PAYDAY HAUL

I picked up a few beauty bits this payday, based on things I needed and things I wanted to try. I say that purely as a justification, seeing as I really needed none of these things, but I am quite excited to try all them!

Lush Ocean Salt Face and Body Scrub

I have seen great reviews on this one and I tried a sample of it a little while back and I really liked it, so I'm excited to try the real thing. I got the small pot seeing as it was my first purchase and honestly where I am trying to make my money last, this was a very naughty purchase!

Sensodyne True White Toothpaste
Now this is a very expensive toothpaste, and I know there's plenty of great toothpastes at much lower prices, but I have such a problem with sensitivity and every toothpaste I use doesn't really get rid of stains and it seriously looks like I don't brush my teeth(!) so I decided to pick this one up on an offer in boots, and I really hope it does the trick or that was just money down the drain!

Lush No Drought Dry Shampoo
I really don't know why I bought this, dry shampoo does absolutely nothing for me, but I only wash my hair once a week out of convenience and it's so much healthier for my hair, but I find that a day or two before I wash it, it does start to get clumpy from the oils, so I thought I'd pick this up and see if it works - probably won't. Why did I buy this??

Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Eyeliner
This is just a repurchase, after I lost the lid of my last one whilst I was experimenting one night, and by the morning it had completely dried up. I really like this eyeliner; my favourite is the L'Oreal Perfect Slim So Couture, but I can't find it anywhere and I'm starting to think it's been discontinued? So I tried the regular Perfect Slim but I find it so hard to use, the nib is so dry and it drags on my skin, making my eyeliner really dodgy looking(!) but this eyeliner is so easy to work with that I think it's become my new favourite! 

Have you tried any of these products? Let me know!

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TREND ALERT: Denim Skirts

It seems like every shop is coming out with button down denim skirts like its no tomorrow, and normally I don't give in to trends just because I feel like they won't last very long in my wardrobe, and quite frankly they just don't suit me. But I just fell in love with this skirt; this one is from Topshop but honestly it's everywhere. 

I find this skirt ridiculously easy to style, and it's become a staple as much as my jeans, I can't believe I've never had a denim skirt in my wardrobe before. There's so many different styles to choose from right now, you've got mini a-line skirts, midi button down skirts, and even circle skirts. No matter what your style is you'll find a skirt to suit you!

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#eyebrowsonfleek

I have been way ahead of the eyebrow game - so much so that I've been making eyebrow contact before eye contact for about 6 years now...but lets be real I haven't had strong eyebrows for very long at all.

I am terrible at plucking my eyebrows, like I suck so badly at it that I get weird patches and I don't understand why? I only pluck from the bottom, not the middle? So I started to get my eyebrows threaded which I love, but I was threading them so frequently that my eyebrows were getting thinner and thinner and thinner; so I'm back to failing at plucking them WHICH MEANS that I need to really heavily draw them on - literally drawing a new shape.

I've used some good products over the years, and I've varied from eyeshadow, wax and pencil and I've found the easiest way for me to fill in my eyebrows is to use a wax or a 'pomade' as it were, but I felt like my Sleek brow kit just faded off of me during the day, and sometimes it just wasn't pigmented enough to create a new shape, so I decided to take the plunge and purchase the infamous Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade (wow what a mouthful). I couldn't quite get the hang of this at first, but the thing that just made me think it was amazing was that I literally had it on for 12 hours and it still looked exactly the same. I bought the brush to go with this, and I think it was such a wise investment because I have nothing like this at all - the angled brush is so thin that its amazing at getting a crisp line and it's quite hard to go wrong with it. I can see that my eyebrow skills are going to be taken to the next level with this product - well, after I get the hang of it of course.

Have any of you tried the Dipbrow Pomade? Next on my list is the Anastasia Brow Wiz - is it worth the purchase?

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