HELLO SPRING! MY THOUGHTS + TO DO LIST

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Hello everyone,

Today's post is going to be a little bit different than others as it won't be related to beauty or make-up but spring. Yay! I live in London and it is still (very) cold here. I really do envy you if you live somewhere where it is warm 365 days a year. I personally have been counting down for this cold nightmare to finish. When it is cold, many days I feel lazy, demotivated and just tired - but how can I feel excited and motivated to do things when at 4pm it is so dark outside that if you didn't have a watch, you would say it is 10pm based on the level of darkness. This is why I really don't like winter. You wake up, it is dark, you go to work, it is getting bright, you leave work, it is dark. I personally have that kind of weird mind that when it is dark, there is a message coming to my brain saying 'it is time to sleep' even if it's 3pm! On the other hand, if it's 10pm and it is still bright, there is a message 'this is not time to sleep' being send to my brain. However silly and ridiculous it sounds, it is sometimes very difficult to do something, especially when I was at uni and I had to study.


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PINK & GLITTER - DELICATE EYE MAKE UP

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Hello guys,

As I have mentioned here and there, I love online beauty community thanks to which I can develop my make-up skills.

I have learnt a lot but there is still A LOT to learn. This month, I want to focus on learning more about smoky eye so probably there is some more stuff coming soon.

Today, I want to share with you this delicate make-up featuring mainly soft pink and glittery color on the eyes and brown shade on the cheeks. I think this make-up is suitable for daily use when catching up with friends or going to cinema with boyfriend.


I hope it can be a great inspiration to someone :)


Products I have used:



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HOME REMEDY FOR BLACKHEADS

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Hello everyone,Today, just a quick post, in which I want to share with you an amazing home remedy for blackheads. It is very efficient and fast-acting compared to all products available in stores and believe me, I have bought and tried a lot. 

To not make this post super-extra-long, let's begin.


You will need tooth paste and salt. Mint will open the pores and acts antibacterial whilst salt exfoliates the skin and is not dissolved in toothpaste, which makes it even more effective.

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ESSENCE TREND EDITION BRIT-TEA

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It’s teatime! From April until May 2015, essence is inviting you to the first garden party of the year with the new trend edition “brit-tea”. Inspired by the classic British tea time, hip products with a retro look are served in the soft colors cream, apricot, mint and lilac – and a touch of bright pink for a spring-like contrast. Decorated with cute blossom prints and floral elements, the design is reminiscent of the décor at a stylish tea party. The lip balm is a special highlight with its gorgeous flower packaging. Other wanna-haves are: the blush embossed with a sea of flowers on the surface and the eyeshadow palette with three soft pastel nuances that complete your brit-tea style. The garden season has opened… with essence!
EYESHADOW PALETTE 




Eye love Britain! The eyeshadow palette includes the three spring colors cream, apricot-rosé and purple to create the perfect eye make-up for any garden party. The creamy, slightly shimmering texture is easy to apply and blend with the eyeshadow brush. Available in 01 keep calm and have some tea.
EYESHADOW BRUSH



Afternoon tea… it’s easy to apply, mix and blend your eyeshadow with this brush. It has two ends with soft bristles– one fine and one broad– so that you can create varied make-up looks. Available in 01 keep calm and have some tea.



DUO HIGHLIGHTER PENCIL


Your high-ness! The duo highlighter pencil is particularly handy and practical as it combines the two gorgeous colors cream and apricot with two application options. Applied on the inner corners of your eyes, the pencil visibly makes your eyes look bigger, while it has a beautiful lifting effect when applied underneath your brows. Available in 01 par-tea highlight.

LIP BALM



Beauty gift… the balm pampers your lips and gives them a subtle touch of pink at the same time. Thanks to the cute packaging with a flower opening, this lip balm isn’t just a care highlight - it’s lovely to look at, too. Available in 01 vanilla ice-t baby.

LIPGLOSS



Tea or coffee? Apricot and pink with iridescent shimmer particles create a cool, shiny finish on your lips. The long-lasting formula feels wonderfully pleasant and offers subtle color dispersion. Available in 01 tea is the new coffee and 02 pink to go.

