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  • 3 Baccarat Rouge Dupes You Might Want To Buy

    Who doesn’t love a good fragrance dupe? They might be similar in scent to the originals but not in the price tag. I’ve found 3 products for the body that are the designer Baccarat Rouge fragrance dupes. So what are they?

    Baccarat Rouge Dupes for the body
    Treacle Moon’s Rouge Love Story Body Butter

    Containing coconut oil, shea butter, jasmine flower and macadamia oil, Treacle Moon’s Rough Love Story Body Butter is designed to be fragrant and moisturising. A nicely packaged body product, 200ml in size and very affordable at only £5.00 in Tesco. Matching body mist and shower & bath gel is available from this brand in the same scent.

    Treacle Moon’s Rouge Love Story Body Butter
    Glow’s Rouge Soap Sponge

    A hand made, soap infused sponge from small business Glow, which makes washing and cleaning the body easy, quick and hopefully very enjoyable. Not only does this cleanse the skin but also moisturises it too. Only £3.00 for a sponge that will provide multiple washes.

    Glow’s Rouge Soap Sponge
    Designer Fragrances Rouge Body Mist

    Designer Fragrances is a brand well known for their ‘inspired by’ range of body sprays, mists, hand washes and other products for the body and the home. Included in their body mist products is Rouge. Simple, but nicely packaged, great size of 250ml and only £2.99 in Home Bargains.

    Designer Fragrances Rouge Body Mist

    What I Iove is the fact these designer fragrance inspired scents can be found in a variety of different products, not just the typical perfumes, body mists or body sprays. These are great gift ideas to give to someone who loves particular fragrances and perfect for everyday use because of their affordability. These three products aren’t expensive, very affordable with two you can grab from the high street and one online.

  • What My Kids Bought Me For Mother’s Day

    Whether Mother’s Day is an occasion you celebrate or not, it’s one day in a year that many people buy gifts for their mum’s, grandmother’s and other female relatives in the family. Is it easy to buy for these special women in our lives? Sometimes it is. But the shops online and in stores are ready to throw everything and anything at the public to purchase anything mildly floral, pink in colour or have the word ‘MUM’ emblazed on it. My kids were sweet enough to buy me gifts this year. So what did my teens buy me, not including the obligatory chocolate and sweets?

    My Mother’s Day gifts
    The Wizard Bath Bomb from Lush

    My daughter knows I love baths and we both love the film Wicked. She went into LUSH, found something shiny and Wicked connected and bought it (her words not mine). This is quite a weighty rounded bath bomb, which is striking thanks to it’s eye catching gold colour. The bath bomb has an image of the Wizard, from the film, almost carved into it. Slightly sinister in look but incredibly fun and different. Fragrance is quite earthy, a bit plant like and unusual but very nice.

    The Wizard bath bomb from LUSH
    ASDA’s Flower Market Reed Diffuser

    My son sneakily took a solo trip to our local ASDA and picked this up along with the candle counterpart. The box this comes in along with the diffuser bottle both have flower images on them, which makes it look incredibly pretty. Perfect for Mother’s Day gifting. Designed to last up to 8 weeks, I can’t wait to use this in my bedroom.

    ASDA’s Flower Market Reed Diffuser
    ASDA’s Flower Market Scented Candle

    This is in the same fragrance as the reed diffuser and comes in a large, glass jar with a wooden lid. Same labelling. The jar is clear but pink in colour and this is a whooping size (size/weight not on label but it’s massive). Unlike the reed diffuser I can get the smell of this by simply taking the lid of and its beautiful! It’s a sweet, feminine floral mixed in with a creamy citrus and it’s sooo good! Not an old fashioned or boring floral but a modern yet classic floral all at the same time.

    ASDA’s Flower Market Candle

    I think my kids did very well with these gifts! Whatever they bought me I would have appreciated. But I can tell they both put some thought into what they bought and asked the important question of ‘will my mum like this?’, especially where the home fragrance products are concerned. AND they didn’t spend a small fortune too! Well done kids!

  • Is Me+ Under Eye Masks Good For Tired Looking Eyes?

    Eye mask are one of my favourite skincare products. Although under eye masks aren’t a permanent fix or a magic wand to rejuvenate the skin, sometimes they can be a quick fix to help this area look less tired and refreshed. Not to mention using them feels pampering and performing an easy treatment on yourself. The most recent under eye masks I’ve been using has been Superdrug’s own brand called Me+ Brightening Caffeine Under Eye Mask with Peptides. So how did this perform?

    Me+ Brightening Caffeine Under Eye Mask
    What is this supposed to do?

