Boots January Sale Haul

Hi Dolls, I have a haul for you today, this was the stuff that I picked up in the Boxing Day Sales from Boots mainly, I really should of showed you before but when I went to write it when I first bought it all blogger was playing up and would only let me add two photo's per post & that just wasn't very useful, so I thought I'd show you some of the stuff I got and give you a few sneak peaks into what's to come on my blog over the next few weeks. Whilst I'm here I just wanted to say a big hello to all my new followers, since having twitter I've met loads of amazing new bloggers & found loads of great blogs so that's been really good, I've also reached over 10,000 page views which is a massive achievement, anyway on to what I got.

The Boots Sale is my favourite sale every single year, they have 50% off every single one of their gift sets that they have before Christmas, I just think that's soo cool and if you've been eyeing a gift set up before Christmas it's so satisfying to be able to get it at half the price afterwards, you really can grab yourself some right bargains. Anyway I got five of the Christmas gift sets:

 

Enchanted - Book of Spells Set -

Normal Price £16.00   Sale Price: £8.00

Soap and Glory - Bright Skincare Kit

Normal Price: £30.00   Sale Price: £15.00

17 Lip Pencils -
Normal Price - £10.00    Sale Price: £5.00

Enchanted - The Fairest of Them All Set - Normal Price - £8.00    Sale Price: £4.00

Soap and Glory - Crazy Sexy Kohl Eyeliner Set - Normal Price: £18.00   Sale Price: £9.00

 

The first set I picked up was the Enchanted Book of Spells, I love this kit, it's gorgeous, you get 10 eye shadows, 4 lip balms & 2 blushes housed in this really gorgeous purple case. If you stand the box up it looks like a book (hence the name) and in all honesty the packaging was what sold me on the kit. I like the fact that the book has two separate drawers to house the different products and a massive mirror too, I just thought it was a really cute design. I won't say too much about it because otherwise this post will be huge but all I will say is that I think that the eye shadows are a slight disappointment, they are lovely shades with names as gorgeous as 'slipper' a glittery white and fawn a lovely matte brown. The only problem is that they aren't very pigmented at all, it's so disappointing when they're such nice shades. The glosses & blushes do make up with it though & if you're willing to work a bit harder with the eye shadows you could create a really pretty look.

 

The second set I picked up was the Soap and Glory 'Bright' Skincare Kit, I'm kind of undecided about this kit as well, firstly I think the price is pretty ridiculous, this kit used to be £30.00 full priced, I understand that the products within this kit do actually add up to £30.00 but S&G gift sets are normally good value for money and I don't really think this one is. You get a instant radiance energy balm which is really just a moisturiser with slight iridescent to it, a hot cloth cleanser which is nice but not the best I've ever tried and an eye bright - you won't believe your eyes, which I do love but I don't know if the price is justified, even at £15.00 I'm not too sure. I love Soap and Glory as a brand they're my favourite but maybe their skincare just doesn't agree with me.

 

The third kit I picked up was the 17 Lip Pencil set, I don't have a huge amount to say about this kit, their nice lip pencils, in a pale pink, a medium pink shade, a dark pink and a gold colour and they do the job well, they're too big to use as lip liners because they're more like chunky lip pencils, but they're super soft and well pigmented and for £5.00 I'm glad I picked them up. 17 are such a great, affordable, brand and I don't think they get the recondition they deserve.

 

I then picked up a smaller Enchanted gift set known as the Fairest of them all, i'm not overly impressed with this set just for the fact that it has the same pigmentation issues and therefore no matter how nice they look in the pan it's hard to recreate a nice look.

 

Lastly I picked up the Crazy Sexy Kohl Eyeliner Set from Soap and Glory once again, it's safe to say this was the favourite gift set I picked up I really do love it. I won't go on too much because I've done a full review here.

Anyway let me know what you picked up from the January Sales & I hope you all enjoy your mostly snowy weekends! xx

Soap and Glory - Crazy Sexy Kohl Liners

 

 

 

Soap and Glory - Crazy, Sexy Kohl Liners - RRP £19.00 - Sale Price in Boots - £8.00

 

Hi ladies, before I get on to this little bargain I just wanted to start by saying that I hope you've all had an amazing Christmas and got everything you wished for and more, I certainty did and I look forward too seeing all of your new bits and bobs on your blogs over the next few weeks. I was going to post a Boxing Day haul on my blog today but for some reason blogger wasn't working out for me and would only let me add two photo's to this post so I thought i'd just show you each thing at a time instead. I went for a mooch around the Boxing day sales on Wednesday and if I'm honest I never really find a whole lot that I think is really worth it but Boots were offering 50% of every single one of their Christmas gift sets! Therefore I picked up a fair few and so have loads of bits and bobs to show you all. The first of which was one of the gift sets from Soap and Glory which I love! It's the gift set which contains 5 of S&G's most favourite smoulder eye kohl liners and also 3 of their pan form eyeshadows.

 

You can actually buy these smoulder eye kohl's separately from the Soap and Glory range, each retailing at £5.00 (here) each so even before the sale to get 5 of their eyeliners (retailing for £25.00) and 3 eyeshadows housed in a really cute tin for £19.00 was a real bargain but being reduced to half price just made it a must buy for me. The colours you get within this set are Superblack, a carbon black eyeliner, Cocoa Bean, a deep brown eyeliner, Aquabat, deep emerald green, Blue my mind, bright jubilee blue and grapevine which is a dark plumy purple. These liners are really good quality and are really soft when you apply them, I've tried them on my waterline and on my top lash line and they work really well on both. These liners are incredibly pigmented and are also the type of liners that are smooth enough that you can blend and smudge them out if you want to create a smokey eye look. The only thing I would say about these liners is the fact that if you apply them on your lower lash line they are likely to smudge and end up just below your lashes due to the fact that they are so soft and are meant to be liners that can smudge out easily, other than that I love them and you can always set the liner with some eye shadow if you need too.

 

Also within this set you get 3 of their panned eyeshadows, normally you can get 4 of their panned eyeshadows in a quad for £10.00 so I am guessing each pan retails at about £2.00 each. You get 3 colours within this palette that actually really compliment each other, firstly you get Aubersheen, which is a sheeny light brown, dandy plum, which is nearly exactly the same shade as grapevine and lastly you get smokin' which is a dark black with tiny specks of silver shimmer included. From first impressions all of these shadows seem fairly pigmented and you could easily create a smokey night time look with these or a simple look for the day time as well if you left smokin' out of the mix.

 

All in all I am really impressed with this gift set, it is amazing value for money even before the 50% off, but for 5 eyeliners and 3 eyeshadows of good quality for £8.00 you really can't go wrong at all. Unfortunately this gift set is already sold out on the Boots website. What bargains have you picked up in the sales?

 

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