After so many years, looking for my perfect face products, I think I finally find them. And that means it's finally time, for me to show you what I am using in my morning routine. Since I am using different products in the morning and evening I will first show you my morning routine, then my evening. And for the end I will show special treatments like masks and peelings I enjoy using it.

A word or two about my skin type first. Ever since I can remember my skin was really thin and dry. 6 years ago, when I finished high school, my skin become sensitive too. Imagine doing peelings to really thin skin almost every week. Yea me neither! But my professor always forced my college into doing peeling while facial class, even if I begged not to. (if I had all that knowlege about skin care as I have now, I would sent my professor somewhere, where sun never shines!!!!) And 3 years ago, when I stop eating birth control peels my breakouts starts. Thank you for that my dear hormones! It is a win win, not. Sensitive dry skin with hormonal breakouts. in 6 words.

 A few people that knows I am a beautician, asks me if it is important to properly cleanse their face in the morning. You know when you woke up in the morning and your skin looks really nice and glowy?  Well that is sweat and the sebum that our skin provides in the night time. So yes cleansing your face in the morning is just as important as in evening.

I wash my face with lukewarm water and then I rotate between two cleansers. Himalaya Purifying Neem Face Wash which is one of my favourite. You can see I just emptied a big size and before that 3 mini sized tubes. This one cleanse my skin really gently but at the same time really good. It helped me with all my hormonal break outs. The next one I owned a few years back, but I just couldn't remember why I didn't like it back there. So after a lot of bloggers talked how they like it, I repurchase it. And this time I actually like it. Alverde Clear Waschcreme is one of those non-foaming creams, with strange smell and colour, but it does the job. Perfect for sensitive skin with impurities.

I always take a few minutes and gently massage my cleanser around my face with circular motions. Then I simply wash it of with lukewarm water. It makes quite a difference on your skin, if you take a minute or two and gently massage cleanser around your face. And I never avoid the eye area.

What they say about Smile lip balm: "Inspired by the Sisters' benevolent works, that so often brought a smile back to the faces of Convent residents, the Smile Lip Balm Orange Blossom Aroma helps to nourish and repair lips on a daily basis.
Thanks to its Original Recipe combining softening Marshmallow with nourishing Shea butter and protective Apricot oil, its formula with a delicious Orange Blossom aroma works to provide lasting moisture and protection for lips day after day.
Lips regain suppleness and softness."


I picked the Orange Blossom aroma, because it was in a gift packaging along with the Gardener's hand healer and Hiker's Foot healer, discounted on 10€. Great deal, right? It came in a full size, containing 15ml of products.

Packaging is a practical tube and you can get the product out really easy, just by squeezing the tube. Firstly I thought it's super liquidy, but after reading Petra's review I find out that the balm is more gel like, and the liquidy part just separates from the gel part if the balm is not used in a while.

So after discovering the original gel form I immediately fall in love with the product. Firstly I thought if would bee more like gloss and not that caring. But it definitely does everything they promised. It softens the lips and it has nourishing effect. On my lips it preform more liquidy, giving that gloss shine for a few minutes, and then my lips absorbs all the product. Still leaving my lips soft and nourished. It surprised me how it's not sticky at all and because of the liquid form this balm is super easy to apply. The balm has really nice smell and the taste is not that horrible, as with some other lip products.


I love this one for a days without lipstick. But I am afraid that if you have really dry and chapped lips this one won't rescue that problem, but it will definitely protect you from chapped lips if you would use it on a daily basic. For really dry and chapped lips LCDM have this product. It is highly on my WL, hope to get my hands on it as soon as possible.

Do I recommend this product? For some pampering definitely. And you can eat this one from your lips without a guilt, because there are no nasty ingredients in this one.

Do you have this product? What are your thoughts about it?
Any one having the very rich formula with honey aroma? Do you recommend it to me?

Maybe I am a little obsessed with new Essence The Gel nail polish trio lately. I am wearing it non-stop since the purchase. I own three shades already, and out of my tree this one is definitely my favourite. Perfect light blue colour with amazing glossy finish, opaque with two thin coats. And now I can already say that in combination with base and top coat, the gel polish stays longer on my nails then any other polish. I just wish that Base coat would be more gel like. It is more watery and it dries really thin and matte. So after two coats of polish all the imperfections are still visible(chipped nails, lines).

For the pattern I used Konad plate and special white polish. On my ring finger is Catrice It's show time. For the blue I used Blue bubble di blue.


I took this photographs on the third day. Still looking pretty good right?

Would love to hear what do you think about this polishes? And my manicure :)

Have an amazing day!
A.

There's a huge trend going on with long wearing polishes, may that be gelish version with light or just gel like polishes. And that's what Essence brought on a market. Gel like polishes, with no lamp for drying. Using the Gel line just like the other polishes, but they suppose to bring 60% more long lasting power. We will see how that goes.




