tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19758198661525080072024-03-19T12:32:36.351+00:00BookishnessAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.comBlogger230125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-75086060750305012202014-09-05T09:13:00.001+01:002014-09-05T09:13:53.746+01:00Weekly Book Round Up #56 and a Blogging Hiatus...<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">After really enjoying Eleanor and Park, I couldn't resist downloading another Rainbow Rowell book for my Kindle! Fangirl is the story of Cath, a girl who has recently left home to go to college with her twin sister. Cath is incredibly shy and writes fan fiction, while her sister is outgoing and sociable. This book is very much a coming of age story, with Cath realising that real life can be just as good as her fictional worlds. Rainbow Rowell's novels have a very distinct writing style which I absolutely love, I just wish her endings were a bit more rounded. I was quite surprised that this ended where it did, but it did tie in nicely with what Cath says about fan fiction, the ending is up to the reader!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Also, you read correctly, I am taking a blogging hiatus! Next week Luke and I are off to Norfolk and the week after I will be starting my degree with the Open University, so now seems like as good a time as any to make my announcement. I will be sporadically posting in the week before I start studying, but after that there probably won't be any new content for a while. I'm really sad to be leaving my blog, I started it up not really knowing what I was doing and I feel like I've learned a lot! </span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-27383213899498700272014-09-03T10:12:00.000+01:002014-09-03T10:12:45.701+01:00Memebox Superbox #43 2014 F/W Colors<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I spent pretty much all of last week desperately waiting for my latest Memebox to arrive, and when it did finally get here I was super excited! This is the first make up based box that I have ordered from Memebox, all the others have been skincare.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The theme of this box is 2014 fall/winter colours, and the box contains a mix of gorgeous berry shades and shimmery greens. Not the easiest colours to wear, but I'll definitely be experimenting!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">One of the first items I picked out was this gorgeous blush ($14) from Witch's Pouch.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">This blush was listed on the website as a spoiler, but I was still pretty excited to try it out. I love a good blush, and this shade (which is called Sexy Swan by the way...) is great for my skintone.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The blush pan lifts up to reveal a cute brush underneath as well which I always appreciate.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Below I've swatched it twice, to show you what the colour looks like when it's been built up. It's a lovely shimmery coral pink. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">We also received a second Witch's Pouch product in the form of a super creamy lipstick ($12). I can't remember the name of the shade I received, but it's a very deep burgundy colour. I'm not entirely sure that it suits me, but It's definitely a gorgeous colour for winter.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Also, how cute is the packaging? It's so Tim Burton, I love it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Everyone knows I'm a sucker for a shimmery eye, but green isn't the easiest colour to wear! Having swatched this though, I am definitely going to have to find a way to wear this gorgeous colour. This is the first of three items from DD'ell in this box and is worth $11.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Below, we have a lighter swatch on the bottom, and the top swatch is more built up. As you can see, even the lighter swatch is super pigmented!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">We also received two of the Stay Forever Gel Eye Pencils (£14 each) from DD'ell. Initially, I was super impressed with these. They apply incredibly easily and softly, and have a gorgeous shimmer to them. They also really do last forever. The only way I could remove the swatches from my hand was by scrubbing at them in the shower. All very impressive. However, I had thought that these would twist up at the ends to reveal more product but they don't. Either my eye liners are broken, or these are a total rip off!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This cute Angel Liptint ($8) is such a perfect addition to the box. Nothing says autumn like a berry red lip but I do tend to find tints very drying. This one is also quite difficult to work with. You end up with a lot of product on the wand so I had to try and blot a lot of the excess away. It also tastes terrible! The remaining colour is really nice though, it's just whether you're prepared to go through the faff of applying it in the first place!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I am absolutely in love with this ridiculous nail polish! I've never seen a polish with a lid like this before, but I actually found that it made the application much easier.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The colour is a sort of muted glittery purple, it's lovely!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">At $4, it's not the most expensive item in the box but I still think it's great.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Once again, I can't believe that another month has flown by! August has been a busy one for me, and as a result I haven't managed to get through as many products as I would normally, but there's still some lovely things to talk about!