My night time routine.

My night time routine.

For todays post, I thought I would show you everything I do and all of the products I use in my night time routine! Before I start to run my bath I would first remove my make-up. I didn't photograph this part as I just use standard make-up wipes from Primark. £1 for two packs of wipes to do the job you can't really go wrong!

For this evenings bath I was going to start using my Christmas hedgehog bubble bar from Lush. This means that you would break a small bit of him off and crumble it under your warm, running water to create a blue bubbly bath. This bit made me a little sad because he is too adorable. He has a very strong smell I would say, but it is great! He smells fresh and has a bit of a citrus hint to me. I tend to use a Lush product every time I have a bath now. Just because it makes me feel ever relaxed after a rough day or even happier after a wonderful day!

After I have ran my bath, I will then go on to wash my hands. When I went in Lush the other day, one of the lovely ladies working there gave me some freebies to try. One of them was a chunk of the Mangnificent soap. It works like any other soap but the smell is simply lovely. This soap smells like mango! Now I will lay back in the bath, day dream a little, then start to wash my hair. Currently I am using the L'Oreal Elvive Extraordinary Oil shampoo and conditioner combination. This was another product that I have seen positive reviews for and it claims to nourish your dry, damaged hair. When I am sure that I have rinsed out all of the shampoo from my hair, I will go onto lather it in the conditioner. If I have really damaged my hair during the day, such as using loads of hairspray or back combed it within an inch of its life I will probably use an Aussie conditioner instead. Because that is the best conditioner EVER! My hair savoir. However on a regular day, I will use quite a bit L'Oreal conditioner on the very ends of my hair and on my scalp. I like to leave the conditioner in my hair for at least ten minutes so I will go onto washing myself whilst I wait.

 

To wash my body I like to use one of these two products. The Flying Fox shower gel was actually another freebie from the lovely lady working in Lush. It is safe to say I will most definitely repurchasing this one. Absolutely love the smell of this, it is the best shower I have ever used! Beware: if you don't like either honey or golden syrup this isn't the shower gel for you. There are four different honeys contained into this shower gel. It is such a pleasure to wash yourself with, I just want to drink it out of the bottle! But I will stay calm. The smell is sweetly delicious and you can also use it in your hair which is brilliant. The other product I would choose is the Soap & Glory Scrub of your life body scrub. I know that this bottle is quite small, but I have already used it many of times you get a lot for your money! I use this when I want a scrub to wash myself with rather than a gel. I use a sponge that has a rough side on it anyway to remove any dead/flaking skin.

Once I have got out of the bath and dried myself down, I will get changed into a cute pair of pajamas! I purchase all of my pajamas from Primark, and they are mostly Disney. I love the leggings style of pajama bottoms like these ones above. Just paired with a plain tee and my new mouse slipper socks from the Christmas section in Boots.

I like to wait a little while before putting my moisturizer on myself after my bath, just so that I am fully dry. I usually just choose between these two products. Soap & Glory's body buttercream in the Sugar Crush scent is my favourite moisturizer that I have ever used so far. I wrote a review on it on another blog post but the cream is so thick and soothing. If I want to make my milk bottle, white skin a bit more tanned I like to use the Dove lotion in the shade Medium to Dark. I found that the pale to medium lotion didn't do anything at all on my skin. Whereas this shade after using it about twice or three times, makes me look natural just a bit more tanned. I also find it doesn't go patchy either!

Lastly, usually before I go to bed, I like to make my face feel nice by using a moisturizer. Recently I have been using the Nivea Q10 day cream in the morning and night cream.. well at night time! I know it is anti-wrinkle cream, but my mums advice was "you have to start using moisturizer on your face whilst your young, so that you don't wait until you get the wrinkles to start". And I think that is pretty good advice! It also just feels really nice on your skin. If you don't want to use an anti-wrinkle cream, I would probably recommend the Garnier Moisture Match cream. This one I have is meant to be for oily skin, which I wouldn't really say it is that much. But I just liked it because it smells nice. I also like to use the Boots Botanics eye wrinkle cream every night too as I have noticed some fine lines coming under neath my eyes.




Hope you enjoyed reading about my night time routine. It's nice to feel relaxed and to use lovely products on yourself after a long day! Here are a list of the products mentioned down below:

- The Christmas Hedgehog.
- Mangnificent Soap.
- L'Oreal Elvive Extraordinary shampoo and conditioner.
- Flying Fox shower gel.
- Soap & Glory buttercream.
- Dove Summer Glow lotion.
- Nivea Q10 night cream.
- Garnier Moisture Match lotion.

