5 products that I am currently loving.....

As you know, I am not doing monthly favourites this year but when I have a collection of products that I am using repeatedly, I am sharing them with you and today's post is about five products that I am currently obsessed with! Some are old favourites, some new and one rediscovery.

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Buffing Brush, Charlotte Tilbury, Cover Fx, Cover Fx Illuminating Setting Spray, Custom Enhancer Drops, Favourites, Giorgio Armani, Lost Cherry, Luminous Silk, Real Techniques

Butter London nail product range review

I was very lucky a few weeks ago to receive a bundle of goodies from Butter London, which is a brand that has been on my radar for a while. Surprisingly, Butter London is actually an American brand and they produce lip, face and eye makeup products as well as a large range of nail products, which I am ready to share my thoughts on today. 

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Butter London, Butter London Nail Polish, Butter London Patent Gel Flawless Base Coat, Butter London Patent Gel Flawless Top Coat, Butter London QuickFix Moisturising Cuticle Balm, nail polish, review

Brand Focus #7 Anastasia Beverly Hills

A few years ago if Anastasia Beverly Hills was mentioned, most people would immediately have thought of brow products but now it's hard to know if it's eye shadows, lip products or highlighters that would come to mind first because they basically do everything so well. I first heard about the brand when I read that Kim Kardashian will only let Anastasia do her brows - the entire beauty world paid attention at that point! I've tried quite a few products from the brand so I've decided to compile my thoughts into a brand focus post (others in the series here) and as with all of my other brand focus posts, this post is not sponsored. Frustratingly, not all ABH products are available this side of the Atlantic but if you are interested in buying any of the products mentioned here today, they are available from Beauty Bay, Cult Beauty (free shipping on ABH products this month) or directly from Anastasia Beverly Hills UK site.

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Anastasia Beverly Hills, Beauty Bay, blush, Brand Focus, Brow Definer, Cult Beauty, Eyeshadow palette, Glow Kit, Highlighter, lip gloss, Master Palette by Mario, Maya Mia, Modern Renaissance Palette

Review: Urban Decay Naked Heat Palette & a suggested alternative

Unless you've been hiding under a rock, you will know that Urban Decay's newest addition to their Naked palette range; Naked Heat, is being released this Thursday (July 27th) on Urbandecay.co.uk and on August 3rd in stores. I was lucky enough to nab one in the pre-release last month but held off publishing a review until now because I wanted to give it a decent try and also because there were so many "reviews" within a day of it being released (seriously, how can you review something you've owned for less than 24 hours - first impressions, yes but full review - no!) that I was almost over it before I received it, as it was all over social media. Because of that, I put it away for around 10 days before I started using it because I wanted to give it a fair trial and at that point, the hype had died down! I'm glad I did this because I could look at it with fresh, unbiased eyes.

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dupe, eye shadow, Eye Shadow palette, Holy Grail Palette, Naked Heat Palette, review, Urban Decay, Violet Voss

Highlighting & Contouring with Iconic London

I think my love of highlighting has been well documented on the blog (collection post here) and I'm also partial to some gentle contouring so I was delighted when I received this selection of products from Iconic London recently. I've been giving them a good testing and am ready to share my thoughts with you today!

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Contour, cruelty free, Highlight, Iconic London, palette, Vegan

My skincare routine extras: masks, oils, exfoliators featuring Omorovicza, Pixi, Hey Honey & more!

To finish off my series of skincare posts, today I am sharing the "extras" in my routine - products that I don't use daily but they are used at least weekly, if not two or three times a week. As with my previous two posts, all of these products are consistent in my routine, especially the "holy trinity" of masks that I've spoken about a lot previously on the blog.

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GLAMGLOW, Hey Honey, Micro Exfoliating Balm, Omorovicza, Oskia, Pixi, Refining Facial Polisher, Renaissance mask, skincare, thirstymud, Ultramoor Mud Mask

My current evening skincare routine featuring Estée Lauder, Alpha H, Dr Botanicals & more!

Following on from Sunday's post all about my morning skincare routine, today I am sharing my current evening routine. Again, these products are all consistent in my routine and all that I have been using over the past 4/5 weeks - obviously some I have been using for longer but this group of products are the only I have used in recent times and consistency is key for me. 

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Advanced Night Repair, Alpha H Liquid Gold, Bio-Extracts, Cleanser, DHC, Estée Lauder, face mask, GLAMGLOW, Oskia, Pestle & Mortar, serum, skincare, thirstymud

My current morning skincare routine featuring Omorovicza, Hey Honey, January Labs and more!

All this week on the blog, I am going to post about my current skincare routines - morning, evening and the extras, beginning today with my morning routine. I have a LOT of skincare products but after getting my skin back on track after its meltdown a few months ago, I decided that I needed to streamline my collection and just use certain products consistently. Around 4/5 weeks ago I cleared out my bathroom cabinet and kept a curated collection and now my skin is looking better than it has done in months and I'm no longer fighting breakouts and redness, my pores appear more refined and overall my skin looks more radiant. I think, for me, the key is not to chop and change my products too much as consistency has worked wonders. Some of the products were sent to me but most I bought myself and details of both are at the bottom of the post - either way, my opinion is honest. For reference, I have dry, quite sensitive skin with some texture issues and visible pores.

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Bio-Extracts, cruelty free, Dry Skin, Eye Cream, Hey Honey, January Labs, Magnitone, Medik8 C-Tetra Vitamin C Antioxidant Serum, moisturiser, Omorovicza, Oskia, Pestle & Mortar, serum, skincare

What I've been buying recently: Jo Malone, MAC, Urban Decay, Natasha Denona, Zelens and more!

It's quite a while since I posted a haul on here! I managed to get a few bargains in the summer sales and I picked up a few bits in Duty Free last month so I thought that I'd put them all together into one big haul, some with initial impressions but others I haven't tried yet. Let's get started!

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Contour, Estée Lauder, Haul, Jo Malone, MAC, Morning Facial Overnight Facial, Naked Heat Palette, Natasha Denona, Recent purchases, Roloxin, Sarah Chapman, This Works, Urban Decay, Zelens

YSL Summer Day and Night Essentials

Just before I went on holiday at the end of last month, I received a set of five mini YSL Summer Day and Night Products, which was perfect timing. The sizes are ideal for hand luggage and I used all of the products on holiday (neglected others that I had already packed!). I don't wear makeup during the day on holiday so I used all of these products in the evening but I don't really think that any of them are suited primarily to either day or night use - just whenever suits! Let's get started with my thoughts....

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Lip Perfector, lipstick, Makeup, Mini, Perfume, Primer, Rosy Coral, Rouge Pur Couture, Touche Eclat, Touche Éclat Blur Primer, ysl