Selfridges Festival Beauty Box

How wonderful does this box of goodies from Selfridges look? 

There are enough cult brands in there to make a beauty blogger weep. It's chock full of fun products specifically themed around festival season 2013. And the cost for you to dip you toe into this hair chalking, lip tattooing, metallic finished world? £25. Yes Twenty Five of your English pounds. A bargain.

Tutti Fruitti Sinful Colors Mani

Tuesday's French lessons descending into a full blown discussion on all things "Maquillage" - one area where my French vocabulary is particularly strong. Turns out my French teacher adores the make up as much as I. We discussed (at length) MAC foundations and brushes, an Italian brand called Kiko that I am looking forward to trying, Make Up Forever and a great deal about Sephora. She also happened to mention a brand of nail polish sold in Galleries Lafayette called Sinful Colors, which are without formaldehyde, toluene and DBP. So The very next day I swung by Galleries and had a look. They do an exclusive range for Galleries Lafayette (They are an American company) and it's pretty massive! I picked up a special edition 3 pack called Les "must" du moment - usually €14.90 but was half price in the sale so even better value! The colours included are Jaune Pastel, Poudre and a neon yet pastel pink simply called 920.

Left To Right, Sinful Colors Nailpolish in Jaune Pastel, 920 and Poudre

DIY Olive Oil, Honey and Lemon Beauty Mask, Plus it's the basis of a scrub, cleanser, toner, cough medecine and pore refiner!

Currently I am loving beauty products that are as natural as possible. And my current holy trinity is Honey, Lemon Juice and Olive Oil. Hot Damn this stuff is good, inexpensive and more versatile than you can imagine.  Go raid your kitchen cupboards right now. 

Cleanser

Okay, lets start with the basics. I use (high quality) extra virgin olive oil straight on a cotton wool pad as an extra moisturising make up remover and cleanser. It easily lifts my make up off and if you have your cotton pad saturated enough (certainly not dripping though) It drags very little, maybe a little more than my new French discovery - Bioderma Crealine H20 Cleansing Solution - but the pay off (besides being in almost everyone's cupboard) is that you perhaps use less swipes with olive oil waterproof mascara, both remove it effectively, but I feel that olive oil is quicker.