No Buying Unnecessary Toiletries July 2016

kadison

Evening!

Three UUs from me....

Avon Naturals Golden Apricot & Shea 2-in-1 250ml - WDBA, does the job of the Aussie at half the price.
Avon Planet Spa Amazonian Treasures Body Oil 150ml - WBA but they no longer make it
L'Occitane Neroli & Orchidee EDT 75ml - WNBA, I grew tired of this very quickly and used it up as air freshener in the bathroom!

VALM

SuiDreams wrote: »

Sorry need to ask a daft question.


Does anyone else have any issues with OPI Top Coat. It works fine, then get down to last 3rd of the bottle and it seems to go cloudy and gloopy. Is it just me or do other have the same issue?

The only top coat that I have been able to use to the bottom is Essie To Dry For which is discontinued. To ALL too coats I have had to add nail polish thinner however the Essie one had the right combination of thinned top coat and long brush to enable me to get every drop out.

VALM

A UU, TA and some Ins

UU : Florence Anne Blackcurrant and Fig handcream. WNBA. The texture is drying.

TA on same theme as last post. Have TA bottle of OPI Nail Envy. Do like this product and will forage around house for more.

INs
L'Occitane order : 2 X Eco refill liquid soap. One gone straight into bathroom. Plus full size Shea butter handcream. Will replace that UUed above. Aside from this I have 2 X 10ml of the Shea one which I'll save for travel purposes. Yay me, graduated in handcream.

2 X cans of Batiste. On offer in Sainsburys at the mo. The can in the bathroom is on its last legs. For every three pumps I'm getting one of product and 2 of air!

dolly84

A bit more stash movement from me:

UU - Garnier 7 day Intensive Body Lotion Cocoa Butter 250ml - WBA, this is HG for me, gorgeous stuff, I already have 2 bottles in different scents in the stash.

St Tropez Instant Glow Body Lotion 50ml - this came in a beauty box and I love it which says a lot as I hate fake tanning, this goes on easily with a mit, dries quick and stays all day then washes off at night. I have another the same size in the stash but would buy more next year.

TA - Elemis Melting Cleansing Gel 150ml- I have had this a long while and I think it was responsible for a very unpleasant break out. WNBA - this was a GWP but I do still feel bad chucking it out.

TA - Soap & Glory One Heck of a Blot Foundation - THIS IS HANDS DOWN THE WORST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER USED FROM ANY BRAND AND OF ANY TYPE.

VALM

VALM wrote: »

2 X cans of Batiste. On offer in Sainsburys at the mo. The can in the bathroom is on its last legs. For every three pumps I'm getting one of product and 2 of air!

And it's gone. Only two squirts left in it so it's been replaced by one of those I got yesterday.

Another UU and I'm a bit surprised by is a Sephora lip gloss in colour Peony. I got this as part of a Sephora kit on holiday. Was not great and I would not repurchase singularly. Had a very strong smell to it and dried my lips out whenever I wore it. Was surprised though this morning when I swiped my lips once, dipped back in and got no more product on the doe foot applicator (get me, speaking the YT lingo!!).

fixx

dolly84 wrote: »

TA - Soap & Glory One Heck of a Blot Foundation - THIS IS HANDS DOWN THE WORST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER USED FROM ANY BRAND AND OF ANY TYPE.

Sorry, I laughed a bit when I saw this, just because of how you wrote it - what was wrong with it?

Smiley87

Unexpected UU this month - Valentina perfume sample - Don't think this perfume is for me at all so just been wearing it at work.

mcculloch29

dolly84 wrote: »

TA - Soap & Glory One Heck of a Blot Foundation - THIS IS HANDS DOWN THE WORST PRODUCT I HAVE EVER USED FROM ANY BRAND AND OF ANY TYPE.

I laughed as well. Was calling it "One Heck of a Blot" dropping a hint that it might be carp?
On a similar but toiletries unrelated theme, I was sent a herbal tea to review called Clenzo. The online info assured me it wasn't laxative.
(The packet of teabags was silent on this point).
Why, I wondered, had they called it Clenzo, then?
Well I found out.
TG for new downstairs toilet facilities.
Sellers assured me nobody else had had that reaction.
Yeah, right.

I have an eye-cream spluttering, very quickly. It's in a tube and no matter now carefully you squeeze it, it delivers quite a largish blob of gel-cream. Bit cynical of the manufacturers, that; to make the tube deliver large amounts of product so that the user gets through it in no time.

I do have one other eye-cream half-used, that seems to be lasting forever, for the opposite reason (delivers a rice-grain sized blob each time, just right).

dolly84

fixx/AND- everything was wrong with that foundation, it had the texture and drying time of thin clay so it wouldn't blend at all, it formed a white dot in each and every pore (supposed to blur them) and I don't have enlarged pores, it settled into dry patches even though I don't have dry skin and when I tried to blend it some more it came totally off my skin in patches and after a few hours it had separated and looked totally horrific and I really, really mean HORRIFIC. I tried applying it with fingers, a beauty sponge, my normal brush and a synthetic foundation brush, no result was good.

dolly84

AND - oh dear about the tea.

I have purged another makeup item

Body Shop Smoky Copper Quad - I have kept the two brushes as they are very good but the quad is a gonner. I have used it today and don't suit the colours. I have another one in Smoky Moonstone which I do suit (cool tones) overall the quad is good just not on me.