FEEL: Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser

Good morning world! Well semi afternoon here for me. I feel so happy today, I think it’s because I got to sleep in today after a total of 12 hours sleep over the weekend, I feel so energized.

I actually woke up to a gorgeous sunny day for winter and while I’m waiting for a friend to get back to me so we can have some lunch, I wanted to do a quick review on why I absolutely LOVE Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser.

I’m a sucker for those ads where they say this product will make your skin look smooth, even out your skin tone and when you’re just having a bad day about your skin and you see some advertisement on the tv or in a magazine you’re just like OMG WOW I want that! And then you go tell you friends, this product does this and it does that and well maybe you don’t but you get the point.

With the sun and the wind, your skin is going to need all the protection it can get and this product works a treat.

Why I love it..

When I woke up today, my face was looking so dull and dry, it was pretty gross. As soon as I applied this moisturiser, it was like an instant wake up call for my face that is. Improvements to my skin happened in a matter of seconds. It went from being dull to being full of moisture, it brightened up my skin and it made it look radiant, like the name says.

When I bought this, I wasn’t a big fan of it to start off with, it felt weird on my skin, I hated the smell. I just wanted to wipe it off because it felt heavy and it just felt uncomfortable. However, I kept using it because what am I going to do throw it away, something brand new, don’t think so.

Since forcing myself to use it, I’ve really grown a liking to it, well actually I genuinely love this thing. It makes your face look brighter and I think that’s why I feel so happy today, my skin feels and looks great. If you happen to have this sitting somewhere on your makeup table just use it, hopefully you’ll love it as much as I do.

The only reason why it felt heavy for me was because I wasn’t used to putting on moisturiser at all on my face, but it has such a light feel to it and you can just see the improvements, it’s great.

The benefits..

I’ve been using this product for some time now I would say about 2 months and people have even complimented that my skin looks brighter which is great, who doesn’t want that natural glow.

It’s even meant to even out skin tone and texture and I have a couple of dark spots on my skin and the lighter dark spots have definitely faded which is amazing and has that added benefit of SPF15.

Alright, I’m off to lunch now, byeeeeeeeeee have a great day everyone!

Cold weather = moisturisers x 100

Wow I’m on a roll, well not really but whatever second makeup/beauty tip in a row, yayyyy!

So right now, it’s so cold and when there is cold weather about, there’s that windburn we all hate, there’s the dry and cracked skin that nobody wants and our skin just needs twice as much moisture than it normally would. I’m pretty sure you bring out twice as many products during the winter than the summer. Well at least I do. Honestly, I can’t count how many times I’ve pulled out my lip balm or hand cream today, this weather is taking a serious toll on my skin.

Now who doesn’t love a nice long bath or a hot shower after a long day of whatever you happen to be doing. I admit, when it gets really cold, I love a good hot shower, who doesn’t.

So here’s a little tip to keep that moisture in your skin right after one has bathed themselves.

My face gets really dry after cleansing it or just getting out of the shower, so once you’ve washed your face,

-        Pat dry with a towel and grab some of your favourite face moisturiser and first rub it between your palms and then pat it down onto your skin. Doing it this way, really helps to lock in that moisture and doesn’t irritate the skin like it would if you slapped on some moisturiser and rubbed it all over your face really quickly. Trust me I’ve seen people do that.

Also,

-        Don’t forget the skin on our face is delicate especially around the eye area so take care and be gentle with your skin. (why else do you think we have moisturizers just for the face or just for the body, it’s not a money making scheme, we need both) and

-        Always moisturize after you shower, especially hot showers. Let’s keep skin nice and silky smooth feeling this season. Technically it’s autumn here, but it feels like winter.

And for all you in the northern hemisphere, your turn will come when it gets this cold.

Look at all this stuff!

Okay that’s it ladies and gents. I officially have too many beauty products. And don’t be like you can never have enough beauty products, but uhh I think you can.

I have no idea what’s gotten into me lately maybe it’s called growing up, but I’ve started to really think about the money I spend and what I spend it on and if I really need something, sooooooooo what I’m trying to say is I need to stop being such an impulse buyer.

Okay yeah so what I work in retail and you would think that you would know the tactics on how they sell a product but I just can’t say no sometimes and just buy something because I really want it and don’t NEED it. I don’t like making people feel sad that they didn’t get a sale out of me. I could be their only sale that day, think about it like that. (not likely the case, but you never know) I’m a you never know kind of person, you know? Alright this is getting confusing even for me and I’m writing this.

So as part of becoming a smart buyer instead of an impulse one, I am going to finish all these beauty products before I invest in another beauty product.

Impulse buyer like me? Let me know what one product you have way too much of.

Alright so, here I have like a million trillion creams and lotions that I currently own (some have been untouched, some are almost finished.)

I am not kidding you these are all mine. This was when it hit me that I had too many products because I had nowhere to store these on my makeup table.

the creams and lotions for soft skin like a baby's bottom.

So here I have:

  - Kenkay skin relief sorbolene cream  (1kg of that, but i don't care best product ever)
- Escada marine groove body lotion

- Sudocrem
- Palmer's cocoa body butter

- Palmer's cocoa butter formula

- nutrimetics botanicals green tea body lotion

- Solace mineral spa body butter
-Solace mineral spa body lotion

- Vaseline intensive care lotion in aloe vera

                                                                                                
  I wasn't kidding when I say I  use A LOT of different brands.

Next up we have the day and night creams:

The day and night creams

- Nivea creme

- Nivea soft

- Aveeno positively radiant daily moisturiser

- Aveenooooooo positively radiant tinted moisturiser

- Garnier miracle skin perfector BB creme

Then over here we have my facial cleansers, yes I use more than one,  I want to give every beauty product out there a chance

The daily cleansers

- Formula 10.0.6 Best face forward daily foaming cleanser

- Clean & Clear essentials self-foaming facial wash

-  Shiseido The skincare rinse off cleansing gel

- QV gentle wash

Lip care, who doesn't own some sort of lip balm, no matter how tom boyish you are.

And because our lips need some loving too, I stocked up on more than a couple of these

- Vaseline white petroleum jelly style

- Ultraceuticals professional ultra lip protect

- Nivea lip care in cherry (my favourite of all time and it's almost finished)

- Blistex silk & shine

- Lip smacker in gum ball galaxy ( taking it back old school to when these were the coolest)

- Chapstick ( I just love the name for this brand) I have a slogan for it, want to hear it?  Chapped lips? Have no fear chapstick is here.

I vow that I will do my very best at using up all these products before I purchase any new ones, but no promises.

And don't even get me started on the makeup products.