Haul: Hamburg - Budni

Hi guys! Yesterday my friend and I went on a roadtrip to Hamburg, Germany, because she wanted to go see a outdoor-store called Outdoor Aurüstung, and I wanted to go on a roadtrip! Other than the outdoor store, we also went to Biomarken Barmbek, a healthfood store, where I got some delicious vegan foods that I would show you, but I ate them all - YUM! Although if you're interested I just uploaded a video to my YouTube channel, a What I Eat in a Day video where some of those foods are featured.
But right now, I thought I'd show you a couple of bits and pieces I bought at Budni, a German drugstore.

I got a mascara from Essence called Plump no Clump Deep Black Volume Mascara, and a Velvet Matt Smokey Eyes Pencil from Catrice Cosmetics, in the colour 20 Avokhaki. It's en eyeliner with a smudger brush on the other end of the pencil, and the swatch shows the liner with and without being smudged.

Left to right; One Ginger Morning bodywash by Treacle Moon, oh this smells so lovely like ginger and a bit citrussy! I personally really enjoy the smell of ginger, but if you don't like it, this is probably not for you.

In the middle there is a Vanilla and Coconut bodyscrub from Budni Marken's own brand, Budni Care. I've used it a couple of times in the shower, and so far I quite enjoy it. Admittedly I don't have alot of experience in bodyscrubs, but I definitely like this way better than the previous one I used. I also want to note that this vanilla scent I find to be of the vanilla bourbon type, and yes - there is a difference in types of vanilla scents!

Last but not least, to the right is an Anti Grease shampoo with lemon balm from the brand Guhl. I've used this a couple of times, and do enjoy it as a shampoo, but can't state if I find it more helpful for my oily hair than other shampoos. 

On the left is a  Fresh Pommegranate deodorant, again from Budni's own brand Budni Care. Why did I buy something as simple as deodorant on roadtrip to Germany? Simple, Germany, as well as other European countries (that I know of) are much better at leaving out aluminium in their deodorants. A metal that is added to deodorants for it's abilities to fight off sweat for longer, however is also breast cancer inducing. In Denmark most deodorants have added aluminium, and seeing as I don't want breast cancer, I snatch up deodorants that doesn't have it when I find it in Danish stores, and when I go on trips to Germany, England etc.

On the right is another tub of my green hair dye from La Fiché, Directions Semi-Permanent in the shade apple green. It's not from Budni, but I thought I might mention it anyway.

Left to right, Luxury Laquers from Catrice Cosmetics in the shade 02 Mrs. Boombastic. I believe this might be from their Liquid Metal SHINY line, but that' just what I'm getting off the bottle.
Middle is Gellicious Nail Polish from Just in the shade 70 Be a Mistress. I've been trying some gel-type nail polishes, and liked them a fair bit, so I thought I'd try this out. To the right is 3in1 Top Coat from Just.

Essence Eyeshadow (from Essence, if you hadn't guessed) in the colour 18 All I Need. I. Love. This. Beautiful!

Last but not least, Stay Natural Concealer from Essence in the shade 01 Soft Beige, now I am fair/porcelain type shade, but this is absolutely fine! It's one of those twist-uppy ones that I really prefer for undereyes!

I hope you enjoyed my little haul and ramblings!
 - Elk

Haul: My first E.L.F. haul

Hellooo guys! I don't know if you remember but I've been really excited about E.L.F. cosmetics and a while ago I had the money to order some, yaaay! So I've had it for a while, and overall I'm disappointed! But I'll to in depth reviews later when I've had more of a chance to use the products. But to start of with, I'll just haul the stuff, so here we gooo!

Liquid eyeshadow in the colour: sultry satin.
Duo eyeshadow cream in: sugar cookie.

STUDIO blush in: twinkle pink.

The contouring blush and bronzing powder.

STUDIO cream blush in: tease.

Clarifying pressed powder in ivory and honey, honey is for contouring. STUDIO pressed powder in ivory. And lastly the healthy glow bronzing powder in: luminance. It's not bronzing really because I bought the lightest colour, so it's more of a highlighter which was what I wanted ;)

Tone correcting concealer in ivory, undereye-concealer and highlighter in: glow/fair and the tinted moisturizer with SPF 15 in ivory. 

All over colour stick in: pink lemonade, and all over shimmering facial whip in camilla.

Nail polishes in: cranberry, white, mango madness and fire coral.

Hypershine lipgloss in: vixen, and luscious liquid lipstcik in: babylips.

Liquid eyeliner in: black, and mineral eyeliner in black as well.

All over complexion brush, powder brush, blush brush, eye crease brush and professional blending eye brush.

So are you excited for the reviews? Hmmm.. I feel like I'm the only one who doesn't like the E.L.F. products or even love them, I feel like everybody does. I do really like some of them and will purchase in other colours and I'll also try out some of the other products they have, but I no longer have high expectations.

