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Bye.
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[Alfie:] See you later.
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See you later.
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Hello everybody. It feels so long since I have done a favourites video,
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because the last time I did one was at the start of December
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which was my November favourites.
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And since then, I haven't done a favourites.
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I didn't do a yearly round up, I didn't do a December favourites.
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So today, I'm going to be doing my January favourites.
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And, if I'm honest, these are some of my favourite videos to film and to watch
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just because you get a really good idea of what someone has genuinely been enjoying,
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and I feel like that's a great thing to go off of.
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If I watch someone's favourites, and they're like, I used this product all through the month and I love it,
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I'm like, I know you mean that and I'm going to go and buy it.
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I kind of want to keep this short because I've just cooked myself a pizza for lunch
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and it's now on the side getting colder.
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Although, I have to say, I much prefer to eat pizza when it's, like, not that hot
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because there is nothing worse than biting into pizza,
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and it's like molten lava and it burns you mouth and you can't taste anything for like the next two days
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so, I mean, I'm quite happy about that.
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I'm happy that its sat on the side waiting for me,
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but, I don't want to take the p and leave it too long.
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So I am going to try and film this quite quickly.
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Cause I'm quite hungry, and my stomach might also rumble.
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Because I feel like its been a while, and I've got a hair in my eye,
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I have accumulated quite a few beauty products,
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which, generally, if you watch my favourites you'll know is the one thing I struggle to actually use.
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Because, once I love something, I continue to use that until, like, forever
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Forever.
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So, where to start?
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I have mentioned this briefly on my vlogging channel,
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but I am loving this.
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This is the Sunday Riley Martian mattifying melting water gel toner.
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I very kindly received a sample of this in my P.O. Box
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in... December? And I've been using it ever since,
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this is one I've since purchased myself.
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In fact, I purchased two because I didn't want to run out and then not have it.
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This is for oily to acne prone skin.
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And although I don't particularly have all-over oily or all-over acne,
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I have areas that are oily and areas that are acne prone.
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So I have found that this has been amazing.
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Generally when I've had a spot or a blemish,
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the marks take a really long time to fade.
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I always say it's kind of like my skin is see-through,
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and whenever I've had a spot you can literally see it
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for like, weeks afterwards,
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and I feel like that's really helping with this.
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I also feel like any spots that I do have,
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which is kind of a given around a certain time of the month anyway,
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they're not as... I want to say savage.
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They're not as savage.
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They're not as huge, they're not as, like, painful,
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and I really think that this has helped the overall kind of appearance of my skin.
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Also I just really like the toner stage.
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It's, like, one of my favourite stages, because it's so, like, refreshing.
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I don't know. It's nice to, like, prep your skin before moisturiser.
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The next thing I've been loving is this,
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which is the Peter Thomas Roth pumpkin enzyme mask
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enzymatic dermal resurfacer.
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This is as scary as it sounds.
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This was actually quite painful.
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But then I quite like a face mask that's like, woah, I can feel that working.
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I know that some people don't, and to be honest, I probably should steer clear of these
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because I think I have quite sensitive skin,
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but, when I put this on, my whole face was like, woah, I feel like
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there is like a tiny, like, army of red ants like going at my face right now
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but when I took this off
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my skin was like a whole other dimension.
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It was just like, woah, okay this mask really does something.
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It says "a 3-in-1 intensive skin resurfacer mask exfoliates with pumpkin enzyme,
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peels with alpha-hydroxy-acid, polishes with aluminium oxide,
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and reveals smoother, younger-looking, radiant, and revitalized skin."
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I can 100% vouch for the radiant.
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When I first took this off, my skin was glowy, it looked amazing.
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The next day, however, I did have some spots. So I think that it kind of drew those out.
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But, carried on using it, and I use this, I don't know,
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at the moment I would say I probably use this, like, once a week, or
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three times every two weeks. I don't wanna use it too much.
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And it just says to "apply a thin layer to clean skin, gently massage in a circular motion with wet fingertips
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to polish with micro-polishing aluminium oxide powder.
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Leave on for three to seven minutes."
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*doorbell ringing*
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There's someone at my door.
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It's not just kind of a slap-it-on-and-leave-it, but I highly recommend this.
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It's really great. If you want a mask that feels like it's doing something to your skin, this will.