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This Vineyard peach shower gel has been so lovely to use! It's such a gorgeous summery scent and my skin has loved using it. Body Shop shower gels are a bit of a treat for me, I don't tend to buy them very often but I've loved this one so much I can easily see myself buying it again!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Urban Veda are one of my favourite skincare brands, and I loved using this exfoliating face wash. It has tiny exfoliating particles in it that gently buffed my skin so that it was silky smooth. I can definitely see myself purchasing a full size tube of this at some point. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I also finished up this tube of Embryolisse Lait-Creme Concentre. This was such a fantastic moisturiser to use. It felt really light on my skin and was a dream to apply make up over. I have a lot of moisturisers to use up at the moment but I will definitely consider repurchasing this when I eventually get through them all!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This sample of the Vasanti exfoliating cleanser came with this month's Birchbox, and I was really excited to try it out. I did find that this was a bit rougher on my skin than the Urban Veda face wash, and much thicker too. I also didn't find that it was fantastic at removing my make up so it's unlikely that I'll be buying this in the near future!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-272665548374367832014-08-29T09:53:00.001+01:002014-08-29T09:53:46.242+01:00Weekly Book Round Up #55<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite supernatural authors. Her young adult stuff can be a bit hit and miss but I always love her adult novels. This is the second book in her new Cainsville series, and if you were left with lots of questions after the first book (Omens), then Visions goes someway to explaining all of the strange goings on in Cainsville. Olivia and Gabriel are back, and when the dead body of a girl who looks very similar to Olivia is left in her car, it can only be a threat.</span> <span style="background-color: #45818e;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Meanwhile, Olivia has issues in her personal life to deal with, following the reappearance of her ex-fiance, James. I was hooked from start to finish by this book, I'm really hoping that this series isn't just going to be a trilogy!</span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-73921611531338520982014-08-26T10:08:00.000+01:002014-08-26T10:08:06.131+01:00Clinique Chubby Stick in Roomiest Rose<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've recently been introduced to <a href="https://cohorted.co.uk/" target="_blank">Cohorted</a></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">which is website that encourages 'social shopping'. Every week they introduce four new cohorts for high end products, and the more people buy them, the cheaper they get! The other week I was having a little browse when I noticed that they still had a cohort open for a Clinique Chubby Stick. I've been lusting after these for ages but hadn't been able to justify buying one for myself, so I decided to go for it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The shade is Roomiest Rose, and it's a gorgeous dark pink that really suits my pale skin tone! There is a slight shimmer to it, but nothing too overbearing.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">It's incredibly easy to apply and wear. It feels very comfortable on my lips, but I have to say, I didn't find it to be intensely moisturising. If you suffer from overly dry lips like I do, it might be best to wear a decent lip balm underneath.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I had heard that these have a bit of a mint flavour to them but I couldn't detect it. Nor was there any of that tingling sensation you sometimes get with these lip crayons. I'm definitely looking at expanding my collection of these now, hopefully Cohorted will have some new colours up in the coming weeks!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but it certainly surprised me. Having absolutely loved The Shining Girls, which was at once terrifying and insanely compelling, I knew I was going to have to read Lauren Beukes's new novel. Based in Detroit, the story begins with Gabi investigating a serial killer who leaves behind disturbing half-animal, half-human corpses, while her daughter has launched her own vigilante project of hunting down paedophiles. I didn't find this book as scary or compelling as The Shining Girls, but I still really enjoyed it. The ending was really not what I was expecting, mixing in an almost supernatural element to what I had thought was a standard crime/thriller. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-1133077487397830642014-08-20T08:58:00.000+01:002014-08-20T08:58:58.699+01:00Birchbox - August 2014<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #45818e;">Another month, another Birchbox and this month the theme is Away We Go! Having already been on my holiday this year, I'm a bit jealous of everyone else that's jetting off!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">We've got a really good selection of products in this month's box, with lots of holiday sized samples to take away with you. I like that my box came with samples for hair, beauty and skincare, but some of them will definitely be more useful than others!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The first product I wasn't too pleased to see in my box was this leave-in conditioning spray from Number 4. I don't tend to use this sort of thing as my hair can get very greasy, so I shall be looking to rehome this with someone who actually uses hair products!