Current Skin Care Routine

I know I haven't blogged for awhile! I've had so many ideas for blog posts but absolutely no motivation to write whatsoever.

Its been a busy/stressful week having to sort out holiday plans and changing my car and every time I got home I just wanted to sit in front of the TV and eat my own body weight in junk food. 

I thought in this blog I would share with you my current skin care/make up routine. 

If you're unfortunate like me and have stupidly sensitive blemish prone skin, I want to share with you the products that have currently been working for me.

Morning Routine:

Lotion

- Benefit's Refined Facial Polish to exfoliate.

- Benefit's Total Moisture Facial Cream to moisturise.

- Moving onto make up no I use The Body Shops Tea Tree Flawless BB cream (this is sposed to be good for blemishes and is so much lighter than a foundation.)

- I then top this up with Collections Long Lasting Perfection Concealer.

Evening Routine:

I use:

- Vitamin E wipes to take off any make up.

- Then I use The Body Shop's Tea Tree Blemish Fade Night Lotion

It's not much of a routine compared to some but I've been doing it for at least a month now and I've found that my skin has really started to clear up. 

I did do a post awhile ago proclaiming my love for no7 but I got ill and after that it was like my skin fought back and the products no longer worked.

Now for the obligatory selfie unfortunately I don't have a before use of products one but this is currently how my skin is looking thanks to these products:

I promise to not be so slack in the next week and to be more motivated to write.

Thanks for reading! 😊

My Week In Photos

Thought I would share with you guys some of the photos I took from last week. I saw the idea for this on another blog and felt like giving it a go:

As you can see there has been a lot of cake baking this week. You could say I was inspired by watching the comic relief bake off. The top cakes are starfish cakes (as some people at my work could not tell what they were supposed to be!) Then underneath are ones I baked with my friends on our girly evening on these we just went for random icing and made loads of different shapes.

I always find a girly evening is such a good way to relax and catch up with good friends. We spent the rest of the evening after baking watching Supernatural and have a good ole chinwag.

 Unfortunately for my bank account I also went up town this weekend and the picture above shows my haul. As it is not the most clear photo I brought:

- Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water and I brought the one for Combination/Sensitive Skin.

- Botanics All Bright Cleansing Wash

- Some Vitamin E Wipes (These are so refreshing on the skin! Don't think I will be able to return to normal wipes after these!)

- A choker with a flower pendant from Topshop.

- A small pink bag from Dorothy Perkins (I'm in love with this and there was even a discount of 20%) 

Overall I probably spent about 30 pound which I thought wasn't too bad considering what I got for that amount.

 I then had Sunday evening to myself and that means one thing - a little indulgence! Thus the urge to buy myself fancy hot chocolate and biscuits, to light a candle and to spend the rest of my evening watching Desperate Housewives (My Current TV addiction).

Finally above shows my reading for the week. It took me awhile to get into this book to be honest but after this I was hooked and it took me about 2 days to read. Such a good story here's the synopsis so you can get a feel for it:

It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders.

Twelve-year old Jonas has never thought there was anything wrong with his world. But from the moment he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas discovers that their community is not as perfect as it seems.

It is only with the help of the Giver, that Jonas can find what has been lost. And it is only through his personal courage that Jonas finds the strength to do what is right…

The book is surprisingly short but very well written.

Finally I want to share with you my music obsession of the week. The band is 'PVRIS' and the album is 'White Noise'. A friend introduced me to these and I am now hooked. Each song has a melodic sound to it and the lyrics are hauntingly beautiful. I'm a big fan of good lyrics and I definitely recommend that if you are reading this you should check this band out!

So that was my week last week in pictures. If any of you want to leave a comment could be with or without a picture describing your week I would be interested in reading it!

Why I Love No 7!

I've had a revelation this week!
The No 7 vouchers are back again at boots 5 pound off skincare and 3 pound off make up.
Being the kind of person prone to having bad skin due to breakouts I have tried so many skin care products its unbelievable! Creams, exfoliators, tea tree oils all claiming to do the same thing. After getting no joy out of these I opted to just cover with foundation which of course just causes a vicious cycle and makes the problem worse.

Then I got one of these vouchers the other day and was having a mooch around the No 7 counter.
From here I ended up getting:

- No 7 Soft and Soothed Gentle Toner
- No 7 Beautiful Skin Blemish Defence Serum

I didn't really hold much hope as I haven't really heard much about serums.
I soon changed my mind within a day of use it had helped my skin no end blemishes reduced and my skin just generally felt fresher than it had done in a while.

I shall definitely be repurchasing!!! For anyone who has troublesome skin this is the skincare range you need!!!