Beauty - Review: Body Shop Almond nail and cuticle oil

A few posts back I wrote about the importance of using cuticle oil and how this can affect the skin around your nails. In the post I wrote that I had bought this but not really thought much of it. After digging it out I decided it deserved another chance.
Firstly that beige nib at the top was pointless.... that's what put me off initially.
After that the pen is actually really good, for a girl who hates touching oil this is ideal. In fact I take this everywhere with me now, when temptation strikes to pick at the skin I get this and dab it round instead. It's working miracles for my nails. It's got a really nice scent to it and dries quite quickly. I guess all in all it does what any other cuticle oil would do it's nothing special there, I will keep buying it because I don't have to touch the oil and spread it around with my fingers. £7.50 though...  that's pretty much around the same price as the oil I got from home when you convert it so I don't think this is outrageous.

Have you tried this?

Ciao x

Beauty: Body Shop Peach Vineyard

I wasn't sure if I was going to ever get to blog about my favourite collection from the body shop but when I went in the other day there it was...

Last summer I got the peach vineyard shower gel and exfoliating scrub..actually I got two shower gels because I loved it so much and they were stopping stocking it. I didn't want to blog about something that wasn't really available but last week in the arndale store in manchester there was vineyard peach shower gels... Let's say I rejoiced and I will be going back to get more. To celebrate this I also finally dug out my Peach vineyards which I had been saving for a rainy day and realised this was stupid and I actually needed to use the for the purpose in which they were bought.  I smell peachy fresh now. I don't know about you but I always buy something and when I reallyy love it I try to not use itbecause I want to save it, I am trying to break this habit because I actually end up wasting products!

I love body shop shower goodies and this smells divine.
Which are your favourite smells? I recently smelt a new raspberry one I am going back for!

Ciao x

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Beauty: The importance of cuticle oil

I get really bad hang nail and dry skin around my nails, grim as it is,  no matter how much hand cream I put ...it happens.
When I was back home at Easter I went to get my nails done at the nail spa in Wahda Mall and the lady told me I needed to start using cuticle oil twice a day. Now I'm pretty bad for remembering to do something once a day so twice a day would have been a miracle. I bought some oil from them for 35dhs and tried to remember to use it at least once a day and oh my gosh. The difference was insane I could start to notice it after a few days even!
For someone who hates the feeling of oil I wasn't sure hwo I was going to take to this but I just put a small amount on every other finger and rub it over the 5. It's not too much that way. I really recommend you try it!
Essie, Sally Hansen and the Body shop all do their own cuticle oils. I do actually own the body shop one, I didn't rate it at first because I got it more for the pushy bit it had but I am going to retrial it and see if the almond oil is actually as good as my cuticle oil!

Ciao x

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Beauty: Review - Body Shop Hemp Hand Cream

Hello dears!
I am trying to get back into blogging!! Today I wanted to review a recent purchase, 'Body Shops hemp hand cream'. I got this about a month ago (okay ...not so recent...) and was trialling it instead of my Soap & Glory ' Hand Food ' I get reaaaaallly dry hands in esp in winter.

I have to say the smell of this product doesn't do anything for me, I like quite sweet floral/ fruity smells this smells... how to describe it...muddy?! well... it is hemp it smells natural. My friend loves it so it is for some people!
First of all as an artist i LOVE the packaging, the metal keeps the cream quite cold aswell. The lid being a screw cap means that it wont come off in your bag either. Nothing worse then opening your bag to an explosion of product!
The cream itself is very oily. not in a bad way,just don't put too much on though! it will feel quite oily for a few seconds then ta-daaa! amazingly soft hands, if you put too much on you can feel quite oily for sometime, I usually rub a bit off, I'm a bit weird about oily things. regardless of the smell this cream is amazing!! I would definitely recommend this especially for winter.
Price-wise £10 may see like a lot, but considering you need the smallest amount and you don't need to apply loads it is definitely going to last. Body shop tend to do a lot of offers so you may find it for cheaper. I still think it's worth the tenner they are asking.

Also.... 23 days till christmassssssssssssss!!!
Ciao x