Waste Not Want Not... Home-made box dividers

I like to be organised and it seems there are so many products that help to organise your drawers and seperate items, but they all come at a price.
I wanted to seperate my nail varnishes into season order, so I would have 3 seperate collections of nail varnishes: spring/summer, autum/winter and all-year round, which will hopefully mean I can take a minimal amount of nail varnishes to uni.
I wanted to seperate them, but without having to buy another box, so I used a bit of cardboard that was lying around and made two seperaters.

It was really easy, i basically cut the cardboard to size and slotted the two bits in the box!
Simples! It may not look as good as the boxes you can buy, but it was completely free!
x

Project bathroom

I have seen this been done on other blogs and thought I would give it a go.
The idea is that you try and use up all your bathroom products, before buying another similar item. e.g. using up all your shampoos before buying another.
As some of you may know I am going to university in September and I will be living in a small room in student halls so I can't fill it with bathroom products, so I am trying to use some up.
Here are some pictures to show the mass amount of products I have, prepare to be shocked! 

The photo above is everything, I then split it up into categories which you can see below...

From the top, left to right: hair products, brush cleaning products, sun and tanning products, essentials, lip products, foot products, body products, bath products, face products.


Just as a little note I have bought all this over a long period of time. Hopefully I can use a lot up before uni! I think I will be donating some products to my mum =]
Let me know if you are doing a project bathroom, or anything similar
x

Something in the water!

Hey guys, sorry it has been so long, I have been really busy about it, over the next few days I will be blogging on my other blog about what I have been up to.
One thing I did do was go to London =]. I love London, but the water there really messes with my skin!
So when I came back my skin was really dried out and flakey, especially on my legs, face and my lips were really chapped too. =[ Does this happen to anyone else when they are in London?
Anyway I thought I would tell you what I was doing to re-moisturise!

Legs
I have been on an exfoliating kick with my legs. My legs have these red spots/ bumps on the top of them, this has been around for ages and not caused by London, but summer is coming, and I have committed to exfoliating regularly to see if these will clear. I am using the natural collection vanilla exfoliator, which smells amazing! =]

Feet and Hands
I have been smothering my feet and hands in vaseline at night and a lighter moisturiser, then I have been putting on gloves and socks and leaving it overnight. It works so well and my skin feels instantly more moisturised.

Face 
As always I wash my face with the neutrogena 2 in 1 face wash and then put boots essential moisturiser on my face.
At night I take off my eye make-up with my simple eye make-up remover, with a cotton wool pad, before washing and moisturising.
I will occasionally put the clearasil rapid action treatment cream on spots.
As you an see I like to keep my skin care simple.

Lips
My lips are really cracked and dry so I have been putting on the blistrex relief cream each night which I would highly recommend! The only annoying thing is that it sometime too much squirts out of the tube =/.

 
Slowly my skin is recovering!
Rachel
=]

Waste Not Want Not... Vaseline

Lately I have been watching super-scrimpers on Channel 4, which is basically about saving money and cutting down on waste. As I am going to university in September I have already been trying to save on beauty products and trying to use up all the items lying around not being used.

One of the first things that sprung to mind was my vaseline. I used to have a bit of a vaseline obsession and so I decided to buy a huge tub of it (225g) instead of buy the little tins all the time. However I only used it on my lips and it was still pretty much full at the start of this year. I should point out that I haven't been using it constantly since I bought it, I have since moved away from vaseline on my lips.

Anyway I was thinking of ways to use it up and decided to put it on my heels, just to see what happened and it worked wonders!
So at night I smoother vaseline on my heels and toes and put a lighter moisturiser over the rest of my feet, then I put socks over the top. Occasionally I will do this in the morning, if I am wearing socks that day. Just a note is that it takes a while for it to sink in properly, so you need to leave your socks on for quite a while to let it sink in properly. =]

Another thing I do with vaseline is put it on my hands, in a similar way, at night, and put cotton gloves on top. =]

I also put it on dry skin on my face from time to time.

The final way I use it is occasionally I will put it on my eyelashes, under my eyes and on my eyebrows. I only do this at night as you do look a bit silly. But this conditions your eyelashes, keeps your eyebrows in place and I think the under the eyes thing makes you look more awake. =]

Anyway here is a photo of my pot at the moment, looking pretty empty.

Hope this is interesting, I think I will make a series of ways I am using up products and saving money =]
Rachel
=]

Naked Craving

I know I am a bit late but I cannot descirbe how much I want the Urban Decay Naked palette!
If anyone knows where I could get it for a reasonable price in the UK please let me know!
I asked for it for Christmas but my family don't really buy me make-up =[ gutting.
Let me know
Rachel
=]

Review: Z-palette

I got this for Christmas and I was super excited about it.  The idea is that you take out your pans, it doesn't have to be eyeshadow, and stick them in, the bottom is magnitised so they should stay. I really the idea, but I didn't think of the practicalities of it.

It is great for storage as it saves having to store chunky packaging. I love the clear lid as you can see everything that is inside it, and don't have to open it up to see inside. It has let me rediscover some of my unused eyeshadows, I had some plastic inserts that had eyeshadows sitting it them that I never used, now I am using them everyday!

The downside is that some of my pans were not magnetized enough to stay still in the palette so I had to buy some magnetic strips, but they are relatively cheap. My main issue with this is that if you don't take the pan out it is hard to get your brush in, and if you do get your brush in the fallout from the powder goes everywhere. Mine is now pretty messy and because the bottom is black it is really obvious.

Messy!!!

Even though there are these downsides I really like the product and would recommend it, if you keep in mind that it isn't perfect. I am going to London in a few weeks and will be taking this with me. I think it will be really useful for traveling, but I will let you know how it goes.
Rachel
=]

Natural Collection

I have had a few natural collection products before and have been hearing quite a lot about them recently from various youtubers and bloggers, so I thought I would try a few.

When I bought these on Friday they were 3 for £5. Here are a few swatches =]

Duo Eyeshadow in Mink/Sable

Pink Cloud Blush

Haul

Moisture Shone Lipstick in Rose Petal

Swatch of the eyeshadow

Swatch of lipstick

Swatch of the blush

I really like what I got.

The duo eyeshadow I have had before, as you can see from the swatches I am almost finished the brown, hence the repurchase. (Sorry I took swatches of the old one, I want to keep the new one sealed until I am ready to use it!) I think the brown colour is really pretty for everyday, I like to just swipe it all over the lid. It is metallic, with a slight shimmer. The cream also has a slight shimmer to it, as you can see it is less used than the brown.

The lipstick is very nice, unfortunately my lips need a little T.L.C before I can used it well. It is a slightly coral pink, very pretty. On my lips I probably wouldn't want anything paler, but this is a nice shade.

The blush looks a colour bit scary, but is actually a baby pink colour, really pretty.

I am not really into blush that much, my cheeks are often quite pink naturally, but when I wear foundation I like to have something to put a little colour back =]

I will be trying out more of natural collections products, with all the products being less than £2 you can't go wrong really! The packing looks really cheep, but that doesn't bother me.

Rachel

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Introduction

Hey 
I am Rachel and I am 18. 
This blog is basically going to be all about fashion, beauty, make-up ect.
I have a youtube account, but I haven't uploaded a video in over a year, it is just so much effort to edit ect. so hopefully this will be kept up to date a bit better
Rachel =]