Blog sale via Depop!

Hey everyone, just want to announce that I'm having a little blog sale type thing and it's all up and ready over on the app depop! Unfortunately this app is only currently available to iPhone/iPod/iPad users :( boo. But please come check it out :) my user name's chloelouisecope and I've got a few beauty bits and clothing and other stuff, but I'm going to keep updating it with bits every so often :)

Hope you're all well and good! xx

I'm back :D

Hello everyone!
Such a long time no speak eh? How're we all doing out there?

After focusing and stressing about me exams SO much I can finally say that they're over, and what's done is done. I am suuuuper happy that I've got through, just about, and although I haven't blogged in a while it hasn't stopped me from keeping up with the blogging world! So thank-you to all you lovely ladies for keeping me sane during my revision, and not so much thank-you for making me spend my money on products you've reviewed :')

This post isn't going to be anything spectacular, just announcing my return to my blog, and you may notice it looks a little different? I'm so happy with the design all thanks to Amy over at paintpotted - she's such a loveeeely lady and her blog is great so go check her out!

Thanks for keeping with me everyone, I hope to hear from you soon! I've got a few reviews to do with the things I've bought as therapy to stop me dying through revision.

Anyway, talk to y'all later!

Chloe xxx

Ps. If there are any posts in particular you'd like to see please let me know! :)

Leibster Award courtesy of Parie at Class and Glitter!

Hello everyone! I can't tell you how weird it feels back blogging after almost a month apart, I can't say I hated not blogging, but I've certainly built up a list of things to write about, having the break probably taught me the most important thing - don't just buy something because it's hyped about - I've done that so many times and been disappointed, like with the Apocolips, Collection 2000 Concealer to name and shame a few.. anyway, I was nominated for the Leibster Award by the lovely Parie at Class & Glitter and I can finally write it up :) thank-you Parie for nominating me!

I think everyone knows now what the award's all about but here are the rules anyway: 

- Each blogger should answer questions which the 'tagger' has set

- You then choose 11 new bloggers to pass the aware onto and link them in your post 

- Create 11 new questions for your nominated bloggers/blogs

- Go back to their blog and let them know you've nominated them

- Each blogger posts 11 random facts about themselves

- No tag backs

Sooo, here goes:

11 facts about me

1) My favourite animal is the turtles

2) I've been with my better half for 23 months 

3) My middle name's Louise

4) I've only recently bought myself a digital camera (my first ever!!)

5) I tend to dislike a lot of people (none of you lovely bloggers though)

6) I either put 100000% into something or nothing at all 

7) I get so easily frustrated with myself that I cry

8) My favourite food is cheese 

9) I love Formula 1 and car racing in general

10) I have a pet doggy called Jess and I love her

11) I have to know where everything is in my bedroom and I always know if it's been moved

My 11 questions to answer from Parie

1) What is your guilty pleasure food?

As odd as this is, its Twiglets. The little marmite flavoured snacky things - yumyum!

2) If you had to leave the house in a hurry, what one thing would you grab? 

Assuming that I'm dressed and prepped, probably my house keys (boring, I know!)

3) Do you have any favourite YouTubers?

Oh definitely! Este from Essie Button is probably my favourite, but people like Zoella, Viviana, Lily Pebbles..

4) What is your favourite season?

Winter, purely because I love layering clothes up and being cosy 

5) How would you describe your everyday style?

I'm very plain Jane, tshirts, jeans and pumps. 

6) What is your favourite drug store brand?

That's a hard question because I go to different brands for different things! Dayum. Probably Barry M at the minute. 

7) Curly or straight hair?

As in I prefer having curly or straight? It doesn't really bother me because my hair's never down, so either xD

8) Favourite restaurant?

Pizza Huttttttttttt definitely!

9) How do you relax?

Ha! I don't. I'm always thinking about crap to do, or what I could've done.. Probably just laying in bed with candles burning or in the bath?

10) Blazers or leather jackets?

I would say leather jackets, but at the minute I'm not a big fan of either. I love blazers, but just on other people.

11) Do you own any Apple products? 

iPhone and 2 iPods (one's broken, I'm not greedy:P) 

My 11 questions to my nominees. 

