Online Shopping

Hi Everyone!

I got a parcel in the mail a while ago (I got so excited it wasn't even funny) and when I opened it, I saw some recent purchases off of an online shopping site, Brands Exclusive. I love this website because they sell almost every thing and it's always on sale so I went online and I saw that the website was selling Revlon products  they were cheaper than they are in the shops. 

(Again, sorry the photos are still pretty crappy, I still don't have the best camera in the world)

I purchased a few products. I got a Brow Enhancer Pen it's a two in one tinted wax and highlighter for blonde/golden eyebrows because although I have brown hair my eyebrows are very fair so basically the lighter the better for me. The wax for on the actual eyebrows to give them some shape and some beauty also the highlighter is a golden shimmery colour that is supposed to sit just below the eyebrow on the brow bone, personally, I don't particularly like this look so I think I'll just stick with the tinted wax for the time being. 

The colour is in number 183 Lilac Pastelle

I got a nail polish (oh, how unlike me) and I've kept my eye on these kind of colours for a while now and I'm glad I got it, the colour is quite translucent and it needs a couple of coats to be a solid colour on your nails but when it's on it looks pretty an I think that it would look great on lots of skin tones. It's a very nice pastel purple with some pinkish undertones. 

The colour is in 006 Pink Sugar

And finally, the very first lipstick that I've brought for myself (how exciting). I originally wanted something nude but I with held as I couldn't really find anything that grabbed my attention. So I instead stuck to the extremely original version, pink lips. I like this so much when I saw it, I was pleasantly surprised when I opened this up and swatched it on my hand, I thought that it would be more of a pigmented colour but it has more of a lip gloss look but when it's on it does feel like a lipstick. There is a subtle golden shimmer in the colour, I didn't notice the shimmer on the lipstick but I like it a lot even though it was unexpected.

Well, that's it. I feel like I've rambled on a bit today but oh well. I haven't posted in a while, I'm sorry about that. I've had completely no motivation to do anything lately and the creative juices haven't exactly been flowing. So, therefore there has been no blog post. 

Thanks for reading,

Sam xx

New Hair Care Review

Hi everyone!

A couple of weeks ago, I went to my hairdressers house and she cut my hair and we got talking about all kinds of hair related things, especially about shampoos and conditioners, hair masques, and curl enhancing creams. Because I went with my mum and my sister, they heard the conversation and our hairdresser suggested that it may be a good idea if she got what products she thinks will be good for all of our hair. So, we gave her $30 as she gets discounts on products as she used to be in the hair industry.

Anyways, a couple of days ago we went to get our hair cut again and she had gotten the all the products. The total came into about $25 with a total of 10 products (5 for my hair and 5 for my mum and sister). She purchased me some products especially designed for curly hair as my hair is naturally wavy/curly and i haven't been using heat on my hair as much as I used to I feel like i need to embrace my natural hair.
The products for me where the C4U curl cure shampoo, conditioner and masque, the Alonzo Luminescence Curl Revive Cleanser and The Benz curl activator. The website links that were on the packaging of the products are here, here and here.

The shampoo and conditioner actually smell quite nice as they are not too strong but not too weak in scent. The shampoo has apricot oil, olive oil and Vitamin E in it so its all natural and does wonders to my hair. The conditioner has Rosemary, sage and nettle extracts in it which is as well, all natural for your curly little locks! They seemed to also take out some of the frizziness in my hair which is great as I hate it when it's frizzy.

The Curl Cure Masque has Pro-Vitamin B5 which I'm not entirely sure on what it does but it seemed to work pretty well which is always a good thing.

As soon as I put all of the products above on my hair in the shower, I noticed a difference straight away which is always pleasant to know that the product is doing it job like its supposed to. Even though some of the products are different brands I was really surprised at how well they all seemed to work on my hair all together.

The Curl Activator was not as great as I wasn't expecting it to be as it was really wet and runny. I hate having a crunchy feeling hair and unfortunately that's what the curl activator left with me which I am disappointed but I may also have used more than I'm supposed to so I'll try it out with less product on my hands next time.

I looked these products up online and didn't find a lot, mainly because these are salon used products or they are discontinued as they are hard to find but I did manage to some of them. The shampoo, conditioner, masque, Alonzo Luminescence Curl Revive Cleanser and The Benz Curl Activator (I could not find any link for this one so it's either discontinued or a really rare hair product, I have no idea)

The great thing about all of these products is that they aren't animal tested at all which is always good and they have plenty of natural ingredients in every single one of them.

Thanks for reading,

Sam xx