I found them more like a lip stick in terms of pigmentation. The only shade I haven't worn loads is Tutti -Frutti, however, I did buy this for spring/summer so it's not that I don't like the shade. Secondly, they are wonderfully moisturising, even after the colour has gone they feel so nourishi...

I haven't posted much for about a month (argh!). I know not many people read this anyway but I've had a lot of homework and revision to do. Something I really wanted to do in 2015 was to take better care of myself in general, including my hair and skin. This meant not using heat as much and going easy on the make up. Usually, I use the Liz Earle products (Cleanse and Polish followed by the toner and moisturiser) and although I love these very much, they can be quite pricey and sometimes I just fancy a change. In Sainsbury's recently, the Simple products have been on offer and so I decided to try their moisturisers. To be honest, I wasn't expecting too much. I sometimes don't particularly like Simple products, I have sensitive skin yet I find some of them irritate my skin more than ordinary products do and others are so gentle that they don't do much. However, my faith has been restored.  Here I have the Simple Kind to Skin Vital Vitamin Night Cream   and t...