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: 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: ASOS Nail Decals - Fast Food.

I was really excited about these!! an easier way to get cute nails then faffing about trying to paint them!
I thought the blue would go really well with the red and yellow but it seems to be a little too dark so they don't show amazingly well. I'll have to invest in a white nail polish.

In all fairness they were so easy to use and i think they were £4.50? and you get around 70 to use so you will ge quite a few usages out of them!

Have you tried these?
ciao x

January Haul

Hey guys!
Thought today's blog post would be about some of the things I bought/ was given (for birthday/Christmas) this month! I am in no way trying to brag about anything ( maybe except that I have amazing friends with amazing taste!!)

Okay so first up, I already blogged about some products in this picture, the Naked Flushed, Hello Oxygen foundation and Porefessional so I won't go into these. Also I just realised I bought the jewellery stand to the left which I think once I fully sort out my make up collection and storage I will do a whole post about that. The other stand was also from Urban Outfitters and that was a present from my sister!

So as you can see at the front are some RealTechniques brushes, the blush brush and expert face brush were presents from  work colleagues and I bought the eye-shadow brush as I had just lost my topshop one. The main thing I can say is, believe the hype about these brushes. I watched a lot of beauty bloggers/vloggers go on about these and I was like...are they really that good? I always used to use my fingers when applying foundation and I heard it helped add oils from your fingers to your face and at the time I had a really oily face all the time, also I had a MAC foundation brush and it was taking forever for me to get it all on and set on my face and when you have 20 minutes to get ready in the morning that's not ideal. The expert face brush is a revelation if you were to buy your first brush make it this one! I also found the eye-shadow brush picks up heaps more pigment then my Topshop one however I don't feel like it blends it as well so I usually have to go over the edges with a blending brush.

Secondly there are a few nail products: two Essie nail polishes and a nail buffer. One of my new year beauty resolutions is to take better care of my nails. So I bought a new Essie base coat ( it's the hydration one) and a buffer so I can start giving myself some proper manicures. The Essie nail colour is called ' All Tied Up' and if you go to Fragrance Direct most of the nail polishes are only £2.50!!!

The last couple of products are the Rimmel Scandaleyes, Lush Santa Scrub and MACs Sable frost eye-shadow. First of all I LOVE this eye shadow it was a gift from my friends and I had eyed it up for my palette. It's perfect for an everyday eye-shadow or even mixing with a darker shade for going out. The Lush santa scrub tastes DELICIOUS however I always wipe it off as you have lots of little dead skin once you've truly started to rub it in so the joy of taste is short-lived.  Lastly the Scandaleyes, to be honest I am still deciding how I feel about this, the brush shape is slightly weird and I can't decide if it is any better then my false lash mascara, I think I won't be repurchasing this.

Next up is this Oxblood bag from Topshop, this was a gift and I had always wanted a bag that opens up like a doctors bag, you know the way the sides are together when its closed and open into a sort of rectangle shape?! Maybe I'm a little weird like that but the fact the bag does this makes me insanely happy. It's the perfect sized bag and I generally can fit everything I need for the day in it, the way it closes also means no rain will get in and living in Manchester this is essential!!

These shoes I had been eyeing up for a while, I used to have some gorgeous ankle boots from River Island which I wore to death and I had been hunting for ages for a brown ankle boot replacement. Something about brown ankle boots in winter, I don't know! These were on sale from Topshop for £25 - I couldn't resist! I would just say is someone has laced these up mighty weird as the laces come from the bottom of the shoe not the top.

Lastly are two items of clothing both from Topshop, being January I was pretty broke so I couldn't go on mad ones, if you remember my last lust haves both these items featured and I got them both in the sale, the trousers for a tenner and the dress for £15. Happy days!

So that's all I've been buying/receiving. Even though I need to be careful with money in Feb I have eye'd up a lot of MAC products that may need to be mine.....

What have you guys been buying? Or what did you get for christmas that you loved??

Ciao x