Beauty on a Budget: Skincare

This is the first out of ten beauty on a budget blogs in this series, I hope this will be helpful for you. But, I will say now the products I use work best for me and may not work for you.

There are two scrubs that I use but I have run put of one and need to repurchase it, the one I use twice a week is the St. Ives Sensitive Skin Apricot Scrub which is £4.29 at Boots. I've used a few different scrubs in the past and I have found that this works best for me. I get really stubborn dry patches sometimes and once I've used this it keeps them at bay for a few days as long as I moisturise after. The other scrub I use is the Neutrogena Spot Stress Control which is £4.79 at Boots, I only use this one I have a bad breakout though it's the only thing I have found has worked since I started getting bad breakouts at about 13. I also find this a quite calming face scrub as it has cucumber in.

 After I have exfoliated I moisturise using the NSPA Ultra-Hydrate Cream this as far as I'm aware is only available at Asda, this is great after using the scrub or just as a daily moisturiser I use it for both sometimes but feel it works better after the scrubs. It soaks into the skin great and quite fast, it can be focused mainly on dry patches and I tend to put more on them and just let my skin soak it in.

There probably isn't many people that think that the Boots essentials brand isn't very good but I love the Cucumber Eye Gel which is £1.50, for the price you can't really go wrong there are probably better eye creams/gels that are pricier and better but this is extremely purse friendly and it's lovely and cooling around the eyes, I could tell a difference a few days after I started using it. It's for reducing the puffiness and to hydrate and it has certainly done that for me.

Then last but by no means least there's the Garnier Moisture Match in Dry to Very Dry Skin which is £5.99 from Boots but I always seem to get it when it's on offer. I use this as a daily moisturiser before my make up and on a night after I take my make up off, it definitely leaves my skin feeling soft and hydrated. When I'm having a difficult skin day I also mix a bit into my foundation just to add that extra bit of hydration. I would definitely recommend this moisturiser and if you don't have dry skin check the others out as I'm sure you will find a Moisture Match suitable for you.

Lou

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Beauty on a Budget Series

I have decided to do this series as I can't afford high end products and I know there are a lot of other people out there that can't. As much as I would love to be able to buy high end products and try them. I have to stick to budget brands.

The series will consist of all my favourite affordable skin care, primers, foundations & tinted moisturisers, eye products, lip products, blushers and bronzers, haircare, make up brushes and nail products.

I will be uploading them every friday, starting this week and if you have any ideas for my next series let me know.

Lou

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Elf Haul Part 2

Sorry it's taken me a while to get this post up I've had a few problems with my laptop lately so lets get into the second part of this haul.

So the next thing I added to my basket was this Lipstick in Sociable, it applies really nice and has gorgeous pigmentation but isn't long lasting I had to reapply throughout the day. But, for only £1.95 I would recommend it.

I then decided I wanted to try one of the Moisturising Lipstick in Coral Cutie, I have been wanting a nice coral lipstick for a while and this is a gorgeous colour its not as moisturising as some of the other moisturing lipsticks, but it is good. This lipstick lasts longer than the lipstick above but I did have to reapply it during the day.

Nail Polish in Mango Madness

Nail Polish in Mint Cream

Nail Polish was next as I can never have too much, so I got Mango Madness and Mint Cream, I got these as I don't have any colours similar to these because for some reason I always stayed away from them. I'm glad I got these colours as they are great for this time of year. I applied 2 coats to get it nice and opaque, I also applied a top coat to some and left the other nails without it to see how long it lasted without the top coat, after 2 days there was a bit of chipping but not much so if you're wanting some nail polish to try then you can't go wrong for £2.50.

Mineral Loose Eyeshadow in Outdoorsy

Super Glossy Lip Shine in Mauve luxe

I got two free products with my order I don't really use green eyeshadow so that's going to my sister and the glossy tube I will give to my cousin to use if she wants it as the only glossy tubes I like are the Barry M ones but I don't mind giving these away as they were free.

Thanks for reading

Lou

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