The Body Shop .co.uk Haul!

The Body Shop always carries me inside there Grafton Street store in Dublin, and recently after watching Essie Buttons review on the honey bronzer, I had to pop in to check it out. This bronzer comes in 4 matte shades, two with pink undertones, and two on the yellow side and seems perfect for the pale skin. It was 19 euro in store and I couldn't pull out that kind of money without purchases the other items I eyed up, so I decided to do an online shop since they had 40% off sitewide - amazing!!

I used parcel motel, which is a shipping service that you can get your items delivered to their UK address, and they drive them down to your closest parcel motel station. You enter the text code, and boom the locker opens and you have your package. Only 3.50 per stay and its easy to use.

It all arrived in this little box and the entire order was only £20 (sterling)! Defiantly made a lot of savings compared to buying in the Dublin store I usually browse.

I ordered a new eye cream, as I just finished my Benefit 'Its Potent', which did not impress me at all, as I didn't see any difference in the appearance of my circles or tired eyes. This is very light and has a unique fragrance to it, that i'm not sure i'm a fan of, but excited to try it! Contains 15ml.

Rainforest Volume shampoo, which I was drawn towards because it contains no sulfates, which I recently learnt are bad for your hair, espcially if its coloured, which I got mine done last week. I didn't realise that I ordered such a small size (oops, always happens online), but at least I can try it twice from this little 60ml bottle. 

Since i'm a major germaphobe I wanted to try out a hand gel that didn't smell like I had just drank a bottle of vodka. This smells extremely strong of mango, wow! It's very over powering, but better than that alcohol smell anyway.

This soaps were only £1.20 each, which seems like a bargain and had looooads of great reviews. I purchased the Satsuma, Strawberry, and Chocomania soap smells. I cannot wait to try these (especially the chocolate one :p)

Saving the best for last, the Honey Bronzer. This product is what made me do an online order as I have heard too many great things about it and that it suits pale skin really well. This is very matte and velvety      to touch. I got shade 03, as I found when swatching them in the shops, that there was not much colour pay off for shade 01 as it was very pale, and shade 02 had a slight pink undertone. I will review this if I love it, and coming into spring summer I think that it will be perfect. 

Recent Purchases Feb 2014 / March 2014

New things :-)

Recent purchases from the past 6 weeks that I love! I bought some of these online and the rest in Boots and at the Irish beauty show, which again was a huge success and great fun to attend for the third year in a row. 

Marc By March Jacobs cosmetic bag from iOffer

 The first purchase I made was on ioffer.com. I've heard loads of bad things about this website, such as ordering an item and getting something completely different or an empty package. I was very skeptical about ordering so I chose something small and sweet for my first purchase and I am defiantly impressed! I ordered this Marc By Mac Jacobs cosmetics bag. The only downside to ordering was the wait, they say anything from 2-6 weeks and mine arrived in nearly 4 weeks. Very happy with this cosmetic bag, how much it can hold and the overall quality.

Cocoa Brown Lovely Legs

I've been a Cocoa Brown tan fan since it was first released. At the Irish Beauty Show is where I stocked up last year on my one hour tan and it was time to get more. I picked up 4 bottles of the one hour tan and then two of these new releases. Lovely legs which is an instant tan makeup for legs (similar concept on Sally Hansen, but I find the consistency lighter and a better colour). 

Suddenly Diamonds by Lidl

This was a random purchase when I was food shopping in Lidl last week. I had seen on many irish beauty blogs that a Lidl perfume resembled a Chanel for a fraction of the price and wanted to check it out. I definatly was not a fan of the Chanel dupe as it reminded me of 'old lady' strong purfume that caused me to sneeze! I then tried this and really like it, its a light fresh, floral scent and for 3.49 you can't go wrong. Going to keep this in my handbag for when on the go!

I have been seeing texturised hair on blogs a lot on celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, and wanted to try out a sea salt spray for that texturised beach hair effect. This was a good purchase from Boots, costing between 5/6 euro. I spray it in my hair when it is still damp and dry the rest. I leave my long hair wavy and reduces frizz. 

Placed my first order on beauty joint.com. As I watch many youtube beauty gurus online, Lauren Beauty always recommends Jordana best last extreme so I made my order and it arrived within a week along with some Jordana brow powder. I really like both products. The mascara is quite quick on the brush so I tend to wipe off the excess before applying and it holds the curl nicely all day long. This brow powder doubles as a good crease colour for adding depth to my eyes. 

I purchased two 'BlankCanvas' eye brushes at the Irish Beauty Show in the RDS. I really want to order more as they are brilliant for blending compared to my sigma blending brushes that I already own.