Gone by 2018 - Update Two - Giant Declutter - Nip+Fab, Burts Bees, The Balm, Project Pan, Kiko Milano

Update time (start point here, and first update here). If the item has been changed to this marvelous brown colour that means I finished it in a previous update and it isn't a new empty.

Skin Care

1. Loreal Pure Clay Purity Mask
2. Loreal Pure Clay Detox Mask
3. Nip & Fab Bee Sting Lifting Mask
4. Nip & Fab Dragons Blood Plumping Serum
5. Nip & Fab Glycolic Fix Serum
6. Superdrug Tea Tree Cleanser & Toner
7. The Balm Balms Away Eye Makeup Remover
8. The Body Shop Seaweed Day Cream

Body Care

1. Molten Brown Amber Cocoon Hand Lotion 
2. Dr Pawpaw Tinted Balm
3. Roger & Gallet Replenishing Body Lotion - Finished up
4. Superdrug Vitamin C Body Butter

Lip Balm

1. Balm Balm Tea Tree Lip Balm
2. Burts Bee's Cocount and Pear Lipbalm

Hair Care

1. Boots Botanics Moisture Shampoo 
2. Boots Botanics Shine Conditioner 
3. Batiste Dry Shampoo Fresh
4. Loreal Elvive Smooth & Polish Spray
5. OGX Coconut Oil Mist Spray
6. Gliss Shine Tonic Spray - Finished
7. Superdrug Killer Volume Dry Shampoo
8. Superdrug Exotic Flair Dry Shampoo
9. Superdrug Cocoa Brownie Dry Shampoo

Fragrance

1. Ralph Lauren Polo Sport 2-Done
2. M&S Nuit Parfum (Deluxe Sample Size)

Makeup

• New Look Fixing Spray
• Freedom Studio Fixing Spray - Finished
• Revolution Pro Base Priming Spray - Finished
• I <3 Makeup Naked Chocolate Palette
• Bare Mineral The Phenomenon Duo (Golden Iris only)
• Revolution Beyond Eden Baked Eye Shadow Palette
• Seventeen Brow Sculpting Pencil
• Kiko Milano Shadow Stick in 06 Golden Brown
• MUA Lipliner in Caramel Nougat
• ELF Finishing Powder 
• Collection Lasting Perfection Powder
• Loreal Infallible Mattifying Primer
• Collection Pore Minimising Primer
• Collection Cool Rose Illuminating Primer
• New Look Flawless Liquid Foundation in Porcelian
• NYX HD Foundation in 101 Nude
• Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer in Light Neutral
• NYX HD Concealer in 02 Fair
• NYX HD Concealer in 03 Light
• Barry M Eyeliner in 30 White
• NYX Eyeliner in 07 Jet Black
• I <3 Makeup Eye Pencil in Channeling my Inner...

Total Products: 47

Items finished this update:5

Total items finished:12

Items remaining:35

Additional Items

These are items I put in at the start but I only want to see some progress on or try and finish. Unlike the ones above they are not necessarily old or going bad. 

• Kat Von D Ink Liner in Dali
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Justify My Love
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Love Hangover
• Too Faced Mini Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• Too Faced Mini Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• NYX Butter Lipstick in Pops - Swapped out for Stila Colourbalm Lipstick in Evangeline
• Kat Von D Mini Liquid Lipstick in Double Dare
• Too Faced Mini Melted Matte in Chihuahua - Its gone bad
• Too Faced Mini Melted Chocolate in Chocolate Honey
• MUA Highlighter in Pink Shimmer
• NYX Prismatic Eyeshadow in Girl Talk

