Tropic Pure Plant Skincare

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all well.

Today I have something very exciting to blog about - the new Tropic Skincare Range!

A bit of background on this range first: it was created by The Apprentice's Susan Ma (and subsequently invested in by Lord Sugar himself!) and is all totally organic and natural with no added nasties. The products are produced from plants and the ingredients are listed (in plain English!!) on the packaging so you can see exactly what you're putting onto your skin. As 80% of what you put on your skin is absorbed into your body and bloodstream, I think being aware of what is in any products is so important.

Anyway, on to the exciting bit, the products!! I have 4 of the 12 products currently available (all though I have sampled them all), so I'll talk about those.

First up is the Organic Hot Bamboo Smoothing Cleanser. If you think of the Liz Earle Hot Cloth Cleanser, this is of a similar nature. It smells of lemon and ginger (although ginger isn't one of the ingredients!) and it's beautiful, it goes on gorgeous and smooth and the bamboo cloth that comes with it is so soft, it's just gorgeous. My skin is left looking and feeling amazing and the smell fades to a gorgeous lemon. The bamboo cloth contains antibacterial properties that stop germs forming (which is fab as I detest crispy, smelly flannels that have been sitting on the side of the bath - yuk!!). Highly recommended product, I'll be continuing to use it.

Next comes the Body Smooth Refreshing Polish. Now this is basically a body scrub, again all natural, organic ingredients and it has the same gorgeous lemony smell as the cleanser. It's a salt scrub so has large salt particles in it, it has natural oils in so needs to be mixed up with the wooden spatula before using. It leaves your skin feeling amazing, soft and refreshed, like you've spent the day in the spa - so luxurious, you have to try it!!

On to the Skin Revive Firming Nourishing Cream. This smells of rose (it has rose hip listed as one of the ingredients) its light, not greasy and leaves your skin feeling so soft. I'm not sure about the 'firming' but it definitely nourishes your skin and puts moisture back in, it's just gorgeous.

Lastly, the Lip Love. This is a lip balm which again contains rose hip. It smoothed and moisturises your lips and leaves them with a sheen, you could easily use this instead of a clear lipgloss. Also, I think it tastes quite lemony. I love this product but I would advise you not to apply too much as it can feel quite greasy if over used.

So, those are all the products I have so far. I think the range has lots of potential, they will be launching more products and a make up line in the future, so definitely keep your eye out. All in all, ten out of ten for these products - if you're looking for something that's luxurious yet all natural, organic, vegan and against animal testing, I hope you'll try out this range.

Hope you've enjoyed this post - what are your favourite organic products?

www.tropicskincare.com

Lotsa love
Lullahblog xx

NOTD

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all well.

So here I am with yet another nail of the day post. I'm absolutely loving nail varnish at the moment and just can't stop myself from doing different combinations of nail colours. I have quite a large collection of nail varnish do if you'd like me to do a post showing them to you, just let me know.

Today I've gone for lilac nails with a plum colour on my ring fingers with glitter over the plum. It's so pretty - I love it! I've been constantly wearing this Barry M lilac colour over the past week, it's so pretty and I definitely recommend that you check it out.

So the varnishes I have used are: Barry M Nail Paint in Berry; No17 Lasting Fix Nail Polish in Royal Indigo and Rimmel Lasting Finish in 500 Disco Ball.

Pictures are at the bottom as I'm still blogging from my phone due to my broken pc... Boooo!!

Hope you like this post - what's your favourite nail colour/combo?

Lotsa love
Lullahblog xx

Thought of the Day

Review: No7 Beautiful Skin Cleansing Water

Hi everyone!

Hope you're ok and enjoying the long weekend.

So I thought I'd do a quick review on the No7 Beautiful Skin Cleansing Water as it had fast become my favourite cleanser.

Now, I'm a Johnson & Johnson Vlean and Clear girl, I have been since I was a teenager and have always stuck to it like glue. If I like something, I tend to keep using it (I have lots of skin care purchases that I haven't used - such a waste - more on that later!) so when I got a Boots £5 off voucher for the No7 range I immediately headed for the make-up products. But, the skin care range caught my eye and I thought "why not?".

