Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Nourishing Lip Balm

Today I am going to be talking about this lovely little pot of joy right here. I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted (10 weeks and 3 days but who’s counting?) I’ve just been busy with things. So on to this cream, I say cream but its more of a gel formula. I bought this on a day where my lips were so dry they were sore and hurting. After buying various lip balms that promised my dry lips some moisture I went and googled some suggestions and this came up. Since that day I have not regretted buying this one bit. This literally made my lips go back to not only normal but filled with moisture and made them soft. I even got a comment on it from my cousin asking why my lips were soft ;). This is £20 from Boots, yes it is expensive for a lip balm but honestly it literally lasts forever I bought it months back and I still barely have gone through it. I use it every night before bed so that my lips are moisturised for my lipstick in the morning :P.

Anyway hope you enjoyed this quick post and I have helped you with your lip worries!

Behind The Blog… featuring Amina from New Beauty Addict

The lovely Karen over at confetti and curves has let me feature in her Behind The Blog. I loved being part of it and enjoyed every second! If you want to read it here you go, it just gives you more of an insight to who I am 🙂

Happy Tuesday Chums…

Yes girls, Behind The Blog is finally back *woo hoo* Have you missed it? I sure have, especially considering my schedule last week was shot to pieces and half-hoopla’d (whatever that translates too) with St Paddy’s day knocking me out of sync amongst a mountain of other writing projects *dramatic eye-roll*

As always, if you’re new to Confetti & Curves (friendly wave) and not entirely sure what this virtual shenanigans is all about *click here* to bring yourself up to speed – you may even find yourself getting involved. Why the heck not?!

So today’s glamorous gal is Amina from New Beauty Addict. If you haven’t already checked out her lovely little slice of the interweb then do pop over to say hi, she’s a super sweet girl who’s slowly but surely expanding her make-up collection via checking out other bloggers beauty regimes and recommendations…  confirmation that all those posts each…

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Where are you?

Hi,

I’m back with a post after I think a month or so? Wow that’s a while isn’t it? I’m currently enrolled on a part time university course which involves completing placements at organisations to get an experience of the way they work. Now me being me and wanting to get my hours over and done with went with not one but two placements yay -_- So i’m busy in there every monday to friday and weekends I just about get time to relax with these deadlines looming over me. So I thought I’d just write a quick post (quick meaning really quick as my laptop battery is about to go any second now and the charger just seems too far away for my liking :P). I am going to try and get a schedule sorted within the upcoming weeks so I can review some new stuff I have been trying out one of them being Elizabeth Arden Intensive Lip Repair Balm as I have been suffering from horrible chapped lips for the last week or so :(. I decided to take the plunge and buy this as I had bought Baby Lips by Maybelline and they did nothing to help my lips instead making them feel even worse. I will be back I have not gone anyway and I will continue to spam you with my posts until you all get fed up of me :P.

I just wanted to give you a quick update on my life and the reason for lack of posts. I hope everyone has a good weekend and even better Easter break!

GOLD TONE DIAMANTE CHAIN FINGER TOP RING

Just bought this little gem for £4! A great buy for ones birthday or just to wear out on an occasion :). The price for this little beauty is just £4! Now that is a bargain, so where do you buy this from I hear you ask? RIGHT HERE just click on that link and it’ll take you to the page 🙂

Guerlain Insolence

I’m back with a perfume post today. I normally write about make up so thought I’d bring something new to the blog and since I’ve been loving this smell since teenage years I thought I’d let you all know about this beauty! I was introduced to this fragrance by my cousin and after a couple of years I stumbled across it again in The Fragrance Shop and bought it for just £22.00 now that is a bargain! ;).

“Fruity Floral Surprising, audacious, feminine A sensual philter, Insolence Eau de Parfum takes you straight to the heart of the perfume. This fruity floral fragrance blends carnal notes of violet with the smooth luxury of iris to form a sulfurous and voluptuous duo.“

Above is what Guerlain have said about this fragrance and it just about sums it up right. Seriously all you need is one spray of this on your clothes and it will literally last all day and night, I’m not even joking. The smell is quite strong and fruity? I think if I’m describing it right. The smell is not for everyone I love the smell whereas my auntie hates it haha she finds it too much for her but hey it’s difference of opinion :P.  I love the fact that less is more with this as you do not want to go overboard with spraying this as then you will be literally drowned in the smell and cause yourself and others to have a headache and that is not needed!

I’m curious how many of you lot have tried this fragrance and if you have what do you think of it?

What other fragrances do you lot love? Let me know in the comments below!

Concealer Suggestions?