Additional items: 11

Items finished this update: 1

Total items finished:2

Items remaining:9

Update on all the pencil and stick type products

Added in at update one

• 4 By Nature Moisturising Coconut Sheet Masks - 3 Used up already
• 7th Heaven Manuka Honey Peel Off Mask - Finished
• Boots Botanics Hydration Burst Day Cream - Finished
• Revolution Pro Fix Setting Spray
• Soap and Glory Scrub Atomic Face Scrub 
• Primark Lip Liner in mid brown (the shade name was on a sticker on the cap and its gone now)
• Montagne Jeunesse Buriti Fruit Body Smoothie
• MUA Pressed Powder
• Superdrug Vitamin E Dual Phase Cleansing Oil
• Aussie Miracle Hair Insurance Spray
• MUA Volume Mascara - Finished
• Burts Bees Original Lip Balm
• Stila Liquid Eyeliner in Olive
• DKNY By Delicious Fresh Blossom Perfume

Update 1 additional items: 17

Items finished this update: 6

Total items finished:6

Items remaining:11

Adding in this update

• Kiko Milano Lip Pencil in Shade 10
• Loreal Pure Clay Glow Scrub
• Superdrug Vitamin E Moisture Mask
• Sukin Antioxidant Eye Serum
• Boots Botanics Hydrating Facial Serum
• Good Things Manuka Honey Hand Cream

• Body Shop Rose Shower Gel (Mini)
• Body Shop Rose Gel Scrub (Mini)
• Body Shop Rose Body Butter (Mini)

• Old Style "You've Been Mangoed" Bath Melt
• New Style "You've Been Mangoed" Bath Melt
• Lush "Candy Mountain" Bubble Bar
• Lush "Upsy Daisy" Bath Bomb

• Tony Moly Clear Skin Rice Mask
• Boots Rooibos Sheet Mask
• Spa Life Coconut and Shea Butter Mask
• Spa Life Bee Venom and Honey Mask
• Rata + Co Chia Seed Mask
• 7th Heaven Aloe Vera Blemish Mud Mask
• 7th Heaven Deep Sea Cleansing Mud Mask
• 7th Heaven Cucumber Peel Off Mask
• Superdrug Chocolate Orange Face Mask

Update 2 additional items: 22

I know it may seem like I still have a lot of items to finish however most of them (except the newer ones) are under a third full at this stage, some even less, so I fully imagine that I will have a lot finished up by my next update at the start of November.

xoxo Scruffy

Gone by 2018 - Update one - Giant Declutter - Project Pan - Ralph Lauren, Stila, Superdrug

At the end of July I started a huge project pan type use up (find that post here) and as its been a little over a month and things have started to get finished up I thought it was about time for an update.

I've not taken hundreds and thousands of photos with this update as that would take way way to much time,  but my exciting thing this month was I hit pan on three shades on the I <3 Makeup Naked Chocolate palette which means it is done. Its gone and it means I have been able to start a huge rolling Project Pan Roulette with all my eyeshadow (link to that post here). That project will have far more up-close and in depth photos than this one.

Anyway, lets have a look at what I got through and what I'm adding in.

Skin Care

1. Loreal Pure Clay Purity Mask
2. Loreal Pure Clay Detox Mask
3. Nip & Fab Bee Sting Lifting Mask
4. Nip & Fab Dragons Blood Plumping Serum
5. Nip & Fab Glycolic Fix Serum
6. Superdrug Tea Tree Cleanser & Toner
7. The Balm Balms Away Eye Makeup Remover
8. The Body Shop Seaweed Day Cream - Done

Body Care

1. Molten Brown Amber Cocoon Hand Lotion - I think this has gone bad and its smelling funky now so I'm getting rid of it. 
2. Dr Pawpaw Tinted Balm
3. Roger & Gallet Replenishing Body Lotion
4. Superdrug Vitamin C Body Butter

Lip Balm

1. Balm Balm Tea Tree Lip Balm
2. Burts Bee's Cocount and Pear Lipbalm

Hair Care

1. Boots Botanics Moisture Shampoo - This irritated my scalp so badly I had to pass it on as I couldn't use it
2. Boots Botanics Shine Conditioner - I decluttered this at the same time as it really did nothing for my hair
3. Batiste Dry Shampoo Fresh - Done
4. Loreal Elvive Smooth & Polish Spray
5. OGX Coconut Oil Mist Spray - Done
6. Gliss Shine Tonic Spray
7. Superdrug Killer Volume Dry Shampoo
8. Superdrug Exotic Flair Dry Shampoo
9. Superdrug Cocoa Brownie Dry Shampoo

