Saturday 13 July 2013

Summer Haul Part I Skin and Haircare

Summer is my favourite time of the year and I did a little bit of shopping to be prepared for the sunny days and my vacations! 
I know, it's already July, but here where I live summer arrived like 4 days ago.

So let's start!


RITUALS MAGIC TOUCH WHIPPED BODY CREAM 


Ladies, this scent is sooo seducing! Aw-maze-balls. In the shop I tried it on my left arm and wow, the smell lingered on my skin for the whole day!
The pot sells for 15€ and you get 200ml of product. 

SOAP&GLORY FLAKE AWAY BODY SCRUB 



I've heard and seen so many good reviews about this product and now I finally got my hands on it! Oh girl, the scent! Really! Everybody raves about it and now I know why! It's delicious! I'm so bad at describing scents but this smells SO good! Absolutely love it!
I bought it in Douglas for 15€.

FEKKAI MARINE SUMMERHAIR MARINE CLEAN DETOX SHAMPOO


I already had this shampoo last summer when I went to Italy for my summer vacations and I love it to pieces! The scent is fresh and fruity and I like how my hair still smells like the shampoo after having washed it. It leaves my hair really clean and gets rid of all the chlorine from the pool and the sand that I somehow always get into my hair when I'm at the beach.

FEKKAI MARINE SUMMERHAIR SMOOTH SAILING ANTI-FRIZZ CREAM 
Normally I can work really well with my hair structure, but when I let it hair dry in summer it ends up looking all frizzy and dry at the ends. Ugh. Not cute!
So goodbye Fritz (I call my hair Fritz when it's frizzy :D) and hello good smelling anti-frizz leave in cream! 
Both were on sale in Douglas, but still weren't the cheapest thing on earth. The shampoo cost me 10€ and the leave in cream 20€.

L'ORÉAL EVER RICHE DEEP CONDITIONING HAIR MASK  


Deep nourishing hair mask? I. Was. Sold.
I really want to grow my hair a bit more so I'm trying to cut off heat styling and start taking more care of it. I'll just say: drastically increased sun exposure, salt water and daily washing in my vacations so for me this is a must!
This was on sale in Douglas and cost me 6€ which is alright I think.

HAWAIIN TROPIC SILK HYDRATION SPF 50 BROAD SPECTRUM


Me and my fear of old looking skin reached its highest point last year. I was on vacation in Italy with my family. Two entire weeks at the beach and delicious Italian food. Yummy! After lunch I would go to the beach, lay down under a sunshade and read a book. And every time I saw this lady laying in the sun, glowing like a discoball from all the tanning oil she had put on her body. She had a great figure, and I guessed she was sixty-something. A beautiful women, with a beautiful smile and very, very nice. One afternoon I got to talk to her, and that's when I found out that she was in fact in her early fifties. Ooops.
Long story short, I was shocked how much the sun can change the appearance of our skin. And I decided that when I was 50, Ionly  wanted to look like 50 and not 1 year older. 
So YES to broad spectrum, YES to sunbathing 50 times longer than I could without sunscreen and YES to 98% protection from sun rays, which is all given with SPF 50.
I will not only use this at the beach but also on sunny days when a lot of my skin is exposed to the sun. YES to hydrating sunscreen! Oh, have I mentioned that it smells wonderful? No? It does!

HAWAIIN TROPIC AFTER SUN BODY BUTTER LIME COLADA


This year I want to try surfing! So my skin will have to deal with an inmense amount of damaging UVA und UVB rays and salt water over the day. I went for body butter because I want the most moisturization possible so that my skin can recover from the day at the beach. This body butter smells like a fruity cocktail at the beach. It's so summery!
I ordered it on Amazon for 7€. The sunscreen was 14€. 

KÉRASTASE NUTRI THERMIQUE 


.It's a heat activated leave in cream and I bought it for the days when I want to heat style my hair because sometimes I just can't do without my straightener and my curling wand! I wanted to try this for months and the moment I smelled it in the shop I knew I would purchase it, and here it is!
I bought in on Amazon for 24€ (pricey I know, but hello this is Kérastase!) which is 6€ cheaper than in Douglas! 



So that's it for my summer haul! I hope you enjoyed reading it!
Write me a comment if you want me to do a review on any of the products!

Special thanks go to my sweet little brother who helped me take these pictures in my garden.
Again, all this products were bought with my own money and weren't sponsored.

Lots of love,
Dolce

4 comments :

  1. Such lovely summer purchases! I agree with you about the Rituals scent - it's gorgeous. And I love the Hawaiian Tropic sunscreen - one of my faves :)
    Emma x
    emandthem.blogspot.com

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    1. Aww thank you!
      I'm already a massive fan of Hawaiin Tropic!

      Dolce x

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  2. I want the Soap & glory body scrub sooo bad !

    Great blog :)
    Xx
    Fanny

    http://fannygrey.blogspot.ca/

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    1. Thank you Fanny!
      The smell of the Soap & Glory stuff is so addicting! :)

      Dolce x

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