October Beauty Savings and Deals

This is going to be another new series of posts on my blog. I thought I might as well write a blog post about all the savings and deals that are around in the shops either online or in store for people in the UK. I love finding deals and saving money on products that I actually want to purchase myself. It can be quite hard to figure out which is the best deal within different shops, so I have designed a post that will help you with that. Every month, I will research the latest deals within the two main drugstore shops (Boots and Superdrug) and any department stores within the UK. 

Moving on, I have researched and selected the main deals and savings for October 2015.

Superdrug 

• Free Tote Bag  - If you buy any products that are in the 3 for 2 scheme then you will receive a Tote bag. The tote bag looks to be a normal size tote, so you can get a magazine in the bag without folding it in half. However, you are still getting one product free (The cheapest) and you get a free tote bag. I will definitely be going to Superdrug soon as I have a hit list of products and I will see what this offer is all about. This offer ends 24th November 2015 and only one bag per transaction. 

•  Buy 1 get 2nd half price on Rimmel Tanning products - At the moment, Superdrug is running a deal on Rimmel tanning products. This is all the tanning products from instant to gradual to face bronzers that Rimmel makes. It is getting into that time of year where we all wish to have a nice looking tan and this deal will certainly help you to achieve that look.

Boots

• 750 points if you buy 2 Clarins products - This offer is only available to advantage card holders. You should own an advantage card if you buy a lot of beauty products anyway! So if you buy any two Clarins products (Skincare and Make-up), then you will receive 750 points on your advantage card.
  

•  Free gift at Revlon - If you buy three Revlon products then you will receive a free Revlon Photoready Prime + Anti - Shine Balm. The shine balm costs £9.99, so you are getting a brilliant saving. Also, because Boots are running their 3 for 2, you can also buy three products, get one free and then get another free product. I think this is a very good deal.

• Save 1/3 On L'oreal Skincare - I know 1/3 off products is not an awful lot of saving, but it is still money off right? At the moment, Boots have reduced most of the L'oreal skincare line by 1/3. So for example, if I wanted to buy the Skin Perfection Anti Fatigue cream, it would cost me £7.99 instead of £11.99 saving me £4.00. This deal is good if you use their skincare range already or would like to try some of their products.

• Barry M Halloween Bundle - On the Boots website, I found this make-up bundle. Basically, this bundle of make-up is for Halloween and it involves some dark shades/colours.Within this bundle, you will receive; Black and White Nail Paints, Lip Paint in Blac and Kohl Pencil in blac. The Barry M bundle costs £10, which saves you £3.46 when you buy all the products separately. I have checked this on Superdrug and it is definitely a saving. 

• Sleek Halloween Bundle - I also found this Halloween bundle on the Boots website. Within this bundle, you will receive; I-Divine palette in Enchanted Forest, I-Quad Eyeshadow palette in Black , a true colour lipstick in Vamp and a dip it eyeliner in Black. Obviously, these are all dark colours due to the theme of the bundle. When you buy all these products together, it will cost £17.49 rather than £23.46, giving you a saving of £5.97.

                                                      Debenhams

£10 Elizabeth Arden lipsticks - The last offer for this month's post is the amazing deal by Elizabeth Arden. They have temporarily reduced all the lipsticks within their brand to just £10. As everyone knows, Elizabeth Arden is a high end brand that charges £18 - £21 per lipstick which is a lot of money. If you buy a lipstick for £21 and it is currently reduced to £10, you have saved £11 which is an amazing save. This offer is only available from 19th to 25th October, so go and get your lipstick now.

So they are all the best deals and savings that I could find for this month. I will try and do this kind of post every month to share with you the deals that I can find. If you want to know the latest deals for next month, then subscribe to my blog.

New Launch - Barry M Speedy Summer Collection

Barry M just recently released their new speedy nail polish range but that doesn't stop them from launching brand new shades for the summer. Barry M are already expanding the Speedy nail polish range and it has not been out that long, now that is what I call speedy! The collection already have 9 shades out in the shops within the speedy nail polish range that they launched a couple of months ago and now they are about to launch 6 brand new shades.

Just by looking at the promo picture, these 6 new shades look to be a lot brighter than the 9 pastel shades. I suppose Barry M launched speedy nail polish range ready for the spring which is why they brought out mainly pastel shades. But now we are slowly approaching the summer, it is the perfect time to bring out brighter colours. 

The 6 new shades are Get Set Go, On Your Marks (Yellow), Need for speed (Purple), Supersonic (Blue), Turbo Charged and Speed Demon (Pink). The colours might be different when I see them in the shop but the promo picture looks like the above colours. Anyway these are pretty bright colours ready for the summer. 

If you love bright colours and already love the Speedy nail polish range, then you will love the new shades. The new shades will costs £3.99 each and will be launching on 6th May (Out Now) in Superdrug and 13th May in Boots.

New Launch - Barry M Flawless Concealer

This is the first ever liquid concealer that Barry M are launching and I cannot wait till I get my hands on it. I love Barry M and I love concealers so this is a win win situation for me. Barry M is a UK brand with very affordable yet brilliant products. At the moment, Barry M are releasing a lot of brand new products adding to their existing make-up range. The flawless concealer is one of the new products coming out very soon. 

