September + October favourites and empties

Double posting because I meant to post this bi-monthly favourites and empties earlier, but I wanted to get a review together to stuff in between. The stupid thing is that the reviews that are mostly complete, I don't have pictures for and the pictures I did take in a massive picture taking spree last month are mostly for as yet unwritten reviews, *sigh* for boss organisational skills. 

Favourites

Lady Jayne ‘smoothies’ hair ties

Lame ass name but these velvety hair ties that I was sent for beautyheaven trial team actually work really well. Because they’re covered in velvet (and because the elastic is tight and stiff) they grip hair really well and STAY in my hair all day. They’re kinda chunky tho so not great for smaller work, but if you want your hair out of your face for the day then these are perfect.

Empties

    So I chopped off my ponytail in September which meant that my hair was a lot shorter so I don’t have any hair empties this time (I definitely would have finished off my shampoo and conditioner otherwise) and I finished the giant bottle of bodywash I’ve been using (p.s. if you thought I went through a lot of shower gel based on my previous empties, I share that bottle with my cousin so yeah, 2 people can go through a lot of shower gel) a week into November, so I can’t include it either.

Natio eye contour treatment gel 

I have a review on this up already, so suffice to say it’s a good moisturiser and there’s a lot of product left in the tube. I started having problems squeezing much out at the start of September and I realised that was partly because there were cracks in the tube (after so long, and because I kept flattening the sides) so I couldn’t use air pressure anymore. So I squeezed the tube as flat as possible and squeezed all the gel I could possibly push out of the tube into a small tub with a twist lid. The total gel that came out lasted me like a month and a half, that’s liberal use + I used it to mix with tea tree oil to treat pimples.

Blistex lip conditioner review

    Like pretty much every person with dry lips in Australia, I grew up with chapstick and because I’m a girl, lipsmackers were bloody everywhere as well. I had no interest in lipsmackers because I didn’t see the point in making something smell yummy and put it on my lips, if I wasn’t meant to just eat it. Also because there was way too much pink in the marketing for me. I hate pink.

    So in an attempt to stop me from continuously peeling dead skin off my lips, my mum bought chapsticks for me regularly and when Nivea’s lipbalms came to her attention, those too. All in all, I spent most of my childhood picking at my lips anyway because for me chapsticks didn’t moisturise, just kept more water from leaving my lips, and since I only ever remembered to put lipbalm on after they were already dry, it didn’t do much. (8 year olds have more important things to think about than drinking water regularly).

    I can’t remember why I picked this up, especially since I’m not found of pot packaging for lipbalms, but this lip balm opened my eyes to the possibility that lip balms COULD ACTUALLY FIX DRY LIPS O_O, instead of just being this weird waxy layer on my lips that I would soon eat along with my lunch. This is how the magic went: I had dry lips, I put this lip balm on, forgot all about it until I realised my lips weren’t cracked and flaky anymore. A MIRACLE! And then to top it off, since you don’t need to use a lot, this 7g pot will last you forever (alright not literally but if you apply it once everyday it’ll still last you over 2 years).

 

unsealing a fresh pot muhahaha