Late to the Party

Another good month for using up some of my enormous skincare and makeup stash. I obviously gained a few items from Beauty Subscription boxes and some free samples. Other than that, I was very restrained in my buying and didn't add any full sizes to the skincare inventory (although I might have bought a couple of new make up bits!).   Skincare Empties     * Bielenda Active Concentrate Plant Stem Cell vials - This was a box of ten x 3ml vials that I bought to use after dermarolling. Firstly, my God! It's hard to use up 3ml of serum in one go. But this watery, odourless serum did sink in very nicely and was a great soothing first step after dermarolling. I've been dermarolling for almost 12 weeks now and I'm not entirely convinced by it's efficacy for me. I've read so many reviews where people say that they wake up with healthy, hydrated, plumped and glowing skin - but for me personally, it's not made a tremendous amount of difference. Unsure whet...

It's been a big month of consumerism for me! Here are some of my favourite items that I've picked up and enjoyed using in August.   Very make-up orientated choices this month. My absolute favourite buys and discovery were the Colourpop cosmetics. I've been using these daily since I got them and still haven't managed to try them all out yet and there's certainly more permutations for me to conjure up using the colours I have. I wrote about this haul a little while ago - HERE .   Urban Decay - Naked Heat palette rrp £39.00 Two palettes stuck out in my mind as being splashed all over social media and they were the Urban Decay Naked palette and the Anastasia Beverley Hills Subculture palette. The Subculture palette caused such a hoo-ha everywhere due to the extreme fall out and bad blending. This palette looked like it had some great colours but the drama created has probably forever dented it's reputation - it just shows the power of modern reviewin...