Vlog: a trip to Thessaly

Hey beauties!

Here are some photos from last weekend's trip to central Greece with
the boyfriend ;)

I'm loving this photo; the old red truck in front of Thessaly's flat landscape!

Other than that, the roadtrip was pretty tiresome...

This is Karditsa's Pausilipon park. Sigh...



I'm so, so envious of the city's inhabitants- they have the privilege of

walking around this park every single day!

There's also peacocks strolling freely inside the park.

Regal creatures, ain't they?



Then we went to Trikala and the famous "Manavika" district-

we ordered some delicious local delicacies...

...accompanied with retsina wine, naturally!

Yours truly with dirty hair (hence the fedora) and no makeup on...

Eh well, the best pose under the circumstances!

Can't believe my arm looks so fat in this photo, damn...

The hotel in Kalambaka where we spent two nights-

boyfriend's choice, cause of the swimming pool :/

The hotel's view of Meteora rocks...



It's amazing how this little city developed in such a short distance from these awe-striking mountain tops...



See?



Homemade cakes and pies for breakfast-

a hearty accompaniment to start our return back home!

So, how did you spend your weekend?

Any little vacations you had up till now?

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Makeup storage life-savers: Elf empty eyeshadow palettes!

Ah finally, my makeup stash is getting tidier by the month!

It was long before I made my second Elf order that I had visualised a couple of potential eyeshadow combinations to store in these empty palettes;

as soon as I got my hands on these babies, I started depotting my single eyeshadows from the Body Shop, and here's the finished result!

The first quad consists of everyday neutral colours or "the essentials", as I like to call them; the taupe brown shade on the bottom left is my absolute favourite eyeshadow, so frustrated it's now discontinued :(

In the second palette I popped in my favourite blue shades, so as to push myself to wear colourful eyeshadows more often ;)

More info about the Elf empty eyeshadow palettes:

* for the price (1,70E each), they're a hell of a value-for-money product!
* compared to some other Elf products from the Essentials line, they don't feel that cheap.
* they fit eyeshadows by Mac, the Body Shop, l'Oreal, Milani, etc.
* the palettes are not magnetised, but personally I didn't have any problems with that- the pans had some leftover glue from the plastic pot, so they sticked nicely into the palettes ;)

Overall, I highly recommend these palettes! If you don't care much about the Elf logo or the white packaging (I'd love it if they came in black!), these won't fail you a bit.

    I mean, wouldn't you rather be without this clutter?

What about you girls, have you ventured into depotting eyeshadows?

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Korres Thyme Honey scrub + mask review

As you can see, I've made good use of this little duo-
so now I can put my thoughts together on a review:

First off, I'd like to point out that my skin type is combination to oily,
with a medium to high sensitivity level;
these two products are marketed for normal to dry skin,
so please bear that in mind when reading this post ;)

Thyme Honey scrub:

the smell: well naturally, it smells of honey!
the texture: it contains bamboo and walnut stone particles; they're fairly big and rather sparse in the scrub formula, which ensures a gentle exfoliation and eliminates the risk of red skin.
my verdict: to my skin, it feels so gentle that I can safely use it daily. The honey smell is not my favourite, however I'm thinking of getting a little tube of this scrub for my holidays to replace my usual facial wash!

Thyme Honey mask:

the smell: now that's odd... I could swear it smells of bitter almond! Seriously! It definitely smells nothing like the scrub. Just sayin' ;)
the texture: it's a white moisturising paste with a silky texture- not like a hard body butter or a runny body lotion. After I washed it off, my skin was soft and moisturised.
the verdict: hmm... If it was given to me as a gift, I would use it up for sure- but I'd rather try out a mask for oily skin, instead. Still, it should work brilliantly on dry skin.

Two more things that ought to be mentioned:

the 10ml tube packaging: hygienic, travel-friendly and it won't take you ages to finish a tube and move on to another scrub/mask!
the price: if I'm correct, it's 2,90E for each tube- bargainliscious!

Have you tried any of these little tubes before?
Which is your favourite face scrub+mask combination?

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My Elf goodies are here!!!

I'm a happy, happy girl!
My Elf order has finally made it to my address, oh what a joy!!!

Lucky me, I made use of a 20% discount code ;)

Thankfully, I had my order long before the 50% off code that was running last week after the 200.000 likes on Elf's facebook page- had i waited for that discount code, 3 products from my shopping list would be sold out!

Here's what I got:

Mineral Lip Gloss in "Au Naturale"
Luscious Liquid Lipstick in "Baby Lips"
Nail Polish in "Smoky Brown"
Natural Radiance Blusher in "Shy"
Studio Single Eyeshadow in "Pebble"
Duo Eyeshadow Cream in "Black Licorice"
Studio Bronzer in "Warm"

And as an attempt to tidy up my makeup stash, I also got 2 empty palettes to fill with my eyeshadows from the Body Shop ;)

And a quick note showing how awesome the people working at Elf's
customer services are:

I had done the same order with the standard shipping option a couple of months ago- but somehow, somewhere, my package got lost in the mail! I contacted Elf's customer services for this matter, and they offered me
full refund!

What are your experiences from shopping at eyeslipsface.co.uk?
Have you tried any of the products pictured above?

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