1) What one product do you regret purchasing the most?

2) What or who inspired you to blog? 

3) Where do you work?

4) What's your number one highstreet shop? (clothing)

5) How often do you blog?

6) If you could go back in time, what date would you go to?

7) Favourite thing to do on a rainy, miserable day?

8) What's your guilty pleasure?

9) Favourite soap/tv show to watch?

10) If you could go forward in time and see how your life pans out, would you? Why?

11) One thing you want to achieve this year?

I nominate:

EVERYONE. This may be against the rules but heh. I think everyone should do this :) 

Yay :D

xxxx

Goodbye.. for now!

Hey lovelies,
Just wanted to say that I'm going to be taking a break from blogging from now until probably the end of June due to A-Level exams :( I know blogging doesn't take up much of my time but it's time I could be spending doing a past paper or some revision.

I'm hoping to be back around the 20th of June, but who knows:)

Thank-you for following me so far, and I'll speak with you all soon!

Ps. If any of you would like to do a guestpost for my blog please leave a comment or drop me an email (chloelouisecope@gmail.com) and I'd love to feature you :)

xxx

NOTD: Barry M GellyShine in Papaya

Hey lovelies, just a quick notd post for you to fill up my blank posts because although I've been buying stuff and have a huge list of stuff to review, revision is taking up my life at the mo so I hope you guys don't mind the sparse posts recently - I'm sorry! :(

I've wanted to try the Gelly Shine polishes by Barry M for a very long time, but the colours never really appealed to me much - until they brought out Papaya. I LOVE this colour, but I can't really describe it because of how different it appears in different lights, which is why I've included 3 photos of it on my nails in different lights for you guys :)

Please excuse my awful nails, I have the habit of biting the skin around my nails ewww, plus I work in a stockroom so I'm always carrying big boxes and my hands take the toll :( 

I've found that this looks a mixture between orange, peach and pink so I'm not really sure whether I could recommend it to someone haha! But I love it, and for £3.99 cannot complain!

Have you tried any of these polishes? Definitely worth a whirl girls!

xxx

Review: Barry M Makeup Brushes

Hey everyone, sorry again for the lack of blog posts, I've got so much work to do at the moment, I think all my teachers have decided to pull their fingers out with a few weeks left of college.. Anyway, as a bit of a treat I decided to break my makeup brush virginity. That's right, I don't own a proper makeup brush (until now) .. ps. I have an overall face brush, which is only from models own but I don't class that as a proper one because it's so basic.

I decided to try out the Barry M makeup brush collection and I bought the concealer and eyeshadow brush which were £2.99 each but are currently on offer at Superdrug for buy one, get one half price - niiiiice.

I'm always a tad skeptical about makeup brushes because I find that my fingers and the eyeshadow triangles you get with most products do the job nicely, but I thought I'd try makeup brushes and see how I get on.

The concealer brush (orange) is probably my favourite out of the two, but the eyeshadow brush for me doesn't give much to be beaten on. I believe they're made out of synthetic material but whether they are I don't actually know. The bristles of the brush seem very close together, whether this is due to the type of brush again, I don't know but it does a job. It applies my concealer much better than the swipey stick thing you get with it and I find myself using less product by using the brush - yay! I'm not really a fan of the bright orange but that's something I'll have to get used to.

The eyeshadow brush (green) for me is a lot less than expected, so I'm disappointed to say the least. I tried using it with my shadow for my brows too but I was again disappointed. It doesn't hold the product very well, so you have to apply lots to the brush before you can actually tell you've put some on your face, which makes applying my shadow much more time consuming that it needs to be.

I'm probably expecting too much from these brushes but I'm unsure whether I'll be using them in the future. The concealer brush stands a much greater chance of being kept whilst the eyeshadow one unfortunately might have to be binned. Boo.

Any recommendations for moderately cheap brushes? I need your helps girls! xxxx

What I've bought so far..