ILLUMINATING BASE



Party glow… the illuminating base gives your face a natural, subtle shimmer and a beautiful, radiant complexion. It can be applied as a primer underneath your make-up or used on its own – either way, a subtle glow is guaranteed. Available in 01 make tea not war. 




BLUSH



Rose garden! The three colors of the blush – cream, rosé and pink – can be combined optimally so you can emphasize your cheeks with the desired nuance. The rose embossment turns this blush into an absolute eyecatcher. Available in 01 tea-riffic garden party.



NAIL POLISH



(P)Earl grey… the cool spring colors purple, light blue, pink and green are the ideal choice for a cozy tea party in the outdoors. The four long-lasting nail polishes all have a hip porcelain effect for a fashionable spring style! Available in 01 tea-pical british, 02 have a beau-tea-full day, 03 pink to go and 04 green tea for two.




NAIL FILE



Tea cup file! Shape and shorten your nails with this cute nail file to make sure that you can show-off your nail polish at its best. The sweet English tea print makes styling your nails even more fun! Available in 01 make tea not war.



EARRING SET



Hello English rose! To perfectly round off the “brit-tea” look, the trend edition includes cute earrings with a rose appearance on high-quality metal. One set contains two pairs in rosé and pink. Available in 01 blossoms etc..  
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MAYBELLINE FOUNDATION & MASCARA

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Hello guys,
I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and actually having a chance to relax :)

Today, I want to share with you my first impression and opinion on these two, quite promising, products.




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THIS WEEK'S DISCOVERIES - THINGS I NEED TO TRY!

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Hello beauties, today, I was actually going to post some make-up look but my eyes went crazy yesterday and they are all read :( so I will be posting this as soon as my eyes want to cooperate.

Today, I went to visit a friend and spent a while on the train (train time = magazine time) and I then realized that I have couple of 'discoveries' - products that are new to the market or new to me and products that I definitely want to try. I might not actually be able to go and buy all of them but I do want to try them. Let's begin!

Let me know in the comments what you have discovered recently and what you would love to try this month :)

CLINIQUE BEYOND PERFECTING FOUNDATION & CONCEALER



This application brush, oil free, moisturizing? That sounds perfect! I am beyond excited to try this one! I won't be buying this one straight away - I will try it and if I really love this one, I will go back and purchase it. It is really difficult for me to find the perfect foundation so I will have to make sure first that this is the one that's going to suit my face everyday before buying. 



CUSTOM MADE MASCARA




Have you ever loved a mascara so much that you recommended that to a friend who ended up hating it? All of us have different eyes and lashes, which (obviously) means that a perfect mascara must not necessarily be perfect to others.

Now, exclusively available at Harvey Nichols Knightsbridge in London, Eyeko offers custom made mascara - yes, you got that right - they 'analyze' your lashes to find the perfect brush, which would be perfect to your lashes.


BENEFIT ROLLER LASH MASCARA




Not custom made but I want to try. I have seen lots of positive reviews about this one and I keep on seeing this everywhere. Benefits has disappointed me only once, with their 'special' eyeliner but apart from this, I have always been happy with my purchases. I hope I will get a chance to try this one, too.



BUTTER LONDON - NAIL POLISH REMOVER (GLITTER REMOVER)






Quick description. This one can apparently remove this annoying nail polishes full of glitter. They are, indeed, annoying but only when it comes to removing them. I would be beyond excited to try this one and see  if it is really able to remove the glitter. 



ISSEY MIYAKE L'EAU D'ISSEY


This fragrance is amazing! I don't know if it's absolutely new (probably not) but I have just discovered this and I absolutely love it! Once I finish my current perfume, I am heading to shops to buy this straight away! No doubts. If you love delicate and flowery fragrance, you must check this one out!
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BRAZILIAN HAIR CARE PRODUCTS FOR DAMAGED HAIR - REVIEW

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I have recently been to Brazil for 2 weeks holiday and apart from the most important things every tourist must see, Brazilian Hair Care was also on the top of my list.


