Loreal Casting Sunkiss Jelly: Day 1.

If you read my previous post, which you can find: Here, You'll know I bought the new Loreal casting sunkiss jelly, which claims it will lighten your hair with each use.

Now as I explained, I'm using this on my sister as she has mostly natural hair and is looking to extend her ombre. It retails at £5.99 and comes with instructions, a pair of gloves and the jelly itself. I didn't use the gloves as I felt it just wasn't necessary as I washed my hands straight after and it takes a matter of seconds to apply. It says you can apply to either dry or damp hair, so we decided that she would freshly wash her hair, towel dry it and then apply. You can use heat to help intensify the lightening to once applied she just dried her hair as usual.

All I did was run the product through her damp hair up until around half way up, and here is the before and after results after only one use:

We were genuinely shocked at how well this worked after just one use! You can clearly see the difference and it seems to have blended with her existing colour really well. We're going to keep at it a few more times and I shall update you on the progress.

Have any of you tried this product and had good, or bad results?


Jess x

Review: Nars - All day luminous weightless foundation.

Why is it that when I claim to have no money I go ahead and spend £32 on a foundation that I actually don't need? I'm unbelievable.

I've tried sheer glow and didn't have a great experience with it as my skin is oily/combo, it broke down after a few hours wear and moved all over the place, even when set with powder. I was so disappointed as I know so many people that love this foundation and it looks amazing on them, but for me it obviously wasn't meant to be.

So, when I heard NARS were bringing out an oil free foundation that is meant to be full coverage and long wearing I knew I had to try it... so I did.

What they say:

"The answer to all your foundation needs, Nars have masterfully created an oil-free blend that provides full natural-looking coverage with an unexpected weightlessness. The highly-pigmented formula delivers up to 16 hours of flawless looking skin."

The packaging is BEAUTIFUL! It comes in a frosted glass bottle and a black matte-type lip and a PUMP! Finally. Thank you, Nars.

I applied to this to my face at about 7AM, I moisturised and primed as usual and heres how it looked (Please excuse the gormless expression, it was early) :

Now, it looks alright... for £32 I expected a little more though. I blended relatively easy and did look a little 'luminous' but I wasn't that impressed. It made my pores really noticeable and clung to any area at all that was even slightly dry (and I have oily skin!)
I have heard people say that it looks better the longer you wear it, so I trooped on.

After a few hours I noticed it had started to crease and sink into any lines it could. It creased in my smile lines, my forehead and very badly under my eyes. Not impressed.

So, here I am, a measly 5 hours later and it looks TERRIBLE! It claims to last around 16 hours, which I found it clearly did not. Heres how it looks now, after only 5 hours wear.

I don't know how well it shows on the picture but It has broken down all over, not just in my T-Zone, but all over! It has gone extremely patchy and seems to have oxidised a fair bit. As you can see, it isn't an exact match to my neck (Which it was when I first applied it) and this is the lightest shade they offer 'Siberia'.

Overall, I'm really not that impressed. I wanted to love this foundation so bad, but sadly, it just didn't work for me.

Have any of you tried this foundation and experienced the same thing? Or do any of you love it?

Jess x

Loreal Casting Sunkiss Jelly: Intro

Another hair product again... but this time not for myself! 

My younger sister has the best hair in our family, its a fact and I envy her slightly for it. Its naturally pretty straight with no frizz and is a gorgeous Auburn colour.

Quite a few years ago we ombre'ed her hair and have been topping it up ever since. We haven't done it in a while so it has grown out a fair bit and her hair has gotten pretty long. Since its got quite long she didn't really wanna bleach the ends again to keep up with the ombre, so we went on a search for something a bit more gentle.

We had a browse around and saw Loreal casting sunkiss jelly:

"Get the sunkissed look with Casting Sunkiss Jelly. The fragrant and nourishing jelly is enriched with Camellia Oil, for an oh-so-sweet soft sunkissed look. Its delicate fragrance makes application a true pleasurable experience. The soft translucent leave-in jelly gradually lightens and is designed to create a long-lasting soft sunkissed look. All this, and no ammonia."

We got the 'Light brown - Dark blonde' one as her hair is red, which is really stubborn when it comes to colouring. It says you can use it on damp or dry hair and you just pop it in a leave it in, extra heat can be used to try and intensify lightening.

We haven't used it yet, so this will be an on going series, heres a picture of what her hair looks like now (I tried to get the best lighting possible)

I'll take pictures after every time we use it and post them in a follow up. I bought this for £5.99 from boots, which is a bargain if it does what it claims. I shall keep you updated! Were hoping this is as good as it sounds, have any of you ever tried this out? What did you think?

Jess x

Dupe: Benefit - They're real mascara.

One thing I seriously couldn't live without is mascara, because my lashes are naturally blonde, so without it, they're pretty much none existent!

Everyone knows about Benefit's famous 'They're real mascara' - This product isn't a dupe as such, as you can tell they haven't tried to make the product exactly the same, but in terms of results I would say they are very similar.

The product is Collection: No Clumps Mascara.
What they say:

"COLLECTION No Clumps Mascara gives clump free beautifully defined lashes.
No Clumps allowed! Use No Clumps Mascara to achieve clump free lashes."

