Coffee on your face?!?

Hello Beauties!!!!!

Hope your are all well and enjoying this lovely sun - and extreme, little too hot, heat (yes I moan about everything!)

Right so this week's post is a little bit of a 'look what I made' and a little bit of a 'PLEASE HELP ME!!'. Over the past week or so I have been on a sort of detox/health living type thing - drink loads of water, eating more fruit and veg (a little less crisps and dips!) and most painfully, dramatically reducing my caffeine intake. Now if you know me well enough you will know my body is probably made of around 50% tea, 30% coffee and 20% actual human-ness, so cutting down on my caffeine has been quite the journey, aside from my huge craving and probably slight shortness with other (apologies dear family and friends), my skin has decided to have a breakdown!



I know when you detox, your skin (and general feel goodness) gets a little worse before it gets better - I presume because it has a lifetime of junk food expel - but my skin has become horribly dry in some areas, and spotty and oily in others. This not only means I look rather odd without makeup but also means I look even worse when I do put it on *crying frustrated face* so I decided I'd try out some homemade scrubs and masks, and in my quest to find the best ingredients for completely given up skin, I stumbled across SOOOO many recipes using coffee - meaning I get a slight fix of caffeine and potentially help my skin! I made both a scrub and a mask using coffee and both honestly did wonders for my skin - so naturally I had to share them with you!!!!

Soil Scrub

What you'll need! And yes, that is a Ben 10 cup

MUD.. I mean er, coffee

Okay, so there no soil in this at all, it just looks like soil. The main ingredient for this is coffee grind, which is basically what is left when you make fresh coffee. I didn't actually have any of these but I do have a coffee maker so instead I pulled open a pod and mixed about a
teaspoon of hot water,  just until it looks soily. If you don't use a pod use about a tablespoon of grinds.

You then want to take half a cup of sugar - brown sugar is better, just because it adds a better texture -but I used white sugar which still worked and you're more likely to have lying around! Put that in the bowl and add a 1/4 cup of salt, a dash of honey (by a dash I mean a squeeze or a spoonful) and then add in the mud like coffee. Finally add the oil, I did this teaspoon at a time and still ended up putting too much in and had to add more sugar so be cautious when doing this!

While it does look good, it does good!

All you do then is mix it up until you get a lovely mud coloured scrub and apply this to a clean face.

Looking urm good?

Choco-coffee Face Mask

Simple ingredient!

This is how thick I made mine!

This time it is what it says on the tin! This mask is lovely and thick but as a warning it is a little bit of a pain to get off so its a lovely excuse to invest some time to yourself (not that you need one!) So you need to get another pod out (or a tablespoon full) - but this time don't add any water -  and pop it straight in the bowl. You then want to add a tablespoon of cocoa powder/hot chocolate, and a generous tablespoon of honey. Now the milk is the difficult part (its not really that hard - dramatic much), you need to add about 1/4 of a cup and give it a mix and then decided how thick you want it - more milk for a runny-ier mask. Once you've got the consistency you want apply it all over your face as you normally do with a mask.

These really did help to resurrect my skin, I used the scrub everyday and the mask twice in a week and my skin feels almost normal! This is where I NEED your help however, the scrub and mask are all well and good but I can not find a face cream that works so I'd love to know what you use! Also if you've got any detoxing or healthy lifestyle tips please send them this way as they would be much appreciated!!!

Sorry I've wittered on so much this week!

See you soon!

Lynds xx

Mini MUA Haul!

Hello there my beauties!!


It's been over a month since my last post - I am terrible I know, have you missed me?! This month has been such a busy one with my first Glastonbury, refurbishing and redecorating bedrooms and most recently my graduation! That's right I am now a fully qualified grown up (on paper anyway!). Any who, less about my disappearance and more about the makeup!! I've mentioned before how amazing I thought MUA products are but this past few weeks I have developed a new understanding of how A-MUA-ZING they are (please feel free to judge me for that awful pun)


          * Slight disclaimer, I went a little eye product mad - hopefully it doesn't get to boring! *   




MUA Pro-brow Eyebrow Kit!




Lovely little kit...

So I have had a constant battle with my eyebrows for years now, and this MUA Pro-brow kit is god sent - and for only £3.50 who am I to complain!! I had a bit of an issue with the colour matching mainly as I'm pretty sure they only have the one shade but I'm pretty sure I may have been half asleep when looking! I like this kit because there's a clear gel which I love for keeping the brows in place- stop those naughty strays! It also has two lighter shades that I have been using as highlight for a less dramatic look, I'll be honest I'm not 1000% sure if that's what these shades are for - oopsy! - either way they have been quite useful!!


 

....and an inside shot!

 

MUA 3-in-1 Contour Pen

Shiney new makeup!



 





 

 

 

The multi-use nib!

Right so this nifty eye shadow contour pen thingy-mijig was only £1.50, so whilst I didn't necessarily know whether I'd use it, I simply couldn't turn it down so I picked up the dark brown and gave it a whirl!! They have quite a few colours so I'm really looking forward to playing around with the other shades! This is a slanted crème shadow liner, which can be used in, well 3 ways, which is shown on the box but I personally don't really find this suggested uses all to useful! I've been using it as liner when I want a softer look and I also like using it in the crease and blending in to create a very pretty cut crease look - potential tutorial if you'd like it guys!    

 

MUA 12 Shade Palette

Neutral and boo-tiful

 

 



My attempt at swatching!



If you've been following my blog you'll know by now I have a little obsession with Sleek products so when I stumbled across these MUA palettes - which have a small similarity to the Sleek palettes expect these come in at only £4 each -  I just had to give them a little go and I was impressed!!! This particular palette is Heaven and Earth and has such pretty colours - see my little swatches! Now while these are such lovely colours the wear of this eye shadow isn't as long as its more expensive friends, which if were honest for under five pounds its to be a little expected however I found using a good primer (I use the Collection 2000 primer) improves the wear of it!

So there's my little haul, I fully intend on try a lot more of the MUA products - I may have accidently ordered a large haul just last night - so they'll be more reviews to come! I promise I'm back for good now - no more unannounced disappearances!! So let me know what you'd like to see over the coming weeks and I'll try my best!! 


Thanks for reading all!


See you soon


Lynds xx