NYX Professional Makeup Ultimate Shadow Palette (Smokey) – A Review

A couple of weeks ago, I finally decided to pick one of these palettes up. It's not often that I get to look at NYX make-up since I live in a tiny little town with no NYX counter within about 40 miles, so I'll always do a nice haul whenever I come across one! As…

Marc Jacobs Beauty Velvet Noir Major Volume Mascara – A Review

Receiving make-up as blogger mail is one of the most exciting parts of beauty blogging! A couple of days ago I received the new Marc Jacobs Velvet Noir Mascara to try and test out. This came as a total surprise to me (I hadn't checked my emails in about a week) so I was pulling…

SmoothSkin Bare: Are IPL devices just a fad?

Over the past year, IPL devices have essentially blown up. A while back, I was clueless to what IPL devices even were and now I see them drowning my social media feed, local shops and TV adverts. If you haven't yet come across IPL devices, here is a quick explanation by SmoothSkin themselves: Now, back…

Barry M Tahitian Body Oil

I've been using this product since the week it came out, and have been on-off using it over the summer alongside the nice golden tan I managed to get after a week in Lanzarote. If you're anything like me, you want your tan to stay as long as possible, and this bronzing body oil is…

Coconut Oil: My travel godsend

I guess this is more of a beauty (hair?) blog post, but it does fit into my travel theme ever so slightly - promise! For the past decade, I have truly suffered with my hair. It's thick, it's dry and it frizzes the second the temperature gets above fifteen degrees.  Blow-drying my hair is a…