How much is your Holiday Toiletries Bag Worth?

Hi-diddley-ho-there!

(Can I just say before I start this post. I am not nude in the picture above. Upon looking at it again after posting I look like a bloody nudist hippy! I can assure you that I am wearing a bikini top behind this large toiletries bag. Sort it out Ash, sheesh! Now on with the post)

This is an interesting one peoples. I love to take lots of toiletries on holiday because it is nice to have the comforts of home. Comforts meaning beautifying products. And I have many.

Yes it is heavy but I don't care... I NEED each and everyone of these products! So here we go...

Nature's Response Organic Foot Spray | £5.95

Eucerin Aquaphor Ointment | £8.50

Aveda Botanical Kinetics Toning Mist | £17

Aveda Shampure | £13

Aveda dry Remedy Conditioner | £22.50

Superdrug Vitamin E Hot Cloth Cleanser | £4.99

Laura Mercier Fresh Fig Body Creme 85g | £12.32

Utan Deluxe Gradual Tan Miami Beach | £6

Dove Beauty Finish Anti-Perspirant | £2.49

Ren BB Cream 15ml* | £7.80

Ren Glycolactic Radiance Renewal Mask 15ml* | £9

Ren Hydra Calm Day Cream | £27

Macleans Whitening Toothpaste | £1

Bobbi Brown Hydrating Eye Cream | £31

La Roche Posay Effeclar Duo | £13

Laura Mercier Fresh Fig Perfume | £12.45

Vaseline Rosy Lips | £1.99

Wilkinson Sword Extra 2 Beauty Razors | £2.50

Oral B Professional Care 1000 | £35.99 

Total £234.48

Wow that total is quite staggering. Perhaps we should be getting our toiletry bags insured when we go on holiday as well as our luggage! 

What do you think? Is this excessive or not enough products?

I would love to hear what you think comment below!

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Products Galore! What I Used Today

I haven't done one of these posts before so please bare with me, I thought I would give it a try.  These are the products I used today. It is an average day in Ashly land and I am not up to anything super special :-)

Aveda Pure Abundace style & prep is one of my all time favourite hair products, I will do a full review of this at some point soon. It smells absolutely divine and despite the size of the bottle it lasts at least a couple of months.

La Roche Posay Effaclar Duo needs no introduction really. It is definitely in the beauty hall of fame, especially after all the aclaim it has had this past year. I really highly recommend this product.  I haven't done a full review on it because there are already so many out there. It works very well for me and also lasts a couple of months.

Clarins Gentle Foaming Cleanser is a must have product for me. It leaves my skin smooth and soft, smells gorgeous like marshmallows and lasts for around 6 months using everyday. Read my full review here.

Sanctuary sensous foaming shower burst. I used this for the first time today and I have to say I am not really a fan, it just feels like shaving gel and doesn't smell particularly nice. I will use the bottle but wont be buying another one. 

Collection 2000 Lasting Nail Colour. This product is great and as my nails are aboslutely horendous at the moment. Peeling and awful and I can't stop picking at them. Yuk. The only thing I could think of to do was to use a few coats of this so at least they look nice and shiny. Read my full review here.

Rimmel Stay Matte foundation. This is a new foundation I am trying at the moment so I haven't done a review yet as I like to use it for a while before I form a solid opinion. So far so good.

What have you been using today?

REVIEW - Aveda Tourmaline Charged Hydrating Creme

I will start off by saying that I love Aveda. I go to a spa and hairdresser which use Aveda products and that has turned me in to becoming somewhat obsessed with their products.

Athough I have been using their products for some time this is my very first Aveda review!!

So here we go...

First of all when I initially found out the price of this hydrating moisturiser I thought compared to some other moisturisers it was quite expensive. At £34 for 50ml it definitely is not cheap. However due to my love of the products (I had just finished getting an amazing facial featuring this product) and the beautician said it would last for quite a while, I decided to give it a go.

I really like the box packaging. The green colour gives it an earthy natural look and feel which makes me like it even more.

Open the box and you are greated with a lovely little green screw top tub. It opens and closes easily and seals well to keep the product fresh. The Creme itself is a beautiful white colour.

The Cream is really lovely and thick. It smooths on very well and absorbs in to the skin quickly. There is no residue after a few minutes even if I slather on a very generous amount. It feel lovely between your fingers and is very silky.

The smell is divine. It smells very natural and refreshing. Quite strong but I like it.

 I like to apply it generously and allow it to absorb without rubbing in to much. This works best for me. It is definitely a suitable base for make up. It may not fill in any lines but it leaves your skin feeling incredibly silky and has somewhat stopped the drying effects from my foundations.

My skin was particularly dry this winter and this deffinitely helped combat the dryness particularly on my cheeks.

I would say this Aveda Tourmaline charged hydrating creme is suitable for normal to dry skin types. 

I have sensitive skin and on a scale of 1-10 this irritated my skin at level 1. I say this because on a few occassions when I was very stressed I found my skin was extra sensitive and this did cause it to itch slightly after applying. Nothing serious but I would choose to use something else at these times.

 I was a little disappointed that this creme did not last longer. I bought it on the 22nd November 2012 and I ran out at the begining of January. I used it twice a day for the first 3 weeks and then sporadically after that. So overall I would say it would have lasted for a month had I carried on using it morning and night. So that would be £34 a month. A little espensive for me. I do love the product and will buy it again in the future but I think I will try some other products in the mean time.

More Aveda reviews coming soon...

My most recent Aveda Purchases! Aveda Botanical Kinetics Toning Mist, Aveda Tourmaline Charged Exfoliating Cleanser and Aveda Tourmaline Charged Hydrating Creme

What do you think? Have you tried any Aveda products?