No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries in August!

noelphobic

tokkiandoliver wrote: »

I love that dot perfume. I walk thru boots everyday to work and spray myself haha it is a very familiar scent, sort of like daisy but with a new note.

I love Daisy but getting a bit bored with it. I may try the Dot and treat myself when I go on holiday - I don't have a big perfume stash already, honest! No Daisy left, I just have a copy oil which is OK. I bought M & S Isis on offer recently and also have a Lidl one but not keen, despite all the hype. Just not my kind of smell. I've nearly used up Body Shop Japanese Cherry Blossom and gone off that also. I do have a little pot of Elle Mcpherson Bare which I love and will probably last forever - very MS to not have a spray!

InaPickle

Hello again ladies!

OK, so here is my holiday List of Shame...

Before I went, I popped into TBS to buy a gift for my aunt, at whose house we were going to stay. I spied that the hand creams were for sale at half price, so I bought both her and I one (I don't have that much left in mine, so it wasn't 100% unjustifiable). They tried to get me to join the Love Your Body club, which I was going to say no to but then they mentioned that it was £4 and I got a £5 shower gel (which was kind of what I had come in to get for my aunt) for free, and then I could buy the lovely polishing body scrubs next to the till for half price (£4.50 instead of £9). I bought one for my aunt and one for me (totally unjustifiable, but when I came home from work the other day absolutely sticky to the core and use it, it was so worth every penny!).

When I got home, I hunted down a S&G tin with Hand Food, The Breakfast Scrub and an apron in that I bought at the Boots -75% sale, put the polishing body scrub and shower gel in, and then realised that two hand creams might be a bit of overkill, so kept the two I bought for myself (!).

I also bought two eyeshadows and a liip gloss at M&S out of their Autograph range. I really needed some new make-up so I don't geel guilty about this, especially as it was -25% as it was a new range.

While I was away I had 2 sample UU:

Tresemme Vitamin C shampoo (100ml)
Elysl shampoo and shower gel (30ml).

What I am very pleased/displease with is that my hair has now gone back to liking Tresemme! (That's good, but all the running around I had to do to find something else when it has its major hissy fit was not good).

I also gave my S&G Glow Job to my aunt as I've used it once or twice but am not allowed to use it any more cos of a beauty treatment I am having on my face. It is bound to have gone off by the time I am allowed to use it again!

So, to resume:

5 INs
2 OUTs
4 GA (2 counted as neutrals as I bought them but then gave them away, but the other 2 were a true GA)

So there we go, I slipped off the wagon (in fairly barganous style might I add: all my TBS products were -%50 and the cosmetics -25%), but it will not be happening again.

(I gave away some, too: do I have to sit on the naughty step? :rotfl:)

kiplingmonkey

Have resisted the Dec on the Q so £5 in my SPC :j.

Another UU:

Liz Earle skin repair dry/sensitive - use this daily as my neck cream and it does a great job. For the past week have also been using it at night time on my face with Superbalm concentrate underneath and it is doing a fab job of moisturising my skin which seems to be a bit dry at the moment - I think a S&G face wash is the culprit! (of which more later when it is UU - hopefully later in the month)

VALM - we are showing our age on here remembering THAT turnip! Ha ha, that made me laugh when I read your post!

ruby_eskimo

I have 3 UU to report;

TBS Mint and Cucumber Earthlovers s/g - WNBA, as I bought it for the scent and the SLS free-ness but it smelt of banana! Couldn't get my head round it so will not be getting it again. Have replaced with Naked's Orange s/g but I find their scents a bit overpowering so we'll see how it goes. Might try Yves Rocher next.

Mac Naked Lunch e/s - WBA, when I've used up all my similar shadows! I crumbled the sides up and found there wasn't as much let as I thought!

Pure Luxe Beach Bunny Blush - WNBA, it was a mineral blush that I've had for a few years and the colour is nothing special.

