Lush Halloween/Day of the Dead Goodies

Hello all!

Since it's Halloween, I figured I should share with all of you my thoughts on the Halloween/Day of the Dead goodies I picked up at a Lush Halloween party I attended yesterday.

Left to right: Calavera bath ballistic, Lady Catrina soap and Calacas shower jelly

Each product has the same scent of neroli and lime.

I have unable to use the bath ballistic due to the fact that I do not have a bath, but the shop assistant told me that it makes the bath water turn several different colours before finally turning it green. The Lady Catrina soap looked rather festive in the shop (before it is cut up, it looks like a giant purple hat covered in flowers of various colours), although, as you can see, I didn't end up with a very colourful piece. Perhaps I can get the shop assistants to cut me a more colourful piece the next time I go in...

The final Halloween/Day of the Dead product (and the one I have been looking forward to getting the most) is the Calacas shower jelly, which comes in three different colours (green, yellow and orange) and looks like a sugar skull:

Happy Halloween everyone!

Hair Care Routine: L'Oreal Elvive

Hi again!

I decided that to make up for my lack of posting recently, I'd write a little review about my hair care routine.

Left to right: L'Oreal Smooth-Intense conditioner, shampoo and masque, and Re-Nutrition night serum

Before using these products, my hair had a tendency to dry out and go all frizzy, particularly this one patch of hair at the back of my head, which seemed to be dry, frizzy and crispy feeling all the time, even if I cut that part short. Normal supermarket shampoos and even some salon brand ones made this even worse, and no amount of conditioning would fix it. However, after one wash with the shampoo and conditioner, my hair remained soft and smooth until the next time I had to wash it, including that stubborn patch at the back! Using the masque produced even better results.

To top it all off, applying the night serum to my hair (it can be applied to both wet and dry hair) resulted in my hair being almost perfect when I woke up the next day, with hardly any knots in it! If that wasn't good enough, it was absorbed almost straight away after I applied it, and it didn't weight my hair down or make it greasy!

An additional bonus? All of these products are under $20! Now I can have more money to spend at Lush and MAC.

Orly Sweet Collection and Top2Bottom

Derp, I haven't updated in over a month.

Anyway, I promised that I would update if I got any of the nail polishes from Orly's Sweet Collection (mentioned in my last post), so here we go.

Left to right: Pixy Stix, Gumdrop, Cotton Candy, Lollipop, Snow Cone and Lemonade

As you can see, I got each colour from the collection. Strangely enough, Lemonade (a pastel yellow) was the most popular of the whole lot.

So far, I have tried Gumdrop, Pixy Stix and Snow Cone (which I am currently wearing). All of the colours have a shiny cream finish with no shimmer. So far, I have noticed that they dry quicker than other Orly nail colours, and that some of them require only two coats to get full coverage instead of three.

So far, my favourite out of the whole collection is Gumdrop (a turquoise blue):

Each nail polish comes with a mini lip gloss in a matching colour and scent:

Left to right: Cotton Candy, Lemonade, Snow Cone, Pixy Stix, Lollipop and Gumdrop

Before and after applying my Sweet Collection polish, I apply Orly's Top2Bottom Top and Bottom coat:

This stuff is an excellent money saver, as it can be used as both a top and bottom coat. It also prevents the polish from damaging the nails and adds lots of extra shine.

Well, that's all for now. Hopefully the next time I post, it won't be this time next month. ^^;