No Buying Unneccesary Toiletries April 2016

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I hope you're feeling better Gemzie121 and enjoying your week off!
Few UUs:
17. Flamingo Candles Fresh Cotton Scent Melt. WDNBA. I'm really going off these scent melts in general. After a few hours, maybe 6 or so, they just start smelling a bit synthetic and unpleasant. I've tried breaking them up and using a bit at a time but it doesn't help, it just starts to smell off sooner. I think I will try and sell what I have left as there's another brand I would like to try. Has anyone used Candle Belle? I've read some good blog reviews.
18. Lush Yoga Bomb Bath Bomb. WBA. Not my favourite but pretty and a nice woody smell, which made a change as I use a lot of floral.
19. Primark Sweet Pea and Lavender candle. WDBA. Have one more left and I will buy more if I see them as Primark candles change regularly. Replacing with a White Amber, also Primark.
And one IN:
18. Dirty Works Buttery Salt Scrub. Fell in my trolley when in Sainsbobs. Smells lovely!

I went shopping in town before the supermarket today. I came out of Superdrug with just a bottle of pop and I didn't even set foot in Lush! Personal growth, that is, haha! I have got to do a Superdrug order though as they didn't have the hairbrush I wanted in store.


ETA: I brought my UU-and-sales-money pot up to date and swapped the change for some notes. It's looking like I'll really be able to treat myself in the January sales!

dolly84

Gemzie - hope you feel better soon.

Maisie_M

Sorry been MIA but have been catching up on my housework etc as I am off for a couple of weeks.

A few use ups for this month so far and hopefully a few more later in the month as well.
From my April PP list the use ups are;
[STRIKE]
1. No7 Stay Perfect Eye Shadow - wheatsheaf[/STRIKE]
2. No7 Smoothing and Brightening Eye Base
3. No7 Super Slim Anti-Cellulite Contouring Balm
[STRIKE]4. Nice N Easy Natural Warm Auburn[/STRIKE]
[STRIKE]5. No7 Refine and Rewind Serum (Sample size)[/STRIKE]
6. No7 Protect and perfect serum (Sample Size)
[STRIKE]7. No7 Advanced Hydration Day Cream[/STRIKE]

Not bad four out of 7 so far. I have also used up my last Sure deoderant and my original source strawberry and pink peppercorn shower gel. The shower gel I would buy again as I liked the scent and it lathers up really nicely. However after 20 years plus of using Sure I have defected. I really just do not like it now since they moved to the stupid little cans I feel that the deodorants are not as effective as they were. So I am trying Dove now as I had seen good write ups on here and so far I have been pleasantly surprised by both it's effectiveness and it's scent.

Gemzie121

Just had a bath and UU a few little bits, also threw in a couple of mini bath cubes and some bath sprinkles but won't count those as UU until the whole
Packaging is binned (as in all are gone).

UU:

Ora naturals tranquil bath oil 9.5ml- WBA in a bigger size if it's possible. Loved the smell of this, just what I needed as still full of a cold. The scent reminds me of something I used when I was younger, maybe a boots aromatherapy product? Don't know. Either way I liked this. I like that bath oils do soften the skin well.

Orange bath creme 60ml- WMBA added this to make bubbles and it did complement the bath oil well but the scent didn't stand out much in the water. This was in a gift pack originally not sure where it was from. It made enough bubbles but I do prefer a lot more (I like a thick layer of bubbles personally).

Boots orange dissolving bath fizzer- WMBA this was fine, made the water orange but I didn't really get any scent from it, in or out of the water, but then it's quite old anyway. Took a while to dissolve. Can't remember where I got this, possibly a boots fresh gift set.

M&S fruity beauty lemon bath caviar sachet - WMBA nice enough as a little extra to add to the bath, I like mixing and matching with different sprinkles/fizzer/salts/caviar as makes things more interesting and they are a nice novelty. I didn't get much scent from this and it took a while to dissolve but still a nice little extra to add.

Also threw in some Epsom salts, but will be an out when the whole bag is gone.