My obsession with Brazilian products started, when I got Keratin Hair Treatment done, here in London. I absolutely loved that (separate post about this coming soon). A while after this, I actually had an opportunity to try some of the most popular hair care products - I absolutely loved them all and they were so cheap - not only for a person that lives in the UK but cheap in general (£5 average).


That was a bit of a background - now, let's get back to the business. This time, I got some conditioners that I have never tried before. One of them, I bought, I actually had an opportunity to try before and couldn't leave the store without buying it.
Let me know if you have tried any of these or what other miracles deal with damage on your hair. 




NOVEX MAX KERATIN



This one is kind of 'a very specific one'. At first, I didn't know what to do with that as it has very kind of watery consistency and I have always expected the conditioner to look and be kind of creamy and thick. Again, this one almost looks and feels like a water. When I got it for the first time, I added this to my hair masks as I wasn't sure how to use it to not use the whole bottle at once.

So I now got it for the second time and I decided to use it the way it is meant to be applied. I didn't take a picture of the instructions but they suggest to use this everyday for first week and every two or three days after 1st week of treatment. Well, I do not use it everyday but I apply this the same way I would apply normal hair conditioner. It does miracles. It changes dry, damaged and looking-dead ends into healthy-looking hair, which look like never damaged, dyed or styled with heat.









These two are almost the same, I mean they deliver exactly the same result - healthy looking, shiny hair. The brown one on the left (in the picture above) is a conditioner but also having this kind of very watery-looking texture. Maybe all conditioners in Brazil are like that? Anyways, they do miracles - that is the most important. The hair mask, however, brown one on the right, has this creamy texture and lasts for really, really long. I didn't need that much to cover the entire length of my hair. Definitely buying this ones again!




Salt-free shampoo. I am a bit confused about its name. I bought it with the name SEDA on the pack, and have been recently searching for the same one online to add it to my Brazilian Wish List and found the same one, but called SunSilk. 

Anyways, I never thought the shampoo can have such an impact on the damage. When using this one, I don't even have to use any conditioners or masks because my hair is already so soft! The reason I bought this is its formula without salt - I needed this to maintain the result of the keratin treatment. 



Another hair masks... Maybe this post doesn't show a variety of products as all of them do the same - transform extremely damaged hair into the hair that looks healthy - they look like you just left the hair salon after the 10cm hair cut! 

If you have damaged hair, style your hair with heat constantly, long hair with 'ugly ends that need intensive moisture and cannot find the product that works as it is claimed to work, try these ones. I can bet you would love all of these - and your hair as well! 

They are all, obviously, available in Brazil or ebay/amazon. 


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HOW I GOT RID OF BRITTLE NAILS IN JUST 7 DAYS?

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Hi everyone, how are you folks?
Today, I will try to quickly share with you my story and tell you about this amazing product that has changed the life of my nails!
Until January 2014, I was always having acrylic extensions on my nails – fake nails. I actually never removed them for around 7 – 10 months (I didn’t count but it was really, really long). The reason why I decided to always have them is that I always had weak nails – ALWAYS. And I mean it. I was taking vitamins designed for strengthening the nails, I was using expensive (and inexpensive) nail conditioners and nothing has ever changed. I could still bend my nails right and left without feeling any pain. This is why I was tired of it and I decided to go for acrylics as I really wanted to get this amazing art and awesome colors on my nails.
In January, I was going on holiday to Poland and I actually had my acrylics done that time and they brought the attention of my friends. I explained them why I use fake nails and I told them that no matter what I did, my nails were extremely weak! I spend 2 weeks in Poland and during that time, around 10 friends of mine told me about this EVELINE TOTAL ACTION CONDITIONER. You might be thinking now ‘Oh God. It’s probably another ‘amazing’ thing that is supposed to help me and probably won’t”. The same I thought. But then I met one more friend, who also was always complaining about her nails and she would also get fake nails quite often as she could never grow hard, long and beautiful nails. When I met her, she had this amazingly shaped and hard as stone nails, when I asked, she said it is EVELINE. It was a moment when I thought ‘This might also work on me’. I run to the shop and bought 5 of them and took them all back to the UK.


