My March Favourites

Hello my lovelies,

 

Two blog posts in one day, I'm doing well today.

 

*cheers*

 

I wanted to make up for the blog posts I haven't done the past two weeks due to not having my camera to take pictures, I've also not been home to write a blog, as I often stay at my boyfriends house for a few days and I only have my iPhone with me and I much prefer typing up a blog post on my laptop.

 

It's the start of a new month which can only mean it's time to look back on my favourite things in March, I plan to do one of these every month just to refresh you lovely readers on my blog posts during the month.  

 

 

First for my march favourites was definitely meeting the pug puppies which happened at the beginning of march, this is when me and Oliver picked our little pug Luna, we are really excited and I look forward to sharing her with you guys on my blog, she is an absolute cutie, cannot wait to officially introduce her into my blog.

 

 

 

Then during the month I also did a blog about the Lush Bath bombs/Bubble bars these are my absolute favourite out of all the

selection, although I still have one left to review, the products I reviewed in march was the bath bomb 'Sex Bomb' and the bubble bar 'Unicorn Horn' I really enjoyed using them which I explained in the blog post. I also did a collaboration of them both together and they compliment each other perfectly, the smell wasn't too overpowering with both the products so I recommend trying them together. Both take pride place in my top 3 Lush products.

 

 

 

 

 

Moving onto some of my other favourites this month, one of my most popular posts was my 'Benefit Haul' which included to a small selection of the products I bought, but my absolute favourite out of the three has to be Benefit's Roller Lash it is without any doubt the best mascara I have ever owned, I took some pictures of before and after I will be sure to put them on here once I have uploaded them from my camera, but that is my top product from Benefit.

 

 

 

Last but by far not the least, you'll know if you read my blog that one of my most recent blog posts was about the very beautiful and elegant Cinderella collection by Mac Cosmetics now if you read that blog post you'll know that I was incredibly lucky because I retrieved the last one at the Mac counter. I got the Pressed powder called 'Coupe D'Chic' it is so beautiful and I am still in absolute love with it. It compliments my skin tone amazingly. 

Still one of my favourites and a top product from Mac.

 

 

**As you can see it is so unbelievably photogenic**

 

So they're all my favourites this month.

I wonder what my April favourites will be watch out for my April blog posts.

That's all for now my lovelies.

 

Love

From

Baloo

xx

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shopping Trip - Benefit Haul

Hello my lovelies! 

Another blog post today because I'm feeling in the mood to write loads and loads today, I've just so much going on in my mind! 

So... 

The other day I went on a random shopping trip...

* yay for shopping * 

Before I leave the house I always have my mind set on things that I'd like or things that I have seen or that have had good reviews on other blogs! 

As I've said in a different blog post before, I have a benefit and Mac guilty pleasure and I just can't choose one or the other, so I ended up visiting both! 

I'm gonna start of with what I bought at benefit... Hence why the title is 'Benefit Haul' 

 

I've been looking for a decent foundation for months and months and I've never been successful, not until I found Mac, they've been the closest match to my skin so far, but I wanted a change and I heard a lot of good things about benefits foundation 'Hello Flawless oxygen wow' it's a brightening makeup, also oil free and has SPF 25.

 I got the foundation in the shade 'Ivory' and that's the lightest shade they have, which I was a little bit worried about because any other foundation in Ivory has always been way too dark for my pale skin, but the lovely girls at the benefit counter happily helped me out and let me try the foundation and to my surprise it's pretty much a perfect match when blended, it's silky smooth and leaves my skin soft to touch, it's a light to medium coverage but can be built to, recently my skin has been well behaved and I've only needed a light cover which is great! The bottle is compressed meaning it lets you know when you need more, which I absolutely love about this product! 

(I also got a cute little pouch of primer which I've wanted to try!) 

Now, I'm pretty sure every beauty blogger has been hearing loads of good things about this... 

Roller Lash by benefit, I've waited and waited to purchase this and now I finally have it!! 

And tadaaaa here it is... 

It is probably the best mascara since 'they're real' I no longer need my lash curlers, I've got pretty short eye lashes too but this makes them look 2 times longer than their actual length which I am very happy about! 

It says it lifts lashes by 97% it gives a longer lasting curl than any other mascara would! 

It also makes my eyes look bigger which I needed! 

Has a cute curved brush that separates the lashes lifts and curls them and the formula can last up to 12 hours! 

The packaging and tube is super cute and the lid is actually rubber for extra grip which I find super useful! I paid £19.50 for roller lash, in my eyes that's money well spent! Over all in my opinion after using this, it's the best mascara I've used and I highly recommend girlies! 