Fragrance

1. Ralph Lauren Polo Sport 2
2. M&S Nuit Parfum (Deluxe Sample Size)

Makeup

Not happy about the lack of progress on the NYX lipstick as I feel like I wore this a lot

• New Look Fixing Spray- Done
• Freedom Studio Fixing Spray
• Revolution Pro Base Priming Spray
• I <3 Makeup Naked Chocolate Palette- Done
• Bare Mineral The Phenomenon Duo (Golden Iris only)
• Revolution Beyond Eden Baked Eye Shadow Palette
• Seventeen Brow Sculpting Pencil
• Kiko Milano Shadow Stick in 06 Golden Brown
• MUA Lipliner in Caramel Nougat
• ELF Finishing Powder - This has some sero
• Collection Lasting Perfection Powder
• Loreal Infallible Mattifying Primer
• Collection Pore Minimising Primer
• Collection Cool Rose Illuminating Primer
• New Look Flawless Liquid Foundation in Porcelian
• NYX HD Foundation in 101 Nude
• Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer in Light Neutral
• NYX HD Concealer in 02 Fair
• NYX HD Concealer in 03 Light
• Barry M Eyeliner in 30 White
• NYX Eyeliner in 07 Jet Black
• I <3 Makeup Eye Pencil in Channeling my Inner...

Total Products: 47

Items finished this update:8

Total items finished:8

Items remaining:39

Additional Items

These are items I put in at the start but I only want to see some progress on or try and finish. Unlike the ones above they are not necessarily old or going bad. 

• Kat Von D Ink Liner in Dali- Done
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Justify My Love
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Love Hangover
• Too Faced Mini Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• Too Faced Mini Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• NYX Butter Lipstick in Pops
• Kat Von D Mini Liquid Lipstick in Double Dare
• Too Faced Mini Melted Matte in Chihuahua 
• Too Faced Mini Melted Chocolate in Chocolate Honey
• MUA Highlighter in Pink Shimmer
• NYX Prismatic Eyeshadow in Girl Talk

Additional items: 11

Items finished this update: 1

Total items finished:1

Items remaining:10

Added in at update one

So I was originally only going to replace the eight items I finished/had to remove but as the Ralph Lauren perfume is almost done along with some of the other items I decided to challenge myself a little more.  I also recently went through my foil packet collection, and its a little out of hand, so I've added in the five packet masks I'm least likely to use up unless they are in the project and I make myself use them, in the hope I can start making a dent in collection too.

• 4. By Nature Moisturising Coconut Sheet Masks
• 1. 7th Heaven Manuka Honey Peel Off Mask
• Boots Botanics Hydration Burst Day Cream
• Revolution Pro Fix Setting Spray
• Soap and Glory Scrub Atomic Face Scrub 
• Primark Lip Liner in mid brown (the shade name was on a sticker on the cap and its gone now)
• Montagne Jeunesse Buriti Fruit Body Smoothie
• MUA Pressed Powder
• Superdrug Vitamin E Dual Phase Cleansing Oil
• Aussie Miracle Hair Insurance Spray
• MUA Volume Mascara
• Burts Bees Original Lip Balm
• Stila Liquid Eyeliner in Olive
• DKNY By Delicious Fresh Blossom Perfume

Update 1 additional items: 17

Anyway, until next time

XOXO Scruffy

Rolling Project Ten Pan Roulette - Start Point - Picked at Random - Urban Decay, Sleek, NYX, Makeup Revolution

So I recently decided it was time to start a makeup inventory and log everything I owned on a spreadsheet. This was to make sure everything I had was visible to me and I was getting proper use out of everything, and also with the hope I would start rotating through it. I got as far as eyeshadow palettes with 5+ pans before I realised I had way to many. I have 55 of those palettes with a total of 709 pans of eyeshadow, and after creating this project I did my quads/trios/duos as well. I have 14 of those, with another 46 pans(and will add them in to the mix at update one, I might add in singles and sticks at update two but I'm not finished that part yet). That's 755 pans of eyeshadow, before single pans, sticks and loose powders. I feel like I could cover my whole face in eyeshadow for the next year and I'd still have some left to get me through till January 2019.

