July Favourites

I do not know where this year is going guys, it seems to have flown by. Another month down and another favourites to be done, lets get down to business!

This month I've been trying out a new moisturiser as I'm running out of my Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturising Lotion, so I thought I'd go back to an old favourite: Simple Kind to Skin Light Moisturiser. This moisturiser has really helped my skin this month and does its job, a definite rekindled love for this!

My next favourite is a replacement for my normal foundation and is better and cheaper! The 123 Perfect CC Cream from Bourjois is fantastic with 3 different colour pigments to counteract 3 colours on your face. I do believe this is also in a foundation form but I've been enjoying this so much I haven't thought of trying it! My shade is 52, and its a perfect match which is half the battle most of the time.

Burt's Bees have always been my favourite lip care range and they recently brought out a new line (I think) which consists of 3 new balms with 3 different purposes - Refreshing, Moisturising and Rejuvenating. All 3 balms have a different flavour, which is what drew me in. The Moisturising balm which contains mango butter was the one I opted for, as I thought it was the nicest smelling and after using it for 2-3 weeks now it is leaving my lips feeling lovely and makes it 10x better when applying lipstick!

Although it seems childish, I bought a Pretty Princess perfume with Belle on it - for obvious reasons including the fact she is the BEST princess! The perfume itself is rose scented and is just a good everyday smell which I've been reaching for - and for £5 who can blame you! (They also do Cinderella, Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty!)

Maybelline Colour Tattoos have been mentioned in the beauty world for a good few months now, and due to the lovely lady which is Essie Button I was convinced to buy the Colour Tattoo in On and On Bronze. This is just a bronze cream eyeshadow base which is lovely all over the lid and blended out into the crease - a look I've been going for for this month.

I would class Soap and Glory to be a luxury for myself so when I buy something from their stand I am very conscious that it has to be of good quality and what I want. The three things I've bought and used this month are two beautiful products which I DO NOT regret buying whatsoever! The Brow Archery in Brownie Points is such a good product, I especially love the felt tip side as I feel it gives me the most natural looking brows. The other item is the Sexy Mother Pucker Gloss Stick in Raplumsel which is a lovely deep plum colour and definitely a great find. Another  item from Soap and Glory this month is the Solar Powder bronzer which is a perfect overall bronze colour, which is stubble enough to not make you orange but show that you're tanned.

The two mascaras featured are both repurchases of my two all time favourite mascaras! They're Real by Benefit has been in my makeup bag for the past 7 month and when it ran out I was gutted, so I was out the same day to purchase another. I honestly love this mascara so much it just does wonders for my short and sparse eyelashes! And it's the same for the L'oreal Volume Million Lashes, it manages to make my eyes wider and my lashes unreal! Praise to them both.

As for my random favourites this month, I have loved Orange Is The New Black - and now I have nothing else to watch as I managed to watch the full 2 seasons in 5 days. My favourite app this month is Instagram, its good to nosey on people haha and my favourite book/film has been Gone by Michael Grant and The Fault in Our Stars film!

Thank You

Charl xx

A Litte Update..

Hello Everyone. Its been a while to say the least! All I can do is apologise for not posting anything for ages, but hopefully during summer this will be easier as I will have more time. The only real few reasons I haven't been uploading was due to my gcses', not knowing what to post about and generally not having the time to sit down and concentrate for a few hours. I hope you understand this but now, I'm back for the long run and can begin to start posting things again!

Thank you xxx

Boots Haul ♡

As many of you know, I'm from the UK so we don't have many places that sell make-up that's a decent price so the main place I shop for my make-up is Boots which is a drugstore. Over the past month, Boots have had 3 for 2 offers on so I obviously took advantage of that and here we are! So I thought I'd share my purchases with you.

The first thing I bought this month was the Real Techniques take on the beauty blender. I just needed something that quickly blended foundation and did a good job. So I bought it and so far its worth the £5.99 I paid!

On the same trip, I bought the Rimmel London Scandal Eyes waterproof eyeliner as I needed an eyeliner that would line my top lashes and stay all day as I find my eyes are quite sensitive and seem to water a lot. So for £3.99 I thought I'd try it out - so far so good!

 Also on that trip, I bought the Maybelline BROWdrama mascara to keep my brows in place as they seem to go all over everyday! Its a real pain but this seems to have kept them in the same place. However the tint in this mascara really isn't a good colour match but for £4.99 I can't complain.

On a separate trip, I bought the rest of the makeup! So, I'll start with foundation. The foundation I bought this week is a new purchase as I just can't seem to find a drugstore foundation that does my skin any good so I thought I'd try out the Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation and I'm in 'Nude'. This foundation is £8.99 and I've heard so many people talk about it in the past few weeks so I thought I'd try it out for myself!
I also bought the Rimmel London Lash Accelerator Endless Mascara as I've been watching velvetgh0st on youtube a lot and she seems to love it so I thought I'd see what its like.
The Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer is just a make-up staple for me, I haven't had a week without it for at least a year! So if you're looking for a cheap, high coverage concealer this is the one for you!
Soap & Glory's Supercat eyeliner is always one that is in the limelight and I can now understand why! The actual felt tip is great and gives a lovely precise, long lasting line. The only complaint I have about it is the smell.. its awful!
The Maybelline Colour Tattoo Eyeshadow Paint pots are something I've always wanted to try but never thought of buying when I had the chance, so I went and bought my first ever paint pot in Permanent Taupe which is such a lovely colour for my eyes as it brings out the red flecks in them.
Another mascara I bought was the Thick & Fast mascara by Soap & Glory, so far I've used it twice and its really let me down. The formula and brush just aren't great and I find even just from one coat they make my eyelashes look spidery!
Going onto lipsticks.. The first lipstick I bought was a Revlon Lip Butter in Candy Apple. This colour is a very sheer red which can be built up and that why I love it so much! EssieButton was talking about this in one of her lipstick videos and I've been meaning to buy it ever since, and I can see why she loves it too.
My final product that I've bought was the L'Oreal Colour Riche Lipstick in Eva's Nude. This again was talked about by velvetgh0st and used in one of her tutorials and the lipstick on her looked lovely. And as we have the same colour toned skin, I thought it would look good on me too - I haven't tried it yet though!

(just a little disclaimer I have bought all of the products mentioned above with my own money and boots points)

Hope you liked this post and sorry I've not put up one in a while, I've just been stressed with revision and exams coming up ~ Charlotte xx