Welcome to The Libbie Club

Today I want to tell you all about a brand new beauty box called The Libbie Club. Latest in Beauty (LIB) have recently launched The Libbie Club – described as being a community of influential beauty fans who are rewarded for reviewing, sharing and referring beauty products.

So, every month members of The Libbie Club are sent a free of charge box of full sized beauty products to try out, you then write your honest reviews about each product on their site and if anyone makes a purchase via any of your recommendations, you will then be sent another box the next month to review again. However, with each product comes an offer, more of which you can read about below with what was in my box.

I was kindly sent the June box which had some amazing products:

Vintage Cosmetic Company Essential Face Brush Set (£33)

I am a big fan of Vintage Cosmetic Company, I love the whole vintage theme to the packaging and love how the products are packaged.  This set of three face brushes consists of a Powder Brush, Blusher Brush and a Foundation Brush.

Each brush was really soft natural bristles and is lightweight when holding.  My favourite brush of the three is the powder brush which I use for both fluid and powder foundation as well as for my setting powder because I love the finish it gives.

Philip Kingsley Elasticizer 75ml (£16)

This product was said to have been originally created by Philip Kingsley specifically for Audrey Hepburn, who wanted a super-moisturising treatment that would repair her hair and keep it in great condition throughout the frequent colouring and styling done to her hair on movie sets. So if that isn't a reason to give it a try, then I don't know what is. 

As a pre-shampoo intensive moisturising treatment I love how soft and smooth this makes me hair feel and it is  product I use on occasions when I feel my hair needs a little treat and some TLC.

Vita Liberata pHenomenal 2-3 Week Tan: Medium 125ml (£41)

I am on the fence with this product.  Whilst the tan in my box was medium making it too dark for my own super pale skin, I have tried the fair tan in the past and liked it, but didn't love it.  It does claim to be easy to apply, which it is and naturally you do need to use a tanning mitt.  The whole process in fact was incredibly stress free and easy, I just wasn't a fan of the after colour. 

So, I gave this product to a friend of mine who has incredibly lovely olive toned skin and it suits her perfectly and she loves it.

What do you think to the Libbie Club?  Are you a member?

Brand Focus - Deciem

For those of you who haven't heard of DECIEM , they are a boutique and exciting umbrella of many amazing beauty brands. Products such as Fountain, Grow Gorgeous, Hand Chemistry and Inhibitif to name just a few. For me Deciem was the first brand to give me a big break in the blogging world with Inhibitif, a product that I am still using today and it is just as good now as it was to begin with and a post which is my most popular with almost 100,000 hits.

It wasn't until I started using some of these products that I truly understood what ingredients such as Hyaluronic Acid did because it is quite complex to explain.  What Deciem have done, is take the science and make it easier to understand, not just what it is, but what it is designed to do and in doing so they have created some amazing products which I couldn't be without.

I am yet to try a product from Deciem and not love it straight away and I thought a post showing some of those products that I love, which you might not have heard of or ever come across would be a good introduction to the brand.  There are full reviews coming on each of them, so this is just a brief insight.

Hylamide is the newest product by Deciem that I have been using. Described as being "Clinically-advanced serum for multi-depth rehydration, visible plumping and texture regularity". Give me a product with a pipette and I am going to be excited by it.  As a serum, this product aims to work on:

• Surface hydration
• Below surface hydration
• Fine lines
• Wrinkles
• Dynamic lines
• Sagginess
• Textural irregularities

The idea is that you apply it both morning and evening and you should begin to notice changes within 10 days!

Grow Gorgeous is all about the health of your hair and the three products I have been using are - Back to the Roots, Cleansing Conditioner and Overnight to Gorgeous Hair Masque.

• Cleansing Conditioner - It is free of sulphate and parabens and is designed to replace the need for separate shampoo and conditioner to leave hair looking clean, healthy, thick and lustrous. It works to rebalance the scalp and restore hair to flourish and realise its full visible potential
• Back to the Roots - This is a 10 minute scalp masque with vitamins, caffeine and low-molecular-weight hyaluronic acid. I absolutely love how cooling it is once applied and it is a great pick me up for hair when it just feels yucky and in need of a treat.
• Overnight Masque - To be applied whilst you sleep, a combination of high- and low-molecular weight forms of hyaluronic acid, purified mushroom and Amazonian açaí and palm oils work hard to visibly hydrate, strengthen and smooth your hair . Now this masque I adore and use at least once a month.

Hand Chemistry - One of my all time favourite handcreams, Hand Chemisty is made by Deciem and you can read about it right here. Within the Hand Chemistry range is a whole host of products which are designed for the hands, body and feet.

• Heel Chemistry - Not just for feet but also hands, specifically those which are dry and cracked. It is designed to repair the skin rather than remove/make it peel by hydrating the cracked skin whilst rebalancing below-surface hydration.
• Hyaluronic Concentrate - Just the world Hyaluronic and I get excited. My skin loves it in all forms. This product is again for the hands and body. I use this straight after being in the shower or bath and it absorbs into the skin incredibly quickly leaving behind incredibly moisturised skin which is soft to the touch.
• Hyaluronic Body Mist - I absolutely love this and it is my second bottle. It is a light refreshing mist which is actually a non-aerosol, yep mind blown! The mist is really really fine and as soon as it settles on the skin, it disappears and leaves my skin feeling really hydrated.  