And last but by far not the least, I purchased the 'lollibalm' which I've had before it's a lip hydrator and it has a pink tint to it when applied, I find that it softens my lips and stops them becoming dry and cracked, I often get badly chapped lips in the winter

and using Vaseline all the time is boring, so it's really great that this gives a little bit of colour meaning you don't have to always use a lipstick if you don't want!

They have it in 3 other shades too a lighter pink and a darker kind of coral colour! 

This is around £15, and it's in the range with lollitint which is also a really great product! 

And that's my benefit haul! It's quite long so I do apologise but I'll leave it here!

I'd like to hear from you other benebabes about which products you use! Feel free to leave comments! 

Love from Baloo xx 

Mother's Day Surprise

Hello my lovelies! 

So I would just like to say to my wonderful mum (Hello mum) Happy Mother's Day. Today is a great way to think about all that mums do for us, it reminds us also that we should appreciate everything that they have done and still do. 

I'm a strong believer in 'it's better to give than to receive' & that it's not about the gifts, but that it's about love and happiness. But I wanted to get my mum something special this year as last year, I hate to admit it, but I did pretty poor. 

Every year I always panic & struggle to find my mum a gift that she really wants whether it's her birthday or Christmas, because I always get the 'You don't need to get me anything' talk, but secretly I know deep down she'd like a little something, luckily this year she dropped a few hints & personally I think this year I've done an exceptionally great job. Even if I do say so myself! 

When I went shopping, everybody seemed to have the same idea as me, everyone rushing around deciding what to get their mum for Mother's Day, i'd already planned what I wanted to purchase a few days before, I went a picked up the 30ml Marc Jacobs Daisy Dream fragrance, it's round about £40 for this bottle for those that may want to know, this is one of the items my mum had been dropping hints about this for several months now, she's a lover of all floral scents and so far just about every Marc Jacobs is floral scented, I'd have loved to of got her the limited edition Marc Jacobs sorbet, but they are so limited in numbers and I found it rather expensive, but I think they both smell equally gorgeous! 

Next after a lot of procrastinating, I ventured into pandora, my mum doesn't own alot of pandora so I thought it was maybe time to change that. Well I would imagine all girls will agree it's really difficult to remove your eyes from all the pretty things they have displayed in pandora. It's just so lovely!

Rings are my mums favourite type of jewellery so I went and purchased the 'Romance Ring' with the clear stones decorated around the silver band. 

Before I went shopping I even tried on all her other differnet rings to decide what size to get her, fortunately she has near enough the same size fingers as me so that was lucky!  

Now, ideally she'd have loved the purple stones as purple is her favourite colour but, they had none left in purple in a size 54 which was really sad, I even checked out another pandora store at the other side of the town but I decided that the clear is just as beautiful and it will pretty much go with anything. 

I own a range of pandora myself and I adore their products and how each season they bring out a new unique collection, I am really looking forward to the spring collection which I believe will be out before the end of March! 

The smile on mums face made me happy! But it's not about the gifts, it's just appreciating her and all that she does and realising that without her I don't know what I'd do! 

What did you get for your mum this Mother's Day? Do you think it's better to give than to receive? 

That's all for now my lovelies!

Love from Baloo xx 

 

Magical March - Lush Bath bombs

Hello my lovelies! 

Hope you are all having a magical March! It's almost spring, eeeekk! And the most beautiful pug puppies have just been born, I will be introducing Luna the pug very soon! Watch out for it. But for now...

I promised on my Instagram that I would be doing a new post, so here it is, my boyfriend took a trip to lush a couple of weeks back near Valentine's Day and bought me a few things including a bath bomb called 'sexbomb' and the bubble bar 'unicorn horn' and I finally got around to using them a few days ago, they're my absolute favourite and I'm so sad that the bubble bar was only a Valentine's special because it was literally lush! 

Unicorn Horn - They do exist!! 

I ran just a bath full of hot water and crumbled it up and it turned the water a very light pink and the little sparkles floated in the water reflecting off the light which was really pretty, it creates quite a few bubbles which I didn't expect but yes this is one of my favourites and I really do hope they bring it back again soon!  

Sex Bomb 

I absolutely adore this bath bomb so much I recently got another one to use aswell as well as the 'Golden Egg' and the 'Twilight' bath bomb which I will also do a review about later on...

This melted pretty fast into the water it fizzed and had a whizz around the bath and even turned the bubbles pink and purple (I have to have lots and lots of bubbles lol!) the little flower in the bath bomb even floats on the top of the water, super pretty and it wasn't harsh on my skin it actually left it feeling soft to touch afterwards! 

Lush is one place that I've only just introduced myself into and so far it's one of my favourites for skin products, I haven't found anything I can fault and its just so affordable, and it makes you feel good about yourself and I mean come on they turn the water different colours, who doesn't want that! Seriously guys you should try them out, please comment and give me some ideas about which bath bombs you've tried! That's alll for now my lovelies! 

Love from Baloo xx