Hey everyone! Sorry for such a lack of posts recently, I just haven't been that inspired and deadlines are killing me, I thought I'd show you a few bits and bobs that I've bought so far, only a day after pay day and I've already bought so much. I'm planning on doing a review or post on most, if not all of these products so I don't want to say anything about them at the minute :)

NOTD: BeautyUK and Maybelline Colour Show

Hey everyone! I feel like I've neglected my blog a bit lately, so I'm currently in the process of writing a few blog posts in advance incase I don't have the time, which I probably won't) to write some for you lovely lot :) Just wanted to say hello to any new followers too, I'm glad the number is increasing:) yay! Hello :D
Ps. I sincerely apologise for the state of my nails in these photos, I haven't found a wonderful hand cream as of yet - boo.

I recently bought both of these polishes but I haven't worn the beautyuk one yet, until now.. My Maybelline one (NOTD post here) lasted me a good week and a bit and I was super impressed, especially because I want to have to paint my nails probably once a week, not everyday. But I thought I'd try this beautyuk one out and see how it fairs to my No7 one in Lilac which I have been looking for a replacement of. 

The polish itself is very opaque, so I had to stick two coats on, but thankfully it dries super quick so putting two coats on wasn't a problem. I then topped it with Maybelline's Colour Show top coat in clear, just to add a bit of chip resistance and extra gloss. 

Hope you enjoyed! xxx

Review: Phil Smith Argan Oil Cream

Hello lovies, sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been super busy with coursework deadlines for college and revision and life is just work work work at the mo. To get myself back into the swing of things I thought I'd do a quick review of the free gift inside this month's Cosmo, well May 2013 edition. It isn't often that I buy magazines, but I have to confess I've been after trying products with the argan oil in and when I saw that Cosmo was giving it away I kind of had to buy it.

I was excited to try this product, as I've heard and read so many positive things about how smooth it makes your hair look and feel, and as I struggle to get my hair to look soft I thought this would be a lovely thing to try :) 

The product itself comes in a very cute pink bottle, which has a tiny hole for getting the product out. Personally I think this is great because it means you don't waste any excess product by squeezing too hard. I was expecting an oily, quite transparent liquid to come out but instead it's a lovely white cream that is super easy to work with! It smells lovely too. 

Now it says to use this on damp, towel dried hair and then blowdry as usual. I love doing it this was as I find it also protects my locks from heat so I'm hoping *fingers crossed* that it will encourage my hair to grow some more. I also find this works wonders as a smoothing serum. Like I said its of a cream texture, so I find rubbing it inbetween my fingers then smoothing any frizzy areas brill - beware you do not need a lot of this product at all! My hair is just past my shoulders, and I probably use the size of cream in the picture above, maybe less.

Overall, it's such a lovely product and it's made my hair look so soft and 'together'! I am definitely going to be purchasing this in it's normal size - believe it or not, the 50ml size I have above is the sample size! 

You can buy Phil's products at Sainsbury's or online at www.philsmithhair.com, the full size product is £10.99 and I'd say it's definitely  worth that!

Hope you all enjoyed this review, please leave any comments or contact me via twitter @chlpsie I'd love to hear from you guys :)

xxx

Skincare haul

Hey lovelies, I went out shopping with the intention of buying a new skin care regime as I felt like my old one wasn't working for me so why stick to one that doesn't work?

Okay, so the first place I went to was Superdrug, I love Superdrug so much, but unfortunately it's really hard for me to get to and if I don't buy things it isn't worth the expenditure in bus fare - boo. But I nipped in when my mum was food shopping and picked up some goodies. I'm trying really hard to focus on my skincare now as opposed to buying makeup to cover up my uneven, blemished skin because I really want to stop buying foundations and everything because every time I buy one I'm always disappointed and it just lies around going off, and I'd heard great things about particular items of the superdrug range so I thought I'd give them a try.

The first thing I bought was the Naturally Radiant Brightening Hot Cloth Cleanser from Superdrug's own brand, and it was £5.99 for a 150ml bottle and a muslin cloth, which compared to some high end and not so high end hot cloth cleansers is very cheap. I tried this the evening that I got it and I'm super impressed, my skin felt so pampered and smooth after using this and it doesn't smell hardly at all. The muslin cloth you get with it is okay, it tends to crease up and stick to itself a bit but I just laid it on my face using probably hotter water than I should've to open my pores etc. I'm not sure whether it really made my face radiant but that's only after one use, so when I use it more and more I'm pretty sure it will have an effect.

