Doll White Review // Home Whitening Kits, Are They Worth The Hype? // First Impressions.

Well hellllooooo!!! 

I hope everyone is well and not feeling the January blues too much. I have actually heard that tomorrow is officially the most depressing day of the month. 

I know... Apparently so!! Although lets be honest January is like the Monday of months. It's only good for Jan sales and even then that's a pain in the arse! Ha. 

It will be over soon. 

Okay, so, today I have a little old review for you on the Doll White Whitening Strips. 

Doll White were kind enough to send me 7 day's worth of strips for me to try and give my opinion on which was really nice of them. 

First off can I please say how frickin cute the packaging is!!! I love it. I love black and white and it's really simple looking but oh so eye-catching. It's highly cute!! 

Look at it though!!! It's all shiny and I really love the fonts that they have used!! It's very Instagram, don't you agree?! 

The product comes in this packaging that opens up to reveal 7 little black pouches that have their logo on it. 

In each of those pouches you will find the strips. The outside texture of these strips remind me of those shoe pads that you put in your heels on a night out. The gel is obviously on the inside where you place it on your teeth. 

You have a strip for the top of your teeth and a strip for the bottom which you line up to your gum line and push on to the teeth. You then fold the excess over the top of your teeth onto the back. 

This product doesn't have any peroxide in it to whiten your teeth so it is totally safe and great for those of us who has sensitive teeth. I do, so I was excited to try these as I knew there would be no damage. How they actually whiten your teeth I have no clue. It must be actual magic!!! 

FIRST IMPRESSIONS

I have been using this product for 3 days now. I brush my teeth, use my mouthwash and then I will use some tissue to take any moisture off my teeth before applying the strips. 

I was quite nervous before using these for the first time as I have never tried to whiten my teeth at home. I only have been using a toothpaste that helps to whiten but that's it. 

I don't actually think I did it correctly the first time I used them as I didn't push them on to the teeth hard enough so there were gaps. 

When I first put them on I just kept dribbling as I was very aware I had something foreign in my mouth. They mould around your teeth and sit there like a mouth guard. You then leave it on for 30 minutes to do its thaaannnng. 

I have the strips on in this picture.
I apologise for my face. Ha. 

I am getting more using to the feeling now so it's starting to feel a little more natural. 

When it's time to take the strips off you are left with the thin film to dispose of and a lot of gel on your teeth. I didn't like the sensation of the gel as it's quite thick but it didn't taste nasty or anything. I wiped the excess gel off with tissue and swilled my mouth out. It took a couple of attempts as it was a bitch to get it all out.

I will be honest my teeth aren't majorly white but they aren't majorly discoloured either. After trying this product out for the first time I didn't actually notice much of a difference in my teeth colour at all, apart from the two top front teeth, they seemed brighter. Plus as I mentioned I don't think I pushed them on correctly.

I've Snapchatted these babies a lot.

I have done my third day now and I have noticed a slight difference but I think in my head I was expecting it to be whiter. I have read on their website some reviews from other people that have used their product and they noticed a difference the first time they used it. 

I think personally, it is going to work differently on different people depending on how discoloured their teeth are. Mine weren't overly discoloured so I think that's why I haven't seen a major difference as of yet. I think if I were to use this product for a longer period I think it would actually have more of an affect on my teeth. 

Please bear in mind these are my first impressions as I haven't used the product long enough to form a conclusive view. I really like this brand though and it's very popular within the celebrity culture, so I would like to continue using these when mine run out to see what the results would be. 

When I get a job that is! Ha. 

They are a great concept and as I have said I really like the brand and the product, I think I was just expecting Simon Cowell teeth on the first try. Ha ha. 

Check out Doll White here and go test them out for yourselves. Their prices are highly competitive and good value for money!! 

Love

L

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Current Addictions For 2016 // A List That Will Grow!!

I have come to terms with the fact that I have an addictive personality. I literally get hooked onto certain things really easily, exhaust it to an inch of its life and then I am over it. 

Is anyone else like that? 

For instance, I will like a song... I will then listen to it over and over and over again until I am sick of it. 

Surely, I cannot be the only one who does this?!

I have had a lot of favourite things over the past year and going into 2016 and I would like to share those with you today. 

Where do I start? 

Ha, okay. So my current and most relevant addiction is and if you didn't know... 

