MooGoo

Late last week I placed an online order with MooGoo, which is quickly becoming one of my favourite skin care brands of all time.
For anyone who hasn't heard of MooGoo before, here is a brief bio taken from their website;

What Makes Us Moo

MooGoo is an Australian company that makes a range of natural, safe products with effective active ingredients designed for people with skin and scalp problems.

MooGoo was first made when the founder adapted a cream used in dairy farms to help a family member with a skin problem. The dairy version of ‘udder cream’ was designed to heal cow’s udders and keep them in good condition for milking. It was full of skin repair ingredients and no fillers.

We have since expanded to make a range of skin products for people with skin problems. We use the same philosophy in all their products. The full strength of healing ingredients and no petroleum or chemical based ingredients. All ingredients are listed on products.

One of the things I love about MooGoo is that they list every ingredient used in each product with a brief description in laymans terms for people like me, who don't know a whole heap about which ingredients do what.

Another thing I love; They are so reasonably priced.

And another thing I love; They actually work on my horribly sensitive skin!

As I mentioned in my last post, I was in my local health care store where I purchased some Jojoba Company products. I also purchased my first MooGoo product; Milky Wash.

I will do a full review on that soon, but for now, I will simply say; My skin has never looked so good!

I haven't had the chance to use any of the products from my order yet as I only received them this morning and because I had a fake tan booked in for tonight, it meant no moisturising/deodorant etc, so I will begin using them all tomorrow.

 

I absolutely adore the cute packaging it arrived in!

Fresh Cream Deodorant
$8.45

Aluminium free and all natural; love it.
For more information on this product click here

MSM Smoothing Cream
$17.95

MSM is known for it's skin calming properties.
I actually bought this for a very specific purpose.
I have little red bumps all over my upper arms, I have had them for so long that I just assumed they were normal for me, that is until I read a product review on this cream and someone with seemingly the exact same issue had their bumps cleared up by using this. If this product can clear up my bumpy arms, I will be so stoked.

Skin Milk Udder Cream
$11.90

This is MooGoo's lightest moisturiser, I plan on using it all over.
From the MooGoo website; 

MooGoo’s Skin Milk Udder Cream is being recommended by a number of oncologists and hospitals due its efficacy in helping the recovery from the side effects of chemo and radiotherapy.  A pilot study making a comparison between the use of sorbolene and the Udder Cream is scheduled to take place later this year.

That's pretty amazing stuff!

Eczema & Psoriasis Cream
$18.50

This is actually a re-purchase and it's for my brother.
He suffered from terrible psoriasis until I got him on the MooGoo bandwagon.
He uses this and the Milky Wash and his psoriasis is virtually non-existent these days.

Milk Shampoo & Cream Conditioner

The lovely people at MooGoo included these sample sizes of their shampoo & conditioner.
I'm going to give these to my brother as he gets psoriasis on his scalp so they would probably be of more value to him than to myself.
In my opinion, these are incredibly generous sized samples.
They don't say how many ml per bottle but they are roughly the same size as the deodorant which is 60mls.

So that's my MooGoo order.
I will do reviews on each of the products as I use them.

Have you ever used MooGoo?
Do you find it as amazing as I do?

x

summer & colour

About 99.9% of my wardrobe consists of black, white & grey clothes.

My wardrobe looks a lot like this;

Image taken from google

I'm hoping to make my wardrobe look a little more like this...

Image taken from google

So I went shopping in my attempt to inject some colour in to my clothing collection and I picked up some nice, cheap casual clothes from Valleygirl & Temt.

This is one of maybe 3 yellow things I own. I really must get more, I love yellow.
It's a lot more vivid in real life though. 

 This dress is actually red, it's coming up kind of orange on my computer screen.
I love when dresses come with belts!

 Plain white t-shirt. An essential in my books.

 Simple coral t-shirt with a pocket. I adore coral.

 This actually looks a lot nicer on, I promise!

 I found this nude cropped 3/4 blazer on the discount rack for $19.95.
The cut is so flattering.
My best friend would disagree with me here but you can never have enough nude items.
Never!

