tooth whitening- the snow white of teeth

Now before you all start giving me "just how gross and yellow were your teeth to have tooth whitening?!" looks THEY WERE FINE! but you know, life takes it's toll and red wine must be drank. All of which dull your teeth so ...
I went to the dentist and had some alginate impressions taken (you know the orange goo in the tray they shove in your mouth that makes everyone heave) Apparently it's made from seaweed but judging from the way it tastes it's more like seaweed dumped in nuclear waste. They then got sent away for the whitening trays to be made.
A little over a week later I was back to have them fitted and to get my whitening gel. The trays look like upper and lower mouth guards only much, much thinner and fit over the teeth with like a well over the tooth surface to keep the gel in place when you wear them. The gel is 10% Carbamide Peroxide which works (I'm channelling Sheldon Cooper for the science bit) when it breaks down to form Hydrogen Peroxide which in turn oxidises the stain that's in the tooth enamel leading to brighter, whiter teeth
I wore mine over  night for the next two weeks. Some dentists say you only need to wear them for 5-6 hours and to wear them in the evenings when you're watching TV but A) even though I'm a spinster I don't watch that much TV and B) I like a nice cup of tea and a packet of M&M's when I'm watching TV not a mouthful of gel. It didn't particularly bother me to wear them through the night, its comfortable and after about 10 mins you just forget about it. My first tip of this review is if you do wear them through the night, when you remove the trays the next morning, immediately brush your teeth without closing your mouth because, trust me, you have never tasted something so gross.
Hmmm well I guess we are getting into the tip part...
Tip 2: Remember whitening only whitens natural teeth. NOT white fillings, crowns etc
Tip 3: Sensitivity! 75% of people get sensitivity to hot and cold when whitening. its not permanent. Only lasts while you are actually whitening but OW!!!! Stock up on a sensitive toothpaste such as Sensodyne or Colgate sensitive and if it's really bad just do the whitening every other night
Tip 4: Stay away from red wine, curry, coke and other highly coloured food when whitening as the extra oxygen makes your teeth more porous
Tip 5: Keep the gel in the fridge otherwise it wont work
Tip 6: When you clean the trays don't use hot water or they will distort as they are plastic
Tip 7: Keep the trays and top up once a year to keep them looking the way you want them. Whitening doesn't fade but living a life gradually discolours them again

Now for the results....drum roll please.......tah-dah!!!...

XOXO

best £35 i ever spent

You have to admit-nothing says sexy like a smokey eye. And nothing does smokey eye better than Urban Decay's smoked palette. I am in love with it and if marrying a cosmetic were legal.......
It comes with 10 eye shadows, black (perversion) eyeliner and their mini eye primer. Not bad for £35 right?
Oh and a instruction book in case you  are too lazy or unimaginative to think for yourself.
The shades are:

• kinky- (great name) which is almost a satin-y vanilla colour
• freestyle (looks particularly good on my warm skin tone) and a peach-y colour
• mushroom (absolutely beautiful. even my mum likes this one and she doesn't "do" eye shadows) a taupe colour
• backdoor ( doesn't suit me at all) matte dark brown and generally ugh
• blackout (been my go to colour for years for smoky eyes). dark highly pigmented black (obviously)
• barlust (the first shimmery colour in the palette and looks better on than off) dark golden brown
• rockstar (nice sexy shimmery purple)
• evidence (see its nice that this palette actually has colours isn't it?!!) dark blue with shimmer
• loaded ( the best colour in the palette. amazing with brown eyes. love love love) a dark forest green
• asphalt a grey that in certain lights almost has a purple tinge to it

As I said it also comes with a full size eyeliner in perversion which glides on (a thing that many eyeliners don't) and doesn't smudge so you don't end up looking like a raccoon half way through the day and while I'm not usually a big fan of Urban Decay's packaging I must admit the zip is genius. Someone obviously listened when i]I said I was fed up of reaching into my bag only to find the lids have come off my products and everything I own was now covered in various colours in varying degrees of stickiness.
What else could you buy for |£35 that brings this much happiness??
xoxo

dragged through a hedge backwards

Now I must confess I'm not in the best mood this weekend so in all honesty I could be reviewing Jensen ackles' naked body and i'd still find something to moan about but Headmasters salon experts colour brilliance miracle moisture mask sent me to moaning heaven.
I'm naturally a brunette but have a complicated hair history of dying it blond (read that as poring bleach over it every 6 weeks til I looked liked Marilyn Monroe) then have dyed it back brown over the top so it's very, very dry and needs a lot of TLC to keep it relatively nice. I'm also a extremely fickle person and change my shampoo and conditioner regularly. What do psychologists say fickle people have now? O yeah fear of missing out (FOMO) syndrome so I always think there's a better conditioner out there. Unfortunately this is not it.
First of all "miracle moisture mask" really? 1) This is not a miracle. Walking on water = miracle, Me one day finding a husband = miracle. This is a poor excuse for a conditioner.   2) Moisture? ummm there's more moisture on a grain of sand in the middle of a desert than in this. My hair couldn't be any more dry. It's like I've just shampooed and left it.
That's not the worst part though. This seems to have a magical power of making your hair very dry but oddly greasy at the same time. You know that I need to wash my hair look. Not attractive!!!
You think I cant possibly say anything else bad don't you? well I haven't mentioned the knots in my hair when I attempted to comb it. Strange as I don't remember being dragged through  a hedge backwards..........

i'm such a two faced glampire

If I had to compare myself to a makeup product in a bizarre psychiatrist test I would pick Too Faced glamour dust in Glampire. You might as well rename it Amy in a jar.
It's definitely a love or hate product (much like me or marmite) as its glitter. Yes glitter, but before you all run for the hills imagining the thick, chunky chavvy glitter we all used to wear to junior school discos it's a way more grown up approach to adding some sparkle. It's very very fine so can be used over lip gloss for added wow or as it's intended either on top of a eyeshadow or alone on the lid.
I wouldn't exactly call it subtle but nothing annoys me more than buying a glittery product and it having 3 specks of glitter in (urban decay glitter eyeliner are you listening??) and the fall out is ridiculous so do your eye makeup first so you can clean up your cheeks but for the negatives you get the most prettiest pinky colour, sooooo much sparkle for your money and to be honest the best flipping name ever
xoxo