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And because it said pumpkin, I was really, like,
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"Oh! This is gonna smell so, like, autumn-y and, like, pumpkin cupcakes."
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I was wrong.
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I mean, it does a little bit. But it mostly just smells like actual pumpkin.
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Not, like, pumpkin spicey goodness.
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I'm gonna do the next two together, because I feel like they kind of go hand in hand, although they don't.
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But it is a new toothbrush and a new flosser.
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I had one of these about two years ago, and this bit broke.
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Oh. And I've just realised, I literally probably could have just bought a new head of it.
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Something broke and it didn't work.
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I thought I'd just snapped this, but I could have replaced that, so...
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I don't know. What did I do?
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I loved it, and I was like, I need to get that flosser again, because I really enjoyed it.
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This flosser is intense. If you wanna feel like you've been to a hygienist,
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you need to use this toothbrush, which is the
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uh, Oral-B Braun...
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something.
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I don't know the actual model of this, but it was half price in Boots after Christmas,
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so I treated myself to a new toothbrush.
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I feel like treating yourself to a new toothbrush every January
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is kind of like, do you know what? Fresh start. Fresh toothbrush.
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I don't know, I really like buying new toothbrushes.
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And I just spat. That's how excited I am for a new toothbrush.
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I had not used one like this before,
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but it's got multiple different functions,
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it's, you know, got sensitive, whitening, all the things.
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But the main reason I was drawn towards this was not just because it was copper, or because it was half price.
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It was because...
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it...
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came with a little, like, phone mount that you can put on your mirror,
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and you put your phone in it.
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And this syncs up with bluetooth,
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so that it tells you when you're pressing too hard, and it gives you a rundown of
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um, how long you need to do your teeth, and, I don't know, it's like a teeth diary, and I really, really like it.
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Granted, I don't always open the app every time I brush my teeth.
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So the app looks like I never brush my teeth.
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But, um, I just love that it tells you when you're brushing too hard.
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Which, weirdly, I always do on this side. Never this side, just this side and at the top.
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Which I didn't know before I had this toothbrush, so...
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very useful. And
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I like this because it-
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ah!
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Basically how it works is, you fill this with water or, um,
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mouthwash. I tend to put mouthwash in there, just because I like my mouth to be all, like, fresh and minty.
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So I'll put my Listerine in there,
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eye-watering stuff, but it's great for your mouth, and your gums, and your teeth.
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Does anyone remember? I remember these in school because we weren't allowed chewing gum,
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but they had just brought out those little tabs that you put on your tongue,
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and I used to keep those in my pencil case, and I had Listerine ones.
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So whenever I was a bit like, oh my God, I'm sat next to this boy, and I don't want bad breath, so
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I'm gonna, like, slip myself a little, like, Listerine tab. How funny is that?
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And then no one would ever know, because it just dissolved on your tongue, and they were genius.
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I don't even know if they're still around. I haven't seen any in a really long time.
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And you press this button...
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and you hold this on your teeth, and it shoots the
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uh, Listerine, or mouthwash, between your teeth.
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So, these two things together, I think, have a) made my teeth whiter,
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b) made my mouth feel more clean,
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and c) make you feel like you've been to a hygienist every time you use them, so
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I mean, this is kind of bulky, I have to say. It's not like normal dental floss.
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But I think, personally, this works a lot better.
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So I briefly mentioned in my previous video how much I I have been loving
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the Revlon Colorstay makeup foundation. Makeup foundation?
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The Revlon Colorstay foundation.
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Love that it's now in a pump. Love it, love it, love it.
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I've got it on today, I've been wearing it for, like, the past two weeks,
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I just really like this foundation. This one is for combination to oily skin, and I believe you can also get it for normal to dry skin, or just normal skin.
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And...
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I don't know.
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I can't tell you what it is about this that I love, apart from that it's a great foundation,
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it's a great price,
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it blends really lovely, they have a great selection of shades,
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and I would say it's like a medium to buildable coverage,
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doesn't feel drying, lasts really well,
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I just really like it. And I'd forgotten how much I liked it until I rediscovered it in my makeup when I was having a clear out, so
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love ya.
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I've also been loving this. This is quite random,
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but this is an Anastasia Beverly Hills A23 brush.
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I got this on Cult Beauty, because
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it's the sort of size brush that I really love for highlight.
