No Buying Toiletries in November Challenge....

karom

2 UU and 3 INs to report!

UU:
Sanctuary Body Butter 50ml - WIBA? No - Was part of a set of 4 free from Boots 1 or 2 years back. Texture very nice but smell overpowering
Gucci Eau de Parfum 60ml - WIBA? No - Bottle was quite nice but too heavy; scent not particularly appealing. This teaches me to buy testers without knowing what they smell like

IN:
Imperial Leather Softly Softly 500ml and Imperial Leather Hawain Spa 500ml- At £1 for a bottle, this is the price limit i consider it ok to buy
Nivea Pure invisible roll 50ml - £1 as well - Did not have any roll on in the stash unused yet, love the Dove one but I am sticking to my rule that I will not spend more than £1 on one of those thus when I saw this one, I got it.

sunshineyday

Evening girlies, I have one paltry miserable little uu to report -a sample of Estee lauder Idealist, glad I didn't spend money on this as I thought it was pants! It's supposed to be a pore minimizer - well I might as well have had a great big neon arrow pointing to my pores as this serum only seemed to highlight them and make them look ten times worse, I wonder would pollyfilla work?:rotfl:

EssexHebridean

akh43 wrote: »

Is this the right one just noticed its on offer in Asda and Sainsburys and after all the positive reviews might get some to try as I often have problems with products stinging my eyes.

Sorry - wasn't in this thread yesterday! Yes, this is the one. IMO one of those products that is actually a pleasure to use.

Another UU here yesterday - at long last the Neutrogena facewash has gone. WIBA? - hmmm, tricky one to be honest. It was perfectly good, but nothing special, so I think I would say that no, I wouldn't. I havenow got a Clinque liquid facial soap out to use. It's a B-I-G bottle so will last some time I suspect!

lostinrates

bohemianrose9 wrote: »

Perfect 10 hair dye: bit nervous about this! I've never dyed my hair myself and normally spend a fortune getting it highlighted. I thought I'd give it a go though and if it goes horribly wrong, flee to the hairdresser.

I've been thinking about this a lot too. I have highlights and lowlights in differnt shades and its not cheap. My hair is curly and roots don't look bad, so I stretch time between, but being able to touch up a couple of very pale ones around hair line would be good. I used to do my sister's hair, with stuff out of the box, but she was braver than me, and my hair would be more difficult. I wish I had a local girlfriend to help me try this....I think I'm too chicken to do it alone.:o

bohemianrose9

lostinrates wrote: »

I've been thinking about this a lot too. I have highlights and lowlights in differnt shades and its not cheap. My hair is curly and roots don't look bad, so I stretch time between, but being able to touch up a couple of very pale ones around hair line would be good. I used to do my sister's hair, with stuff out of the box, but she was braver than me, and my hair would be more difficult. I wish I had a local girlfriend to help me try this....I think I'm too chicken to do it alone.:o

Heya,
Just thought I'd let you know, I've just used the Perfect 10 and now it's dry, I'm really impressed! It's blended away my roots nicely. The colour is a little bit darker than my highlights, but I wanted to tone it down for winter anyway. I was worried that it would mask all the highlights and just go a flat blonde, but it actually is nearly as good as what I pay £65 for, and took a sixth of the time! I'm going to continue with this and see if it's still ok when my highlights grow out much more.

I'd definitely give it a go, Lostinrates - it sounds as though your hair is more complicated than mine with the lowlights, so you could just start with the roots? Good luck! x

Jacks_xxx

bohemianrose9 wrote: »

Perfect 10 hair dye: bit nervous about this! I've never dyed my hair myself and normally spend a fortune getting it highlighted. I thought I'd give it a go though and if it goes horribly wrong, flee to the hairdresser.

I was petrified too! I just couldn't keep spending £120+ on cut and colour every other month - especially as I have a fair sprinkling of grey so I'd have irritating grey roots for five out of every eight weeks!

The light brown colour I use turned blueberry colour on my head as it developed and I nearly pooed my pants I was so scared. Luckily the actual colour came out beautifully and blended in my grown out colour and my grey so even I couldn't see where they were. Every three weeks or so I touch up with Nice and Easy Root Touch up and then do another Perfect 10 at the 3 month mark. (I think it's 6.5A that I use, Lightest Cool Brown)

At our monthly girly beauty swaps nights I've been just spot dying the girls' odd grey hair here and there and doing partings and hairlines with Nice and Easy - which fades. Next time we're going for the Perfect 10 which doesn't! (but still just dabbing it on where it's needed.)

I've gone from being scared witless to slinging it on willy nilly on women who care about their appearance quite a lot and will kill me if I muck up their hair! You should see us arriving though we all turn up in bathrobes and bunny slippers! :rotfl:

mineallmine

Use up:
Regis Keratin conditioner - wiba no. It's ok. My hair never ever seems shiny. So the hunt continues for a really special conditioner.

Right Champneys body butter then bed. Night-all.

mineallmine

akh43 wrote: »

Is it this one? 75ml tube on offer in Tesco @ £1.50 and 200ml tub £2.25 both on offer until 16/11.

Thank a43. Will look out for that. :j

karom

sunshineyday wrote: »

a sample of Estee lauder Idealist ... supposed to be a pore minimizer - well I might as well have had a great big neon arrow pointing to my pores as this serum only seemed to highlight them and make them look ten times worse, I wonder would pollyfilla work?:rotfl:

OMG !
I used this type of products in the past (not this one though); I have stopped now and only buy dermabrasion and facewash with warming clay nowadays. I have not needed a pore minimizer for ages now.

noynoy

hello ladys ..your posts have made me laugh.
Having got stash blues i broke out a few things from my christmas treat box to cheer me up it worked and then i put them away again until christmas lol..but i did find a hg..the gwp body shop warming mineral mask was lovely..did warm up instantly but not burning like some warming ones do..was clay based so i thought it might smell clayish but no had a very cute lighlty floral smell and washed off well as making my skin glow like a babys afterwards..so i now have a peel off hg and a normal facemask hg..go me!

3 uu to report
freebie samples..bond girl sample..wiba not sure i couldnt smell it (im sure i have a sense of smell problem now though) but ds aged 4 told me i smelled beautiful and kept sniffing me..so maybe ill buy it if its on offer with avon again. My coco is getting really low and ill be very sad to see it go but i can't justify the £47 it costs to buy with my debts, im thinking of trying the perfume oils as you ladys have given great reviews about it
olays 3 point serum freebie wib? i think i would sunk it nicely and brightened my skin up but i think this is about £19? again that will last maybe 3 weeks as i have such dry skin, it seems a lot to me to spend..i shall continue with my free samples and £1 land moistersier..my debt will go my debt will go
and a bought item from off my list yay..my wilkinsons roll on wiba..yes i dont see why not ..wasn't particullay effective in summer but it does the job ok for 59p..besides i have my mituchum roll on to use up and another freebie from avon coming soon

so i do have a few ins to report from avon order but shamefully can't remember exactly what they are!
will be doing some christmas shopping need to write lists and stick to it and i will need to get clenser, eye make up remover and moisteriser..looking forward to trying loreal..nb i know wilkinsons have a lot of products on offer at the moment x

have anice weekend ladys ..im having a pamper session this evening, im doing this twice a week that and cleansing everyday and this is the first time in years ive not gotton a pmt spot under my chin ..the scar seems to be healing yay.