So, another month is done and I'm now on the final stretch. I'm not expecting to use up many more of the products that I have left, but I am glad that's I've finally used up another item after a couple of months of stalling. (Apologies for the lighting in these photos, it's just so dark today it was difficult to get the right light.)
And let's start with that. This month I had to say goodbye to the Gosh Velvet lipstick in Matte Rose. I hadn't completely finished it but got ill whilst wearing it. When I put it on again after getting better I got a really sore throat again, so I decided I had the throw it away. I only had one more days worth of wear in it so it's not too bad, but a shame to not get the satisfaction of finishing it properly. I really like this product, it feels good on the lips, isn't too trying, and is a really lovely colour. Basically, if you're looking for an affordable, easy to find, cruelty free, nude lipstick I would recommend this one. However, I'm not really intending on buying nude lipsticks in the future and I want to test more 'natural' lip colours anyway so I probably won't buy this again. I had also hoped to use up my MUA lipstick in Raven this month as well as I had a few extra days off work, but unfortunately I got really ill for a couple of weeks and haven't been wearing lipstick at all during that time. It would have been fitting to finish it on Halloween, but there's always next month and I do think I'll get it done by then. I'm not sure if I'll get my Gosh lipstick finished by the end of the year, but I will have at least 1 month to concentrate on it.
I've been doing a lot of smokey eye looks this month and that has helped me use a good amount of the Living Nature eye liner in Midnight. However, there was also no eye liner wearing whilst I was ill so the progress on this is a little lower then I was hoping for. This is a really easy eye liner to use, very soft and smudge-able, but that does mean that it's not necessarily the longest lasting eye liner I've ever used and definitely needs setting. This one is definitely going to be a roll over to next year.
The NYX Dark Circle Concealer Corrector in Light / Pale is going a long quite well. In fact I've used much more then I was actually expecting. It seems to be that once I hit the side of the product the rest seems to come away quite easily. I might even be able to finish this by the end of the year, but I think I'm being a bit hopeful on that front. It's a lovely product to use as it's so creamy and the colour is actually pretty good for what I want it for. Just going to keep plodding on this one.
You know the drill on the Barbara Day Even Smoother eye primer in Vanilla. Slow and steady, slow and steady. There is light at the end of the tunnel, but this might actually be one of the products I just have the throw away at the end of the year as I've had this for so long and it is going right by my eyes.
The same can be said on the Argan Oil hair treatment. This is going to take a while to use up, but it is quite a good product and smells really nice so I'm not too bothered if it takes a couple of years to get through.
The other products I used up this month are......
My Jura Diurachs Own Fragrance Hand Cream. This product is lovely, smells really, really good, and works very well. I've been using it every day after work and it's definitely helped stop my hands from turning into a leathery, flaky mess. The only issue with this for some people is that it contains bees wax and I'm not sure if it's cruelty free, though I assume this line would be. I can't find this hand cream on line so I think you can only buy it on Jura (what a shame, just have to take another trip to Jura). The packaging is also glass which makes it easy to recycle.
I really like the Lush Dirty Toothy Tabs. They are very easy to use and a great space saver in your toiletry bag (something very important for me as I have literally been living out of that thing). The flavour is also good and this product is also vegan and cruelty free. I would prefer the packaging to not be plastic, but at least it's recycled and recyclable and that's really stuck in my head after I heard someone say 'If you're not buying recycled products you're not really recycling' (which I believe is attributed to Ed Begley Jr). For convenience these are great and will probably buy them again, especially if I'm travelling, but I love the Georganic products better so those will probably be my main dental products.
The last item is the Younique Moodstruck Epic Mascara. A friend of mine sells Younique products so I brought this off her when I was coming to the end of my mascaras. I've probably been using this way longer then you're supposed to use a mascara but the scent of it hasn't changed so I kept using it until the product was basically gone. This product it lovely and made my eye lashes look really long and think. It also held them at a sweeping up angle and didn't flake on me (a reoccurring issue I have with most mascaras). Apparently they are working towards getting a cruelty free status as they don't test their products on animals, but I haven't had confirmation on that yet. It is a little bit of a pricey mascara as well at £20, but isn't the most expensive mascara out there and it does have a very good effect. As with the lipsticks, however, I am wanting to go down a more natural route and so it's unlikely I will be buying this product again.
And that's it. Let's see what I can get through in November.
My progress so far:
- Project Use Up 2018
- Project Use Up Update #1 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #2 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #3 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #4
- Project Use Up Update #5 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #6 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #7 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update #8 and Other Products
- Project Use Up Update# 9
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