February Favourites

I haven't done a favourites post in quite a while and Maddie suggested I did one when I asked what posts you would like to see so here you go! 

I have been loving this No7 gentle cleanser. It's for normal to dry skin and it has made my skin look and feel so much better. I picked it up in a sealed gift set from work for £2. I often get dry skin on my forehead and nose and this has got rid of it completely and It has also got rid of most spots I had on my face, so I really recommend this and I am going on a hunt for the larger version this week!

The Daisy perfume has been a favourite of mine ever since I first smelt it. It is very fresh and light so it's perfect for spring and it's also long lasting which even better. I've been using this a lot recently as the weathers been getting warmer and it is a very summery fragrance.

I have also been loving the Rimmel wake me up foundation. I didn't realise how bad my last foundation was until I got this one, I used to hate wearing foundation because I thought they all felt how my last one did (collection 2000 one) It was cakey and dry and it put me off. I then decided to buy this one and now I love it. It makes my skin look dewy and fresh, this is because it has very light shimmer in it which is lovely and not too noticeable.

Before Christmas I bought the core collection set of Real Techniques brushes but these two are the ones I use the most, the buffing brush and the contour brush. They are super soft and make my foundation apply so nicely. They also stay just as soft after they have been washed.

I love this Cath Kidston rose hand cream, it's definitely the bets hand cream I've ever tried. At first I wasn't a big fan of the rose scent but it's growing on me (Unfortunately it reminds me of Turkish delight which I hate) But the smell isn't overpowering and it makes my hands so soft and isn't greasy at all.

My friend bought me the Pixie Dust body lotion from the Disney store for Christmas. It smells lovely and honestly makes your skin so soft, who'd have thought a Disney one would be so good. It is also sparkly so it really is like fairy dust, don't tell me you've never wanted to look like a sparkly fairy.

I picked up this deodorant from Marks and Spencers for £1 and I really like it. I wouldn't say it particularly smells of cocoa butter but it smells nice non the less. But most importantly of all it 'makes ya pits smell nice'! The only problem with it is that the roller ball gets stuck a lot but that's probably just this one.

This shampoo has been a firm favourite the past month, I picked it up on a whim just to try it as it was on offer and I'm definitely going to be using it for  lot longer. As the name suggests 'luxurious moisture' it makes my hair so soft and it makes it smell really nice as well. My hair is quite damaged and dry because I'm always dying it so this has really helped improve it's condition.

I only picked up the sheer blonde deep conditioner the other week so it's more of an end of February start of March favourite but here it is anyway. I got this on a 3 for 2 deal in boots when I decided to dye my hair blonde. (long story short it's now dark brown). I used this thoroughly after dying it blonde and it worked wonders making my hair so much softer on the ends, and even though my hair is now brown I still like to use and it works just as well.

My last favourite is this Fig and Patchouli candle I picked up from Sainsburys. It is one of my most favourite candles I have ever bought, which is saying something! It makes my room smell lovely when it's burning and the packaging is so cute (I'm a sucker for nice packaging).

Hope you liked the post!

Hair haul - before and after dye

Before

After

 Good morning lovelies! As you all can probably tell I go through many phases of wanting my hair either blonde or dark brown and when I finally get it the right colour I dye it the opposite colour. Back in summer I attempted to go blonde with a bleach kit and my hair went yellow, I then dyed it an ash blonde which looked fine into the colour faded in the sun and it went an awful gingery colour, so I then dyed it dark brown. I really liked that colour but my hair never keeps the colour long and soon it was a funny mousy brown colour and so I decided I was going to Ombre it in an attempt to let my roots grow out whilst it looked like it was supposed to be like that! The Ombre looked nice at firs but that also faded quite a lot and I just didn't like it once that happened (which is why I never made the blog post about it). So after seeing many photos of lovely blonde hair on Tumblr I thought 'I want blonde hair for summer!'

I bought the Loreal preference dye in shade 0.3 lightest ash blonde, I did know that my hair was never going to be as light as the picture. There was also a 3 for 2 offer on in boots on all haircare items so I bought 3 John Frieda things, A lightening shampoo, a tone correcting shampoo and deep conditioning treatment.  I left the dye on for around 45 minutes as it suggests and the rinsed it out,  used the conditioner it comes with and rinsed that off, then finally I applied the john frieda deep conditioner and left that on for 15 minutes in the hope it would save my hair from too much damage!

My hair is definitely lighter but still not as light as I would like, so I'm going to dye it lighter again but not for a while as I don't want to frazzle my hair too much. The deep conditioner definitely did wonders too my hair as it feels so much softer and it also made it smell really nice. I am yet to try the shampoos but I could do a review on them once I've used them for a bit if people would like? But I am hoping they get rid of the slight brassy tones in my hair and lighten it just a small amount if anything.

From brown to blonde

 

This is my hair before (it's an old piccy, but my hair colour was exactly the same)

 I have finally got round to dying (well bleaching) my hair. This post is long overdue as I said I would do it ages ago, but then they didn't have the dye I wanted and I just didn't get round to it. But alas... here it is! The set of pictures above is after I used 'schwarzkopf live xxl max blonde 00B' what a mouthful! I left the dye on for the allocated time and put a shower cap on (probably not the best idea) I thought that this dye would just lighten my hair a shade lighter so I thought wearing the shower cap would increase it's lightening power from the heat on my head. However when taking a look under the shower cap shortly before washing it off, I was a bit shocked to see my roots were bright yellow/ ice blonde and the rest of my hair was a gingery blonde, and despite using 2 bottles of the product because I have longish hair, it was still slightly patchy, but this is probably due to me not applying it very well. 

After drying my hair I was a bit shocked to see how bright it was, and very yellow and dry too! I could have cried, but my Mum said she would buy me some new hair dye in the morning.

(Excuse my frizzy hair but I left it to dry naturally, and don't want to use any heat on it for a while so YAH KNOW!)

Before putting this new Nice n easy dye on my hair I was really considering putting a deep brown dye on my hair to cover the mess I had made! But I had researched about brassy blonde hair, and found out that I needed to put an 'ash' shade dye on my hair to counteract the brassiness. So this time my Mum applyed the dye for me (after seeing my attempt it was for the best)! When it was on my hair I was really worrying because it looked very ginger, but lets be honest... It couldn't have looked any worse than before. So I left it on again for the allocated time, then washed it off and left my hair to air dry (no more heat on my hair until it has recovered a bit) I quite like the results, it's still a bit of a funny colour but I am hoping it will look more natural once I have washed it a few times, and I am going to use my John Frieda shampoo that reduces brassiness. So here is my new hair, a bit damaged from the bleaching but alas... it is blonde!