Top 5 Christmas Sets - £25 and under

Christmas gift sets are one of my favourite things. You get to try lots for not a lot.

These five that i have picked out were my favourite from the lower end of the price range when trawling through the Selfridges website (which currently has 10% off beauty).

  Nails Inc - Autumn/Winter Collection - £22

Set contains:
Sloane Gardens - unique navy glitter
Chester Street - unique pearl
Bruton Mews - deep forest green
Richmond Terrace - deep forest plum
Jerymn Street - classic taupe
Chelsea Bridge Road - tomato red

  Clarins all about lips Collection - £18

This is a steal at this price for anyone a little Clarins crazy like me.

Includes: Colour Quench Lip Balm 02 Peach Nectar 7ml

Gloss Prodige 04 Candy 2.5ml

Rouge Eclat 13 Woodrose 1.5g

Instant Light Natural Lip perfector 01 Rose Shimmer 5ml

complimentary make-up bag

  Neom Thee Nights of Peace Collection - £10

Includes

Complete Bliss Bath Oil 5ml

Real Luxury Bath Oil 5ml

Tranquillity Bath Oil 5ml

Clinique Black Honey Beauty Set - £25

 

Almost Lipstick in Black Honey 1.9g

Superbalm Moisturizing Gloss, 7ml

A Different Nail Enamel for Sensitive Skins in Black Honey, 5ml

High Impact Mascara in Black, 3.5ml

 

 

 Origins Ornament Christmas Bauble - £12

The bauble comes in two colours but both contain the same products and are dispatched randomly.

Includes

• Plantscription™ Serum 7ml
• Drink Up™ Intensive Mask 7ml
• GinZing™ Eye Cream 5ml
• Modern Friction™ 5ml
• Make A Difference™ Plus+ Moisturiser 5ml 

Sunday will have my top 5 Over £25 and for some reason it packed with Laura Mercier.

Todays Makeup #2

First time doing this post with my new camera today, Im thinking of maybe even tackling a video with it soon. Since it was the first time, i went a little overboard with the photos :)
As always please ignore my stroke lopsided face.

In these im wearing:

Clarins Beauty Flash Balm

Revlon Nearly Naked Foundation - Vanila

Clarins Mineral loose Powder - Light

Revlon photoready cream blush - coral reef

Accessorize baked bronzer duo - pearl sands (as highlight)

MAC Brun for eyebrows

Stila Kitten Eyeshadow

Bourjois Blink Eyeliner - Black

Seventeen Dollface Mascara

Clarins rouge éclat Lipstick - Tropical pink

Now i like this picture and i don't care how dirty my windows are.
I might wash them today actually, pah like that will happen.

This was a bit of a different look for me but I quite like how it came out. :)

Lorna xxx

Clarins Hydra-Quench Cream mask

This was quite a spur of the moment purchase for me (especially for the price). I picked this up in Boots for £32 and found it that night on Ecsentual.com for £25.60. My skin was really dehydrated and i really needed something to work well at night but not be too heavy, i saw this was for dehydrated skin and just went for it.

Description from Clarins
An instant, quenching boost for even the most stressed out and dehydrated skin. The Clarins HydraQuench Cream-Mask intensively moisturises and revitalizes skin, in all climates, at all times. Lines are smoothed, and the skin is left feeling fresh, soft and comfortable with unrivalled radiance all day long.
Smooth into the face twice a week, and leave on for 5-10 minutes whilst the Cream-Mask gets to work. Remove lasting traces with a cotton pad dampened with toning lotion.

• Hyaluronic acid helps maintain its moisture reserves
• Katafray bark restructures skin's protective outermost layers, limits dehydration
• Sobier tree bud stimulates radiance-boosting microcirculation
• UVA/UVB filters, Vitamin E and E3P Complex protect against UV rays, free radicals and
• pollution
•  

I tend to use this a little more than recommended as my skin really needs something to sort it out before it starts getting (ever more) wintery and cold. I use my clarasonic and a cleanser (at the moment im switching between Avene Eau Thermal Soap-less Gel (available here) and the REN Mayblossom balancing cleansing gel (available here) and once im through with that i dry my face and slather a layer of this on, i use just enough that you can see a little on the skin until it dries in. After about half an hour i put some toner on cotton wool and give my face a wee wipe then pop on some spot cream and moisturizer and hop into bed. In the morning my skin is lovely and soft and i have a lot less oil produced during the night than i used to. Throughout the day my skin also produces a lot less oil which means my makeup is actually staying on my face pretty well and not sliding off. Ive also been able to stop using powder throughout the day which leaves me looking caked my 5pm.

Im not claiming that this is some sort of miracle product, i have been taking a lot better care of my skin in general recently but this is definitely helping a lot. Ive been using it for about two and a half weeks now and so far it has a massive thumbs up. 

Next time though i will be making extra sure i check the price everywhere before i buy (because i WILL be repurchasing). 

What do you think about this if you've tried it?
Anything similar you would recommend?

Lorna xxx