♥My Skin Care Routine♥

It's Wednesday! I love Wednesdays! Hope your all okay! My skin care routine! This is so important to get lovely healthy skin, so here's what I do every day and night!♥

So the first thing I do, at night, is take off all my make up with a baby wipe. I think these take my make up off really well. 
I then take the excess make up off with a cleanser. I also take a cotton bud and put some of the cleanser on the end and take off my mascara. With using a cotton bud you don't rub or tug the lashes as this might cause the lashes to fall out. I massage the cleanser in my skin and then I remove it with a cotton pad! It leaves my skin feeling fresh, soft and smooth. 
After cleansing, I always always use a toner. I love using a toner, it removes any make up the cleanser didn't remove and the rest of the cleaner and it helps give your face a nice base for your moisturiser to absorb into your skin. I put this on a cotton pad and sweep it around my face.
I then use my night cream, I love this cream. Its a lovely thick consistency. It makes your skin feeling awake and supple.

So when I wake up, I always go over my face with a baby wipe to refresh my skin.
I then cleanse and tone again like at night.
I then put my moisturiser on. It has Pro-Vitamin B5 which restores, soften and smooths your skin. It has vitamin E which moisturises and improves your skin condition, which I have definitely noticed. This also creates a nice base for my make up to sit on. 

My cleanser, toner and night cream are all by The Body Shop and my moisturiser is by Simple!

As well, one every week I use my Lush Mask of Magnaminty face mask, this helps with preventing spots and blemishes and leaves your skin feeling amazing! I will be doing a full review on this product very soon!
I also get rid of my dry skin on my lips by using the Lush Bubblegum lip scrub, there is a full review right here: 

A skin care routine is very important to making your skin feeling soft and smooth and keeping it fresh and nourished. I really recommend to get a cleanser, toner and moisturiser and this will help make sure you get all your make up from your face and making your face feel amazing.

Whats your favourite skin care product?

Nancy XO♥

Review│♥Naked Basic Palette by Urban Decay♥

Hi guys it's Friday! Nearly the weekend! I'm so excited for this review!♥
I have been wanting to try out the Naked palettes for so long now, so I thought to get use to the colours and the shadows I'd treat myself to the Basic palette and I am so glad I did, its amazing and I'm in love!
It retails at £22.00 and it has 6 shadows, one is shimmery, the rest are matte. I have been after some matte shadows for a while as all I have are shimmery, glittery ones. But not anymore!!!!!

This is what the front of the palette looks like. I absolutely love feel of this too! It doesn't feel like plastic at all. It feels smooth and soft, kind of like a fabric feel. But its definitely not like plastic at all.

These are the colours that come in the Basic Palette. As you can it includes: Venus, Foxy, Walk of Shame (W.O.S), Naked 2, Faint and Crave. For me, these colours are absolutely perfect for me. And the colours are so pigmented, as you can see on my hand, and they are so blend able, its so easy to blend the colours together, and they really compliment each other in all the palette, whatever colour you chose to put together.

I first tried out the palette today and used most of the shadows together.

I used 'Foxy' all over my lids. I then put 'Naked 2' in the middle of my lids and 'Faint' on the outer corner. I blended these together. I then put some more 'Faint' on the outer corners and some 'Crave' in the crease. I then put Venus on the inner corner to brighten my eyes. I didn't add any liner, just some mascara and some natural lashes. The lipstick I am using today is 'Rebel' by MAC.

This palette is so worth the money, as just one single shadow form Urban Decay is £14.00. You get six for £22.00, amazing! I am honestly in love with this palette, and in the future I will definitely be buying all the other Naked palettes for sure. 

Whats your favourite Urban Decay product?

Nancy XO♥

Review│♥Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation♥

Its May! Were so close to the summer now! Hope your all having a good day today!♥
So I've been using this foundation for a week now and I thought it's time for a review! Before we start,  I have combination skin: normal-dry, so I always moisturise my skin before applying the foundation.

Firstly, the most important factor about a foundation, the colour match:
This foundation is in the shade '1W1 BONE', and for my skin tone it is absolutely perfect. It matches my skin tone amazingly. Estée Lauder have so many shades in this foundation which I was very impressed with, so there is a shade out there for you!

The application: I found the application of this foundation quite tricky to start of with, but now I've got my own technique that suits me! When I first applied the foundation I found it very cakey and for some reason it didn't work very well with my nose.
But now, I have found that applying the tiniest bit to each part of your face works so much more better, it doesn't look as cakey and makes your skin look natural.
When I put the foundation on my nose, it went patchy and flaky, even with me moisturising and applying my primer. I was applying the foundation with a regular foundation brush. But I have found that with using my Real Techniques Buffing Brush, the product on my nose looks so much more flawless and natural!
Also, the foundation doesn't come with a pump, you have to pour out the product, but M·A·C's foundation pump fit perfectly if you just trim the end of the tube, which helps you use less product and makes the foundation longer.

