My Holiday Make Up Essentials

When I left to go on holiday I ended up taking a ton of make up with me fully intending to use it all and wear a different blusher, eye shadow and lipstick on every night out, although I had all these good intentions in my mind I just seemed to stick with the same products every night... Essentials I couldn't live without! 

Products in order top - bottom

Loreal Lumi Magique Primer - £9.99 Vichy Dermablend in Nude - £15.50

Liz Earle Bronzer* - £19.50 MAC Mineralize Skinfinish in Soft & Gentle - £21.50

Benefit Hervana - £23.50

HD Brows Palette in Vamp - £19.95 Maybelline Liner Express in Black - £5.99 MUA Undressed Palette - £4.00

MUA Lipstick in Shade 3 - £1.00 Essence XXXL Nude Gloss in Nude Kiss - (No idea how much, won in a giveaway ages ago)

Then the obvious bit of self love photos to show me wearing them, even if they are a little grainy from the phone camera.

Also you may have noticed there is no mascara which I have a simple explanation for and that is I'm an utter idiot who forgot to pack it after using it to do my make up before I left my house, luckily Tanya was on hand with her Maybelline Volume Express Mega Plus Mascara to save the day. It's actually not a bad mascara but I can tell you I am happy to be home and reunited with my good old faithful Avon SuperShock.

Do you end up taking loads on holiday and hardly ever using any of it?

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I'm Back From Holiday...

Just a little post to say that some of you may have noticed I've been missing for some time but if you follow me on Instagram (SBTCDCharli) you will know I have been in Mallorca sunning myself, spending my days in Palma and my nights in Magaluf!.

I have had the best time and I am really hating being back home as it is so cold, I'm sat here with a blanket and jumper where a mere two days ago I would of been sat on my balcony in nothing but a vest and some shorts basking in the sun. Although I have enjoyed every minute of my holiday I am glad to be home because simply I started to miss Panga too much, my teddy bear too much and of course my lovely bed... Trust me the bed in my apartment made me wish that I was sleeping on rocks as it probably would of been comfier. 

I've also got round to reading quite a few books while I was away including The Carrie Diaries, Summer in the City, Trouble in Mudbug, In a New York Minute, Double Dare and No-One Ever Has Sex on a Tuesday all of which are worth a read. 

Anyway I should be back to normal blogging soon enough once I have settled back in to a routine of being back at home but for now I am going to snuggle on my sofa, grab a hot chocolate and catch up on all of my TV shows I have missed while I've been away. 

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Rimmel Salon Pro Nail Polish

So I have come to the conclusion that I do in fact like doing my nails and am now making it a personal mission to buy every single shade of nail polish I want... I can see this getting so expensive.

Apart from the MUA polishes I have been loving recently, I have been really loving the Rimmel Salon Pro Polishes s I thought I would give you a little run down of my thoughts and also some swatches of the three colours I have. 

Rimmel Salon Pro Polish - £4.49 each

Rimmel Salon Pro Polishes in Simply Sizzling, Soul Session and Sea green (order as shown)

The Salon Pro Polishes come in a sturdy glass bottle with 12ml of product inside which is brilliant and means they are going to last for a good amount of time, they also have a really thick decent brush which is something I absolutely love about them because all it takes is two sweeps of the brush for the whole nail to be covered.

Rimmel claim that the Salon Pro Nail Polishes are a long lasting nail polish that can last up to 10 days, so I of course had high hopes for them when I picked them up...

Although I love all the colours I have bought I have to say my favourite of the three has to be Soul Session, I have been wearing it for the last 6 days and I absolutely love it. It started showing a little bit of wear yesterday and I woke up today with a chip but I think five days of chip free wear for me is absolutely brilliant seeing as I am normally all chipped and scruffy by the end of the day when I do my nails. 

The formula itself is really thick and glossy which leaves a high shine effect on the nails this also makes it quite a pain to get off, I mean it is like removing cement at times but I don't mind because removing glitter polish has to be worse. 

Over all I really like these polishes and I am definitely going to be picking up some more especially seeing as they are 3 for 2 in Superdrug at the moment. 

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New Jewellery

Jewellery all from Char-Cole

Some of you may not know that I also run a little online jewellery store which had lots of lovely new products added today, so why not pop over to Char-Cole and have a little nose. 

You never know you might see something you like and make a sneaky order.

You can also pop over to our facebook page to keep up to date on anything new or also follow us on twitter @CharColeJewel 

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L'Occitane Immortelle Brightening Foaming Cleanser

My love for L'Occitane products seems to deepen all the time! I am an avid user of their hand creams, wouldn't been seen dead without my Shea Butter Balm and their Pivoine Flora Eau de Parfum is one of my favourite scents in the world (I'm on my 4th bottle... Oops!) I just can't ever seem to fault their products, obviously there are ones that don't agree with everyone and even me but on a whole they are fab so I thought I would tell you about one of their cleansers that I have been using for around the last six weeks or so...