- Kat Melladay x

Mini Lush haul!

Mini Lush haul!

It is officially my favourite time of the year again! This time of year is when everything 

great happens; halloween, bonfire night, my birthday and then.. CHRISTMAS! And Lush really know how to go all out when it comes to their products for this season! I fell in love with everything when I went in there last weekend. I spent way too much time in there, they must have thought I was moving in hehe. But eventually I decided on some of the things I was going to try. My nose has been treated to some truly amazing smells. I thought that I would share with you the bath lovelies I purchased because they are just too wonderful to not..

Dragons Egg: This bath bomb was my first decision and first to use. As you can see, it is pure white with rainbow spots on it. It smells citrusy which is why I had to buy it because that is my favourite kind of smell. I adore fresh smells. When I first dropped this bomb in the bath I was a little disappointed at first because it just rocked in the bath, there wasn't much excitement to begin with. However after a minute or so, the excitement began! The bomb started to move all around the bath with this beautiful orange coming out similar to a yolk of an egg! It made noises, because of the popping candy, and left my bath feeling very nourishing and glittery! This will definitely be getting repurchased.

Butter Bear: "A big softy!" Of course I had to get this little sweety, how could I not? I don't think he is one of the more exciting bath bombs that puts on a show. He is just a simple little pleasure for your bath. When you put him in your bath it is as though he has just given you a cuddle with all his conditioning ingredients. He even smells sweet with his vanila/slight buttery smell. He is the cheapest out of the ones I have purchased too!

The Comforter: Although the bath bombs make me way too happy like a little girl, I am in love with this bubble bar. You use the comforter by grumbling a bit of it off under neath the running water and it makes lots and lots of bubbles in your bath. It also turns your bath pink and smells incredible! It is a tiny bit more expensive than the bombs at £4.75, however it is totally worth it. I have had three baths with this bar so far, and there is still more than 3/4's of the bar left! The value is great, you hardly need to crumble any off to have an incredible girly bath. It smells like berries and I think it smells like sweets as well. I have been trying to rack my brains as to what sweets it smells like.. I think it is either Skittles or Jelly Babies? Either way it is gorgeous and it is my favourite.

The Melting Snowman: This is a bath melt even though he looks as though he has melted already! He makes me feel so sad to look at him but in an adorable way hehe! I am glad he doesn't fizz away and that I won't have to crumble him away either, but I will be sad to watch him melt away. He smells like christmas. Out of all of the christmas bath products in Lush, for me, the melting snowman smells the most of the traditional christmas smell. Which is just rich and a sweet, baking kind of smell. Lush do have some christmas soaps which smell perfect for christmas too.

Lord Of Misrule: After seeing a sneak peak video of this bomb on Instagram I had to buy this when I was next in Lush. This is one of the halloween bath bombs I believe, and you can really tell. It is bright green as you can see, with pink and yellow specks in it. When you put it in the bath, it makes your bath green and then puffs out pink! And then it cracks and goes a bit spooking making the water a gruesome colour and makes such a show! My mum and I were so excited watching it in my bath. The smell of it is so strong! I thought it smelt quite spicy and similar to a tea tree smell. My mum thought it smelt of a more burned berries smell though? So I guess it would be up to you. After I got out of the bath I could still smell it on my body and in my hair so that was amazing!

Golden Wonder: I purchased this today to try and make me feel better after a rough day. It is a golden present looking bath bomb, why wouldn't you want to pick it up? It smells like a citrus smell to me with a hint of sweets. I have not had a bath with this yet but on the Lush website it shows a preview of the bomb fizzing off into different colours? Also when you shake this bomb, it sounds like there is actually something inside so I am really excited to use this next! I hope there is a small surprise inside for me!

This is all I have purchased from Lush so far, but there are many more things I want to try such as the christmas soaps and also the very popular, Northern Lights bomb. 

Have you seen all the winter products in Lush? Which bath product is your favourite?!

- Kat Melladay x

Glorious Soap & Glory.

Glorious Soap & Glory.

I have been so in love with Soap & Glory recently that I thought I would share with you my top picks from their brand. I have not tried many of their other products so I may have more favourites yet, that I don't even know about!

