e.l.f. Therapeutic Conditioning Balm - reveiw

As you know, about a month ago I ordered some e.l.f. stuff from their website. You have seen some of the polishes already, but here comes a review on the lipbalm.

It' says on the packaging that it:

"Provides intensive, lasting moisturization. Helps treat & prevent chapping. Instantly soothes & smoothes lips. Infused with Vitamins A&E and Shea Butter."

Packaging:

It was a bit smaller that I had thought, but since my lips are quite small that doesn't really bother me. It has a small, transparent cap that I might see me losing when on a bar, but so far so good. The stick is the type that you turn up so a plus that you don't have to use your fingers to apply. The look of it is quite boring, but for 1,5£ it's what I had expected.

The balm:

I do agree that it smoothes your lips and provides intensive moisturization and it feels nice on. It is quite "wet" so one layer is enough. I bought the one called Strawberry Créme, but for me it smells/tastes like bubblegum, which not is a good thing. It hardly hasn't any color in it, which for me is good, it just makes your lips a bit shiny.

Overall it's absolutley worth the money, but it's non a wow. I won't buy it again because of the flavour, but it's a nice lipbalm.

I give it 3/5 points.

Pros:

Cheap!

Nice texture

Makes your lips smooth

Cons:

Packaging

Flavour

3 days of parties with pictures!

Wow, a week without the blog, how did that happen?!

Anyways, I have so much to show you and so little time to write.. The last weekend was a busy busy weekend with a lot of parties and fun! It started last Thursday with the last Thursday pub for the year at Villan (student place). I don't have any pictures from that night except my eye makeup that Jennie helped me with:

Light pink eyeshadow, a looot of eyeliner

Then last Friday, there was a dinner and party for those who had been comitted to the Agora student association, which Johanna and I had through their event committee. The dinner and party was held on the same night as the Nobel dinner in Stockholm, so the theme for the night was of course Nobel. We all dressed up and got a 3 course dinner, drinks and wine, awards where given and a lot of entertainment. For example the award in physics where given to someone with extraordenary dance moves ;) Here are some pics (as usually, click to enlarge):

Decorations. Starter (toast Skagen). Johanna and I + Josefin

Of course the king and queen were there ;) And yes there was bag-in-box wine standing on the tables, yes I had one next to me, yes that is me with the bags in the boxes and no I wasn't that drunk

Last Saturday was the grand finale of a three day fiesta for some of us. That evening was the party for those who have been working in the pub during the semester or that had been comitted to other activities of Stampus (an other student association). The theme for the night was professions and each bar team was assigned one. We got housewife/househusband/curling parent. Johanna, Jennie and I went for the fifties housewives with dresses, aprons and red lips! Other were assigned doctor/nurse/patiens, police/spy/army, pimps&hoos, circus etc. Here are some pictures:

Our friend the psychic patients. The housewives

What happend last Sunday will you have to wait for to tomorrow :)

Advent gifts!

I have forgotten to show you, I got a Advent gift from Kasper last weekend and an other this weekend :) He bought them at my favourite store in Barcelona; Kiko Cosmetics when we were there some weekend ago. We were at a café in a shoppingmall, and he "went to the bathroom", well instead he went and bought me gifts! Sneaky!

At first Advent I got a lip plumper that I had been looking at when in the store earlier that day. I have quite small lips so I'm curious to see if it works! This is what they say on their website absout Lip Volume:

"Plumping and nourishing treatment for fuller lips, as if reshaped. A creamy texture enriched with innovative components that simulate the effects of injections containing hyaluronic acid – a natural skin filler with a smoothing and volumizing action – doubling its synthesis rate. Its action also stimulates the production of elastin and collagen, for firmer and more supple lips. Smoothing and firming, it is perfect for dry and marked lips too. It also prevents the first signs of aging."

Pic from the Kiko website

I took "before" pics and I'm using it twice a day right now, so I will show you the result in some weeks.

Yesterday I got an other gift, also from Kiko, also for the lips (can you see a pattern here..?:)). This time it was their Lip Balm stick with spf 15 in it. I have only used it today, so too early for a review, but it feels nice on the lips and I love that it looks like a lipstick.

Pic from the Kiko website

Thank you honey!

Exam-done-slash-housewarming-party

Last Friday we had our exam, so that evening we were celebrating that it was over (for this time..!) and at the same time there was a housewarming party at our friends. Here are some pics from the night. I have promised to be nice when publishing the pics so I will (if you don't think so, just think of what kind of pictures I chose NOT to publish ;P ).

First a make-up pic. I used two golden eyeshadows from the H&M palette, IsaDora Fine Liner (liquid eyeliner ) and 2000 calories mascara in black from MaxFactor.

And now pics from the pre-pre party at Jennie&Hanna's, pre-party at Oskar & Co, and then from the bar PL13

In heaven!!

Weii the elf-stuff I ordered last week came today! Unfortunaly all the stuff in the box is not mine, I ordered together with some friends, but how happy doesn't you get when you open a box and it's full of makeup and nail polishes!?

Stuffed box! Just the polishes

Here are the stuff I got:

Cuticle pusher. Cutile oil. Concealer brush. Lipbalm. Liquid eyeshadow

The polishes!

Desert Haze, Glitter Glam, Golden Godess, Blush, Coral, Party Purple

More closeups and swatches will come! But no matter how the quality is, they're just 1,5£ each!

e.l.f.

When we had wine and cheese evening this Monday, me and the girls ordered some stuff from elf. It's a supercheap Brittish makeup and nailpolish brand; almost everything costs 1,5£! And the shipping was only 40sek (4€) :) When it arrives I will show you and give you swatches and reviews, if it's just cheap crap or worth ordering!

Meanwhile you can check out the website: e.l.f, which stands for eyes lips face.

Good lash day

You girls now what I'm talking about. Just like you can have a bad hairday you can have a bad eyelash day. A day when your eyelashes just won't cooperate.. But yesterday was not one of those days!

So I just have to say, I'm very pleased with how my eyelashes turned out:

Makeup and clothes

This is the hair, makeup and clothes I wore this Saturday:

Lace top from Zara, silk skirt and shoes from H&M

Hmm my camera eats makeup.. anyway I used:

Some of the brown colors from my new eyeshadow palette, IsaDora liquid eyeliner, MaxFactor 1000Calories mascara and my new IsaDora Nude Glow lipstick

The palette. I used the brown shadows in row (vertical) 2 and 3

Shopping and gifts

Here are some pictures of the things we got this weekend

We got a blue Le Creuset bowl from Benjamin and Janni as a housewarming gift

At Väla we bought a candlestick for värmeljus, in which you can put decorations. We bought some fake spruce twigs for Christmas.

We also bought some jars at Bolagret for the tea we bought some weeks ago

I got the IsaDora lipstick called Nude Glow 144 from their autum "Rock Chic" collection