The Libbie Club May Beauty Box

This month I am back with The Libbie Club and the May Beauty Box has arrived and is full of treats to try. Each month as a Libbie Club Member, the box has three specially chosen products to try and then once I have reviewed them, I can share with you amazing offers for you to purchase the products and try them for yourself.

This month those three products are a nice mix of brands and May is described as exciting and innovative.  So this is what I have:

ChinUp Mask – Trial Pack

I have used ChinUp Mask before which you can see here and it is a product I was impressed with when I first used it. With Cosmetic Surgery still being one of those subjects that everyone has an opinion on and it can be quite controversial, products which use no surgery but promise results are becoming more and more common place. Marketed as being a 30 minute non-surgical facelift, this mask is a solution for double chins, saggy jowls and loose skin around the chin and jawline. Inside the pack you are given 2 masks, a Chinup Strap and a Tape Measure.

James Read Tan H20 Tan Mist

James Read is a name I always associate with tanning and it is a category which is totally out of my comfort zone. I rarely ever use fake tan, the fear of turning into an OOmpa Loompa is something which always puts me off. This product is a lightweight mist which is infused with pure rose water and I am informed that each application will gradually build a deeper tan, allowing you to control your depth of colour. It is stain free and can also be used as a make up primer or for setting your make up.

Girl Meets Brush

This brush company was started by celebrity makeup artist Lynne Mills and she has used her expertise to create the optimal make up brushes. I have to admit that I have never heard of the brand until now and within my box I have the The Blending Contour Brush. This brush has an angled shaped head, the fibres are dense but have soft bristles, it is used to buff & blend products together, great for blending blusher, bronzer & highlighter. The bristles are really soft and because the brush hosts a thick chunky handle, it is easy to grip to use.

What I love about the Libbie Club is that I am sent these products to review and then if you like the sound of them, I will always have an amazing offer for you, as my reader.  The offers can be found HERE and they are available on every single product The Libbie Club has ever had plus if you use the code FLASH530 you get an extra £5 off a £30 spend!

So, let me know what you think of these products and whether or not you have ever tried them.

Freedom Makeup Competition with a prize of £20,000

Freedom Makeup is a brand you probably have heard of, it is a sister brand of Makeup Revolution and is Professional Makeup Brand giving you products at an affordable price and I have featured quite a few of them here. Right now, they are running this absolutely amazing competition which could not only see you win a prize of £20,000 but a years supply of make up and the chance to be assigned to Freedom for an entire year.   

This makeup competition is opened WORLDWIDE and all you simply have to film your 'Signature Look' to enter the competition & upload it to YouTube. You don't have to be professionally trained, nor a current make up artist, the competition is open to everyone. Once you have uploaded your video, you then must ensure you fill in the entry form which you can find right HERE and that's it, you are entered. 

Once the competition closes, a total of 30 finalists will be shortlisted and they will then go through another 3 rounds. After those 3 rounds, the 5 remaining contestants will appear in the live final, hosted in London on 27th October 2016 to battle it out in a surprise live challenge before someone is crowned the winner. The winner will take home an amazing prize of £20,000, a year's supply of Freedom Makeup and assigned to the brand for a year. Plus the 4 runners up will each receive a prize of £1000 each.

You can enter anytime NOW until the 27th May!  Will you be entering or have you already entered?

Benefit Exclusive Cheekathon Palette

Last week I was invited back aboard #thegoodshipbenefit with House Of Fraser for a Cheekathon make-up masterclass with the fabulous Lauren.  

If you haven't yet seen it, the Benefit Cheekathon Blush Palette is just incredible! It contains five full sized Benefit Box O'Powders, yes I did say full sized and it retails for just £44.50 which is amazing value for money when you consider a single Box O'Powder retails for £23.50!!  So my advice is grab it quick before it sells out and it is exclusive to House of Fraser.

On board the ship, Lauren demonstrated on Paige (her model for the occasion) how to get the best use of Benefit Skincare, foundation, highlighters, brow products and of course the Cheekathon Palette.  Now, have you ever though to use Hoola Bronzer as eye make-up? Well you can and Lauren did and admittedly it did look absolutely lovely, especially if like me you are a nudey neutral kinda gal!

The Cheekathon Palette, which is beautifully packaged, has a handy mirror within the lid and it is a decent enough size so you can see exactly what it is your are doing and there is a Soft, natural-bristle powder brush too! Inside you will find:

• Hoola is a matte warm tan bronzing powder which you can double up as an eyeshadow!
• Dandelion is a sheer, ballerina-pink face powder which takes your complexion from dull to radiant
• Rockateur is shimmery rose gold blushr which is a specialised formula that combines the best features of baked, powder, cream and fluid textures for brighter results. 
• Dallas is a lovely dusty rose shade which can be used as both a which blusher and bronzer
• Coralista is described as a warm coral pink with an hint of pearl to give your skin that tropical flush.

To have all five of these full sized products on one palette is just amazing and as a little extra, there is a really helpful booklet included and it details how to get the best from each powder and more importantly how to use it.

Have you bought Cheekathon yet?

Clean Reserve - Fragrance Collection

Every so often, I am lucky enough to be introduced to a product and am simply wowed by it, this is the case with Clean Reserve and their new Fragrance Collection.

Clean Reserve is a new collection of fragrances from the creators of Clean. Created with responsibly sourced ingredients and eco-conscious manufacturing and packaging. The culmination of a unique, creative collaboration with three of the world's top fragrance houses chosen because of their commitment to sustainability and philanthropy.  The idea of something being created that supports the local communities who help cultivate he ingredients used within the fragrances is pretty amazing and so is the the brands ethos with ensuring sustainable beauty is ubiquitous throughout.

The cap on each perfume bottle is sourced from Spain and made from wood from certified sustainably managed forests. The fragrances are manufactured in facilities which use 100% solar energy. The glass bottle is 100% recyclable. Sustainable ingredients infuse each fragrance and they smell just absolutely incredible whether they are on their own or layered with another scent!

Within the range the scent include : Blonde Rose, Smoked Vetiver, Sueded Oud, Rain Cotton and Warm Cotton.  They are exclusive to SpaceNK and retail at £79 for a 100ml bottle - bargain!

I was kindly given Blonde Rose and honestly it is just divine, I adore it. As a Floral Woody Musk fragrance, it has op notes are aldehydes and water notes; middle notes are rose, peony and jasmine; base notes are cedar, sandalwood and musk. Said to have been inspired by an escape to a warm bubble bath infused with rose petals and a day dream. However, Blonde Rose is not strictly a female scent, as I mentioned, all of the fragrances within this range can be paired and layered with others, such as Sueded Oud for the men.

For me the scent of Rose, Jasmine and Peony work so incredibly well together that this is a perfume that can be worn on its own but works so well with other perfumes when layering (coming soon).  What surprised me the most about Blonde Rose is how long it lasts.  Once on the skin, I could still smell it the following morning, even after showering and whilst it does settle down on the skin, as it does so, it becomes even more beautiful.  This is definitely a perfume I am enamored with and a brand I cannot wait to find out more about.

If you are looking for a new perfume for Spring and Summer, Clean Reserve is a brand to search out and try!