Saturday 23 June 2012

Recent Buys - June

I've bought quite a lot recently, but I thought I'd make a post containing a few things that I've bought and loved.



I decided to do this after receiving quite a large amount of MUA cosmetics that I ordered from their site. If I remember correctly, all of these items cost around £13... pretty cheap really considering that I bought 8 items with that money!
I was really impressed with some of the things that I ordered. The brow and eye pencil in particular are really pigmented and just soft enough. They are amazing at £1 each! I'm usually not too fond of spending a lot on pencil liners so I'm super happy with these – the white liner even comes with its own sharpener and the brow pencil comes with a brush to groom your unruly eyebrows, too!

I got the clear mascara because it's cheap and works to keep my eyebrows in place. Maybe another time I should try one of their black mascaras and see how it holds up.

The other items I haven't managed to try properly yet, but I did think lipstick formulas felt particularly non-drying. I'll probably review all of these products at some point!


Bobbi Brown Creamy Concealer Kit in Porcelain

This is the Creamy Concealer Kit by Bobbi Brown in the porcelain shade- which is the lightest.
I'd previously bought the corrector which comes in a slightly paler colour and thought that this was too dark when I first tried it. But combined with the white powder that accompanies the concealer it really is incredibly good. Maybe at one point I'll reorder my corrector too as they're meant to work amazing together.


The Body Shop Vitamin E moisturizer and scrub

Next are my current favourite moisturising duo! I've been using The Body Shop's Vitamin E Intense Moisture Cream and Nourishing Night Cream for about a year now and so far I haven't wanted to try anything else! I suffer from mostly normal skin, but now and then dry patches appear on my cheeks or between my eyebrows and these amazing moisturizers clear that right up. I'm always worried when I use new face products in case they'll make me break out in spots, but I have only good things to say about these two.

The Cream exfoliator I bought because Body Shop currently had a 3 for 2 offer on skin care. It's okay; I'm sure I'll use it if I get dry patches again. It's incredibly gentle though and I prefer to feel like my dead skin cells are coming off when I exfoliate, so I think I'll stick to my St Ive's apricot scrub. 

Bio-Oil

Recently on Buyapowa I bought two 125ml bottles of Bio-Oil for £11.50, that's £19 less than RRP!
I've been looking at Bio-Oil for a while now because I have stretch marks from when I lost some weight fairly quickly a couple of years ago.

If you haven't heard of Bio-Oil; it's said to help minimise scarring, stretch marks, uneven skin tone, and help aging and dehydrated skin.
I've heard good things but I'm not expecting miracles; but with two good sized bottles at least I have enough to see if it'll work for me!



Last but not least are these incredibly cute heart earrings that I bought from the River Island Boutique store in Cambridge.
I didn't even know that this shop existed, but now that I know I'm sure that I'll be spending more money there! They sell my favourite parts of River Island: the shoes, bags and accessories!

What are your recent must-have purchases?

14 comments:

  1. The lip booms are really good I have OMG and Vibe. I did a review of them on my blog if you want you can check it out :)
    http://prettylitlefashionista.blogspot.co.uk/

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    1. I got OMG too, and Bring It. Just read your review and OMG looks really good on you. I tried it but I don't think it suits me. I bought the lipsticks in shades 3 and 12 and I think 12 suits me far more than any of the others- probably because it's less opaque!

      I see that you recently bought a lot from ELF, I need to do the same I think. Particularly their nail varnishes and eyeshadow quads. They have some ridiculously cute colours!

      -Olivia xx

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  2. I love Bio-oil! I couldn't live without it! Same here with the stretch marks - the only difference is that I put weight on quickly :/ wow those MUA products look great! Thanks for the review! I will have to try them now lol xxx

    Helen

    beautifullysuperfluous.blogspot.co.uk

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    1. I have my fingers crossed that the Bio-Oil will do something for me! Stretch marks really stress me out! I have them absolutely all over my thighs. Not nice!
      Is it working for you?

      MUA is well worth the money. So many of their products are only a pound which is ridiculous. Apparently their eyeshadow palettes are also really good- similar to the Sleek palettes but even cheaper!

      -Olivia xx

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    2. My stretch marks were almost violent purple when I started using bio-oil and now they're fading to silver. It does take a while (I would say I've been working on mine for six months but I've put on more weight again since I started using it so if your skin stays the same or more weight is lost I can imagine that it works a lot quicker) but I wouldn't be without it. I went from a size 8-10 to a size 16-18 within a very short amount of time which obviously caused a lot of marks to appear all over. This is the only stuff I have found that works. Its a miracle!

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  3. Hi hun! Have tried to follow you but I couldn't find the follower button - maybe I'm just being blind! I'm subscribed by email though!

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    1. I'm such a blog noob! I probably don't know what I'm doing :P
      I added some subscription buttons... maybe it'll help if I know what website you want to follow with? Just on blogger/google?
      I'll work it out eventually, haha! xx

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    2. If you go onto layout on your dashboard and click to add a gadget that says 'Followers' it will appear on the blog along with a button that allows your readers to follow with google+. Also you can sign up to hellocotton and get followers that way - it shows you a step by step guide of how to do it on there. Or Bloglovin' which again tells you how to copy and paste the stuff on there onto here :)

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    3. Thank you so much for your help! I wonder how long it would have taken me to work this out if you hadn't helped me!

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    4. No problem :) always happy to help a fellow blogger! I'm not officially following too :D xxx

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    5. Sorry - typo - meant now officially following heehee xx

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    6. Yay! Thank you! I can actually see that it's doing something now! xx

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  4. I've always wanted to try bio-oil but I've never been brave enough to spend so much on something that may or may not work. Could you do a review of it when you've had time to use it? I want to get as many opinions as possible on it before I commit to buying it.
    Oh, and cute blog ^_^
    x

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    1. Yep, it's definitely daunting. If you want to spend a lot less there's a product in Poundland called Rescue Oil. It's only a 40ml bottle but it still works out a lot cheaper!
      It has very similar ingredients to Bio-Oil and I've read good things about it.

      I will write a review on Bio-Oil once I've used it some more though ^^ I'm using it twice a day, so fingers crossed!

      -Olivia xx

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