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I have quite a small face, so quite a lot of blush, highlight, and bronzer brushes
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are too big for certain areas of my face.
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Things like this are perfect for quite, like, precise blush and highlight application, or even contour, to be honest,
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which is why I bought it, and now I swear by it. It's just amazing.
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It's just that perfect size to do those three things on my face.
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Eyeliner! This is the Stila Stay All Day waterproof liquid eyeliner.
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I hadn't really been wearing eyeliner much, I don't know if anyone even noticed,
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but I used to do my little cat-eye quite a lot,
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and I just stopped doing it because I was really struggling through the summer to find
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a eyeliner that was
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easy to apply and lasted well. They were either easy to apply,
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and within, like, three hours my flicks had gone, because my eyes were really watery in summer for some reason,
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Or... they were...
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they just didn't have great colour payoff. And I just feel like, with a liquid eyeliner,
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you want it to be really black.
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And you want it to stand out over any eyeshadow, or
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um, just, I don't know, make it easy to get those, like, lines.
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I'm useless with gel liner, because I'm just rubbish, so I need some sort of, like, felt tip...
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applicator when it comes to eyeliner. So I saw this one,
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and I thought, Stay All Day, waterproof. Those are two words I like to hear
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when we're talking about eyeliner. So I thought I would give it a go,
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and I love it. It's made me fall back in love with liquid eyeliner.
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I'm not gonna say this lasts...
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all day if you have leaky eyes.
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I had a day of cry-laughing recently, and- as you do.
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I had a day of cry-laughing.
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And I did lose one flick. The other one was fine.
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I seem to have this eye leak more than this one. But, considering I had, like, proper tears coming out of my eyes,
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I thought it was really good. And actually, if I didn't have watery eyes, this would definitely see me to the end of the day.
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Another thing, which I actually showed in my last video, is this,
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which is the Rimmel Born This Way brow sculpting kit.
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Which, if I'm completely honest, I bought on a whim, thinking, yeah, this looks okay, I wanna see what...
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kind of, the more high-street shops can offer in terms of eyebrows, because I was quite happy with the eyebrow product I was using, which was powder.
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In that video, I tried this on my eyebrows, and I have been using this on my eyebrows every day since.
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I love it. And it's actually the dark brown wax that I put in my eyebrows, and I just use
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a MAC 226 slanted, like, eyebrow, eyeliner brush.
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And I dip it in the wax side of this, and then I put it through my brows.
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I feel like it offers a much more natural look. It doesn't feel...
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as flat.
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It kind of gives a bit of shade,
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gives a bit of dimension, makes the hairs how you want them to be without having to use powder, and then a gel on top of that,
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it's just the best thing ever. Honestly, use a dark brown wax for your eyebrows.
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You will not be sorry.
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A lip product I've been really enjoying is this one, which I actually have on my lips today,
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and this is the Colorpop Hello Kitty, so it's part of their Hello Kitty collection that Colorpop did,
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and it's the ultra-satin lip.
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You know how much I love the actual liquid lipsticks that Colorpop do, so I was really interested in trying out
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the ultra-satin lip, because it's a different formulation,
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and this is in the colour...
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Tiny Chum! It's very similar to the colour that I love by Colorpop, which is Bianca. It's that kind of...
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mauve-y, pinky nude, but quite dark. And I really, really like this.
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But, more importantly, for any of you that don't like how drying the liquid lipsticks are, you are gonna love these. Because...
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the colour payoff is just as amazing, they're just as easy to apply, but they don't feel as heavy, and they don't feel as dry.
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I really, really like them. I want more colours in the ultra-satin lip.
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Fragrance-wise, I've been really liking this. This is White Peacock Lily by D.S. & Durga, and it's the Eau de Parfum.
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I couldn't tell you what notes are in this, because White Peacock Lily...
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I mean, is that a flower? It ain't a peacock, that's for sure.
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But what I can tell you is...
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it's fresh, slightly floral, quite summery, actually, I feel like this would be a really nice summer perfume.
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But I love it. It's like nothing I've ever smelled before, and I quite like layering this with
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Jo Malone, um, Sea Salt and Sage, or Wood Sage.
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And I also really like to layer with the Molecule 01, which is also one of my all-time favourite perfumes.
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And it just smells really, like, light, and, like, fruity/floral,
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um, it's probably, mm, I wouldn't say it's, like, overly feminine, though,