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">One of the better products from this box is this exfoliating cleanser from Vasanti. I've already tried this and I love it. It's not a rough exfoliator at all, it has very small exfoliating particles in it that gently buff your skin to leave it shiny and resfreshed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I also received the Chella Ivory Lace Highlighter. I've unfortunately yet to get the hang of highlighting, but I've already managed to swap this with someone for one of the Wild About Beauty eyeshadows so at least it's going to someone who will use it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This month, the lifestyle extra was the first chapter of a book by Tasmina Perry. I think that this is a really good idea, lots of people read on their holidays and I'd definitely like to see more books in the Birchbox shop!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This month's box was a bit hit and miss for me. Not many of the products are ones that I'll actually use, but I'm hoping to do some swapping to get the ones I do want! Hopefully the September box will see Birchbox back on form again.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The box came jam-packed with goodies, there were lots of extra little samples this month as well as the items I picked out from the shortlist.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The first item I picked was this cute little lipbalm from Rose and Co. I love anything with a cherry scent so I knew I would want this in my box! The balm itself doesn't have an overpoweringly cherry scent, it's more a hint than anything else. There isn't a lot of colour to the balm either.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I also picked out this Louise Galvin Sacred Locks Masque. I had a go with this yesterday and even though I didn't leave it in for the full 10 minutes they recommend, it has made my hair so shiny and soft! This is definitely going to become a weekly treat for my hair!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Another great value box for the £6.95 a month price tag! I can't wait to see what's on next month's shortlist.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I really wish these books didn't have such cringey covers! This is the sixth novel in Jess Haines's H&W Investigations series. This story picks up more or less straight after the end of the fifth novel, with Shiarra being held captive by Max, a sadistic vampire. Shiarra spends a large part of the book actively defying Max which results in a lot of punishment for her. Eventually she escapes, and teams up with some of Alec's vampires to rescue her friend Sara and the rest of Max's 'pets'. I didn't find that I enjoyed this one as much as the other books in the series, and I found the first part of the book quite difficult to get through. The ending and the final battle were much more entertaining though!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This is the fifth book in a spin-off from the Vampire Academy books. It pretty much kicks off from the end of the previous</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">book, with Sydney captured by the Alchemists and being tortured into confessing her 'sin'. Adrian is still with Jill and her guardians, until his mother arrives and takes him back to the vampire court, where he soon spirals into an alcohol fuelled depression after failing to locate Sydney through dream-walking.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">He does eventually get his act together and forms a plan to rescue Sydney. I found this book a really exciting installment to the series, a lot of big things happen which are obviously lining everything up for the final book, which I can't wait for. February seems so far away!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I'm starting to develop a bit of an addiction to Memeboxes. I've got several pre-ordered and I'm waiting eagerly for them to arrive! I was over the moon when the Pore Care 3 box was delivered last week, I couldn't wait to see what was inside!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The box was jam-packed with pore-busting goodies, and because this is a Superbox, they're all full-size!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The first item that caught my eye was the Skin House Pore Control Powder Serum ($28). I haven't tried this yet as I've got a few serums that I'm trying to get through, but I tried a small amount on my hand and it has a pleasant cucumber scent.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The next item I picked out was the Lailly +36.5 Steam Pore Pack ($28).</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">I love a good face mask so I was really pleased to see one in this box. It looks like quite a heavy duty mask so I might wait until I'm having a really bad skin day to break this one out!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The Secret Key Black Out Pore Clean Remover ($38) is a bit of a mystery product for me. I think it's meant to be used as a sort of toner/cleanser, so I'm quite intrigued to try it out. It's also the most expensive product from this box so I'm definitely going to find a way to use it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Being a fan of the controversial Porefessional, I love a good primer. The </span><span style="color: #45818e;">Chamos Acaci Matte Pore Primer ($20) contains Salicylic acid which is meant to disinfect your skin to discourage breakouts, whilst hiding pores. The texture of this is very similar to the Porefessional so I'm sure I'll love using this!