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 Okay first product review from my Glamour Beauty Box (http://jessdisney90.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/2014) and it's the Eyeko 'Mascara Off' makeup wipes. There are only 10 in a pack so you'd either have to stock up or choose wisely and you can buy them here: http://www.eyeko.com/eyeko-mascara-off
The product is oil based and is specifically designed to take off eye makeup, in particular mascara. They're fairly small sized wipes as well so definitely don't waste the back!
Firstly, I don't wear a LOT of mascara, just enough to make a difference, but I do wear Benefit's 'They're Real' which is a buggar to remove so I wondered if these would be a bit better at the task than others!
The packet said to hold the wipe onto the eye for 5-10 seconds for the oil to do its thing, which I did, and then I wiped carefully along my eye and over my top and bottom lashes. As you can see from the picture of the wipe it takes a lot off! They're really soft and gentle on eyes so it doesn't feel like you're scrubbing your lashes off either :)
The last picture shows what they look like afterwards.
There are 2 issues that I have with the wipes:
1) The amount in the packet. If you wear mascara all the time then you'll go through these ridiculously quickly and they aren't cheap!
2) They didn't take ALL of my mascara off :S I got out of the bath and still had residue and woke up this morning with some under my eyes too! I'm not sure if it's just because my mascara is such a toughie to remove though. However, again, for the price and quantity if there's still mascara left it's a lot to spend!
Have you used these before? What did you think?
Jess x




For a large portion of my life I have had a problem with my eyelashes. I used to have lovely lashes like normal people, but then I developed Trichotillomania.
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/trichotillomania/Pages/introduction.aspx
I began pulling out my eyelashes to the point where I had next to none left and they didn't grow back for a long time. I felt horrible that I did it to myself and felt awful unless I wore mascara (Which when you have nothing to put it on, is REALLY hard FYI.)
After a little while they slowly began coming back, but even wearing mascara, I didn't feel right and no mascara seemed able to falsify anything in the lash department for me. This is what I tended to look like:

I saw recently on Instagram the new Benefit 'They're Real' range and everyone was raving about it. I'm not normally one to go with the hype but I was curious, I've always been a Benefit girl and had gone through a hardcore phase (before the pulling out) of wearing Bad Gal. As I was headed to America on holiday I decided that I'd go ahead and give it a try...





AND I'M SO GLAD I DID!!! LOOK!

I'm not usually one to coat on the mascara, I like to be able to open my eyes if I'm honest, and I stay true to that with this mascara.
It is so easy to wiggle on, and I actually seem to have eyelashes now! They look noticeably longer and fuller and thicker and give the illusion of 'natural' falsies. I am in love.
I feel SO much more confident about my eyes lately and it sounds really cheesy but it is because of this mascara, it's CRAZY! Also i've definitely been having less of an urge to pull them out which tbh is amazeballs. <3 you Benefit.


I also bought the push-up liner from the range as I needed a new one and I have never found one that I get on with really well, so again I thought i'd see how it went. Totally LOVED it. 

 I found it tricky to get to grips with at first and kept just blobbing gel on my eyes which wasn't fun, but after a few practices I think I've got it!
The angle makes it super easy to follow the shape of your eye and it gives a consistent coverage as you go. 
I don't do 'barely there' liner and this is perfect for that as it's bold and dramatic. Creating flicks and wings are super easy too as you just angle the nib and go. 
 (Also used LOADS of my mascara here as I was going out...I felt like I was wearing falsies!)

Overall Benefit have made me the happiest girl in the world recently and I've definitely stepped up my make-up game haha. I've already asked for more as a Christmas pressie :)

Tonight I was trying to sort out my make up bag ready for holibobs on Tuesday and I raided all of my bags on the hunt for one particular nail varnish that I wanted. (It was a stressful and messy experience!) In the process I gathered quite a few 'lost' varnishes and realised I had a fairly decent nail varnish collection.
(P.S. I apologise in advance for the terrible photo quality, my phone is awful.)
 I like to try out new nail varnishes and i'm not snobby about brands either as I unfortunately tend to chip it all off out of boredom most days! (Bad habit, I know.)
My all time favourite nail varnish make is Barry M, they do such a diverse range of colours that it's hard not to love them. I recently bought a selection of pastel colours which are cute for summer...
The yellow isn't my favourite as I don't like the 'textured' effect but the others are gorgeous. From the left: - TNP2 (Station Road) 
- 279 (Bright Pink)
- 304 (Mint Green)
-308 (Berry Ice Cream)
- 306 (Blueberry Ice Cream)
My other favourites are the bright blue and pink varnishes from Primark that I featured in my first blog  post, so I won't say much more about them!
These two beautys came from a beautiful Ted Baker cosmetics set at Christmas. The pink is very subtle and gives a perfect natural nail colour and after a couple of coats the gold gives a really decent amount of sparkle!
Finally the randoms! These are the varnishes I tend not to use a lot but they end up coming in useful. The 3 tubes on the right are nail art pens from Primark, great for spots and stripes (silver, gold and mint)
The yellow I bought after the Barry M one, it's from Seventeen and is Lemon Tart.
The blue nail varnish was from a Sally Hanson Extreme Wear set.
Lastly the black is from Collection 2000 and is called Liquorice. 
I hope that this has inspired you to dig out your nail varnish collection and see exactly what you've got! You might surprise yourself :)
OK so I have alwaaaays struggled with my eyebrows, i've never liked them; they're uneven, I hate their shape and their colour! Just aarghhh!
It wasn't until a couple of years ago that I discovered brow pencils and they've been my saviour ever since,I'm never without one. Just when I thought i'd got it down, I found out that there's brow gels and brow powders too and now I feel completely clueless.
At the moment I have serioussss brow envy on IG and need to have a try around with different products. If anyone has any great starting points it would be really helpful...
I currently use Rimmel's brow pencil in dark brown, but I think it might be too dark for me!
Let me know what you think.