HARRY STYLES

Photo credits: http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Harry-Styles-Hair-American-Music-Awards-2015-39169596

I mean, seriously, look at him!!! He is one beautiful man!!

I will be honest, I have never been a fan of One Direction. I have never paid attention to the group, their music or even their concerts. They just never appealed to me. 

I do not know exactly when the turning point for me was but out of the blue I noticed Hazza. I even liked his weird looking 'curtain suits'. He could wear flip flops and socks and I wouldn't even care. 

It was either his final performance with 1D on the Xfactor or the carpool video with James Corden that did it. One or the other. I just suddenly got addicted to Harry. Then I started to like one of their songs. And it just snowballed. 

I feel like I should be in one of those alcoholic's anonymous meetings but not for alcohol, *covers face*. 

I don't know him at all or anything about him but when I watched some videos on YouTube of him I actually found he is a really lovely guy. He is amazing to his fans, he constantly interacts with them and has an amazing sense of humour!! 

Now I LOVE a guy who can make me laugh and who is talented. He definitely ticks all the boxes for me. He just seems so genuine and it's very hard to come by guys like that. Well I find it hard anyway. 

Unfortunately for me, he is 100% not contactable via social media. I am not going to lie... I have tried. On Instagram. Ha ha. How embarrassing.

I will look back in a couple of years and think "what the heck was I thinking". I don't do things like that. Hazza has made me drop my respectable standards. :D 

So my only hope of me even saying "hi" is by frickin some sort of miracle or chance meeting, which again is very unlikely. 

'Celebrity' or not I would still want to get to know him. If I saw him walk by (and he wasn't even in the band)  I would still think the same as I do now. 

Arrrrrgghhhhhhhh!!!! *LOVE* 

GAVIN AND STACEY

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Just after Christmas I was feeling pretty crappy, I suddenly didn't have a job, I was still single and I was feeling quite lonely. I couldn't sleep either so I was up until like 5 am in the morning. 

I found that Gavin & Stacey (the programme, not the people) really cheered me up and made me feel that life wasn't all that bad. I love to laugh and I seriously dislike being sad and the characters in this are frickin brilliant!! 

It's James Corden, he's hilarious, there is something about him that just makes me smile!! 

So, if anyone else is feeing down in the dumps and being a bit of a Debbie Downer then go and watch this, honestly, it really makes you feel a lot better because you're constantly laughing. Ha. 



MOROCCAN OIL

Literally this product is a god send!! I don't think I have ever liked a hair product more!!! 

I have mentioned Moroccan Oil before in previous posts, but I genuinely think this product is great.

Granted it's on the pricey side, retailing at around £30-£35. I have fairly long hair and I wash my hair around twice a week (less if I can help it) and I just pop a 1p amount in to my hands and put it through my mid-length and ends. My hair LOVES it!!! 

Once I have blow dried it it's so smooth and healthy looking and I find it grows a lot nicer and quicker then when I don't use it. 

This is one product I am addicted to and I am oh so proud of it. 

:) 


WITH LOVE LILLY

Again, I have mentioned this brand on my blog a few times now but I am in love with this bra!! 

Even though I am a bit alternative in what I wear (black is my happy colour) I do like pretty underwear that makes you feel super hot and feminine. 

With Love Lilly is the brand that makes me feel that way. 

It is very rare to find a brand that comes up with unusual or unique designs and when I was gifted this bra at a blogger event in London last year, I was completely in love. I spotted it on the rack and my eyes were drawn to how pretty... Actually beautiful the design was and you could tell a lot of time and care had been put into it. 

They have their own website here... WithLoveLilly

They have so many lovely designs on their site. I need to 100% buy some more when I get a new job!! 



EXERCISING

Maybe an exaggeration, I am not addicted a such but I have recently got back into working out at home. 

I am not one for the gym, I cannot deal with all those sweaty people and all those little beady eyes looking at me as I am running like Phoebe from Friends on the treadmill. 

I have some 'man weights' which I had for Christmas a few years ago and when I say man weights, that's because they are for men and they are freaking really heavy. I see that as a good thing as I get more of an intense workout. 

For a while now I have been watching Kelsey Lee's video's on YouTube as she does some really high, intense exercises that literally make you feel sick afterwards but SO worth it. 