THIS IS NOT SPONSORED POST & IT DOESN’T CONTAIN AFFILIATE LINKS!
THIS IS A POST ABOUT THIS AWESOME PRODUCT THAT CAN TRANSFORM YOUR NAILS FROM EXTRA WEAK TO EXTRA STRONG IN JUST 7 DAYS!

THIS THING IS A MIRACLE.
 But to let it work as a miracle, you need to apply it according to the instructions!

The reason why i’m highlighting that this post is not sponsored nor it has affiliate links is that i don’t want you to think that i’m trying to encourage you to buy something so i can get my commission. I simply want to share with you something that can change your nails immediately, make them beautiful and strong. If that work on me, it has to work on you.
THE LINK TO THE NAIL CONDITIONERS FROM EVELINE:
CONDITIONER MENTIONED IN THIS POST:
IMPORTANT POINTS:
– This conditioner works ONLY AND ONLY if you follow the instructions from the pack;
– This conditioner contains FORMALDEHYDE (2%)- a substance that is used to preserve specimens and dead bodies. It is also argued it might cause cancer. It is, however, included in more than 50% of nail conditioners available in the market;
– It cannot be used straight after removing fake nails as it will cause pain – pain that you might not stand, so it is better to wait;
– Do not apply this close or on your cuticles as this will make them dry. If that happens once, it’s fine. Don’t panic but avoid doing it regularly.
HOW TO USE THIS PRODUCT (information taken from the pack):
– Apply one layer every day, for 4 days;
– After 4 days, remove all 4 layers;
– Begin the treatment again, from the beginning.
INGREDIENTS:
Butyl Acetate, Ethyl Acetate, Nirtocellulose, Phthalic Anhydride / Trimellitic Anhydride / Glycols Copolymer, Acetyl Tributyl Citrate, Isopropyl Alcohol, Aqua, Formaldehyde (2%), Acetyl Triethyl Citrate, Stearalkonium Hectorite, Adipic Acid / Fumaric Acid / Phthalic Acid/ Tricyclodecane Dimethanol Copolymer, CI77891, N-Butyl Alcohol, Citric Acid, Diamond Powder.

DON’T FORGET TO SHARE IN THE COMMENTS WHAT OTHER AMAZING NAIL PRODUCTS YOU HAVE TRIED!
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BOOTS BOTANICS - FACIAL OIL & HOT CLOTH BALM - REVIEW

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Oh dear Boots. Thanks so much for this brand!
Boots Botanics range offers cosmetics with organic formulas containing ingredients from Kew Garden in London. They were not tested on animals and do not contain paraben or SLES. The products are gentle, yet effective and suitable for sensitive skin.
HOT CLOTH CLEANSING BALM
Oh God. This is my favorite from Boots. For those, who don’t have much experience with hot cloth cleansing products, this is like a soft wax in the pack, which I apply on damp face and massage according to the instructions. Next, I pad hot cloth, which was previously soaked in a hot water, to my face, then I remove the product from my face using the cloth. As the last step, I clean the cloth, soak it in cold water and pad to my face again. The whole process might seem to be a bit complicated and time consuming, but I got used to that. It is definitely worth! It leaves the skin is so soft and smooth that it is hard to not buy this product again.




FACIAL OILI’m not sure what I should think about this one. It has an extremely oily consistency, well, yes, I know it is an oil but I really felt like I would put the cooking oil on my face. Anyways, that is not a problem, if the product really delivers great results, I can stand this oily texture but this one didn’t really moisturized my skin as good as other products I have bought. What is more, it caused couple of acne to appear on my face. I said I am not sure what I should think about this one because I’m not sure whether my skin had crazy times and just decided to have some acne or the oily consistency of this product caused it. I put that product away for a moment and I will return to it once my skin gets better.
That would be it about Boots Botanics. Let us know in the comments below if you ever had an opportunity to try it!