As you can see it is a plastic wand, which is the same as the benefit mascara. It doesn't have the extra spiky bits on the end, but I never really use them anyway. Anyway, I'll stop rambling and actually show you my results. (Excuse my eyebrows)

The results are quite as good as the Benefit mascara, but what you have to bare in mind is that this one is only £2.99! Which I think is an absolute bargain! My only downside is that you do get a little bit of fall out, but I can deal with that.

Have any of you tried any other good drugstore mascaras? I am always on the hunt!

Jess x

Review: Superdrug Colour Rewind.

Its been quite  a while since I last posted and I have no excuse for that. I think I lost inspiration for a while, but now I'm back and hoping to be better then ever. (fingers crossed)

 So to kick start things again I thought I'd start off with a review of Superdrug's own version of Colour B4. Its basically a hair colour stripper, heres what they say:

"Superdrug Colour Rewind Hair Colour Remover has an extra strength formula and helps to remove unwanted permanent and semi-permanent dark hair colours.

Contains ammonia or bleach."

Now I'll give you a little background on my hair as I haven't posted in a while. Around last June I got a full head of highlights put in over dark hair, and this is how it turned out:

Don't get me wrong, I liked it and I kept it up until about a month ago. I was scrolling through some old photos of myself and stumbled across some with dark hair and then I was toying with the idea of going back dark, and I did, I went DARK.

I loved it at first and I was super happy with it until the dreaded roots started to grow through. Now being a natural blonde my roots aren't usually an issue with most colours, but when you go as dark as I did they seriously stand out. So, me being me and being bored of the upkeep already, I decided to strip out the dark brown. 

I popped into superdrug and was intending on buying Colour B4 as I have used it before and had good results, but then I noticed Colour Rewind was on offer for around £4.99 or something close to that, and because I cant resist a good bargain I snapped it up!

Inside you get three bottles, you mx one and two together and the 3rd is the buffer for when you're ready to rinse. Now as most other people say, it does smell pretty bag, a little like gone off eggs that have been set on fire, nice. You apply it all over your head and then wait 60 minutes. I covered my head with a bag to keep the heat in and blasted it with a hair dryer as it helps it activate. When you first see it after the 60 minutes your hair will probably look a gorgeous shade of neon orange, mine did but it does darken slightly when you're rinsing it out. The rinsing process is a bit of a pain, it takes forever and you feel like a wrinkled prune by the time you get out of the shower.

So, my results? I actually quite like it, it came out a ginger/auburn shade, which is the colour I want to try going next anyway. I couldn't get a great picture as my hair is naturally a bit wavy and I'm trying not to use hot tools on it for a while, but you can sort of see the difference. Its a lot redder in person, which I personally don't mind. I was really impressed with this product and I would recommend it to anyone!

Jess x

Cheap Ebay Hair Extensions.

Buying hair extensions for the first time can be an extremely daunting task, I know as I was once there!

There are many questions that get thrown at you…

Which brand should I buy? 

What colour? 

Length? 

Gram? What the heck is grams?
Are they expensive?

Most extensions are expensive, there are top brands which I have used before and paid hundreds of pounds on extensions and I have absolutely loved them but if you've never worn extensions before I imagine you aren't going to want to be spending a crazy amount of money on them, which I didn't either, so I'm going to link you to an ebay shop which I bought my very first extensions from! They're great quality for an even better price, they ship super quick and the customer service is amazing! I still use these extensions today, what I like to do is buy 2 sets of the 120 grams and wear them together! (: They cost around £30 for one set.

I shall show you a picture of me with one set in… I have quite thick hair, which is why I by two sets, but if you style and place them correctly then you can get away with 1 set, even with thick hair:

They work much better when your style your hair wavy/curly as it conceals a lot.

Here is a link to the ebay shop:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/beautyexpressukltd

Their customer service is great, if you email them with any questions they tend to email you back within 24 hours - I can't complain about this extensions at all, for the price of them they are fantastic! Like I said, I have tried the high end brands, but I always seem to go back to my ebay ones!

Have any of you ever wanted to try extensions but have been a bit wary?

Let me know if any of you are going to try these! Feel free to ask if you have any questions (:

Jess x

Review: L'oreal Mousse Absolue.

It's no secret that I am a big fan of dying my hair, so when L'oreal announced they were bring out a dye that is reusable I just had to try it.

I went for the colour '300 - Natural darkest brunette' as when my hair is dark, I like it very dark but not quite black.

What it includes:

The dye comes with a lid on which you can then put back on the bottle if you want to save the remaining product.

It also comes with the dispenser cap, 2 pairs of gloves, the dye itself and conditioner.

It usually takes me 2 bottles of dye to do my whole head but this only took me one.

The dye is really easy to essemble together: take off the cap, hold the nozzle by its sides, click it on, shake it for a while, and you're ready to go. - Application is quite easy, although as soon as the foam touches your hair it turns straight into liquid which can make it a little tricky to spread - but overall I absolutely loved this dye, I have repurchased it multiple times now… the initial colour is quite dark but it does fade after a few washes and fades to a really gorgeous dark brown!

Here is the result (: 

The lighting isn't great but you can still sort of see the colour.

My only criticism is that my hair feels a little dry after I use it, but that is easily fixed with a good conditioner! 

Have any of you tried, or wanted to try this? 

Jess x