- Welcome to Beauty Writer Roundup, I'm Jas.
If we haven't met before, I'm Adore's new beauty editor
and I've been here for a couple months.
So as you can imagine,
I was very excited to get my staff discount
which is what we're gonna be looking at today.
What I bought in my first staff order.
(laughs) You're going to notice with a lot of these,
I have used them a lot.
I just wanna like preface that I was very excited,
and yes, we get a lot of samples,
but there are some things that I was just like,
I couldn't wait to get my hands on, I was just so excited.
So the first thing that I bought
is this Habitual Beauty face oil.
So when I started a couple months ago,
Habitual Beauty was sort of a newer brand,
and I'm not gonna lie,
I was definitely influenced by the packaging.
It's super light, minimal, and beautiful.
They use all naturally derived ingredients.
And so this one is got like nourishing ingredients
like jojoba oil, but it's also infused with vitamin C.
And so it's really good for like hydrating your skin
if you have dehydrated or dry skin like me.
Some vitamin C is really good to brighten your skin tone
and improve your texture all around.
So yeah, it's a bit of a superhero in a little bottle
and I'm definitely in need of some more.
I don't know if you can tell, there's like nothing left.
- [Interviewer] Yeah, you've already used heaps.
- I've used heaps. - When did you order these,
like a month ago?
- A couple months ago.
But like I'm a dry girl.
A lot of people use it at night,
you know, for overnight when you're losing a lot of that
hydration in your sleep.
But I'm losing hydration all the time.
So sometimes I'll just also add it to like my foundation
in the morning if I want a little bit of glow,
oh yeah, after my moisturiser at night as well.
Let's maybe move on to Alpha-H cleansing balm.
You may have heard of this cleansing balm.
They do have one that's a white tub
that you might have seen before.
I believe off the top of my head it's like a wild orange,
but this is a new one and it's limited edition,
so it's only just landed at a door, which is exciting,
and it's got Australian Davidson plum in it.
It would be that first kind of oil based
step of your cleansing routine.
If you double cleanse, it's really good to remove makeup,
SPF, I have used a lot. - There's like nothing left.
- I know, I warned you, it's, yeah, I'm obsessed.
If you're a contact lens wearer,
these are really good because you can really get
into your eyes and remove your eye makeup
without it getting in and actually stinging,
and like for me, I'll just go temporarily blind
when I get product in, so this is an amazing one.
- Does it smell like plum? - I don't know,
how would you describe that?
It's not really plumbing.
- Oh it's a bit more, it's bit citrusy kinda like--
- It's a bit citrusy.
Yeah, I do believe it's still has a bit of citrus in it,
but it's a hard one, it smells nice, let's just say that.
Let's go onto some makeup maybe.
So this is Huda Beauty,
this is their blush stick, cream stick,
and I have the shade Coral Cutie.
I'm a big fan of cream blush.
I'm going through a bit of a phase at the moment
and it's like all I'm wearing.
It's really good to give you like
that dewy kind of blush finish.
So if you're like a bit more like, glow I guess,
rather than like a matte finish,
this is definitely a good one.
There's multiple ways you can apply it.
You can like dab it straight onto your cheeks.
I use a brush and like kind of swirl it
onto it a little bit and then dab it.
It kind of depends the look you're going for,
but it's super easy to blend
and it's just a really beautiful colour.
It's gonna last you ages as well.
So it's a good investment, and there's like
maybe two more colours that I have my eyes on, so, big fan.
Maybe we'll go on to Lancome.
This is the holy grail of serums.
I'm calling it, you may have seen it on our channel before.
This is the Lancome Renergie H.C.F Triple Serum.
So it has hyaluronic acid, niacinamide,
and farulic acid in it. - Farulic?
- Farulic acid, see, I told you
I'm terrible pronouncing stuff.
And the cool thing about this is
those three ingredients don't traditionally
gel well together in one product.
Which is why historically you, it's been hard to kind of
find formulations that contain all three.
But what I love about this is that they're all encased
in separate, I guess like canisters, like tubey things
within the product.
So when you are like squirting it, like squirt pumping it,
squirting it sound so bad (laughs),
when you pump it out, they've got three different holes
so they all come out separately and then they gel together,
and I'm just a really big fan.
Nothing hydrates my skin like this.
It feels actually quite cooling when you apply it as well.
So I love that, especially for like pre-makeup skincare
when you just want your skin to be really supple
and just yeah, have your makeup sit really nicely.
So it's a little bit more on the bougie side.
I believe it's like 200 plus.
So hence why I was waiting for my staff deal
to get my hands on it, but I'm obsessed.
- [Interviewer] Do you know that that was in Sadaf's
first staff order too?
- I didn't, but I'm not surprised
because I'm pretty sure she influenced me to get this.
Another one I was influenced to buy
that you guys are probably familiar with
is the IT Cosmetics CC Cream
or Your Skin But Better CC Cream.
This is amazing.
I'm wearing it today as like my foundation base.
It's quite a good nice like medium buildable coverage.
It has all the hydrating benefits of a CC cream
and like sort of the skincare superhero ingredients
as well as obviously, having that full coverage.
Yeah, I love this one to be honest.
I've been wearing it every day.
It's just, it sinks into the skin, big fan.
Okay, another Lancome is the,
and I'm gonna butcher the name of this as well.
Teint Idole Ultra Wear all over concealer.
I was also influenced, we're sensing a theme here,
but I mean if you're reading about beauty every single day
and writing about it, there's a fair chance
that you're gonna be influenced about it.
This is just a, an amazing concealer.
I wear it under my eyes mostly.
It's got quite a creamy texture.
It sinks in, it doesn't ball or peel over the day,
and it's just a really good one.
Okay, this one didn't fit in the box, but this is,
and it's also kind of dirty, so apologies.
This is one of our AB cosmetic bags.
I am from Sydney originally, but family up that way,
so I am often travelling interstate.
This is just like a no-brainer.
It fits everything in it.
I love that it's got like your clear windows
so you can kind of see what you've packed.
It's a massive size, I think this is the medium from memory.
So there's a bigger size again
and I think that comes off the top of my head
with different compartments and things.
But this is perfect for my skincare, my makeup, everything.
I fit my partner's stuff in there too, so I love it.
Last but not least, Lanolips.
I feel like this needs no introduction.
Everyone knows Lanolips.
Everybody has their own preferred flavour.
I have the Coconutter 'cause I love coconut.
It is amazing.
I use it on everything, not just my lips,
you can use it on like dry skin,
like when like my hands get really dry, can rub it in.
I'll even like put it on the high points of my cheeks
sometimes if I want a little bit of like highlight.
But it is just really nourishing, hydrating,
it's good for overnight as well.
I tend to pop it on before I go to bed
'cause my lips, I always wake up with quite dry lips.
So in that sense, I feel like you're getting
like a lot of benefits in one little tube
and they're really affordable.
But this is almost finished so I need to get another one.
Oh, I've got it on today
layered over like a lip liner and lipstick
and it just kind of adds like a gloss,
but it doesn't dry your lips out.
It's not too overpowering of like a coconut
'cause I hate that artificial coconut flavour,
like there's such a fine line,
but it's just like really subtly scentered.
So yes, big fan.
That is everything that is in my first staff order.
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