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I was also really pleased to see this Tosowoong Deep Pore Foam Cleanser ($12) as my sample of the Liz Earle cleanser is starting to run low! I've never tried a foaming cleanser before so I'm really interested to see how this will work on my skin!</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Finally, we have the Aqua Beauty Pore Zero Blackhead Remover ($34). This product contains an all-natural essential oil which is massaged into problem areas with the silicone brush. I had a go with this last night and I really did feel that my skin felt brighter. I'm hoping with continused use I should start to get rid of some of my pesky blackheads!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Overall, this box came to $45.99 (including postage) and the contents are worth $160! I just love how Memebox provides such fantastic products for the prices you pay for the boxes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've been keeping my eyes peeled and waiting for my local Superdrug to bring out their Makeup Revolution stands, so I was pretty excited when I popped in last week and spotted some of newer I ♥ Makeup palettes and lipsticks.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Obviously, I couldn't just walk out without having a quick look at the Barry M stands as well...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've liked the look of the Aquarium polishes for ages but hadn't thought to buy any. Mermaid and Pacific jumped out at me straight away, I'm such a sucker for blue polishes. Pacific has a gorgeous metallic sheen to it, and Mermaid contains shiny gold, green and blue particles. I can't wait to try it out as a top coat for some of my other polishes!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-91790947276277231322014-08-08T09:47:00.000+01:002014-08-08T09:47:18.956+01:00Weekly Book Round Up #52<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Firstly, wow. This marks a year of blogging for me which is amazing! I'm really not looking forward to having to give it up once I start studying, I'll miss taking photos and planning posts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Anyway, this weeks book is The Book of Life, the final book in The Discovery of Witches trilogy. I've been waiting two years for this book to come out, and initially I was pretty disappointed. It's definitely one of those books that has a very steady incline towards the ending. I was expecting a lot more drama and action, but there just seemed to be an awful lot of planning and mooching about. Obviously if your main character is pregnant then you can't really have her getting into all kinds of scrapes, but I just felt a bit disappointed. I still thought it was a good ending to the series, all the loose ends were wrapped up nicely, but don't expect there to be any last minute plot twists.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-14272079413050905492014-08-07T10:50:00.000+01:002014-08-07T10:50:51.863+01:00July Empties<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've managed to get through another bumper crop of empties this month, with some of them being more successful than others!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've been on a bit of a body lotion rampage and managed to get through three samples in July. The <b>Bee Kind</b> lotion had a slightly lemony/honeyish scent to it that I really liked, but I found that it didn't really sink into my skin very well. I really loved the <b>Naobay </b>and <b>Whish</b> lotions though.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The Naobay had a lemon scent which is great for this time of year, and the Whish was a lavender scented lotion which I expected to hate but actually really loved! Both of these were great for my skin and sank in really nicely. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This sample of <b>Glamglow's Supermud Clearing Treatment</b> lasted for 3 or 4 applications and did a really good job of cleansing my skin. Unfortunately I can't really afford the full size, but if you fancy a splurge I'd say it's worth it! I've been using the <b>Blanc Cachemire</b> moisturiser for a while now but I found that it really didn't work well with my make up. It made my skin quite greasy so I was really glad to finish it up! I didn't really get on well with the <b>L'occitane Repairing shampoo and conditioner</b> either. They irritated my scalp and made my hair greasier than normal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I was really sad to finish up my sample tube of <b>Lancome's Hypnose Drama mascara</b>. It's been my favourite mascara for a really long time so I decided to bite the bullet and splash out on a full size tube. I'm really glad I did because I absolutely love it!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">I also finished up one of my many samples of the <b>Porefessional</b>. I'm using this every day at the moment so once all of my samples have run out I might end up buying a full size tube.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've also made headway through my massive shower gel collection! This <b>Dove</b> shower gel was the last</span><span style="color: #45818e;"> of the christmas smellies!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">It's a really nice nourishing shower gel, just what you'd expect from Dove really.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The <b>Anatomicals</b> shower gel was from a previous Love Me Beauty box and even though rose isn't really my kind of scent, I actually really liked this shower gel. I probably wouldn't repurchase it, but it made a nice change from my usual fruity showers!