HAPPY HALLOWEEN | Lush Cosmetics: R&B Hair Moisturiser | Lisa's Beauty Spot

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL MY LOVELY READERS ALL OVER THE WORLD! (WELL, TOMORROW ANYWAY)

Lush Cosmetics: R&B Hair Moisturiser 

R&B Hair Moisturiser is like a body butter for your hair. It's a deeply moisturising and smells fresh and fragrant. You can put it on wet or dry hair. 

I suffer with very dry, tightly ringleted hair which is prone to frizziness and being really knotty. When I went into Lush, I explained to the lady who was helping us and told her I was looking for a product to help tame my locks! She went straight over and grabbed this product, calling it a saviour for curls. I decided I wanted to try it. It's a 225gram pot, and costs £20.75. You can get a smaller pot (100gram) for £11.95 and a bigger pot (450gram) for £34.95. The main ingredients are oat milk. organic avocado butter, orange flower absolute and extra virgin coconut oil. 

I found the product to be highly hydrating, which impressed me. When I run out of this, I will defiantly be buying the bigger pot. I tried two different hair styles, tighter curls and looser curls. Both styles went well after applying the product after washing my hair, and I put it in my hair whilst it was still wet. 

 It is light yellow in colour and quite a thick, consistency. 

Looser Curls

Tight Curls

For all my American readers, you can buy this product in a 3.5oz tub for $24.95 and a 7.9oz tub for $42.95. They are also the same price in Canada, in 100gram and 225gram pots.   

 Have you tried Lush's R&B Hair Moisturiser?

What did you think?

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Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution In Shade Glastonberry | Lisa's Beauty Spot

Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution In Shade Glastonberry

I don't post blog posts on Tuesdays, but I was so excited for this product arriving, I had to share it with you. 

This is Charlotte Tilbury Matte Revolution Long Lasting Lipstick in shade Glastonberry, which is a beautiful berry-plum shade. I have been wanting this for a while, and Mark bought it for me as a present. I was so, so excited and when it arrived Monday morning, I was practically running around the house squealing.

I'd heard a lot about this lipstick, and I recently started wearing berry shade lipsticks so I wanted to try one of a decent quality. I watched Zoe Sugg's video Autumn Makeup, and I saw this lipstick and wanted it so badly. It glided on perfectly, and has long lasting qualities and just looks so, so pretty!

                  

It smells like vanilla, and the formula is amazing. It has a new cashmere-cream texture and has a matte finish. It is enriched with papaya and orchid which is hydrating and it has glowing pigments for fuller looking lips. 

I bought this product from John Lewis for £23. Which is the same price as the Charlotte Tilbury website. I was nervous about purchasing this product, as it is on the high end of the price scale, but Mark said he'd buy it for me as a gift and I was so happy and excited! 

And here it is on me. I love it and can't wait to do a full makeover look with this lipstick (Excuse my messy hair and my thick messy brows!) 

You can purchase this lipstick in John Lewis, the Charlotte Tilbury website and Selfridges. All the same price, £23. 

For all my lovely American readers, you can purchase Glastonberry on the US Charlotte Tilbury site for $32. For all my Canadian readers, you can purchase this product on the Canadian Charlotte Tilbury site for $38. For all my lovely Irish and European readers, you can purchase this product of the EU Charlotte Tilbury site for €30. Finally, for all my Australian readers you can purchase this from the AU Charlotte Tilbury site for $48. 

I'm looking forward to wearing this look, I love berry lips!

Do you have Glastonberry?

Have you tried any other Charlotte Tilbury products?

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Boots Extracts Gift Set | Lisa's Beauty Spot

Boots Extracts Gift Set

My 35th blog post!

I was given this gift set last Christmas, I'd heard about the Boots Extracts products and was curious about trying them, so was excited to get them as a present. 

The set comes with four Boots Extracts products. A strawberry body wash, a cocoa butter body butter, a vanilla body spray and a coconut body scrub. They are all travel sizes. 

