EcoTools 2017 Collection - Limited Edition Anniversary Set + Win Your Own

Ecotools is a brand of makeup brushes I have been aware of but until recently never really got to know until now and over the coming weeks I am going to be sharing with you some of the new launches for 2017.  Having been invited to the launch of the 2017 collection, I was pretty wowed by what was on offer and I am looking forward to sharing it with you. 

2017 marks 10 years of beauty with EcoTools makeup brushes and to celebrate there is a stunning Limited Edition Anniversary Brush Collection which not only contains six exclusive brushes, but it comes with a specially designed rose gold canister holder to keep your brushes organised, safe and protected.

The Limited Edition Collection brushes are everything you need to create a fresh, healthy-looking glow and within the set, you have the following:

Airbrushed Finishing - Duo Fibred bristles allow for a buildable flawless complexion with powder, cream and liquid foundations.

Controlled Setting - This tapered brush is perfect for the precise application of highlighting powders and creams to apples of cheeks and arch of brows.

Spoolie: Everyone needs one of these in their stash and this particular one is designed to comb unruly brows and lashes.

Angled Crease - This angled shadow brush helps to create definition and dimension across the eyelid crease.

Flat Eyeliner - This brush helps to create definition across the lash line with liquid or cream liners and shadows.

Eye/Lip Blur - This brush can be used to blend eye shadows and/or lip colours owing to its soft bristles.

Available in Superdrug here this set is really quite pretty and has everything you need but for one of you, I am giving you the chance to win a Limited Edition Anniversary Collection for yourself and to enter all you need to do is complete the widget below. As always there are some entries you must complete otherwise your entry will be null and void. You will need to be aged 16+ or have parental permission because I will need your home address and this competition is open worldwide - Good Luck.

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BEN NYE BANANA POWDER

One product I use to constantly use and rave about is the Ben Nye Banana powder and suddenly it became harder to pick up and well as it does, something else came along and until recently I had forgotten all about it. If you have never come across it before, Ben Nye Banana powder it holds is not any ordinary setting powder, it is one which holds cult status amongst the world of celebrities, including Kim Kardashian!

Now with a bit of a makeover, the Ben Nye Banana Powder has been relaunched, gone is the bottle which was quite awkward to use and very messy and in its place is the brand new luxury Dome Jar packaging which is not only much easier to use and work with, it creates less mess and is travel friendly. With so many different uses, this Ben Nye Banana Powder, which does have a slight hint of colour to it, banana, in fact, helps to absorb excess oil incredible well, it can help neutralise darkness, subtly colour corrects surface redness and pink undertones, as well as neutralises blue under eye circles and also helps to brighten the skin. 

Suitable for all skin tones, even mine which some describe as being almost see through, I switch between the type of brush I use for application. If I am using it as a setting powder then I use a big powder brush or powder puff to apply it evenly to my skin. If I am using it to set my concealer, which it does incredibly well, then I opt for a much smaller brush and it is brilliant and ensuring there is no caking or creasing of said concealer. Again, with a slight redness on both cheeks, I find this powder does help to neutralise it slightly, so if I decide I just want to wear a tinted moisturiser, I would use this on the top. 

Inside the power, the powder is really finally milled and on the skin it is really lightweight, more so than some of the setting powders I have used for a long time and it because it does so much more than any powder I have ever used it is just amazing and I am so glad to have it back in my stash.

Priced at just £13.50 this powder is such good value for money, you use so little of it every time you apply your make up that it lasts for a really good amount of time. If you have never tried this powder and it has always intrigued you, it is available from Precious about Makeup - HERE.

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Victor&Rolf Flowerbomb Bloom Perfume

If you are a fan of perfumes as much as I am, then each new release causes a little stir of excitement. Victor &Rolf Flowerbomb Bloom is a scent I have pretty worn for the last few weeks on a daily basis and it is just incredible. Flowerbomb Bloom is an updated of the iconic Flowerbomb scent which was released back in 2005 (feeling old right now) and it is every bit as beautiful perhaps even more so, than its older sister.