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10230108304544066167noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1975819866152508007.post-91242637966136476652014-08-06T09:35:00.000+01:002014-08-06T09:35:26.638+01:00Beauty Box Buys - July 2014<br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This month has seen me finally make a decision about which beauty boxes I'm going to cull. I've decided to cancel Glossybox and Love Me Beauty, which means I'm left with Birchbox and You Beauty Discovery. I'm also planning on getting more Memeboxes in future!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">My two favourite items from this box had to be the Mary Kay mascara and the Bellapierre lipstick. Whilst I would have preferred the red lipstick, the pink suits me really well and I really like the formula! I also love that it's quite a high end product compared to what we normally receive in Glossyboxes, retailing at £20 <a href="http://www.bellapierre.co.uk/shop/index.php/mineral-makeup/lips/mineral-lipstick-1.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The mascara was a real surprise, as I expected it to not be great quality. Having tried it though, I really like it. It really lengthens and adds definition to my lashes, and it's another high end product!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">You can find it <a href="http://www.marykay.co.uk/products/makeup/eyes/lash-love-mascara/lash_love_black" target="_blank">here</a> for £16.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Birchbox had some great brands this month, but my two favourites were the Whish body lotion and the Balance Me Eye Cream. The Whish body lotion was another surprise for me, as I'd expected to hate it! Lavender is really not my kind of thing but it is drowned out by the other gorgeous ingredients included in this lotion. It sinks into my skin much quicker than your average body lotion, and leaves a lovely scent behind. The only UK stockist for Whish at the moment seems to be the Birchbox shop, but having a peek at their US website has me drooling over the different flavours available! I'd love to try the blueberry one! You can find it <a href="http://whishbody.com/products-body-butter.php" target="_blank">here</a> for $24. The Wonder Eye Cream from Balance Me has done wonders for my puffy eyes! It's meant to work really well for fine lines around the eyes as well but I don't really have nay of those (yet!) so I can't comment on how well it deals with those, but it's certainly a nice refreshing eye cream to use in the morning before I put the rest of my make up on. You can find it <a href="https://www.balanceme.co.uk/face/product-family/extra-care/extra-care-wonder-eye-cream/" target="_blank">here</a> for £20. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This month's YBD was a bit odd, what with the men's shaving cream. I went for the L'occitane shampoo and conditioner but I found that they made my hair quite greasy. My other pick for this month was the Miss Manga mascara from L'oreal. Whilst I haven't been blown away by it, I still think it's a really nice daytime mascara. You can find it <a href="http://www.boots.com/en/LOreal-Paris-Miss-Manga-Mascara-Black_1416309/" target="_blank">here</a> for £8.99.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Clearly mascara has been a theme for this month's boxes! This So Susan mascara is unlike any of the other mascaras I own. The wand has a very small brush which means that I can nab the tiny lashes at the corner of my eye, whilst also providing a decent coverage. I also really like the cute tube with the hummingbird design, it's adorable! It's <a href="http://sosusan.com/index.php?id_product=24&controller=product&id_lang=1" target="_blank">here</a> for £14.95. I also really love the Ofra eyeshadow from this month's box. It's a lovely soft pressed shadow and you should know by now how much I love a shimmery eye! I can't seem to find a UK stockist for these but they retail for $15. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">July has whizzed by and I'm starting to get very nervous about the first part of my degree with the OU! My study texts have arrived and everything seems to be falling into place, scary! Having said that, I've had some great products to play around with this month. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've been absolutely loving I ♥ Makeup this month, the <a href="http://www.makeuprevolutionstore.com/index.php/heartmakeup/eyes/palettes/i-makeup-death-by-chocolate.html" target="_blank">Death by Chocolate</a></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">palette has been gracing my eyelids nearly every day with it's lovely shimmery neutrals! I can't get enough of it. I've also been really enjoying playing around with my Lip Geek lipsticks, <a href="http://www.makeuprevolutionstore.com/index.php/heartmakeup/lips/lipstick/i-makeup-lip-geek-cherry-bomb.html" target="_blank">Cherry Bomb</a> is still my favourite shade out of the three I own, but I might end up looking to expand my collection soon!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">July was also the month that I discovered Memebox! I've already reviewed two of their boxes, and I've got plenty more on the way. This Aloe Vera gel from the <a href="http://us.memebox.com/superbox/superbox-30#.U9de5YV2j5M" target="_blank">Aloe Vera Superbox</a></span> <span style="color: #45818e;">has been a life saver this month. The UK has had some seriously hot weather and being someone who doesn't deal with the heat well, I've loved being able to put this in the fridge and then smother myself with it!