    Me+ Brightening Caffeine Under Eye Mask is designed to help improve the look of puffiness and darkness under the eyes.

    Packaging

    These under eye masks come in a typical small sachet. The Me+ range could be geared towards anyone or any age. Simple black and white colouring with a pop of orange, makes this look like it could be for a teenage girl to a man in his 50’s, which I like as it will appeal to a lot of people.

    How do these look?

    The eye masks look like most individual under eye masks look. These are two, almost bean shaped masks (although much bigger). White in colour and made from the same material as sheet masks.

    Fragrance

    I didn’t detect one! On the ingredients list I didn’t see ‘parfum’ or ‘fragrance’, but nothing on the sachet stated fragrance free either.

    How to use

    Apply the masks onto a clean, under eye area for 10-20 minutes. Remove and dab in any excess serum under the eyes. Do not wash off.

    In use

    When taking out the under eye masks out of the sachet, they were full of serum but not dripping with it. Very cooling on the skin which I liked (I put them in the fridge 30 minutes before use). Although easy to apply, I felt the size of these masks was too large and didn’t quite sit closely enough to the bottom of my eyes. So I simply folded over a small part of it which gave me a better shape and fitted more nicely and snuggly under my eyes. They stayed on securely with no movement or slipping, comfortable to wear and didn’t dry out.

    Once I took these off my under eyes they didn’t look massively different but they did look a tiny bit more rested. But they did feel well moisturised but not in a heavy or greasy way. * I used these eye masks for a second time the following day and after use my eyes looked more noticeably rested.

    Recommended?

    Although I think the shape is too big, I liked using these under eye masks. They stayed where I put them, they felt nice on the skin and the serum didn’t evaporate from the masks. Putting these in the fridge I think makes a difference, and will provide a more pampering experience. Price wise these a good value. Full price these are £2.99 but regularly are on some form of promotion which provides even better value. Do I recommend them? I probably would yes. Would I buy these again? Yes, and I would use these more often rather than as a one off.

  • Something A bit Different! Olee Cosmetics Zen Bath Tea

    If, like me, you love a good evening bath, you will also love what you put into it. Bath bombs, bath soaks, truffles, you will be open to try most of these. What I love is trying a bath product for the first time. Something new, different and hopefully fun to use. This is why I was excited to try out Olee Cosmetics Zen Bath Tea that I won in a competition last year. Did it deliver a great bathing experience?

    Olee Cosmetics Zen Bath Tea
    What is a bath tea?

    Think of a tea bag. You pop it into a mug, pour hot water into it and the tea releases from the bag. This is exactly the same except you don’t drink it, and what’s released into the bath is natural ingredients to help create a great, relaxing bathing experience.

    How do they look?

    I received three bath teas, all housed in a clear plastic pouch. Each one looks as if they’ve been made from some form of muslin cloth. Slightly see through so you can see lots of grains of salt, petals and seeds inside it.

    Fragrance

    Zen Bath Teas have a kick of fresh, slightly pungent and unmistakably lavender scent to them. Thankfully not the eye watering strength lavender sometimes you can experience. There’s something else in this which I can’t quite describe which could be the chamomile or could just be the scent of all the ingredients together. Either way, these bath teas have a distinctive aromatherapy style smell to them which is predominately lavender and pleasant.

    In the bath

    I held one of these bath teas under warm running water. It didn’t colour the bath or create foam, but the warmth did release the fragrance a little and I could see the contents of the tea slowly getting smaller. In the end I popped the whole thing in the bath. The contents of the tea got smaller because the salts dissolved leaving the seeds and petals.

    I found the fragrance was quite light in the bath and not as strong as I thought it would be or had hoped. Whether this would’ve been different if I used a bath tea when I first got these or used two instead of one, I’m not sure. But this was ideal for those who wanted something light scent wise, I personally needed more.

    The bath itself was plain to look at, which was what I wanted. Fairly relaxing with no changes for the good or bad to my skin. Skin felt normal in and out of the bath.

    Recommended?

    I like the idea of Zen Bath Tea. Sometimes there isn’t a need or want for colour or bubbles, and a simple bath soak is what you need. The fact all of the ingredients are safely stored in a ‘bag’ means no clean up and no floaty bits in the bath which isn’t what everyone wants. This is a very simple and easy to use bath product. What I would say is to help aide relaxing, I would’ve liked the scent to be stronger, just a little. And for my skin to feel as if it had been treated a little bit more, but that’s just me. Olee Cosmetics Zen Bath Tea is something I would recommend for those who like natural products, like baths (of course) and want something a bit different and natural. This is definitely all of the above!