No Buying Toiletries In September Challenge!

Linda32

Hi, Can I join in please?

I'm oftern on the Old Style Board and this thread is sometimes mentioned, so I've come over for a look

Make-up bag in no particular order:-

Rimmel Blusher 002 Summer Fever
Vie Precision Eye Liner Slate - this is a twist up liner, the pencil eye lines break on me
Vie Eye Shadow - the baked type, I beleive, lasts ages WIBA - Yes :money:
Mascara Full 'N Soft - need another Mascara soon, any recommendation?
Maybelline Superstay - our Market (Leicester) has a stall which sells the testers of these for £2.00 each
Vie Sheer Perfection SPF15 Tinted Moisturiser - WIBA - Yes
This is a good tinted one, I would by again, but I don't use it very oftern, so I'd recommend it.
Rimmel 1000 Kisses Stay on Liner Pencil
Handbag size SJP Lovely

Wellaflex Silvikrin Hair Spray, nearly empty, I usually buy whatever decent one is on offer.
Sainsbury's Ultradry Cotton Mist Roll On - this was the next cheapest after their basics one, which was quite good enough

Herbal Essence uplifting volume shampoo - nearly empty
Tesco Apple and Aloe Vera shampoo
Sainsbury's Camomile Shampoo
I don't think I need any more

Two cans of Fructis Hair Mousse, I do recommend Fructis
Tesco Creme Bath, which I use as liquid soap

Tesco Pure Soap, same as Simple

Just remembered some more
Aqueous Cream
Spa Natures Essence Body Butter - Christmas Present, I clearly don't use this very oftern do I, its only a small pot
Dove Rich Moisturising Creme

roshydoshy

Linda32 wrote: »

Mascara Full 'N Soft - need another Mascara soon, any recommendation?

Hellooooo welcome to the thread :hello:
i personally adore Maybelline Collossal but the waterproof one is almost impossible to remove after wearing!! :rotfl: and i have tried mascaras from all price ranges, this is usually on offer in boots/superdrug/online and is only about the £5/6 mark!x

Bronnie

Welcome to the thread, Linda :T

Your stash sounds quite sensible to me! I did used to have a fair amount of body lotions/creams etc around, because I kept forgetting to use them, I try to make a conscious effort to use them more now, just as well really as I somehow manage to accumulate them without actually buying them...mainly I think they tend to be my daughter's leftovers.

Went to "spend" my Telegraph BS voucher today. My planned purchase was a small tube of the hemp hand protector which was £5 for a small tube last year. however they seem to have discontinued the small tube this year and only had the £10 one:mad:.

Not much on their shelves for a fiver or less that I really wanted that wouldn't have been a fairly random and unwanted addition to the stash, so ended up adding £1, as they didn't have the £4 size and getting this shampoo to try

http://www.thebodyshop.co.uk/_en/_gb/catalog/product.aspx?ParentCatCode=C_Hair&CatCode=C_Hair_Shampoo&prdcode=85039m

also got a free sample of conditioner. WIBA? Can tell you before I've even used it , NO! as personally don't see the need to spend £6 on a bottle of shampoo!!

roshydoshy

Bronnie wrote: »

WIBA? Can tell you before I've even used it , NO! as personally don't see the need to spend £6 on a bottle of shampoo!!

I definitely agree with the BS hair stuff, as I find it really drying and harsh on my hair and leaves it like cotton wool!!! I do however want to try all the Tigi hairstuff....I sound like a hypocrite! But if you buy the Tigi stuff online and get a good offer it works out the same prices as L'0real and the like!

elfen

Time to go through my make up box and bin the stuff I don't use/has gone off
Keeping:
Clear mascara
Benefit it stick
Collection 2000 mineral foundation
2 x Blend and Stretch Eyeshadows (blue and silver)
Rimmel Hurricane Grey eyeliner pencil
Rimmel Jungle Green eyeliner
No 7 Metallic Eyepencil
Lilac Dream Souffleye Eyeshadow
Mint Cream Souffleye Eyeshadow
Rimmel Alluring Mono Eyeshadow
17 Eyes Dolly Mixture Triple Eyeshadow
17 Eyes Viva Diva Mono Eyeshadow
Beauty UK Eyeshadow Palette
17 Strawberry Swirl Blusher
2 x Jemma Kidd lip gloss
Maybelline Superstay Lipstick Plum Seduction
Eyeshadow brushes
2 x Ruby and Millie brushes
2 x No 7 brushes
Foundation brush
No 7 Speed Dry Nail Varnish in Coconut Ice
17 Fast Finish Nail Varnish in Knockout Red
No 7 Speed Dry Nail Varnish in Iced Mocha