L'Occitane Immortelle Brightening Foaming Cleanser* - 125ml - £18.50

The Immortelle Brightening Foaming Cleanser has claims of evening and brightening up your complexion, which is something that I am always looking for from a product as my skin seems to always be looking lacklustre and uneven. 

The packaging is simple but still very L'Occitane and the product itself is thick and creamy, it smells somewhere along the line of florals and black pepper which is an odd combination to say and I am probably making it sound less than appealing but its actually really nice... Florally warmth? Does that make it sound any better? Probably not. 

The Immortelle Brightening Foaming Cleanser foams up really well and feels almost silk like when cleansing the face with it and after using the skin feels smooth, soft and taught without feeling dry. After I first used it I instantly saw a difference in the appearance of my skin as it looked brighter and fresher and now that I have been using it for a longer period of time my skin has remained looking brighter and more illuminated as well as the tone of it looking more even, so I can say that the claims of brightening and evening up your complexion are true. 

When mine runs out I think I am going to repurchase it along with the Immortelle Brightening Moisture Mask as that sounds absolutely amazing and if just the cleanser can make these improvements in my skin it will be nice to see how they work together.

Are you a L'Occitane fan? 

xxx

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MUA £1 Nail Polishes

If you saw my nail haul post you will know that I bought a few of the new MUA nail polishes that cost £1, obviously they have always done nail polishes for a pound but they have recently been repackaged and I am pretty sure they have got some newer and nicer shades thrown in there too. 

MUA Nail Polish - £1 each

L-R Clear, Moody Mink, Bright Coral, Pistachio Ice Cream and Frozen Yoghurt 

L-R - Moody Mink, Bright Coral, Pistachio Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt and Moody Mink with Clear over all of them.

So the polishes have brand new bottles and I really like them, yes they are a blatant rip off of Essie polish bottles but who really cares because they look so much better than the ghastly bottles they were in before and I am now proud to show these off in my collection. The formula is also better than it was, to me it seems less watery and like its doing the job properly. The only little quibble I have with them is the brush itself is tiny which sometimes doesn't make for the easiest application but you cant have it all and they are only a pound. 

They all apply really well and opaque in two coats, with the only exception being Pistachio Ice Cream which tends to be a bit streaky but once a top coat is applied it isn't noticeable and they also seem to dry really quickly which is a bonus because as I'm sure most of us hate waiting for polish to dry.

From what I gather there are 18 shades in the pound range of nail polishes and they are all really nice colours with some being perfect for the warmer months so I am definitely going to be picking up a lot more of them when I pop into Superdrug next... Lucky they aren't more expensive or I would be going slightly bankrupt!.

What do you think of the new MUA polishes? Have any colours caught your eye?

xxx

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Ora Naturals Argan Body Scrub

I love a good body scrub and try to use one at least once a week sometimes even twice depending on how I feel my skin is at the time so it's safe to say I have used my fair share of different ones and know a good one when I use one, this one by Ora Naturals that I have been trialing recently isn't a disappointment either.

Ora Naturals Argan Body Scrub Revive* - 200ml - £36.90

Lets start with the packaging, it comes in a sturdy but very heavy glass tub with a silver lid which I think screams luxury which is also what I think when I think of this product. The tub itself can be quite hard to handle when in the shower or bath which can be a bit of a pain but luckily I just sit it on the side so not to have any slippery incidents or any broken toes from dropping it.

The scrub itself is thick with the perfect amount of 'scrub' in it (Organic Sugar) and works well on scrubbing the skin without being too harsh with a zesty aroma of Grapefruit, Red Mandarin and Lemongrass. Because the scrub contains Argan Oil it is a little oily but this really gives a good kick of moisture to the skin which remains there long after you have gotten out of the shower, the only downside I have noticed with this is that it can leave a bit too much of an oily residue on the skin but that is nothing that cant be solved by rinsing it off with an exfoliating mitt or a puff sponge which has become my routine when using. 

You can also use the scrub on dry skin when you really need that extra bit of oomph with it and it works just as well, when you do it like this you don't get as much of an oily residue when rinsing off and my skin felt wonderful, soft and supple afterwards but I find this way long winded and I would rather use it in the shower. 

Although it costs quite I lot I do think that it is worth the price tag but it would be more something that I personally would ask for as a gift because I always see luxury products as special and receiving them from someone else makes them that all the more special than they are. 

Are you a body scrub fan? Do you like to use products with oils in? 

Let me know...

xxx

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