Finally, I am back with my most recent favourites from the
month of June.
I will dive straight in with my beauty favourites, starting
with the Lush Tea Tree Water toner. Now this bad boy has rapidly become
my go to hydrating toner for both morning and night and I shall tell you why.
This handy spray bottle not only hydrates but soothes and calms the skin thanks
to the tea tree water, which is a natural antibacterial, it also contains grapefruit water which so refreshing
making this perfect for morning and mid-day pick-me ups. This stuff has helped
my skin get the boost of moisture and also kept any breakouts in check by
reducing the redness and basically stopped them from being painful.
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| Lush-£7.50 for 250g |
My go to June base was the Garnier Miracle Skin cream.
Now this purchase was enabled by two things, firstly, Anna from viviannadoesmakeup,
who influences me on multiple purchases and secondly, my vow to start wearing
lighter makeup for summer; bases, blush, lipstick, the lot. This cream starts
out as a white cream and once rubbed into skin, it changes and adapts to your
skin colour. I find with this if not blended properly or if my application is
slightly overenthusiastic, I can look a tad orange especially around my
chin/upper lip area. But the best way I have found to apply this is a bit at a
time with my fingers and then blending it in with my real techniques buffing
brush. Once I have done my whole face, I continue with the rest of my makeup
(usually eyebrows/eyeshadow) and I find that parts of the base continue to
darken and need further buffing, but this is pretty easy to do and doesn’t take
too long. But saying that it blends in amazingly, gives a lovely light
coverage, a luminous healthy finish, protects with SPF 20 and hydrates your
skin like no other base I have ever used. My skin feels amazing and plumped
when I’m wearing it and after I have taken it off. Even with its flaws I love
it.
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| the miracle cream before and after. Boots-£12.99 (on sale for £8.99 now!) |
Two newly purchased products are two very different topshop highlighters
that I love for different reasons. First, the Glow cream highlighter in the
shade Polished, which is a fabulous pink/gold/champagne colour, is so light
and easy to blend, no glitter just shimmer the results are a perfectly dewy
complexion, love at first use. The other is a Baked highlighter in the shade
Sunbeam, this is my preferred highlighter for evening wear as it is so
highly pigmented you can really get quite a dramatic look. It is pure gold in
colour so might not suit every skin tone, but it is a really treat if you can
use it!
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| on my hand: Sunbeam £10 on L and Polished £9 on the R |
One of the highlights of this month was going to the Warner
Bros Studio Tour: The Making of Harry Potter in Watford, I got these
tickets as a Christmas present but this has been the only time I could go. As a
self-proclaimed extreme Harry Potter fan, this was a dream come true and the
tour was actually fantastic, recommend it to anyone who can afford go. And if I
don’t stop here I will continue to ramble about Harry Potter and my Hogwarts
letter that obviously was lost by an owl.
Continuing on this HP theme to my book favourites for the
month, picked up from the Harry Potter tour was ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where
to Find Them’ by Newt Scamander aka JK Rowling. If you are a Harry Potter
fan (instantly my friend), buy it, devour it and revel in the magic and extra
knowledge you have gained. The second book is pretty well known and has been
highly praised from so many people so I will jump on the bandwagon too, of
course it’s ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ by John Green. I bawled my eyes out,
no exaggeration, I was so invested and enthralled by this book I read it in a
day and still cannot stop thinking about, beautifully written just amazing.
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| Amazon- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them £4.99 and TFIOS £7.99 |
And last but not least my favourite TV watches of the month,
there are quite a few that I had been hoarding to watch after my exams but
these were my favourites. First is ‘Faking It’ season 1, a new MTV
series with such an original story, brilliantly acted out, what more could you
ask for? It is about two best friends, Karma and Amy, who pretend to be a
couple (Karmy) to attain popularity in their very diverse and accepting school
(yay), and the episodes basically follow the turmoil that ensues, great cast,
very witty, keep an eye out for the little sly direct ‘digs’ they have snuck in
at various famous things such as Glee or Google, very entertaining. If you watch
this series you also have to watch the regular weekly recaps, ‘Faking It Friday’, by Sarah and Adrianna of the Unsolicited Project YouTube
channel aka the Gay Women’s channel, they are so hilarious, they even got a mention
from the actress who plays Karma during a webchat. Please go subscribe because
they are so funny and deserve some love! Next was the eagerly awaited ‘Orange
is the New Black’ season 2, I will not bang on about as it seems to be
everywhere at the moment. I binged watched it in two/three days like the rest
of the world and season 1, everyone needs to see it, end of story.
And that’s it, I promise more posts will start appearing
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