The Cleansing Water grabbed my attention pretty much straight away as it just looks so lovely and luxurious so I bought that and I'm so glad I did. I had used up my Simple eye make up remover and my Clean and Clear and I haven't bothered to repurchase either as this product has completely won me over and here's why.

First of all, as I mentioned above, the packaging is lovely, it has the look of a high end brand which, while it isn't the be all and end all, I think it helps!

Secondly, it smells like a spa product. Not in the perfumey/incensey way but it's really fresh and clean smelling.

Also, it can be used to both cleanse your face and as an eye make up remover so while it is a little pricey (£9 for 200ml), it does the job of two products so is actually really good value in my book (especially as I had a £5 off voucher!!!).

Finally, it takes every scrap of make up off, including mascara. It's amazing! It leaves your skin feeling clean and fresh and just fabulous. This is my new go to face cleanser (I have separate face wash for the bath/shower) and I doubt I'll use anything else. It hasn't broken me out and my skin feels so soft and lovely.

If you're looking for a new cleanse/tone/moisturise routine, I would highly recommend this cleanser.

Here's a pic of the bottle, it's not the greatest of pictures but it's a clear bottle so it was quite difficult to photograph!

Hope you liked this review - what's your favourite cleanser?

Lotsa love
Lullahblog xx

NOTD

Hi everyone!

Hope you're all ok.

Just thought I'd do a quick nail of the day as I am absolutely loving this colour! It's Barry M's 308 Berry and it's gorgeous. It's a really girly pinky lilac colour and is very springlike!

As with all Barry M Nail Paints, it goes on really easily although it does need two coats to be completely opaque (pretty standard with any nail varnish to be fair!).

Superdrug had a 3for2 offer on Barry M so I got a couple of other colours as well, but will do a separate post on them and the other things I got!

Anyway, take care and hope you're enjoying the Jubilee celebrations - would love to hear about what you've been up to!

Lotsa love

Lullahblog

Broken Conputer :o(

Hi everyone!

Hope you're all well.

Just a little note to tell you that my computer has died :o( It was very old to be fair to it and has gone to pc heaven!!

Until I get round to replacing it (hopefully with a laptop), I'll have to blog from my iphone. Hopefully it'll work ok but we shall see!

I'll be posting a haul post shortly. I'm on a product buying ban at the moment but I had a couple of vouchers so decided to use them!

Lotsa love
Lullahblog xx

MUA Collection

Hi everyone,

Hope you're all OK.

I decided to have a clear out of my make-up collection today (well it ended up being a 'let's look at all the pretty things I have' couple of hours and not much clearing out was done!!) and I came across a ton of MUA make-up. Now obviously I knew I had some products but I didn't realise how big my collection was or how much I love MUA. I'm a Mac girl at heart and probably always will be but for a drug store product and for the price, the MUA line is pretty amazing, so I thought I'd share my collection with you.

I haven't swatched it all cos there's LOADS but I've done as many pictures as I could without it taking hours so here goes...

Heaven and Earth Pallet

I thought I'd start off with the most hyped about pallet in the MUA line, the Heaven and Earth pallet. Now, this is raved about as a dupe for the Urban Decay Naked Pallet and as I have both, I feel I am in a good position to judge! It doesn't beat the Naked Pallet, but seriously - was it ever going to?? But it does the job that the Naked Pallet was invented for - creating nude and smoky looks. The Heaven and Earth pallet does it beautifully, all the shades are beautiful shimmers, go on nice and smoothly, are workable and there is minimal fall out (although as with any eye shadow, there is some). Here's a pic of it...

This pallet is part of the Professionals range and so is only available at the larger Superdrugs (and annoyingly, is not available at mine so I have to order online or buy when I go home to Leeds - grrrr!!!).