Itzybitzy

UU

The Body Shop, Tea Tree Oil, 1ml - WBA, has been really good for drying up the spots which seem to have erupted over my face this week LOL

tokkiandoliver

SuiDreams wrote: »

:j I didn't buy the LIB box :j I didn't buy the LIB box :j

ME EITHER!!! Yaya

bunnykins

noelphobic wrote: »

I kinda wish I hadn't read this! Mitchum is also my HG. I presently have a roll on sitting upside down in my bathroom cabinet and a new 50ml roll on which I will probably take as hand luggage on holiday. Going to look for a dress to wear for a wedding today and I can hear Superdrug calling me:o

Was the offer just on aerosols or on roll ons also? I can resist the aerosols because last time I had one it didn't last five minutes, whereas the roll ons last forever. Only problem with them is that they take forever to dry, which is a pain when you're in a hurry. I think they're possibly more effective though.

noelphobic - sorry;) The offer seemed to be on all mitchum products but not all the fragrances - as it's your HG deo too I think it would be wise to stock up whilst it's this price:D:D (not that I want to encourage you or anything).

Thanks for the tip VALM about the Biore - I feel better using it now - I think there's already an improvement after only a couple of days - were you at the TC too? I didn't think JL there did LE products??

Have a grerat Sunday everyone

bunnykins x

bunnykins

SuiDreams wrote: »

:j I didn't buy the LIB box :j I didn't buy the LIB box :j

Well done you :T:T:T

I haven't either :D:D

VALM

SuiDreams wrote: »

:j I didn't buy the LIB box :j I didn't buy the LIB box :j

Well done SuiDreams. x

noelphobic wrote: »

I have to confess that I am also a candleholic . Anyone else?

Yes, almost as much as I love buying cosmetics/toiletries. I have tart burners in my living room, bathroom and bedroom and a large candle burning in my hall although now I have the Autumn Lodge one burning in my kitchen too. The Warm Spice one is nice but smells like a re-labelled Cinnamon and Sugar to me.

tokkiandoliver wrote: »

I love that dot perfume. I walk thru boots everyday to work and spray myself haha it is a very familiar scent, sort of like daisy but with a new note.

I had a spray in Boots and a spray in John Lewis yesterday. Not very long lasting on me unfortunately.

VALM

InaPickle wrote: »

Before I went, I popped into TBS to buy a gift for my aunt, at whose house we were going to stay. I spied that the hand creams were for sale at half price, so I bought both her and I one (I don't have that much left in mine, so it wasn't 100% unjustifiable). They tried to get me to join the Love Your Body club, which I was going to say no to but then they mentioned that it was £4 and I got a £5 shower gel (which was kind of what I had come in to get for my aunt) for free, and then I could buy the lovely polishing body scrubs next to the till for half price (£4.50 instead of £9). I bought one for my aunt and one for me (totally unjustifiable, but when I came home from work the other day absolutely sticky to the core and use it, it was so worth every penny!).

Emma and her friend got some goodies recently using this offer also. Saved her friend quite a good amount of money.

kiplingmonkey wrote: »

Have resisted the Dec on the Q so £5 in my SPC :j.

Another UU:

Liz Earle skin repair dry/sensitive - use this daily as my neck cream and it does a great job. For the past week have also been using it at night time on my face with Superbalm concentrate underneath and it is doing a fab job of moisturising my skin which seems to be a bit dry at the moment - I think a S&G face wash is the culprit! (of which more later when it is UU - hopefully later in the month)

VALM - we are showing our age on here remembering THAT turnip! Ha ha, that made me laugh when I read your post!

I'm back into using Skin Repair as well although I'm going to step up to the dry variety next time I buy this.

I still maintain that Blackadder was Rowan Atkinson's best work. x

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

I have 3 UU to report;

TBS Mint and Cucumber Earthlovers s/g - WNBA, as I bought it for the scent and the SLS free-ness but it smelt of banana! Couldn't get my head round it so will not be getting it again. Have replaced with Naked's Orange s/g but I find their scents a bit overpowering so we'll see how it goes. Might try Yves Rocher next.

I'm using the Fragrance Free version of this at the mo and it's not. It has a funny musty smell to it. Will persevere with it before I go away.