Beauty | Combating those annoying dry lips

Hello there :) 

How are you all? Hope you all had great weekends and that you are all fine and dandy! I hope you all spoilt your mothers on mothers day! I was working so didn't get to spoil mine quite how I would have liked to, I think she knows how much I love her though, and look up to her and am incredibly grateful for everything she does for despite me not being the easiest of people to live with and bring up! So thank you mum for everything you do for me, I couldn't ask for a better mother! The sun has gone this week, so if you happen to read this sun, please come back and shine as that makes me feel happy! 

 Anyway I thought I would do another beauty post as I seem to be in the mood for these at the moment. I don't know about you guys but I find that during the winter months my lips tend to suffer a bit from the harsher weather and need a lot of TLC. I'm always trying to prevent getting dry lips because once they are they can be so painful and lipstick never looks great when you have annoying dry lips. I put on a form of lip balm at least once a day to keep my lips in tip top condition and I wouldn't be able to do this without my trusty lip balms. So today I thought I would share with you the lip saviours in my life :) 

Lush Lip Scrub 

Now this lip product is one that has only come in to my life recently and its fair to say it was love at first sight or smell maybe. I can honestly say this is one of the best smelling lip products I have ever come across and I'm so glad I did. Let me tell you all a little secret....sometimes I just like to smell it. Weird I know but I'm sure there are others out there who do the exact same because it smells amazing. This lip product is a LUSH one which is probably why it smells so nice, most things from lush do! The particular one that I am talking about is the LUSH lip scrub in Popcorn. I love putting this on my lips as I find it helps make them super soft, it also tastes great although I'm probably not meant to eat it! 

Soap and Glory Smooch Operator 

The next lip product in my lip balm collection was one that I kindly got from a lady who's horses I used to help look after and ride. She is somebody who always likes to get people practical presents and things that people will use (she also got me socks) and I have used both my presents lots. She chose this particular lip balm as it is one she has had before and loved. She found that it lasted a long while which is great. I haven't used much of this lip balm yet, I love the smell of it but I find it hard to get much product out, it's not an overly moisturising one in my opinion. 

Burt's Bees Lip Balm

This lip balm is another one I got for christmas, people obviously thought I had dry lips or something. I was really excited to get this one as I have heard lots of good things about Burt's Bees products and I have not been disappointed. I love this, it smells great and is really easy to apply and have found it makes my lips really smooth :) 

Dr PAW PAW lip balm

I received this lip balm in Februarys Look Fantastic beauty box. It's not a brand I had heard of before I received this product but I've been really impressed with it, despite the strange name. It doesn't have much of a smell, and the product is a sort of clear gel but it works great and is really easy to apply. You also don't need much product for it to do it's job :) 

Vaseline

Now who doesn't own a pot of or tin of Vaseline?! I think this is the first lip product I ever bought, not this exact one obviously. I love vaseline for a lip product, it works great and it's super moisturising and really easy to apply. Just don't let it get too hot because then it goes too soft and runny and you then always get more than you need. My favourite one is the rosy lips one as it gives a very subtle pink colour to your lips. 

EOS Lip Balm 

I absolutely love this lip balm, it's my all time favourite so much so that I take it everywhere with me. It smells amazing, has great packaging, is easy to apply so what more can you ask for. I can't remember which one I have as there are so many all I know is that it's the red one. It makes my lips super smooth and gives them the TLC that they need. I will definitely be purchasing more EOS lip balms in the future :) They are about £5.99 each and some of them also come in sets. These lip balms have featured in a couple of music videos and adverts so they are quite well known and loved. 

The Barney picture today is yet again of him on a dog walk, but I guess that's because we walk twice everyday and I'm always taking my camera with me unless it is raining. He was sick on the carpet this morning which was rather amusing, my parents didn't think so! I pretended I was still asleep so I didn't have to clear it up, I can just about tolerate picking up dog poo, but dog sick is a big no no! Not that you all wanted to know that but now you do! 

Hope you are all well and jolly 

Anna-Louise 

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Mini Homeware Haul

Helloo there :) 

How are you all?! Hope you've all had a super day! It's really windy where I am today feel sorry for the trees being blown around like that poor things. 

Today I thought I would do a mini homeware haul post as whilst I was in Yorkshire we went on an incredibly exciting trip to Harrogate homebase! It was actually quite fun my aunt bought loads of cushions which were really big and cuddly and I thought I would share with you guys what I bought. I was feeling brave whilst in homebase so went for a little wonder by myself which for me is a big than I like to stick in the pack that I came with when in shops, I get very anxious if I have to walk round by myself! However on that day I felt brave, maybe it was because they were looking at lamp bulbs to begin with and I had been attracted to all the pretty little things. Who knows I like this new brave Anna I hope she is here to stay!

The Homeware section in homebase is super nice, they have some lovely cute things, I wanted to buy more but unfortunately money doesn't grow on the trees like in the sims so here are some of the things I could afford and brought home with me.

The first item I bought is this sign which says Love but you can probably already see that! Anyway I've had my eye on signs like this as I wanted one for my windowsill and I saw this in Homebase and it was about £4 in the sale so I couldn't resist so this sign came home with me :) I really like it and thing it's a great little accessory to any room :)

This candle holder then caught my eye! I thought it was really cute so couldn't resist and it was also in the sale and was around £2 so another bargain, and who doesn't love a bargain right?! Good old homebase. Although this is a candle holder I didn't buy it for that purpose, I wanted a bigger pot to keep all my eye make up brushes as they didn't fit in the one I already had and I have a similar bigger pot for my face make up brushes so thought this would be a great little addition. 

I then bought this lamp! It wasn't in the sale but I liked this lamp and I thought it would like to live in my room. I've been looking for a lamp for a while now for my bedside table and this one caught my eye. It's the perfect size for a bedside table and I love the style of it. Good old homebase again. 

I then bought this mixing bowl, Barney wanted to be in the picture with it he's a big poser. This was also only a few pounds and its pink and who doesn't love pink right?! I also didn't buy this for it's intended purchase, I'm a great fan of Lush so thought it would be great for storing all my bath bombs in. :) 

I think Barney thought I'd bought him a new food bowl to begin with so he had to give it a good sniff! 

Lush bath bombs in my mixing bowl now turned storage bowl. 

Here is just another cute picture of Barney. If you haven't already worked it out I love my dog, he's my best friend and he has definitely helped me out with my confidence and a number of other difficulties I sturggle with because of my Aspergers. He is the best dog ever and I could not ask for a better best friend, he always makes me smile :) 

Hope you are all well and jolly :)

Anna-Louise

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