The Hungry Little Turtle: OCTOBER FAVOURITES

To the few people reading, these are my October favourites along with detailed reviews! Also, none of these pictures are mine. Credit to whoever's photos they are (:

Makeup

I don't have more than one 'makeup' favourite I guess, but I wouldn't want to add extra items to my favourites that I don't actually like, just for the sake of numbers. The other favourite would be my Ulta3 lipsticks, but I already featured them in a post with a review here.

Well, these are the Maybelline Electro Baby Lips. If you are a fellow Australian, you would know that our 'baby lips' are just great smelling chapsticks, with some having a slight colour variation. Finally, they decided to bring three of the six electro baby lips from America to Australian shores after a year...? I'm not exactly sure. Yeah, it's only three, but four out of the six had colour that made a difference to your lips, so I don't mind. I have the ones in Pink Shock and Berry Bomb. Below are the pictures of the American ones, but the only difference with the Australian ones is that they have the colour on the very top of the clear lid and have 'electro pop' in smaller print of the same font as the logo. Pink Shock claims to smell like Watermelon, but it's more of a sweet fruity smell, not exactly berries but close to it. It has incredible pigmentation, for a lip balm anyway. Three swipes gives the lips a nice raspberry pink colour with the shine of a lip gloss, but not sparkly. Berry Bomb has less pigmentation, but gives the lips a nice berry colour. It is NOT close to the bright purple it is perceived as in the tube, it's just gives your lips a slight purple tinge, nothing too dramatic, but I like it. It says to smell like berries as expected, and it does. It smells sweet again, but definitely berries. The formula is amazing. It's buttery smooth, moisturises the lips well and I love the gloss it gives. You don't have to think twice when applying it, and you don't really need a mirror, except I'd still use one if I have the option to, especially with pink shock. The one thing is that sometimes after it wears off, if I don't reapply it and my lips start to get those flaky patches, it'll cling to the flaky bits, but that's just me forgetting and my lips being incredibly dry naturally. That doesn't happen that often anyway though, but I really like them!

You can get them at Priceline, Pink Shock here and Berry Bomb here. They also have another colour called Oh Orange which I haven't gotten yet, but I might try it, which you can get here.

Do nails come under makeup? I'm not sure, so that's why I just said one. I'm assuming it does since it's not really skincare...so idk, but pick and choose as you wish.

This is the Essie Millionails. I believe they have newer packaging now, but this is the one I have. The one day I was walking around Myer, searching the clearance bins in case of a good bargain, and I came across this. I've known Essie to be a good brand, but never wanted to spend a whole $20 on one nail polish. Seeing this marked down from $20 to $4, I thought, why not. It said nail strengthener, and apparently it could be used as a base coat. I didn't have a good base coat except for the Face Shop one, and I thought I could give it a try. It does work as a base coat, but I realised it's real purpose.

Stupid, I know, since it IS called a nail strengthener. I didn't know I had such weak nails, until I realised that my nails would always snap where it's painful, like really low so that it's unattractively showing skin. I took what I was using as a base coat instead of its real purpose and used it. Damn, my nails didn't snap painfully for a whole three weeks until I got too lazy to cut my nails...oops. But it works really well, and I'm so glad. Saves my nails from looking unattractive and uneven. It also dries super quick and lasts, which I love.

You can get the newer version at Priceline here.

Skincare/Haircare

I made it skincare/haircare since I have two hair favourites this month, so yeah (:

This is the amazing, life changing Liese Smooth Hair Cocktail. It is a miracle worker, and oh my goodness, your hair will thank it so much. When I was in Thailand, I was in a grocery store and had heard that Liese was a good brand. I scanned the shelf and picked this up because it was super pretty and smelt good, having no idea what it was for. I get home and google it to find it one of the most raved about hair products (along with my next favourite). It says it's a detangler to make your hair feel smooth and silky. Oh My Goodness. A couple sprays of this fabulous smelling, sweet peachy pearly looking spray, give it a couple brushes, and not only does your brush glide through your tangles, but your hair is so freaking smooth. I have these two friends, one who has naturally curly hair but straightens it so often that you'd think it would have heaps of damage. Nope, her hair is silky smooth and when you pick it up slides right out of your hands. The other has ombred her hair, rebonded her hair multiple times, dyed her hair and straightens and curls sometimes, and her hair is also silky smooth. It's just those times when you look at their 'damaged' hair and look at your damaged hair which you use virtually no heat on and envy that smoothness. This, gives you that. I totally sound sponsored, but this actually is a freaking miracle worker. Trust me, buy it if you have dry hair and envy that smoothness. I can't get over this. Also, it's much cheaper than some of those other brands like Toni and Guy. Okay, it may be more expensive here than if you buy it overseas, but it is freaking worth it, trust me.

You can get it at Yesstyle here.

