The Body Shop Warming Mineral Mask

I have such a love hate relationship with masks. I love putting them on, I love the feeling of feeling pampered; I just don't really think they do all that much. I've got loads of masks in rotation and I like the clean, soft feeling afterwards, but I never see any long term effects?



Anyway today I'm talking about the Body Shop Warming Mineral Mask. I've had this mask for a while. I love the gimmicky warming of the mask (but it never heats up on my skin, it's hot when it goes on then goes cold?) and most of the time I like how my skin feels afterwards, but whether it does much for me? I am yet to really find out.

Ingredients: PEG-8 (Humectant), Zeolite (Warming Agent), Glycerin (Humectant), Kaolin (Absorbent), Methyl Gluceth-20 (Viscosity Modifier), Zinc Oxide (Sunscreen), PEG-220 (Binder/Humectant/Solvent), Algae (Seaweed Extract) (Natural Additive), Methylparaben (Preservative), Propylparaben (Preservative), Tocopheryl Acetate (Antioxidant), Curcuma zedoaria (Zedoary Oil) (Skin Conditioning Agent), Zingiber officinale (Zingiber Officinale (Ginger) Root Oil) (Natural Additive), Cinnamal (Fragrance Ingredient), Cinnamomum zeylanicum (Cinnamon Oil) (Fragrance), Linalool (Fragrance Ingredient), Eugenol (Fragrance Ingredient), Limonene (Fragrance Ingredient), Benzyl Benzoate (Solvent), Citral (Fragrance Ingredient), Coumarin (Fragrance Ingredient), Cinnamyl Alcohol (Fragrance Ingredient). 

(From Body Shop Website)

To put it on your face: wet your face (unless you are me, then you just slap it on, maybe my inability to follow instructions is my problem...) shake the bottle up, or you will get a large flow of water coming out. Then smear it all over your face, so you will resemble something like this fitty down here:

Then you leave it on for 5 minutes, wash it off, and you'll resemble something like this:

After it comes off, my skin feels clean, softer but also slightly drier. Maybe its the lack of water first. I then normally either go in with another mask or my full skincare afterwards.

To conclude my opinions; it's a nice product to pamper yourself with, or try and clear off any unwanted oil, but it can make your skin feel quite dry and slightly tight. It's £11 for 100ml and a complete cult product from the Body Shop. I will use it to the end, but unless something changes (probably me) I won't be buying it again. If I haven't put you off, you can buy it here.

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox

How to De- Pot Sleek Eye Shadows

The other day I spend 2 hours of my life finally de-potting my Sleek eye shadows into a Z- Palette. I tend to forget that I still have these eye shadows, so hopefully doing this will re awaken my love for them. I de-potted my Storm, Au Naturel and Oh So Special palette. Can Ijus say that when I bought these many moons ago they were £5.99 and now they are £7.99? what is that about? They are still dirt cheap but that's quite the price rise!
Anyway before I get carried away I had no candles, no lighter, no surgical spirit to hand but I did have my trusty (8 year old? and still going strong) straighteners. I had watched some tutorials on Sleek eye shadow removals and thought I was well educated enough to give it a bash myself. So I sat down at my desk and started. I'm going to try and explain to you all how I did it and what I learn't along the way!

You will need:
Obviously hair straighteners and some greaseproof/baking paper, so the plastic does not stick to your straighteners and ruin them!

Two ends of sticks that you don't mind getting glue all over, I used the plastic ends of eye shadow brushes. You will also need a hair grip like the one below, which I don't think I could of done the job without!

Method:
Pop your greaseproof paper on the straighteners and then pop the palette on top for about 3 minutes, or until you get bored of waiting.

Take the palette off the straighteners and try, without burning yourself (like I did) to push your pokey stick at the back of the part of the palette with the eye shadow you want to remove. The idea is that the heat will have melted the glue off the plastic backing. If the palette is warm enough, it should just pop out. You might have to do some stick juggling so not to touch the metal (like I did) where it is really hot. I popped all mine on another piece of greaseproof paper to stop them melting to my landlords glass desk...

