Night Before Flight Routine.

Before I go on any holiday I always have my 'evening before ritual'. In attempt to be 'bikini ready'!

I have been doing this for years, however some products have been switched out or added due to new discoveries!

After a long day I come in and immediately take off my makeup (thanks to the persistent advice from Caroline Hirons!)

Then I have a nice long shower/bath and wash my hair with Liz Earler Botanical shine shampoo & conditioner, they are very gentle and perfect for damaged hair. Then the obvious one - shaving my rather neglected hairy legs, no one wants hairy gorilla legs on holiday, with an everyday cheap razor. I mean I do wonder how people don't get utterly exhausted from shaving your legs every single day without fail.

Post-Shower I moisturize from head-to-toe with a nice thick cream, to rid of my scales. Recently I have been using Aqueous Cream from Superdrug, it literally has worked wonders on my skin.

Face-wise I cleanse with Liz Earle Hot Cloth cleanser and tone with Liz Earle Tonic (not pictured), moisturizing with Pro-activ Repairing treatment no 3 ( been using this for a very long time, it is one of my skin staples).

A new addition to my ritual is Boots eye gel, it moisturises and relaxes my eyes, the thing that surprised me was that I noticed a difference using it. 

If I have any spots I will use Antiac Activ spot treatment, I usually always have this in the back of my cupboard in some form.

Finally I will paint my nails and bury myself into a good book, this holiday I painted them Barry M Gelly varnish 'Prickly pear' - a lovely lilac colour which works with multiple outfits. 

Do you have any before holiday rituals? Please share!

NYC Top of the Gold Nail Polish #6DaysToGo

6 days to go (including today)! Today i have yet another Nail polish, amazingly well planned by me; this actually goes with the Barry M Bright Red Nail Polish! Talk about being planned.

This is by NYC, i had never actually used any NYC products before this one. Hence i needed to try this as it is very fitting with my series.

This is Top Of The Gold and it is £1.99.

 It does have quite a wide brush, the  coat is usually done in about 3-4 swipes which makes it perfect to use when you don't have so much time. Drying time is not that bad i think, as i usually have paranoia about touching anything when i have nail polish on. 

How much glitter it actually puts on your nail is amazing, honestly for such a cheap nail polish.

This would be a lovely coat over a red nail polish to create that extra festive look.

Barry M Nail Paint- Bright Red. #10DaysToGo!

10 days to go! Well today i had a bit of fun with photo-shop hence the photo below, you might be seeing more of these!

So i have BarryM Nail Paint - Bright red this is £3.99. 

As most people know Barry M are definitely up there in the list of best nail polishes, so i thought this would be a good option for a Christmas nail polish.

I like the consistency of this polish and the brush isn't too thin, but i do prefer thicker brushes.

I do have apply over a couple of coats as it is quite sheer, but that doesn't really bother me.

What is your Christmas nail polish?

Sally Hansen Nails: NOFT

In the midst of Winter I see so many dark nail polishes around, and felt a bit left out. So i scavenged through my nail polishes (most of them are pink) and found this beautiful colour from Sally Hansen. 

This colour is Chocolate Haute 630, which is such a luscious name for a nail polish.

I can't remember how much i paid for this exactly but i think around £6.99.

This is a brown with quite a powerful red undertone in there. I wore this with a black leather skirt and white collared blouse and it looked lovely with it.

 It glides onto your nail and the brush is mice and wide, which is great for those of us who are not amazing at painting nails (me).

To me, this is the perfect colour for winter and i will definitely be wearing a lot of this this season.