The flawless concealer looks like it comes in the standard concealer tube and I hope it has a doe foot applicator since this is the type of packaging I prefer. I cannot say how much is in the tube because there are no press launches or any pre launched reviews on this concealer. 

Barry M say this concealer is "A Lightweight fluid concealer that covers imperfections, blemishes and the look of under eye circles without caking. Infused with cucumber and aloe extracts to sooth and revitalise the skin, it's the perfect on-the-spot treatment for tired eyes". 

For me this concealer sounds really good because it claims to feel lightweight and is meant to cover everything and anything on the face. I suffer from blemishes and I am always on the look out for a new concealer and this sounds perfect for me. With the cucumber and aloe extracts, I think this is leaning towards a under eye concealer but it looks like it could be used anywhere. 

I do not know how many shades there are but by the picture it looks like there could be three shades; light, medium and dark.

The Flawless concealer by Barry M costs £4.49 and launches in Superdrug on the 6th May and Boots on the 13th May.

Barry M Launches New Dazzle Dusts

I don't know about you, but I love the Dazzle Dust range by Barry M. When I first started out in make-up, I always used to buy the dazzle dusts since they are cheap but very high quality. A few years ago, dazzle dusts were the in thing to buy, but nowadays I haven't really heard or seen anything on Youtube or blogs about these dusts. If you do not know what dazzle dusts are then you have missed out big time... Dazzle dusts are pots of eyeshadow pigments which can be used for nearly everything. Dazzle dusts can even be mixed with Vaseline petroleum jelly to make a coloured lip balm. Dazzle dusts come in a range of different finishes, Shimmer, glitter or matte. The shimmer dusts are the most popular in the range and I believe this was the first finish they produced year's ago.

They already have over 60 dazzle dusts colours and now they are adding four new colours to the collection. The four dusts are very neutral based and can be used to make a smokey eye or just a nice natural eye make-up look. The four shades are Athena(dd105), Aphrodite(dd106), Venus(dd104) and Eos(dd103).

Aphrodite is the lightest shade in the new four shades and Aphrodite is a shimmery Ivory/Bisque shade. This seems the less shimmery shade out of the four.

Athena is the second lightest shade and Athena is a Shimmery beige.

Venus is the next lightest shade and Venus is a shimmery bronze shade.

Lastly Eos is the darkest shade and Eos is shimmery dark brown.

 Personally I think they are amazing products because they are very versatile and can be used for a lot of different things. Also the dazzle dusts are really pigmented and come in a small pot which can be used once finished. The four new dazzle dusts are in Boots and Superdrug stores and online now retailing for £4.59 each.

P.S I will be picking all four dazzle dusts up the next time I go into a Boots or Superdrug, so expect reviews coming on my blog very soon.

Upcoming Beauty Products For June - Pictures

I have just put onto youtube the video for the upcoming beauty products for June but I thought I might as well make a blog post about the pictures since you might be wondering what these products look like. I am not good at describing a product very well and a picture can usually explain it a lot better than what I ever could.

So lets get on with the pictures for the upcoming beauty products for June.

Barry M Nail Polish - Confetti   -£3.99

Barry M Nail Polish - Sequin - £3.99

Essie Nail Polish Collection - Summer 2013

Sleek Make-up Collection - Limited Edition - Candy

Barry M Nail Paint 337 Pink Silver Glitter

Barry M has recently launched new nail paints and this is one of them.There were about three or four new nail paints but this one caught my eye.

If you love pink or silver and love glitter, then this is perfect for you. Thats because this nail paint is full of pink and silver glitter particules. The glitter is micro which means you will not get patchy glitter all over your nails but an even application of glitter. The application is quite sheer, so for the full effect then you will need two or three coats and the texture is quite rough feeling. Like the feeling of putting glitter on your nails, its not the smooth texture you would feel for a non glitter nail polish.

For me, the nail paint started to chip off after two days but thats because I do a lot of typing for work. So for other people, it might take longer to chip off. It didnt last long for me and I also used a top coat to protect the nail paint to make it last longer but obviously it didnt work.

You do get 10ml or 0.35 fl oz which is quite good for £2.99. You can get this nail paint from Superdrug and Boots now. I will leave links below for boots and superdrug online.

http://www.boots.com/en/Barry-M-Nail-Paint_947704/
http://www.superdrug.com/nails/barry-m-glitter-nail-paint-pink-silver/invt/451251/

Pink Valentine's Day Look

Sorry i havent posted a blog for a long time, but i just gone off blogging for a bit. However whilst i have been away from blogging. I have made a Youtube Channel called Laurensmart1993, I do hauls, reviews, Tutorials and many more. So this post is going to be a video of my version of a pink valentine's Day look. I know i am not very good at doing this but i think i am improving slightly which is always a good thing. I will post the link below now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pw-k73Jgr0

So if you like this look and like what i have done, then please sub to my channel. All the information about what products i used is in the description box below the video.

Thanks for looking
Lauren

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