Spare No7 Vouchers + Hot Cloth Cleanser

Hello lovely ladies!

First of all, look what I found by the Boots Self Checkout. . 

If anyone wants one, I'm giving two away to the first people that email their name and address to sophiephiephie@live.co.uk

But what did I buy with mine? Well my local Boots didn't have ANYTHING everyone raves about so I bought this,

No7 Radiance Boosting Hot Cloth Cleanser - £8.75 or £3.75 with voucher

 It smells lovely, a bit like babies I think. It has a really nice consistency, it feels like you're washing your face with a moisturiser. If you use it with the muslin cloth following the instructions it really is one of the most refreshing experiences you can have in your bathroom! It leaves you glowing and so clean. My one problem was the fact it doesn't really remove eye make up, (well mine anyway), so I've got to scrub that off first :(

However, if you look in my picture, there's no sign of a muslin cloth. Yep, that's because my dad threw it away. You should've seen me, I hit the roof when he blamed it on ME as it looked like a 'used tissue' that I had left out so he threw it away. Grrrr.

So would I buy it again? For £3.75, yes, £8.75? No chance! It's a big enough bottle so I reckon it'll last until March when the next lot of vouchers come out. However I think the cloth that comes with it really completes it, the feeling of it when it's hot on your face is lovely. Yet as I am sans cloth, all I've got is a cleanser. Great.

What have you got with your vouchers? And do people ever throw your stuff away?!!

Love Sophie xx

Sophie's Quest For Perfect Nails

Okay okay, my nails have not been shown that much love in recent weeks.Always changing my nail varnish, lets not mention the half an hour soaking in acetone to get my fakes off. 

So I'm on a quest for lovely, strong, healthy nails, and to help me do that I've enlisted the help of Boots Ultra Strength Nail Hardener (I spent the whole of yesterday going round the house saying that in the deepest Arnie Schwarzenegger voice much to the annoyance of my parents!)

Boots Expert Ultra Strength Nail Hardener - £3

It was the cheapest there and I'm quite a fan of the expert range. The bottle is very similar to that of a Nails Inc one, yet at less than a third of the price I'm smiling! It goes on clear so it immediately makes your nails look healthier. You're supposed to use it twice a week on clean, dry nails. I'm not sure if you've got to take off the first coat when you do it the second time? But we'll see.

So here are my nails before:

Generally quite weak, splitting, bit of discolouration, short because I had to cut off the stained disgusting tips. Not nice. You should see the nails on my other hand.

I'll be doing updates every now and again to let you know how they're doing.

Love Sophie xx

Colorsport Eyebrow Definer Pen and FOThe other Night

Hey lovely ladies

I did this look for a Burberry event I was lucky enough to attend. It's quite confusing to explain why I got the chance to go, but basically myself and a few other friends hosted an event a few months ago in celebration of other cultures and bringing everyone together, it was a fab night and in recognition of our hard work we got to go to Burberry HQ for a night of yummy canapes and people telling us how great we are. . ;) I even got to meet the lovely Christopher Bailey, Burberry's creative director!

Anyways, just thought I'd show you what make up I wore, but also I'd like to tell you all how great I think this product is

Colorsport Eyebrow Definer Pen - currently £4.66 (I paid £6.99!)

I love love love this. It can take a little getting used to but it really fills in your eyebrows and gives you that real 1940s perfectly filled in brow, and it lasts all day.

Here's my make up (excuse wet hair!)

Face

• Inglot Cream Powder foundation
• Revlon Matte Powder Blush 
• MAC Blush in Harmony
• Colorsport Eyebrow Definer in Brown

Eyes

• MAC Paintpot in Bare Study
• Benefit Little Round Pot in Blanc Diaphane
• MAC Fluidline in Blacktrack
• L'oreal Voluminous

Lips

• 17 Mirror Shine On Lipstick in Hollywood 

Have you ever used the Colorsport range? And yay or nay to the FOTDs?
Love Sophie xx

Skin Lightening Shocker!

Haha that title deserves a place in a real life magazine! But that's what it was I had a right shock!

Now if you're a dark haired lady like me you will probably have darker arm hair, darker facial hair and sometimes you might want to tone it down a bit. I will always remember a time in year 4 when a boy in my class told me I had a mustache like his older brother and considering I was the only brown-haired girl in my class (is it just me or is it a bit sad that a 7 year old girl wanted blonde hair like all the other girls?) I always felt a bit awkward with my dark arm, face and leg hair. So 10 years later here I am with a hair lightening kit. I've used it on my face for the past 7 months with no problem whatsoever but last night I used it on my arms. It worked, but you can see the results of it in a moment.

I didn't know what kit to go for, so instead of going for the Jolen one (I wrote this half an hour ago and I've been singing Joleen by Dolly Parton that whole time) which I've not heard good things about I went for this Boots one;

Boots Expert Hair Lightener - normally £3.75 now £2.50

This stuff on your face is excellent. On your arms it is excellent. It works in 10 minutes, it gives you the arm hair colour of those blonde girls! Yet look at this;

This doesn't look as obvious but you can clearly see it has LIGHTENED my skin. I had a big rectangular patch. Fortunately this morning it had gone back to normal colour, but don't you think this is a bit worrying?

Do you lighten your body hair? How do you disguise it? Or do you wear it loud and proud?

Let me know!

Sophie xx

PS In case you're interested here are the ingredients and instructions, make sure you check them before you use it, click to make it bigger

If you buy one thing. .

Hey ladies!
Sorry it's been a while, just been feeling a bit sad lately but that doesn't matter, on to what I think you NEED in your life right now. .

Boots Four Way Nail Buffer - £2.00

Yep, it's only £2. Now I'm sure you can probably get these cheaper online or whatever but I think this is by far one of the best (hey it's about time I did a positive review right?)

Let me take you through the four sides and how to use them;

• File Nail Edge: Pretty much files your nail edge ;) Use in a sweeping movement in one direction don't use it like a saw it can damage your nails!

 

• Remove Ridges: You do this over the whole nail and it removes those ridges you get. This is good to do before applying nail varnish as it gives you a really even base to paint over. Also if you do this step over the top of a shiny nail varnish it will remove the shine and give you matte nails. I love doing this especially with black nail varnish (although make sure you let it dry first, as you can see from the black marks I'm quite impatient when it comes to doing this)

• Smooth Nail. Again this does exactly what it says. By this step your nails will be completely transformed. I know you wouldn't expect it but it's actually so great :)

• And lastly Shine Nail. This WORKS. I'm not even joking this shine that it gives rivals a clear nail varnish, with the advantage of being completely natural. By doing this, I've had so many compliments on how strong my nails look and how pretty they are and are they real?

Seriously guys BUY THIS. Even if you have to use your Ad Card points just do it! You won't regret it and you'll find your nail varnish goes on much nicer and it takes less than 5 mins to do :)

Thanks for reading drop me a comment 

Sophie xx