Have a great Friday :)



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THE BODY DELI BLUEBERRY FUSION MICRO-SCRUB

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Today, I want to share with you my opinion about this Micro-Scrub from The Body Deli, which I actually accidentally brought from work. 
For those, who don’t know, The Body Deli is a brand from USA, now exclusively available in the UK at http://abeautifulworld.co.uk. This brand doesn’t test on animals.
From the company’s website:The Body Deli is the original pioneer for fresh, raw, organic skin and body care. Our products are formulated to rejuvenate and give your face, body and hair a healthy, vibrant and youthful glow. Raw superfoods are what make The Body Deli products so effective. Superfoods are nature’s most concentrated sources of bio-identical nutrients, minerals, enzymes and antioxidants. Superfoods are made in nature and are highly absorbable by the human body. The skin is the largest organ of the body and needs the same high quality nutrition topically that a healthy and vibrant body needs internally. Rejuvenate your skin with clinically proven active ingredients and with the health giving benefits of pure, organic, food based ingredients”.



So for the last 2 weeks or so, I’ve been using Blueberry Fusion Micro-Scrub smelling like a fresh berry smoothie you have during that hot, sunny day. It contains DIAMTOMACEOUS EARTH, lactic, malic and citric acids remove dull. dry and damaged skin. When using this for the first time, I didn’t realize it has acids in its content and I applied way too much of this product on my a bit irritated skin (I had couple of big acne on my left cheek that time). It was so pinching that I thought I would have to wash it off straight away. But I didn’t and next time I knew how to use this properly. Also, after this incident, I have read everything that was on the pack.
I’ve been thinking a while about getting CHEMICAL PEEL done but I’ve been postponing this all the time as I didn’t want to scare anyone when going outside with my skin peeled so when I read that this scrub actuallyCONTAINS SOME ACIDS I was really excited as I wondered if that works similar way to the acid used during chemical peel. It is actually hard for me to compare or judge whether it works the same way as I have never had chemical peel but from the results that are promised, I strongly agree that the effect is very, very, and once again, very similar.
I have noticed the results after one week of using this product every second or third day. I noticed my skin is smooth and moisturized with even skin tone. After using this product, the spots I had on my cheek, weren’t kind of mountains or volcanoes – instead I had smooth and flat surface. Of course, I could still see some redness from spots, but it was really irritating and annoying when I had spots and even though I covered them with make-up, there were still visible, not as red ones but as ‘volcanoes’ covered with foundation.  Nobody wants that.
Spots are actually my main concern and I’m currently discovering many products that would help me with that so stay tuned if you are interested as there will be some more amazing things coming up if it comes to getting rid of spots/acne. 
Another thing this scrub definitely does is removal of dead and dry skin cells. Oh gosh… It makes the skin so fresh and healthy looking that you wouldn’t believe your own eyes. It also moisturizes the skin so well that after using it, you don’t need to apply any cream.
The only negative thing – or maybe something that scared me a bit is that it has this kind of smashed berries colour so when applied on the face, it seems that the skin is all red as it would be burned. I mean, it is not a big issue but when using this first time, it scared me!
Products from this brand are a bit expensive if compared to the other face care or body care products available in the UK but if all of them are as good as this scrub, then they are all worth the price! After using this scrub, I don’t think I need to get chemical peel anymore to improve my skin’s condition. 
That would be it about this magical scrub I got, let us know if you had an opportunity to use anything from The Body Deli. 
Thanks for stopping by 

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ESSENCE HELLO AUTUMN THERMO EFFECT NAIL POLISH - REVIEW

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Hi everyone,

This is a quick post just to share with you my opinion on this Essence Nail Polish offering thermo-effect – that means it is supposed to have different shades depending on where the hand is – in cold or warm place.



So the nail polish itself, is just fine. I mean, for that price, it is great, however, I had to take more of the product onto the brush to ensure the perfect coverage I get with regular nail polishes just after a normal, one layer.


It did change its shade when I left home (it was cold today) but they change wasn’t really dramatic or visible. I think that if I didn’t tell my friend about the effect this nail polish offers, she wouldn’t even notice it changed the color.


It is definitely an interesting thing to try but I wouldn’t be buying these nail polishes on regular basis. I have heard, however, that other colour from this brand, deliver more visible change of shades, have you tried any? 
Thanks for stopping by

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