Hey guys, so one of the beauty advent calendars I picked up this year was the Feel Unique one. This was RRP £30 (however there was some sort of 10% discount I think or 20% when I purchased as I remember only paying around £25-£27), it's only a 12 day calendar but packed with high end, luxury goods!


I decided to purchase after seeing you get a Laura Geller highlighter (the big win for me), so what was included?;

 1. Nuxe Reve De Miel Lip Balm
I was pretty shocked by the size of this, I'm pretty sure its sort-of a full size? (might be wrong) but WOW! It smells beautiful, its packaging is very high-end and reminds me of Bobbi Brown jars. Plus, the product is amazing, out-of this world and I would 100% purchase this again (I'd never even herd of Nuxe before but now I've tried this I need more!)

2. Laura Geller Highlighter 
This is a mini product from Laura Geller, if anything I've never saw such a mini highlighter pot before. I was slightly disappointed with the size of this product purely as I didn't realize it would be so small. 

However, the product itself has a much more bronze glow shimmer rather than a sparkle which I normally use. I noticed when I applied this onto my cheeks to finish my makeup look it wasn't majorly dramatic, a much more natural glow. I personally think it would be best suited to a more tanned person, as I am very porcelain skin its not dramatically noticeable compared to some other products I've used.
3. Popband Duo
This is something else I hadn't ever really herd of before, when I opened it my first instant reaction was what an earth? Is this cheap? Pointless? Useless that will be thrown in my draw and never used?

But when my mum overseen what I got she become super excited, the told me all the craze over these during the past few months. A perfect product to tie up hair with and avoid any knotting, snapping and damage (something which I always need, I find regular hair ties always cause this and I never do anything about it).

So after trying these out for the past week or so I'm in love, they are so easy to use and not majorly tight on the head but keeps your ponytail up! I've noticed how much I'm looking after my hair with these products so may have to invest in more! I highly recommend trying them out.

4. Bourjois Eyeshadow 
OH MY GOSH! Just stop, lets award Bourjois for creating the most beautiful product I've ever seen. I'm in love, this shadow is in the shade 'Originale 03' a super shimmery, sparkle tan, gold shade. It's beautiful!!!! This is 100% the best product in this advent calendar and I'm beyond in love I feel like I need to stock up on 100's of these.

5. Ole Henriksen Truth Sugar Glow Polishing Mask 
This product is very different, something I've never tried out before. It's a decent size (15g) so can easily get a few uses. When you first look at the product, it smells so sugar, sweet and looks very unusual (reminds me of seeded jam)! It's a unsual formal which is very liquid like (so make sure your not applying over an expensive bedding, or product lol) but leaves your skin so soft and smooth like WOW!!!! 
- I will write more about this over on Twitter/Instagram over the next few weeks when I try it out a bit more.

6. Balance Me Instant Lift Pore Minimiser
This is a small/mini size product but smells so soft, fresh and clean plus when you apply it leaves a soft smooth layer onto your skin. I personally think this is an excellent product to apply just on your t-zones or under your eyes before applying your primer/foundation.

7. Rimmel London 'The One Lipstick'
This is a full size product (rare in this box I know!) but is a bright red shade, and I mean bright! I'm not sure about this product, if I'm honest I think it might be one of them which never leaves my draw. The shade isn't something I always wear, it's more for a dramatic look, an attention 'look at me' so I feel, so is something I'd probably where on a night out or as a statement to match/pair with an outfit.

8. Decler Hydrafloral BB Cream
There isn't much I can say about this product, it's a small mini size at 10ml but came in the shade 'Medium'. Which is clearly way to dark for my porcelain pale skin, if I'm honest I think its slightly a bit dark for my mums skin tone too!

This is probably the only let down with this advent calendar, I feel like we should of had the option to select a 'shade'. But never the less, I will find someone to try this product out and let you guys know over Twitter/Instagram.

9. Percy & Reed Wonder Balm
I got rather excited when I saw this product, it's not a huge size but not a miniature mini product. It smells very fresh, clean and somewhat reminds me of the type of expensive floral parfum you can buy. 

I've only used this product once so far (I don't like using hair treatments more than twice a week) but I did notice a difference! It let my hair feeling much more soft, smelling beautiful and looked somewhat healither (thats on the first go!). I will see how the rest of this product goes but I feel like possibly investing in the full size, showing you guys some before/after photos over on my Instagram/Twitter. What do you think?