She is amazing and is the only person that I watch as I get results. This morning I could barely walk. 

Sign of a good workout that. ;)   




MONOCHROME OUTFITS

I am a stickler for wearing all black outfits. I am not a goth, emo or vampire. Ha.  I just think it's flattering, classy and easy to wear. 

Let's face it, you can never go wrong with black. Black is the new black. 

As it is. 

Recently I have been teaming my all black with a bit of white. Usually just a plain white tee. I like the fact it breaks the black up a bit and there is something a bit indie/rock about it. It's highly casual yet fashion forward. Monochrome is always a winner in my eyes. 

I currently like to wear either my ripped skinny's or my leather look trousers with my loose white tee over the top and my leather studded jacket. It's casual, cool and I am all down for that shiz!! 

I will also boy it up with a beanie and either a nude lip and smokey bronze eyes or a plain eye and red lipstick. 

Depends if I am in a feisty mood or not!! :) 



MAC - HONEY LOVE LIPSTICK

I bought MAC's 'Honeylove' Matte lipstick on my birthday last year. I first saw it on Emily Canham's YouTube video when she was swatching her MAC collection. I saw this colour and thought it looked really nice on. 

I went out and bought it and I have never looked back, this is without a doubt my favourite nude EVER!!! I have 'Velvet Teddy' which is a darker nude than this one and I prefer the lighter hue of this lippy. It looks perfect on me, you can see that you have a lipstick on but it's natural enough that it just makes your face glow. I LOVE it... A LOT!!! I like to matte it out a little more, so I will put my Rimmel matte powder over the top to set it. 

Perfection in a stick!! 



LIP SYNC VIDEOS

This has been an addiction of mine for many years now, even before it became a 'thing'! 

I used to get bored in my room so I just had the idea one day to sit in front of my web cam and just mime to my favourite songs or movies. You can find more of these on my instagram: anythingbutordinaryleya. :) 

Now I am addicted to doing them on my Snapchat!! The one on here is me (naturally, ha) lip syncing to One Directions 'Right Now' - such a lovely song!! 

It's just a bit of fun and it's always nice to make your own music videos!! Ha ha. 



THE SMULE APP

I am loving this app a lot!!! It's literally like being in a studio!! 

Basically, if you don't know what it is and you're a singer or like to sing you need to download this app. 

You can record solo songs and I mean practically any song you want and save it to your profile on there or you can choose to duet with other people across the globe. It's a great way to meet other singers and have fun singing together. 

You get a free trial at first then you can choose how you would like to pay, either weekly, monthly or yearly. I usually go with the weekly as I don't always want to sing. 

I have recorded like over 100 songs on there now and have had many join me. It's so much fun and the hours just fly by. 

Oh, and you can video record too and sing with the likes of Jessie J and many other well known artists. 




LUSH- INTERGALACTIC BATH BALLISTIC 

This is one of my all time favourite bath bombs. Look at the colours though. It really lives up to its name and smells immense!! 

I love a bath, I love a nice smelling bath and I love pretty colours. 

Ticks all addiction boxes. 


And finally. 



MAKEUP REVOLUTION - MATTE EYESHADOW

I am completely addicted to a warmer eye at the moment, I find it really makes my eyes pop. 

I have been using this Makeup Revolution 'Matte' pallet for quite a while now and it's totally my go to eyeshadow pallet. It's great to blend and it gives me the nicest, warm smoky eye. 

Love it! 

Love 

L

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Slendertoxtea - Review Edition // The Taste Test.

We are now into a new year, the festive period has gone, we have over indulged and we have refrained from any form of exercise as possible. 

I am not into this whole " new year, new me" bull. I am still the same old fabulous person that I was last year. Ha. 

Although, with that being said, I did consume an awful lot of crap in 2015. I just don't know what was wrong with me, I just kept eating like... Everything!!! Eating my feelings most probably. Ha. 

A detox is always a good idea (or so I have been told) to participate in when you are feeling a little sluggish, bloated and just damn right awful. It's meant to help take all those nasty little toxins out of your body and in return you feel and see "a better you". 

I have never been a fan of 'detoxing', I mean I have tried drinking herbal teas and quite frankly I have found it highly horrific. 

Why would you want to drink a cup of cardboard? It's beyond me! 

