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Howdy,

So today marks day four of nail related posts, this wasn't intentional but as I will be uploading the reivew of the nail look posted on Monday tomorrow I will have done a weeks worth of nail posts so I hope you have enjoyed and I'm sure there will be many more in the future.

So onto today's product, as mentioned in the dotty nail tutorial I have found a nail polish remover that I absolutely love. It is the Cutex Nourishing Nail Polish Remover for weak nails.

I bought this stuff in Morrisions (a UK supermarket) when I was staying at my dad's house and realised I had no remover with me if I had a little misshap when painting my nails which undoubtedly I did. I wasn't expecting amazing things after all it was £2.99 however, it is cutex so I wasn't expecting it to be rubbish either.

I literally have nothing bad to say about this product it is nothing but amazing. I ended up buying the weak nails one just because they had run out of the normal one and it's all they had left. Whilst weak nails is something I struggle with it had never crossed my mind that a nail polish remover could help me fix that problem, but two uses later my nails already feel ten times stronger thanks to the added vitamins and minerals. I might just have to paint my nails just so I can use this on my nails and hopefully combat my little problem.

Something, which I have only just noticed whilst sitting do this review is that on the bottle just under the bit about added vitamins and minerals it says that the remover has a nail whitening formula. I hadn't even seen this but looking down at my nails on the keyboard not only are they now stronger the tips are now considerably whiter.

In regard to the job I actually bought this product for it works like a dream, it removes the polish so much easier than the basic shop brand removers I have had before and it smells like vanilla rather than that god awful smell so many other removers have.

I hope you have liked this review on something many beauty bloggers just take as another boring thing in the back of the cupoard. Although, I would call this one of my beauty essentials......in fact I may just add this post to that label now.

Maddie x

Hey guys,

It's been a while but basically it's been so crazy at school because of coursework deadlines etc. I just haven't had a chance to post anything.

Today, I want to talk to you about one of my must have beauty essentials.....VASELINE! It has so many uses its unbelievable and it's cheap too.

You only have to type into google "Uses for Vaseline" and you get a huge array of different websites telling you all sorts of things to use it for. However, since this is my beauty essential I am going to tell you about how I use the wonderful stuff.

Lip Balm

This is what most people tend to use Vaseline for simply because that is mainly what you see it as, it works wonders on your lips, is fairly cheap and there is now so many varieties its unbelievable. For example there is the original one, the sun protect one, there is a strawberry one and so many others. One of my favourites has to be the limited edition 'Creme Brûlée' one that came out a few years ago, it was so nice and had a lovely smell and flavour but just like all the others it could still make your lips change from sandpaper to silky smooth almost overnight. Unfortunately, I didn't keep the packet so I don't have a picture. :(

This is the sun protect lip therapy pot, I've had it years so that's why it's a bit dented. Below is how much I have left in the pot, this one has a bit more in it than others which I bought at roughly the same time because as I live in England we don't get a lot of sun here.

2.Intensive Moisturiser

With Vaseline you can buy the huge pots which a just pure petroleum jelly and have nothing added this means you can use them for all sorts. One of my favourite things is to use it as is a very intensive moisturiser, this is because I have had excezma nearly all my life and although I get lots of magic potions and lotions from the doctors they either take days to work or are steroids which I am wary of using on my face. This didn't really work for me when I was little as my skin would be very bad but as it has got better and I have needed a moisturiser fast (e.g. The night before a party because otherwise my makeup will look horrible and flaky) and I have started to reach for Vaseline more and more often.

It is amazing it works overnight, all you have to do is apply a thin/medium layer to your skin just as you are getting into bed and wake up in the morning with a lovely smooth face. A WORD OF WARNING don't use this in the morning because you will end up looking like a grease ball all day and you won't be able to apply any make up. This is an excellent thing to do although I wouldn't recommend doing this more than twice a week unless its an absolute emergency. This is because whilst many claim that Vaseline does not clog your pores up and so even those with oily skin can use it (see below), I feel that that is only true to some extent and that if you were putting it on every night and then putting make up on in the morning your skin won't get the chance to breathe.

If you are worried about the grease clogging up your skin then don't worry it's a common miss conception, but I always find it good to cleanse your skin just as normal in the morning. Tea tree products are great as they remove blemishes and open your pores to allow out any gunk and grime that is in your skin.

This is a pot of Vaseline that my mum bought when it was a baby and its still going strong 16 years later. I think the packaging may have moved on now but it's still the same great stuff inside.

3. Eyelash extender

This is not something I do but a lot of my friends swear by this, apparently if you apply Vaseline to your eyelashes at night over time they will get longer. I can't stand it though so I have never been able to try it for long enough to see if it actually works. It's not actually having it on my eyelashes it's the next day because even though I wash my face thoroughly in the morning my eyelashes feel crusty for the whole of the next day.

Hope you liked this, leave me some comments on what you would like me to post about next time x

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