10. Roger & Gallet Shower Gel
WOW! This a huge 50ml size (yes i know thats not massive massive, but compared to the rest of the product sizes in this it is), the product itself is one of my favorites out of this. The scent reminds me of fresh roses with a hint of sweet floral, I'm super excited to use it out.
11. PUR Correcting Primer Illuminate & Glow
This is a very small mini size at 10ml, I've already used this a handful of times and have to say WOW! I'm in love, this is a great product to prime your face with but also to wear alone. For those dull days where you don't leave the house, or need to run out for one thing this is perfect. It has a colour tint (very hard to describe) but when you apply it somewhat removes/hides the redness and evens out your skin colour looking super natural and glow like! 

12. Palmers Coconut Oil Body Lotion
This is another decent 50ml bottle for size, it smells of course with a strong coconut like scent. It's very soft and smooth to apply and yea? What more do you need right?

Overall, I'm glad I got this beauty advent calendar, it gave me the chance to try out so many brands I've never herd of. And fall in love with so many products, although I am slightly disappointed with the size of some of the products (could of been a little larger) you got a range of stuff. - Not like some calendars which are just makeup, or skincare, or fragrance you get a mix! By far the best I thought where the Bonjouris shadow, Nuxe, Percy & Reed, PUR primer, popbands, Roger & Gallet and of course the Laura Geller (could of been larger though, plus pretty much ALL the products!).

Let me know if you got this calendar? Would you get it again? What other advents have you had this year?X
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Hey guys, so I recently ordered several things from Pretty Suds for both myself and my mum (we share products). In-case you guys didn't know I am a representative for Pretty Suds in my local area (distributing products locally without delivery charge) - This does NOT mean I get things free, I still pay just like the rest! So what did I get?;


Mr Snowman (Burner) - £8.95 each
Since we are in the festive season my mum desperately wanted to get her hands on this beauty. It's the perfect wax burner for Christmas, so first off you place the tealight at the bottom (there is a gap at the back to slide it in) OR you can easily just slide the snowman's hat off and place inside that way. (Awesome I know!) Then you add the wax melt inside the hat at the top. Having the hat being removable it makes life x10's easier to clean as your not worrying about knocking the entire burner.
Rate: 10/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.




Candyland (Bath Bomb) - £3.95 each
First off, I'm in love with this bath bomb because of the colour (pink right?) plus its a rather large size product compared to any you get regularly off Lush etc... (Well I personally think there is a difference in size) As for the scent, WOW! It's so sugary, sweet and soft vanilla like mixed with strawberries so tasty.
Rate: 10/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.


Space Cowboy (Bath Bomb) - £3.45 each
This is something very different to what Pretty Suds normally offer, purely because of the design right? It's an large, circular space ship style product with lots of different bright colours (perfect for kids or if your a product lover like myself). When it fizzed away in the bath it left the water a nice soft pinky colour, however I felt like the scent could of improved it seemed as though it wasn't very strong.
Rate: 9/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.


Magic Egg (Bath Bomb) - £4.95 each
I put off buying this product for so long because of the expensive price tag it comes with, although its a perfect purchase as a one off luxury bath or to give as a gift. It comes wrapped beautiful with a big red bow on top! You can pick which Pokemon character you wish to have inside (I choose Pikachu of course), the shell of the bath bomb was very unique and different its main colour was white but had a speckle of different light colours of blue, green, pink etc... Plus the size of this product is HUGE, a lot bigger than a regular bath bomb, it took awhile to fizz away in the water orginaly starting to give a milky cream colour to ending up fizzing out a bright pink and blue the closer to the center. The water ended up being a soft voilet (super cute and different to anything I've ever seen before), and the smell was so strong and sweet plus you get a free small toy!
Rate: 8/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.
  • View a video I made on the product here.




Clean The Air (SOY Wax Melt Bar) - £1.95 each
You get 12 squares on this bar, I usually burn about two chunks a go and the scent lasts several hours. As for the smell of these, I originally expected a fresh, soft 'clean' scent to follow on the name but instead this is much more food like with a hint of orange and spice.
Rate: 7/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.


Duvet Day (Little Beanies) - £2.95 each
I was unsure what to expect when ordering these, I originally thought the scent would be very fresh, clean cotton like. But when they arrived I felt like they was very different, very sweet and reminded me a lot of the millions sweets you can buy at a candy store. The tub itself isn't overly huge, but you get a very decent amount of beanies inside - when I first tried them out I burnt three at once, it was way strong and powerful and honestly I think I could of gotten away with melting just two! I honestly love the idea of the little beanies, you get a lot for your money and once the scent starts to die down just add an extra one to re-lift the smell.
Rate: 10/10

  • View the product on Pretty Suds website here.


