Ole Henriksen Introduces Touch

There has been some amazing launches from Ole Henriksen and the latest launch from Ole Henriksen is called Touch and quite simply put - Your body deserves the same attention as your face and that is so incredibly true. Touch is the brand new body care collection which is said to feature potent formulas that deliver visible, and touchable results. The two products I am sharing today is the Ole Henriksen Touch BeamCream Smoothing Body Moisturiser and the Ole Henriksen Firmly Yours Toning Dry Body Oil

Starting with BeamCream Smoothing Body Moisturiser, it is just wonderful. Admittedly, as a beauty blogger, I am absolutely useless at remembering to use a body moisturiser of any kind, but since this arrived I have used it more than I have used any other product for a while.

“This ultra-nourishing body cream plumps skin with hydration and exfoliates for silky soft arms and legs—or whatever part of your body needs smoothing and moisturizing! Packed with glycolic and lactic acids, caffeine and essential fatty acids, it visibly reduces discoloration (aka dark spots), fine lines and wrinkles, and strengthens your skin barrier"

Packaged inside a frosted coral plastic jar, with a white lid and the cream inside has a really light smooth whipped texture which just glides effortlessly onto the skin and absorbs leaving behind a wonderful light citrus scent .

As the description states, this cream is packed full of amazing ingredients and they include the likes of:

• AHAs (glycolic and lactic acids) & fruit enzymes - These chemical exfoliants help loosen and lift dead skin cells to reveal smoother, more even skin texture. It also helps reduce the appearance of dark spots, fine lines and wrinkles.
• Caffeine - Helps energize & invigorate skin. 
• EFAs (essential fatty acids), rich butters and oils which act as building blocks for healthy-looking skin; help nourish & condition.​

The first thing I noticed when I started using this cream is just how silky smooth my skin was left feeling, especially my arms and shins, which are usually my driest areas in need of hydration.  ​Priced at £32, here, you can find this cream at Boots.

The second product within the Touch range is The Ole Henriksen Firmly Yours Toning Dry Body Oil and it is described as being a quick-absorbing dry body oil that improves firmness by 53%, boosts elasticity, hydrates and improves the look of fine lines and wrinkles.

For use on all skin types, the Toning Dry Body Oil is packaged in a recyclable coral glass bottle and it has a pull off lid which allows you to freely pour the oil into your hands to apply to your body.

“This ultra-hydrating, lightweight dry body oil locks in essential moisture to reveal supple, bouncy skin ALL OVER your body. Packed with nourishing Scandinavian botanical oils, peptides and sweet white lupin, it renews and revives dry, dull, stressed skin for a healthy-looking, luminous glow.“

Once again, packed with incredible ingredients, you will find the inclusion of:

• Peptides - These are chains of amino acids that are bonded together in unique ways to help build strength & condition skin.
• Elderberry, blackcurrant & cloudberry oil - Native to Scandinavia these oils help hydrate, strengthen & bring back bounce.
• Sweet white lupin - helps to support skin’s elasticity.
• Black currant extract & vitamin E - work to infuse skin with antioxidants & help condition.

Quick absorbing without being greasy, this dry oil is said to be best used after the application of BeamCream and as soon as it applies, it sinks into the skin with no trace left behind and it has a really delightful light citrus scent, similar to the body cream and it is my favourite product of the two.  Priced at £36 for 100ml, this oil is also available at Boots.

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LOOKFANTASTIC X Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Edit Reveal

The latest Lookfantastic collaboration box has launched and this time it is the LOOKFANTASTIC X Bobbi Brown Smokey Eye Edit.

This Limited Edition Box is worth over £100 and inside the rather fabulously designed Golden Bronze shade box, you will find five products.

Bobbi Brown is back with the next installment of their trendsetting line up of makeup favourites... This time we're going full Smokey Eye. We're sure you're going to love this box as much as we do, as we've curated five luxurious products to ensure your Smokey Eye is always on point!

Yesterday I shared an Aldi Bobbi Brown dupe on my blog and it is quite timely that this box appears!

What's in the box?

• Long Wear Cream Shadow Stick in Golden Bronze 1.6g - worth £25
• Long Wear Cream Shadow Stick in Bark 1.6g - worth £25
• Smokey Eyeliner Brush – worth £26.50.
• Soothing Cleansing Oil 30ml - £11
• MINI Smokey Eye Mascara 3ml – worth £13

Once again, this Limited Edition Box is worth over £100, but it is on sale now for just £50, or if you are a subscriber to the monthly Lookfantastic beauty box, then it costs just £45 – just make sure to check your emails for your subscriber code.  If you still want to save £5 off this box, you can subscribe to the monthly beauty box subscription and use the code LFBBM5.

