Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone!

Hope you are surrounded by chocolate eggs and people you love.

I'm surrounded by nail polish so I'm happy :)

Couldn't be bothered with painting on cute bunnies and chicks so I've just gone for pastels this Easter.

I used:

No 7 - 60's mini skirt (all fingers as a base) It's a creamy bone colour. Used as an actual colour I would need about 4-5 coats for an opaque finish so I just use. It as a base for light colours to 'pop'.

Ciate - purple sherbet - free with a magazine. Love the colour but it's very sheer. I would be crying if I had paid the full rrp. But for the price of a mag, 3 coats over a block base is gorgeous.

Barry M - lemon ice cream and peach melba - beautiful pale yellow and peach. Pastels are always hard to work with so for the price I can't complain too much. 2-3 coats over a block base and you're good to go.

Miss Sporty - no name - a bright light blue, absolutely gorgeous and opaque in one coat. And it was £1.99. Bloody amazing.

Rimmel - peppermint - a lovely fresh minty green. Opaque in 1-2 coats. Looming forward to wearing this to death come the sunshine :)

Face time :)

Hi Guys :)

I wanted to talk face products. Back in the day I was quite picky about skincare and I equated high end products with high end results. To be fair, most of the products I used worked and saved me (dramatic much?). Origins Dr Weil's Mega Mushroom range made my skin much better but most of all, it made me feel better about myself and those green potions were like a security blanket for me.

Then came the time when I felt it was time to switch it up and I tried other brands (Clinique and clarins) and these were ok and then when my skin hadn't freaked out too much from the changes I legged it to the high street!

Moisturiser-wise I went for the simple approach. Vitamin E cream from the health food shop. Went through tons of the stuff and then over time the price went up and up. I started off paying around £3 for a tub and now it's about £8-9. I don't think so sweetie.

So then I headed off to Superdrugs and just picked up a bunch of whatever was in offer. When the stuff is around the £4 mark it's ok to have a few misses!

So anyways I won't go through every single product because I am sure you're already getting bored.

This is the stuff I'm currently using. My skin has changed a lot again recently.
My skin was 'normal' and then when it went crazy it was super dry and sensitive and now? I don't know! I feel weird saying its oily because I've been so use to treating it as super dry. But the truth is I've got some shine going on.

First up we have Elizabeth Arden's 8 hour skin protectant. This is a cult product and for good reason. It's nice and thick. It has a smell some people don't like, but I can't smell it so I'm ok! This is fantastic slapped onto my lips at night but I try not to do that cos it aint cheap. My dad got it for me and was all "£25 for that?!?!". You can get some good deals if you search online. Currently looking for dupes but in the frame of mind that since this works I might as well stick with this for a while. We'll see. Anyway, the main use is on my nose. And if you know me, you know what I'm talking about. That constant nose rubbing and Vaseline applying? It's all about the 8 hour cream!! The side of my nose is where all the skin drama started and if I'm honest, I guess that small part of my face has taken over my life and blinded me to the rest of my face needs. Next!!!

La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo. This is another cult product but to be honest I'm not getting along too well with it and I got it cos I am a sheep and I want what everyone else has. This looks great on and applies well but it breaks me out like a mofo. As not to waste this I've been applying it on my forehead to ease the shine and I haven't broken out there. Everyone seems to love this though and it's suppose to make skin better so do some research and you might find it saves your skin. Not a repurchase for me though!

Now this product I'm loving. Superdrug's Optimum super antioxidant grape ultra protecting eye cream. Bloody hell, let's just say eye cream yeah? 15ml rrp £9.99 but I got it for £4.99 and will be stocking up. This is everything you want a decent eye cream to be. Light but moisturising. It sinks in and it doesn't sting like a bitch. I use this day and night. Previously I'd been using another Superdrug product, vitamin e eye cream for about £3. Pile of shit. I didn't finish it even when I didn't have a replacement. It was so bad that using nothing was better than using that! But anyway, so I though that this grape stuff might be better and I was right and me and my eye area are happy :)

Last up we have the Nivea cream. I was going to go for the old school navy blue tin stuff but this was on offer for £1.45 so I had to try it! Do I love it? No, but it's ok. It does what it says but it's nothing special. If it was still £1.45 I'd definitely repurchase but since it's back to normal rrp I shall be flirting around with some other cheapy products. Look forward to my Superdrug trip tomorrow :)

What do you use? Anything to recommend me? Anything to avoid like the plague?

