Blog Sale!

Back again with yet another blog sale! Same rules as always, international postage is available but postage costs will vary depending on where you live, and certain items aren't able to be shipped abroad i.e. nail polish! Shipping within the UK is £2 for the first item and 20p for each additional item. I'm trying to keep postage costs low but Royal Mail have increased their costs again!
To buy something, please comment below and leave your country, email address and what you'd like and I'll get back to you, or alternatively you can email me for a quicker response at lucieplant@googlemail.com.

Essie Polishes - All new and unused. £3.50 each. 

Top row from the left

Off The Shoulder, Fear & Desire, Too Too Hot, Neo Whimsical, Sweet Talker, To Buy Or Not To Buy, A Crewed Interest, Cascade Cool

Middle row from the left

Capri, Super Bossa Nova, Wrapped In Rubies, Imported Bubbly, Ole Caliente, Tour De Finance, Delicacy, Action

Bottom row from the left

Bikini So Teeny, Waltz, Flawless, SOLD, Navigate Her, Jag-u-ar, Orange It's Obvious (Missing the name label!), Mojito Madness
Also for sale but I forgot to put it in the photo - All Tied Up, We're In It Together

Jemma Kidd Signature Eyeshadow BNIB - £4
Origins Ginger Souffle Whipped Body Cream - £3
Barry M Nail Paint used once - £2
Benefit Cha Cha Tint BN - £8
Bourjois Highlighting Powder used 3-4 times, no dip - £2.50
Maybelline Forever Strong Nail Polish in Porcelain Pink BN £2.50

Mac Fluidline in Blacktrack used 4/5 times - £6
Benefit Blush in Bella Bamba used 4/5 times - £8
Nars Cream Blush in Penny Lane used twice - £15
Dr Jart Water Fuse BB Cream used 5/6 times £8
Lipsticks usage as shown
MAC Lipstick in So Chaud £7
MAC Lipstick in Girl About Town £7
MAC Lipstick in Creme Cup £7
Topshop Lipstick in Beguiled £5

Origins Ginger Souffle Whipped Body Cream BN £7
Originis Ginger Burst Body Wash BN £7
Originis Ginger Incredible Spreadable Body Scrub £7
Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish used once £9
Clinique Clarifying Lotion BN £2 each
Clinique Take The Day Off BN £2 each

 Charles Worthington Hair Healer BN £3.50
Percy & Reed Totally TLC Hydrating Hair Mask used once £2
Benefit They're Real opened today but unused £12
Soap & Glory Thick And Fast Mascara opened to look at wand, unused - £4
Revlon Just Bitten Kissable Balm stains swatched on paper in Precious and Cherish £2.50 each

Rimmel Apocalips in Luna, Stellar, Big Bang and Apocaliptic all swatched once - £3.50 each

Giveaway!

Hey guys!

So my giveaway ended yesterday :-) I hope you got the chance to enter! I'm going to moderate the entries tomorrow evening so hopefully I'll be able to announce the winner on Wednesday :-)
Keep your eyes peeled!

Lucie x

Essie Nail Polish in Fiji

Well haven't I gone overboard with the Essie polishes lately. I've gone from having none a few weeks ago to now owning 30 of the pretty little things, so I'd better get cracking with showing you my favourites I suppose! You can see the first few I picked up here.
I bought most of my collection from Fragrance Direct for the bargain price of £1.99, if you follow me on Twitter you'll have seen me tweet very excitedly about them! I also got a few from Xtras, although I had to order online as they didn't have any when I popped into the Meadowhall branch.

Essie Fiji is a pale pinky white shade that is opaque in 2 coats but I used 3 to get rid of any slight streaks or brush marks from my shoddy nail painting skills. It was a little streaky on the first coat, which became barely visible on the second and disappeared completely when I applied the third.
It wasn't the longest lasting polish I've tried by Essie, it lasted 3 days before it showed tip wear and 4 days before a teeny chip appeared on one nail, but I still think that's pretty good going bearing in mind my job is very hard on my hands as I'm always ripping stuff open, scraping things and just shredding my nails!
I'll definitely be repurchasing this should I ever run out as it looks lovely as an everyday polish and is white enough to not clash with whatever I'm wearing, but pink enough to not look like I've tippex-ed my nails.

Sorry for the red stains on the bottle, I had it in my bag along with Russian Roulette which decided to explode everywhere and polish my bag and it's contents a lovely deep red... Thanks! I've cleaned it off as well as I could and it hasn't stained the glass so the colour in the photo is the actual colour.



Lucie x

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Giveaway Time!

Hello! I've been wanting to do a giveaway for ages, but I couldn't decide what to giveaway or when to do it, so let just go for it shall we?!
All you have to do is fill in the Rafflecopter form below, make sure you follow this blog via either GFC or Bloglovin' and if you want more entries you can follow me on Twitter, like this blog on Facebook, tweet about the giveaway and/or leave a comment below telling me what you'd like to see more of on this blog.
Giveaway is open internationally :-)
If you win you'll receive an Urban Decay Naked Basics palette and a Rimmel Apocalips in the shade of your choice :-) I wanted to give away something that I would want to win, and I'm a tiny bit gutted not to be keeping the palette... Time to go shopping again!