It felt like time to get some proper use out of my palettes.  So what I have done to pick pans is run my number of palettes through Googles random number generator 10 times and cross referenced the number with where it falls on the spreadsheet for the palettes I'm including. And then to pick a pan I have run the generator again, using the number of pans in the palette and gone left to right and top to bottom. For example, with the chocolate vice palette I got pan 15, so the top row it 1 - 5, middle row is 6- 11 (yeah this is a messed up palette with different sized pans) and then 12,13, 14 and finally 15 on the bottom row takes us to the dark sparkly red. 

And now that all the technical stuff is covered, lets see if the google gods were kind to me

1. Freedom Makeup Pro Shade & Brighten Stunning Rose Kit - Pan 5 

2. Sleek i-Divine Palette in Enchanted Forest - Pan 12 Lady Tremaine

3. NYX Sex Bomb Palette - Pan 3

4. Revolution London Iconic Pro 2 - Pan 10 Silk

5. Wet n Wild Comfort Zone - Pan 1

6. Urban Decay Nocturnal Shadow Box - Pan 4 Half Baked

7. Sleek i-Divine Palette in Garden of Eden - Pan 10 Evergreen

8. Makeup Obsessed Build Your Own 12 Pan Palette - Pan 6 Taupe (this will be different for everyone as I chose the colours for this.

9. I <3 Makeup Chocolate Vice Palette - Pan 15  

10. Revolution Dio De Los Muertos - Pan 3

And now for some swatches

LTR - Shades 1-5 (4 and 5 are very neutral shimmer tones)

LTR - Shades 6-10

Overall I didn't get a bad mix, things could have been so much worse. I've either used all of them in the past or tried them out since taking the pictures and colour wise the only one I may struggle to use regularly is the pink. Shade 3 is pretty chunky, flaky and glittery and when I tried to use it on the eye I really struggled. 4 and 5 are also very similar so I may focus on one of them and when I hit pan on the first one and cycle it out and start using another one.

I'll be back in a month to update you all on how things are going, and hopefully with some pan. If pan has been hit I will run the random number generator again and get a new pan from my collection to replace it with. There's no end date on this project and it will probably just roll month on month, as nothing needs used up or is beginning to go bad. It also means that if I end up with a new palette (like when I get to Sephora in November) then I can just put this to one side whilst I play with it an then come back to this.

If your doing a similar project please link any posts/youtube videos below. I love following project pans and seeing how everyone is doing. 

Until next time...

xoxo Scruffy

Gone by 2018 - Giant Project Pan - De-clutter before the end of the year.

Three months ago now I began this years Project Pan, and went good guns for the first month (project pan update). In months two to three I did well as well, but forgot to do an update and now we're at the end of month four and I've not done an update either. Clearly something isn't working for me and steady monthly updates.

With that in mind, few days ago I decided to have a huge clear-out of all my beauty and hair care stuff as some of it is very very old and needs the bin. During this I found a lot of products that also are getting old, have been neglected, or will most likely go off if left unused for another six months. So what I have decided to do, rather than a month to month Project Pan, is just to have an ongoing clear out project targeting all the products that I pulled out during the clear-out.

My goal is to use all, or as many as possible, of the following products up before January 2nd, 2018. Anything left then will either go to one side for 2018's Project Pan, or, more likely, in the bin in its (hopefully) greatly diminished and nearly used up state.