(Apologies for any
errors, too lazy to proof read!)

Tangle Teezer [edited]

Omg. Wow. Holy moly.

That is how I feel about my tangle teezer.

I remember seeing this on the programme Dragon Den's many many years ago. And I have also wanted one and have seen the million raving reviews but I've always been put off by the price.

So what is a tangle teezer? It's a brush basically that makes a bloody easy job of getting through some skanky hair and horsetails (which is where the idea developed from).

The one I have is the bog standard classic style (I chose the hot pink one of course) and rrp is about £10. Let me just put it straight out there: now that I know what this can do I would pay £100 for one...maybe).

It's a hand held kidney shaped plastic thing with bendy plastic bristles (?) in two lengths. Size wise it would be better for me if it was a tiny bit smaller but I have quite small hands so I think for most adults it would be the perfect hand held size. The bendy bristles are great cos they don't damage your hair as...well, for me, as much as the wide tooth I have been using.

When I was younger (a kid) I had waist length hair and my mum would brush it with a denman brush every night. 100 strokes. You know the deal.

Then when I became old enough to be in charge of my own hair I...stopped brushing it. Well through secondary school my hair was in a ponytail everyday so I think I brushed it then but when I started using heat tools the brush went out and the wide tooth comb came into my life.

You know you know, wide tooth comb with wet hair is the best yada yada yada. Which is true to some extent, as there's less breakage than if I was to use the denman in my tangled hair. But my hair was lacking some serious brushing action.

I'm telling you, within the first 3 days (yea days!!!) of using the tangle teezer I had random people in my office coming up to me and telling me how nice my hair looked. My dear friend said I looked less scruffy. And the only difference in my hair routine was the tangle teezer.

My hair looks and feels smoother. The cuticles are flatter. My scalp gets some action. My hair is more manageable. And less breakage (I use it on dry and wet hair).

(To clean it I give it a soak in baby shampoo and then...I get a toothpick and....you can imagine. I don't know if that's the official approach but it works!)


Tangle teezer I love you so much.

[EDITED 15/09/2013]
Ok - so V has been staying with me and yesterday she forgot to bring a hair brush so ended up using my tangle teezer. She reads my blog and she has heard me bang on about how much I love this many many times. But it took her brushing her own hair (which had been in a bun, caught in the rain and slept in) to understand what I was talking about. After 10 seconds she had fallen in love. And she just sent me a picture today of her very own tangel teezer!!! I'm glad I managed to share the love - it's a really great product!

New Purse - DKNY leopard print

Hello!

Hope everyone is well :) And wishing those of you who celebrate it a Happy St Patrick's Day!

The other week the family went to Bicester Village, which is a outlet shopping place in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

It was absolutely freezing (it was snowing and I was not dressed for snow). And my dad was there so I didn't go too crazy but think I'll need to make another trip for a proper look around.

One of the things I got and was worth the cold was my new purse.

Apart from when I was very young, I've always had a Louis Vuitton purse and I think because of that it's been difficult for me to find a new purse I like because I guess, once you've had an LV why would you want anything else? (Thanks mum for making my life so hard haha!!!). But saying that I've had the same 4 purses for the last decade and I have been wanting something else. And hello hello new purse!

It's a black leather DKNY purse with a hairy leopard print flap. 8 card slots on the inside and a mid coin zipped bit. And a detachable chain. And....it was rrp £115 and I got it for £25. Yes sir.

So pros and cons?

Pros: it was a bloody bargain and it's got some leopard print going on.

Cons: I don't like the flap style purse, I miss using a zip around. Also, because of this its a smaller size than I am used to. I am not a fan of DKNY but the logo is relatively small.

What: when I was in the shop I found the chain extremely amusing (I dunno) but in real life I have no idea why it's there. Would you seriously carry the purse as a tiny handbag?

So? I'm happy with my new purse :)