Overall, I'm in love with the purchases with my favorite being the Mr Snowman, Candyland and Little Beanies. If yous haven't already be sure to give my Facebook page a like where I represent Pretty Suds (click here).
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Where to begin, I love this box for its perfect seasonal scents plus the colour theme is out of this world. It's packed in a pretty, light baby pink paper with gold and white theme (then the melts are wrapped in gold) honestly I love the theme. Plus, we get a free baby pink Christmas tree decoration on gold string!


Mulled Wine & Berries
This is a very light, soft scent that isn't too over powerful. Its got a slight hint of sweet, sugary berries with an overall soft fresh, fruity scent. (Its a pretty hard scent to define, but it isn't too food or too floral like its a mix in between) 

White Lilac & Rhubarb - RRP £2
A much different melt from the rest of this box, its a much more fresh, clean, floral like smell. It's packed full of white roses, violets and sweet apples a very refreshing scent that's something different but suited to this box.
  • Click to view the product on Flamingo Candles website here.
Chocolate Orange - RRP £2
This melt has a very orange like smell but the opposite to a fruit orange, much more of a sweet, sugary chocolate orange. If anything it's exactly like a Terry's Chocolate Orange you get at Christmas!
  • Click to view the product on Flamingo Candles website here.

Cinnamon Buns
Of course when it comes to winter, or Christmas you just need that cinnamon spice smell and that's exactly what this melt offers. It's a very cinnamon, wood like spiced scent with a slight mix of a typical bakery food like atmosphere. I love it!

Gingerbread
The name is pretty much the scent, what else is there to describe right? It's a strong, powerful fresh soft gingerbread spiced smell that's very food like and festive.
  • Click to view the product on Flamingo Candles website here.

Christmas Tree Gin
The scent of this melt is much more harder to define, its somewhat like a citrus spiced smell mixed with a sweet berry like. Other than that, it's very hard to distinguish a scent although I do admit I love it.
  • Click to view the product on Flamingo Candles website here.
Sherry Trifle
This melt is again very food like, but reminds me of raspberries with a sweet sugar coating. Its honestly one of my favorites out of this months box, it reminds me somewhat of a hint of wine too. 


Bah! Humbug 
This scent is very mint like, packed full of a strong spearmint scent or sort of like those candy canes you get on the Christmas tree! 

Overall, I love this months box by far my favorite scent is either the Chocolate Orange or Sherry Trifle, but then again I absolutely love the gingerbread and cinnamon buns! X
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So I finally decided to commit and purchase off Kylie Cosmetics again (last time was a total disaster see the blog post here) after noticing the dramatic saving on the KoKo Collection I really wanted to get my hands on the set. Normally, the matte singles are 17$ each and the glosses are 15$ each but in this set you get x3 mattes and x1 gloss (value of 66$) for just 40$!

So lets clear up the 'technical' stuff before we get into the products, I ended up purchasing two Koko Collection sets for 40$ each (total of 80$) and got free international shipping. I ordered the product on the 17th November 2016 and they arrived on the 26th November 2016, I was majorly shocked by how speedy the international shipping was this time round. 

The downside, I ended up having a custom fee of £21.02 which is roughly 26.35$ (a LOT right?). Anyhow! Both came in super cute packaging, nothing damaged, no problems. The only thing I noticed was the quality of the lip product container wrapping was easy to chip (the gold bit on the tube).


So the shades?
Khlo$
This is a very nude shade matte lipstick but more of a dark nude, it somewhat reminds me of the Literally GLOSS Kylie offers. The shade is my second favorite, it stayed on my lips pretty much all day but did go patchy after the first hour-two hours of wear. Plus I noticed every-time I took a sip out of a drink it left that horrible stain on the cup!

 Okurrr
This product is a bright pink shade matte lipstick its probably suited to a blonde, or pale girl (but then again I'm just thinking of barbie) which is what this shade reminds me of. It's going to be one of the least favorite out of the collection, but that's purely down to the colour not suiting myself and something I wouldn't wear often.

Gorg
A deep red tone super pigmented and honestly I've just fallen in love with the shade, it's 100% suited to dark haired people like wow! It didn't seem to patch too much and the colour stayed somewhat even (as long as you didn't touch the lips, or drink) else you might have to top up. But this is by far my favorite out of all the products in the set.