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Aldi Lacura Vitabase Moisturising Primer - Bobbi Brown Dupe?

Fans of Bobbi Brown’s popular Face Base primer might have to look twice with a new release from the Aldi Lacura range! Meet Vitabase Moisturising Primer which, at a first glance you can see exactly where its inspiration has come from and why it has been quite the TikTok phenomenon!

The Vitabase Moisturising Primer from Aldi Lacura retails at just £5.99 but the Bobbi Brown Vitamin Enriched Face Base will cost around £46.50, so already that is quite the saving, if indeed Aldi does prove to be a dupe! Let's see.

Firstly is the packaging, both have an outer white box which describes the product inside and then both have a glass pot, again detailing what the product is.  At a first glance, they are similar but not identical, personally I think the Aldi Lacura bottle is far sturdier of the two.  

For products that are described as dupes, texture and ingredients for me are what makes a product. Starting with the texture, from Lacura we have a texture which feels very much like a moisturising cream and it is slightly thicker than Bobbi Brown's version, but only just and admittedly, I am a fan of both textures. On the skin, from Aldi Lacura, Vitabase glides onto the skin effortlessly and isn't greasy or tacky and it has that fresh light zesty scent to it.  So we still tick those boxes for being similar but not identical.

When it comes to ingredients from Aldi you have Vitamins B, C and E alongside Shea Butter, Sodium Hyaluronate and Geranium Oil and from Bobbi Brown you won't be too surprised to find the ingredients are the same as those I have listed from Aldi Lacura, only Bobbi Browns trumps the grapefruit scent as being energising and within Vitabase it is pink grapefruit.  This has been one of the closest dupes I have come across and yes, I am using that D word that I don't use too often.  Used in exactly the same way as Bobbi Brown, it is faultless for me.

If being on a budget is where you find yourself, then the Aldi Lacura Vitabase Moisturising Primer is one to find and buy in bulk.  There is absolutely nothing I dislike about the product, it performs just as well as my Bobbi Brown version and at a saving of £40, worth every single penny!

The Aldi Lacura range of beauty and makeup products is not one to ignore, from their Pro Collagen range to the fragrance range it is always worth keeping an eye on what is coming next.  On my blog, I have quite a few newly launched products to share over the coming weeks.

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Glossybox x Flat Lay Co Limited Edition Beauty Box

I have been intrigued by the collaboration between Glossybox and Flat Lay Co ever since I saw it pop up on my Instagram feed and here is everything you need to know.  In recent months, Glossybox has released some really good boxes - Bring on the Heat, Grooming Kit for Father's Day and of course the much loved Generation Glossybox.

If you didn't know, The Flat Lay Co. specialise in makeup bags, which, as the name might suggest, can be flattened, opening out giving you the chance to see all of the products in your makeup bag much more easily and they come in some really incredible designs - like this one with Glossybox.

“Worth over £125, our Flat Lay Co. GLOSSYBOX Limited Edition is almost here! Featuring six full size and six deluxe mini products carefully picked to enhance your summer experience. All housed in our first ever collaboration bag with Flay Lay Co., worth £19.99, where you can expect to find cosmetics, skin and haircare as well as a gorgeous fragrance!“

So with its incredible value for money, I am really impressed to find that there is a total of 12 products within this collaboration and with a great mixture of brands, here is what you will find.

Contents

• Lancaster SPF30 Sun Beauty Body Milk Deluxe mini 15ml worth £2.40
• Hawaiian Tropic Golden Paradise Shimmer Mist Deluxe mini 100ml worth £6
• Frank Body Caffeine Hair Mask worth £12.95
• Pro White Teeth Kits Teeth Whitening Pen worth £15
• Forest Essentials Exfoliating Body Polish Sandalwood and Turmeric Deluxe mini 100g worth £16
• Bondi Sands Coconut SPF 50 Lip Balm worth £4.99
• Mancurist Nail Colour Terracotta worth £14
• Laura Mercier Pure Canvas Primer Hydrating Deluxe mini 10ml worth £6.40
• Glamglow Brightmud Exfoliating Mask Deluxe mini 7g worth £4.85
• ICONIC London Triple Threat Mascara worth £20
• Revolution Beauty Hydrate Bomb Gloss Hydr8 worth £6
• Elie Saab Gril of Now Lovely Deluxe mini 1.5ml worth £1.50

Plus of course you will also get the Flat Lay Co Makeup Bag which is worth £19.99

This summer themed beauty box will be available from 9am on Thursday 30th June at for those people are subscribers to the monthly Glossybox and then, as in tradition, if there us any stock left, the box then go on general sale tp non-subscribers from noon. The box, which is worth £125 will be on sale for just £30 to those Glossybox subscribers and £40 to everyone else.

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