This is the Essential Rich Premier Hair Mask. First of all, it smells abso-freaking-lutely amazing. It's sweet and has that honey, and omg I can smell it right now in my mind...anyway >.>

Not only that, but whenever my hair feels damaged or in need of some love, I scoop out a good sized amount of this and rub it into the length of my hair. I tie it up in a loose bun and let it sit for as long as I like, depending on how long I want to stay in the shower. After I brush my hair then rinse it out, and it feels softer, smoother and smells amazing. I love this stuff so much, I'm not even kidding. I use it sparingly like any other girl would if they bought their first high end lipstick, or bought a $100 eyeshadow quad or something. Again, it's much more expensive to get it here than in Asia, but meh, it's amazing.

You can get it at Yesstyle here.

This is the Simple Kind to Skin Moisturising Facial Wash. Speaking from someone who has both dry and sensitive skin, 'kind to skin' sounds pretty convincing, especially put together with moisturising. I got it, not expecting much, but I love it. It's perfect for everyday, gentle, cleans well and I love the foaming that it does. I use it together with my St Ives Green Tea Scrub when I want a deeper clean, to clear any breakouts and if I need extra hydration. I've been using it on and off for over a year now, and every time I reuse it I forget why I stopped using it for a while in the first place.

You can get it at Priceline here and at Chemist Warehouse here.

This is the Impulse Romantic Spark Aerosol Body Spray. I really like this. I used to use Love Story, until I realised I smelt like basically all the other girls in my grade, and I didn't like that. So I decided to buy this one, and I like it. It smells quite similar to Love Story, in that sweet, floral scent, but with different undertones. Love Story is a lot sweeter, but I'm not the best, so trust Fragrantica. The only thing I don't like is that when they changed their packaging, they cut off like a quarter of the product in order to make it more 'travel friendly,' but I guess that's the point of marketing and making business.

You can get it at Priceline here and at Chemist Warehouse here.

Other Stuff

This is my Cadence Watch in Arielle. I have pretty small wrists, and I've always had that struggle of finding a watch that fits me where I don't have to go to the very last hole, or even make my own holes because I love the design so much. This is the first watch that isn't kids where I can actually wear it on the third hole. The design is personally very beautiful, elegant, chic and can dress up a casual outfit or go with a dressier outfit. I've had this for a year now, worn this often, and it's worn pretty well. Parts of the leather are curling around the edges and rubbing off a bit, and theres one scratch on the face (probably due to me dropping it because I'm such a klutz) and I really like it, is there any more to say? I did get it for $35 including shipping, which in my opinion is an amazing price for a leather watch. Right now they're selling them for $10 with $15 shipping to Australia, but it will depend on where you live. I think that's a great bargain, and now they have a black version of this watch with a black face and I'm tempted to get it! They also have one in a coral colour with a gold face.

You can get it at Cadence here.

As for music, I've been loving two albums this month. The first is Amy and Ellen's EP Carousel. Amy and Ellen are two teenage girls from Canberra, Australia who started off as YouTubers, singing covers. I found them through Bubz, or Bubzbeauty on YouTube, and they honestly have such amazing voices and deserve every single amount of support. They deserve to make it big with their spectacular voices and beautiful faces, and I'd love it so much if you guys would check them out, maybe give their music a listen and fall in love like I did. Water Colours is my fave, and was my alarm for half the month, and actually did wake me up. I prefer it over having loud poppy music blasting in my ears when I'm unprepared as it makes me the tad more grumpy personally.

Anyway, check out their EP here, their YouTube channel here, their twitter here, and their individual Twitters; Amy and Ellen.

The other one would have to be Taylor Swift's new album 1989. Okay, it's been out for like five days, and yet I still love it to pieces. I loved Country Taylor Swift, but I still love Pop Taylor Swift. She's still the classy cat lady that we know and love inside though. My favourites are Style, Blank Space, Clean, I Wish You Would and Bad Blood; or just the whole album. Yes, the whole album.

I'm sure you know where to find her, I mean Queen Swift is everywhere.

TV shows...where do I start? Okay, so Arrow started their third season, Flash started their first season and The Walking Dead started their fifth season. I promise no spoilers, but things are stirring up in Arrow, and I'm so excited for certain character's arcs. Also, who doesn't love more Felicity? She is by far my favourite character EVER because she's nerdy, cute, awkward and I just love her and all her quirks. She's like me, plus the cute and smoaking hot...see what I did there? Heh heh.... ._.

Flash is starting, and I can tell it's going to be a great show. It has a lot of potential, and i"m loving it. Besides, Grant Gustin is freaking gorgeous, and I love how they cross over Flash and Arrow a bit here and there this season. I loved this weeks episode with Felicity in Central City, not going to say anything, but I still and will always ship Barlicity more than Olicity, I'm sorry (not sorry).

As for the Walking Dead, shits about to go down. Not saying anything, but damn it is just as intense as it always is. I freaking love it, and every time I watch it I can't help but thinking how freaking badass Daryl is, how much I love Glenn and how realistic the walkers' makeup is. Damn, hats off to the makeup artists, they look so freaking real that they scare me sometimes. Sometimes I can't help but thinking how Rick actually looks really clean for someone who hasn't had a shower for like a season and a half or something, but that's the least of their priorities anyway. And how Maggie and the other girls deal with their 'problems,' but that's just me, because they're totally irrelevant because it's fictional. Ugh, I'm weird anyway....