Hello everybody I hope you are having a fantastic start to the week!
Today I'm going to chat you through some of my February favourites,
which actually, for once I have quite a lot of beauty items.
I've been using a lot of products.
I've made it my goal this year, to mix up my makeup bag a lot more frequently.
So I- frequely...I said that really weird.
So that I'm trying different products, therefore...I will find favourites...more quickly
And I won't stick to what I know and love all the time.
The first I have been absolutely loving, is the Pixi and Caroline Hirons double cleanse, cleanser.
I actually have two of these on the go at the moment.
I don't know how I ended up with two, but I am very thankful.
Basically if you don't know who Caroline Hirons is, she is my friend and also I talk about her,
across all my social channels for years.
Because she's my go to person for skin care, anything skin care related.
Her blog is amazing, I will leave a link to it down below,
there's so much useful information about skin care products, and skin care in general,
that I find, personally, extremely helpful, so I think you will too.
And when I knew she was bringing out a cleanser,
I instantly knew I could trust it, because I trust her opinion a 100%.
So, I don't think it's any surprise to anyone, that I flippin' love it.
On one side you've got the solid oil, and on the other side you've got the cream
and you do the oil side first, I only normally take like a tiny bit and this melts your makeup off so well!
like honestly I just have to put a tiny bit on my eye and all my eye makeup has gone!
and then after that you do the cream cleanse. Just to kind of remove the oil and remove anything that's left on your face
and my skin has been loving it. It's not scented it doesn't have anything that would irritate your skin and I think that's why I've gotten on so well with it
because it's just a really good no-nonsense product and I'm obsessed.
The next thing I've been really liking is this which was actually on Poppy's recommendation.
and it is the Fharmacy with an "F" umm rise and shine daily moisture lock with echinacea green envy.
This I got on Cult Beauty, and it's a brand I haven't really ever heard of before.
But, Poppy mentioned it to me and I really like their packaging it's amazing it's got a little wooden lid.
You want to come up? That's not going to surprise anyone is it?
It's like she always knows when I'm filming a bloody video!
And so I ordered one of these because I've been absolutely loving my Charlotte Tilbury moisturizer!
but I do feel like using it everyday it can become quite heavy so I wanted something that was a little bit lighter
that I could use on kind of alternate days or what have you.
I absolutely love it!
I don't know how to explain the texture of this,
it's kind of... obviously it's like a creamy and it's like this really light kind of khaki green color.
It does have a quite a like different smell as well.
Like I've been really trying to get used to this, but the consistency is kind of like creamy-elastic-y
I can't explain it
But, I have oh! I just scuffed up my nail. Aw! I'm so sad about that.
I haven't had any kind of oily or dry patches throughout the day and yeah this is holding up really really well.
I also find that makeup sits really nicely on top of it as well.
Next up is a whopping huge hand cream!
This is by L'Occitane.
I hate when you have to like pronounce something in French without it being like a French sentence.
Like I've done French since I was really little so I would say if I'm actually trying to sound French I do an okay accent.
But, when I'm trying to read like a beauty product off of off some packaging
it just never sounds right.
Very dry skin intensive hand balm
Oh my goodness! January and February for my hands has been absolute torture!
I get really cold hands and with that my skin also cracks to the point where my hands are like bleeding because they're cracking so much
which sounds kind absolutely vile, but that'st just the way it goes.
And so my hands have been like terrible this year
I don't know why, but they're like the worse they're been in a really really long time
So, I needed something that was way more heavy duty then my hands were ever used to
and I got this in my P.O Box and I was like this sounds good
intensive hand balm for VERY dry skin, I like the sound of that
So I've been putting this on my hands every evening or when I feel like my hands are really dry throughout the day
and it is AMAZING! If you suffer with really dry skin maybe on, like, your elbows or your knees
or like on your feet or anywhere you get dry skin you should really try this
especially just like slathering it on overnight when you wake up in the morning your like
oh my God! my hands can breathe
it's such a thick-it's more like a salve then like a cream
but I really really like it.
I have two items in hair.
The first of which is the Davines I mean this just doesn't really have a name
it just says Davines this a medium hair spray for workable shiny looks
and that's it more inside.
Maybe it's the more inside one
Davines more inside? I don't know, but it is a Davines hairspray
and Davines is one of my favorite hair care brands
I'm obsessed with their shampoo and their conditioner
It's basically my go-to
and I was on a shoot recently and my hair dresser used this on my hair
and I was like, "what is that hairspray?!" It smells insane!
Aw it smells so good! I can't even describe what that smell is
its like sweety floral
I can't explain it, but it smells so good and also I really like the hold
so because it's medium and it's workable you can sort of add as much as you want
but then you can also brush it out
or brush it into a certain look which I really like because I'm not the biggest fan of crispy hairspray
so this is incredible! And then she was kind enough to let me have this after the shoot.
Cause I was like, "I need to write this down, where did you get it?"
She was like, "you can have this one!"
Um so I've been using this like everyday since I got it.
The next thing I've also really been loving is this.
This is actually a travel size, but it's the Ouai hair care dry shampoo.
I don't know what it is about this dry shampoo. but I really like it.
There's no like white residue in the hair
it also I think it's because it's the only dry shampoo I've really used where it feels like you don't have dry shampoo in your hair
which I know for some people they want
because dry shampoo can add a lot of texture
make it slightly easier for you to style your hair
but when you brush this through it genuinely feels like you could've just washed your hair
like it still has that very light weight
kind of you can run your fingers quite easily through your hair feel
and I haven't really found that with any other dry shampoo
so I really really like this
this is just my little travel version that I took away with me
it's like half empty and it's nearly gone so I do need to get a full size.
Moving on to makeup!
