Product Rave: Bioderma

Hey you gorgeous lollipops! 

 

Got a really quick post for you today about an amazing product. So from the blog title, you've probably guessed this post is about Bioderma. Now I've been hearing about Bioderma ever since I discovered the amazement that is Pixiwoo but seeing as I don't live in France and I didn't fancy paying ridiculous amounts for shipping, I waited to jump on the bandwagon...until now. 

Let me quickly paint you a little picture. For the past few years I've been cursed with bad skin. Now, it's not awful but it's not enjoyable either. So in November of last year I finally took myself to the doctors and nipped that problem straight in the bud before it took over my whole life. My skin cleared up thanks to a wonderous little liquid called Zineryt and I stopped resembling a domino (because domino's have spots, do you get it? HA) for a while. My skin cleared up so much that around April I just stopped using my precious Zineryt all together, this is when problems began to arise. Clearly I got too cocky and by June, just before my prom, I was attacked with an evil little plague of spots. Chaos ensued but crisis was averted after my doctor did a skin review and gave me my Zineryt back 3 days before prom. Thank goodness. I stuck with my Zineryt after this but at the end of July my bottle expired and as I was rather busy, I forgot to go and get another one. Low and behold, my spots came back and with a vengeance. My skin was awful, the worst it had been in about a year and it was also the day before I was due to go off to Leeds festival, meaning I didn't have time to get my prescription. It was atrocious and it got progressively worse over the weekend, much to my horror. I got home at about 5am on Monday morning and then preceded to sleep until  Tuesday night. By this time, my parents were packing up and getting ready to jet off on their jollies for a few days, so once again my prescription would have to wait.  Where were they going you may ask, well my lovelies they were popping off to France, the home of skin care extraordinaire's like Bioderma. As you can imagine I sent my mother strict instructions via text complete with a picture and everything, making sure Bioderma was purchased for her acne prone child. I eagerly awaited their return and on Sunday, I was presented with this...

TA-DAH!

I can honestly not say enough good things about Bioderma. After the first use I saw a difference in my skin, even though it's just meant to remove make-up. After 2 days the majority of my blemishes has cleared up and my skin in general just looks a lot brighter and healthier. Amazing. It is extremely gentle and literally feels like you're just putting water on your skin. It's super easy to use too, as it just needs to be poured onto a cotton pad and then wiped around the face. I am so excited to finally be able to experience this product and can not recommend it enough to you all. 

You can get Bioderma online from here  or here and from September it will be available in the new Harvey Nichols venture, BeautyMart which is coming to Harvey Nichols on the 7th of September. 

Thanks for reading guys, hope this has been helpful! 

Have any of you tried Bioderma? What are your thoughts? Is there any other 'wonder products' you think I need to try? Let me know in the comments below!

Speak soon hunny pies! 

Stay Classy X

Scouse bird musts...

Hello there lovelies!

So tonight I've be having a bit of me time in preparation for this weekend, one of my beautiful best pals is throwing a little shin dig and as I'm going to fake tan myself into oblivion tomorrow night I'd thought I'd prepare body for battle tonight. 

After a few hours of moisturising, exfoliating, shaving, cleansing,plucking, de-spotting and general primping, I realised how fabulous the products I've been using lately have been. So being the ever so giving person that I am, I thought I would share them with you all.... 

Firstly this... 

The Body Shops mango body butter  I absolutely adore this product. It's so moisturizing and leaves my skin feel like the wings of a baby angel (aka soft). I've had this one since mid February and just coming to end of the tub now, before that I had the Ginger one and it was equally as amazing. The whole range smells amazing and all act as an essential step in any fake tan junkie's routine. They cost £12.50 for 200ml which I think's pretty reasonable considering how bloody brilliant it is. 


Secondly...

Lush Toothy Tabs in Sparkle are possibly the coolest things I've ever found when it comes to teeth cleaning things. They're like little tablets, that foam when in your mouth and act as a mixture of a tooth paste and teeth whitener. They're completely natural and eco-friendly which is a plus, but most importantly they really do work. I use these in the days leading up to a party and can always tell the difference in my teeth on pictures and such. They're £2.50 for 40 tablets and pretty damn awesome.

Thirdly...

These three little bad boys are my go to products to get my face looking presentable so I don't scare other party goers. I start with the St Ives apricot scrub to de-flake all the grossness that my have stuck itself onto my poor little face and to give me a nice base for applying necessary fake tanning products. Then I hack away at my brows using the Tweezerman slant tweezers  which are by far the sharpest and most accurate tool I have ever used to rip things from my face. They're pretty pricey costing around £20 but they last forever and Tweezerman even offer a free re-sharpening service if your tweezers aren't as knife-like as they should be. And finally after all other skincare steps, I wipe around my face with one of these Clearasil rapid action pads to make sure no spots rear the unwanted heads  before said parties. They're a complete life saviour. I can always see the results in my skin and constantly go back to these when I can feel a spot coming on. 

And most importantly...

As a loyal scouser, the idea of leaving my house without a tan that could only come from a bottle, petrifies me to my very core. The last time someone saw my natural skin colour was when I accidentally over plucked my eyebrows and some pesky under-eyebrow skin appeared, which was practically translucent. St Moriz, to anyone who doesn't know is possibly one of the best things to come out of Liverpool since the Beatles. Now I know it wasn't invented in Liverpool, but after being championed by Scouse birds everywhere, we have practically kept good ole' St Moriz in business. It is the fake tan of all fake tans. Forget your St Tropez's or Fake Bake, oh no St Moriz wins this blorange battle hands down. You can only purchase this bad boy in Home and Bargain, how prestigious, meaning if you ever do come across it, you should most definitely stock up. Especially if you live in Liverpool like myself. There's nothing worse than having to trek into town on a Saturday afternoon and beating off some bird in rollers for the last bottle of 'dark' on the shelf...scary stuff. 

Ambre Solaire dry face mist is also rather brilliant for your face, and you can't beat Primark's fake tan mitt, critical if you want to avoid looking like you've brutally strangled an Oompa Lumpa with your bare hands. 

So that's it my lovelies, my holy grail products for preparing one's self for a truly sick weekend. 

Speak soon kittens! 

Stay classy!X