Avon Haul

So it’s been a while since I’ve bought anything from Avon and the first time I’ve bought anything online – it’s always been through reps before. I found the website a little confusing, as the main site I was taken too was for reps and I had to do a bit of searching before I found the online ordering site.

Once I’ve found it, however, the site was easy to use, the product descriptions and colours were clear and there were a great sale on so I snapped up a few great bargains. The delivery time was a little slow and took five working days but everything arrived in perfect condition and I’m really pleased.

The items I bought were:

Liive Botanicals Revitalising Facial Scrub
Advance Techniques Radiant Brunette Smoothing Balm
Advance Techniques Colour Protection Enhanced Shine Serum
Solutions Plus Total Radiance Skin Refining Clay Mask
Liiv Botanicals Naturally Glossy Lip Conditioner
ColorTrend Crystal Clear Mascara
ColorTrend Shimmering Lip and Cheek Balm – Powder Pink
Arabian Glow Clearly Shadows Eye Pencil – Burnished Bronze
Arabian Glow Sleek Lines – Melted Bronze
Sparkle Lash and Line – Gold/Black Pearl
Glimmersticks Luxe – Pearly
Glimmersticks Luxe – Copper
ColorTrend Golden Kiss Lipstick – Kiss Me
ColorTrend Lip Stix Deluxe

I’m already completely obsessed with the lip conditioner, which makes my lips feel absolutely gorgeous so I’ll be reviewing that one soon. I know I’m going to go through it quickly so I’m tempted to order another one straight away. The clear mascara seems to be pretty good as well – I used it on my brows today and they’ve stayed near and tidy all day so that was a good buy.

The whole order came to less than £30 including delivery so all in all I’m very pleased. I’ve just put the shine serum in my hair now so I’ll let you know how that one is once my hair’s dried! As I said before, I hadn’t ordered anything from Avon for a while but after seeing all the gorgeous products I got for such a great price, I’m sure I’ll be hitting the website again soon.

So what did you guys receive over the weekend? Anything nice?

ELF Haul

So yesterday afternoon I got back from a trip to Ikea (car full of supplies for my new make-up station – but more on that soon) to find two packages had been left by the postie in my garden. A box of ELF products and a package from Avon. Awesome.

First I’m going to talk about the ELF products I received and I’ll cover the Avon things in a separate post.

So! I’m going to confess right now that these are the first things I’ve ever bought from ELF. I’ve always heard so much about their products and they always seem to get such great reviews that I decided to bite the bullet and have a bit of a spree.

I was really impressed with the website and the delivery – I put in my order on Thursday afternoon and everything arrived on Saturday. Not bad for free delivery.

So, I received:

Brightening Eye Liner – Coffee
Brightening Eye Liner – Gilded
Shimmering Facial Whip – Persimmon
Shimmering Facial Whip – Spotlight
Nail Polish – Plum
Eyeshadow Applicators
Foundation Brush
Total Face Brush
Blushing, Bronzing and Blending Brush
Smudge Eye Sponge
Defining Eye Brush
Eye Shadow Brush
Concealer Brush
Brightening Eye Color – Luxe
Luscious Liquid Lipstick – Raspberry
All Over Color Stick – Pink Lemonade
Tone Correcting Concealer – Honey
Duo Eye Shadow Cream – Berry Mix
Waterproof Eyeliner Pen – Black
Liquid Eyeshadow – Sultry Satin
Liquid Eyeshadow – Sexy Silver
Eyelid Primer – Sheer
Shimmer Eyeliner – Gunmetal

Whew 25 items for £40, including two day delivery. Where has ELF been all my life?!

I’m already in love with all of the brushes and the waterproof eyeliner pen – it’s unbelievable for £1.50 so I’m really excited about reviewing that one. The only thing at the moment that I’m a bit disappointed with is the duo eye shadow cream as it seemed a bit watery and faded away very quickly when I tested it yesterday but I’m hoping I’ll grow to like it a bit more when I spend a bit more time testing it out – I’ll let you know.

So, I’m so chuffed with this haul and I really, really can’t wait to try everything out properly and get reviewing. What are your favourite ELF products? Any recommendations? Let me know because I’ll definitely be putting in another order soon!

Awkward First Post

Well hello there everybody!

First posts are always so awkward, aren’t they? I was tempted to skip it and cut right to it but I thought I should stop and introduce myself.

So, I’m Carly, I’m a 22 year old Creative Writing graduate from Bath Spa university and I live in a teeny tiny little village in Wiltshire, a couple of miles outside Bath. I’ve been running a book review blog for nine or so months now and I love it. I’ve always been a writer and I freelance for a few magazines so it was only a matter of time before I started my own blog.

My book review blog focuses on young adult fiction and observations of the book market, details of upcoming releases, author interviews – all that jazz. I’m still going to post daily over there but I’ve decided to shake things up a bit and start a beauty blog! Hurrah.

I’ve been reading beauty blogs for a few years and watching endless haul videos on Youtube and I’ve always meant to start my own beauty blog but never really gotten around to it. That stops today, however! I’m all set up and ready to go and I’m really excited about getting started. All your blogs are absolutely gorgeous so thank you for inspiring me to get my ass in gear and get cracking with this.

Perfectly timed, I received some pretty hefty Elf and Avon orders this weekend so more details on that will be coming up soon but, for now, thank you so much for reading and it’s nice to meet you all. Do stop by and have a chat – my contact address is beautybuzz@hotmail.co.uk.