I've seen quite a few people talk about this palette, but I hadn't really considered purchasing it
because I knew I already had quite a lot of eyeshadow palettes with very similar colors
and I thought no Zoe, be a bit more self-restrained. You don't need to get this palette
and then loads of people were tweeting about it like oh my god this is the best palette I've ever used
and I was like dammit now I need to order it!
It's the Modern Renaissance Anastasia Beverly Hills palette.
Firstly, the packaging is lovely
it's got like this felt casing um and then you open it up and you've got a nice mirror
and actually quite a nice brush which I have used to be fair
normally I throw away the free brushes cause I don't use them
I don't really like that it's double-ended I don't know what it is but I don't like double-ended brushes
I don't know why
It makes sense, but I don't like them.
And these are the beautiful colors which yes they're quite autumnal, but I don't care.
I'd never used Anastasia eyeshadows before, but my God!
They blend beautifully. They're so creamy
and they're so pigmented
Nala! What are you doing?
They're beautiful but they also blend really nicely together which I quite like.
So yes, beautiful eyeshadows in gorgeous berry tones and everything you could ever need.
Even like this one- which is a matte shade
Which I do find like a creamy colors in a matte shade you don't really see on your eyes.
Look at that!
Can you see that?
That's like insane pigment.
And they're not chalky. They're fab, the color pay-off is really, really good.
Oh! Lost my double-ended brush.
The next thing I've been really loving is this which is the Too Faced Papa Don't Peach Blush.
Which comes in this cute packaging!
You may have seen it in my P.O Box video and it smells of peaches
which isn't necessary because it doesn't mean you're going to love the product, but I love the product
so the fact that it smells of peaches is just kind of like an added bonus.
I love that it's tin packaging
because I feel like it lasts really, really well in my makeup bag, really easy to clean, sturdy
um but I also just love the pigmentation, the color. This color is beautiful
and it has like a slight highlight-y sheen to it which, I think, is also why I've been really enjoying it
because you don't necessarily need a highlighter when you put this on
it gives you quite a like healthy glow and I've been using this every single day since I received it
so definitely had to feature it in my favs.
Another thing I wanted to mention which I think I have already mentioned before in a video,
but I've been loving it and actually like verbally recommending it to everyone who I've been with in like the last couple of months.
Is the Naked Skin Concealer by Urban Decay
This concealer on spots or blemishes is the best thing ever!
It's a liquid concealer, it blends really well, lasts really well and the coverage is insane.
So, if you haven't already checked this out, I would really recommend it.
They do a really good range of different colors as well and yeah, it's incredible.
Last thing in beauty are these nails.
Now you guys know I'm not very good at nails.
I never look after my nails it's the one thing I suck at!
One of my New Year's Resolutions was to take better care of myself like physically
so I've been like getting spray tans, I've been moisturizing my body and doing my nails.
One thing that has made life so much easier when it comes to nails are these.
These are the Nailene 200 Full Cover Nails in petite square.
I don't have to do anything to these nails.
I get the glue, I stick them on and because I have really tiny little nail beds
I sometimes struggle with the really pretty ones that come in like two sizes because they don't all fit
um I mean I can make them sort of fit, but I end up like filing them down
and it takes a really long time and then by the end of it I may as well have painted my actual nails
um, but these I think are like perfect they don't look like I'm really wearing any false nails
because they're a really good size and shape for my nails and I love them.
They come in so many different sizes we've got one, two, three, four, five, six
so twelve different sizes and these will last you so long
cause there's so many in each size and it comes with the nails glue and it comes with a little nail file as well.
So, if you did want to file them down a little bit you can but I don't find I ever need to do that and then
I can just paint them in whatever color I like and I would say these last four days without one of them pinging off
it depends on how much you use your hands though
but I've had these on for like four days with no problem
on the fifth day I might lose one, but then you've got the glue so you can stick it back on
or you can stick on a new one and just paint one nail
um and yeah I've just found that I've looked after my nails a bit more because I've got these.
My natural nails are just not great
and one thing that I'm really bad at is that I pick and chip off my nail polish
and then I may as well have not done it.
So, having false nails which you can't peel the nail polish off of and they don't chip is amazing!
And also just my nails in general don't grow and they're not very strong
so the only way I'm gonna ever have nice-looking hands and nails is with falsies.
So... I really, really like them.
One other thing I thought was worth mentioning was Broadchurch!
I am so excited that Broadchurch has started again.
It's the series three. I actually binge-watched series one and two again
a couple of months ago with Alfie
just to kind of get caught up on it,
but it- it was without a doubt my favorite TV series in a really really long time when that came out.
So, when they said they were doing a series three I was so excited and that started.
So I thought it was just mentioning there because most of February I was excited for Broadchurch and then it finally started.
If you haven't seen it before watch it on- I think they have it on Sky Box sets and they might have it online?
I'm not too sure, but you can also buy the DVDs.
But I would definitely recommend watching series one and two before you start on series three and so far there's only been one episode.
So you don't have like you're not missing out on too much of series three so far.
But, the first episode was insane!
And I can't wait for more like the soundtrack, the way they film it, the actors and actresses just everything about it I absolutely love.
Oh, and I actually didn't explain what it is so it's kind of like a crime drama kind of thing.
Like its all very like "who done it". Which is like my favorite thing to watch on TV so love it!
Anyway, I really hope you guys have enjoyed this video and let me know in the comments as always what things you've been loving or if there's anything else I will love.
I have actually read comments in past videos where you've all told me different TV series that I should be watching.
So, I have made a list of those.
Not that I have any time right now to be starting on new TV series but I do take your recommendations into account so thank you for that.
Give the video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it and I will see you again next week for another video! Bye!