 I tried out, for me, one of the most gorgeous polishes out of The Gel line called Blue Bubble Di Blue. (Amazing name, right?) It's really light baby blue colour.

First I applied one coat of base coat, which dries out really fast, and it has matte finish, looking like there is nothing on nails. Then I continue with first thin coat of colour polish, in my case with Blue Bubble Di Blue and waited a minute or so, to be dry completely before applying the second coat. After second coat I didn't wait till the polish dries out completely. But let just say it was half dry before I applied one coat of Top coat. Top coat is not the fastest when it comes to drying, but it dries completely, sooner then a lot of other drugstore quick drying top coats. It gives that gel like shine to nails and protect the colour.

Because of my work, all polishes chipped in first day, but this one survived the first day perfectly, the second day was my free day, and it survive this one too. So it lasted a little longer than any other polish. Of course I couldn't wait more, so I changed the colour at the end of the second day. On my right hand my point and middle finger are chipping like crazy, and on those nails the polish chipped too, the second day. But on others looked like freshly painted.




I need to do a couple more manicure for the proper review. But expect review soon. I would love to hear if you try this out and if you like it?

Which colour is the winner from this line in your eyes?

Have a nice day lovelies!
A.


p.s see the nails on my Instagram (@anna_madaboutred)

Melvita Beauty Ritual   (52,40€)

Rose hip oil 50ml and Moisturizing Day Cream 40ml

Cleansing micellar water 200ml (15,30€, I gor mine for 9,9€)

Micelarna vodica ima zelo zanimiv vonj, zame je ta vonj nemogoče opisati. Ni vsiljiv in nemoteč, obenem pa tudi ni najbolj prijeten. Najboljše pa je da dejansko deluje. Meni popolnoma odstrani Revlonov Colorstay, kar veste da je misija nemogoče. Se pa zatakne pri maskari. Sploh pri moji v nekaj slojih napacani maksari. Tako da je še vseeno potrebno imeti očesni make up odstranjevalec. Vsebuje zanimivo mešanico: cvetni vodici vrtnice in pomaranče ter ekstrakt narcise, kožo naj bi poleg tega da dobro očisti, tudi mehčala in poenotila. Ne vsebuje pa parfuma. Jaz jo uporabim po čiščenju, da odstrani morebitne ostanke čiščenja in kožo pripravi na nego.

First let me start with a smell, even tough this water don't contain any perfume it has the most interesting smell, but for me it is impossible to describe. I am not a huge fan of it, but it doesn't bother me at all. And the biggest surprise is, that this micellar water works! Perfectly removing my Revlon colorstay, and every one who use it, know that this foundation is impossible to remove in one step. And this water can do that. But it's not the same with mascara, there is a different story. So you will still need make up remover if you like to put on some heavy mascara as I do :) It contains rose flower water, orange blossom water and narcissus extract which suppose to moisturize and softens the skin, making it comfortable and all bright and clean. I like to use it after cleansing as the toner, so it prepare my skin for cream and cleanse any residues from cleaning.

Extra-rich hand cream 30ml (7€)

The drugstore part:

Alverde Clear Waschcreme

Lavera Duschgel 200ml(A little less that 4€)

Essence Color&Go (0,99€)

Laka sem kupila na razprodaji, saj so šli C&G lakci iz prodaje, nadomestili pa jih bodo gel laki. Odtenek Purple shugar lahko vidite v tej objavi. Be berry now pa vam kmalu pokažem. Naj pa omenim, da imata oba laka super formulo in malo tanjši čopič, kot se ga navajena pri Essence lakih. Je že katera preizkusila nove lake v kombinaciji z nadlakom in podlakom?

I bought this to polishes on sale, they were reduce to 99c. Pretty nice deal right? You can see Purple Sugar in this post, Be Berry now I will show soon on my nails. I am pretty curious about new Essence polish line Gel polish. Have anyone tried them out with base and top coat?


Well this is one long post. I hope that it was not too boring for you. Do you use any of this stuff?
So I heard many times I should write haul posts, so I hope you like it. If you don't, please just tell me in comments what bothers you and what part should I change.

Thank you for stopping by!
Have an amazing week!
A.

If I was a little bit more artistic I would wear roses on my nails all the time. Red roses are probably my favourite flowers. But since I am not, all I can "paint" on my nails are simple flowers made with dotting tool. But I adore them anyway and since they are super simple to do, everyone can paint them on their nails.
I bought this Essence polish a few days ago on sale. 99 cents for polish is damn good deal, right? And I had lilac polish on my WL for ages!


For this manicure I used: Essie Nourish me, Essence- Purple sugar (base color;2coats), Essence- Wild white ways(white dots), Essence- Be berry now(red dots) and I finished everything with Seche vite top coat, as always.


Would love to hear what are you thinking about this manicure, would you wear it?

I wish every one happy Easter! 
A.