Hey guys,

I bet you’ve all been wondering where I’ve been 😛 hmm? I guess not haha. I’ve just been busy with life I guess, I’ve started a part-time course at University and then just been going out and about. Now enough of that I have come back not with a review or a haul but a question for you instead. I assume you have guessed by the title of this post what my question is but I’m going to ask you anyway 😛 What concealers do you lot use for your under eye circles that’s if you have any and if you don’t then you are one of those rare humans that have been blessed with very good genes that I envy! I use a collection concealer at the moment but I want to branch out of that and I have not got very dark eye circles but they are visible and they are brown so I welcome any suggestions of concealers that you lot have. I hear salmon/orange/peach tone concealers are good for brown circles but there are so many out there I just don’t know where to start!

So you beauty lot pop your suggestions in the comments as they are very much appreciated!

Wish List Addition

I’m in LOVE with this bag, you don’t understand how much my hands are itching to check this out and how I am resisting temptation at this minute! The only thing that is stopping me right now is the price tag of £40, now I don’t know about you lot but for me that is a lot to spend on a bag I could buy two high end lipsticks with that much or a high end foundation and still have some money left over! AAah! DECISIONS DECISIONS! I’ll sleep on it and see how I feel in the morning! 😛

My Skincare Routine

Hey guys, it’s been a while since I posted so I thought I’d do a skincare post about what I use to help my skin stay clean and healthy. I naturally don’t have any problems with my skin *touch wood* 😛 but I’ve started to get into taking care of my skin a bit more, I now make an effort to at least exfoliate once a week as I don’t want to overdo it because I’ve got dry skin. So these are the products I use every other day to keep my skin clean, I usually use the same products day and night but I’ll just go through with you what I use and how I use it.

After wearing make up all day I use these products to take it off and to keep my skin healthy:

1.  Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish- I use a couple of pumps of this and massage it into my skin then with the muslin cloth that comes with this I gently exfoliate my skin and take the make-up of with it. This is really good for cleansing your face as it not only takes the make-up of completely but also all the other oils and dirt that is on your skin. This is on for £15.50 at the Liz Earle website I’d recommend this to everyone and I’ve already repurchased this and am waiting for the order to get here as my other one is on its last legs. This product lasts a long time and most of the time when you order anything of the website they give you a sample size of the this free.
2. Body Shop Camomile Sumptuous Cleansing Butter- I got this when my I realised that my Liz Earle cleanser was running out, I thought of trying something new and saw good reviews of this on many sites and ended up purchasing it. It is a good cleanser and takes of all the make-up. On the packaging it instructs you to massage it into your skin and then wash it off with water, I don’t do that I use my muslin cloth and take it off as the butter melts right away onto the skin and it would be just horrible washing it off with water. This is for £12.00 at the BodyShop and if anyone’s looking for a new cleanser then try this out it is a decent one and does the job and it isn’t that expensive compared to other ones out there.
3. Avene Gentle Purifying Scrub- I picked this up ages ago when I was in Boots, my skin is quite sensitive and goes red quite easily and this exfoliator is designed for sensitive skin and so I bought it. I didn’t use it as much as I should and have just started to exfoliate more and I feel like this is a good one as the beads in there are not that harsh to the skin as some other exfoliators out there. It leaves my skin smooth and gets rid of all the dead skin and dry patches that I have. All you have to do is wet your face and then gently scrub this onto your face for a few minutes and wash it off. This can be purchased from Boots for £9.50.
4. Simple Kind To Skin Smoothing Facial Toner- I’ve always used this toner since I’ve started wearing make-up, what I like about Simple is that their ingredients are often simple and are kind to the skin just like it says. I use this after exfoliating my face or after cleansing my face on days I don’t exfoliate. I like using this to just make sure that my face is clean and that it doesn’t have any make-up left on it. This can be purchased from Boots for £3.29 but in other places like Bodycare their often cheaper.
5. Avene Eau Thermale Spring Water Spray- After using the toner I spray this onto my face just to refresh my skin and I just like the feeling of it really 😛 but it does say that you can use this to set make-up or just in summer when you’re really warm. This is from Boots and is £3.50 for the 50ml.
6. Garnier Moisture Match for Dry to very Dry Skin- Since I’ve got dry skin I use this and it is really good and moisturises my face well. The only thing I will say is that since it is a thick consistency you have to really massage it into the skin in order for it to be fully absorbed. I would recommend this moisturiser to anyone with dry skin and for those of you who have oily or combination skin or some other skin type they have moisturisers to suit you too! So do check them out they are at Boots for £3.99.
7. Body Shop Vitamin E Eye Cream- I just started using this recently when I purchased the cleansing butter, I wanted something for my dark circles and the shop assistant advised me to get this. I can’t really say that it’s made any difference to the dark circles but I feel like it has done something or the other I just don’t know what. I apply this every morning and every night I just use a pea sized amount and dab around my eyes. This can be purchased from Bodyshop for £11.
8. Carex Hand Gel- I’ve been buying hand sanitisers on and off these past couple of years but I have yet to get through one completely, normally I either lose them or just give them to friends who often use them more than I do :P. I have this by my window sill and use it every time before I apply my lip balm on as I don’t want to get any bacteria in my tub of lip balm. This was bought from Bodycare for a £1.
9. Lush Lip Scrub in Bubblegum- I bought this lip scrub just on a whim, I heard a lot of good things about it and my lips were getting dry a lot due to the winter weather and so I found myself ordering this as I just wanted a lip scrub to exfoliate my lips and it works too so that’s a good thing. I got this for £5.50 and I just take a bit out on my finger and scrub my lips with it and the dry parts rub out, I then wash my lips with cold water and then apply the lip balm.
10. Carmex Lip Pot in Cherry- Before buying this I had the gloss version of it and although it was great I just didn’t like applying it before going to sleep as it would just be getting onto the pillow and such so I went and bought this and I am SO glad I bought it because it is a lip saver! It really helped my dry lips and moisturised them and kept them hydrated, I now wear this at night just when I get into bed as my lips the next morning feel so soft!. I got this from Bodycare for £1.49 but you can also buy it from Boots for £2.69.