 I love lace.
So.Much.

Love the detailing.

 I hate mullet/hi-lo, but I love this.
The front of the top sits at my hips and the back covers my bum, which looks a little awkward with shorts so I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to wear it with yet but I couldn't resist.
It came in white and coral and I am so proud of myself for picking the coral.

I love the detail on the bust.


Have you done any summer shopping lately?
Does your wardrobe consist of one/a few colours mostly like mine?

x

China Glaze & OPI

A couple of months ago I blogged about OzSale $6-$9 China Glaze sale, and the polish's that I purchased.

I realise it's been quite a while since then but I thought it would be better late than never to do a quick review on my experience.

I actually made 2 separate orders; one the day the sale started and another the next day as I decided I wanted more lol.
My first order included 8 nail polishes, and I was so excited about the Good Witch & Flying Dragon colours to arrive.

It took about 3 weeks but when they finally arrived, my heart sank.
As I was signing for the package I knew at least one bottle had broken as I could smell it before I even opened it.
Upon opening my package, this is what I came across...
(Thank goodness I noticed the smell and took the precaution of laying a towel down before I opened the package or my carpet would have some hideous stains from this!)

2 Broken bottles. And wouldn't you know it? The colours that broke were Good Witch & Flying Dragon!

I was incredibly disappointed in OzSale for their poor packaging.

It's pretty obvious that if you wrap 8 bottles of nail polish in one layer of bubble wrap and then pop them in a normal post bag, that something is bound to go wrong.
I personally think each bottle should have been individually wrapped & then posted in a box.
(Which coincidentally is how my second order arrived)

I promptly contacted OzSale, and after they received a picture as proof, they refunded my order in full.

It took a long time for OzSale to respond to me and an even longer time for them to actually follow through with the promised refund.

I'm satisfied with the refund as after giving my remaining unbroken bottles a good scrub with nail polish remover, they are good as new (except I can't read their shade names).

Overall it was a very long and drawn out affair dealing with OzSale and I can honestly say that unless they have some crazy amazing deal, I won't be buying from them again.

A week or so after the China Glaze sale, Catch Of The Day had a $10 OPI nail polish sale, from which I purchased 10 bottles.
I paid for my order in the morning and that evening my order was marked as 'processed' and the next morning it was marked as 'delivered'. The following day I received all 10 of my nail polishes, secure as anything and all unbroken.
I love that Catch of the Day don't make you wait until the sale has finished before they process and ship your order like your OzSale do.
It was a really easy and fast experience buying from them and I wouldn't hesitate to purchase from their site again.

And that is my 2 cents!
Have you ever bought from either of these sites before?
If so, what was your experience like?
I'd love to know!

x

$6 CHINA GLAZE !

I'm not 100% sure how much China Glaze nail polish sells for everywhere else, but here in Australia it's $15-$20 a bottle, so you can see why $6-$9 China Glaze makes me excited!

Over at OzSale there are so many polishes on sale; bright colours, neons, pastels, dark colours, metallics, glitters, top coats, base coats, cuticle oil & treatments.
Postage is flat rate $9, which isn't too bad if you're like me & went a little crazy.

Here is what I bought;

TECHNO

SNOW GLOBE 

FLYING DRAGON

FLY

STRAWBERRY SMOOTHIE

GOOD WITCH?

MIDNIGHT MISSION

FIRST CLASS TICKET

RIVETER ROUGE

THE TEN-MAN

GRAPE JUICE

HARMONY

LASSO MY HEART

BLUE SPARROW

COCONUT KISS

SPONTANEOUS

NOVA

LIMBO BIMBO

As you can probably tell, I am inclined towards pinks, purple's & silver glitters but I did try to branch out a little and purchased a couple of reds & blues.

I strongly suggest any of you aussie nail polish lovers head on over to OzSale to get your paws on some bargain China Glaze, but be quick the sale ends on Friday!

x

[All images taken from the OzSale website.]