The second skincare product I picked up was the Vitamin E Nourishing Night Cream again from Superdrug's own brand, I think this was £2 or £3.99 so again really well priced. You apply this to your face after cleansing and toning and leave it overnight to work its magic. Again, I'm super impressed with this, it smells so lovely, almost of suncream and coconut and it applies so smoothly. It takes mere seconds to absorb into my skin and doesn't leave an oily/shiny residue which is great too, the morning after my skin was so soft and even I was amazed. I struggle with dry patches on my cheeks so I applied two layers of this on the dry areas and they were ultimately gone by morning.

I then went into the BodyShop, and if you know me you'll know how much I love the BodyShop goodies, I picked up 2 sample size skincare products because I wanted to try before I buy.
The first thing I picked up was the Aloe Vera Calming Toner, I thought this would be good for me because after I've cleansed my skin can get quite red where it's particularly sensitive, and I thought that this may calm the redness down whilst adding moisture. I'm not so sure about the smell of this product though, it smells rather alcoholy for a toner, but so far it seems to be working wonders! Leaves my skin soft and smooth and it feels nice and supple.

The second thing I bought was the Tea Tree Skin Clearing Facial Wash, because I tend to get spots around my skin and eyebrows annoyingly. They're obviously the oily areas of my face and unfortunately I can't cover them up due to where they are. I've used this every morning since I got it and I am seeing a little improvement in my blemishes, they're less red and they appear smaller so I'm hoping that that's a good sign that it's fighting them away before I break out. Yay!

I also picked up the towel headband just to wear whilst I'm cleansing/washing my face and when I'm putting my makeup on, but I didn't think it necessary to put a photo of that on heh.

So that was it for my skincare haul, hope you all liked it. Please leave comments below if you've tried them and how you got on with any of these products, it's always lovely to hear from you guys:)
xxx

Beauty Haul

I went shopping last weekend and I bought as you may have seen some skincare goodies but I also bought some beauty bits too and here they are! (sorry for the very awks intro..)

Okay, so the first things I bought were from Superdrug just because I was in there at the time buying beauty bits and I wanted to get a few more points on my beautycard.

The first thing I bought was the Revlon Lip Butter in one of their new colours for spring summer and this was shade 027 - Juicy Papaya. I thought the colour on the plastic lid was such a nice peachy pink colour and I decided to try one of these seeings as everyone's raving about them at the mo. I did originally go in looking for the Berry Smoothie one, but they didn't have it so I bought this one instead.

The colour on the actual stick is a lot pinker than the packaging but I still think it's such a lovely light pinky orange colour which is definitely buildable. I think the colour pay off is probably less on this one, but I like that because on my neutral days I only really want a slight hint of colour on my lips.

The second thing I bought was a nail polish from the Beauty UK brand. I hadn't seen or heard of this brand before but they had quite nice colours and the items were nicely priced. I've been looking for a replacement lilac polish as my No7 has ran out - boo - and they don't stock it anywhere other than online anymore - double boo. So I bought this to see how similar/different it is to the No7 one. The colour itself is No. 51 Smokey Lilac.

The last thing from Superdrug was the Cutex Ultra Cleansing nail polish remover. I bought this because it was on offer, and my other one had ran out - not very interesting item I know!

Then I nipped into Boots and I found everything was on the 3 for 2 offer, so I picked up 2 nail polishes (which I've already featured in my NOTD post here) and then the Rimmel Lasting Finish 1000 kisses lip tint in shade 700 - Nothing but Nude, this colour is quite similar to the lip butter I picked up but I fancied trying these as I hate the feeling of sticky lip balm/stick on my lips so I thought this could be a nice alternative.

