re.commend: Bepanthen = cold-weather lip care hero

I struggle with dry flaky lips in the best of times, and in this cold weather I struggle to keep my lips from getting chapped underneath my lipstick. However, I've recently discovered this little beauty and it has completely changed the condition of my lips. Previously, I've had to stop wearing lipstick in the Autumn/Winter in favour of tinted lip balms exclusively, but this year I can wear whatever I want!

re.view: Urban Decay Vice 2 palette

 What a stunner. THE 'holiday' palette of 2013.

I had actually resolved not to buy this palette despite seeing some reviews on YouTube and blogs that gave very favourable comments on both the quality and range of colours in it, because, really, who needs another palette? another pink, another bronze-brown? Well, me it turns out!

re.view: Percy and Reed No oil hair oil

I can't believe it's not hair oil! (If you've seen the butter ad. you'll love that...)

I received this mini-sized hair oil with a magazine (I forget which one...Elle, maybe?) and I must say that I'm impressed. I don't tend to go in for oils in general as I have very fine hair that needs as much volumising and as little weighing down as possible to look its best. This little thing seems to do the trick nicely and is comparable to the spritz-on volumising products that I have.

re.commend: Trusty tubes

Here you can see my well-worn tubes! I have another high re.commended set of products for you today. 

I was wondering how to start to group together my re.commendations for products that I've been using faithfully for a number of years. With little more rhyme of reason than type of packaging, I have two of them here for you today. 

There is something rather satisfying about a tube of product like this - easily squeezed to the right amount, easy to see when you're running low, lets you get the most product out possible, and most importantly keeps your product hygenic. You can see how much I have loved these two products (and I have already bought some more for when they finally run out!). 

re.view: Milani Blush in Luminoso

This little blush is a bit of a blogger fave….and it doesn’t disappoint!

This is a peach-coloured blush with a golden shimmer to it. It falls on the orange-rose side of peach rather than rose-red or orange-yellow. I had a bit of a shock dipping my brush into this initially as it's very highly pigmented and dusts away so easily onto the brush that it's easy to disturb much more of the powder than you need. I've found that with highly pigmented products, in order to minimise the waste from 'tapping off' your brush all the time is to twirl the brush whilst laying it flat on it's side into the powder rather than swirling it point first (I hope that makes some sort of sense!).

re.view: Samy Fat Hair volumising products

A little bit more ‘oomph’ for barely-there hair. 

OK, I exaggerate with the ‘barely-there hair’, but I do have quite fine hair that I’m always trying to plump up and the products from this range have done a pretty good job, when used together, at just giving me a bit more height and width to my barnet. The three products from this range that I own are the dry shampoo, a root-boosting spray, and the volumising mouse.