I have a relative coming soon from the USA and she wants to know if I want anything brought over. So what are must have American products that I should put on my wishlist? So far all I want is Covergirl Lashblast mascara.
Thanks for your help:)
PS I am doing this from my iPhone. I hope it works ok;)
Monday, 26 July 2010
Thursday, 22 July 2010
Weirdness at the Dentist
Yestereday I went to the dentist for my regular check up. I also got the usual scale and polish which is a horrible experience but unfortunately totally necessary. I just hate the noise of all those machines!!
Anyway, when the dentist put the cream/paste on my front teeth for the polishing part of the treatment I smelled a very familiar smell. After a couple of seconds of pondering where I had smelled this smell before it clicked! It smelled exactly the same as my Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. How weird is that? I found it quite a comforting smell, once I had recognised it and it made the last few minutes of treatment more pleasant:)
Anyway, when the dentist put the cream/paste on my front teeth for the polishing part of the treatment I smelled a very familiar smell. After a couple of seconds of pondering where I had smelled this smell before it clicked! It smelled exactly the same as my Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream. How weird is that? I found it quite a comforting smell, once I had recognised it and it made the last few minutes of treatment more pleasant:)
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
Short Nails Are The Way Forward
Yesterday I took the head staggers and cut all my nails short.
Not so long ago I used to do this religiously whenever I broke a nail but not so much lately and I think my nails were suffering because of it. They were splitting and I was getting tired of it. So now I'm sporting 2 hands of short nails and I'm loving it.
I love that feeling you get when you initially cut your nails short that something is missing:)
My top 10 reasons for having short nails are:
1. Much easier access to little pots of lip balm etc
2. Much easier to type on a keyboard
3. Much easier to use my iPhone
4. Less nail polish required to paint nails so also money saving
5. Less likely to scratch my kids accidentally
6. Less likely to break a nail
7. Much easier to open tins with ring pulls (beans, coke etc)
8. Much easier to apply cream eye products to my eyes (my nose always gets in the way of long nails lol)
9. Much more neat and tidy for work
10. Less chance of scratcing myself accidentally when applying moisturiser etc
What are your reasons for liking short nails, or long nails if you don't like short nails;)
Not so long ago I used to do this religiously whenever I broke a nail but not so much lately and I think my nails were suffering because of it. They were splitting and I was getting tired of it. So now I'm sporting 2 hands of short nails and I'm loving it.
I love that feeling you get when you initially cut your nails short that something is missing:)
My top 10 reasons for having short nails are:
1. Much easier access to little pots of lip balm etc
2. Much easier to type on a keyboard
3. Much easier to use my iPhone
4. Less nail polish required to paint nails so also money saving
5. Less likely to scratch my kids accidentally
6. Less likely to break a nail
7. Much easier to open tins with ring pulls (beans, coke etc)
8. Much easier to apply cream eye products to my eyes (my nose always gets in the way of long nails lol)
9. Much more neat and tidy for work
10. Less chance of scratcing myself accidentally when applying moisturiser etc
What are your reasons for liking short nails, or long nails if you don't like short nails;)
Monday, 28 June 2010
Hair of the Day - Beach Waves
Today I decided to go for a slightly more wavy look than what I normally achieve with my hair from just scrunching alone.
I washed my hair in Umberto Giannini Curl Friends Keep Calm Shampoo and conditioner. I then used my usual John Freida Frizz Ease Curl Perfector spray, combed it through and then turned my head upside down and scrunched. I left it to dry naturally and when it was completely dry I used my conical wand to add some waves to the top layers of hair, then turned my head upside down again and used it in the underneath layers. I then used two kirby grips to pin back the fringe section of hair and voila!
This is the finished look and I was quite pleased with it:)
I'm not sure of the quality of the photo though. I took it with my new iPhone and I used the function that allows you to take the picture with the screen facing you so that you can see what you are photographing (great for taking pics of yourself). However, I don't think the quality this way is the same as the quality I would get if I used it the normal way.
What way did you wear your hair today?
