This year has been a real year of discovery for me when it comes to home fragrance!
I have found some awesome candle brands & got onto the wax melt hype..
In fact, a little too much I think!
I recently ordered a load of different wax melts off Amazon. The brand I purchased are WoodWick melts, which if you know me you'll know I'm obsessed with their candles.
I have a review of their candles
here.
Firstly, I'm going to say if you can get to a shop to purchase these, I would definitely advise that over ordering online like myself. Although I like most of these scents, there is one here that I really am not a fan of (if you're wondering it's the Vanilla Bourbon).
I actually have an electric wax melter, which are perfect for scenting your home! Mine is by a brand called Scentsy, but there are quite a lot of different companies that make them now. They're great for so many reasons. One they're cheaper & the melts last longer than some candles (yes we burn them that much). Two they have no naked flame or anything that's too dangerous if you accidentally leave it on.
These wax melts come in different sizes & packaging. They can come in single, large multi-packs or these (photographed above) skinny ones. The singles & large multi-packs are my favourites as you only need one of them. To be honest, the singles I usually break in half. In comparison the skinny ones require two blocks per use to get the best scent result out of them.
Overall I really like these melts. They're great value for money & for the most part smell amazing.
The only negative for me is removing them, they do tend to stick!
Love Eve xx
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This was a Christmas gift, which at first I was like 'what the hell is this?'
However I have to say, in terms of home fragrance, this is life changing!!
This is the Scentsy electric burner.
I'd have oil burners in the past & not really used them, because really they're just a little messy & time consuming to setup.
This however is the opposite.
This electric burner you simply plug in, turn on the button on the back, add a scentsy block & you're good to go!
On of the things I love the most about this is that if you forget to turn it off, there is no open flames to catch anything & it just keeps scenting your room. So for safety this is much better. If you do have young children though, I would advise putting it out of their reach as the burned wax could burn them.
Another thing I love is that you can switch this on for about 20 minutes & if you have to turn it off no problem. Candles however don't tend to burn very evenly when you only have them lit for short periods of time.
So how this works is as well as buying the burner/ melter you buy Scentsy Bars, these you can see in the photograph above. They have a large variety of scents, even including an 'easy breath' menthol one! So you can collect them all really. The bars come with 8 cubes in them, simply break off a cube & place in the heating dish of the burner.
You only need to use one cube at a time & they last for ages. When I say ages, I mean ages!
I'm still on my first cube & I've been using this for over a month (I would like to note I have this on a lot)!
If you get sick of a cube or use it all up, you just clean the removable heating dish & pop a new one in!
If you're into home fragrance, you need this in your life!
PS. The scentsy bars I currently have are Vanilla Bean Buttercream & Cosy Fireside.
Love Eve xx
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Eyebrows are still a big thing in the beauty world, with everyone tried to perfect their look.
I used to have my eyebrows waxed & plucked by a beautician, however I didn't like the shape she was doing them so I decided to take things into my own hands.
So now I maintain my brows myself.
At least then if they turn out weird or something goes wrong I only have myself to blame.
I only pluck my brows. I do this approximately once a week. However if I see any stray hairs I will just pluck them there & then. I just use some standard tweezers for this.
I do also trim any hairs that are getting too long using some small scissors, just so things don't get too bushy & out of control!
I then fill them in. I tend to use either the Benefit BrowZing kit (powder & wax) or the Soap & Glory Archery brow pencil. I then either use a wax or gel to set my brows.
Below is a tutorial on how I do this:
Love Eve xx
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