If the eye shadows are still being tricky madams (like the orangey one in the picture above was), be careful and use the hair grip to slide down the slide of the shadow which should help to release them. You may come face to face with some eye shadows that want to play Buck-a-roo. You may also have to add more heat to warm the glue up more. Pop the palette back on the heat to dislodge more shadows and repeat. 

yaaaaas

When the metal shadow pots are cold, you can peel the glue off the back, or be lazy like me and just stick the magnet straight on the back. I used the ones that came with the Z- Palette. I used my initiative (a novelty for me) and stuck two eyeshadows onto the circle magnets and one on the square magnets that were provided! I was also anal and colour co- ordinated them, but you can do literally whatever takes your fancy. When finished with the palettes and they are cold just pop them in the bin. I didn't put in any eyeshadows that had hit pan or more than one black because space was limited.

It's a messy job! The big shadows if you're wondering are my new Make Up Geek ones.

Hope this terrible description has helped someone, anyone!

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

today is a wet fish day

I'm an emotional wet fish today. I'm on, for the second time in 2 weeks and I'm a mess. I am sick to death of rifampicin wreaking havoc with my periods. To go from a girl who, since the age of 11, has been regular as clockwork, to having periods that show up willy nilly is soul destroying. Hopefully when this bout of tablets finish they will finally go back to normal. I also had my first HS boil since I started rifampicin which actually burst this week, which just made me feel even worse. I'm taking these tablets every day to try and fix myself and it crushes me that they are not working to their max (I know there is a % that it doesn't fully work for and I'm just upset about it).

I've just read a book all about unrequited love, and it infurates me that they don't get together until they are fucking 40 years old. My favourite books to read are unrequited love ones, preferably set when they are at university (don't ask why). I think they just resonate with me the most. I've been in so, so, many situations where I have liked someone and they don't like me, or don't like me enough to want to make something happen with me, that I cling on for dear life to the happy endings in these books. I want my happy ending. I would just prefer it to be slightly earlier than 40 please.

I finally found the dress for the graduation ball, will have to lay off the KFC for a few weeks but it makes me feel sexy. I'm gonna guess the photos of me will make me look horrendous but its the inner feelings that count, right?

Well now I'm crying, I am blaming this solely on the period. I'm going to watch a film about unrequited love, make myself some toast and eat my body weight in chocolate.

Night world,

Hev,

xoxox

Uni Ramblings

I'm currently sat in bed, writing this blog post, looking at graduation ball dresses; trying to avoid my life. The last month of university has approached. It worries me. I feel like my life, my beautiful life that I've built up over the last 4 years is about to get dragged from under me. I'm scared that I won't see my friends any more. I'm scared about going into the big wide world, at 22, I still don't feel remotely ready. I feel very much in limbo, between how life is now and how life will be, come 12pm on the 11th May, when I have no right to call myself a student because it will all be over. I just want to cling onto life how it is now in my house with my friends in Sheffield. Is that too much to ask for?

My dreams are currently hurting my feelings, get out of my head please. I rarely think about it any more yet my dreams bring me right back there most nights and it does my head in. My OCD is starting to rear its ugly head again, not in a full on episode thank the Lord baby Jesus, but in a I'm gonna crop up in your life more than just a couple of times a day way. Sometimes I am using rescue remedy again, which for the last few years luckily has just been consigned to when I go on a plane. I'm going to take a wild guess that it is just stress that is causing this mild little flair up. It's not nice to have the feelings of having a panic attack back again.

I decided this week that I don't think I will ever be able to move home 100% again. I couldn't take being trapped here, constantly arguing with my brother and dad and having limited to no social life unless I traipsed back up to Sheffield every weekend. Of course I will have no choice in the matter if I don't get to teach and I don't get a 2:1 so I don't get 9 grand, which is making me try to work much harder than I ever have before.

I'm going back to Sheffield tomorrow and I cannot wait. I am going to make the most of this last month, even the library...

Lots of love,

Hev

xoxox

p.s. I won 6 chicken nuggets on McDonalds Monopoly and I was so ecstatic, it was like winning the lottery for me *crying laughing face emoji*

Kiko 338 Nail Lacquer Light Lavender

Here I am with an actual beauty post! *inserts shock face emoji here*. I'm going to try and do some more beauty posts, but keep them short and snappy, so they can be posts I won't feel bad about when I only have 5 minutes to write them.

Nice cuticles Hev

Kiko 338 nail lacquer was one of my purchases from Rome, which you can read about here. This is the first time I have worn it and I really like it. Completely different to what I normally would wear, being bluey verging on purple (great description I know). 2 coats for complete opaqueness. Nice, thick brush for application. So far so 8/10. I bought for about 1.50 euro in one of Kiko's many sales in Rome. In the UK you can find it in store or online for £2.50. Will be perfect for summer!

Lots of Love,

Hev

xoxox