I went shopping

After during and after exams I went slightly crazy and brought a lot as a 'little' pick me up!

This post will likely be in a couple of parts, as I have some clothing items and a couple more packages to arrive :)

(Please excuse the cats behind... she would not move haha)

Kerastase Resistance Ciment Thermique - £15.12 

Recently I have done a bit of hair modelling which has really got me into hair care, it is a reconstructing milk for the ends of your hair. There is a separate review coming.

Kereastase Elixir Ultime - £29.35

I brought this hair oil souly for the smell, despite the fact that it has been named the best hair oil on the market I am just going to focus on the smell. Lingering in your hairs for days it could easily double as your perfume. Especially if you use the shampoo as well as. Yet again there is a separate review coming.

Gernier Ambre Soaire Resisto Kids 50+ - £7

This was a mistake purchase. I'm going away towards the end of July to Portugal so I'm in the full swing of holiday purchases. My go to sun protectant is the P20 brand however it can be pretty pricey. I has seen that Garnier also a clear like oil (rubbish description there) and wanted to try this as a cheaper option. This is just a water lotion though which I personally hate as it smells and leaves a stickiness to the skin. I think I will just use this on my legs.

Benzac AC 2.5% - £21

This is my go to Benzoyl Peroxide product that I will forever repurchase. I use it nightly and it keeps most of my skin problems at bay. Panoxyl was my previous treatment that I would use but it is currently unavailable within the UK at least. I have to purchase this from an Australian seller but I really could not go without it.

OPI's Care To Danse? - £7 is a beautiful sheer lilac for the nails barley showing and giving a milky look it is understated yet still stunning. The colour is from the NYC City Ballet Collection.

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The girl who does my hair is an eyelash girl, you will never see her without them! They look gorgeous! After spending many hours with her the past couple of weeks I thought I'd give eyelashes ago! I had a couple of previous pairs that I'd wear on nights out but nothing major. I decided to purchases these two packs of 10 for around £2 each so I could fiddle around with them. Although I haven't become an eyelash girl the eyelashes were both of really good quality!

Lash fix - £2?

Along with the eyelashes I brought glue, although I had teeny bottles which had come with previous eyelashes I had heard many good things about lashfix, many comparing it to due. The glue dries clear however I found it weird. The glue never dried and remained somewhat tacky. Not wet but tacky. I would describe this as a bad thing, it was not what I was expecting from the product.

Clarins Instant Light Lip Peferctor 01 - £13.50

I have spoken about this a million and one times, I can't get enough of it! briefly it is a lip gloss that doubles as a balm/conditioner. Simply brilliant.

Hair tools Waved Grips £8

Head Jog Meta Klipz £4

These are boring but essentials, I purchased them from my local beauty wholesalers

Lastly is this Lancome Eyeshadow Palette, I purchased it from  CCO type store for around £5.

It's not the best and the only colour I can see myself personally using is the brown 'Madison Avenue'

Pigmentation isn't great neither is the packaging. If this is a refection of Lancomes eye shadows I will not be purchasing any more in future.

That;s it for this post. As i mentioned I have a couple of clothing bits I'm dying to show you and an order from Fragrance Direct. 

While on my spending frenzy I have also brought myself a UV Gel, Acrylic and Shellac set which I am considering writing a post on. 

Alanya xxxx

Dainty Doll Review.

Dainty Doll is Nicola Roberts makeup line from Girls Aloud. Aimed at those with paler skin tones like herself I felt that it was a very over looked line and struggled to find blogs reviewing the products. Hence why I purchased 5 products to give a brief overview and summary of the collection. 

  

Before I get into things here's a stock list

- LookFantastic

- FeelUnique

- Everything For Redheads

 The first product retails around the £13 mark. This blush is beautiful. I usually prefer a matte blush and then add a highlight, however not in this case.

It is so finely milled and smooth to apply, the pigmentation is also amazing and the tiniest amount goes a very long way. I have the colour 002 My Girl. This particular shade has a blue undertone which looks great on my skin tone. 

In addition a reoccurring trend through the Dainty Doll collection is the packing and is comparable to MAC in quality. Packaged sleekly in strong matte black plastic. 

The blush comes with a mirror and contains a generous 7g of product.

The next product is an eye shadow base. The colour is 001 however it is the only one offered in the collection. I was a bit scared when I first saw the colour and applied the rather chalky cream to my lids however it's come out a winner. The formulation is designed to intensify the colour of your eye shadow and it does this well as well as keeping it crease free and in place. You can expect to pay around £10 for this product. 

Packing wise it's still lovely although I would love it to have a mirror.

The second eye product is a shadow in  002 Treat her like a lady.