Phew this turned out to be quite a long post I hope it made up for not posting for a couple of days. Hope you enjoyed the post and remember if you want to ask me any questions privately then click here I would love to answer them so don’t hesitate!

Quick Post: Ask Box

Hey guys. Just writing a quick post to let you all know that I know have an ask box/contact form on the homepage. You can find the link next to the About Me, its titled Got a question? Ask Away here’s a link to it in case you were wondering. I would love to answer any questions or just talk to you lot more! So don’t hesitate to drop a message 🙂

Liebster Award

Hi guys! I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award not once but two times these past two weeks! Although I have already done one these next two come with two different sets of questions so I thought hey why not answer them? The lovely people that have nominated me are Claribo and alittlepieceofbobbie go check their lovely blogs out if you haven’t already they are awesome at writing posts and they have great posts too :). This is the first time I have been nominated more than once and I am so thankful for you guys nominating and it just shows me that I must be doing something right with my blog 😀

Onto the rules:

1. Link the person who nominated you
2. Answer the questions given by the nominator
3. Nominate other bloggers who have less than 200 followers
4. Create 11 questions for the nominees to answer
5. Notify all nominees via their blogs/social media

Clarbio’s Questions:

1. What makes you smile?

many things from baby’s laughing to just people being nice to others for no absolute reason 🙂

2. What is your favourite quote?

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on” Robert Frost

3. Who is your favourite blogger?

My favourite blogger atm is Katienield

4. If you could only use one make up product, what would it be?

Concealer! there’s always something to conceal on my face 😛

5. What is the best way you relax?

Just in bed on my phone in my night clothes with nothing to do at all

6. What star sign are you?

I don’t believe in star signs but I am a Pisces 🙂

7. Do you believe in ghosts?

Urm not really?

8. What would be the first thing you would do/buy if you won the lottery?

A car/insurance and then help the family out with all the rest of it 🙂

9. Why did you start blogging?

because I thought it was interesting and fun to do

10. Would you rather be too hot or too cold?

too cold because you can just put the heater on and get into the duvet

11. Tea or coffee?

Tea over coffee any day!

Alittlepieceofbobbie’s Questions:

1. Favourite High end makeup product?

Estee Lauder Double Wear Foundation

2. Favourite Low end makeup product?

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer, it’s just a bargain

3. Thing you feel strongly about?

When people are treated unfairly and are not being treated equally as they should be.

4. Favourite thing about yourself?

Hmm I don’t have a favourite thing. I dont know? haha

5. Biggest goals and aspiration?

Just to be in a job that I enjoy doing and making good money in it too 😛

6. Favourite possession?

My mobile phone 😛

7. Favourite food?

I love a variety of foods so one is hard to pick!

8. What do you feel is more important makeup or skincare?

Skincare. Make up will only look good on a skin that is looked after 🙂

9. Dream destination?

Greece, America I could go on!

10. Best year of your life?

I don’t really have a best year but the last five years have been pretty good 🙂

11. What is your blogging goal?

No goal as of yet just to make sure that I enjoy doing it and writing  posts that other will enjoy reading too 🙂

Now onto the nominations!

I nominate:

• Awkwardcharm
• Nergizd
• Taylorasalways
• hiddenfashionsecrets

My Questions for the nominees are:

1. What made you start blogging?
2. What sort of music do you like?
3. How do you find the blogging world?
4. Tea, coffee or hot chocolate?
5. Healthy or junk?
6. Where do you want your blog to go?
7. What’s the big dream?
8. What are your three must have items that you have to have in your bag?
9. What was the most enjoyable memory of 2014?
10. What things are you looking forward to in 2015?
11. Have you accomplished any things of your bucket list?

And that’s a wrap! Let me know what your lots answers to the questions would be?