I must begin by apologising for the delay in my second post, I quite literally created such a monumentously gigantic hairspray-filled up-do on the weekend that my hands have been stuck in it for days rendering me completely incapable of writing this to you all. No not really, I kid. But I did in fact crack out the old hairspray on the weekend as I was feeling a tad disillusioned by the noticable lack of opportunity there is to get dressed-up and made-up and quiffed-up here in Keith (unless walking around with liquid eyeliner and high heels whilst doing the vacuuming is your thing - which, if it is, all the more power to you), so I thought to myself 'what the hell' and I had a bit of a dolling-up session for a quiet dinner at home with my lovely bf on Saturday night - very nice.
So, anyway, enough about me - how are you?
What I actually wanted to chat about today was this little firming moisturiser and scrub combo from Garnier (bodytonic sugar scrub ($11.99) and bodytonic toning and firming moisturising lotion ($8.99) - with seaweed extract nonetheless) that I have been using for a bit over a month now but am still not quite convinced how I feel about it.
The scrub is ok, actually it's pretty good - it makes my skin all soft and smooth and stuff - it's just that it doesn't really live up to the Ulittlebeauty A Bit of Rough Salt Scrub ($19.95 - but I got it on sale from DJ's) that I was using before it. Which, although it was a bit of a mess to handle as it was in this jar that I didn't really know where to put in the shower and always ended up getting all water in it, I loved it because it made my skin feel wonderful with coffee, macadamia oil, jojoba oil and all manner of lovely things in it which always gave my skin a nice bit of pep. So compared to that, the Garnier scrub was just a bit too artificial feeling and not as peppy - if that makes any sense at all - on the plus side however, it was much easier to handle being in a tubey bottle.
The bodytonic toning & firming moisturising lotion also posed to me a conundrum - causing me to furrow my brow in a very unflattering and wrinkle inducing manner - as it promised me that it would have a firming effect in 7 days and it really kinda did. The only thing was that it wasn't really all that moisture-y and felt a bit like I was rubbing some kind of liquid plastic into my skin. That said, my skin was not dry and it was noticabley firmer, and looking at it from the position of just having finished my first bottle and having previously tried firming lotions such as Nivea's Q10 plus firming body lotion ($6.50 - but I'm pretty sure I got it at Chemist Warehouse for under $5)
which, although it is an absolute gem for the price, wasn't even comparatively as firming as this moisturiser - I'd definitely try this baby again! I might just need to save my pennies and treat my skin to a bit of KORA Organics Organic Rich Body Lotion ($44.95) before giving the Garnier another go however, as too much plasticy feeling stuff all in one go can't be very good for you.
xoxo
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