Arriving in a similar bottle to the original design, this one is a slightly more elgonated diamond shaped bottle but it is just as pretty and again the logo themed wax stamp is also present and for me, it does add a little extra to the packaging and then again to the bottle.

I love that this fragrance comes with a mantra and it is "to turn the impossible to the possible and celebrate going from winter into spring when flowers start to bloom".  There was no doubt that I would adore this perfume as I am already a fan of the original and anything with Jasmine as a note within a fragrance always gets the thumbs up.  Sitting firmly in the floriental category, Flowerbomb Bloom has top notes of pomegranate accord, Bergamot and Mandarin and as an opener to a perfume, this is really quite stunning because it is strong and fruity but soon settles as the heart notes of Rose, Jasmine, Freesia and Pure Air Molecule which is an intriguing note but as whole, they bring together the beautiful floral notes to the scent which then lead to the base notes of Musk, Vanilla and Patchouli which add a sort of powdery scent to what is an incredible scent which is just perfect for Spring.

On the skin, Flowerbomb Blooms last such an incredible amount of time and it is one of those scents which when applied in a morning you can still smell it in an evening. Available from £45 you can find this perfume in most stores such as Boots, House of Fraser, Debenhams and John Lewis to name a few, you need to try it.

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Elegant Touch Soak ‘Em Off!

If you look at my Instagram feed, then you will notice that I am a huge fan of nail polish and tend to favour darker shades over pastel and natural with shades such as Everymonth is Oktoberfest from OPI and Overly Onyx by CND being two of my favourites. I also tend to prefer Gel or Shellac right now, but will often swap and change what I am using. Once my nails are painted, there are two things I hate - chipped polish and having to take the polish off. So when the new Elegant Touch Soak ‘Em Off Acetone Remover Sachets £7.95 arrived, I was really looking forward to giving them a try because they sounded like everything I needed in one sachet.

The Elegant Touch Soak ‘Em Off Acetone Remover Sachets’s box contains 100 sachets in total and they claim to be able to remove nail polish, press-on gel nails, glitter polishes, gel polish and acrylics. Elegant Touch describe the sachets as being "innovative and groundbreaking with no-mess and no-stress, simply peel, wrap around the nail and leave on for 10 minutes before removing to reveal clean & healthy nails”. The one issue I had, is that had I not looked online for instructions, I would have had no clue how long to leave them on my nails. Within the box you just get the 100 sachets and are told to Buff, insert, wrap and remove, so quite simple but... buff with what? There is no buffer within the box, I tried to buff using the wipe but that just soaked off all the acetone. Thankfully I do have a buffer and figured out if I used that to break the polish to allow the acetone to sink it, it would help. So that is what I did.

Then removing the strips from the sachet is the easiest part of this task. Inside the sachets is a rectangular piece of cotton-like material which is coated, not too heavily, in a peach scented acetone based polish remover, which smells quite nice. Wrapping the strip around the finger is fine, but then it is findly getting it into the sachet without misplacing the strip, once it is in the sachet, you need to somehow ensure it doesn't fall off, so I used some popbands to secure one in place before attempting to do other fingers. Some advice, only do a few fingers at a time, otherwise it gets harder and harder to complete the task in hand and all of a sudden you feel like Edward Scissorhands. The other issue is that the box doesn't tell you how long to leave the sachets in place, thankfully online it says for at least 10 minutes, so whilst I had one hand wrapped, I went on instagram, liked a whole load of posts and then began the removal process.

Anyone who has removed gel or shellac nails in the past will know you need a further tool to essentially scrap the shriveled polish from your nails, so again, thankfully I had my own to use because there wasnt one included, despite being pictured on the box. So the removal of the nail polish, which in my case was gel, wasn't too much of an effort, the strips themselves do need to be soaked in more acetone if I am honest, but they do an alright job, more so because I added my own polish remover to the strip and then used my own UV light to encourage the acetone to further break down the polish.

I was really hoping these sachets would be as innovative and groundbreaking as I was expecting them to be, but sadly, I think they need a little more work and then they could be absolutely amazing and a definite must have item for those of us who like our painted nails. 

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