The strawberry body wash kind of smells like strawberry milkshake. It's a very artificial strawberry smell. When used, it leaves the strawberry smell on your skin, it made my skin feel reasonably soft afterwards. The bottle is 75ml. If you would like to buy the full sized product, it can be bought from Boots here. You can also get in the same scent a body spray, a body scrub, a body butter and also a gift set with just this scent. 

This cocoa butter is my favourite product out of the whole gift set. I was excited to use this, it smells lovely and has a nice thick consistency as you'd expect from a body butter. I normally use it after bathing and showering. Now that the colder months are here, I will be applying this a lot more regularly along with other moisturising products. You can buy the full sized product here. There is also a sugar scrub and a body wash with the same scent. 

I was excited to try this vanilla body spray, it's more like a body mist though. It has a very sickly smell and I don't really use it that often. I was quite disappointed in this product, as I heard about this spray and had heard great things about how nice it smelt, so I researched it online and found out that this and the other products in the vanilla range had replaced the original vanilla range, which was apparently so much better. You can buy the full sized product here. You can also get a body scrub, a body butter and a body wash. You can also buy a vanilla gift set. There is also this trio of body sprays available. 

   

This coconut body scrub was also disappointing. It didn't make any difference to my skin what-so-ever. I have only used it the once, and will try it again but it was a disappointment. It is a 75ml bottle. You can buy a full sized pot of this coconut body scrub, you can get a body butter and a body wash. 

The only product I will be re-buying is the cocoa butter body butter. The rest were a severe disappointment, but I'm glad I got to try them.

This gift set is no longer available, but I found three other gift sets similar to this one. I also found a Christmas gift set, which includes a mango and a spiced apple set. There are more gift sets available, some seasonal and some not.   

Have you tried any of the Boots Extracts products?

What did you think? 

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Lush Cosmetics: Skin's Shangri La Facial Moisturiser | Lisa's Beauty Spot

Lush Cosmetics: Skin's Shangri La Facial Moisturiser

I was so happy when I discovered this amazing moisturiser. For years I have struggled with very dry and very tight feeling skin. I've tried many moisturisers and have been very disappointed, with them all having little or no effect on my dry skin. I went on a huge Lush haul a few months ago, and included in that haul was Skins Shangri La Facial Moisturiser. I'd heard about it from a few friends blogs, and how impressed they were with the product. 

I was skeptical at first - priced at £29.50 for a 45gram pot, it puts a dent in your bank account. But, I can honestly say... This is the holy grail of facial moisturisers. And, I'm not surprised. Nearly everything I have tried (Apart from a few bath bombs I've tried and haven't really liked or gotten on with) from Lush is so luxurious and fresh smelling, and has been fantastic for my skin. 

Some of the ingredients in the product include Queen of Hungary Water, which is toning and fragrant. It is made with water, rosemary and vodka (27 shots of Vodka in each 45gram pot) There is also beeswax, fresh wheatgrass juice, organic jojoba oil, seaweed, Fair Trade Aloe Vera Gel, Fair Trade Almond Oil, Fair Trade cocoa butter, extra virgin coconut oil and a vanilla blend.

To use: After cleansing your face, place a five pence size (one cent coin) of the product on your fingers, and gently rub into the skin. A little goes a long way. I use this as part of my night time routine every night now, and the difference in my skin has been amazing. I'm looking forward to seeing how much this product helps my skin in the colder weather, which is just around the corner.

I really recommend this product if you have dry skin that you haven't found the answer for, it'll be the best £30 you've ever spent and can be bought here. For all my American readers, this product costs $49.95 for a 1.5 oz pot and can be bought here.  

            

Have you tried Skins Shangri La Facial Moisturiser?

What did you think? 

