Review: Aveeno Skin Relief Moisturising Lotion with Shea Butter

A lovely sales assistant gave me lots and lots of samples a few weeks back including five 15ml samples of the Aveeno Skin Relief Moisturising Lotion with Shea Butter. I just finished my last one so thought I'd share my thoughts with you.

Favourites: February 2012

All used up: Lancome Flash Bronzer Self-Tanner Face Gel

This product, promising "record application", whatever that means, has been a staple in my beauty routine for about a year and a half now. Having converted fully to the everyday high SPF anti sun group, I have resorted to self tanners to provide a much needed glow to my face that otherwise leaves me looking sallow, tired and half dead.

Review: Giorgio Armani Sheer Bronzer in 1 Brown Sand

 

Well, it's been quite the rollercoaster with this product, but I have to say that as we near the end of our time together, when we had our differences, I was completely in the wrong.

Haul: Sephora 10% Off Coupon Haul!

I went to Sephora today and picked up quite a few things that I am very excited about!

Review: Lancome Primordiale Yeux Skin Recharge Visible Smoothing Renewing Eye Moisturiser

First of all, why doesn't eye creams ever have SPF in them? Surely this is an area we really need to protect from the harmful rays of the sun, and I always feel veary when putting my regular face sun screens all over my eyes, so if anyone could enlighten me I would love to know why!

Excitement: Guerlain Golden Glimmer Powder

From the Guerlain Summer 2012 Terracotta collection 'Sun in the city' comes this beautiful golden illuminator. It's already hit my local sephora here in France, not sure about the rest of the world.

All used up: Laura Mercier Silk Creme Foundation

This is a very sad moment for me. I am sitting here writing this, dreading the moment when I actually have to throw this in the trash and must come to the realisation that this fairytale has come to an end. Laura Mercier has quite a few "cult items" in her collection, and I have to say that personally, what I've tried so far, I've loved. Loved Loved Loved.

All used up: Dermalogica Gentle Cream Exfoliant

This is one of those life-changing products. Not just the product in on itself but the product type. I discovered this when I went on my skincare exploration adventure a little over a year ago and has since converted completely from manual granule exfoliants to mask type fruit enzyme and AHA/BHA exfoliants.

Review: La Roche Posay Effaclar A.I. Targeted Breakout Corrector

I suddenly realised that in the midst of my skincare hoarding over the last year or so, I had strangely missed out on a skincare product all together the targeted blemish clearing product. It comes in many forms, colours and names and did have me somewhat sceptical about wether or not it would actually work. I did previously own The Body Shop Tea Tree Oil, which I would apply to a cotton pad and pat onto "problem areas", but didn't really see any results. So after that I was rather sceptical, but it did feel nice to do something when I had a blemish, so when the tea tree oil ran out I thought it was an excellent occasion for me to venture out and try something else similar.