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I've also finally managed to get hold of some of the summer Barry M Gelly shades and I am loving Kiwi and Damson! They look great together or on their own, and are the usual quality you would expect from Barry M. You can find them at your nearest Boots or Superdrug, I was lucky enough to nab these in a 3 for 2 deal, bargain!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The next book in Richelle Mead's Age of X series, this book follows Justin and Mae as they venture into enemy territory on a diplomatic mission. I really struggled to get into this one, it seemed to take a really long time to get going and then not an awful lot happened. I'm hoping that this book was just suffering as it appears to be the second book in a trilogy, I really like the concept of a futuristic setting but with gods from all cultures becoming involved in the lives of humans. Hopefully the next book will be a bit more action packed!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Quite a few people have recommended Rainbow Rowell's books to me previously but this was the first one I managed to get my grubby paws on! This story is about two teenagers who slowly start to communicate through sharing comic books and music, and eventually fall in love. It really is a very bittersweet story and I feel like it's been a great introduction into the world of Rainbow Rowell, I definitely want to try her other books! Hopefully I'll get time before my degree starts!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Stephanie Plum is back and this time she's on the hunt for a used-car dealership owner and a Russian assassin who has his sights set on Ranger. Unfortunately I'm beginning to find these very samey. The earlier books in the series used to make me laugh out loud but I don't even tend to crack a smile with the newer books. The series definitely needs something to liven it up a bit, I'm just not sure what. It would help if Stephanie would finally make a decision between Morelli and Ranger, there's only so much dithering a readership can take!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">A few weeks ago I was lucky enough to win my first blog competition over at Kelly's <a href="http://www.adventuresinteaandcake.com/" target="_blank">blog</a>, and my prize was a Whole Grain themed Memebox. This box was sold out on thier website, so I was pretty excited to see what was inside!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">As you can see, the box is jammed full of goodies!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">The first item I pulled out was this Herbclinic Rice Bran Powder ($8, full size). This is meant to be mixed with milk and either oatmeal or rice to create a face mask. I haven't been brave enough to try it out yet, it seems like quite an odd product!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This Purebess Galactomyces 80 Eye Cream ($20, full size) has to be the biggest tube of eye cream I've ever seen! It does say that it can be used on other areas of your face too which is just as well, I'd never be able to use it up otherwise! I've had to Google Galactomyces, which is apparently a type of yeast. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I received one of these Purderm face masks in the Aloe Vera box but I still haven't had a chance to try it out yet! This one is the Purederm Anti-Stress Heat Therapy Mask in Oatmeal ($12, full size). It smells really nice although I'm a little apprehensive about the 'heat therapy' aspect of it, sometimes masks like that can irritate my skin but I'm definitely willing to give it a try!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">We received quite a few Purederm products in this box, these Purederm Rice Bran Collagen Mask ($5 for 2, full size) look great, I've gained much more of an appreciation for sheet masks after trying out the lovely aloe vera ones! I shall be saving these up for a pampering night.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The final product from the Whole Grain box is this Purederm Invigorating Foot Scrub in Walnut ($4, full size). I used this the other day after having a long day of running about in uncomfortable shoes, and it felt lovely to pamper my feet a bit! As well as walnut, this scrub also contains apricot seed and lavender oil. My feet felt lovely and soft afterwards, I wish there had been more than one sachet of this in the box!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Love Me Beauty are obviously taking steps to try and improve after thier recent boxes, but unfortunately I feel that the July box is still a bit disappointing, which has prompted me to cancel my subscription.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Twenty bags of tea! I know that not everyone doesn't like tea, but for the people out there like me who have no use for it whatsoever, it's a bit disappointing to see one of the main items in the box be tea.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">I can rehome it so it won't be going to waste, but still a disappointing start.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Overall, some items I really like, and some that I really don't. I used to really enjoy Love Me Beauty and get really excited when it was time to pick out my box, but the quality of the products included has gone downhill and I'm just not as impressed with the boxes as I used to be. I'm sure lots of people will have loved this month's box and I'm sorry for this to be such a whingy post! I'll still keep an eye on the boutique to see what comes out and if there's a particular box that I really like the look of then I might resubscribe, but for now I'm sticking with Birchbox!