Vivo - Coral Flair Lipstick

I love Vivo Cosmetics for two main reasons, firstly I am a Tesco whore and am very loyal to earning club card points and the general Tesco supermarket. (Even though I often lazily stray to the closer Sainsbury's) Secondly the price points on this range are spot on especially as the quality always amazes me. 

Their website states that there are 9 shades in the range - including the standard reds, neutrals and pinks you'd expect. I am currently a little bit of a lipstick fiend and this colour just popped out at me on the stand. 

I don't own a single red lipstick. Which I know is kind of a weird thing from a lipstick lover but they just scare me. I want to wear red don't get me wrong but feel I am not yet ready for the art in finding the perfect red for my skin tone. 

Coral flair for me was the perfect in between - this is me taking a risk, going to the edge of a cliff but definitely not jumping off. It also goes perfectly with my clothing addition to all things coral and peach this summer. 

I love it - it's a gorgeous bright but not to bright corally red. It's the brightest lipstick I own by far and it really pops. It is perfect with my standard black night out ensembles and I think I will be getting lots of wear out of it. It has also taken me a little closer towards the purchase of a red lipstick - although I currently don't know where to begin? Ladies if you have any direction please share! 

Loreal - EverPure No Sulphate Colour Care

I signed up to the Loreal Insider  portal a few months ago because I do love Loreal products and I also love a good competition. I regularly sign up for their samples and any different things they have going on. It's also a cool way to view their entire product range and any new things they have coming out. 

I was very excited when these full size samples landed through my door as I've had my eye on them for a little while. They are no sulphate shampoo and conditioners, I recieved the colour care as that's what matches my online profile and is also what I'd pick up in store.

I'm not particularly brand loyal when it comes to shampoo or conditioner I literally buy what ever one is on offer and often in a pink bottle if I'm honest. I really like this set though its left my hair feeling incredibly clean and super soft - especially after all of its recent bleaching action. I also love the smell of this its a really refreshing mint that is just gorgeous. I know as its a new product its on offer in most stores at the moment I've seen it in supermarkets for 2 for £7 and in Boots its on 3 for 2 also. 

If your hair is coloured and a little dry then I highly recommend these products - they are a little on the pricey side in my opinion but that's probably more because I just buy discounted hair care. I try not to buy the same shampoo's twice in a row but I will definitely go back to these - they just smell so good! 

Has anyone tried this range yet? What do you think? 

She Said Beauty Box

So I wasn't really going to blog about this because my views aren't the most favourable but I thought I would as I think if I was looking up which beauty box to spend my money on I'd appreciate all views. I signed up for the She Said Beauty box on the 22nd February. It was a brand new box and I was excited to see what it offered. I then heard nothing until the 16th March when they took my first payment of £9.70 after using a discount code for my first box that was available back in February. It's normal price is £9 plus £2.95 P&P. 

So I emailed the company on the 27th March to see where the box was when I was very politely informed it would be sent out at the beginning of April. I was kind of confused as the March box had already been disclosed online and I thought my February subscription was offering me this box but needless to say the April box landed on my door on the 2nd April over a month after my subscription sign up. All in all its been confusing but I completly appreciate they are a new company and are maybe ironing out some administration issues like the ones I experienced but some kind of ETA would have been useful. 

The box itself was nice it had a little bit of all the standard things you expect in a beauty box some skin care and a bit of make-up. There were far too many sachets for my liking and I know one of the sachet sets were a 6th extra to the box but I just don't like sachet samples they don't give me enough of a chance to see if I like the product to want to buy it full size. The nail varnish was nice in a standard red. Body shimmer again nice but not something I'd particularly use much of. Lip Balm is off to a friend - it's standard nice shade but doesn't offer much colour (made by Misha Barton). And finally the face and neck polisher is nice but not really sure its much more than a light kind of scrub. 

Even though none of the products wowed me, nor the brands I can't completely complain they weren't awful. For me my least favourite part of the box outside of the sachet overload was the straw that held all the products in. I found it kind of odd that a messy kind of bitty straw was used to hold the product - it literally went everywhere. 

My favourite part of this box was the little chocolate lindt egg which is just my favourite kind of chocolate. I just felt rather underwhelmed both by the amount of time this box took in reaching my door, the way it was packed, the confusion in the branding (a lot of Glossybox fonts and layout similarities for me alongside a bright pink and blue collaboration), the products themselves and just the general way I left with the happiest part coming from a little chocolate egg. 

I don't mean to be overly negative on this one and I'm sure once they get into their stride things will smooth themselves out. It just didn't do it for me. There are a host of beauty boxes that hit the mark in terms of branding in my view and for me this may be a little late and little underwhelming to gain a decent momentum to fight with the others. 

Did anyone else receive the April or March she said beauty box? What did you think?