Mini Haul | MUA Cosmetics

Today I went to my local Superdrug and picked up a couple of the MUA products. I haven't have them long enough to do a full review on but I can give you a first impressions of them. The products are really cheap, and mine vary from £1-£4. For the price, the products are excellent quality and I really would like to get some more from their range.

These are the things I got, the 2 lipsticks were £1 each, the highlighter was £3 and the pallete was £4. 

This is the highlighter, it is extremely pigmented with undertones of pink. It goes on really nicely and looks really nice when it catches the light. It is a great dupe for MAC's 'Extra Dimension Highlighter'.

This is the 'Undress Me Too Pallete'. It has a great range of shimmery and matte colours. The colours are really pigmented, easily to apply and blend-able. This pallete is a huge dupe for Urban Decay's 'Naked 2 pallete', and is about a tenth of the price.

Here are some swatches.

From left to right, 'Naked', 'Tranquil', 'Devotion' and 'Exposed'.

From left to right, 'Shy', 'Reveal', 'Fiery' and 'Wink'.

From left to right, 'Lavish', 'Obsessed', 'Dreamy' and 'Corrupt'.

I was pleasantly surprised with these lipsticks. The one on the left, (shade 16) is an extremely pigmented matte orange peachy coral colour. The quality is really really nice, they are luxurious and smooth. I don't know if they stay on for long but i'll see soon!! The one on the right (shade 4) is not pigmented at all, but super super glossy. It has a tiny tiny bit of colour but not much. I really like it as I can wear it for school, and it keeps my lips moisturised.  They both are really moisturising. For £1 each, I can't stress enough how worth it they are and how good the quality is!! One thing i'd be really careful with is making sure they don't snap if you have rolled it up to much. I bought them, went into the toilets to try it one, rolled it up to much and it just snapped off. Luckily I went back to Superdrug and the women was really nice about it and swapped it straight away, just something to look out for!!

Top colour is shade 4, and bottom colour is shade 16.

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Review | Soap and Glory

A couple of months ago I went to my local boots and decided to get some Soap and Glory products. All of the products that i'm going to review are affordable. They are all so lovely and luxurious. I don't think its possible to dislike a soap and glory product!

One thing I love about these products, is the packaging. It's all pink and nice and girly, yet seems really expensive. After using these product on my skin,  my skin is so glowey and yet so clean and soft. It's so obvious when iv'e used them. 

Hand Food | Hand food I believe is one of the most popular products of Soap and Glory, and i'm not surprised why! This is probably one of the most nicest hand creams I have ever tried in my life. It's so luxurious and rich, yet it soaks and absorbs into your hands super quick without feeling sticky and leaving a residue, just moisturised hands! I believe that when I bought it, the 250ml bottle was a new size and previously it came in a small tube sized bottle. The 250ml size retailed at around £7. If you haven't tried this product, I would defiantly recommend purchasing it!!

Clean on Me Shower Gel | This personally for me, is my favorite product from soap and glory. It is one of the popular ones again, but it's the best!! For one, its super foamy and lathers up really well which is always a bonus. I love using a shower gel where you can still smell the scent on you when you get out of the shower and it kind of lingers, this is exactly what this does! The smell is the original soap and glory scent. As well as smelling lovely and being really foamy, its so so cleansing on the skin! When you're rinsing it off in the shower, your skin literally feels squeaky clean its that cleansing, and after woods, it leaves your skin feel exfoliated, smooth, glowey and healthy!! The consistency of the shower gel is thick and super creamy. I don't think I could recommend a product as much as this. This 500ml bottle retails for around £6 in boots but it lasts for so long as it's so big! I would recommend using a shower scrunchie doffer thing, as it helps the product to lather up to it's fullest!

Scrub Actually Scrub | This for me, was my least favorite of all the products I purchased. This is simply because I don't really like oil based products for my skin as they seem to cling on, but if you did like them this would be brilliant! This is a sugar based scrub including mango butter and kukui oil. I still use this product basically for the sake of using it but i'm sure to wash it off well with shower gel as it seems to leave an oily residue. This product smells so lovely, kind of like crushing sugar. Its not the typical soap and glory scent but it's still so nice! I would recommend this product to anyone who likes oil based products, but for anyone who doesn't like me, then I wouldn't recommend this product. It retails in boots for £7.

Butter Yourself Super Rich Smoothing Body Cream | Finally, this product doesn't really have anything special to be said about it apart from that its a really good simple basic product! Its really thick and luxurious. It makes my legs feel so smooth and lovely. It doesn't have the typical soap and glory scent, it has a more of a sugary coconutey (if thats a word) smell but its so nice! In the 300ml tub you get so much and it lasts for so long! I would recommend it to anybody who is looking for a simple, but really good moisturising body butter. It retails in boots for £10.50 which is quite expensive, but usually they have their 3 for 2 offer on where if you buy 3 products you get the cheapest one for free.

The soap and glory range of products are all defiantly products that I love, and would recommend to anyone!! It's all just so super girly and luxurious and lovely. The price varies on what you get, but none of it is really really expensive, and it's all worth it!!

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