Each of these products has a full review coming up on my blog over the next few weeks, so look out for them.  In the meantime, you can find all of these products in Boots and read more about them HERE.

Have you tried any of these products?

Kiss Air Candles - The Ice Cream Parlour collection

When someone says candles and Ice Cream, the two probably shouldn't go together right? Wrong!  They very much do. Today Kiss-Air Candles have launched their new Ice Cream Parlour Summer collection and within the range, there are going to be five new candles, all of which have been inspired by popular ice cream flavours and all sound good enough to eat.

The Ice Cream Parlour collection will include scents such as Mint Choc Chip, Salted Caramel, Mango Sorbet, Rum and Raisin and Black Cherry scented candles.  I was kindly sent Mint Choc Chip and Mango Sorbet and all I can say is that I wanted to eat them not burn them as soon as I lifted the lid to see how good they smelt and whether or not they did remind me of ice-cream - they did!

Mint Choc Chip** is the first one I lit and it smells very much like a Mint Choc Feast Ice-cream to me, the kind I always want on a hot summer day because it cures my craving for chocolate whilst being cooling at the same time.  

This candle is spot on with an equal mix of being peppermint and bitter chocolate, both scents you can detect separately and together and it smells so good, seriously amazing and it is neither over the top sickly sweet or pungently minty, for me the mix is just perfect. Combining notes of peppermint with a twist of bitter chocolate chips, this is a massive thumbs up from me.

Mango Sorbet** is made up of a refreshing blend of exotic ripe mango, lemon and raspberries all rolled into one to create what can only be described as heavenly.  The kind of scent you want to burn on a hot spring/summer day and one that reminds me of a Calippo ice-lolly that I love to eat to keep refreshed and hydrated during the summer. One alight, the scent, which is not at all overly sweet or sickly, quickly fills the room and lingers really nicely. 

For me Mango Sorbet is a scent that everyone can love, male or female and when it is alight, it smells exactly as you expect it to.

The candles I have pictured above are the large tins which have an RRP £8.50 and have a burn for up to 30 hours. As always, candles do come with warnings, one of them being ensure you don't leave them burning unattended and take extra care when handling the metal tins because they get really hot. I would also advise placing all candles on a heat proof mat when burning the candle.

If you like the look and sound of Kiss-Air's Ice Cream Parlour Collection, look out for them as they launched today and prices of the products differ depending on their size.  

What do you think to this collection?  Do any of the scents catch your attention?

Makeup Revolution Ultra Face Base Primer

The Makeup Revolution Ultra Face Base Primer is a product I picked up on a whim having forgotten to take primer with me to work, I ha toyed with just repurchasing one of my regular primers, but decided to give this a try. 

I am a huge fan of using a primer and tend to use Max Factor Facefinity or POREfessional by Benefit, my two favourites. I use them because I love the smooth base they create when it comes to applying make up especially liquid foundation. As someone with combination skin, I hate it when a product clings to the tiniest flake of dry skin, a primer solves this problem for me, plus they can reduce the appearance of pores and my make up lasts much longer.

The Face Base Primer which cost just £5 is a really lightweight but fairly thick transparent gel, similar in texture to Baby Face my Maybelliene with that silicon like feel. On the skin it blends in really easily and smooths incredibly well so that you cannot see or tell that there is any product on the skin whatsoever, it is as though it disappears and behind it leaves soft, smooth skin.  I tend to use my fingers to apply my primer and with this it is a case of a little goes a long way.  One applied the effects for me on the skin are really similar to POREfessional especially if I have give it time to settle on my skin it works so much better, the only difference is that POREfessional isn't clear.

I tend to swap and change my foundation depending on my mood, so I either use my Boots No.7 Stay Perfect Foundation or MAC C1 currently and Face Base works well with both of them.  I also sometimes just opt for powder foundation over a BB Cream or tinted moisturiser and again, Face Base worked really well and ensuring my coverage was not only even, but there was no clinging to my dry skin on either cheek and my make up lasted for the entire working day, which is a lot more than I had expected and hoped for, when you consider it costs just £5 for 25ml.

The tube itself is a pink pearlesque shade which is really quite plain but also very pretty at the same time.  The twist off lid is also easy to remove and replace and the part I like the most is the long nozzle which dispenses the primer because one quick squeeze gives enough to cover your entire face.

If like me you have combination skin with an oily t-zone with a slight dryness of the cheeks, this primer is very much worth trialing, not only is it a cheaper alternative for other primers, but it is amazing value for money and is one of those products you shouldn't dismiss just because of the £5 price tag!  It does make a great primer, it doesn't cling to imperfections, it does reduce the look of your pores and it does allow my make up to last 8-9 hours without the need to re-apply.  For me this was a great find and one I have since repurchased.

Have you tried this Primer from Makeup Revolution?

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