Bedside Beauty

Theres not much more that will help me settle down for a good sleep then a little pamper before bed. The products i love using are...

Night Cream: Origins Night a Mins. This is a prefect moisturiser for me, its a thick cream with a gel like consistency. The cream sinks effortlessly into the skin ad leaves my skin super moisturised and smelling delicious! The cream has a chocolaty orange scent which only hangs around for a short while so its not something thats off putting! 

Eye Cream: This is something i use morning and night, its the Boots Botanics Radiant Youth Eye Cream. This cream is again one that just sinks into the skin and it doesn't leave a sticky residue. I apply this by squeezing a small amount onto my ring finger and pat it in all under my eye and up to my brow bone.

That extra treat: This is something i use when my skin can use that little extra pick me ups, Origins Drink up Intensive Overnight Mask - I have done a full review on this here and theres no denying that i love this stuff. It the easiest face mask to use and adds so much more subtleness to the skin!

Body - I love a good body butter and one of my favourites is The Body Shops body butter in Coconut its super thick and easily melts into the skin. Plus who doesn't like going to sleep, smelling like their on holiday!

Hands: My hands get really really dry in winter so i have to keep on top of hand cream, i have my little handbag hero Soap and Glory Hand Food on me at all times but i love to use this Figs & Rouge hand cream in Mango before bed for that little extra softness.

Hair: My boyfriend has a very annoying habit of twiddling my hair when were in bed and most would think arrhh. But no seriously he twiddles and leave knots all the time. So i use my Tangle Teezer every night before bed to make my hair as knot free as i possibly can

What is in your bedtime routine?

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New Hair - New Hair Care

If you follow me on Instagram - link :) you may have seen i have recently changed my hair. I wanted something darker but i didn't want to fully convert to a brunet - im just not that daring yet! So i decided on this...

I dyed the top of my hair a really dark blonde and lightened the ends, so yeah i went blonde ombré. Its not exactly how i wanted it but i did it myself and i think its the best i could have done!

For colouring i used L'Oreal Colour Préférence in Rimini for the top and Schwarzkopf Blonde Ultime 12-0 xtra light natural blonde for the ends.

I use the same shampoo and conditioner which is the Gariner Ultimate Blends in The Sleek Restorer and The Silky Smoother which you can read about here - Link. The little editions that have found there way into my hair care routine are The L'Oréal Elvive ExtraOrdinary Oil Nourishing Mask Balm. Quite a mouth full i will admit but this has worked wondered for my hair since colouring it. The masque is super thick and clings to the hair. I apply this after shampooing and conditioning my hair from root to tip and leave it on a good five minutes whilst i wash and once rinsed it left my hair super silky and detangled it is fast becoming one of my favorites! A very similar product my hair has loved is the L'Oréal Professional Mythic Oil Masque. I use it in the exact same way i do the ExtraOrdinary Oil masque and the results are more or less exact so i would recommend either of those two.

I said in a previous post that i am a bit lazy when i comes to using a heat protector but because i have coloured my hair more than i usually do i ave been on top of my hair game and started using the  VO5 Smoothly Does It Tame and Shine Spray. For me this has worked the best for my hair at keeping those dreaded fly aways to a minimum and it smells incredible. 

The final addition to my hair care bunch my Tangle Teezer i wrote about this already here, but since using it more and more i have noticed that my hair has had less breakage which for me any brush that does whats its supposed to and more is a winner in my books.

What are your hair care staples?

Still Tangled?!

Well things really didn't go to plan! We have recently moved house and were going to be without internet until The Virgin Man can and installed it for us. Me being super keen wrote enough posts to keep me going during it that time and thought i had scheduled them to post themselves.... turns out i didn't do that correctly. So i am sorry i haven't posted for a while but that is the only reason! Heyho lesson learnt, I've now actually looked it up how to do it correctly and it shan't happen again!

The much hyped Tangle Teezer... My hair is notorious for being knotty and tangled so much so when i was young un' my dad called me scrag end because i would go to school with my hair done all pretty and come home with it stuck up all over the place and looking a real mess! 

So reading and hearing so much about The Tangle Teezers I knew i HAD to have one. I obviously went for the pink one! From what i heard these rang through the hair without any snagging or pulling and left hair super healthy looking. So needless to day i had high hopes!

I picked it up on lunch break and as soon as i got back to the office NEEDED to give it a go! for me it is lovely and feels really nice when brushing on the scalp, but i was a little underwhelmed when it did tug. I must admit it doesn't pull as much as an ordinary brush but none the less it pulled. Plus i have found once brushed through and knot free it does keep it in such state a lot longer than an ordinary brush does.

Over all i do really like The Tangle Teezer and really want to get the one specifically for wet hair o and the compact one! I should have really known that no brush would be completely snag free, but we all can hope eh?