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Dove Fine Silk Four Piece Set | Lisa's Beauty Spot

Dove Fine Silk Four Piece Set

I have always been a huge fan of Dove products. I use two of their spray compressed deodorants (I seriously recommend both, they can be seen here and here) I also use one roll on deodorant from Dove. I have yet to try their hair care range and have been recommended a few of their hair care products. I loved their Summer Glow Nourishing Lotion, and I found this fantastic for keeping my tan when I came back from Florida, it looked natural, non streaky and it didn't have a nasty fake tan smell! (Oops, sorry... So much love there but I REALLY love Dove... *blush*)

I got this set for Christmas last year... But, unfortunately it got lost in the piles and piles of boxes in our house. I found it a few weeks ago and tried it on the 16th October. I'd never used any of the Fine Silk products before, I'd just run out of my Shea Butter Cream Bath and Shea Butter Body Wash (Which I will be buying again, and blogging about) so I was excited to try something familiar, but new. 

In the set is a 250ml bottle of Silk Glow Body Wash, a 500ml bottle of Fine Silk Cream Bath, a 300ml pot of Dove Silky and a small Dove scented candle. 

It smells like... Dove! And that's the only way to describe it. Floral, fresh and Dove! It says on the bottles that they smell like White Orchid! But, it's not that strong of a smell. I found it very calming and relaxing.

I poured the Fine Silk into the water under the tap, and it created beautiful bubbles.. (I didn't get a picture) I washed with the body wash (It's hidden under the Fine Silk in this picture) and when I rinsed it off, my skin felt lovely and soft. 

After I got out of the bath and dried off, I used the silky body cream, and I'm glad I did. My skin does feel silky smooth, and I've been using the cream 1-2 times a day. It's getting cold, and my skin is starting to suffer. It's only been three days but I have noticed a difference already. I'll be trying the body wash next in the shower! I didn't use the candle on this occasion, I used my own Large Jar Yankee Candle Vanilla Cupcake. 

I do recommend this to... Everyone! It's so beautiful, and an amazing Christmas present! When all these run out, I will be buying them! 

What (If any) Dove products do you use? Do you recommend any?

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Lush Blackberry Bath Bomb | Lisa's Beauty Spot

Lush Blackberry Bath Bomb

I bought this bath bomb in the Leeds Lush store. I planned to use it in a hotel we were staying in, but we got moved rooms and then we had a shower in the room. I used this product yesterday.

I looked on the website to get the list of ingredients and benefits from the product. It has frankincense oil which had a sweet, woody fragrance and is good for soothing and toning the skin. It also has bergamot oil in it which is sweet and has an uplifting effect. Bergamot is used in aromatherapy for anxiety, depression and nervous tension. 

  

The product is lilac coloured, and says "BOMB" - it does smell like blackberries. 

I dropped it in the bath, and it dissolved pretty quickly (about 3-4 minutes) - the smell wasn't as strong as it was before I put in the bath.

In the middle of the bath bomb is a paper note that says "BOOM BOOM" on it. Rather quirky!

The water goes a pretty lilac. The staining on the bath is a concern, and the staining to my skin. The point of a bath is to be relaxing, not to having to have a shower after and then have to scrub the bath. I probably won't buy this one again, my skin wasn't as soft as other bath bombs I have tried, and I don't normally have such a problem with staining. I'll stick to my night time bath bomb, which is Twilight.

World Mental Health Day | Lisa's Beauty Spot

World Mental Health Day 2015

I don't really blog on Saturdays, but today I had to. Today (Saturday October 10th) is World Mental Health Day. A lot of people, including myself live with mental health issues and I've been umming and arring whether to post these details about myself, but it's a huge part of my life I've had to deal with and learn to understand. 

For as long as I can remember I've had severe self confidence and self esteem issues. I was bullied throughout my childhood which was the start of these issues, they haven't really improved much to this day. 

I went through early puberty (at around age 9-10) and this destroyed all confidence I had left in myself. I felt like a freak, I looked a lot older than everyone my own age, and this brought on even more bullying. I moved Primary schools to try and help the situation, and it did get better. Secondary school was hell though. The bullying got worse, and as I got older I started to blame myself and believe the things that were being said to me, I began to hate myself and didn't trust anyone. If someone would say something nice to me I'd believe they were joking and just tormenting me. 

