I must admit, I’ve never had a good impression of The Body Shop lipsticks. I tried a number of them out many years ago; they were waxy, taste awful and worst of all, they were always drying on the lips. I stopped bothering to check them out and for years, I hardly paid any attention to them.

That was until a couple of months ago. I attended an event by The Body Shop and in the goodie bag were a couple of the Colour Crush lipsticks. I have absolutely no idea when The Body Shop launched the Colour Crush lippies. It could be recently, it could be years ago … this was how long I’ve stopping caring. To be honest, I wasn’t excited enough to rip the plastic cover and try it out immediately. In fact, I left it to about a couple of weeks ago when I thought, oh what the hell, what have I got to lose?

Turns out, I lost all that time that I could have been trying more Colour Crushes out because blimey, they are good. The one I particularly enjoyed was the Coral Cutie (#105), which is what you’re seeing on my lips today. The colour payoff is simply marvellous and is more than comparable to high-end lipsticks from, say, Tom Ford. Kid you not.

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Last month, Cara from Cara Mia emailed me asking if I’d like to try out any of her body care products. She sent me a link to her Etsy store and whaddyaknow, she made them! I love supporting small businesses especially when they’re handmade items so I had to say yes. I picked out a body scrub and kept my fingers crossed that it’s going to be good.

Straight up, the body scrub smells pretty bloody amazing. It was a gamble deciding on which body scrub to choose when I only had a description of scents to choose from. I haven’t tried the rest of the scents but I hit the jackpot with the Bonsai. It’s just the sort of fragrance that is up my alley. It’s fruity with a hint of citrus. Love!

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I have a weakness for travel makeup brushes. I don’t actually travel all that much but when I lay eyes on a set of small brushes, my immediate thought would be “oooh that’d be great for travelling!“. Most of the time, I forget that the next time I’ll be travelling is probably in a year’s time but hey, the heart wants what the heart wants, right?

I have a trusty set of makeup brushes by Royal & Langnickel that I use faithfully when I’m away from home. They’re a full set that ranges from the face, eyes to the lips and comes in a light case that I love. The thing is, I don’t really need to lug all of those brushes with me because when I’m travelling, the last thing I want to fiddle with is eye makeup. I like to keep it simple so more often than not, a couple of eye brushes would suffice.

So when Ihana asked if I’d like to check out their travel makeup brush set, I thought, why not? I don’t need that many makeup brushes with me when I’m away; just a couple of face brushes and 2 eye makeup brushes would be enough. Lo and behold, that’s what the Pro Travel Makeup Brushes were about. The one I have is the Anchors Ahoy! in the Denim series.

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