Not really having the best birthday, I still feel horrendous and have been asleep all day, only really ventured out of my room this evening for tea (which my throat is sore and I can't breathe very well so I didn't enjoy it) and then a bath. Not opened anything as just don't feel much like it. :-/ bath has been about the highlight of the day lol.

Eta. Just found the full size of the bath oil on eBay for £9 so bought it as its retailing at £33 elsewhere :eek: still expensive, but I love the smell, and it's lovely to use when you are ill (and I seem to be a lot at the moment).

seasideDreamer

So I seem to have lost my Burt Bees somewhere between work and home this lunchtime:( I have lots more but gutted as its not cheap and I love it:mad::mad:
UU a Timotei Vivid Colour Conditioner but brought a replacement and a shampoo as I only had the ones in use.

savingfortomorrow

When to aldi to get eggs and what not left with lacura grape therapy day cream and body lotion; at least they were reduced.

I am using or avoiding using to be precise the lancome face cream as it is fragranced. it does the job so I need to just ignore the fragrance.

One shampoo out and one in. completely balanced.

I have spent a fortune on cosmetics recently and to what benefit. There are few things going down this month.

dolly84

dolly84 wrote: »

Thanks for the new thread Gemzie. I'm in for April.

My 7 for Summer is:

Finish 7 by Summer
1. [STRIKE]Bobbi Brown Chocolate Eyeliner[/STRIKE]
2. Lancome Hypnose Drama Mascara
3. Bourjois Healthy Mix Concealer
4. Revlon Lip Butter - Pink Truffle
5. Clinique Lip Gloss in Kissy Fit
6. Max Factor Cream Blush in Soft Pink
7. Soap & Glory It's about prime


My PP list for April:


1. Vaseline Hand Cream
2. Body Shop Vanilla Brulee Bath Jelly
3. [STRIKE]Body Shop Ginger Sparkle Body Butter[/STRIKE]
4. Body Shop Ginger Sparkle Shower Gel
5. Elemis Apricot Toner
6. Ole Henriksen Youth Activating Oil
7. Liz Earle Cleanse & Polish
8. [STRIKE]Lush R&B[/STRIKE]
9. Elemis Frangipani Oil (think I've got the name wrong but it is the solid stuff that you have to melt)
10. Philosophy The Snowman Shower Gel/Bubble Bath

My updated lists. The Finish 7 by Summer is slow going, makeup just goes on and on.

VALM

Another UU:-

No 7 Essentially Natural foundation. WNBA. Just doesn't have the staying power I want. I do however feel like I have caked it on this morning to finish it off. I am going out straight after work though so will see if it holds up. Have brought my Balance N Brighten with me to top up if needs be. Next, I'll be trying the Rimmel one which contains a serum.

Has anyone tried Elemis Illuminating Eye Balm. I opened this last night to replace the Vichy one and it has the consistency and colour of a concealer. Read a few reviews on QVC which were not favourable. I however have two of these, a full size that came in the kit MrM bought me for Xmas and a GWP size that I've opened. If I don't get on with it I'll ebay the full sized I think.

Repainted my nails last night and used OPI Don't Melbourne the Toast. This is a really old polish and when I tried to use it at weekend it was really gloopy. I put quite a bit of nail polish thinner in it but when I opened it last night it smelt really bad (like it had the old nasties in it). After wearing it today I think I'll throw it away.

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On more UU/TA this morning:

Lush Layer Cake Soap: This wouldn't lather and had little to no fragrance in it - very disappointed and WNBA.

gemmajenkins0208

Miscalculated my travel expense to work yesterday and had change so ended up buying a small clear plastic box of hair grips and one of those Moroccan oil hair masks in work. I bleached my hair this time last year and the damage it has left is phenomenal. I died black over it about a month later when I got this job. It has grown a lot, and the bleached part is quite a way down my lengths now, but I'm one of those people who gives up easily so when I realised it was damaged I stopped looking after my hair properly(only washing and brushing as needed) and it most probably has effected all of my hair.

I trim my ends myself, so I will use a mixture of trimming and this colour stripper shampoo on the ends(which is on my list of things to use up, also I do use another shampoo on the roots) and when I am satisfied that the dyed hair has fully grown out I will then make a pamper evening for myself to use up the hair mask, a lush bath bomb and a face mask