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">It was always going to happen eventually. I've finally been suckered into buying my first Memebox! Memebox is a Korean beauty box company that produces several different boxes every month, and dispatches them at different times throughout the month. There is no subscription fee, you just pick the box you like the sound of and buy it! For my first box, I decided to go for the Aloe Vera Superbox.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The box comes wrapped in a pink bubble wrapped bag, and contains a card listing everything in the box and instructions on how to use the products.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">As you can see, my box was jam packed with Aloe Vera goodies! The first thing I picked out was this </span><span style="color: #45818e;">Purederm Skin Soothing Moisture Mask (full-sized, $12). It smells really nice and the product itself is a really interesting texture, it's quite unlike any other masks I've tried before! I can't wait to give it a try.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">There were also six of these Purederm Nose Pore Strips ($6 for a box of six),</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">I've never tried nose strips before but I do tend to suffer from spots around that area of my face, so these will definitely get used up!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This </span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Enesti Aloe Vera Soothing Gel (Full-sized, $14) is going to come in very handy! I read a review of this box that mentioned putting this product in the fridge, which I think is a fantastic idea for when it gets really hot. The UK has had some very warm weather recently so I've put this in the fridge in preparation!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The </span><span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="color: #45818e;">Real Beauty Morning Dew Bamboo Serum </span>(full-sized, $28) is one of the more expensive items included in the box. The serum is meant to provide gentle hydration to dry and lacklustre skin. It is very watery, and I've been putting it on at night before I go to bed. It seems to leave my skin quite sticky and I haven't noticed any obvious benefits yet, but I'm hoping with extended use I should start to see some results!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">There were also two Enesti Suanbo Spa Aloe Multi Care Masks (full-sized, two masks for $10) in the box. I tried one of these last night and loved it! The mask fit to my face really well and stayed there, normally I find these masks much too big for my face and they always end up falling off. I left it on for 10 minutes and once I'd removed it, I gently patted the excess gel into my face. My skin felt incredibly refreshed afterwards.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The Ramosu 100% Pure Aloe Vera Extract (full-size, $11) is a bit of a mystery product for me! I had a real struggle to actually get into the bottle to put the little plastic topper on, and now I'm not really sure what to do with it! I think I might try using it on my face for a bit, if that doesn't seem to do anything I might just save it for sunburn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This Grinif Aloe Mist Moisture Care was the most expensive item in the box (full-size, $36). I've used it a couple of times and I would definitely suggest holding this well away from your face when you use it! It spritzes quite a large amount at a time so you don't need a lot of sprays to get full coverage.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This is such a fun series, I'm always excited when a new Charley Davidson book comes out! Charley is a P.I. with a difference. She's the grim reaper incarnate and in addition to guiding souls to thir final destination, she can communicate with ghosts to help them resolve any unfinished business. Think Stephanie Plum with a supernatural twist, these books are fun, dramatic, and a riot to read. I'm already looking forward to the next one!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Nicola's rating: 5/5</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Rebel Belle is the a new offering from Rachel Hawkins, and while I wasn't expecting much, I actually really enjoyed it! Harper Price is the queen bee at her school, but after a strange encounter at her school dance, she finds herself gifted with super strength and lethal fighting abilities. She has become a Paladin, a guardian for one of her classmates, who just so happens to be her worst enemy. In some ways this reminded me of Buffy the vampire slayer, there's a lot of kick ass fight scenes and the dialogue between charaters is always entertaining. I really thought that this would be quite a boring read but I was pleasantly surprised!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The past few Birchboxes have been absolutely amazing, and I was fully prepared for the July box to take a bit of a dip in quality, but it really hasn't!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I was a little bit apprehensive when I saw that we'd be getting a lavender body lotion, as I absolutely can't stand the smell of it! However, this lotion was a pleasant surprise. The lavender is definitely there, but</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">it's muted by the other ingredients. I've used this a couple of times already and I love it! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The lifestyle extra for this month was this Ultradex oral spray. It's a bit of an unusual choice but it's always incredibly handy to have something like this in your handbag, I haven't tried it yet but I'm hoping it's not overpoweringly minty!