My Skincare Routine

Hello again! 

Today I have my skincare routine for you. I've been wanting to do this post for a while now. I'm not sure if I've done this post before or not... it feels like I have but I'm not a hundred percent sure! Even if I have done it before, it will definitely be an updated routine because my skincare products have changed quite a bit over the past year or so! 

I hope you enjoy this post and I'll see you at the end! 

The first thing I always do is remove my eye makeup. There's no better feeling than makeup-free eyes, in my opinion. My favourite remover at the moment is the Simple one because it's really nice on my skin, doesn't irritate my eyes at all and it takes the makeup off. I sometimes switch to my Estee Lauder one, but I prefer only to use that on special occasions. Not sure why, maybe something to do with the price difference...

Once all of my eye makeup has been removed, I go onto my face makeup because again, having no face makeup on is a great feeling. To do that I just use these tea tree cleansing wipes. I know it's bad for your skin to use wipes to remove makeup, but you will see further on in the post I am much more thorough with  my makeup removal than just wipes! 

I move onto my L'Occitane essential water to remove any small traces of makeup that the wipes and eye makeup remover didn't quite get off. I received this sample size in one of my Pink Parcel packages if anyone was interested! You can read that post here.

Then I will use my cleanser to fully cleanse my face and make sure that there are definitely no traces of makeup left over on my skin, or if it's in the morning just to wake me up and start the day with a clean face. 

I don't use this every day, although it does say that is okay to use as a daily facial scrub. I just don't want to take all of the skin off my face, so I use it up to 3 times a week, depending on how good I feel my skin is that week. This is a really nice scrub, it's not too harsh on the skin hence why it can be used every day.

This is a product that I received in this month's Pink Parcel box and I was absolutely overjoyed with it - a £23.50 product in a £9.99 box?! I've really been enjoying using it so far, it goes into the skin really well and I have noticed a difference in the smoothness of my skin.

Once I've done all of the cleansing and scrubbing, moisturiser is in order! My go-to moisturiser at the moment is the Simple Hydrating Light Moistruriser. It's really light and sinks into the skin really well. I also find it hydrates my skin really nicely, which is good seen as 'hydrating' is in the name!

Finally, my go-to face mask of the times. I probably use this once every couple of weeks at the moment. You're meant to use it more, but I forget and stuff so it never happens anymore than once a week. I've really liked this face mask by Quick Fix Facials, and I know they have a range of face masks that all do different things so I think I'm going to look into that a little more.

And so that's about it at the moment! I hope you enjoyed this post and let me know if you've tried any of these products and what you think! 

What's in your skincare routine?

Love, Becca

-xoxo

Brand Spotlight | Simple

Happy Sunday! Although it isn't really a very happy Sunday because I go back to school tomorrow after 2 weeks off and that makes me very sad.

However, it's the last stretch because exams start in less than a month so in less than 2 months GCSEs will be fully complete guys!! Woo, who else is excited!? 

Today I thought I'd do another brand spotlight, I did one of these a little while ago where I put W7 in the spotlight, you can read that here.

So, this brand spotlight is all about the Simple Skincare range. I've always been a huge fan of simple as my mum has used it for years so she always buys me there stuff (hence the huge collection you're about to see!) So, I thought since I've never really talked about it properly on here, why not? 

Simple Purifying Cleansing Lotion

Simple Vital Vitamin Foaming Cleanser

Simple Hydrating Light Moisturiser

Simple Eye Makeup Remover

Simple Refreshing Facial Wash Gel

Simple Soothing Facial Toner

I have linked each product to it's page on the Simple website so you can read what Simple has to say about their own products too! 

I love the Simple because they don't add in anything that isn't needed. This does mean that none of the products are scented but that's probably much better for your skin! Simple only uses the chemicals necessary to cleanse, moisturise or tone your skin, because that's all it's there to do! 

As you can probably see by the pink label on all the products, Simple is the UK's Number 1 skincare brand, and honestly I'm really not surprised. I love many other skincare brands like Clean & Clear and Garnier but Simple is my holy grail and probably always will be. 

I think the packaging is flawless too, it's really subtle and simple (see what I did there) and it just looks like it's going to be good. I can honestly say, if I hadn't already tried nearly every product and had never tried the brand before, the packaging would definitely make me want to try it. 

The cleansers leave your skin feeling really clean and the moisturisers leave your skin feeling as soft as a baby's bottom! I also really like the toner because unlike quite a lot of toners, this one is alcohol free. Sometimes I find the alcohol in toners irritates my skin a little bit, but I don't have that problem with this one. The eye makeup remover is also amazing because you don't need too much and it even gets rid of waterproof mascara and eyeliner which is just brilliant for me personally. It's also really refreshing as I find sometimes using an eye makeup remover sometimes irritates the skin around my eyes, however I don't have this issue here.

The final thing I want to say about Simple is it's totally 100% affordable. Prices don't often go above £5 making all their products totally teen affordable! Which is obviously a plus for all of us!

That's all I have to say really, I hope you enjoyed today's brand spotlight and I hope this post has inspired you to go and try some Simple skincare products! 

See you soon, 

Love, Becca

-xoxo