Well, SEE YA!
 xoxo Elk

Haul: London Birthday Haul

Hey guys and welcome to my London/birthday haul. Birthday haul? - You might wonder. As you might or might not know, my birthday was in September and for that birthday my friend gave me a weekend trip to London therefore I consider everything I bought in London birthday presents for myself - yaaaaay! As a disclaimer I want to say that yes - I did use a shameful huge amount of money but I also did save up for 4 months so that I could let myself run wild. Alrighty then, lets get to it! (The items are in no particular order)

 Wipes! Oil balancing cleansing wipes with tea tree from Primark, twin pack for £1 and brightening cleansing wipes from Simple for 3.99£.

 Some Aussio haircare, you can read the name yourself so no reason to type it out again :) These were on sale for 3 for 10£.

 The eyegel was 1,50£, the St. Ives scrub was 4,29£ and the dual action moisturizer was 3,55£.

 Some Neutrogena goodies, these were on sale, 2 for 5£.

 These are travel sizes Soap and Glory goodies, 3 for 2 so it was 5£.

 These babies, I'm not really sure - I have a hard time understanding the receipt.. But they were cheaper than they normally are :D

These lipbutters were 5£ each, NOW! I have to say something here that has never been brought to my attention even though I have heard SO many YouTubers rave about these! No one EVER told me that these things have big glitter pieces in them and no one told me that the Peach Parfait was gritty... Also, I don't feel like these are very moisturizing, in fact I feel as though they dry out my lips.. BUT I will keep using then and see how I like them in the future. No matter what, I'm happy I only got two to begin with.

 OK.. I'm going to be honest here.. I mainly bought these because of the cool bottle.. :D I got them both for 8£.

 I've wanted to try some John Frieda haircare for a while now and after trying some samples I had I couldn't hep to get full sizes! Again, together these were 8£.

 Yum to the yummy! When I was in New York last year a got a sample size of this shampoo and GOODNESS GRACIOUS! If you have never smelled this shampoo, do yourself a favor and get the whiff of your life! These smell unbelievably amazing and they were on sale 2 for 4£.

 Seriously.. These little deodorants from Impulse are so small and cute, everytime I'm somewhere you can but them I do, but they are unfortunately not available in Denmark.. Also this body spray from Boots smell so yummy but you just have to wait a minute for the serious alcohol smell to evaporate ;) Deodorants were 1£ each and the spray was 2£.

Believe it or not, but I have never ever tried a mascara from Maybeline therefore I bought these two. The Maybeline mascaras were 2 for save-some-money and in total both of them together were 12£. 17 Mascara was 6,29£ and the eyeshadow primer from Rimmel was 4,99£ and I've used it a couple of times and I wasn't too keen on it but I will explore it further.

I do have the receipts which says the prices on the rest of the stuff I bought, but it was so boring to write it in I give up! Anyway, Maybeline dream lumi touch undereye concealer in ivory. Now I want to give you a little warning about this, it's super yellow! On my rose tinted skin you can see very clearly the yellow colour fighting the pink tones - looks bad! Also here's the Bourjois healthy mix anti-fatigue concealer in apricot.

Rimmel stay matte pressed powder in whichever was the lightest colour they had. One thing that I love about this powder is that it has a faint smell of roses so when you dust it over you face you get that rose scent in the air. It doesn't linger on the skin or anything, it just makes it feel luxurious when you apply ;)

17 Miracle matte skin primer - don't feel like it's terribly mattifying to me. Aaaaaand Revlon Colorstay foundation in ivory - thank you dear Revlon for finally making a foundation which is light enough for me!

A big ol' can of Batiste dry shampoo in tropical. Man I love this stuff! Before buying this I had ever only tried one other dry shampoo in my life and completely hated it! But this is amazing, it really makes your hair feel clean and to me in particular this is very helpful because my hair gets really oily but I don't like to wash it too often.

Then some Lush goodies. I bought the BIG shampoo, even though I don't like the idea of salt in a shampoo I mean - why would you put something in your hair that dries it out? But I was curious and my hair is quite flat so.. I also got the Tea Tree Water and the bubblegum lip scrub (you always want a good lip scrub!) and a little tub of body butter because I donated a pound to charity.

Blush from Sleek in the colour pomegranate, really really nice! So sad I didn't buy more, I wanted rosegold but they didn't have it but I'm just nuts about this blush! Opposite to my other favorite blush this one is kind of a coloured shiny veil whereas my Wet n Wild blush in heather silk is a more solid colour.

Lastly in this haul the Liner Pinceau from Bourjois, I haven't used this too much because I have others which I want to use up before but it dries matte and seems to have nice staying power so that's all goodie!