Although this is a neutral shade I have never seen another quite like it. My best attempt at describing it is a neutral toned stone with a light silver shimmer and a slight purple undertone. Much like the powder blush it is very finely milled being extremely smooth. The pigmentation of the shadow isn't fantastic falling into an average category. I have been wearing this shadow every day for the past week which is a statement considering eye shadow generally only hits my lids about once a month.

Yet another outstanding product, this lip stick is in the colour 006 Baby Love. I was expecting to hate this, I have yet to find a nude that doesn't make me look dead.

Not only is the formulation and packaging which is metal perfection but the colour is just divine, I can't put my finger on why but it's gorgeous, if you struggle to find a decent nude lipstick I would recommend this and for £12 it's 100% worth it.

Wonderbalm is the most expensive products in the Dainty Doll range at £21.50. It essentially is a balm which can be used anywhere to give a deep moisturisation. yet again a thumbs up for the packaging and you also get a huge 19g with this which is a lot more than I was expecting. So far I have been using this on my lips, elbows, cuticles and in the ends of my hair. All of which it's done a great job of replenishing. As you cans see from the photo below, it's pink with a slight gold shimmer however this does not transfer when used and is clear. Nicola Roberts recommends using this as a highlight on the cheeks, I would not dare but it would work perfectly for someone with dry skin.

From left to right - Eyeshadow without the eye shadow base, eye shadow on top of the eye shadow base, blush.

 From left to right - Eye shadow base, blush.

From left to right - lip stick, wonder balm.

I cannot recommend Dainty Doll products enough, and I'm unsure as to why they are not spoken about more in the beauty community as they are truly fantastic! The packaging is spot on and the colours in the range are spot on, although limited. Despite the line being targeted at those with a paler skin tone these products will work with any skin tone. The range also offers cream blushers, eyeliners, mascara, lip glosses, foundations and powders. Although the price point is reasonably high I think the quality of the products reflect this and they can also be found on sites such as fragrance direct and eBay for huge reductions. Furthermore the range does not test on animals and boats all the products containing antioxidants, vitamins and moisturising qualities!

All products have earned them self a respectful place in my every day makeup bag for the time being :) 

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New things

I think I'm deserving of a pat on the back, and managed to keep the money spent on makeup to a minimum the past month... woohoo.
Despite that however I  have brought some, oopsy.

I recently discovered and outlet makeup store near where I live and popped in for a little look, and found some real gems. The first brand that drew my attention was the Maybelline MNY, I had never seen this diffusion line from Maybelline before, from it picked up 3 eye shadows, in the shades 537, 149A and 209 2 shimmer one matte and all look perfectly mused when use together on the lid. There is not much else to say they were £1.50 and pigmentation/staying power is average. Also I picked out a lip gloss which I'm hoping they still have in stock when I go back so I can stock up. It's a violety purple colour and applies clear with an incandescent lilac shimmer.

The shops lash product selection was amazing and i cam away with three...
-Maybellines Great Lash, everyone and their aunt has this so I figured I'd try it. It's not brilliant but I don't hate it.
- L'Oreals lash serum, which i believe is discontinued. I cam currently testing this product for a whole post of it's own but a thumbs up so far :)
- L'oreal Telescopic Explosion Mascara (picture of the wand below) This is undoubtedly the gem find for me and I need to get back ups urgently. I like long fanned lashes and nothing does it better than this, except benefits bad gal haha. I'm also not the greatest fan of water mascaras and usually like a mascara best when it's a dry as anything. Although this mascara is wet it gives the effect that a dry mascara does which I loooove.

In addition I treated myself to a maybelline dream bouncy blush, I have the shade 30 candy coral. I am on the fence with this and cannot make up my mind if I love or hate it. I am considering getting a colour which is more 'me' to see if that will help me make up my very indecisive mind!

I'm tagging on a mini favourites to the end of this post and here they are!

- MAC Omega. I was fed up of mixing many different browns together to get a reasonably ashy brown colour for my brows, so while storming around duty free at Gatwick I grabbed MAC omega which is doing perfectly at filling in a defining while still looking natural.

Keeping on the MAC theme I did a swap with a friend and a press pigment came my way. It's the colour flicker and is not for everyone! It's extremely glittery and the best way to describe is is the way Eleanor did in my primary ballet class as 'fairy glitter' it gets everywhere and using this without a sticky base underneath will leave you as a glittery mess. 

Jumping back to the lower end spectrum of makeup is MUA's undress your skin shimmer highlighter. I've been dying to get my hand on this since it's release but only manged to find cracked ones in the shop *sigh

Yet again for MUA the price point is right on at £3.

The product is a pink toned power with a large blue undertone which is perfect for my skin tone. It is not an obvious high light and I have also been using it as a eye shadow as well which is equally as beautiful. 

That rounds things up for today's post, Alanya xxxx