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My top 5 Skincare Saviours Naturally!

H ello beauties! hope everyone's making a great start to the bank holiday weekend! I have decided to use this long weekend to help my skin to recuperate and relax with a no make-up and no stresses...  We all love a change of season specially from winter to spring and into summer but I'm sure there are many people like me who have temperamental skin types when no change is great and usually when the season changes so does our skin and not in a good way! Over the last few years I have accumulated a group of products that I always fall back on o rescue my skin and today I'm going to give you a rundown of these and why I think everyone should have then in their bathroom cupboard. I don't think its a coincidence that all of these products are all natural with no artificial/chemical/animal byproducts..  Our skin loves natural! and we should try and feed it with as much wholesome organic food as we do to our to body! You will see a very positive result and there will...

Foundation Alert!

Estee Lauder Invisible Fluid Make-Up Review! This is what it says about the foundation on their website:  Estée Lauder Invisible Fluid Makeup Best Foundation - Elle Magazine 2012 See no makeup. Feel no makeup™.First-ever IntuiTone™ technology guarantees your true-to-life shade and keeps it real in every light.Fresh, flawless, radiant. Ultra light, ultra breathable, oil-free. It will change how you feel about makeup forever. In long-lasting shades for every beautiful skintone. Weightless, buildable coverage. Air-infused with every shake. Blends so perfectly for the look and feel of bare skin-only better. Lasts all day. Controls excess oil. Won't clog pores. Oh My Gosh! Where do I start with th is little bottle of sheer magic? And that's exactly what this is!  This foundation is my second favourite foundation of all time and would've been my first but Mac Face & Body C4  beat it ever so slightly, and only because they have the best shade selection ever ...

My top 5 Tinted Moisturiser/BB Creams

    Its funny how so many Magazines and Beauty Counter MUA's at Department store's will tell you that during winter you need to wear a foundation rather then a Tinted Moisturiser or BB Cream.  I would say that is completely untrue and everyone is different when it comes to their own skin care... I have spent more then a few days at b eauty counters being pushed and cajoled into making pricey purchases on f oundations that I don't need or want so here I have decided that I will gi ve a run down of alternatives to Foundations for everyday use. M ost will say that Foundations  give you choice of a more matt or no glow base which is more suited to the winter look as the Summer look is more suited to the natural and glowy skin... This is true to a certain point as most Foundation ranges do offer you the choice of Matt, Luminous or Natural Glow finish which Tinted Moisturiser's and BB Cream's do n' t . O n this occas ion I'm sitting on the wall ...

Easy home made mini facial.

What girl doesn't like to be pampered?!  But sometimes life it too hectic what with kids, jobs, chores and everything else to accommodate we never seem to be able to get that 'me' 10 minutes.  Which I fondly call the 'me moments!' This is my 'me moment' which costs next to nothing.. So go ahead girls have a go! Home-made mini facial. (Only time I can do this is in the bath) once a week if I'm lucky! You will need: Mild olive oil Sugar Greek Yogurt 1 Egg Step 1. Wash face with regular face wash in tepid water.   Step 2. Soak a flannel in a clean bowl filled with hand hot water (Or in clean bath water) Place clean hot flannel on face to open pores. (Repeat at least 5 times) Step 3. Massage face with warmed mild olive oil. (You can place the actual bottle in your bath water to warm)  do not rinse off  Step 4. Exfoliate using half a tea spoon of regular sugar (place on wet hands and rub until the granules feel co...