Review and Giveaway: Pai Skincare Samples

I've heard a few bloggers talking about Pai skincare before, especially during the #bbloggers chats on twitter, but I'd always thought they were a bit expensive considering you can't try before you buy if you're ordering online. Then I saw a post on Annabel's blog about the samples you can buy.

Turns out you can try before you buy! They sell a pack of 6 samples for £5 with free delivery and a free muslin cloth. I think that's a pretty good price! One thing about this is that the majority of the samples are moisturisers, I'd rather see less moisturisers and a wider range of products, maybe an eye cream?

Macadmaia & rose, avocado & jojoba and chamomile & rosehip skin creams: I'm going to group these all together for my review as I feel these all had similar effects for my skin. These are pretty much targeted at dry skins, they're very heavy. My skin is very oily so they weren't really the products for me. Despite not being suited for my skin they didn't make it go crazy which is a plus. They also smelt very nice and had a rather luxurious feel to them. These lasted me a week each.

Geranium & thistle skin cream: this is targeted for combination skin and therefore is much more up my street. This sunk into my skin really well and left it feeling very smooth. It also smelt really nice, I wasn't really expecting to after finding out it contains thistles although I'm not too sure what make me make this resumption. I really liked using this but it didn't wow me. This is £24 and I didn't think it did anything that cheaper moisturisers don't so I probably won't purchase the full size. This sample lasted me a week just like the other skin creams.

Camelia & rose gentle hydrating cleanser: this is a hot cloth cleanser than you use with the accompanying muslin cloth. I thought this was a very nice cleanser and it smelt very strongly of roses, which I for one like. This felt a lot nicer than my No7 hot cloth cleanser but it is £25 for 100ml or £35 for 200ml so I probably won't be repurchasing. I got 3 cleanses out of the sample.

Kukui & jojoba bead skin brightening exfoliator: this was my favourite product out of all of the samples. This smelt so refreshing, just like lemon sherbet. I want to buy the full size for the smell! This is one of the best exfoliators I've ever used, the beads in it are perfect. This is £20 at a full size but I'm seriously considering buying it. I got 3 uses out of this sample.

Now onto the giveaway part. I got two, thinking that a 5ml sample of each product wouldn't be enough for me to judge how much I liked it. I was wrong! So I'm going to give away one set and the accompanying  muslin cloth. This will be a UK only giveaway. a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Things That Make Me Happy #32

1. This smoothie looks so good. Yum.

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2. Spice up plain tops by sewing some lace onto the sleeves. Great idea.

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3. These shelves are so 'rustic chic'. Hit me for saying that.

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4. Lake Garda is absolutely beautiful.

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5. This girl pulls off orange lipstick so well, it makes me look like a twat.

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6. Inspirational quote of the week.

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7. Aw the fluffies!

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8. This bikini is gorgeous!

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9. It's a month tomorrow until Sam's first birthday, he's getting a party!

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10. This is such a cute piece of decor.

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Malignant Melanoma

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Lee Stafford Hair Growth Treatment: Wonder Product Or Load Of Bullshit?

When I was 13 I made the rather bold(and stupid) decision to get a pixie crop, I went from below the jawline to above the ears in the space of one hair cut. And you know what? I hated it. And since then I've been growing my hair as long as possible. Just after I got my hair cut I started looking up tips on how to make your hair grow faster: exercise more, keep it in good condition, wash off conditioner in cold water. The list goes on and on. If only my 13 year old self had known about this.

The Lee Stafford  Treatment For Hair That Never Grows Past A Certain Length(I'm only going to type that once!) is a hair mask that claims to make your hair grow faster. I don't necessarily think that this causes exponential hair growth but it does seriously improve the condition of your hair, which in turn will make it grow faster. Normally with hair masks I use them maybe once or twice a week  instead of a usual conditioner but this one instructs you to use it between shampooing and conditioning. I was a little bit nervous about this as I thought it would make my hair greasy and difficult to work with but my hair felt fine afterwards. This makes my hair feel really nice and reduces the frizz. My hair isn't very damaged because I don't dye/straighten it often but I can imagine It would really improve the condition of quite damaged hair. My only real beef with this is the smell, it's not horrid but it's a bit strange. It smells rather chemically. But as you use a different conditioner afterwords this scent doesn't stick to your hair so I guess that's not a huge problem.

But just how much did it make your hair grow? I'd probably say that this make my hair grow about two inches but it's hard to tell exactly. I think that's pretty good considering I only started using this in February  Please bear in mind that my hair is naturally curly so this is probably a bit longer in terms of straight/wet hair. I'm not too sure how much my hair would have growth without this but I like to think it's helped. Plus my hair was pretty long to begin with, a girl I go to school with posted a photoo on Facebook saying that it had made hers grow lots. If you have shorter hair I think this would work better for you. In the end it's only £7.99 which isn't bad for a hair mask and you can buy it from Boots. It's not exactly going to break the bank, especially when you compare it to high end/Lush prices, give it a go and see how well it works for you. There are a few hair masks I want to try out first but I will definitely be repurchasing this!

Did you like the idea of this post? I'm thinking about making a 'wonder product or load of bullshit' series, let me know what you think about that! 

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