I always wanted to be on my own, even though this was when I would dwell on my thoughts, and convince myself I wasn't good enough for anyone or anything. The first time I self harmed, everyone around me assumed I did it for attention, and I got bulled for that as well. I wouldn't tell anyone why I'd done it, and just wanted to hide it. I'd done it because I hated myself, I didn't care for myself and I didn't tell anyone. I just tried to be myself, and just dealt with it alone. People pretended to care, just to be nosey and to find out why I was crying. I'd then be called pathetic and to just 'get on with it'. 

I was a sitting target, I'd cry when I was bullied. It made me weak and smashed me down. I always feel like I lost a little bit more of me when it happened. I felt myself just... Disappearing. I often wondered if disappearing would be the answer. I never told anyone, but I was suicidal. At it's worse point, I didn't care what anyone would think if I'd gone - friends, family.. Anyone. I wanted it to stop.

I coped through. I wrote down my feelings in diaries.. I wanted it to feel like I was expelling the feelings out, but it wasn't working. I always felt down, I'd cry for no reason (Always on my own) I didn't want sympathy I just wanted it to stop. 

When I went to College I met some great people, but I pushed them away . It was the first time I'd had friendship, and I was frightened. When I've made friends I've always struggled to keep them. And, I literally did everything in my power but nobody seemed to understand. I didn't understand.

I began to understand anxiety when I was in my late teens. And it's always something I've had. I don't like to leave the house on my own, or be in the house on my own. I just always figured I suffered with anxiety and depression.

In August of this year, I went on a business trip with my boyfriend - August 11th I went to bed like normal in the hotel... But had possibly one of the worst nights of my life to date. I woke at 2:30am to Mark shaking me violently to wake me up, I'd been having a nightmare where I'd heard someone screaming and saw curdling blood trickling down. The person I could hear screaming... Was me. I'd been screaming for over a minute straight and Mark couldn't wake me up. When I did finally wake up, he told me I'd been screaming the most horrible, blood curdling scream and then broke down crying... I had terrified him. 

I went to see a doctor when we got back, because from then on I have been hallucinating and hearing things. I was terrified of schizophrenia, as I have family history of severe mental illness. So I went to see my GP and she referred me to my local mental health team. The appointment was for the 11th September - a month after the first, terrifying incident. The doctor wasn't great, she was very dismissive and almost diagnosed me when I walked through the door. She showed more interest in Mark than what she did me. It hurt because I tried to get help, and I felt deeply disappointed. I got a letter come through saying I'd been given an appointment for CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) for the end of October. I struggle with opening up, and I feel she really hadn't listened when I told her this. CBT is all talking... So I went to see my GP and explained what had happened and how I felt. She agreed this wasn't right, and wanted to see me straight after my first session to see how it went and how I felt about it. I'm honestly terrified for it, and if it doesn't work or I struggle with it I'm not quite sure what's next.

My GP is lovely, and wants to help me so she's said if I struggle she'll discuss more options with me. This is what the mental health doctor should have done, but she didn't. 

There was a mention of medication in the future, and I don't want that. It would have to be a last resort. 

Accepting something isn't right, and that mental illness is a real thing and is as bad as other illnesses was the hardest thing to do. Always being told it's in your head and it will pass was the worst thing that I could have been told. I never wanted to go for help, because I was scared I wouldn't get it or they wouldn't believe me. It was the sleepless nights and hallucinations that made me go. It's not right, and it's terrifying. Your own head can be your worst enemy, and it's been mine these last few months. The nightmares I've been having these last few weeks have been bad, and whilst I wait 6-8 weeks between appointments I kind of feel lost. The GP prescribed a sleeping tablet, which hasn't been working. 

I am happy I am in the beginning of getting help with these issues, and I'm hoping I will eventually have an answer as to what it is. My GP has ruled out schizophrenia (for now) but they want to keep an eye on me for the next few years, as I do have a lot of symptoms. But, that could of course be something else underlying. 

I'm going to be having a lot of blood tests over these next few weeks. My thyroids ect. You name it, I'm probably getting tested for it. I'm also gonna be having some brain.. Stuff done. lol brain stuff. 

Thank you for reading my story everyone. I'd appreciate it if you could share it! <3

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