I'm not going to be doing monthly updates for this, they will happen as and when something exciting happens. Also all progress posts will just be a done or not done yet, the only products I'm actually keeping track on are the eyeshadow palette and any of the pencils and bullet lip products. Any thoughts on the products will be covered in empties posts and not in updates as I can't be dealing with that.

Now that I've got all that intro out the way lets get into it. You'll see from the photos, some of the products are marked with stickers, its just so I can identify them if they end up in another room, like my bathroom or bedroom.

Skin care

1. Loreal Pure Clay Purity Mask
2. Loreal Pure Clay Detox Mask
3. Nip & Fab Bee Sting Lifting Mask
4. Nip & Fab Dragons Blood Plumping Serum
5. Nip & Fab Glycolic Fix Serum
6. Superdrug Tea Tree Cleanser & Toner
7. The Balm Balms Away Eye Makeup Remover
8. The Body Shop Seaweed Day Cream

Approx value at time of writing £80.50

Body Care

1. Molten Brown Amber Cocoon Hand Lotion
2. Dr Pawpaw Tinted Balm
3. Roger & Gallet Replenishing Body Lotion
4. Superdrug Vitamin C Body Butter

Approx value at time of writing £38

Lip Balm

1. Balm Balm Tea Tree Lip Balm
2. Burts Bee's Cocount and Pear Lipbalm

Approx value at time of writing £9

Hair Care

1. Boots Botanics Moisture Shampoo 
2. Boots Botanics Shine Conditioner
3. Batiste Dry Shampoo Fresh
4. Loreal Elvive Smooth & Polish Spray
5. OGX Coconut Oil Mist Spray
6. Gliss Shine Tonic Spray
7. Superdrug Killer Volume Dry Shampoo
8. Superdrug Exotic Flair Dry Shampoo
9. Superdrug Cocoa Brownie Dry Shampoo

Approx value at time of writing £29

Fragrances

1. Ralph Lauren Polo Sport 2
2. M&S Nuit Parfum (Deluxe Sample Size)

Approx value at time of writing £50

Makeup

• New Look Fixing Spray
• Freedom Studio Fixing Spray
• Revolution Pro Base Priming Spray
• I <3 Makeup Naked Chocolate Palette
• Bare Mineral The Phenomenon Duo (Golden Iris only)
• Revolution Beyond Eden Baked Eye Shadow Palette
• Seventeen Brow Sculpting Pencil
• Kiko Milano Shadow Stick in 06 Golden Brown
• MUA Lipliner in Caramel Nougat

• ELF Finishing Powder
• Collection Lasting Perfection Powder
• Loreal Infallible Mattifying Primer
• Collection Pore Minimising Primer
• Collection Cool Rose Illuminating Primer
• New Look Flawless Liquid Foundation in Porcelian
• NYX HD Foundation in 101 Nude

• Urban Decay Naked Skin Concealer in Light Neutral
• NYX HD Concealer in 02 Fair
• NYX HD Concealer in 03 Light
• Barry M Eyeliner in 30 White
• NYX Eyeliner in 07 Jet Black
• I <3 Makeup Eye Pencil in Channeling my Inner...

Approx value at time of writing £153.50

Total number of products involved 47

Total approximate value of products involved £360

£360 is not a small amount of money and although I know I have used a good amount of most of these products, others are still over half full so binning them would be flushing money straight down the toilet. And I think that's the value of doing this kind of project, it helps me really focus in on what I have and what I would be wasting if I just binned things I was bored of.

Additional Makeup Items

So I decided, as the makeup section didn't contain any blush, bronzer, highligher or lipstick that I should go through my collection and pull out a few items I haven't really used, are minis, or the packaging is getting a bit scuffed up and although they're not old or bad, they could probably be used up. These items are not the focus of this project but they are added in as it would be nice to finish some up.