The coverage: I have quite red skin, blemishes and red marks on my skin, and they are quite hard to cover. After hearing the great reviews about the coverage I was very very excited to use the foundation as many stated that they didn't have to use concealer. But in my case I still have too. The foundation does give a good coverage, but on my red marks and blemishes it doesn't cover them too good. I still have to use my concealer to cover them and then apply the foundation, this covers them better with just the foundation on its own. I was disappointed to find it didn't cover as well as I thought but I found a way for me personally to make my blemishes disappear!

Another good point with this foundation is that you don't have to powder after the application. Once the foundation has settled into the skin it goes quite powdery so you don't have to bother with applying a powder, which helps with avoiding the cakey look that some foundations give. I personally, powder the places I conceal to help keep the concealer and foundation in place all day, which works well for me!

Lastly, this foundation does stay all day! I put my make up on at about 6.30am and go to college till 7.30pm and it still looks amazing and flawless and doesn't get shiny which is a big big pro about this foundation.

All in all, this foundation is very good! It retails at £28.50 which is quite expensive for the product but at the end of the day, you get what you pay for! This has been one of the best foundations I've come across and I will be repurchasing this again. I do recommend this foundation, but its all personal preference. I hope this review helped you guys though.

Whats your favourite foundation?

Nancy XO♥

Review│♥M·A·C Rebel Lipstick♥

Yay its Saturday, hope your having a magical weekend!♥
I want to share with you all my thoughts on M·A·C's Rebel that I purchased earlier in the week.
I am in love with this! I never normally wear lipstick and if I do its a very nude colour, so I thought I'd be daring and get a darker colour that I wouldn't really go for and see if I could pull it off.

I brought this from my M·A·C counter in Debenhams, it retailed at £15.00. Some may think this is alot of money but its so worth it! 

It came in this black packaging. I love the packaging that M·A·C provides for thier products and I always keep them to store them in, so when I am finished my lipstick I can stack them and keep them neat and tidy.

I absolutely love the colour of this lipstick. I'm so so in love and it was so worth every penny. It's a very deep purple but with a hint of pink in it. I personally think it looks much darker in the tube compared to when you actually put it on your lips, but the product is buildable. The more product you put on, the more darker it goes. It also has a satin finish so it gives a beautiful shine on the lips. I've also noticed with this lipstick, if you put a slight amount on your lips too, this also acts as a lip tint which I love also. 

The reason why I love this product, other than the colour, is it last so long on my lips! I woke up at 9am today, I put this lipstick on and its 3.30pm and it still is on my lips. Ive had lunch, had drinks and even gave my boyfriend some kisses and it is still as it was when I applied the lipstick this morning and I haven't had to retouch on my lips with the product! I did however, before putting the lipstick on, apply some concealer onto my lips to give the lipstick a bit of hold and after I applied I added some translucent powder over the top to stop it from smudging. This may of been a help for the product to stay on my lips, but I have tried the lipstick another day without applying concealer and powder and it lasts a long period of time.

I honestly cant get enough of this lipstick!

I defiantly recommend this lipstick to you all who want to try something new and dark!

http://www.debenhams.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/prod_10701_10001_123443826999_-1

http://www.maccosmetics.co.uk/product/shaded/168/310/Products/Lips/Lipstick/Lipstick/index.tmpl

Whats your favourite MAC lipstick?

Nancy XO♥

♥My Estée Lauder Counter Experience♥

Happy Thursday! Hope your having a wonderful day!♥
Yesterday I went into town to treat myself to some new make up. I was so excited as I was going to get the Estée Lauder Double Wear Foundation as many youtubers and bloggers gave so many good reviews about the product. This was my very first Estée Lauder product I've ever brought and so this is the first time I've ever had an experience at their counter. So I thought I'd share with you all my first counter experience.

I went into Debenhams, a department store, and I went to the Estée Lauder counter, where we waited about 10 minutes to find out there wasn't a make up artist to do a consultation and match me up with foundation colour for about 2 hours! So we went to a different store.

We went to John Lewis, I had never been in this store before so I didn't know my way about but I soon found the make up department. I found the Estée Lauder counter and I was soooooo impressed! As soon as I got to the counter the make up artist asked me if I needed any help. I told her I wanted to buy the Double Wear Foundation and that I've never tried the product before so I needed a colour match! She was so so lovely, she told me to sit on the chair. She asked if I wanted the foundation to match my skin colour exact or if I wanted to go a little bit darker. I always like my foundation just that little darker then my skin tone. She matched me to the foundation in the shade '1W1 BONE' I was so so happy with the bit of foundation she put on my jaw/neck and the colour looked amazing and it felt so smooth and light on my skin! So I told her I was very happy and I would like to purchase the foundation. 

This was the part I was very impressed with. When I was paying for the foundation, she gave me a little pot of the foundation and told me to use all the tester pot before I open the proper foundation to make sure I like the shade and if it is the correct colour. I was so so so so impressed! I have never had another company give me a tester pot like that before. I just thought this was a really good idea because she said if the colour wasn't correct she could change the shade for me! And she also gave me a sample of their new perfume! I felt very very happy and I couldn't wait to get home and try it out. I know for sure I will be purchasing another make up product from Estée Lauder in the future! 

Whats your favourite brand of make up?

Nancy XO♥