Beauty Necessities

Hello once again my gorgeous friends and sisters!!! Today, Glitz & Glamour is back with beauty post!!! Well, sort of!

As I've mentioned in my previous posts, I've been tightening my belt when it comes to buying beauty and pampering things because of a 'bigger' project that I'm saving my hard earned dosh for. I'm going to post about it in the near future. So, I've decided that I'd only go out shopping for things as I need them instead of looking at them as random retail therapies. Nowadays, it is important that I am sensible with my spending. Afterall, I'm not getting any younger. I've turned 37 this year!!! In just over 2 years, I'd be celebrating my 40th birthday... Oh my!!! As people say... 'life begins at 40' and some says... '40 is the new 30'... For me... It's only a number... It's how we feel deep inside us... Sometimes I wake up early in the morning feeling like 105... can't move and feel like my back is glued to our bed... Anyway, I'm digressing hahahahaha!

Now, let's retract... Yes... my beauty necessities...

As I've started running out of my new favourite moisturizer, Olay Regenerist daily 3 point treatment cream. I've been using this for about 3 months now and I really love it. I've tried this when it was on half price offer in Superdrug. I thought, 'well... since it's on sale and if I didn't like it, it hasn't cost me so much'... but to my pleasant surprise, it seem to have suited my skin. So when I nip in Boots and found that they were doing 3 for 2 offer on all skin care, I took advantage of the opportunity and grab 3... Yes, I saved £29.99, which I think is great!

The other beauty necessities that I needed to grab whilst I was there were my Clinique face face powders ( I use 2, Double face powder and almost powder nake up). I was glad that Clinique was on their 'Bonus time' season so I thought I might as well grab an eye make up remover to get the gift pack on offer. So I opted for take the day off make up remover.

Below are the photos of my mini haul.

The gift

Lovely packaging for a gift

Lovely eye palette with 2 mini make up brushes

My new favourite moisturizers... they were even in presentation boxes...

I can't live without eyedrops because of my dry eyes. I thought I'd try the spray one and it really is a great idea when I'm out as even with eye make up on, I can refresh my eyes without disturbing it.

Maybelline Lash Stiletto... This is the 2nd time I purchased this beauty product because of the way it suits my daily make up needs. It looks natural on my lashes and stays well too.

I found this voucher from one of the Olay Regenerist boxes


What about you? How are you finding the current economic weather? Is this affecting the way you shop for beauty and pampering stuff? If you have any beauty tips regarding to this subject such as inexpensive alternatives, I'd love to hear from you.

Till next post!!!

xxx

Just a little shopping venture :)

I didn't plan to shop today but I had get my son a new pair of shoes for his cubs camping. However, as we were passing Boots, I've noticed that they were having many new offers such as if you spend over £15, you'll get 10 points for every £1. I really am a sucker when it comes to collecting points on my advantage card (last year, I got 2 bottles of perfume, an Armani Diamond and Burberry London from my advantage points [£160 worth altogether]) so I went it so see what I can get to take advantage of the offer. My first stop was Clinique and they were doing extra 500 points (£5 worth point) for every purchase of 2 or items so I bought 2 eyeliners in black diamond. I've spent £20 on my Clinique eyeliners but gained £7 on my advantage card. Cool eh! Then I've realized that I had a £5 worth of voucher on a few skin care product including Olay regenerist so I bought a couple (they're normally £7.50 but because of my vouchers, they've only cost me £2.50 each... Really great deal! See? I'm learning! Do they do things like that in the PI?

These were my recent purchases... more make up, I know and you might be wondering what's the crystal jar is fo... you'll see very shortly!

I've been reading great feedback on GOSH cosmetic. Apparently, they're like identical to MAC but 50% cheaper. Since I have sensitive skin, I've never thought of trying this product until now. When I went to to counter, everything looked very much of MAC make-up except for the name of course. The texture of the brushes are similar to MAC as well. I'll find out if they do the same job when I try them eventually. I've just washed them are left to dry at the moment.

GOSH Fan brush

GOSH blusher brush

Foundation brush

Revlon Quad Eyeshadow with eyeliner gift (more gift!)

My Clinique favourite!

Now, I've been thinking of ways to store my brushes when I'm not using them as they tend to collect dust when left sitting on my dressing table. I saw this one in House of Fraser and I thought.. that'll do the job. I don't know what's this jar suppose to be but it's going to be my brush container ha ha ha!

I had to re-arrange my dressing table because my make up train case needed a space. Again, I didn't know what to do and came up with this. Not sure about it at the moment... but that'll do for now :)

Yep! Even my dressing table is such a diva with photos ha ha ha!

I like to keep it clean and tidy. I dust every single thing on my dressing table twice a week. Yes, even lipsticks... I dust them one by one. I sit there for like an hour to clean this area ha ha ha!

This is how my dressing table look like when I'm doing my make up ha ha ha!

My precious brushes (old ones) drying up after being washed. I wash my brushes every 3 days... what about you? Sometimes every two days but my concealer and foundation brushes, I wash them every efter use that's why I've got few of them.

TTFN!

Never say never to shopping ;)

Hmmm.... shopping! It's probably my new work out regime nowadays. I know I'm a right shoppaholic but I just can't resist it. Well, life is for living :)

Mints and facial cleanser




I love this facial cleanser, which contains amino-peptide so it's compatible with my Susan Lucci

I even found a mint that is very very... MOI!

Mints and mirror in one little pink box... How cool is that!

YAY! I love La Senza for my lingerie and I just couldn't resist these pretty nighties and pjs

It's summer soon and these little flat sandals are really fab!

Got these foot gel thingy bobs to help protect in betweeen my toes. I know they look like implant but they're not, believe me ;)

This is how it suppose to work and I've already tried them and I'd say... They do make the difference