• Kat Von D Ink Liner in Dali
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Justify My Love
• Too Faced Mini Blush in Love Hangover
• Too Faced Mini Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• Too Faced Mini Milk Chocolate Soleil Bronzer
• NYX Butter Lipstick in Pops
• Kat Von D Mini Liquid Lipstick in Double Dare
• Too Faced Mini Melted Matte in Chihuahua 
• Too Faced Mini Melted Chocolate in Chocolate Honey
• MUA Highlighter in Pink Shimmer
• NYX Prismatic Eyeshadow in Girl Talk

Approximate additional value £103

So yeah, that's everything. Its a little daunting but I think by month two or three I'll see some results and that'll keep me going.

Are you doing a Project Pan? If so I'd love to check it out. Leave me a link in the comments.

xoxo Scruffy

Project Pan 2017 - Update 1. Kat Von D, MUA, Kiko Milano, Seventeen, Ralph Lauren, Too Faced, NYX

So it's been a little over a month now since I started my 2017 Project Pan (related blog post here) and I thought it was time to check back in and show you all how I'm doing. Rather than splitting it by product type this time, I'm going to do it by how used it is.

Update photos taken 21 May 2017, for later reference.

Products I used up

17 Va Va Voom Mascara & Kat Von D Tattoo Liner (Travel Sized).

 Loved and have repurchased both of these (two of the mascaras because they were on offer). All of them are currently in my unopened make-up drawer for a later date. 

Products I'm Binning

Models Own Kohl Pencil & Benefit Porefessional. 

My goal was to use up the Porefessional and decide if I liked the liner. I don't like the liner, it doesn't stay in the water line at all and just smudges if I use it for anything else. I own way to many opened liners I actually like and need to use up to even think about panning this properly. The Porefessional broke me out.It was all I changed in my routine and the breakouts only happened in areas I applied it (which are also not areas that normally have breakouts) . It's old, that's probably why this is happening, so bin. 

Products I barely used

I know I didn't use the mask or the hairspray at all. I did wear the perfume a couple of times but its more of a winter scent and its been really hot in the UK so I'll hopefully have more luck later in the year. As for the Sun Bunny bronzer, I do not like this as bronzer. I did use it both as an eyeshadow and on my body but not enough to really show any progress. 

Progress - Bottles

As you can see I made steady progress with all of these. There's not much else to say really. 

Progress - Powders and Pots

I've made good progress on the moisturiser and hit definite pan on the powder. The NYX blush is showing no progress despite me using it about 70% of the time. Still liking it, determined to hit that pan too.

Went through my photos and I hadn't taken a start photo.. D'oh!

I feel like I've made really good progress on this palette. I've been mostly concentrating on the two light taupe brown shades on the bottom row and a little in the bottom right corner of the large matte cream. There's now a significant dip in the second last shade. I'm hoping to hit pan soon as I own way to much eyeshadow and want to hit my goal, bin this and move on to the next palette ASAP. 

And products I'm adding in...

1. Collection Extreme Liner in Black
2. MUA Lip Liner
3. Kiko Long Lasting Shadow Stick
4. Seventeen Brow Sculpting Pencil

Check out how professional I am right now...

Update 1 round up

Used up: 2
Given up: 2
Added in: 4

xoxo Scruffy

Project Pan 2017 - Start Point. Garnier, Gliss, NYX, Revolution, Too Faced, Boots, Kat Von D

So it's been a while since the last time I attempted a Project Pan type thing and maybe I'm being a little crazy to start it during my 50 Days, 50 Lipsticks projects but I figured as long as I didn't add any lip products in, I could probably give it a bash.

All photos here were taken on 16 April 2017, for updates sake later on.

