On The Cheap: Face masks!!

If you are anything like me, you love a good face mask!! Now, face masks can come in a variety of types and prices, and if you are like me too, you will be a cheap skate ha ha!

In this post I will be covering both home made and shop bought face masks that have worked for me and my friends!!

Personally, I loved using yoghurt and honey as a face mask!! I shall tell you about a few home made recipes me and my friends have tried!

One I tried was honey, milk and natural yoghurt! Now, when you make this mix, trust me, you don't need half as much as you think!! Only make a little bit, as it goes on quite thinly, but gives a good coverage. You might have to tilt your head back a bit as this mask can be quite runny! This is good for moisturising and also the honey helps with spots a little bit, as its antiseptic. That's why they say have some honey when you have a cough ;) This mask goes sticky after 5-10 minutes, so you won't have to worry too much about it running down your face the entire time its on!
I liked this mask as it was nice and moisturising and not harsh on my sometimes sensitive skin! It smelt delicious (please try not to eat your home made masks ;) ) and it was quick, easy and, most importantly, CHEAP.

Here is a picture of me with it on, like a cool kid ;D

Another home made mask that my friend made, on the same day, was one with strawberries! She just chopped up some raspberries very small and then mashed them up in a bowl, adding some honey to the mixture!! Once it was a good consistency, she smeared on her face! Now, I warn you, this one is sticky! But its very good for skin that breaks out, with the antioxidants from the strawberries, as well as the vitamins and minerals, and the antiseptic from the honey! This one also smells nice and it dries to a slight sticky consistency. Once washed off, her face was lovely and smooth and she said it felt really good!!

3 of us have home made masks and one has a shop bought ;)

Now onto shop bought!

I know of a few types of mask, and as a Lush Lover, I do sometimes go for their face masks, but they aren't 'cheap' in the way we are looking at (though damn good value for money considering how many masks you can get out of them!)

Two of my favourite cheap face masks, that I buy from Superdrugs, are:

Montagne Jeunesse Passion Peel Off Masque

I love this mask! It tingles a tiny bit at first, but it doesn't sting or anything!! It doesn't go on purple, but makes you look more like you have bad sun burn, BUT ITS SO FUN TO PEEL OFF!! But that's not the reason I buy it! My face always feels so smooth and my pores look better after using this! I like to leave it on about 20 minutes to dry properly and then I have the utmost fun pulling it off and pretending I am a zombie ;D This mask (which, if you really want to scrimp and save, you can get two applications out of) costs only 99p-£1.01!! Cheapy cheap!! I usually use these ones on a Wednesday!

Another mask I like to use on a Sunday, in my bath, apart from my Lush ones, are:

Mudd Original Mask

This has been my favourite clay based mask for YEARS!! I always buy this if I lack a mask for Sunday nights, I LOVE IT SO MUCH. It hardens up over time and it makes my skin feel so clean deep down  and smooth and soft and I always feel the benefits for a long time afterwards (till the next one ;D) Even after using the Lush one, I still feel this is better :D You can now buy these in bigger packs, with more applications, though I always find I can squeeze 2 out of this '1' pack!! This also retails around the £1 mark!! Bargin!!

Now, I suggest you all try and make your own home made face mask, just once, whether its with your friends or alone, as its both fun and you know what's going into your mask!! And you can feel the benefits even from such simple ingredients! I suggest using a bit of honey in each mask, especially if you have spot prone skin! If you want to find some good home made mask recipes, go HERE. I love this website, I can spend hours trawling through it for ideas...so sad!

So, what do you think? Do you enjoy making home made masks? What's your favourite mask to use?

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3

On the Cheap: Make Up Academy

Hello my lovelies! How are you all? Sorry its a day late, but here is this weeks 'On the Cheap' blog post!!

Today I will be talking about cheap make up, and my favourite brand of drug store make up, MUA!! You might remember I did a blog about their lipsticks a couple of weeks ago.

Now, when you are short of money, you still want to look beautiful, right? Here is where MUA step in! Each one of these lipsticks only cost £1 EACH!! They have two ranges, a £1 range with a lovely range of items, and a Pro range, where they are priced higher, but everything is cheaper than £5!!

From the £1 range you can pick up:
Eye dusts

Liquid Eye Liner

Face Powder

Blusher

Nail Polish

Mascara

Glitter Eye Liner

Eye shadow

Lipgloss

Lipgloss Tube

And of course the lipsticks!!
All of the above products are only £1 each!! And they all come with a great range of colours and shades, as you can tell by the lipsticks! MUA is brilliant if you want lovely cheap make up, and can be bought on the superdrugs website!

There are other cheap make up brands too that you can check out, like ELF, which I haven't tried personally, but I have heard great reviews about!!

