Garnier Express 2 in 1 Eye Make-up Remover

Hi Guys!

As you may now I am in love with Garnier's 2 in 1 make up remover (the light blue one) - I swear by it and have been through more than 10 bottles of the stuff. That being said, I do get tempted by all these other stuff promising me heaven and earth.

So I decided to take the plunge and pick up this purple thing. Promises to remove all make up, even waterproof.

LIES LIES LIES!!!

Maybe if you wear the minimum of eye make up this will work for you.

But I do not wear the minimum of eye make up. I wear the equivalent of concrete on my eyes and this does not work for me. I paid for it so of course I used it all up but every time was a struggle and filled me with unhappiness.

No rubbing required? Really? Really? NO! I had to use about 6 cotton pads and rub rub and I still had eye make up residue :(

Gentle on the eyes? Thankfully, yes it was gentle. Which isn't a  surprise, since it did nothing for me it would have been more of a shock if it had stung. That would have been the ultimate insult to my make up removing routine.

Protect eyelashes? Maybe they mean this is due to the gentleness of the formula - been since it took so much effort i did lose many an eyelash in this battle.

RRP £3.49 I got mine during a promo so paid around £2. What a waste of £2. Seriously.

So.....would I recommend this?

LMFAO

Get loss!

Review - Eyelid Primer

Hello!

Last part of the ELF trilogy (for now).

This is an eyelid primer in the shade 'sheer' (not much of a shade as such lol) and it retails for £1.95. Yes. £1.95. So good I had to repeat myself!

Now, if you know me/read my blog you'll know that I don't really need an eyelid primer. But I wanted to get this for my friend who does like using an eyelid primer and I somehow got one for myself too :)

This is another item that is hyped up in the beauty blogger community so that may be why I ended up with one myself. I've been using it for a few weeks and honestly, I can't tell you if its helpingmy eye make up last longer because mine already lasts for about a week lol but it doesn't make it last any less time which I was genuinely worried about. I remember the first day I put it on and was worried all day my indestructible eye make up might slide off my lids or crumble, but I'm glad to say that me and my eye make up made it home safely that day, and every day since :)

The eyelid primer is presented in a typical concealer like tube and has a doe foot applicator. As with everything I pop it onto my clean finger or the back of my hand. I never apply directly from the applicator if it can be avoided. 

Apologies for the awful camera quality but it was kind of hard to photograph. In the tube it looks like it would be a typical concealer like consistency but the name is actually a good pick - it is what might be considered 'skin coloured' but it is definitely sheer and has a slight (teeny tiny I don't even want to mention it) shimmer. Once you pat it onto your eyelid it doesn't really offer much coverage but from the texture I imagine it works well. People compare it to the infamous Urban Decay's primer potion so for £1.95 you're laughing innit!!

I'm definitely not going to repurchase it for myself but if I get good feedback from my friend (and my mummy, I got her one too!) then I'll update you guys. I'm strangely excited even though I have no real use for this product lol
Beauty addict!

Let's have some face time

Hi Guys!

A post about some boring face stuff.

Almost out of my current eye cream (Avon's Anew Clinical Eye Lift) and was on the market for a cheaper eye cream (both the Avon and my usual Clinique are around the £20 mark) so I picked this up from Boots, 2 for £4!!!

It's just your bog average eye cream with spf15. And I love it! It's moisturising and doesn't sting. Been using this for about a week and very tempted to buy another 1340295693 tubes. Any product which awakens my bulk buy mentality is all good to me!

I've been wanting to use up my random products so I'm back on the BB cream but as you know colour match isn't great so I have to mix it with a (much) darker foundation. The above is the colour 'caramel'.

I just stick a few blobs on my hand and mix and ta da!

Erm, that's about it really. But had to share the eye cream with you. Share the love and all that :)

HOW TO: How I get my eye make up to last all day

Hi Guys,

Firstly, please ignore my towel in the photo's, I just washed my hair :)

My friend at work asked me the other day how I get my eye make up to stay so I thought that I would share what I do with you guys too.

There are loads of different ways to get eye make up to last but so far I found this to be the best. It's just based on the idea about eye shadow primer (e.g. primer potion) or even using concelaer (I do this too); I just did not want to spend money on an additional product.

I got the Clinique quick shadow free (love clinique's free gift promotions!) when I bought other stuff and I didn't have anything else to do with it. It is pretty amazing, but once I am done I will just use a cheapy liquid concealer instead.

This is really easy and my eye make up stays this intense until I take it off at night. And you can amend it to your own eye make up style.

For the most basic version I use two products:

• Clinique's quick eyes cream shadow in 05 (rock violent)
• MUA in shade 20 (matt black)

1. Apply the cream shadow over your lid (I go quite high up due to my lid shape)

2. Pat (do this initially so you don't budge the cream shadow and minimise fall out because there will be looooooads) your chosen eye shadow onto the cream shadow.

3. Then slap on the rest of your powder eyeshadow in your normal way.

That's it!

Once this is done I apply mascara and use a cotton bud to tidy up.