My Favourite Lip Balms

I am a lip balm junkie. I love the stuff. Doesn’t matter what the season, I will be using lip balm.  While my lips don’t go dry and flaky if I don’t use it, they will get tight and sore and stingy. And if I go ages without using it, I develop a sore red rash on the skin around my lips. I was one of those children who looked like I was constantly drinking red lemonade. As a result of that pain as a child I apply lip balm constantly now. I keep it everywhere. In the car, in my bags, in pockets, in most rooms at home, at work. I have amassed quite a collection at this stage but what are my ultimate favourites?

First up we have Carmex. This is my number 1. If I had to forgo every other lip balm bar one for the rest of my life, this would be my choice. I keep the round jar of it beside my bed and that is what I slather on before I go to sleep. I keep the tube or the stick with me for on the go but I generally only apply it during the day in the house as it has quite a thick consistency.

The rest of the lip balms are in no particular order.

Burt’s Bees are very nourishing lip balms. They do have a kind of waxy feel to them but I love them. They come in a variety of scents (tastes?) including the original minty one. They also do a great tinted lip balm.

The Body Shop Mango Lip Butter is a very silky feeling lip balm. I haven’t tried any of the other ones but the mango one is gorgeous.

Nivea Pure and Natural Milk & Honey lip balm. I was never a fan of the Nivea lip balms until I tried this one. I think it’s the scent I like more than anything! It’s definitely not a heavy duty lip balm but it’s a great one to apply during the day and it’s my favourite one to apply before putting on lipstick.

Manuka Doctor Lip Ease Balm This is a very recent one that I’ve tried but it fast became a favourite. It’s a very light weight minty balm which is brilliant for giving your lips that refreshing hit when they need it without the thickness of some other ones.

Are you a lip balm junkie? What’s your favourites?

Collective Haul!

The last couple of weeks I've being picking bits and pieces up sporadically so I decided just to do a collective haul on the all of it.:)

Everything I've picked up recently:)

The Lip Products 

Carmex Lipbalm in Mint 

One of my local chemists finally started stocking the Revlon Colourburst lipglosses - something which I thought could only be gotten Stateside. I was really excited to see them and I've picked up 4 so far but I might have to pick up the other 3 that are available here lol! 

From top to bottom the shades are; Crystal Lilac, Peony, Rosegold and Papaya

Nail Varnish

There was on offer on Revlon nail varnish in the chemist 2 for €9 and they had gotten in stock the scented ones! (The same day as the colourburst - t'was a good day!) 

The Essie ones I stumbled across in a health food type store that stocks skincare products like L'Occitane and I hadn't been in there in ages and I was over the moon to discover that I now had a local Essie stockist! They don't have many colours - only about 10 different shades - but I didn't have any of them so that's good:) 

The colours from L-R Revlon Ocean Breeze, Beach, Passion Fruit (These 3 are all the scented ones my chemist had) Blue Lagoon. Essies's Mint Candy Apple and Tart Deco.

Face/Eye/Body Products

I bought the Revlon Photoready foundation not so long ago and while I really like it, I feel that the shade is just a little bit too dark for me during the day so I've regulated it to my night-time foundation which it's perfect for. So I obviously needed a new day one and I've been scraping out the remains of my Bobbi Brown one, which I also love but unfortunately there is no Bobbi Brown counter near me. I decided to try the Chanel Vitalumiére Aqua as I've read good reviews on it. I've used it a few times and it's lovely and light with a light coverage which is what I prefer. 

I also bought another Urban Decay Primer Potion, this time the one in Sin. It is a metallic type brown and works as well as the original. 

I also picked up Next's own brand perfume in Paradise. I love my Vicktor&Rolf Flowerbomb that I got for Christmas but I've been using it so much that I only have about a 1/4 left! I want it to last another while so I'm going to change my perfume about a bit more. Paradise smells divine. A proper summer holiday scent:) 

Palette 

I've been desperate to get my hands on Urban Decay's Naked Palette but it is impossible to get. I heard that this Too Faced Natural Eye Palette was extremely good as well, so I found it online and got it to try and substitute my lemming for the Naked palette. It is a really good palette and I'll be doing a review on it soon. 

Blushes and Eyeshadow

Nars and Benefit are two more brands that I can't get locally and when I found out that Asos were stocking Nars I had to get some! I had also swatched Benefit's Bella Bamba blush the last time I was at a counter and I loved it but didn't get it at the time so when I saw it on Asos I decided to get it as well. The Nars eyeshadow I got is called Galapagos. I saw Dulce Candy on YouTube using it in this tutorial and I loved it. The blush is called  Sex Appeal and I wanted a sheerish pale pink blush and that seemed ideal.


I really need to go on a spending ban:-/



Look out for upcoming reviews/e.o.t.d/n.o.t.d. on these products!