Showing posts with label skincare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skincare. Show all posts

Tuesday, 3 February 2015

L'OREAL micellar water | Review

Helloooo,

Today I'm doing a review on a product that you've probably all heard about. I read review after review on it and eventually gave into the urge and bought it. What do you think it is? 

It's the Micellar Water by L'OREAL Paris. As you can see I haven't used it that much but I've used it enough to love it and review it.

For starters, this is so affordable, I think I paid either three of four pound for it from Sainsburys in the make up section. You can also get it from boots and superdrug, which are pretty obvious places.

I like apply some of the product onto a cotton pad and then wipe it across my face to remove my makeup. For my eyes I like to just hold the cotton pad on my eye lid and let it dissolve my eye makeup which is normally mascara and eyeliner. I never have to scrub my face with this, it's so gentle and quick to use. Also, it's such a good alternative to remove your makeup if you don't have a skincare routine and just use wipes. It's good for them lazy nights as well, when you just can't be bothered to cleanse and moisturize and all of that sometimes time consuming stuff.

I hope you enjoyed this review and I'll be back on Thursday with another post.

Love from,
Chloe xo

Friday, 30 January 2015

January favourites | 2015

Hellooooo,

This is my last post of January and wow it's flown by hasn't it? Here are all the things that I've been loving throughout January, a lot of them I've mentioned in previous posts so you may be familiar with them.

These have been my go to lip products over the space of this whole month. The blistex lip balm is extremely good as it's been keeping my lips nice and smooth, the complete opposite of chapped. This is a huge achievement for my lips as they're normally chapped whether it's winter or summer, hot or cold. The lip colour that I've been using is this no7 lip crayon, I don't know the name of the colour but it's so pretty. The best way to describe it is, your lips but better. You can wear it with a lot of makeup, natural makeup or no makeup. It really feels like it moisturizes my lips rather than drying them out like lip products sometimes do.

I've been using nail envy by OPI for the majority of this month and it's so good. I've done a review on this so if you want to read more about it then you can do. I've been loving this exfoliater by no7. I use it about twice a week and it leaves my skin feeling smooth and clean. I've been trying to cut back on wearing makeup this month, so I've barley worn foundation but the fit me concealer has more than made up for it by brightening the circles under my eyes and covering blemishes.

These three hair products have been my best friends this month. I did a post on my hair are routine if you're interested in reading more about them. I love them so much and I highly recommend them to you.

I've been using this body butter near enough every day of this month. It smells so chocolatey and heavenly, mmm. It's also been making my skin smell nice and feel super soft. 

The fragrance that I've been wearing a lot this month is angel by Victoria's Secret. I've nearly ran out which makes me sad but I'll definitely get another soon. I don't really know how to describe the smell other than very nice and girly.

That's all of my favourites for January, I hope you enjoyed reading. What have you been loving this month,

Love from,
Chloe xo

Sunday, 11 January 2015

My Pamper Night

Helloooo,

Today I thought I'd tell you all about my pamper night routine. I think it's so important to have a pamper night at least once a week where you can just completely relax and shut everything off. I aim to try and do this once or twice a week, depending on how much time I have. Personally, I think it's so therapeutic and a crucial part of my beauty regime.

To start my pamper nights I'll always take my make up off. If you're interested in seeing how I do that then check out my last blogpost where I write all about my skincare routine. If I'm having a pamper night I'll normally always exfoliate my face. It's probably the only time I do it in the week which makes my skin feel extra clean and refreshed.

I then run a bath. I don't know about you but if I'm having a pamper night I can't have a shower, I think it completely defeats the idea of being relaxing. Anyway, who wants to stand up when they can lay down in a comfort of warmth? In the bath I usually put either a bath bomb in or bubble bath. Also, I have to have a glass of water to cool me down otherwise the heat of the bath makes me feel really dizzy. Does anyone else get this?

Its not a pamper night if you don't apply a face mask, who's with me? Depending on how my skins feeling/looking, I'll either choose a clay one or peel off one. This time I used the clay mask. It's a detox mask and oh my, it's so good. It smells amazing as well, like berries.

Whilst I have my face mask on I wash my hair. I'm loving using the Umberto Giannini curl friends at the moment. I won't go into too much detail about it as I'm planning on doing a review but it leaves my hair smelling so nice and feeling super soft.
Once my hairs all washed I use two soap and glory products, clean on me and the scrub of your life. Clean on me is quickly becoming one of my favourites, it's a body wash that smells really good and it's moisturising. The scrub of your life has been making my skin so soft, I can't even put into words how much I highly recommend this product to you.

When I'm all finished in the bath I moisturise. Firstly I use a sweet obsessions body butter, it deeply moisturises my skin and leaves me smelling of chocolate (Which is always a benefit). Then I use heel genius by soap and glory. This product is so underrated, my heels have never felt so soft. Then I use a Nivea hand cream. I use these products on a daily basis and they're working wonders for me. Once I've finished moisturising I normally get changed into comfy pyjamas and fluffy socks.

I then light some candles in my room.
Normally, I'd paint my nails a colour but at the moment I'm trying out the OPI nail strengthener so that's what I painted my nails with. Has anyone else tried his product out?
I then get into bed and either read, listen to music or watch Netflix and YouTube. I decided to watch Netflix because I'm so hooked on Pretty Little Liars at the moment.
That's my pamper night, thank you for reading. 

All my love,
A British Brunette xo

Thursday, 8 January 2015

My skincare routine | Morning & Night


Helloooooo. Today I'm writing about my skincare routine which as I finally think I've found all of the right products for my skin. I used to just take my make up of with a wipe (the horror) and then go to bed thinking that my face was all clean and fresh. How oblivious was I? Now I'm finally seeing all he benefits of a skin care routine and I highly recommend you get one (if you haven't already). Your skin will start to get better especially if you drink water, eat healthy and try not to wear foundation every day.


Both morning and night I wash my face with a Nivea cleanser. I really like it because it's gentle on my skin and I don't feel like I'm covering my face with loads of harsh chemicals that are going to break me out. After I've cleansed I use a garnier gel wash. This just seems to liven up my face and even out my skin tone. At night I use the garnier refreshing toner, this is so so good. The reason why I don't use it twice a day is because I found that it was breaking me out so I completely stopped using it but then my skin went too oily and broke me out. Also, I only use the toner on my t zone.


After I've washed and toned my face I apply the no7 eye serum to my eyelids and under my eyes, after I've rubbed that in I use the no7 eye cream. Before I got these I never realised how much my eyes were lacking in moisture and softness. I used to get quite bad dark circles under my eyes as well but these have been working wonders and sorting that out.


I then use these two no7 products to moisturise my face. In the mornings I use the day cream and at night I use the night cream (obviously).

Below are some products that aren't part of my daily skincare routine but I still use:


I recently picked up the L'oreal Paris micellear water after hearing such good reviews about it, who would like me to review it? Anyway, I've been using this when I've been wearing makeup (face makeup like: foundation, bronzer, powder etc...) as I find that cleansers and face washes don't fully remove makeup and I'm trying to completely stop using face wipes because of the harsh chemicals in them.


Another thing I've been using recently is this eye makeup remover by No7. 


Finally, you've guessed it, it's ANOTHER No7 product. I use this exfoliater once or twice a week as I think it's really important to remove all traces of dry skin and throughly clean your pores. This is such a good product and it's so gentle on my skin which is sometimes quite hard to find with exfoliates. 

So, that's my skincare routine. What's yours?

All my love,
A British Brunette xo
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