Maybelline Baby Lips

I love lip balm, I have hundreds of them, but these are the ones that I have been wanting for ages (ever since the author Lindsey Kelk put them on her website). I scoured the net for their release date and when they were finally released I was there buying them.

I only have 5 at the moment but that may all change.

Mint Fresh
A lovely minty fresh smell and feels lovely on the lips

Cherry Me
This is one of their tinted lip balms, this smells of cherries and gives a hint of red on the lips.

Peach Kiss
This is my favourite from the baby lips range, it is the other from the tinted range, it smells of peaches and also gives a subtle hint on the lips with a glitter.

Hydrate
This gives extra hydration to the lips (this one can be found in my bag at the moment)

Intense Care +
This is another favourite from the range, I use this once I have used a lip scrub on my lips just to back some of the moisture I've lost from scrubbing.

A great range, and ones that I use all the time

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Gemma
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BLOGMAS 10: My Morning Skincare Routine

On a morning my skincare routine is quite a quick one.

1) Micellar Water
This is just to clean my face and get rid of all the muck that may have ended up on my face through the night. I have been using L'Oreal's Purifying Micellar Solution, it also leaves a clean palette to put my mosituriser on.

2) Moisturiser
I use Garnier's Moisture Match for combination to oily skin, as I said I don't like to put too much moisturiser onto my skin, with this I only need a tiny bit.

3) Lip Scrub
I am currently using Lush's Mint Juleps lip scrub, and it smells fantastic. Once you have finished using it you can just lick it off but I use water (when you think about it, it's dead skin from your lips that your licking off, and licking your lips doesn't help them too much)

4) Lip Balm
I use Maybeline Baby Lips in Intense Care, this just helps to add some moisture back into my lips.

As you can see only four steps here (not that excessive) I don't like to overload my skin with a lot of moisturising products due to the fact that my skin is combination so it can get oily and then lead to breakouts.

What do you use in the morning?

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Gemma
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BLOGMAS 8: What's In My Bag - Christmas Edition

I've noticed that my Blogmas hasn't really had a lot of Christmassy cheer, so while thinking of an idea for a Christmassy blog post, I literally pulled this out of the bag.

As you can see I was telling the truth when I said I pulled this post out of the bag. I bought this bag from Primark 3 years ago at around this time, and I have pulled it out every year for Christmas. It holds a load of stuff, quite a slouchy bag (but it is a pain when it chucks it down)

So now onto what I have in this mighty titan of a reindeer bag.

As you can see I carry around a lot of stuff:

• Keys
• Cosmetic Bag - You will see more down below as to what is in here.
• Ear Buds - JVC Blue, I bought these from Tesco and they are fantastic, This is my 2nd pair in god knows how many years.
• Sure Deodorant
• Ipod - I walk to work everyday and I always listen to my ipod.
• Pens - I always have a couple of pens flying around.
• Work Card and Gryffindor Lanyard - I need my card to access the computer systems at work, the lanyard I bought when me and my mum went to the Harry Potter Studio Tour (which was fantastic, Professor Lupin is my favourite)
• Umbrella 
• Memory Stick - I always keep a memory stick on me as you never know when you might need one.
• Iphone - I never leave home without it.
• Gaviscon
• Purse
• Notebook - I use this to put down any blog ideas, and at the moment I am writing in my favourites and empties so far of December.
• Tissues
• Saffiano Filofax - This is another thing I never leave home without it (it's helping me plan my Blogmas challenge)

In my cosmetic bag I don't carry a lot of things (mainly lip balms)

As said previously I love my lip balms, I have:

• 3 Maybelline Baby Lips (Cherry Me, Peach Kiss, and Hydrate) - I love these lip balms they are fantastic.
• The Body Shop Lip Balm in Cranberry Joy - This is in there due to Christmas, I need a christmassy lip balm in there. 
• 2 Carmex Lip Balms (Mint and Cherry) -  I know, I know I am a lip balm addict, thats 6 lip balms in there.
• Cuticura Hand Sanitser - always a good thing to have on you. 
• Compact Mirror - 
• Glass Wipes - I wear glasses all the time so I always need to have some of these flying around (especially if I'm off to the movies, I hate streaks on my glasses)
• Vicks Inhaler - I have the crappiest sinuses so with the cold weather my nose always run (I haven't had to chase after it yet, but give it time)
• Hemp Hand Cream - This is my favourite hand cream (it is looking a bit beaten at the moment) it has the funkiest smell but the cream is fantastic it moisturises my hands without leaving them too greasy.
• Forever Yours Perfume  - this was just a perfume I picked up from Superdrug for £3 (I only wanted a small perfume that I could put into my bag, this has a really lovely and light smell, perfect for work).

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Gemma