The Body Shop delipscious sheer lip colour: 05 Elderberry

(Thesis? What thesis? :P)

Elderberry is a lovely plum lipstick from TBS' new delipscious line, which claims to have all-natural, food-grade ingredients. This is currently my main lip product. It is ♥!

Price: around P700.00
Location Bought: The Body Shop Shang
Approximate Date Bought: last month

The Body Shop Beeswax Texturising Wax

Just a quick post before school eats me alive again. EEKTHESIS >_<

I'm really not a hair product person, even though styling my hair takes up a good amount of my prep time before heading outside. I blowdry, I iron, and at the suggestion of a friend, put on some of this supermarket anti-frizz serum. This routine kept my hair properly in place in the past, but because of the really strange hot-humid-rainy weather nowadays, I realized I needed something stronger that didn't have the goopiness of hair gel. Hello hair wax!

At first I tried some of the stuff my brother uses, but I found it way too sticky. It also smelled too dude-ey. So off I went to The Body Shop, because I had a vague memory of a hair products section the last time I went there. (And also because most of their products smell nice HAHA)

Price: P450.00
Location Bought: The Body Shop Shang
Approximate Date Bought: last month

LOL, texturiSing wax. How very British.

The Body Shop Satsuma Body Butter

Orange is my favorite color, and orange is also my favorite scent. Smelling citrus scents makes me feel happier, and it's not just my personal opinion - it's a scientifically proven fact. Citrus fruits like the satsuma are high in folate, which is responsible for the creation of serotonin (the "happy" chemical) in the brain.

A dear friend gave me a gift certificate to The Body Shop as thanks for helping with her internship assignment, and what better thing to get than something from their deliciously scented Satsuma line? :P

Price: P217.00. (Originally P625.00, but it was marked down to P417.00 because of the ongoing TBS sale, which I lowered even further with the GC. Awesome deal is awesome!)
Location Bought: The Body Shop Greenhills
Approximate Date Bought: Today

EEE! Citrus love!! ♥ ♥ ♥

Since the Grapefruit is long gone, I have something to alternate with my Raspberry again!

A Lazy Person's Sugar Scrub for Dry Lips

December weather has been drying up my lips badly. I've increased my water intake and lip balm application to help combat some of it, but I still end up having to exfoliate dead skin nightly. I normally use my toothbrush to exfoliate every few days, but having to do it EVERY day kind of hurts. :|

A guest post on one of my favorite blogs wrote about a less painless and much easier way to exfoliate lips. None of that fancy schmancy extra-virgin-olive-oil-mixed-with-unspeakably-frilly-things shit, just plain old (pot) lip balm and sugar.

The "recipe" called for a smooth, non-sticky lip balm, and I felt like using something citrusy, so I used this:

The Body Shop Born Lippy Satsuma Shimmer Lip Balm

Refined sugar was also one of the ingredients, but the kitchen was out of that. I've found that brown sugar works just as well too.

Anyway, all you do is put some lip balm on your finger, dip that finger into the sugar, then scrub gently onto your lips. Simple, painless and delicious!

(Images copyright The Body Shop and veer.com)

The Body Shop Body Butter in Pink Grapefruit

This was an early Christmas present from one of my aunts. It came with a matching shower gel, but since I don't like using shower gels - they don't make me feel as clean as soap can LOL - I gave it to my sister.

My old body butter is still going strong, but Pink Grapefruit is pretty good too. Smells just like grapefruits (aka pomelos), which I love to snack on with a sprinkling of rock salt!

The Body Shop eyeshadow in Golden Khaki

I was originally looking for a mid-priced taupe eyeshadow, but this was the closest thing I got. (LOL, not that I'm complaining.)

This is my first time trying The Body Shop's eyeshadows, and from the packaging to the pigmentation, they certainly don't disappoint.

Golden Khaki is a lightly frosted khaki color reminiscent of boys' school pants. (Apologies for the strange analogy, the color really does remind me of schoolboy pants! :P)

NOTE: Fluorescent lighting is the reason why my hand color looks different from the next two pictures.

The color is perfect as a base color to go along with other eyeshadow shades.

I also like wearing it alone for a polished, natural look.

The Body Shop lip balm in Merry Cranberry

I wasn't really supposed to buy this, but the adorable packaging got me! I am weak against the powers of marketing! X_X

Have TBS' Christmas lip balms always been packaged like this? It's the first time I've encountered them with festively decorated domed metal lids.

Merry Cranberry has a slight reddish tint to it which doesn't really show up on the lips.

Instead, it transmutes to the lovely moisturizing shine TBS lip balms are known for. It smells insanely yummy too!

(Black Velvet Apricot also smells amazing, but I like berry-based smells better. Don't ever get Nutmeg and Vanilla though - it smells like really old candles! Blech!)

The Body Shop Raspberry Body Butter

Unopened:


Opened:


I really love how this smells like really good candy. I wouldn't be surprised if ants suddenly got into it!