So remember, check your drug stores for that cheap make up brand and give it a try, you just might be very impressed!!

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3

On the Cheap: Ebay is your friend!

Hello my lovelies! How are you today? Yes, finally bringing this back with a whole new post! Ebay is your friend! And boy have I felt that recently!

Imagine this heart is ebay

This post is mainly going to be about cheap fashion, as I think buying clothes cheaply is just as important as everything else! As you might remember, in this month of July I am doing a challenge where I only buy clothes and a few other things 2nd hand!! So obviously, I looked to ebay, as well as Charity stores, which are also your friend, but that's another post ;)

Many of you know of ebay, in fact, I would be surprised if you haven't! Ebay is the largest online auction site and have websites for all over the world. You can buy ANYTHING on ebay, and I mean ANYTHING! There have been stories of people selling their virginity! I don't you can sell your pet on there...at least, I haven't seen any!

Now this post is about buying clothes on ebay. Especially if you are on a budget, like I am! The first thing I say about buying clothes on ebay is know what you want!! Say you are looking for a lovely new dress, then look for only dresses!
Another tip I have is only bid on one thing at a time, as you never know what you might actually win and you don't want to risk getting a bank charge for going over your limit!
To further help yourselves, I suggest giving your self a budget for each item. I never go over £10 including p&p if I am buying something second hand. I rarely go over £5 if I can help it!

You can find the loveliest things on ebay, often by sellers who haven't even worn them! Heres a couple of my recent purchases:
Gorgeous Pink Nighty  ~ I only had to pay £3.20 for this, plus £1.50 for the P&P and I was thrilled! If you are familiar with ebay, you will know about 'Snipers', which are buyers that put a bid in at times even as little as 10 seconds left, VERY annoying! I was highly expecting to be outbid (since I put a max bid of £4) or sniped on this and I wasn't which made me so happy!!

Lovely Silky Nightwear ~ As you can see I have a thing of buying more lady like night wear at the moment, I am highly bored of unattractive tracksuit type pants and a baggy t-shirt! I don't mind t-shirt nighties, which are very comfy, but I think that might be the limit for sloppy night wear for me now! As you can see for these, I payed pittance. £3.20 all together, which I think is brilliant!

Shoooes ~ Now, some of my older followers might think, huum, I recognise these Kitty! That is because my faithful pair of M & S shoes that I have loved all the way to New York and back are falling apart. It was a sad time for me when I noticed a hole in my shoe, realising I will finally have to throw them away. So I search ebay for a new pair of rubber type shoes for when its raining and LO AND BEHOLD I spot these. I nearly cried with happiness! As you can see, I was quite desperate to buy these, though my current pair are size 6, they are a bit on the tight side so fingers crossed, 7s should be okay! I put a bit more money into this bid, just because I was so desperate to buy, but I wouldn't of gone over £8 no matter how desperate! Someone did try to snipe me at the last moment, but my max bid buffed them out, YAY!

Now, I will warn you, darlings, of the sometimes dangers of buying/selling on ebay. I have only ever had one bad encounter, out of many so don't be too scared. But CHECK THE RATINGS! And read the negative ones very carefully if there are any! I feel, if they have over 10 negatives in 1 month, don't buy from them, especially if one of the negative comments is about an item the same or similar to what you want to buy!

That's it for todays 'On the Cheap' I hope you enjoyed my little insight to ebay and the wonders it holds! What do you think of ebay, have you bought anything nice from it recently?

STAY BEAUTIFUL!!

Kitty xoxox~<3

Living on the Cheap: What do you want?

Since my brain is currently a little bit frazzled by the sun and tiredness, I was wondering, what do YOU want me to write about next for my Living on the Cheap feature? Throw any topic at me and I will try and find the cheapest way to go about what you want!!

Just a quick warning, I forgot about connecting to the internet when I get to my mums, sometimes my step dad takes a while to put me back on the network, but I might just get a bus to my dads during the day and go on his laptop, to keep up to date, haha!

Anyways, let me know what you want and I will write about them in the next couple of Mondays!!

STAY BEAUTIFUL

Kitty xoxox~<3

Living on the Cheap: Deal With Spots!

Welcome to the second edition of Living on the Cheap! Lets get on schedule shall we!!

Todays edition is about spots. Spotty spot spot spots!! Everyone gets them! If you don't you are soooo lucky!! Get off my blog you non spotty person :P I am joking, I love you all!! But spots are so horrid, I get them usually around a certain time of the month (you know what I mean) where they break out around my chin!!  It annoys me they are in such a visible area!!

Urg, spots!

There are so many products on the market aimed at spots that scream YOU MUST BUY US OTHERWISE YOU WILL BE AN OILY SPOTTY MESS!! And they cost over a fiver!!
Well, the stuff I am going to show you is both things I advise you to buy (for less than a fiver) and also at home treatments for a quick zap!!

