Wednesday 20 March 2013

Urban Decay - Oz the Great and Powerful Palette review

So last week my boyfriend very kindly bought me an Urban Decay palette he knew that I had been lusting after. It's the "Oz the Great and Powerful Theodora Palette"



I'm loving all the colours in this palette, which is unusual for me because there's normally one or two that I'm not keen on. The colours are mostly kind of earthy neutral colours.




 The palette also comes with a Super-Saturated High-Gloss lip colour in the shade "Theodora" and a Black 24/7 Glide on Eye Pencil.


Urban Decay always seem to get it spot on and this was a brilliant mash up with Disney. The colours are so pigmented and they go on so so smoothly. I shall be going to a concert at the end of this month and I really want to try a kind of smoky green eye with this palette. Think it would look amazing!!

Tuesday 12 March 2013

Review - Burts Bees - Banana and Beeswax Hand Cream

Hello again my lovely readers, I thought today I would do a quick review on a product I have recently purchased. I'd also like to say that I will always be painfully honest with my reviews, good or bad. OK, with that said... lets crack on shall we?


                                         Burts Bees - Banana and beeswax Hand Cream.



Now I am a fan of Mr Bees, I have had a fair few products from the range and nearly always been impressed. I was most excited when I saw this Hand Cream as I love banana scented products (I'm childish like that.) 

I've been using this product for a few weeks now, I am an avid hand moisturiser, I am constantly trying new products and brands and trying to find a nice one. Dry hands on me or others makes me cringe.



On opening this hand cream you can smell the banana instantly, it's a real yummy banana smell, a little bit like those foam banana sweeties. Yum. The texture is fairly thick, as in, you could turn the jar upside down with the lid off and nothing would come out.


It settles into the skin nicely and leaves a lovely scent and also a kind of film across the skin which I'm guessing is the beeswax, this also acts like a mini barrier. Now, I like that as I get dry hands and they need the extra help, but I'm guessing if you don't like heavy products on your hands then this may not be the best choice for you.



All in all, with it's lovely scent and how it kept my hands soft for ages this product gets an 8/10 from me. The only downside is the price, it costs nearly £8 for 57g.

Well this was a bit long winded wasn't it? I shall try and keep reviews a tad shorter in the future..

Toodles!!

xx


Monday 11 March 2013

Lovely to see you here!

Just a short introductory message to say Hello, and lovely to see you on my blog, also it's very lovely to be here!! This shall be a very random kind of day to day life/beauty kind of blog with maybe a spot of cooking and crazy thrown in! I do hope this is the start of a beautiful blogger/reader relationship... In a none... weird way, of course.

Well, a bit about me? Lets see.. I'm a 31 year old who works in finance (boring.) and as a hairdresser (not so boring.) I have a lovely daughter and a lovely boyfriend. I live in the south east of England. That's about all I can think of to tell you about, So we'll leave it there, shall we?!

Toodle Pip for now!

xx