Throw outs:
Blusher brush
2 x 17 eyeshadows
2 x eye gloss - can't get on with using it!
Natural Collection Duo Eyeshadow - must be about 3 years old now!
3 x eye pencils
Eyeshadow brushes
1 lip gloss
Glitter mascara
Volumiser mascara - crap, comes off all the time and hurts my eyes

Should be a lot easer in my collection now. One bring-in , but was free at freshers' fair - Clinique Long Last Lipstick in Creamy Nude
Think I might paint my toenails red too

elfen

Have done the make-up...now the toiletries:
3 x mouthwash - another in use
1 x toothpaste (another in use)
5 x brush heads
Botanics Skin Brightening Toner - in use
Botanics Cleansing Mousse - in use
Tresemme Colour Thrive Shampoo - in use
Tresemme Colour Thrive Conditioner - in use
Nutmeg and Vanilla Body Scrub - in use
Nutmeg and Vanilla Body Butter - in use
Passionfruit Body Scrub
Blueberry Body Butter
Goji berry and Mallow Shower Gel -in use
Cotton Buds - in use
3 x Nivea Deoderants
Boots Essentials Shampoo
Boots Essentials Conditioner
Hawaiian Spa Shower Gel
Lee Stafford Spray Wax
Charles Worthington Straightening Balm - in use
2 x Jergens moisturisers
2 x fcuk bodyspray - 1 in use
Tresemme hairspray - in use
Toni and Guy hairspray - in use
Davidoff Cool Woman perfume - in use
Lacura Foot Gel
3 x sanitary towels
Ghost perfume (small) - in use
Bodyspray tester - in use
Nivea roll-on - in use
2 x toothbrushes
Body Buffer
Botanics moisturiser - in use
fcuk pure body lotion
Herbal Essences Seductively Straight shampoo
Herbal Essences Seductively Straight Conditioner
Garnier Bodytonic
Neutrogena cracked heel cream - in use
No 7 Quick Thinking 4 in 1 face wipes - in use
Baby wipes - in use
Dove hand creme - in use


Oh dear God!

Bronnie

roshydoshy wrote: »

I definitely agree with the BS hair stuff, as I find it really drying and harsh on my hair and leaves it like cotton wool!!!
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Yikes:eek:, does anyone else find this??? Can't cope with cotton wool hair (BTW great description, I know exactly what you mean) and I definitely don't want to be lumbered with a once-used bottle of shampoo!

I bet they don't exchange goods do they, with being toiletries...oh :mad:****:mad:. I wonder if they've got a satisfaction guarantee?? **Goes off to check!**

roshydoshy

it might just be me! they do seem to sell so i guess if everyone else had the same hair feelings then they wouldn't sell? Give it a go and if it doesn't suit you perhaps ebay it?

Bronnie

roshydoshy wrote: »

it might just be me! they do seem to sell so i guess if everyone else had the same hair feelings then they wouldn't sell? Give it a go and if it doesn't suit you perhaps ebay it?

Let's see if anyone else on here has any feedback first! My hair is coloured and I do also get that cotton wool feeling with certain shampoos so am a bit wary.

This challenge has so got to me now, plus all the efforts of using up unloved stuff over the year that I actually cannot contemplate the horror of the prospect of having a part-used bottle of stuff I don't like! Feel quite neurotic about it actually!

haha I suppose that's progress!

EssexHebridean

2 x UU's to report here - a mini Theramed toothpaste - WIBA? - yes, I use this a lot when I go away for weekends and can often pick them up from market stalls at a bargain price.

Also a GWP size Clinique Youth Surge Moisturiser - WIBA? No - it's no better or worse than plenty of others I've tried, so there is nothing to make me choose this over anything else. I seem to recall that I have a Dramatically Different to go on to next - Woop! Must go and check the stash!

Mention earlier on of the Boots pre-christmas shopping evenings and their usual points bonus has reminded me that I will need to start putting together a list of anything I will need to stock up on by then - I shall do the same as I did last year and combine christmas gift buying with stocking up on essentials to make the £50 spend and net the extra points. Those points will then be put towards stuff I need as the year rolls on. I also need to work out if I'm going to do the "years supply of...." box like I did for OH last year again - if so I shall need to start getting stuff towards that, and also work out what he will actually need - no toothpaste this year as I over estimated what he would use, and to compound the situation he came home two weeks before christmas with 5 tubes of the stuff "Because it was on offer, and it was REALLY cheap!"