So I've selected seventeen products as its 2017, to start with. A mix of hair and body care, make-up and perfume and as I finish or hit my goals with things I'll add more in. I've marked all the products I'm including with washi tape, more for my benefit as it makes them easier to identify when I'm half asleep first thing in the morning,

• Gliss Liquid Silk Hair Repair Conditioner. I've had this bottle since forever and just really want it gone now. I'm not sure if it does anything or not but it does smell pretty and I've only got a tiny bit left so it should be easy enough to use up.
• Percy and Reed Hairspray. I don't like this and I don't normally use hairspray but I got this in a sample box and I don't like binning usable things so I guess I'll be constructing some up-do's from my crazy mop in the near future.
• Garnier Body Repair Maple Sap Lotion. This is another product I've had forever and really need rid of it.  This wont take me long to use up so hopefully this'll be gone withing the next four weeks.
• Boots Tea Tree and Witch Hazel Mask with Active Charcoal. It's not a bad mask, it's just not my favourite. I've probably used it three or four times already so I guess I maybe had four or five more uses left. 
• B. Pure Micellar Water. It's OK. Its a micellar water, I don't love the twist top on it so I think thats why it's still kicking about. Lets get it used.
• (Asda)The Skin System Radiance SPF15 Daycream. Again, not something I love but it's usable. Also it's a glass jar which I find a little strange seeing as this really isn't expensive at all.

• Collection Lasting Perfection Powder in Fair. I want to say its powder and I should just suck it up and use it up but this has a really warm yellow tone and if I use it for anything other than just dusting my nose (like setting concealer) it looks so yellow I have to wipe it off. We should be heading into Summer here in Scotland soon (hahahahahahaha I wish) so I will hopefully be able to get this used up soon.
• Too Faced Sun Bunny Bronzer (mini size). I tend to avoid shimmery bronzer like I would a zombie that's on fire and spreading an airborne strain of measles(I don't actually know how measles spreads, is it airborne?) however I have somehow ended up with two of these wee Sun Bunny bronzers. I'm hoping to get some use out of this during the three days of previously mentioned Scottish summer, most likely across my chest, or maybe on my legs if I shave them and then decided to wear shorts. If not its a very pretty and very big eyeshadow. Goal - Hit Pan
• Benefit Porefessional Primer, its the brown stuff in the pot because I managed to loose the lid for the tube. I don't love it. It doesn't do anything for my oily T-Zone or dry spots but I will use it up.
• NYX HD Blush in Amber. I don't want to finish it, my goal is just to hit pan and then swap it out. I really like this blush, it's one of my favourites but I feel it gets completely lost in my collection. Goal - Hit Pan
• New Look Fix Makeup Setting Spray - Hey Kirstie, how about you don't buy stuff on a whim? I picked up a couple of the New Look Beauty products on a whim and both the lipstick and the foundation are actually OK, This spray does nothing though, Noooooooothing. Can't wait till its done.

• I <3 Makeup Naked Chocolate Palette. I pulled this palette out at the start of April in a vague effort to kind of shop my stash. I say kind of as I use what I pull out for about two weeks, get bored and end up going through everything every day again. I do not love this palette, and I find the shimmers are hard to apply with any intensity and the mattes really fade throughout the day. But dammit I paid for it, so I will get some use out of it. My goal for this is to hit pan on one of the shades, and I already know from the past two and a half weeks it will be a struggle. Also place your bets on which one, my moneys on either the second from the right on the top or second left or second right on the bottom. Once I've done that, if I've not fallen back in love its going in the bin, but at least it will feel less like a waste of money. Goal - Hit Pan
• Kat Von D Tattoo Liner in Trooper (Mini Size). I love this, but I'm conscious its getting old and I have no way of cleaning the tip that gets rubbed all over my eye lid every time I use it, which is every time I do winged liner. The plan is to use it up and buy a full sized one, and then not open the full sized one till I've gotten through another three black liquid liners as I have a fair few.
• 17 Va Va Voom Mascara, Like the liner I love it, but it's getting old. This will be done before my next update most likely, and it will get replaces with my mini Perversion Mascara from Urban decay.
• Models Own I-Definer Kohl Pencil in Black. I bought a big set of these just after Christmas and the only one I really played with was the Peacock blue shade which was beautiful. Sadly though, I somehow managed to pull the bottom coloured stopper off of it and that was really messy and I had to bin it. I just want to try and use this a bit, as I always seem to reach for my NYX Slide On Pencil, when I want a black liner pencil. I'll swap it out when I feel like it, or bin it if its not good. Goal - Play with it a bit
• Ralph Lauren Polo Sport 2 Perfume - I like this perfume, but I tend not to use it as I don't love it, and I have other small bottles of perfume I love. It has, at various points in time, lived in my handbag and now the paint on the bottle is chipping off and its looking crazy. It's a very sweet and summery smell, and is the UK is now in Spring, lets get it finished. I'm just below the top of the 2 on  the packaging and if I wear it to work four days a week, it'll be gone before we hit Autumn,
• M&S Nuit Perfume - I got this out a subscription box a while ago and, like the Polo Sport 2, I like it but I don't love it. Unlike it though, it's really, really strong, not very summery and not really suitable for work. I've barely made a dent in it so far (that line is way to close to the top for my liking) but I will get through it, and if I haven't by the end of the year, I'll get rid of it