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Not a knockout box like the previous two boxes have been, but still a great little box with some lovely products to try out! I've recently cancelled Love Me Beauty and Glossybox as I've found that Birchbox suits me better. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I am so pleased I have this palette, it came out before I got paid and when I went to buy all of my other Makeup Revolution goodies, it had sold out! Luckily it came back into stock not long after that so I put in a super quick order and now its here!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">How beautiful is that packaging? I just love the feel of this palette, it has a lovely weight to it and the outer casing is just so unusual! I've read on other blogs that they couldn't detect any chocolatey scent from this palette, but I definitely can. It's a little bit synthetic but still quite a unique touch!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">And there they are, another lovely palette full of shimmery neutrals! I'm so easily pleased.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">The Death By Chocolate palette retails for £7.99 and is available <a href="http://www.makeuprevolutionstore.com/index.php/heartmakeup/eyes/palettes/i-makeup-death-by-chocolate.html" target="_blank">here</a>. If you're a fan of shimmery neutrals then you need this in your life, it's quickly become one of my go to palettes!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This box is the last one from my 3 month subscription to Glossybox, and I'm quite glad it's come to the end of it's run! I won't be renewing, out of the three boxes I've received this one was definitely the best, but I was really not impressed by the others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I love me a nail polish, so I was pretty chuffed to see I'd gotten a box with a full-size Color Club polish. It's not a particularly summery colour, but it fits with the theme of the box really well and I love blue polishes so I didn't mind!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I'd never tried Carmex before, but I am a total lip balm hoarder so I tried this straight away thinking I would love it. Unfortunately it's one of those tingly lip products so I wiped it off more or less straight away and binned it. Bit of a disappointment!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I hadn't heard of Mary Kay before, but I love trying new mascaras, and I was pleased to see that this had a thinner plastic wand. I find these much easier to use than bigger bristley wands, and having tried this out it definitely gives my eyelashes volume and definition. I'm pretty impressed with it overall.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Having already looked at the Run Boy Run palette from Makeup Revolution, I now want to talk you through my first impressions of their Girls on Film palette. This one has even more shades that I can definitely see myself wearing, and I can straight away see which my favourites are bound to be! </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">Starting from the top row, it's a very similar story to Run Boy Run. All of these shades are extremely wearable, but I'd probably give Walking Hand in Hand a miss.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Camera Rolling and Polaroid Heaven are particularly gorgeous.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">On the second row, we have more beautiful neutrals. Lights Flashing, Frenzy All Down Your Spine, and Lipstick Over the Lens have to be my favourites, but really I love all of these shades.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">I definitely prefer these mattes to the ones in the Run Boy Run palette, there's slightly more pigmentation and I could see them being easier to wear on their own. Girls on Film though, I'm not even sure why I bothered swatching it! It's exactly the same shade as my skin and if I hadn't labelled it I'd have forgotten it was there completely. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This is the final book in Cassandra Clare's debut series, The Mortal Instruments. I've been waiting what's felt like forever to read it, so long that I couldn't really remember what had happened in the previous five books!</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Luckily, the book is written in such a way that I soon remembered the majority of what had happened, and was straight pulled back into the world of Shadowhunters and demons. We follow Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Alec and Simon on a dangerous journey to take on Sebastian and his army of 'Endarkened' for the last time. This book had me hooked from the start, and even though it was sad to say goodbye to the main characters from this series, there's already the promise of a new journey with Cassandra Clare's next series which is due to start with the first book next year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #45818e;">This is the eighth book in the Outlander series, and follows pretty much straight on from the end of the seventh book. This was a bit disorienting as I read that a few years ago, so it took me a while to remember what had happened! Claire and Jamie are struggling to negotiate living through the Civil War in America, whilst her time-travelling daughter and son-in-law are on a frantic search through time to find their young son Jem. I found this book a bit less exciting than the previous novels in the series, I had a sense of constantly waiting for something big to happen, and then was a bit disappointed when the book ended.</span> <span style="color: #45818e;">Even more disappointingly, I'll probably have to wait another four years for the next one! Boo!</span></div>
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