Good luck :-)

Lucie x


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Miniature Essie Nail Polish Haul

I've bitten my fingernails to shreds for as long as I can remember, and go through phases of wanting to stop and grow them so I can paint them and have lovely nails. I decided to buy an Essie polish after reading so many good reviews and whilst I was in Boots I picked up the shade Lapiz Of Luxury, a gorgeous mid-blue that always seems to appeal to me. I snapped up the Good To Go Top Coat and the Grow Stronger Base Coat too to try to encourage them to grow and minimise chipping, because if my nail polish chips I HAVE to gnaw my nails!

After Boots I had a wander into TK MAXX, and found a bag of Essie polishes on the beauty section. At £9.99 for three I couldn't let it slip by, and raced to the counter. I got the shades Off The Shoulder, a stunningly bright baby pink with a coral tinge, Mojito Madness, a cool-toned green and my favourite of the trio, Bikini So Teeny, a lilacy-blue with a hint of shimmery action, although I've tried it and the shimmer doesn't show on my nails.

I'll be reviewing these as and when I try them out, but so far I'm loving the base coat and top coat, two days and no chips at all? Good going for me, especially when I spend all day sorting through bags of donations and scrabbling around!!

Any recommendations on must have shades? I'm lusting after Angora Cardi, Watermelon and Mesmerised!

Lucie x

Nivea Daily Essentials Express Hydration Primer

I can remember when this came out there was such a buzz around it, everyone wanted it and when I picked up my jar off the shelf in Superdrug a woman tried to snatch it out of my hand! Crazy.

It comes in a fairly sized glass pot, which I much prefer to plastic tubs and pots as it feel more luxurious but it's just a panic every time you drop it! (I'm clumsy). It was £4.99 when I bought it, which I thought was a good price considering its designed to moisturise and hydrate your skin as well as priming it.

The product is white, with a gel-like consistency which took me by surprise as I expected it to be more like a traditional moisturiser. The product spreads really well across skin, you only need a small amount and it does make your skin feel softer and smoother, and reduced the tight, dry feeling I get sometimes before I moisturise. It wasn't really moisturising enough for me however, and I do definitely prefer using a separate moisturiser such as my beloved Dr Renaud Raspberry Soft Cream as the primer doesn't moisturise enough, by the end of the day my skin feels dry and tired if I don't use additional moisturisers.

As a primer, it didn't really make a massive difference to the application of my base make up. My foundation would still cling if I didn't moisturise any dry patches first, and it didn't apply as smoothly or evenly as it does with other primers. It helped a bit, but not enough to warrant me using it. In terms of longevity, it helped my make up stay on for an extra couple of hours or so, but only if I finished it with powder and my usual setting spray (I hate touching up my make up throughout the day).

In all honesty I'm not blown away by this product, it's not something I would repurchase unless it was reformulated to make it more hydrating and work better as a primer and it's only served to cement my feeling that primers and moisturisers definitely work better as separate products. On the plus side, it had no adverse effects on my skin whatsoever.

I do love some other Nivea products though, so I think this is just one of those products that will work better on other skin types to mine. Maybe oilier skins would have a better chance as those skins wouldn't need as much moisture?

If you've tried this, please let me know what you thought!

 

Lucie x

 

Mini Beauty Haul from Space NK and Boots

I went shopping. I was quite restrained though, and I had a gift card for Space NK so it really wasn't too bad this time!

I love the NARS Sheer Glow foundation, but last time I bought some I got matched up to the shade Deauville, and I'm so pale that it was way too dark for me! I could almost get away with it in summer but I really did need a lighter shade, so I picked it up again with my gift card in the shade Siberia which is the perfect match for me. Plus, no trip to Space NK is complete in my eyes without a NARS purchase!

I scooped up the Caudalie Beauty Elixir whilst waiting to pay for my foundation. It's just the mini bottle and I think it was £11, I'm not head over heels in love with the scent but it's not horrendous, I'm just curious to see whether it actually has any effect on my skin.

The La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo was something I grabbed on a whim from Boots, I didn't even realise Boots stocked La Roche Posay and I only popped in to get the face scrub. I read LLYMLRS review of it and decided I'd give it a whirl.

I needed a new make up remover and this Botanics one is one I've tried before and loved, it does what it says on the tin and doesn't aggravate my skin. It also removes every scrap of mascara even if it's stubborn, I'm looking at you Benefit They're Real!

The Botanics All Bright Purifying Face Scrub was something I saw reviewed on another blog (I'll link it here when I find it again) and it worked really well for that blogger, and for £3.99 I figured it was worth a shot.

I almost bought the Percy and Reed No Oil Oil from Space NK but them remembered Glamour magazine was giving it away as a freebie so I thought I would try it first. Going solely on today's first impression I'm very impressed! It's really not like an oil at all!

Lucie x