First Impressions: T-Zone Rapid Action Spot Zapping Gel

Recently I haven't been having bad skin days, I've been having bad skin weeks! For the past few weeks, infact most of February, I've been hating on my skin. My T-zone in particular has been breakout central, and everything that usually works in clearing them up hasn't been doing the best of jobs. I thought they were invincible, until my Mum went shopping and bought back a little gem of a product I thought I would talk about today...

 

The Body Shop Loyalty Card and Birthday Gift

 

My purse is brimming with them, loyalty cards galore, but how many of them do I actually use? Are they any good? Well today, I thought I'd talk about The Body Shop's Love Your Body Card.

What's good about it? What's bad about it? Is it something I'd recommend?

 

My 100 Things | #6 Visit a Spa

 

A bit of girly pampering time is something we all need every once in a while. I decided I'd put the DIY face mask to one side, and stop the bath tap, and go to a real life actual spa, where you are actually real life pampered. Well, I say I decided to go but actually I just added it to my list with the intention of getting around to it at some point this year. My bezzie mate Robyn may have seen this and took inspiration for my birthday present, or she may have just wanted to spoil herself and thought my birthday would be the perfect opportunity, anyway, this weekend we went to a Spa...

 

Also I'll just add, if you're looking forward to seeing some very relaxing looking photos and pictures of us covered in clay face masks you'll be very disappointed. It was just one of those zen kind of places, where I couldn't really get any opportunity to take a picture, but I will try to explain it the best I can. You might need a good imagination....

The Budget Boots Vitamin E Eye Cream

It's a part of the skincare saga I always used to avoid. Why do I need to use an eye cream when I can just slop on the all over face cream and save myself extra effort and time. Well whilst I was in Boots, a good four or five months ago, I decided I'd pick up an eye cream, and give it a try. I didn't want to spend a fortune, and it was a spur of the moment purchase, but was it worth it?

 

Soap and Glory Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Shine Lacquer

My Auntie bought me a few Soap and Glory Products for my Birthday and included was the Soap and Glory Sexy Mother Pucker Lip Shine Lacquer in Charm Offensive. Having been a massive fan of the Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Stick for quite some time I was excited to try another S&G product. I'd also not tried a lip lacquer before, and wasn't sure how I'd get on with it. Anyway, here is what I thought...

 

The 'Get to Know Me' Tag

 

 

 

 

I've had my blog a few months now, and this tag has been on my to do list for quite some time. It's not all the typical kind of questions, and these are the types of posts I enjoy reading on blogs I discover, so I thought  I'd share the tag with you and you could get to know some different sort of things about me...

My 100 Things | #33 Go for Afternoon Tea

 

This is something I have been really looking forward to. I'm a granny, hidden in a nineteen year olds body, and the thought of spending an afternoon drinking coffee and eating cake just fills me with excitement. I'd been trying to come up with something a bit different to do for my birthday, and after drawing a blank for quite a while, I thought I'd take to my '100 things' list to find some inspiration. I stumbled across #33 Go for Afternoon Tea, and thought this would be the perfect opportunity to do it. I looked around a booked an afternoon out. Here's what happened...

Recipe: Valentines Cupcakes

 

Who doesn't love a good cupcake? Well, Valentines Day is the perfect excuse to heat the oven up and dust off the old muffin tray. These would make an ideal gift or a little treat for yourself - who says you need to have someone to share them with!

First Impressions: Benefit Roller Lash Mascara

Benefit's new releases are always hotly anticipated and the brand stir the beauty scene everytime they put something new on the shelves. This time, it's the turn of the new 'Roller Lash' Mascara to take the market by storm. In this month's issue of Elle Magazine, Benefit have been giving away Mini Roller Lash Mascara's ahead of it's launch in March. I picked up a copy, to see if this product deserves the hype like the rest of them, and thought I'd give you my first impressions. Here is what I think of it...

18 things I've learnt in my 18th year!

I turn 19 tomorrow (woo yeah!) and I thought I would take a look back at the past year and come up with 18 things I've learnt in my 18th year of existence.

Removing that Stubborn Glitter Nail Varnish!

 

We've all been there, scrubbing away at our nails for hours on end, and vowing never to touch the glitter pot ever again. But no matter how hard it is to remove, something makes me go back for more, and the festive season may well and truly be over (where has February appeared from?!) but I'm not prepared to put the glitter to the back of the draw yet. So here is what I do to remove that pesky stubborn glitter in a relatively pain free manor...

My 100 Things | #9 Make Meringue

 

Earlier on today, I posted the Recipe I had created for a Berry Pavlova. As an extra little bonus post, I thought I'd explain how I got around to making the meringue in the first place...

Recipe: Berry Pavlova

I've never made Meringue before so I browsed the internet and my cookery books to find some inspiration. I've tried it out and adapted a couple of Recipes. I took a lot of inspiration from Ruby Tandoh Crumb book, that I reviewed on Tuesday, and adapted it too make it even sweeter for my sweet tooth! Finally, after a couple of experiments, I came up with this Recipe, for a deliciously sweet Pavlova..