As you've probably seen on my blog, I've got myself a few 'not so ordinary' brushes, like the tear drop and oval ones. As per, when I was in Primark, I had a wonder to the makeup section, just to have a little browse and see if there was anything new. Of course, I stumbled across this brush and instantly wanted to try it out and have another one feature on the blog. Upon first glance, I have no idea what you'd call this shape, maybe the curvy brush? I guess that's most fitting but I was a little sceptical that this is going to work with foundation, mainly because of it's shape but, I was willing to test it out and see what magic it can actually do.

So, it comes in a pretty standard box, similar packaging to the oval brushes I reviewed a few months ago. On the back, it just lists the product name in different languages, the warning message (to keep out of reach of children) in different languages also and a list of their addresses. Pretty standard stuff. You've got a nice clear view of the brush in the packaging so you shouldn't have any surprises when you open it up and it's not what you thought or it's broken.


Moving onto the brush itself. Once you get it out of the packaging, and have a feel of the brush, the handle is plastic but seeing as it was £4 from Primark, I kind of expected it, not considering it a bad thing at all. The bristles are synthetic, meaning that they do feel, again, like plastic and almost greasy feeling but again, it's not a bad thing, it's just the cheaper brush bristles that some companies will use. I will say however, the bristles look good though, nice gradient on them and when I pull my fingers through them, they didn't have any sort of resistance, which is good. Now, for the big test, how it applies my makeup.

So, below is a picture of my face before applying foundation. I only have primer on at this point, not even concealer and just filled in my brows. Also, none of the images have been edited.



I wanted to show results from when I put my foundation on and then when I added my concealer so I took some photos to see the results.


So, how did it perform? I noticed that with my foundation, it left it quite streaky from the bristles. I also found that I had to add another pump of foundation onto my hand to finish it off, when normally 1/2 pumps is enough. But once I started to buff it out a bit more, it looked better. So really, it just required a bit more effort than my usual brushes. For concealer, I put it under my eyes and to cover some blemishes. It doesn't look like there is much difference between having foundation only against foundation and concealer. It helped cover up some of the blemishes on my forehead and covered up the one just above my nose, but not completely covered it. I will say, because of the shape of the brush, it made applying everything work quite well.

After doing that test, it's not a bad brush. It didn't break or bristles came off when applying my makeup. It's just,you have to put a bit more force into it to make it look okay on your skin, so you are kind of expecting that sort of result for £4. Don't get me wrong, I'm not going to go and bin it because of it. It does have a unique shape, which may work well with other things like blush and contour, which I may try as another test. Would you want to see that?

Do you own this brush? What has been your experience with it? Let me know!
Look after yourself,


This blog post is not sponsored and all opinions are my own and honest!

Not going to lie, when I watched Zoella opening products from her PO Box, one that I liked the sound of was the Bilou Creamy Shower Foam. She mentioned that it's only now being sold in the UK and sounded quite fond of it herself. Yes. She just did her job. She influenced me to check this product out and I ended up buying it. It was hard to smell each one because it being foam, I didn't want to squirt it but luckily, there was a slight scent in the cap which gave me an idea on what it will smell like. Out of the 5 scents they had - Fizzy Berry, Tasty Donut, Coco Cocktail, Pink Melon & Cotton Candy - I went with the Pink Melon one. Bilou was created by a German Youtuber called Bibi. In all honesty, I didn't know of her before hearing about this product but well done to her for bringing out a range of products that's now reaching out to different countries.


So following from my purchase of the shower foam, I just wanted to get trying it as soon as possible but I actually waited a bit and used up some other things first but when I did, oh boy, did it smell good! It's a proper summery scent, a mix of melons and raspberries. It just reminded me of a really fruity cocktail! What's great about this shower foam is that you only need to shake it a bit and it comes out super foamy. Just be careful on your first use as you may find yourself having to press down the dispense cap hard to release it and it goes everywhere in the shower (yes, that happened to me). The foam is so incredible though. It's super soft on the skin and has a really intense smell of the scent, but not too overpowering that you get put off by it. A small handful can go quite along way on your body but it's down to you if you want to smother yourself in this foamy goodness. It's easy to rinse off and then you find that it lingers for quite sometime after. A good tip! Shave your legs with this stuff! They were so smooth, I couldn't stop stroking them.


