Own Brand: Boots

I decided to combine part of my haul with a new idea I had. When sat in the bath the other day I realised that I use quite a lot of 'own brand' products that, in my opinion, are just as good as ones made by specific cosmetic oriented companies. So, from now on, every time I find myself trying to choose between products, I will (try to) get an own brand product so I can test it out against my usual purchases.

To start with, I have Boots Expert Cuticle Conditioner and Boots Expert Nail Strengthener. 

This cuticle cream is great, to start with it smells soo good, it has a sort of sun tan smell and reminds me of summer, always a good thing! As far as I can tell so far it works well, my cuticles aren't particularly bad at the moment anyway but this seems to be keeping them healthy and doing all the things my previous cuticle cream did.

Next up is the Boots expert Nail Hardener. I'm not really too sure what to make of this, my previous nail hardener was one that you applied like a nail polish but then you rubbed it into your nails which would eventually absorb it. With this Boots version, you put it on and it sits on your nails like a clear nail polish, I'm not too sure I like this, I think it made me feel like it was doing my nails some good when they soaked it all up but I can't really imagine this is doing anything to them. I have to say though, after wearing it a few times my nails do feel much less brittle, whether they've repaired themself or it's the nail hardener I don't know though! :/ 

What I do like about this though is the bottle it comes in, it's really cute :D it's just a little short round thing and I don't seem to worry about putting it in my bag, I think the bottle is thicker.

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Weekly Gratitude

Wow I can't believe how long it's been since I did a proper blog post. I expected to be quite up to date without school getting in the way but it's been the complete opposite and I haven't had any time at all! I was on holiday last week in Tenerife which is why I didn't even manage to do a weekly gratitude post but will be back on track hopefully tomorrow with some holiday pictures and tips. Hope you're all well!

25th April - 1st May 2011
- Thank you to my holiday for giving me time to relax, clear my head and especially for giving me a whole week with Chris, absolute heaven!
- Thank you to Tenerife shops for having such cheap nail polish! €1.50, it's amazing!! :D
- Thank you to the airports for not losing our suitcases, a thing I always worry about when I go away!
- Thank you to 4od for allowing me to catch up on 90210 when I got back, I literally cannot function without that programme!!
- Thank you to all the people I've swapped with on BigWardrobe since I joined, I love getting rid of stuff I don't want almost as much as I love getting new stuff!
- Thank you to the royal wedding on Friday of William and Kate. These occasions make the whole country come together and I just love street parties! The day was magical.
- And last but not least, a soppy one, thank you to Chris, (who I recently discovered keeps an internet page open on his iPhone of my blog because he secretly loves reading it ;) just for being all round amazing :)

Thanks for reading! xxx