Beauty: Brush Cleansing - MAC

It's something we all need to do and all have our own ways of doing... being a pretty lazy person I like to keep this as quick and easy as my facial cleansing routine. I clean my brushes once a week, mostly on sundays, although sometimes midway in the week if I have been using a thicker foundation as these brushes are harder to get clean.

The MAC brush cleanser is a tenner and this bottle has lasted me quite a few months now. Another bonus is  you can save your empties to swap for a new lipstick! ( craving is calling my name!) All I do is get a towel lie all my brushes on it then - use a cotton pad covered with the cleanser and rub my brushes on the cotton pad till whatever make up comes off. nice and easy! This cleanser tends to get everything off the brushes it just takes 2-3 more cotton pads to clean the foundation brush.

It's important to make sure you regularly clean your brushes otherwise bacteria can build up and this can lead to more spots. For a while I never really cleaned my brushes and I don't get as many spots now!

What are your methods of brush cleansing?

Ciao x

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Beauty: Quick morning Cleanse.

I can't be the only one who tries to get every minute of sleep possible in the morning? Even when Bruce ( Le Chat) has woken me up and making sure I wake up to feed him, I am still trying to stay in bed till the last possible minute before I know I'm going to be late for work. Because of this I needed a quick and easy morning routine here comes these bad boys:

1) I start by cleansing with the good things cleanser, I might do a full review of this because it really is a good product and I feel it deserves more then a few quick lines. Basically any left over muck I didn't get off the night before or anything that's got on my face in the night. Since its gotten hotter I find my skin is more oily in the morning...anyone else?

2) Then I use the Lush tea tree toner, again this will get a full review but at the moment I feel its to recent a purchase to make a good review. In the mornings I spritz this onto a cotton circular thing...( technical!) and then wipe my face. You can spray it straight on your face - I do this at night but it's a bit much in the morning!

3) Add on the korres moisturiser and let that sink in while I make breakfast and before any make up goes on. I reviewed this moisturiser here. I wasn't sure at first but now I know why everyone is raving on about this. It has completely balanced out my skin and it is no way near as red - to the point I could actually go out happily with no foundation, which is a pretty big deal!

Sweet and simple! What are your  morning staples?

Just a quick update on the blog: I am super broke so there may not be many reviews or much going on this month, I've had a lot going on but will do a brainstorm this weekend on what I can do :)

Ciao x

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Beauty: review - Bioderma

So.
The infamous Bioderma.
After going on about how hard it was to get hold of you can imagine my surprise when I am in BOOTS of all places back home and see lots of little bioderma bottles staring back at me.

I was like... BOOTS?!!? SELLS BIODERMA?! WHAT?!
Who knows what is going on but needless to say I snapped me one up straight away. It was 90 Dhs for the 500 ml which works out around £14. It worked a treat with my Peaches and Clean. Although .. you know when your squirting this stuff on a thingy( I'm very technical as you can see) and there is quite a lot so when you press it loads of the liquid comes out? Well. Smarty pants here did that right over her eye. Yes. I accidentally got this stuff in my eye and lets just say it was NOT enjoyable.

We all know Bioderma works, thats why there is so much hype about it... so the real question is:
How does it shape up against the Garnier?

I wiped one side of my face with bioderma and one with the garnier micellar water, both took off make up equally, neither made my skin any redder then usual. In fact looks-wise you couldn't tell which was which. The ONLY difference I found was that the bioderma side of my face was softer. Which really isn't that much of a difference considering I then cleansed and moisturised my face anyway.

So. £14 for 500ml of Bioderma or £5ish for 400ml of Garnier?
I think its say to say I will probably be sticking with the Garnier.
What about you guys?
Ciao bellas x

Beauty - review: Soap & Glory Peaches and clean.

Hey guys,

So I bought this while I was back home to use as a cleanser along with the bioderma water to do a kind of lazy/holiday cleanse. I found the combo really worked well together with some nivea night cream on top.

First of all. THIS SMELLS AMAZING. I think I am in love with the peach smell because I'm obsessed with the peach vinyard shower gels from body shop ( Can someone please explain why this range wasn't made permanent?!) its a nice smooth silky consistency very similar to the body milk consistency.

It claims to be a 3 in 1 wash off: energizing skin, declogging pores and cleansing. I really like this product, it feels really nice on the skin and my skins afterwards felt so soft. My skin stayed clean while I used it though the days where I didn't apply make up some times I would be a little extra lazy and not use this and then my skin went a little cloggy and I got one or two spots but one go with this and it felt back on track. So I think it's pretty fair for them to claim all 3 uses on this.

Another perk is that you can push the lid and twist so that the cap locks which means you don't get any accidental pumps in your suitcase when travelling though you do have to waste some of the product to do this if you didn't do it at the same time as actually cleansing like me. I don't know if other products do that but I haven't really seen it before and was pretty impressed as I have had many a situation where things have leaked in my suitcase.

It's around £8 I think that's really reasonably, the same price as most S&G products and you really don't need much so it is going to last quite a while.

have you guys tried this product? What do you think?

Ciao x

PS testing out a new Macro lens - yay or nay? 

Beauty - Review: Garnier Micellar Cleansing water.

Hey guys!

I'm sorry I didn't post yesterday, I've had a busy few days but today I'm blogging about a new cleansing staple. The Garnier - Micellar Cleansing water, the new answer to the UKs prayers. Bioderma is not easy to get hold of  unless you are fortunate to casually jet to Paris every now and again. Which I am definitely not.

So it's so frustrating when I want to get it and can't get hold of it without having to order it online, I was watching Alix from Icovetthee's night time cleanse routine and she featured this Garnier product. In a previous post I mentioned I wanted to up my skin routine because whatever I'm doing at the moment I feel my skin is just not appreciating, it just looks tired and dull. So I thought... right! I'm going to add this to the start of a new routine!

 Apart from being far easier to get hold of, this product is also half the price and boasts it can last up to 200 uses. I can't vouch for that but I can say I really love it. It doesn't lie when it says it doesn't smell of anything so its perfect for sensitive skin. It feels really refreshing and makes getting mascara off ridiculously easy! ( good bye panda eyes!)  - Extra bonus ( as I type this product is £3.33 in boots at the moment!!! )

Have you guys tried this product? What do you think?? What other products do you use for cleansing?

Ciao x