I washed my hair in Umberto Giannini Curl Friends Keep Calm Shampoo and conditioner. I then used my usual John Freida Frizz Ease Curl Perfector spray, combed it through and then turned my head upside down and scrunched. I left it to dry naturally and when it was completely dry I used my conical wand to add some waves to the top layers of hair, then turned my head upside down again and used it in the underneath layers. I then used two kirby grips to pin back the fringe section of hair and voila!
This is the finished look and I was quite pleased with it:)
I'm not sure of the quality of the photo though. I took it with my new iPhone and I used the function that allows you to take the picture with the screen facing you so that you can see what you are photographing (great for taking pics of yourself). However, I don't think the quality this way is the same as the quality I would get if I used it the normal way.
What way did you wear your hair today?
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Easy Daily Exfoliation
Now that summer has made an appearance in the UK it's time to think about getting your skin in tip top condition so that you can show more of it than normal. Strappy vests, shorts, skirts now form the dress code for summer and the jeans, long sleeved tops and boots have been banished to the back of the wardrobe, if only for a little while:)
So here is my top tip for easy daily exfoliation and you won't even know that you are doing it. It requires no extra effort whatsover.
First of all you need one of these:
A good old faithful scruncie for the shower. Now, maybe you already use one of these and therefore don't need to be converted. If you haven't used one then now is the time to get one. Squirt some of your shower gel on to one of these babies and it will lather up good and proper. Give yourself a good allover scrub with this and it will gently exfoliate at the same time as washing you. As an added bonus your shower gel will last a much longer time, saving you ££££s.
Step 2 invloves ditching your beautiful tumble dried soft and fluffy towels for scratchy towels that have been line dried. Rougher towels will help to exfoliate your skin as you dry yourself.
So now you can exfoliate without even knowing you're doing it and say hello to smooth skin:)
So here is my top tip for easy daily exfoliation and you won't even know that you are doing it. It requires no extra effort whatsover.
First of all you need one of these:
A good old faithful scruncie for the shower. Now, maybe you already use one of these and therefore don't need to be converted. If you haven't used one then now is the time to get one. Squirt some of your shower gel on to one of these babies and it will lather up good and proper. Give yourself a good allover scrub with this and it will gently exfoliate at the same time as washing you. As an added bonus your shower gel will last a much longer time, saving you ££££s.
Step 2 invloves ditching your beautiful tumble dried soft and fluffy towels for scratchy towels that have been line dried. Rougher towels will help to exfoliate your skin as you dry yourself.
So now you can exfoliate without even knowing you're doing it and say hello to smooth skin:)
Sunday, 13 June 2010
Embrace the Pale
I was at an outdoor concert last week and the Beauty Therapist in me was genuinely shocked at the sheer number of girls with very badly applied fake tan. Everywhere I looked all I saw was streaky orange body parts. Not really a good look;0
Check out here for some celebrity tan disasters.
These celebrity disasters are nowhere near as disasterous as the tanning disasters I saw. At least the celebs have the main body of their tan well applied (even if they did forget their hands or legs lol). The girls I saw were simply a mass of orange streaks.
There were many other girls there who had embraced the pale and gone as their natural selves. They still wore the short skirts/shorts/skimpy tops but they looked a million times better than their orange counterparts.
The moral of this story is if you can't apply a fake tan well then don't;0
Check out here for some celebrity tan disasters.
These celebrity disasters are nowhere near as disasterous as the tanning disasters I saw. At least the celebs have the main body of their tan well applied (even if they did forget their hands or legs lol). The girls I saw were simply a mass of orange streaks.
There were many other girls there who had embraced the pale and gone as their natural selves. They still wore the short skirts/shorts/skimpy tops but they looked a million times better than their orange counterparts.
The moral of this story is if you can't apply a fake tan well then don't;0
Friday, 11 June 2010
Instyle Freebie
Lots of UK magazines are giving away great stuff with their July issues (see previous post on free Benefit makeup with Glamour).
Today I picked up July's Instyle issue and bagged myself (literally) a free shopping bag. The bag is by Moschino and is gorgeous. I can just picture myself with this bag;)
What freebies have you had lately?
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