hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's unboxing or unbagging is the caroline
hirons winter kit for 2921 this is kit number two so it was a little bit of a struggle to get
hold of. i was extremely lucky i got on at 10 i kept refreshing and managed to pick one up at
around about quarter past 10. top tips if you are trying to pick up one of these kits in the future
is use a browser like firefox i've had a lot more success with firefox than any of the other
browsers i've tried so yeah anyway i managed to pick it up so this kit was 195 pounds but is worth
472 pounds including this kind of neoprene green bag that it came in and i've got behind
me a couple of the previous kits i've bought in kind of previous colors they've done in the bag
so they do a different kind of color back each time i also have caroline's book up there so
yeah i'm a big fan anyway this is the winter kit so what i'm gonna do you may notice i've got a
little bit of eye makeup on but i haven't got any skincare on so what i'm gonna do
is a little bit of a routine with you with some of the items in the kit obviously i'm
not going to use all the bitter ones but i'm going to show you everything so
let's get into the kit so they always come quite well packed with like the cardboardy paper stuff
so we'll pull that out and then here is the inside so as usual with these bags with this
gorgeous kind of camo lining and these are great like bags that you can kind of wipe down
because the material inside if anything spills or anything and they're great for storing stuff in
and i love these big old handles on the side you can sometimes buy these bags separately as well so
if you didn't manage to get a kit but you want the bag you might be able to pick one up in the future
this time we actually got a little leaflets um with the kits which i haven't seen in previous
ones and that just kind of explains about looking at the ingredients and it's got all of them inside
just in case you've got any allergies or sensitivities turn the ingredients so it just kind
of tells you about that and it also tells you to have a look at her how to's videos and all those
kinds of things so that you know how best to make use of your products which i've done so yeah the
items in kit number two first of all we've got an oscar renaissance cleansing gel now this is
in a 200 ml super size and it is in some gorgeous special packaging as well so this is the special
packaging that they've put it in especially for caroline and it's got the hashtag caroline hirans
on the front and it's in this gorgeous bright yellow color and that's what the pump looks like
on that so i've used this cleanser before and i'm going to go and do a bit of a cleanse and like i
said a routine in a minute but apparently she's going to be selling this on her website when it
gets back up and running and it's going to cost i think 76 pounds for this 200 ml super size because
they don't often release the 200 ml it's not part of the core range it's just one they release every
now and again so it's quite a large size cleanser it should last for quite a while so if you do like
the look of that packaging you should be able to pick that up in the future on her website
we've got uh summer fridays cc me serum so this is a 30ml size retails at 57 pounds we've also got
a zealand's mist it's the pro vitamin d3 fortifying mist and this is in a 58 mil size
looks like this this retails at 55 pounds got an eye treatment this one is by jordan samuels
it's the performance eye gel in a 30 mil size this retails at 34 pounds we've got a retinol
by medicate this is the crystal retinol 6 stable retinol night serum and the 30 ml size
this retails at 59 pounds so i'm quite comfortable using um retinol 6. the number just relates to how
much retinol is actually in the product if you get kit 1 it's retinol 3 so it's not quite as strong
as this one but i have been using retinol for quite a while so hopefully my skin will go well
with it i've not really used any of the medicate retinols before but they get fantastic reviews for
their kind of formulation and performance so i'm really excited to use it and see how it performs
our kind of main moisturizer for the kit is by dr dennis gross it's the c plus collagen deep cream
in a 50 ml size this retails at 77 pounds so it's quite a pricey moisturizer but i will say a little
goes a long way and you'll see that when i use it i've used this before as well it's very good
with it being a winter kit and obviously people are struggling with wearing masks all the time
central heating cold weather all that kind of stuff she's included some treatment products so
the zealand's mist is intended as a kind of treatment product
and what i mean by treatment products if you've got kind of sensitive skin
or skin that's like playing up you can obviously use these whenever that happens so kind of keep
them in your kit when you need them or if that's your skin all the time you can also just use them
whenever it's needed so we've got dermalogica's barrier repair 30 ml this is 45 pounds to buy
i haven't got much experience with this product but i've heard amazing things
it looks like you only need a really small amount to treat really kind of dry skin or to kind of
protect it from the elements so it looks like a really good one to have in the kit we've also got
josh rosebrook vital balm cream cream facial moisturizer this is in the 22 mil size and she
sells at 45 pounds and this is what it looks like so i've got no experience with this product but it
gets the most incredible reviews oh it does smell really good as well this is what it looks like
it's a funny kind of texture it's quite thick yet so it seems to sink in
so it's another one that's supposed to be good for kind of treating and protecting the skin
it smells really nice and kind of herbal as well so i think i'm gonna enjoy using that okay so
there's eight products in the kit the intention is not to use all eight all at once because that
would be overkill and obviously some are gonna lean more towards day and more towards night
so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna do a little kind of day routine in how i intend to use these
products myself so you can kind of see what they look like when they're applied to the skin because
hopefully that'll be a little bit more useful than me just talking about them then the products i'm
not going to use i will talk about a little bit more kind of show you what they like anyway and
explain how i plan to use them in the future or in other parts of the routine so we're going to start
off with the oscar cleanser so this is pretty well known anyway the renaissance cleansing gel
i've used quite a few times if you've watched my videos of the cult beauty and space nk gift with
purchases you'll know that the little 35 mil size appears quite a lot in those gift with purchases
so you'll probably have experienced it if you've had one of those gift with purchases
you can actually buy it in this 35 mil size this is 16 pounds in this size so
if you're not sure about it but you like the idea of it you can always just buy a small one
give it a go see how it performs now i'm a bit of a cleanser junkie i like using cleansers
