Last Saturday, I took a little trip to my local Boots store and went on a mad beauty-induced rampage, swiping up a number of items on my "list" - you know, the one you write whilst watching your favourite beauty bloggers on YouTube - and plopping them into my overflowing basket. I was doing my usual thing of totting up the prices in my head so that I knew roughly how much the rather *ahem* grand total would be by the time I got to the checkout. However, during my transaction something magical happened and the sales assistant spoke my favourite 13 words, "did you know that you have enough Boots points to pay for this?"
So i waltzed out of the shop clutching my splitting carrier bag of products that i had just bought without even handing over a single penny! Ahh, Boots points. You are such a beauty.
Here is what I picked up!
I heard about this product first of all from Lily (better known by her vowel-less online name: llymlrs) early last year I think. She was very impressed with this treatment and I trust her views completely as I have been reading her blog since it began! It retails for £5.69 which I thought was quite cheap for a nice 180ml tube of the stuff! It claims to "instantly repair and reinforce for beautifully strong and healthy-looking hair" which drew me in as I have quite dry and damaged locks *sad face.* I have used this twice already since I purchased it but I will be doing full reviews of most of these products so I shall save it for then!
I had read a few reviews online about this foundation and many bloggers compared it to the coveted Giorgio Armani Luminous Silk, so I was quite keen to try it. It sells for £9.99 and I was very aware of just how many shades this was available in! Usually, drug store foundations only come in a handful of colours that are never really divided into yellow and pink toned skin but the range for the True Match Foundation was pretty good! I think there was about 20-22 shades which I felt was excellent!
This had done the rounds (and then some) in the beauty blogging community! I'm a big fan of hair oils as I feel that they deliver so much moisture to your locks but also improve the texture, strength and health of your weak strands! For £9.99 you get 100ml in a lovely glass bottle which feels very luxurious and expensive!
I needed a good primer that was luminious without looking sweaty and this one seemed to be very popular with bloggers such as Estée (essiebutton) and Kate (gh0stparties). What struck me the most was that this was £9.99 for just a tiny 20ml tube which I will probably use up in around a month. I don't know if it's just me and my cheap ways but I feel that this is quite pricey for the amount that you get! Nevertheless, this was on L'Oreal's "buy-one-get-one-half-price" offer when I bought it so I got the True Match Foundation and this primer for around £15 which kind of softened the blow a little bit.
This is another Kate-induced purchase (I swear that girl could sell me orange peel if she wanted to.) Retailing for around £12 this creamy balm claims to lift, energise, tighten and brighten the skin and work really well as a base. Two primers in one shop, am I feeling okay?
Boots Build Up Removal Shampoo
I have been wanting a sort of clarifying / build up removal shampoo for a while as I really like the idea of giving your hair a real deep clean once a week and ridding it of any product build up or grease. I noticed that most bloggers use quite expensive clarifying shampoos (such as the Bumble and Bumble Sunday Shampoo, £17) so I set out to find a cheaper alternative. Unfortunately I can't find this anywhere on the Boots website, but I know that I bought it for £3.49 so hopefully you can find it in store!
Expect some reviews coming in the next week or so and let me know if you have tried any of these products before!
Liv xox
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