First up we have the body buttercreams. They are exactly how you would think, similar to a body butter but more like a thick, luxurious cream to put all over your body. If you haven't smelt the Sugar Crush range before, I highly suggest you give it an intense sniff when you next go into Boots. It smells so gorgeous. It smells like lime and has a hint of sweetness to it like vanilla. The buttercream feels super nice on your skin and leaves you feeling so relaxed. The next product I am loving is the Supercat eyeliner pen. It is so easy to achieve the perfect winged eyeliner look. I have had it for about three months now and it has not dried up either! I often find that with pen eyeliners they dry up so quickly but not this one. The last product I would definitely recommend you purchasing is the Sexy Mother Pucker (hehe!) gloss stick in the shade Nudist. It is like wearing a great lipgloss but it isn't as sticky and the gloss is highly pigmented. I am definitely going to try the darkest one of these sticks. I wear nudist all of the time it is such a great go to colour for the lips. 

Which Soap & Glory product is your favourite? And which scent is your favourite?

- Kat Melladay x

Beauty review: Rimmel London Colour Rush Lip Balm/Crayons.

Beauty review: Rimmel London Colour Rush Lip Balm/Crayons.

Shade: Give Me A Cuddle.

Shade: Not An Illusion.

Shade: Drive Me Nude.

My next beauty review had to be about these lip crayons. Rimmel have brought out these wonderful lip balm crayons recently, in a variety of many flattering colours for all skin tones. I think out of the colours to choose from, I got the three most nude shades. Nude lip colours will always be my favourite and first choice. I absolutely love lip crayons. I find them so easy to apply, it is a blessing. Sometimes I feel like I have to really concentrate when applying traditional shape lipstick to stay in the shape of my lips or to not put too much on. Whereas with lip crayons, it is just so much easier with less effort to apply as much as you like, and I find the colours look a lot more subtle this way. 

I got the shades: Give Me A Cuddle, Not An Illusion and Drive Me Nude.

Out of these these shades, I would definitely say that Drive Me Nude is my favourite shade. I haven't seen a lip colour quite like it before. The photograph I have taken does not do it justice. It is like a typical nude colour but more brown. I would say it is similar to the colour Taupe with a hint of pink/purple. I have been wearing this colour nearly everyday since I bought it a couple of weeks ago, I think it is so lovely. Give Me A Cuddle is a bright, light pink colour. They also have a bright, hot pink shade (Boom Chic A Boom) but I felt this would be too much for me.. I am too used to my nude shades! Give Me A Cuddle is still bright and noticeable, but not too much. I would say that Not An Illusion is probably the most common colour in the range. As in, you could buy this shade in probably all the lip crayon ranges by all brands. It is a very pretty colour for the lips, I think that it is a colour which could work for all occasions.

In conclusion, I would go as far as to say that I LOVE these lip crayons by Rimmel! I have tried many lip crayons, and so far I have found that this Colour Rush range is by far the best. I love that the colour of the sticks are exactly the same colour when you apply them on your lips. And I love that the colour is excellent just like a lipstick and balmy/glossy at the same, yet you can also still make them look quite natural and not over the top. As they are balm lip crayons, they leave your lips feeling very smooth and even help their condition. I will definitely be purchasing more from this range. I think I will have to be brave and come out of my love for nude shades a bit so that I can try the bright reds and purples.  

View the complete range of colours here!

- Kat Melladay x

Beauty review: L'Oreal Paris - Glam Shine Balmy Gloss.

Beauty review: L'Oreal Paris - Glam Shine Balmy Gloss.

Shade - 910 Bite The Maracuja.

I always wear lip balms rather than lipsticks so when I was browsing in Boots the other day and I saw this new "balmy gloss" by L'Oreal I thought I'd give it a try. For this spring and summer, I have noticed that orange is the popular colour for wearing on the lips and wanted to try it out for myself. However seeming as I don't wear lipsticks a lot, apart from when I am going out at night, I thought this would probably be a great alternative for me. 

I think I am a bit undecided about this product. I really like the application of it. I love the lipstick crayons rather than the traditional shape, I find it makes it so much simpler to apply. And I do like the colour however it isn't what I thought from looking at the packaging and the stick itself. I don't know if you would agree but when it is on the lips, it comes out more reddy than the orange that it looks? I knew it wasn't going to be a very vibrant orange because the balmy kind of sticks like these usually aren't as bright or bold in colour as lipsticks, but I'm still a bit disappointed that it isn't more orange. The stick also has more of a shimmer to it than I first thought from looking at the stick, although I think this will be nice for summer on more special occasion. Personally, I don't like wearing shimmery lip products for just casual wear. 

So, overall I would say that I do like the balmy stick and may be tempted to purchase another one in a light shade, however it's not the orangey colour I had hoped for.

Could you recommend any orange coloured lipsticks for me?

- Kat Melladay x