i like exploring and using different ones and yeah so it's just something i enjoy doing
so i'm going to show you this one i'm just going to use the one i've obviously already got open
rather than opening another one so that's what it looks like it's like a funny orange colored gel
and when you apply it to the skin strangely enough it kind of goes unclear even though it's orange
when you look at it it's like magic i love it when products do that it's like it looks like one thing
but then when you start using it it's something else entirely
so i'm just going to kind of massage it into the skin and it's just got a nice
gel texture to it so it's really easy to kind of move around it just sort of
feels really kind of smooth on the skin it's a great one for removing makeup and things and spf
and things as well and it's one i'd normally use at night as maybe a first cleanse if i'm doing a
two-step cleanse it's kind of similar to the ren cleanser i've talked about in terms of texture
and the way it performs it's very similar just kind of smell differently
and feel slightly differently on the skin but they're very very similar
so what i do once i have just applied the cleanser all over my face i then just add a little bit
of water to my fingers and just start to add a little bit of water to it to just kind of emulsify
and there's not a massive amount of like you know you don't get any foaming or anything
because foaming doesn't tend to do that well on my skin anyway um i don't really care for
a foaming cleanser too much i think too much foaming usually means it's got something in
there that's going to irritate me so you don't get a massive change when you add the water but then
to completely remove i use face cloth this is just a vaultery one and they recommend that you use a
damp face cloth to remove this cleanser and i would totally agree that's how i usually do it
so
and then obviously just dry the skin
so it says in the how to's that you can go in with the fortify
mist after you've done your cleanse so i'm gonna do that now the how to pdf sheets
are up on caroline's blog you can download them regardless of whether you've bought the kit or not
and they just have some helpful tips on how to use some of these products if you're interested in
actually purchasing any of them so let's have a look
it feels nice and fresh doesn't really smell of anything at all it just feels nice and fresh on
the skin next i'm gonna go in with my cc me serum which like i said i have been using
for a couple of weeks now i've bought this in one of summer friday's kits i've
been really impressed with summer fridays just recently so we're just gonna do a pump of that
it's a clear kind of serum it's not one that's like yellow or anything it doesn't have a
massive scent to it it just smells fresh honestly struggle with all the scents and things but i do
find it applies really well to the skin it feels nice it's not sticky or
thick or tacky and i have used some vitamin c's that are super thick and tacky
so normally in my routine after my vitamin c i would go in with my tan luxe glow serum
but i'm not going to do that right now because that's not in the kit i'm just going to
jump straight to moisturize today today i would expect to be using the dr dennis gross
c plus collagen deep cream and i probably use this at night as well if my skin's really struggling
i might reach for something like this vital balm cream because that's a little bit of a different
texture and a bit more kind of comfort and if i'm really in a bad way i might well reach for
the barrier repair but for now we're going to do the collagen deep cream so i would say with this
a little really goes a long way it's one of those products that if you put too much on you're gonna
struggle because you can't take it off again so i just use a small amount she says around about
a blueberry sized amount this is what the cream looks like so i would just sort of
dot it across my face and also go in to my neck it has a nice kind of light orangey scent to it
not it doesn't sort of smell artificial or anything it's just nice light orangey scent
it just feels amazing on the skin though and it really is it's got nice kind of brightening
effects to it but it also really moisturizes well but doesn't cause any kind of breakouts
or additional shine if anything i think it just gives you a bit more of a glow
it's just a lovely product to use and you can see how little i put on and how far that's going so i
definitely think it will last a really long time so it's a good one so it's expensive but it lasts
a really long time so the other parts i haven't obviously used in this routine is the eye gel
which i would use just before i apply my vitamin c probably but um i'm not going to do that right
now just because i've obviously got eye makeup and stuff on and i don't particularly want to
take that off when i've just put it on but i will put a little insert here so you can see what that
product looks like the retinol of course i will use at night i do use a retinol nightly so i'll
be switching it out and using this interestingly enough i've actually just got to the end of my
sunday riley a plus so good time and i'll switch out for this one and like i said these two will
be as and when i need them let's have a quick look at this barrier repair actually because we haven't
had a look at that yet have we so this is what the tube looks like it's got a little nozzle
i'm just gonna put a little bit on so it's a funny looking thing it's just like a kind of see-through
clear gel but i can be prone to things like eczema so this will hopefully work quite well with it
it literally sinks into nothing where you just think did i actually apply that
smells of nothing really i think it is supposed to
be unscented actually but just sort of forms a invisible balm on the skin
so i could see how this would probably apply well on top of makeup and things
actually to just protect your skin on like a winter walk or something um
i think i'm gonna enjoy this and again it looks like a really small amount should go quite a long
way she does say as well if you're using this you don't need a primer as well because it has got
that kind of silicone feel which i don't usually like but actually this i think is going to be a
bit of a godsend in that kind of situation where you've got itchy red patches of skin and you just
need something to kind of comfort them and so you can get on with your day i think this is going to
be a nice option for that so let me know what you think of this kit have you used any of the
products or are you tempted to pick any of them up caroline does do brand offers with a lot of
the brands in the kit but i think a lot of those are over now by the time the kits have actually
come out so they're probably no longer available but again check on her blog if you want to see
what those brand offers look like for next time she tends to release this kit once every three
months for each kind of season of the year so we can kind of look forward to the next one in
the hope that we can pick one up and i think she's gonna start doing monthly kits around about april
hopefully so that will be really exciting if i can get hold of some of those so i hope you've enjoyed
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