University Life - Saving on Accommodation Essentials

Hey guys,
So I'm off to the University of Manchester in a couple of weeks and honestly I've never realised how expensive life is before! I mean, I don't live in a hole and I know the resetion is taking it's tole but how do we enjoy student life when we can't afford it.

This post is going to share my top tips for furnishing those ever so dingy University Halls.

5 Current Favourites/Recommendations

Hi fellow bloggers, greetings and howdy doody,

I'm so sorry about my recent abandonment but I'm back and everything is okay again! :) I've actually missed coming on blogspot and scouting round.. aka planning my next big shopping spree! I've got a million and one excuses of which I'm sure you'd politely decline to listen to. So lets get straight into my list of 5 current favourites and recommendations.

Disclaimer: There are so many other products I love at the moment but I really wanted to condense it into a list of 5 as then it was short and to the point. Enjoy!

Versatile Blogger Awards

So this is just a quick post about the versatile blogger award, i'd like to just thank www.kassicalife.blogspot.co.uk for nominating me, it was super lovely of her :) I haven't had my blog for long at all but even so it was astounding to be recognized and you guys should definitely check out her blog - its so stylish and helpful plus she's just a lovely person. :)

RULES-

1. Nominate 15 fellow bloggers who are relatively new to blogging
2. Let them know you have nominated them.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
4. Thank the bloggers you who have nominated you.
5. Add the Versatile Blogger Picture to your blog.

7 Random Facts About Me:

1. I have such an unhealthy obsession with spending vast amounts of money.
2. I'm only 17 years old.
3. My dog is the most adorable thing ever.
4. I would do anything to be a model.
5. I love living in England.
6. I don't have any special talents.
7. My longest relationship was four years.

Nominations for the Versatile Blogger Award:

I realise here I'm lacking a bit, I've really not been on blogspot long enough to know loads and loads of blogs so I guess my nomination is anyone who is an up and coming blogger with a passion for beauty. I think we all deserve to be recognised so I nominate all of you. :) I'm a cheat but hey! 

Thanks so much for reading and I will have another post coming up very soon.

Love you all!

-B x

Bourjois Paris 123 Perfect Foundation.

This is the new foundation from the Bourjois Paris line, it has 3 elements within it which claim to tackle problem areas allowing for a flawless complexion.

1 - Yellow pigments to counteract dark circles.

2 - Purple pigments for an anti dull complexion.

3 - Green pigments for anti redness.

MAC no more.

So as you all have probably heard MAC have been taken off the cruelty free PETA list. 

I'm not actually someone who concentrates on whether or not a product has been tested on animals because to be brutally honest, I never actually knew animals suffered for what we use.

I sound so stupid saying this but I discovered it about 3 days ago and I'm absolutely horrified.

As soon as I watched the PETA videos and read some articles about it I felt like such a horrible human being. I was literally crying to my mum about it (which convinced her to go cruelty free too!) and I came to the decision that I will use up all the products I have, because it's no really that helpful if I just throw it all away and it's a waste of my money, once all the product has gone I'll only purchase things from a cruelty free company. I am so upset that MAC went back on their anti animal testing pledge in mid March, if I knew this I probably wouldn't have bought their eye pencil. I'm going to try my best to only review and buy cruelty free products from now on. :)

I hope some of you guys agree with this but obviously I don't want to make anyone change their opinion because of something I believe.

Anyway, I'm going shopping on Saturday because I've ran out of so many products :( I'm thinking of getting the Chanel VitaLumiere Aqua foundation so stay tuned for a review of that within the next week or so. I'm also going to be visiting LUSH and getting a lot of new shampoos, conditioners and skin treatments so I might do a quick haul of what I buy later on Saturday. 

Love you all!

-B x

Sheer disappointment (Liz Earle Sheer Skin Tint)

Hey guys!

So I absolutely love my Liz Earle Cleanse and Polish so when I bought a new bottle (I must be on my third big bottle by now, oops haha!) I decided to try out the Liz Earle Sheer Skin Tint for £21 and because I'm ridiculously pale I got mine in the bare 01 skin tone. One upside to this product is that it has SPF 15 which is always great for keeping your skin protected.

Although, I've used it four times up to now and I have to say, I'm not impressed.

If any of you live in the UK then you'll know we've had pretty decent weather the past few days so I thought it would be the perfect time to try out my new tinted moisturizer as my regular foundation was feeling a bit cakey and heavy in the lovely sun. The first time I applied it I have to admit that the coverage and the colour was perfect. I loved it! Although, it felt really wet on my skin and I added powder in order to kind of dry it out and make it stick.

This didn't help! The product felt sticky and heavy on my skin and even after 10-15 minutes the feeling did go down a little but it felt really strange and moist still. To demonstrate how wet the product is, when I got to college I hugged someone and it left a foundation stain on their glasses!

I mean, fair enough, if I had tonnes on or if I was sweating then it might be a bit more acceptable but I genuinely wasn't and it's not a problem I've ever had with any other products.

I do have combination to oily skin so maybe the product is better for those with dry skin but personally I think you can get a lot better products for a hell of a lot cheaper!

There are also other downsides to this product, it definitely doesn't have long staying power and after about 4 hours my skin was practically bare. Also the colour range is really limited, anyone with darker skin or someone who has black skin wouldn't be able to find a suitable shade, as far as I know they only do 3 variations and they don't differ much in pigmentation.

However, my skin does feel very moisturized and soft so I'm probably going to use mine as a base coat under my foundation as it is very good but the coverage and staying power is just horrendous.

I did do my research and checked out the reviews on the Liz Earle website and they all seem really positive but then after checking out some independent reviewers I found that most people were having the same issues.

So my verdict is, if you have slightly oily skin like mine... save don't spend! This product is seriously just not worth it. However it's worth getting a sampler if you have quite dry skin because I can see it looking fab on the right skin type.

Thanks for reading guys and if you have any comments, any reviews or even a blog you want me to check out then leave a comment below :) Don't forget to follow!

- B x