Anything healthy, nine times out of ten, tastes awful. 

Seeing as it is the new year I thought it might be time for me to try and give this whole tea drinking thing another go. 

I have been in contact with Slendertoxtea who provides all sorts of detoxing beverages. Their products range from herbal teas, milkshakes and coffees. Basically they cater for everyone.

They have a Sleeptox range, a Daytox range, Slender patches, Slender shakes, Acai Slenderpowder and Slender coffee's. 

Slendertox tea have kindly gifted me their Daytox and Sleeptox products for me to give my honest review on, whether it was positive or not. 

There product's aim is to aid in a healthy lifestyle for the individual. It contains ingredients only from natural herbs and plants that are designed to help you lose weight. It is a no calorie supplement "hurrraaaayyy" with ingredients that cleanses the colon to improve metabolism and your overall health. 

What a frickin awesome product already. Literally the sound of that had got me interested on its own.

I am a slim person anyway but I have put some weight on *cough, cough* so this product is ideal for me to combine into my diet to keep me all balanced. 

Now I tried the product yesterday (09.01.16) with quite low expectations to be honest. I was just expecting it to smell and taste of vile... Well, nothing actually. 

The first thing I will say is that I really like the packaging. It's really easy on the eye with a great blend of colours, has a simple design, the font is very readable and I love the shiny texture. 

I was given a two week supply of the 'Daytox' which you have a cup of that a day. The 'Sleeptox' product you take every other night, it states 7 day's worth on the packet but effectively you get two weeks worth as well. 

On opening the product, I had a little sniff (as you do) and I was like "oh no, it smells like herbs and I know what this means!" I then proceeded to go downstairs and boil the kettle.  

I waited for the water to cool before I put the tea bag in as you're not meant to put it in boiling water. Once in the water the tea actually smelt like a normal cup of tea, as if you have put a PG Tips in the cup. I liked that a lot. It didn't smell medical. Ha. 

I think I actually left my tea bag in a little long because I was singing and completely forgot it was in there.

Whoops. :) 

Okay,so the taste test... Are you ready?!

I absolutely.... LOVED it!! Yes, you heard me I really did. 

I was drinking it whilst singing and it was doing wonders for my throat and really soothing. Granted it did have a 'green tea' taste BUT it wasn't over powering, it was subtle and it wasn't offensive in anyway. 

I am a stickler for textures and tastes and the smallest thing can put me off. No ingredient in this product made me gag!

High five!! 

I was so pleased with myself that I finished the cup of tea. I was then really excited to try the 'Sleeptox'. 

'Sleeptox' - the one that you take at bedtime only (every other night) seemed amazing. 

It keeps you calm and relaxed and aids sleep, which is a god send for me at the moment as I have insomnia.

It contains a Hawthorn grain which helps lower your blood pressure and studies have suggested it is beneficial in lowering your anxiety levels. 

This product is for me as I have suffered with anxiety for years! 

I thought that with this product maybe being stronger I wouldn't like the taste, but O.M.G this one tastes AMAZING!! No joke now, it tasted quite sweet and when I read the ingredients it has orange in it. Out of the two this one wins hands down for the taste factor!!

I am a little worried now because I think I may become addicted to this product and all it's health benefits and that's not going to be good as I am job hunting. Ha. 

 I will definitely need to get some more when I run out!!! 

I will NEVER falsely review a product just because a company has sent me something to review. I will always give you my 100% honest opinion and I was prepared to write a bad one about this, but I literally have nothing bad to say. It's great. I have found it's given me energy too and I have only been drinking it for 2 days. 

It does mention on the back about side effects of using the product as obviously this helps cleanse the colon so you could end up with toilet issues (like running to it, ha.) I so far, "touch wood" haven't had any toilet issues. All is good in the hood. 

If you would like to give this product a go and I promise you it is totally worth it. You can purchase their products on their website: Slendertoxtea.co.uk 

The package I was sent is 14 days worth retailing at £19.99 and for me I think that's totally worth it especially as you know that all that is going into your body is natural ingredients, no calories and it's detoxing your body and soul. 

It aids in slimming too which is what us women look for a lot of the time when dieting or detoxing. 

It's of the cheapest and best on the market, so don't miss out!! 

So what are you waiting for, go get that stuff and reap the benefits, because I am!! 

All the love. 

L.