Holy grail skin products

Introducing my most repurchased skin/body items. Definitely a signal of holy grail status.

First up is a vanilla body butter from The Body Shop. Despite loving the strawberry and shea butter versions, I seem to always have the vanilla one in my stash. I adore the scent, it is luxuriously thick in consistency, it melts into the skin instantly and makes the skin so bloody soft.

Tea tree water by bath-bomb mavericks Lush is a holy grail skincare product of mine. It is classified as a toner and is targeted towards oily or blemish prone skin. I am the latter and I can 100% vouch for this product and claim it has helped clear and improve my skin. I spritz a little onto a cotton pad each morning and evening and it is incredibly cooling and refreshing, does not leave any tacky residue and most importantly it does not irritate or break me out. Hallelujah!

Lastly is a rather pricy moisturiser in the form of Clinique moisture surge. This little pot of goodness is perfect at hydrating dry skin. On the average day I would say I have combination skin - by midday my t-zone gets a little shiny with the rest of my face staying relatively matte. Recently, however, my skin has done a complete u-turn and has become incredibly dry and flakey (not easy to work with!) and this moisturiser has helped so much. I am going through these like there is no tomorrow, but I am partial to slather layers on before bed which is not cost effective. I blame the English weather.

I am definitely getting better at making my reviews more concise and less rambly. After all, I prefer short and to the point reviews. Have a great week - and I hope everyone effected by the flooding is safe.

Body Shop Shea Range

Shea Shower Cream, Shea Body Scrub, Shea Body Butter

The shea range at The Body Shop is my favourite. It's probably the most boring range they do scent-wise especially as they do lemon and chocolate but nevertheless it's my favourite.

I've tried practically all of the shea products they offer from soaps to scrubs to perfumes to oils and the three above are my favourites! The Shea Body Butter (£13) is extremely thick and moisturises the skin so well, a little goes a long way with this product. I love using this after showers and after tanning as it keeps it looking fresh. I also love the Shea Body Scrub (£12) for exfoliating in the shower - it has small beads which have an abrasive feel to them. I do have to say they can sting a little when you wash them off but the results are great so it doesn't bother me too much. My only complaint is that it doesn't last long! Lastly is the Shea Shower Cream (£4) which is soap-free and really moisturising - can't say anything bad about it really.

Check out the shea range here!

xx

The Body Shop "Eye Definers"

The Body Shop are most famous for their body products. Hence the name. Yet, they do have a rather large make-up section both in their stores and online. I never really knew about their make-up line - I rarely go inside the shops and have never been on their website. That is to say I do use their products, yet they're more of gifts rather than myself actually purchasing them. Either way, I love their products so when I saw that, free with Marie Clare magazine came either two eyeliners or a mascara, I was super thrilled. Being an eyeliner whore I decided to pick up the eyeliners. Plus, mascaras have an expiry date whereas eyeliners don't. Thank goodness!

The "eye definers" as we shall now call them come in two different shades: French Navy and Black. French Navy being a dark blue and black being, well black. Here are a few pictures:

Before swatching, they looked quite promising. However, once swatched they don't look as nice. They are very chalky, especially the blue one. To get a (decent) swatch of colour I had to go over the same spot several times before any colour could be seen. Plus, don't being funny, it hurt my hand! Yet, once warmed up a bit the colour payoff was lovely and the black one in particular was very nice.

Price: £8 each
Available: The Body Shop stores and The Body Shop online

Despite their crappy eye liners definers, I will be trying some of their other beauty products before I declare that the make-up section is totally shit. But for now, I think that The Body Shop should definitely stick to what their best at: body products.

Suzanna xoxo

Ps. First exam is on Tuesday, wish me luck!