Spring Beauty Must- Haves ♡

Hi everyone and welcome back!

I realise I missed uploading last month but let's pretend that didn't happen. I hope everyone had a lovely Easter and ate a lot of chocolate! (I know I did!!)

So I've recently had a break out on my skin so this month's post is going to be all about skin. I have a few products I want to recommend that have made my skin so much better.

Firstly, considering that it is beginning to get warmer in the UK, somehow removing hair from your legs is an obligatory thing to do. However, if you're like me and you have very sensitive skin this can be a pain. I usually wax my legs and straight afterwards I get red bumps- that's pretty standard of any hair removal. A couple days after that my legs get so incredibly itchy. Like insanely itchy. I thought it was just the hair growing back and I moisturised them with some plain cream to stop them from itchy but it got to the point where I was putting cream on every few hours which was ridiculous.

So, I did some Googling, as you do when you have any problems, and I found that the itching is an inflammation of the pores after hair removal. I then searched how to solve this problem. Most people said use prescription moisturisers but I wasn't about to go to the doctor about itchy legs!

Instead I thought about when I get my legs waxed professionally and why they aren't itchy afterwards, I concluded that it must be a the cream they use. So, I had a search about the cream and I find out that it's tea tree. Now, I don't know about you guys but I associate tea tree with head lice so the smell brings back some traumatic childhood memories!

I firstly went to Boots in search of a cheap-ish tea tree moisturiser that I could use for when my legs really itch. I found nothing even remotely close to tea tree. So I ventured into Superdrug but left empty handed. By this time, I was getting very frustrated with this whole situation and my legs were so itchy!

I pulled up Google on my phone just searched up "Tea Tree Moisturiser UK" and lo and behold, there it was! In Holland and Barrett, which is usually a little more expensive. I went to go and find it, phone in hand. It is £6.59 from here and it works wonders! I put it on after I shower and whenever my legs feel itchy and it's honestly a miracle! I would highly recommend it to anyone who suffers from ILS (Itchy Leg Syndrome).

Now onto face; the skin on my face hasn't be too happy recently. I've been pretty stressed with uni work which has resulted in me forgetting to moisturise and scrub as often as I should. However, I've found these amazing and pretty cheap face masks from H&M which has done wonders for my skin.

Now, I know what you're thinking: H&M do skin care?! It's probably really bad because it's cheap. BUT NO! It's actually really good, they have a huge selection of masks which you can find here. They also have a description of what the ingredients in the mask are for eg. blemish prone skin or dry skin. I tend to buy the peel off ones but they do have non peel ones too.

Honestly, coming from someone who used to spend quite a lot of money on face masks from Neil's Yard, I can tell you that H&M are much cheaper and still good quality.

While we are on skin, I have an amazing powder I want to show you guys. It's by ELF which is available online in the UK. Their translucent powder is pretty insane, it mattifys everything and is perfect for baking. It also lasts a good 5-7 hours without having to reapply.

I heard it was a good dupe for some more expensive powders last year so I bought some while I was out in the States. It's about $5 there but £7.50 here.

Now let's talk about primers. I have the Smashbox Photo Finish primer and although I love it, it's expensive to use everyday.  I needed a primer that would minimise my pores and that I could use under concealer. I was recommended the Benefit Porefessional primer and at first I was hesitant about buying it, considering £9.95 for a pretty small tube was pricy. However, it has proved its worth and I now have 3 tubes of it!

Let's go onto lips now. I've had many problems with my lips since I went on Roaccutane (if you're not sure what that is then click here for a video I made about it). My lips are very dry and chappy a lot of the time and I do bite them a lot which doesn't help them. I tend to scrub them about once a week with the LUSH lip scrub which you can find here.

So as a result of these pills I have had very dry lips and I have used A LOT of lip balms. I've found that the only one that really works is Dr Paw Paw's balm. I bought 3 of them and lost one so I tend to use the peach tinted one. These work magic on your lips, especially after you've scrubbed. I would 110% recommend for dry lips.



So, now we've come to the end of this blog post. I hope you've enjoyed it and learnt a lot about skin care!

Until next time,

Beffy xo ♡