Product Review 'Australian Bodycare Tea Tree Hand and Body Lotion'

Over the years I have tried and tested hundreds of hand creams and until recently my personal favourite has always been 'Soap and Glory Hand Food'. I think the main reason this has been my favourite is the colour of the bottle (PINK!) and also the smell of the cream, it really does smell like marshmallows!

www.soapandglory.com/products/scents-1/original-pink/hand-food

However I decided it was about time I had a change and decided to try one of our own products 'Australian Bodycare Hand and Body Lotion'. The bottle isn't quite as pretty as the Soap & Glory but its a nice shade of green and very practical with a screw top rather than a cap, so chance of spillage. As you can see from the photo below the bottle is the perfect size to put in your handbag to.

The scent is fresh and light (tea tree) so greta for both men and women to use and the consistency of the cream isn't to thick and spread easily on my hands. The lotion is white and left my hands feeling instantly moisturised and smelling fresh. I have to say I was very impressed! It didn't leave my hands feeling greasy afterwards just supple. The lotion can also be used as all over body cream and is often applied to shaved skin to moisturise and help prevent ingrowing hairs.

The ingredients are as follows:

Aqua, paraffinum liquidum, melaleuca alternifolia (5%), glycerine, isopropyl myristate, stearic cid, glycol stearate, isopropyl lanolate, triethanolamine, carbomer, cetearyl alcohol, sodium laureth sulphate, propylene glycol, diazolidinyl urea, methylparaben, propylparaben, limonene, linalool, coumarine, parfum.

To read more health benefits on Tea Tree please click here.

If you wish to purchase the hand lotion, its available from Lovingbeauty.co.uk and costs £11.63 for 150ml.

Stay Beautiful

Lucy xx

Valentines Charity Event 'Help the Heros'

'Save the Date'

Lovingbeauty will be co-hosting a Charity Event for Help the Heros with Indulgence Beauty Salon and Rule 1 Store just in time for Valentines!

Where:  Indulgence Beauty Salon

              206 The Broadway

              Bexleyheath

              Kent

              DA6 7BD

When:  Wednesday 8th February 2012

Time:   4pm - 9pm

The Event: We have organised an event for a Charity close to our heart, Help The Heros.  On the night there will be 20% off all beauty treatments, products and dresses. There will be a raffle to help raise money for our chosen charity, prizes will include beauty products, dresses, gift vouchers for Indulgence and many more …...


We will be providing champagne, nibbles and cakes to really get us in the Valentines mood.

Hope you all can make it!

Stay Beautiful

Lovingbeauty Team xx

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to you all!

We hope you had an amazing Christmas and New Year, we sure did we worked very hard over the Christmas and New Year period however we had our fair share of parting as well.

Gemma headed up to London on new years eve to watch the fire works and have dinner at the first indian restaurant in london, Veeraswamy which was amazing and comes highly recommended, she ensured she wore her halo hair for the occasion complemented by her favourite Bali spray tan. 

Gemma drinking her favourite cocktail … The Kir Royale

Jamie Leigh went to a fancy dress party and dressed up as the ever so sexy Alice in Wonderland with a matching blonde wig we think she looks amazing, sadly Jamie didn't have time for a spray tan and so instead, she used her favourite Flawless FakeBake Self Tan (who would have known it was manually applied)!

Can you spot Jamie?

Lucy went to sunny Wales for the New Year and typically it poured the whole time. Unfortunately for Lucy she was fast asleep by 10 after a busy day involving lots of food, alcohol and children running wild! However she did have time to apply her La La Lashes, Desire in the morning so at least she looked the part! 

Jack playing with his new pink pram which he loves!

Remember you can keep up to date with all our news and gossip by following us on Twitter  and Facebook.

Stay Beautiful

Lovingbeauty x

Merry Christmas from Lovingbeauty x

Firstly I would like to say a big Thank You to all our lovely customers and followers who have visited our online store and blog, Lovingbeauty in 2011. We hope you have a lovely Christmas and New Year and are looking forward to seeing you again in 2012!

2012 is a very exciting time for us at Lovingbeauty, we will continue to bring you our own personal product reviews, beauty advice, tips and hint, and of course the results of our latest challenges …. the Flabelos & Universal Contour Wrap! 

Watch this space for all new products and all the latest gossip from the Lovingbeauty HQ.

Stay Beautiful

Lovingbeauty Team xx

Hit the Town

We definitely had that Monday morning feeling a day early at Lovingbeauty, after we teamed up with Indulgence Beauty Salon and had our Christmas party on Saturday night. We all had a lovely time, starting off with dinner in the city, followed by champagne and dancing into the early hours! However, as true professionals, we were all up and ready for work feeling spritely despite the late night before.

Everyone dressed up in their best outfits for the occasion, and make-up was applied a little more generously than usual. Favourite looks for the night were subtle smoky eye using ‘Queen Tiffany’ and ‘Tiger’s Eye’ eye shadow shades from the Bare Minerals collection, rosy cheeks and lips, and lots of Christmas glitter from the High Shine Trio collection from Bare Minerals.
 All available from our bareMinerals collection from Lovingbeauty.co.uk.

Tans of choice for the evening included Fake Bakes Flawless, the favourite of ours here at Lovingbeauty, and the instant shimmer tans from Fake Bake, which give an added glow to skin when applied before finishing off your party look with your favourite outfit.