One thing that I know will draw a wider audience to these products is that they are 100% vegan and the cans are 100% recyclable. Talking of the cans, I like how each one had it's own little colour scheme going on, to add a pop of colour and easily identifiable. On the back, you've got lots of information on how to use, ingredients and general information, with nice illustrations too. Other products in the range include a gentle cream foam, which is considered as a foam lotion and a 2-in-1 bodyspray, which are priced at £3.99 each, which is really quite affordable. I kind of wished I purchased another scent or two but I think I'll do that once I run out of this one, which I think will be a while yet, as I imagine this is going to go a long way. So yes, I love this. Likely that I'll be buying another one eventually and hope that more scents come our way.

Do you own this? What do you think of it?

Look after yourself,


This blog post is not sponsored and all opinions are my own and honest!

I'm pretty sure I've watched The Crystal Maze since I was a kid, wishing that I could pretend to do challenges in my house to win crystals but I couldn't ever do that. I would occasionally watch the repeats on TV and when I heard they were bringing it out for a Celeb Special for Stand Up To Cancer, I was a little bit excited. Whilst I was watching it, I was googling about the one-off show, to then realise that there was an actual Crystal Maze Experience in London that had opened earlier that year. I really wanted to go but didn't really think anyone I knew of would want to do it with me.

A few months past, the new series with celebs came on TV, followed by regular folk and I still had it in my mind that I would love to try out the experience. One day, I was hanging out with some friends, who was suggesting we all do something fun, and someone (surprisingly not me) came up with the idea of doing the Crystal Maze. I instantly put my hands up and said yes, to which most of my other friends actually followed and said they'd do it aswell. We called up three other friends to see if they wanted in and they did! That was it! We were actually going to do it! The next thing was picking a date that everyone could do. We received a text from a friend who was organising it and said that a date that had some availability was the 10th September but at 9pm, which was pretty late. But everyone was good for it so we went ahead and booked it. He also asked 'Green or Orange' as this was going to be our team colour. We ended up with Green.

The date came and I was actually excited but nervous as I didn't really know what to expect. We all headed into London a bit earlier so we looked around the Chinese Food Market that was going on near London Bridge, checked out the Science Museum and went to a Wetherspoons to get some last minute fuel. We were only round the corner from the place, which was near Angel Tube Station, and there it was, in all it's glory, THE CRYSTAL MAZE sign all lit up.


We went on it, did the waiver bit, put our things in a complimentary locker (apart from my phone as I wanted to take some snaps before going in) and headed to our green table, which had the green bomber jackets hanging underneath. Alongside our team, there were three others, blue, red and orange. We all go round at the same time but start off in different zones. A guy at the place took a few photos of us in our jackets, went through a couple of things, like the premise of the experience, health and safety etc. and when we got our little call before our start time, I put my phone back into the locker, went to the bathroom (as you don't get a chance to go once you're in) and took the jacket off, as you don't actually wear them during your time in the maze. It's literally for photos at the beginning. It 9pm and we headed into our first zone, which was the Medieval zone. We sat in a room which had a TV playing clips of TV show and all of a sudden, a guy walks in, which happens to me our Maze Master, wearing a glorious star cape. I can't remember his full name but we did call him Bert. Whilst in that room, we decided on our Team Captain (who got to wear the fab cape) and Vice Captain and I swear, all we did was constantly cheer and clap for unknown reasons. Suddenly, it was time to play! Unfortunately, I have no pictures on when we were inside as you cannot take phones in with you, so you don't ruin things for others so this next bit is going to be a bit wordy.

So yes, we started in the Medieval zone so it was a little dark but I was quite impressed with what they did with it. Our Maze Master asked the Team Captain what game we wanted and for who so one by one, we went round and did our tasks. I had a mental one and I was so close to it but just ran out of time. Yes, you do have either 2, 2 and a half or 3 minutes to complete it. Legit, the time goes by so quickly that I felt like I was hardly in the room. I was gutted but seeing as there were 8 of us and potentially going to do 16 games, I knew that I could have a second try. So after our first zone, we only won one crystal but we had many zones to go.