Starry Night Pallet

All of my comments above stand with regards to the quality of this pallet, the colours are lovely and pigmented and it's just fab if you want to create a more metallic/silvery kind of look - perfect for a night out! All the colours in this pallet are grey/silver/blue's apart from there are a couple of nice purple and pinks in there as well. Fabulous and is my second favourite of the MUA pallets, behind one I'm going to show later on in this post...

Here's what it looks like...

Dusk til Dawn Pallet

Again, an amazing pallet. The MUA eyeshadow pallets just seem to be flawless, really amazing colours and so so cheap. I think the ones at this size are £4.00 which for 12 eye shadows is pretty amazing! The shadows in this pallet are again shimmery, very pigmented and just lovely. Kind of similar to the Heaven and Earth pallet with lots of browns but they've added a gorgeous midnight blue, a dark purple and this amazing green colour. Just amazing!!

Immaculate Collection Pallet

OK, so here's the biggie... the Immaculate Collection... This is a collection of eye shadows that are a mixture of shimmers, glitters and matt colours. There is a bronze colour in this pallet which is to die for!! I actually have it as an individual colour and I use it all the time for a metallic coppery look on night's out, lush! I ordered this online when they had an offer on, I think it was something like spend £8.00 and get the Immaculate Collection pallet for free, so that's what I did and and it's just beautiful.

Here's what it looks like - I don't think the pictures will do it justice...

Individual Eye Shadows

OK, on to the individual pots. I own a grand total of 15 of these and they are £1 each - the pots are massive as well, you get 2g of product. I have a range of matt finishes and pearl finishes. There's not much else I can say cos I just have tonnes of them, but I do use them almost as much as I use my Mac shadows which is a LOT! As I have some quite special colours in my MUA collection, I tend to use them on nights out as they are colours that I wouldn't tend to wear through the day, i.e. bright greens/purples etc.. you'll see what I mean!! Here they are...

The matt black is a really good dupe for the Mac matt black shadow (it's called Carbon if you don't know, but I think most avid make-up collectors tend to have it!!).

Pigments

I only have two of these and I think they're a relatively new addition to the MUA line. I've only used one of them and it was really nice. I applied it with a damp brush over my Urban Decay Primer Potion and it stayed on for hours, really lovely. I just patted it into place on my eyelid and blended it out, gorgeous. Can't fault any of the eye products to be honest!!

Here's the two I have, I bet you won't be able to see the colours (damn you camera/bad lighting!!)

Eye Liners

I have a total of 5 of the eyeliners and they are lovely, every one of them. I have a blue that is gorgeous with my blue eyes, I tend to use on my lower lashline, just at the outer corner and it's lovely. They do bleed a little after a while although I think that's partly because I'm a little oily under my eye area and my eyes do water sometimes. I have problems getting Smoulder by Mac to stay put so can't expect miracles from a £1 eyeliner!!

The other colours I have are all gorgeous metallic colours. I feel I need to mention the one called Gold Nugget (the one in the middle of the pic) which is a stunning coppery colour, it's just beautiful.

Here's the ones I have...

Lipsticks

I have three in the range and I like them, they are quite creamy and apply really well. I have shades 4, 7 and 12 and here's what they look like. Shade 4 is quite sheer and is almost like a lipgloss, the others are more pigmented but still have quite a gloss to them, Shade 12 in particular has tonnes of sparkle and glitter in it - gorgeous!! I really like them and wear them quite often.

Shade 4

Shade 7

Shade 12

Blusher

And last, but by no means least is my little lonely blusher. I only have one of the MUA blushers, mainly because I wasn't blown away by mine, the colour in the pan is a lovely Barbie/bubble gum pink but it goes on a little sheer for my liking. I may buy a couple of the other colours to test them out in the future and I'd definitely use this again, but it's not my favourite.

Here's what it looks like...

So that's my MUA collection, hope you enjoyed it. I don't want to come across as being a 'high end' only kind of blogger as my collection consists of an equal amount of both high and low end products and I certainly have a lot of MUA which is mainly £1 an item!!

Anyway, let me know what you think. Do you have any MUA products? If so, what's your absolute fave?

Lotsa love

Lullahblog xx