The last thing I bought was the TRESemme Salon Sleek straightening spray with Argan Oil. At first, I thought this wasn't like a normal heat protect, so I put it down a few times before realising that it's a heat protect which helps straighten and smooth your hair - blonde moment. I've tried this a couple of times since buying and it's really nice, my hair feels super soft (sometimes too soft) so I would definitely recommend picking this up if you're after a bit of softening for maybe dry and weather damaged hair :)

Have you tried any of these products? Leave comments below :) xxx

Review: Rimmel Match Perfection Foundation

Hey everyone!
I'm just going to jump straight into this because I'm the worst person for waffling through an intro.

I was recommended this product from another blogger (here's her link) during the bblogger's chat on twitter, (which if you don't already join you really should, it's on wednesdays and sundays 8pm-9pm GMT, just use the hashtag #bbloggers), and when I nipped into Boots on my work break I saw that it was on offer for £4.99 so I decided to pick one up.

The bottle promises a traceless coverage foundation with Advanced Smart Tone technology for perfectly flawless skin under any light. Enhanced with Sapphire Radiance for an illuminating glow. Lasts all day'. I suppose that's a lot of promise from a product really.. I can't say I'm too convinced on the whole 'smart tone technology' and thinking about it my skin didn't look flawless under any light either.. However, I do find that it gives a lovely light/medium coverage which is easily buildable without caking and looking thick on your face and it doesn't feel heavy at all on your face - it's lovely and light and leaves a naturally dewy glow to your face. On application you do get a whiff of suncream and aftersun but once its on your face you can't smell it at all, I quite liked the smell but I know the majority of people aren't keen on smelly products on their faces.

I picked up the shade 200 Soft Beige but I have to admit I was debating for quite a while between this colour and a darker one, this one matched my skin tone but I wanted something with a bit more colouring.

I would definitely recommend this product to people with combination skin as I found where my face gets oily (under my fringe) the product sort of slips away a little, not all of it, but it does get abit oily but it doesn't cling to my dry patches either, unless they're awful, so it's definitely worth a look if you're combination skin.

Have you tried this product? Leave a comment below with your views and your blog link and I'd love to check it out :) x

NOTD: MaxFactor in Candy Rose and Colour Show in Clear

I've never really considered MaxFactor as a good nail polish brand, mostly because I always assume their products are way out of my price range, so I tend not to punish myself by looking, but since there's a 3 for 2 offer on at Boots I had a look the other weekend and I picked up a colour which I wouldn't normally go for. I'm more of a vanilla kinda girl when it comes to nail colour, probably because I'm abit of a messy painter.

I apologise for my very awful skin around my nails, because I work in a sports shop and I'm in the stockrooms alot of the time, I'm forever pulling boxes out and my hands take the toll - boo :(

I love the colour on these, and I think it's quite similar to Essie's e-nuf is e-nuf or their peach daiquiri 

This is wearing it with the Colour Show top coat in clear, but I really didn't need it due to how glossy it was, I just put the top coat on for chip resistance as I'm not sure how long Max Factor's polishes last without chipping. 

Have you tried any of the mentioned nail polishes? Or have you done a NOTD recently? I'd love to have a read/look and hear from you all :) 

xxx

New blog, new start

Hey everyone, how are we all?

I don't know whether many of you will pick up on the fact that I've had a blog before using blogger, and I also have a blog using the website glipho.com, and since opening that blog I have thankfully and wonderfully gained 80+ followers, but the only thing that gets me down about their site is that you can't change themes or anything, so everyone's blog looks the same :( so I'm reverting back to good old blogger in the hope that all my lovely followers will still follow me and I'll make lots of new follower/blogger friends!

If you don't know me however, my name is Chloe and I'm 18 :) I love writing about beauty products, reviewing products and also showing you everything I've bought and just basically writing about my life really. I started blogging probably December of last year and I love it SO much! I'm hoping you guys will be kind to me and comment and follow and all sorts of things because it means so much to me! I know people say it isn't about numbers, but its nice to know that someone actually gives a damn about me and what I think rather than me posting myself onto the internet and no-one really caring. I promise to always reply to all comments and will always check out your blog in return and comment on that :)

So that's me, and I'm going to type up some posts tonight so I don't look completely lonely. I'm trying to sort my theme and look out too, so you might see changes lots :)

xxx