What I Bought: The Body Shop & Boots Clearance Haul

The Body Shop

Inspired by the #TFWOC Project, I decided to buy the Honey Bronze Shimmering Dry Oil. Mainly because I really can’t afford to spend £44 on Nars Body Glow, and this was a steal at £16 (minus my Love Your Body discount). It smells ah-may-zing.

Since The Body Shop is celebrating their one year anniversary (of what, I’m not sure?!) they were giving away a free 200ml body butter. The choice was between the Love Etc or Dreams Unlimited, so I opted for the light, sweet scent of Love Etc.

Next up I went to one of my all time favourite stores – BOOTS CLEARANCE. Yep, clearance.

Soap & Glory Sugar Crush Scrub has been discontinued but is on sale in the clearance store. I reviewed it here, and it’s still one of my favourites. They had a huge crate of them, and at £2 a pop how I not grab one, or three!

I couldn't help but grab two Soap & Glory gift bags too - 25p each! 

NIP + FAB Cellulite Fix isn’t because I have cellulite or anything, ahem, it’s all in the name of beauty blogging – HA! Who doesn’t have issues with cellulite?! Plus this was a bargain at just £9, less than half of the normal retail price.

Again another bargain with the Trilogy Purifying Masque. I’m a big facemask enthusiast so when I saw this for just £4.50 I had to have it. It retails for £18.50 I’m pretty proud that I got the only one in the store!

Have you found any bargains recently?

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Review: Soap and Glory Sugar Crush Body Scrub

I’m always looking for products that will help combat my dry skin, so I use oil on my skin everyday – blogged here – and also try and exfoliate quite often to get rid of dead skin.

I’m really lucky to live quite close to a Boots clearance, which often has products at least 50% off but more often the discount is closer to 80% off.

Soap & Glory recently discontinued this Sugar Crush Scrub and rereleased it – I’m not sure what the difference is but the tub is now only 300ml.

The 450ml tub is huge and fairly heavy, which isn’t surprising since the actual product itself is very thick and dense. As soon as you take the lid of the smell of lime goes straight up your nose – in a good way of course. It’s really strong, almost like you’re smelling an actual lime and not a scrub.

It’s packed with brown sugar and macadamia grains which give it it’s scrubby-ness. There’s also almond oil, which emulsifies slightly when you mix it with water. The ingredients compliment each other really well and leave the skin fairly smooth.

Overall I liked this product, but I didn’t feel like it was anything to write home about – ironic, since I’m blogging about it. The sugar and macadamia weren’t scrubby enough and I felt like I really had to work it into my skin to feel the benefit, which felt like a bit of a work out instead of a nice shower! I also found that the lovely sharp lime scent didn’t last on the skin, which was disappointing as I imagined it would be nice and fresh lingering on the skin.

The upside about this product was that it rinses away really easily and doesn’t leave the shower greasy or slippery, a problem I’ve encountered with other scrubs.

The new Soap & Glory Sugar Crush retails at £8 for 300ml in Boots, however I managed to pick up this discontinued version for £4 for 450ml.

What are your favourite scrubs? 

Late. Last week in Instagrams #4

I’m sorry this post is so late; I’ve been really busy trying to get my last assignments in at uni!

Last week wasn’t very eventful at all, but here it is …

Made a beauty box for the boy, as he’s jealous of mine!

That’s the last time I let the boy loose in the kitchen. Took us days of scrubbing and it’s still not off!

New Muller yoghurt, mint chocolate chip. Not again thanks.

Diet was getting boring. Yoghurt in a glass – didn’t liven things up at all! Haha

HORRID rash came up on my face – post to follow on this – so I did a Sudocrem facemask! Casper has got nothing on me!

My eyelash extension and brow dye results. Hated. Blog post will also follow.

NANDOS.

Strawberry FroYo in Nandos.

Eyelashes out already. Really painful.

Discount Soap & Glory heaven!

 April GLOSSYBOX. Blogged here.

PO are charging me £15.57 to pick up a package – in their dreams!

Venti Skinny Sugar-Free Vanilla Latte from Starbucks. The only thing that gets me through a day at work!

What did you get up to last week?

Giveaway Reminder - CLOSED

Just a quick reminder of my giveaway! Original post can be found here.

This giveaway is open internationally however you’ll be responsible for any customs charges.

These be the rules:

♥ You must be aged 16 or over, or have consent from your parent/guardian to disclose personal information (Address)

♥ You must be following my blog through GFC

♥ You can gain up to 6 extra entries so make use of them!

♥ The winner will be announced after the giveaway closes on the 20^th April

♥ Good luck! :)

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Mini Giveaway: Revlon Lip Butter, Soap & Glory, Sally Hansen - NOW CLOSED

I’m really humbled to have reached 50 followers on my little blog, so I’ve decided to hold a mini giveaway just to say thank you to all my readers.

I’ve looked around at other peoples’ giveaways and put something small together (student budget!) that I thought that people would like. Slightly late off of the bench, I’ve got two lip butters up for grabs as well as some Soap & Glory products.

This giveaway is open internationally however you’ll be responsible for any customs charges.

These be the rules:

♥ You must be aged 16 or over, or have consent from your parent/guardian to disclose personal information (Address)

♥ You must be following my blog through GFC

♥ You can gain up to 6 extra entries so make use of them!

♥ The winner will be announced after the giveaway closes on the 20^th April

♥ Good luck! :)

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