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My Beauty Essentials


These are products that I find really good. The quality of these beauty products is really great and they are pretty cheap as well. Here is the list of all the items:

1. Seaweed Deep Cleansing Facial Wash for combination to oily skin by The Body Shop 
(This is absolutely great! Your skin really feels clean after using the cleanser. The best thing though is that it doesn't contain any soap, which is so much better for my skin.)

2. Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion by Clinique
(At first I wasn't too keen on the effects of this product, but after using it for about a month my skin started feeling really soft. And it creates a great base before applying foundation.) 

3. Lasting Performance foundation by Maxfactor
(This has been my favourite foundation by far for ages. It doesn't look heavy on the skin but it has enough pigment to cover up any imperfections, even "ready to pop" zits.)

4. Color Juice lip gloss by L'Oreal
(This is the perfect nude for the color of my lips. For some reason, all lipsticks tend to look heavy and somehow discoloured on my lips. Amazingly enough, my lips look perfectly nude with Color Juice.)

5. Hypnose mascara by Lancome
(As the name suggests, this mascara created "hypnose" worthy lashes. Even though your lashes seem to bulge after the application, they don't look clumpy or overdone and fake.)

6. Eyestudio Drama Gel Eyeliner by Maybelline
(The brush that comes along with the little container of eyeliner, which by the way lasts for a loooooong time, is amazing. You can choose to have a really fine line, with the tip of the brush or a really thick 60's line both will look close to perfect [depending on your expertise with eyeliner ;)]. In fact, you can do anything you want with the eyeliner and it will not budge, well only if your eyelids tend to get oily.) 

7. Pineapple Facial Enzyme Mask by Freeman
(To be honest this is a new product in my beauty regimen, but so far it has proven to be pretty good. After applying it and leaving it on my face for 10 minutes, it really leaves your skin feeling lusciously soft.)  

8. Papaya Body Butter by The Body Shop
(Body butters in general are a great way to moisturize because of their thick consistency. This one has a wonderful smell on top of the richness. The only drawback is; if you apply it in the morning it might make your skin so soft that even cotton will be too scratchy to wear that day, that's why I stick to applying it at night, and only on my arms and chest in the morning, so I have something yummy to smell during the day.)

Greek Beauty

Kalimera Kriti offered products from the Greek cosmetics brand Korres. The products are made from natural plant and herb extracts without any harmful ingredients like parabens, mineral oil, petrolatum, etc. The company is sort of like The Body Shop but a little more expensive. The shampoo pictured above is not your typical shampoo smell which is kind of refreshing, to be able to have your hair smell a little different. It honestly smells organic like the herbs themselves. Not like they tried to recreate the "natural" smell of the particular herbs, like some companies do and try to sell the products as "natural".

The body products were also really nice. The particular body wash I used was with Green Tea and the smell was a bit "manly" for my taste, but it still smelled really nice. The body lotion was really hydrating though. When I put it on my sunburned skin it brought back the moisture to my epidermis.

Images via out.com and beautyandthedirt.com