Now, I did purchase more things in London but I lost my camera, as you might know, and I just wanted to go ahead and post this because it's been such a long time! The other things I bought were some shoes, bags, a little accessories and clothes all from Primark. So, please stay tuned on this blog if you want to know what I got in my Goodiebox from January (yes, January), it'll be up before I recieve my Goodiebox February ;)

 - Elk

Haul: Candles from IKEA

Hey guys. In Denmark we don't have any Bath and Bodyworks and no Yankee Candles. :(
But what we do have, is many wonderful supermarkets which sell scented candles from time to time, but not any they ALWAYS carry. What we DO have in Denmark which we can be absolutely certain always can satisfy our candle-cravnings is IKEA. (Thank you sisters and brothers in Sweden for inventing IKEA!)
Today my friend and I went to IKEA to get the last thing for my room here at school, anticipate a room-tour soon, and stock up on candles! Also, what better time for candles than Christmas? ;) Here is what I got:

Dessért scented (love that sweet Swedish sugared cinnamon roll one!), leaves, cherries and figs.

Not exactly sure what scent this is, jasmine maybe? I have no idea, but the smell fabulous and they cost  6 cronors, that's like a DOLLAR!

Apple and cinnamon (a real winter scent!), vanilla ice cream, topical fruit and green apples.

Strawberry and 2 x creamy lemon.

I also bought this notebook. I didn't even know IKEA made notebooks? They sell so much weird stuff...

Having a good time? Feeling dat jolleeeeeh?

This year I' so happy, we got snow already on the 2nd of December. Usually we don't get snow 'till January or February.

 - Elk

What I got for my 18th birthday

Hey hello, hi! Here it is, the post where I show you how truly blessed I am! I was so lucky to get all these wonderful gifts for my 18th birthday, I feel guilty! When I was looking at all these gifts I felt like these presents were stolen goods ;)

My friend has percepted that I really like Hello Kitty, suffer from allergies and drink water. So she bought me Hello Kitty water, (only the bottle is pink!) and some, strawberry scented, toilet paper so I can blow my nose during allergy season.

She also noticed that I love Jelly Beans, so she bought me this big ass  jar.. (Me gusta!)

And last but not least, she bought me these wonderful nailpolishes from HOT Makeup together with some chocolate, yum!
- THANK YOU MARIE!

My big brother and his girlfriend Anna gave me a gift certificate for Matas (makeup store) and my aunt and cousins gave me cash. (The body butter sample was together with the gift certificate.
- THANK YOU SO MUCH DEAR FAMILY!

My friend, whose dad live in London, gave me a gift certificate for a paid-for weekend trip to London. We're going  in January for January Sales! So the money I got from my family I'm saving for London.
 - THANK YOU LENNY!

For my gift certificate for Matas, I bought this concealer. Can you believe it was HALF OFF only because they were selling the "old ones" out because they got new packaging? NUTS! This colour is: vanilla.

I also bought these facemasks for me and my friends' upcoming spa-night this weekend. Have you ever experienced chocolate facemasks?

For the las of the gift certificate money I bought this Garnier Pure Active scrub (AMAZING!) since I recently used  my beloved Garnier 3 - 1 up :(
My friend Mark gave me these two nailpolishes from Rimmel in Azure and Sunshine.
 - THANK YOU MARK!

My grandparents gave me Lancôme's Tresór in Love and my not-related by blood, but still, aunt gave me this yummers DKNY Be Delicious perfume.
 - THANK YOU FAMILY!

My friend Nicklas went bananas and bought me a BUNCH of makeup! He gave me these three mineral pencils from Eva Garden...

these mineral eyeshadows...

these Youngblood  crushed mineral blushes. (He gave me two of the same colour, so I have it to my friend. He also gave me two of the same eyeshadow so I gave that to another friend)

Youngblood Mineral foundation in Beige, too dark for me but ones it comes on you can't see!

And last but not least, these Youngblood mineral pigments.
 - THANK YOU NICKLAS!

My friend went to Czech Republic with her school and got me these none named nailpolishes and a knock-off Rimmel mascara (I has to toss the mascara, it simply didn't work - AT ALL, it was like it was all dried up?)
 - THANK YOU OZ!

My dear parents. Poor poor parents who has been feeding me for 18 years, changed my diapers, been soaked in my saliva, kept their calm when my ears were infected and I screamed up pain. My dear parents who has paid my school tuition fee all my school years, who has supported me and comforted me gave me: first off, a Canon EOS 1100D  camera. They also made it possible that got to invite my friends and family to celebrate the day and they also gave me this, some random beauty products. Hand creams, 

Coconut oil for a hot oil treatment, 

Eyeliner and top coat from wet and wild.
 - THANK YOU FOREVER DEAR PARENTS!

All these gifts reminded me of how many fabolous people love me and will always be there whenever I need them.

 I pass my love along to YOU! :D
 - Elk