Superdrug Dry Shampoo :-)

I'm a great lover of dry shampoos, because they're so handy to have if you need to go out quick without a shower and want to spruce up your hair! Some of them can be a little pricey though, but here is my favourite for you to read about, and consider buying if you wish :-)

Superdrug Dry Shampoo

These are just three of the different ones you can get. Others include: 'Away with the fairies', 'Spirit of the carnival' & 'Head in the clouds'. The ones in this picture (if you cannot read the writing) are: 'Heart on your sleeve', 'Chocolate brownie' & 'Floating on a breeze'. I am not sure if there are others, but I think that is all of them. A 150 ml bottle costs £1.99. AT THE MOMENT THERE'S AN AMAZING OFFER OF BUY 1 GET 2 FREE! Yes that's right, get 2 free I didn't mistype ;) Just thought I'd let you know. Unsure how the long the offer's on for, but only paying 1/3 of what you'd normally be paying is pretty amazing!


I used to use Batiste because it was the only dry shampoo I knew of, but now I've discovered Superdrug dry shampoo I'm not looking back! It's cheaper and just as good as Batiste.

It absorbs the oil in your hair and gives it that 'just washed' look. It really is very good. The brown bottle above has brown coloured dry shampoo inside, and freshens up the colour of brunette hair (durr!!!). I've never used this one but according to someone I know it can leave your palms looking pretty brown and weird, like a fake tan disaster! So then you have to go and wash your hands as well, and be careful in case it stains your clothes, or marks your face. You don't want to have to waste more time getting ready, or risk ruining your favourite garments! I wouldn't recommend using the brown one unless you dye your hair brown and want to refresh the colour if roots are coming through. In this case it'd be very handy!

The scents of the different ones really are reminiscent of the pictures on the front, so just try and pick which picture you like best I guess! I know that's not the best advice, but they are good at indicating the scent. I just picked which three (for the offer) I thought would smell the nicest.

I own the following three superdrug dry shampoos: 'Spirit of the Carnival', 'Floating on a breeze' and 'Away with the fairies'. My favourite is 'Floating on a breeze', because it has such a refreshing scent. It's really hard to describe, but it does smell like a really nice shampoo - so it'll make your hair smell like it's actually just been washed! It smells like a really nice, spritzy bodyspray too, GRRR so hard to describe!!! But it's smells so lovely anyway.

'Spirit of the carnival' smells of coconuts; a nice smell but just a bit to sweet for me. But that's just personal taste. 'Away with the fairies' smells like a musky, floral, sweet perfume. Very nice, but it smells possibly too 'grown up' for teens and young women. But again that's just my personal impression :-) I probably sound like an old silly, but I like 'Floating on a breeze' because the scent just makes me feel uplifted and energised, that's the impression it gives anyway.

How to Use

Take all clips, bobbles etc out of your hair. Remove the lid of the dry shampoo bottle and give it a good shake! Spray down your parting, and on your fringe (if you have one). Lift up different parts of your hair and spray near the roots, as well as a lighter spritz on lower-down parts of your hair. Rub all of your hair to work the dry shampoo in, and using a soft brush brush it out (you won't be able to get all of it out but you're not meant to). I usually just use my hands to move my hair about to try and 'shake' the dry shampoo out. Style your hair as normal. Now you should have refreshed and clean looking hair, that smells like a treat!

See ya soon xxx

Make Up Academy >Lipstick< Review! :)

I, like many others, have been pretty fascinated by 'Make Up Academy', the fairly recent addition to Superdrug's make up aisle and online store. A lot of MUA's products look rather professional and the prices are so so so cheap! It does make you wonder whether the low prices actually buy you a quality product, but like many other bloggers out there, I am trying to find out.

So I started out with a MUA lipstick as my first product. I was wanting a pinkier colour anyway, and for £1 I though it would be silly not to buy one! My motto whenever I'm buying anything, particularly a cosmetic product, is:

"Try a cheaper one first. If the cheaper version of a lipstick (for example) is of the quality you want then you've saved money not buying something more expensive, and if it isn't any good then you've not wasted as much money as you would've done if you'd bought something more expensive that was no good! Then, once you find your favourite product, you've saved money doing it this way and via a slight bit of trial and error you've found the best thing for you." That's my philosophy, take note if you wish :)

...Anyway back to the lipstick! There were a fair few different colours to choose from, and I tested this one on my hand and therefore decided to give it a go.

Packaging
It looks like a general lipstick from the outside, and by that I mean one that cost more than £1! You might expect it to look worse than it does, for what you paid for it. The silver lettering on the side can be scratched quite easily, but that happens to the most expensive of products!

 



Smell
It has qutie a pleasant fragrance, that I'd describe as biscuits/sweets. Kind of a mixture of the two! In my opinion it's quite a nice smell.

Colour
I chose shade 12 - a warm bright pink. I wanted a nice girly pop of colour for my face (not that I'm the most girliest of girls to say the least anyway, but I do enjoy make up). On my hand it looks nice enough, and you can see that it has glitter in it. The glitter doesn't overpower the colour when it's on my lips which I'm glad about; it just gives that extra bit of interest when it catches the light. Sometimes glittery lipsticks can look a bit cheap and tacky - not in this case!

Before & After

Forgive my 'blogging beginners photography' on this post, it'll improve I promise! As you can see I have naturally quite pale pink-nude lips. However with a full coverage of this lipstick I think it's a little too much colour for my face. So what I like to do is blot it so the colour is toned down a bit. This way you can actually get more colours out of one lipstick, depending on how much you apply.





Characteristics

This does not dry out my lips, which is a relief! It's annoying when that happens, but if it does occur to you with certain lipsticks you can put some lipbalm on before lipstick which is what I do sometimes :) When you 'rub' your lips together it does feel like a lipbalm in itself, I'm wondering if it does indeed has lipbalm properties! However it doesn't have great staying power when eating and drinking etc. And you can end up with quite a lot of colour-loss in the middle of your lips. At least it's nice and creamy and easy to re-apply! I find there's better staying-power if you apply 1 layer, blot dry and then apply a 2nd layer to the colour intensity you desire :) Alternatively you could try applying a lip-sealant such as Lipcote (which I love).

So...
All in all, great value for £1. It has a couple of bad points but they're nothing compared to the good points. You could always treat yourself to a couple of extra colours! I'm a very satisfied customer and I'll certainly be buying from MUA again. Just try and remember not to get too carried away; only buy something when you actually need it/are running out of a particular item, and treat yourself every so often too! Not too often of course ;)

Hope you enjoyed my first review :D
See ya soon xxx