Also, with the recent arrival of the renowned ‘Halo Hair’ extensions at Lovingbeauty, we’ll all be putting it to the test to check if the Halo really is party proof and stays put all night. Here’s hoping! Check out our previous blog post about Halo Hair, and what a difference it can make to your natural hair, without causing any damage, or showing any tell-tale signs such as bonds or clip ins. And the best part is that you can whip it out at the end of the night before you go to bed! Simple!

See below for our 'before' and ‘after’ pictures, showing our lovely girls after their night-out transformations! They definitely all scrub up very well!

Before:

During Transformation:

Halo Hair Extension, Light Brown

La La Lashes Drama Queen

Jessica Nail Colour, Royal Red & Midnight

After:

Have you had your annual Christmas party yet? What did you get up to?

Stay Beautiful

Lovingbeauty Team x

Aroma Works Aromatherapy Candles

One of the highlights of working in the HQ of Lovingbeauty is that, amongst other things, we get to try out lots of lovely beauty products. We like to try and test all products before they are sold on Lovingbeauty.co.uk to make sure they are up to our standard, which although has its plus points isn’t always as glamorous as it sounds. There have been a few incidents which haven’t been so enjoyable including some rather unpleasent face masks and a disasterous fake tan experiement! However generally the trial and error is all part of the fun, especially when it involves scented candles.

 

A few months ago when we attended an exhibition called Top Drawer we stumbled across a gorgeous smelling stand called ‘Aroma Works’. We loved the smell of these candles so much that we were sent some samples to see just how good they were.

 

These candles are completely natural and are made of organic soy and beeswax and contain the purest essential oil out there! They come in a range of sizes and smells with burn times from 16hours to 40hours. My personal favourite is from the Yuletide Collection; Epice “Light up our delectable Yuletide Epice candle, and you'll find the combination of spicy and fruity fragrances instantly conjure up festive feelings, leaving you uplifted, soothed, and ready to enjoy the season of good will. Our Epice candle blends the spicy notes of the Jamaican pimento berry - which encourages warmth, comfort and energy - with the soothing fruit tones of the Italian mandarin.” It smells just devine and gives the room a really Christmassy feeling.

We were so impressed with these aromatherapy candles that we are now stocking them at Lovingbeauty with prices starting from just £9.00. Visit www.lovingbeauty.co.uk for more details.

Stay Beautiful

 

Lucy Lovingbeauty x

Lovely Review of Our Products & Website ...

Please have a read of this lovely review of our products and website by Mischief & Makeup

LOVING SMOKY EYES

I wanted to get some new eye shadow for the party season, something that felt Christmassy that I could wear when I get all glammed up for the December nights out. I found the perfect solution with this Smoky Eye Tutorials set by Bare Minerals from Loving Beauty!

It's nice to have some guidance on how to use products and create a professional look, or just to try different techniques so when I saw the Tutorials sets I wanted to try them out straight away! In the Smoky Eyes box you get a Bare Minerals creamy/ivory coloured eye shadow, a darker grey/navy one for the smoky effect, a double ended special blending eye shadow brush, and of course the tutorial on different techniques. 

I also got some La La Lashes from Loving Beauty http://lovingbeauty.co.uk/ I thought that would finish the look off quite nicely and I think it definitely did! The Smoky Eye set is £21, and free delivery! - which I think is very reasonable. I've tried Bare Minerals products before and know that they look and feel different on the skin because they are made up of only natural products. It almost makes me deliberately not take my make-up off just because I know they say it's fine to sleep in! Haha good job really when you pass out! 

The first picture below I used the ivory eye-shadow all over my eye lid right up to the brow, applied with the blending end of the brush. Then I have used the fine applying end to put the grey into the crease of my eye, and blended the two together so give a softer look. I think it really brought out the colour of my eyes! I've use Benefit High Brow pencil under my brows to highlight my brow bones. 

Picture below without the La La lashes so you can see for comparison....

I love cheek bones too, I will do a post for you soon on what I use! For my Christmas party I then tried a different technique, a bit darker this time. I applied the ivory all over the lid (you have to gently tap the brush before you put it on but it tells you all of this in the box). I then used the grey on a slightly damp brush and mixed the shadow in the lid as it recommends & applied this along the base of my eye-lid near my lashes and a tiny amount in the crease of my eye again. I used my liquid eye liner, applied my La La lashes and then put mascara on my bottom lashes. You can see here how shimmery and reflective the shadow is...

I think it gave a really nice effect!! I can't wait to use them again, next time I'm going to use the grey all over and go really dark and dramatic. I love the lashes too, nice and thick and a good natural shape. I think they really set this look off. (Link to Smoky Eye set on their website here) - http://www.lovingbeauty.co.uk/love-make-up/bare-escentuals/gift-sets/tutorials-smoky-eye/prod_429.html

I definitely want to try some of the other tutorials sets and would definitely recommend buying from Loving Beauty as their prices are really competitive and they don't charge anything for delivery! Here is a link to their website!….

Lovingbeauty ~ www.lovingbeauty.co.uk


SMOKY EYE TUTORIALS £21.00
http://www.lovingbeauty.co.uk/love-make-up/bare-escentuals/gift-sets/tutorials-smoky-eye/prod_429.html

LA LA LASHES
http://www.lovingbeauty.co.uk/love-lashes/la-la-lashes/cat_90.html

Loving Beauty are also on Twitter @LovingBeautyUK

M&Mx