Climbing up some steps and crawling on a platform close to the ceiling, we reached our next zone, which was Aztec and again, I was really impressed with what they did. They have actual sand so, very realistic. We did a quick photo in the Aztec zone which we could see at the end. So, during the first game, our friend got locked in but rather than leaving you in the room like they do on TV, they take you to 'jail', where you have to answer a riddle and if you can answer the riddle before the team move onto the next zone, you can get out for free otherwise, if you don't, you have to give up one crystal. Luckily, he managed to get out during our third game in, so we didn't lose any crystals. We did better in this zone by winning two crystals, which put us up to three and we were half way round.

Third zone was the Industrial zone, which we only had to climb a few stairs to get to from Aztec, and it looked all rusty, which was similar to TV, just no water in sight. This is where I had my second game, another chance to win a crystal but sadly, I didn't do it, so I won no crystals for my team at all (bit gutted, not gonna lie). My boyfriend was doing really well in his and the crystal did actually get revealed but he had already knocked on the door to come out so he only needed a few extra seconds to have grabbed it and come out without being locked in, which was a shame but after that zone, we again managed to win another 2 crystals, which put our total up to 5.

Our last zone, which I was most intrigued to see, was the Futuristic zone. We had to climb down a ladder from Industrial and into a pod, which would see us 'travel in time' to the zone (I had a little lol). The look of the zone was pretty cool, lots of white walls and lights. I was still a bit gutted that I couldn't even redeem myself but was just looking forward to seeing what my friends could do in their games. This was our most successful zone, where we picked up 3 out of 4 crystals, which was so good. This put our total up to 8. Once we had finished all the games, it was time to head 'TO THE CRYSTAL DOMMMME'.

We got to the set of doors, and our Maze Master said to us to shout our team name (which was Team Faff because we are so awful at making decisions and actually getting things done, bit ironic when it came to actually doing the Crystal Maze but that's what made it funnier) which we did and there was the dome and the other teams waiting for us. Some funky music was playing, another Maze Master introduced his team into the Crystal Dome, where they had 35 seconds of time (one crystal less than us as 1 crystal = 5 seconds in the dome). The music was playing, we all chanted the last 5 seconds and it was their time up. A quick 35 seconds. It really made me just want to get in there but the second Maze Master introduced her team, who won 9 crystals (I think) so just slightly better than us. They did their bit and it was done. Orange team was next, who won 12, which meant they had 60 seconds in the dome. Longer than everyone else but was a quick 60 seconds. Then, it was our turn. Good ol' Bert introduced our team, told how many crystals we got and we headed on in. Hold the bars at the back, can't pick any 'tickets' from the floor. They didn't have the whole silver and gold tokens because you don't win anything at the end, so it was just gold tickets, although some of them looked like they were just ripped up, but it was just the taking part that was the fun about it. So, we would have had 40 seconds in there but it just seem to fly by but I had a right laugh in there.


Now it was time to count how many we got. They must have had a way of doing it (possibly by weight) but the results were in. Our team came 3rd out of 4, but the amounts were quite close to each other so none of us did a bad job. We all had team photos in front of the dome, in the jackets again and said our goodbyes to our Maze Master. They had a bar at the end where we all grabbed a small cup of water and headed back down so we could get our stuff. By this point it was about 10:30pm, so the whole thing lasted about an hour and half. We then also saw our photos, from the Aztec zone and the ones sat in front of the dome. We wanted to buy the ones of us sat in front of the dome but they would also upload them to their Facebook page at a lower res. My boyfriend and I bought ourselves a small crystal (and a large one too, oops) and then we headed on home. Didn't actually get home until about 1am because there were issues with the trains.

Overall, I had an absolute fantastic time and a childhood wish had actually become a reality. If you watched the show and wanted to do it, I would highly recommend going, even when I didn't win a single crystal. They also have one in Manchester but I can't say for certain if anything I've said above is the same for that location. Seriously, if you and your friends want to do a fun activity, this is definitely the thing to do.

Have you been to the Crystal Maze Experience? How did you find your experience?

Look after yourself,


This blog post is not sponsored and all opinions are my own and honest!