So that's everything for now, wish me luck as I usually get bored around week three and give up.

XOXO Scruffy

Life Update January 2017 - Broken Boilers, Christmas, Loch Migdale and Moving House

OK, well Happy New Year I guess...

Light box from New Look, Makeup Brushes from eBay, Necklace from Punkypins and the lipsticks are from Kiko Milano's Christmas 2016 collection.

I feel like it's been a very long time since I last wrote anything so bear with me for a second. 

What's been going on? Where to start?

At the start of November last year I began a Use Up 17 by 2017 project, and as you can see from my November 2061 Empties I went at it all guns blazing for a good month and got through a fair few. 

At the end of  November, my landlord told me he was selling the flat I was living in. No drama, the other half and I had already been talking about moving in together so we agreed I'd just live there till it was sold and then move in with him. Two days later the boiler in that flat died. The flat had individual electric radiators in each room so I wasn't without heating in winter but I was having to travel to my boyfriends to have a shower. I didn't want to be carting hundreds of half empty bottles to work, then on the bus, then home again. So I had to shelve that project. 

At the start of December I started Blogmas, and I managed a steady 19 days which I felt was quite good. The broken boiler hampered me a bit and I might have lasted longer if it was working. I lost on average an hour a day traveling either to or from my boyfriends and I couldn't review any of the Lush Christmas items I had bought specifically to for that purpose during Blogmas. Most of what I posted was reviews that were partially pre-written so that saved a lot of time, however I'm not sure I'd do that again.

After that it was Birthday, Christmas and New Year Celebrations. 

When I was at my parents over Christmas, I managed to get some cracking winter photos of Loch Migdale. (I grew up in the Highlands and my family still live there).  There's a lot so I wont be offended if you want to scroll past them. 

Not bad for an old HTC phone, right?

The Boiler eventually got fixed in the second week of January. Not totally my landlords fault, the first trades person he arranged couldn't fix it, the second two did show up at all and then I was gone for Christmas. A few days after that he told me the flat was in the final stages of being sold.

Let the chaotic packing begin. I'd expected to have a bit more time than I ended up having. Luckily I'm fairly good at de-cluttering and like to have a massive clear out about twice a year so I didn't have tonnes and tonnes of stuff needing packed. So for the past couple of weeks I've just been moving and sorting, moving and sorting. My furniture came across on Saturday so I've been able to start getting unpacked. I hand my keys back in for that flat on Monday (that might be today depending on when I post this).

If anyone follows me on Instagram you would have seen the photo of my new dressing area below. I love it, but trust me its the only part of the house that looks that sorted.

I'm hoping normal service will resume in the next two weeks, and my aim is to post twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday) and maybe a third post some Saturdays. I really don't want to commit to more than I can handle then end up stressing out over it. I have a backlog of reviews I need to write for products I tried over the past two months as well. I think there's a bit of everything in the mix, but if there's something you really want to see, like perfume or eyeshadow palettes then let me know and I can prioritise those.

XOXO Scruffy