The Summer Tag!

A picture we took from Alcudia last summer.

I love doing these tags and I thought which better tag to do than a summer tag, even though we have been getting nothing but rain lately I still love the summer! Here goes...

1. Favourite bronzer for summer?

I don't really wear a bronzer to be honest, but obviously if I was going to buy one it would be from Avon. Gotta promote the products!

2. You're relaxing in a hammock, on a tropical island. What are you sipping on? (Favourite summer drink)

My favourite drink in the summer is anything thats freezing cold and refreshing! What I really love as a summery drink is Fanta Fruit Twist!

3. Favourite summer lip product?

I think this would definitely have to be any lip balm! My lips get so dry, especially in the summer heat. The lip balm I am loving at the minute is The Body Shop's Born Lippy in Raspberry.

4. Pool or beach?

Both! The pool during the day when its nice and hot, then the beach on an evening for a nice long walk and to watch the sun set :)

5. Summer = crazy hair! What's your must-have styling product?

Dry shampoo and a bobble! I hate having my hair down when I'm hot. It gets on my wick! And I find that in the summer my hair gets greasy really easily, so it would definitely be dry shampoo and a bobble to put my hair up with.

6. Sun bathing or fake tan?

I rarely ever fake tan, I don't think that I really suit it. I like to sunbathe but I'm always conscious of burning so if I'm going to sunbathe I always make sure to wear a sunblock.

7. Favourite summer nail polish?

A nice bright coral colour! 

9. Favourite summer scent?

It would have to be suncream. I absolutely love the smell of suncream and it always reminds me of summer!

10. Favourite BBQ food?

A nice cold ice lolly to refresh me!

I tag everyone who reads this!

The Blogger Made Me Buy It

If you're anything like then you're an absolute sucker for reading about a product on a blog or watching someone talk about it on YouTube and then having to go out and buy it to try it for yourself. I am so guilty of doing this, so I thought it would be fun to do a post all about the products I have read about and then gone on to buy.

First we will start with Corrie over at dizzybrunette3.com. I have been following Corries YouTube and blog for probably over a year now. I first found her on the Avon Connects forum when she was writing their beauty blog for a short time. There are three products in this blog that I have gone on to buy because of Corrie. First being the Tea Tree Pore Minimiser. I really liked this for a while and actually bought it three or four times when they ran out, but then I started to find that most things with Tea Tree in that I was using at the time were really drying my skin out, so I stopped using it. However, I still keep it in my makeup bags for days when my pores are just out of control!

Next from Corrie's blog I went on to buy the Rimmel Wake Me Up Concealer. I wasn't really that wowed by this concealer, but I hardly use concealer anyways so maybe that's why. I think its great for brightening up around your eye area, but not great for covering blemishes as I find it attracts the attention to them. 

Finally from Corrie's blog I went on to buy the Skin Wow Highlighter by Seventeen. My goodness, I love this product! I had been hmming and hahing about buying this product for a while after I had seen her using it, and eventually just bit the bullet and went for it. I'm really glad that I did. For someone like me with dry and dull skin, this is great to use as a primer under your foundation as it really does brighten the skin, and gives you a lovely dewy and healthy complexion. I just really like this product!

Next lets head over to Katie at katiesblondeambition.blogspot.co.uk. I actually know Katie, not personally, but through her boyfriend who I went to school with so it was really nice to see that she was writing a blog, and I really enjoy all of her posts. I saw a post by her a while ago where she had bought this Macadamia Oil Extract Hair Mask, and again I had been hmming and hahing over whether I should try it but for 99p I decided to just go for it. I haven't actually had a chance to use this yet, but I am sure it will be lovely!

Next is a blog that I have only just been following recently, and that is Victoria over at inthefrow.com. Again, I found her blog as she films YouTube tutorials and reviews for Avon. I absolutely adore Victoria's hair! Anyways, she did a post about a product that is similar to the Rescue Oil that I have bought, but I couldn't find it. But this product that I bought is pretty much the same product just a different name. I haven't used this product yet, either, but I really hope it helps with my uneven skin tone because I really dislike it and feel so self conscious without any foundation on because of this.

Okay, I thought I would leave this one till last because the reason I decided to buy the Real Techniques range was because of a wide variety of bloggers and vloggers. So many people were raving on about how good they are, and literally every blog or YouTube channel I went on had them. So I thought, you know what, I'm going to see what the hype is all about! So my wonderful husband treated me to a couple of brushes in the range, and wow! I will never go back to using my fingers to apply makeup again! I love all of these brushes, but especially the buffing brush. It definitely has to be my favourite. It just leaves my foundation looking so flawless, and its so multitasking aswell. I use it to buff my blusher down when its looking too bright, and also for making sure my concealer blends in with my foundation. They're just an all round really good brand, and I'd definitely recommend climbing aboard the hype surrounding these brushes!

So thats it, I tag everyone who reads this to do their own The Blogger Made Me Buy It post :) xx 

Theology Thursday..

Shopping On A Budget ¦ Under £10 Haul

I am on a serious budget at the minute, but when it comes to shopping I just can't help myself. So, I went into Home Bargains! Yay for Home Bargains, I love love love any shop like this! I find that most of their products are actually really good quality and people should definitely not just think they're going to be naff because of the price. 

So what did I buy?

First of all I picked up two of the Nivea Shower Creams. I chose Creme Coconut and Free Time. They both smell divine and wait for it.....were only £1 each! £1!!! Amazing. Next I picked up two products from the Macadamia Oil Extract Range. I chose a hair mask treatment and the hair oil that you leave in your hair after you've washed it and style as normal. I'm guessing they both pretty much do the same thing just in different products, so we will see how I get on with them. Both were only a whopping 99p each. Then I picked up the Rescue Oil, which was £1.99. I am going to use this mostly on my face as I have a really uneven skin tone and nasty blemishes at the minute that I am trying to get rid of. Which takes me on to my next product which is the T-Zone Rapid Action Spot Zapping Gel. This was 99p. I am really hoping that this works because like I said I've had a nasty outbreak recently and whenever I get spots not even makeup covers them so I'm just left looking awful until they leave on their sorry way! 

So that was all I bought from Home Bargains, and altogether it came to £6.96. I mean come on, who can argue with that? Even if these products aren't very good I won't complain!

Next I went to Superdrug and bought some Batiste Dry Shampoo. I bought the miniature of this for my holiday to Spain last year so now the smell reminds me of holiday! yay :) Guess how much I paid for this dry shampoo? 47p! Yes, you read correctly, no need to double take! In Superdrug they are half price at the minute making them £1.47 and I had £1 worth of points on my Beauty Card so in all this came to 47p! Amazing!!!

I'm really happy with these purchases and really hope they turn out to be a good buy!  And in total I spent less than a tenner! Who can grumble? Have you been buying any cheapy products lately? How are they?