The products:
TEA TREE. I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH. TEA. TREE. If you are allergic/reactive to it, then I cannot help you as tea tree is my spot GOD. I will try and research non tea tree stuff next time though! I heard witch hazel can be similar!  But seriously, for those who haven't tried it, tea tree is god. I have this tea tree stick from Superdrugs:

I love this! I just unscrew it and pop it on the offending spot when I am out and about! Its only £2.99, which is pretty cheap for a spot treatment!!
Something else I recommend you keep in your bathroom cupboard is a good bottle of tea tree oil!!

A 10ml bottle shouldn't set you back more than £3 if you are in England, and hopefully you can find them cheaper in your country too!! These little bottles will last you a long time, as they usually come with a dropper type top, and you can put a couple of drops on a cotton bud, then dab it on the offending spot! I like to use this if I have a particularly pesky spot!

other things you can use; I have heard Witch Hazel is gentler but has the same effect, so look for products with that!! Remember, buy cheap, they work just as well as those £10 products!!

Home treaments:

Tooth paste is a scary unusual thing to kitty

Tooth paste. Surely you all have tooth paste in your house?! I hope you have...any-ways, moving on from my worries about your mouth hygiene, tooth paste is a god send if you have nothing like tea tree or need an over night emergency treatment! Just dab a bit onto the spot and perhaps cover with a tissue. Wait for it to dry before you go to bed, otherwise it might make a mess! In the morning, it should of dried up your spot, reduced redness and made it generally a bit less OMG!!

Perfume!! Another good (though can be harsh on some sensitive skins so be careful!) drier outer of spots that you have in your house!! This one is more like a quick time treatment, where you spritz a bit on a cotton bud, dab and go. You smell nice and your perfume is working on that spot!!


Please be careful when trying new things! I have sensitive to normal skin, and these things react okay with me, but everyone is different!! Try a little bit on a non icky bit of skin on your face first (I suggest jawline) to make sure you don't react!!

Other things I recommend: Tea tree toner is brilliant for morning and night routine, and mudd/clay face masks! The mask I love best is 99p and I squeeze it in a pot, which lasts me longer if I just used it straight from the packet!!

Stay beautiful!!

Kitty xoxox~<3

Living on the Cheap: Need to remove that make up?

Welcome to the first edition of Living on the Cheap!! In these weekly Monday editions I shall be writing about solutions I have found when money is extremely low and you can only survive on beans and noodles. But you don't have to let your beauty regime suffer! This is especially good for students, with whom I know money can be sparse sometimes and every penny counts!!

This first edition shall be about removing your make up, for no more than 99p!
Now, I often do not have much money as, at the moment, I do not have a job! So I have to try cheaper things to see how they react to my skin and see how well they work. It was one night, when I realised I had run out of Nivea wipes, to clean my make up off, when I turned to these to try and see if they worked. And like magic, my make up was removed and no reaction happen upon my face. Now some of you money savvy ladies might of already picked up on this wonder, and some of you may think WHAT THE DEVIL! But do TRUST ME. I have used these constantly and they work just as well as expensive wipes! The cost 99p for 80, can get in lightly fragranced or no fragrance and they are quite obviously for sensitive skin. Why do I say obviously? Because they are baby wipes. Yup, pure and simple, baby wipes, bought from Superdrugs.

These are the exact ones I use

Now if you are thinking, EHHHH?! Then hear me out. They are obviously for sensitive skin, they are BABY wipes, made for babies bums! So they won't dry out your skin or cause a rash (I have sensitive skin and haven't had a reaction ONCE to these!) and they DO remove make up easily, even my Este Lauder mascara! Even my Bobbi Brown Gel liner! And you get EIGHTY for 99p (or £1.01 on the website, see here), as opposed to 25 for £3, or however much the other ones are! I got them at my local Superdrugs, and have a packet at my dads and a packet at my mums. They are useful for cleaning of most things off your skin and are very handy to have about! The lightly fragranced ones smell very gentle and is quite a nice smell, but as I said, there are none fragranced ones to try!
Now I know some of you might turn your nose up at this and stick to your more expensive proper facial wipes as, we are humans and we do not like change. But I do implore you to just pop to your local Superdrugs, pop down a £1 and take home a packet of these as one night, they might save face!! ;D
Now if you are a foreign lovely (foreign to me that is) then try out your local drugstores own brand baby wipes! I really think everyone should give baby wipes a try as a cheap alternative to 'proper' facial wipes!

I will answer all the lovely comments you ladies have been leaving me tomorrow, I do love my followers, especially Ice Pandora, Hello Naka, a!ko and Harlow Darling <33
Kitty xoxox~<3