Waking my skin up for Spring

 

Hello!   Spring has definitely sprung and with warmer weather I think it's nice to be able to wear lighter or even no makeup. With that in mind I wanted to give my skin a bit of a boost to perk it up after the winter months. I've found two products that I think have really helped.  

The Clarins gentle exfoliater brightening toner has been raved about my bloggers for ages! I've never actually tried any facial acids before but Carline Hirons raves about them and I just take any skin care advice she gives as gospel. It's honestly amazing. Initially I was using this morning and evening but have been told that's too much so now I just use it in the morning after cleansing. My skin feels really smooth and awake after using this and I find that my makeup goes on really well afterwards. I've not been using any faial srubs since using this as I don't feel that I need to.  

  The Body Shope Vitamin C facial radiance capsules are great. They are designed to give your skin a  boost of radiance which is perect for what I'm wanting at the moment. You get 28 in a tub so they last for a month then I think you go back to using your normal serum under your moisteriser. I use these every morning and find that by patting them into the skin and following it by my moisteriser my skin feels really great and is definitely starting to look brighter.   So there we go. If I need to brave a vare face I will be ready!! Hope you enjoyed today's post.  

Another glowy foundation

 

Hello!!

 

I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that I'm a big lover of glowy skin and illuminating foundations. I've spoken about quite a few on here already. Well, when browsing the aisles of Boots while a very tempting 3 for 2 offer was on, I stumbled across this beauty and it's love!  The Maxfactor skin luminizer foundation is just amazing. It's swirled with a highlighter so has a built in glow that doesn't appear too shimmery on the skin.

The consistency of this is quite thick and might not be everyone's cup of tea but I don't mind this. I find the best way to use it to buff it into the skin. I've been using my real techniques buffing brush and it's been working really nicely. For a dewey foundation it's surprisingly full coverage which is a change to what I normally go for but it doesn't look cakey or heavy on the skin and it's quite nice to have a slightly different look.  

I find the 3 for 2 offers a great time to try out a few new things or finally pick up the things I've been meaning to try for a while or just an excuse for a little splurge!

 

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