 Damn Gina
This was the product out of the four I was most excited for, purely because I'm a major gloss lover. But because it looked so delicate and pretty, on the images I had seen of swatches its a light pinky, glittery, clear shade. But when I applied it onto my lips, honestly I felt like it didn't do much in terms of colour. If anything, it looked like I just had a clear, glitter gloss over the top of my natural lip colour (very disappointing). 

Overall, I'm rather impressed with Kylie Cosmetics first off she is now offering special prices (bundle packs you save money). Free shipping over X amount total cost, and speedy delivery. The only downside left with Kylie Cosmetics is the custom fees us international buyers are left with (which some companies don't seem to get there customers this charge??), and the fast sell out leaving us to rush, fight and try our hardest to be one of the first to purchase. 
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Hey everyone, so awhile back I posted a picture on Instagram tagging @makeuprevolution with the hashtag ' #revoholic '. Each week on a Friday they pick a few photos which do both of these processes and regram them, plus you win a free gift! Well, lucky enough my photo was regram'ed and shared among there social media account where I was privately contacted to forward my postal details. 


I will admit this took awhile to arrive, (about four weeks) and I somewhat totally forgot about it. Then to my surprise it arrived earlier last week, a small bag packed with a lot of goodies. I am totally in love, and majorly shocked by how much they gave me, for FREE! So what did I get?;

 I Heart Makeup Molten Chocolate 'Naked Chocolate' - RRP £3
Now this is a strange one... I've never been a major lover of matte lip products and honestly was a bit unsure if this was a matte product? It applied smoothly, feeling so moisturizing and soft on my lips as a dark pinky tone. But after about 5 minutes it dried out into a matte lip, I did notice it rubbed off easy onto drinking glasses etc..
Rate: 3/5
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here. 


 I Heart Makeup Chocolate Palette 'Chocolate Love' - RRP £7.99
When I first saw this palette, I instantly fell in love with the outer design looking just like a melted pink chocolate bar! When you open up inside there is a total of 16 shades, two being rather large in size. There is a good even mix of shades some being bright and shimmery, and some being darker and perfect to use when creating a smoky eye (Although not many of these are bright and vibrant).
Rate: 5/5
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here.




Makeup Revolution Strobe Highlighter 'Moon Glow Lights' - RRP £3
My all time favorite highlighter this year has to be the Golden Lights shade, it's just perfect for my skin and shines so much! When I got this I was rather excited, unsure what to expect but I noticed when I quickly did a swatch on my finger it wasn't very 'glowy'. It was more just of a dark, bronzing shade with a slight shimmer but nothing over the top... I've been using this for over a week now, and honestly, I use it as a bronzer/contour product rather than a highlighter. It might just be because I'm rather pale, who knows!
Rate: 3/5
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here.


 Makeup Revolution Rose Gold Lipstick 'Red Carpet' - RRP £3
Ekkk! WOW! I love the packaging on this beauty, rose gold is my all time favorite plus the deep red makes it stand out even more. What else could any girl want? It looks gorgeous on my desk, and is a dramatic red lip that everyone wants.
Rate: 5/5 
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here.
Brow Arch Enhancing Stick - RRP £3
When I saw this product it was probably one of the few I was most excited to try, I always love to highlight my cheeks, brow bones, and sometimes along my nose. Although its easy to use, I always struggle when it comes to my brow highlighting. I find it difficult to get a brush, at the perfect size, angle and type which can apply the product at the best quality. When I use this, one draw across the under of my brow and BAM! You get full, maximizing highlighter shine (you can always blend it slightly if you don't like the over dramatic look).
Rate: 5/5
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here.


 I Heart Makeup I Heart My Lips 'Wild Strawberry' - £2.99
I honestly had no idea what this product was, when I unopened it I 100% realized and felt stupid. It's a lip balm, similar to the EOS or W7 you can get (and are my all time loves), one thing I noticed with this product is there is a LOT of the product in a tall vertical shape. Something that always worries me, if I press to hard would the product snap off? I've not had any issues with that as of yet, and honestly this is my new go-to product using it more than four times a day with the cold winter-y season!
Rate: 5/5
  • View this product on Makeup Revolutions website here.
Overall, I'm in love with all the products with the wild strawberry balm, brow enhancer and shadow palette being my all time new favorites being used in my daily routine. Let me know what your favorite Makeup Revolution products are over my social media. X 
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